The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-04

mencement was held this afternoon at
s1.30 O'clock and fifty-four pupils who
finished the course and will enter the
high school received their diplomas.
The pupils receiving honors were the
following:
h Abbies Bidwell,
Charles Honce,
Ben Pelz,
Carita Vollers,
Merrill Majors,
Helen Kollmyer,
Graduates.
Irwin Akerson, Mabel ANDERSEN,
Clifton Ashley, George Berryhill, Alb
bic, Bidwell, Ernest Blaksley, Max
Bloomfield, Alice Bozeman, Opha
Brown, Verna Brown, Grace Buckner,
Vera Berger, Delbert Chute, George
Clink. Hugh Corey, Scott Davies, 1sa-
belle Tanning, Lillian Fuerst, Dan
Harrington, Valdemir Higgins, Nellie
Hill, Lillian HALEY. Charles Honce,
Theodore Huffman, Helen Immegart,
Della Keppel Earnest Llaan, Helen
Kollomyer, Josephine Kollmyer,
Lauramae Kuhles, Buelah Larsen.
Helen Loefingwell Antonette Lei
Faivre, Maude Lilly Merrill Majors,
Thomas McManus, Jaime Mills Cliff
ford Patterson, Leonore Patio SON..
Caroline Parsons, August Pechstein,
Benjamin Pelz, Mildred Powers, Wal
ter Raber, Henry Radasch, George
Reid, Francis Reeder, Clarence Santo,
Mildred Schiebel, Verna Schouten.
Ralph Schowalter, Helen Sellner,
Grace Sexton, Mildred strimback,
Ruth Taylor, Martha Tracey. Carita
4 Vollers, Charles Whitmarsh.
s. Superintendent Aldrich was present
and spoke a few words to the gradu-
ates and other pupils assembled and
a program of music was enjoyed which
was conducted by Prof Philip G. Hay
den. Following the program the
| teachers of the school were presented
| with a very pretty and appropriate
picture from the graduates who leave
the Grammar school to seek higher
education.
Address Of MIR. Hughes.
The address Of the day was made by
Dr. A. B. Hughes, president of the
school board, whose talk proved both
interesting and entertaining. From
the time DR.. Hughes was four years
of age he has always been connected
with the schools in some capacity.
You have been in school work for
eight years and the fact that you are
here this afternoon is proof that you
have done your work we'll. You have
four more years of work before you
and you must bear in mind that you
have more work in the coming four
/ years than in the past eight. When
you get to the High school YOU will
/ likely find much more difficult pro-
gram You must play the game" ac.
cording to the schedule, which means
nine months of each year devoted to
hard stduy.9 You are going into the
! high school for yourself and the sue
cess Of the class of '13 depends upon
1 your efforts and not the efforts of the
class. To win success each one must
work individually. The four years
that you spend in the high school will
1 IN all probability be the most renumer-
alive four years of your life The
statistics show that between the age
of 20 and so the man who has gone
through the high school earns 10000
more than the average boy who stops
at the eighth grade. and it applies the
girl also who is a wage Garner The
boy who goes through the state uni
versity add an average of 100000 to
the high school boys earning or $50 900
more than that of the graduate of the
| eighth grade.
Making dollars is not the object of
going to school. for If that was the
case Mr.. Rockefeller would be much
4 greater man than Lincoln. You go to
school to do with your mind the same
4 that you do with your body when run
4 ming on the athletic field. The boy.
/ girl. man or woman who has never es-
ercised the mind fails to develop 1t,
and the man with the best mind de.
velopment is the one to succeed.
4 Il want this class to enter High
school as body and when you get
there make 1t yours.
A Surprise From pr. Hughes.
| Dr. A. B. Hughes surprised every
one at the grammar school this after
noon when at the close of the present.
alton of the diplomas he drew forth
a large banner emblematic of the
class of 1913 and presented it to them
amid the greatest enthusiasm ever
known in the grammar school or &!
a commencement The turn by DR.
Hughes was a complete surprise to
every one and was thoroughly appre
ciated by the graduating class. He
1 urged upon them to complete the
course in the Keokuk high school and