The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-06-03
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
HELD TUESDAY EVENING
Thirty-Two Graduates From Four Year
Course-Interesting Exercises At
tended by Large Crowd

OlrlS Olee AluD sung Meluel-
sshon's Spring Song, and made a
decided hit with the audience.
They were recalled and gave a
second number.
The Orchestral music was fur
nished by the Plymouth Orches-
ira. under the direction OF Chas.
]. Parreant, of South Bend. The
music was pronounced as being
the best ever given at a local
commencement. The orchestra
showed careful training, and the
selections rendered were most
beautiful.
Class History.
Dear friends of our, YOU now |
greet
With cleaning eyes OF Won
der!
For YOU and | though time be
fleet,
Are half a life asunder,
Your kindly smile | trust will
hail
My love-gift of a fairy-tale.
Not often have | seen your face
Nor heard your peals OF laugh
ter,
Yet thoughts of you shall find a
place
In each young life's hereafter,
Enough that now you will not
fail
To listen to my fairy-tale.
\ tale begun in other days,
When Autumn suns were
glowing
A simple chime, that served to
time
The rhythm of our rowing
Whose echoes live in memory
yet
Though envious years would say
forget"
And though the shadow of a
sigh
Nav tremble through the story
For happy autumn days gons
by,
And vanished autumn glory
1t shall not touch with breath oil
bale
The pleasance of our fairy-tale.
The house was so we'll hidden
one might almost stumble
against it before one became
aware of it. All around, tire trees
stood tall and stately, trees oil
oak with here and there great
spaces for the glistening sun
light to walk through. For the
most part these monarchs OF the
forest OF by-gone days seemed to
jostle one another so closely thai
one almost fancied they must be
uncomfortable. But in one spo-
they fell back and standing il
the midst of them was the house
a house SO deity reared and sc
magically situated as to charm
the wanderer. The whole struct
ure possessed that self-satisfed
self-enchanted beauty that made
even the very leaves on the tree:
inquisitive as to what was going
on within. To this end they look
ed in at the windows, which
stood open in pleasant weather
and saw many things which
must have surprised them. The
army of inhabitants went il
boldly several times day ant
all came out looking pleased will
themselves and with things il
general. So there was necessarily
something or somebody pleasan
inside the house.
AS the years rolled on, tn,
giant oaks watched with deepen
ing interest the bands of pygrm,
workers come and go. They Otter
had animated conversations will
the leaves, their sentinels, as t.
the marvels wrought within Thu
wondrous place. this Hall .
Minerva. Just today the oal
was overheard to ask,-"Wha
day is this? Why all this stir am
excitement Has the Ruling Ra
jah come to take the pygmie
home to the City of their De
sires ?"
In awed tones came from tn
topmost leaves: -Four shor
years ago band of ffty-si,
small pygmies, fresh from tn
Land of knowledge Green,
sought refuge here among tn
Great and Wise OF Minerva
Hall. A slow but cautious Fresh
man band they were, whose cour
ageous chief Arthur Thomson
lead them ever onward toward
pinnacle of fame. His steps. a
we'll as those of his followers
were well-directed by a code @
laws. The older pygmies foun,
IL them many an advantage 70
sport. In the darkest days of to-
how oft we have heard this cry
| We should like to know why
The Seniors think they kno,
what they're about,
| While the Freshies all thin
that they're left out"
| About this time their chic
waved his magic wand and fort
came three Spirttly lelves, LIE,
Cullen, Gus Kuhn, and Clard
| Switzer to serve on the ball tear