Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1909-12-11

When, at $50 p. m. Friday. Decem
Der 8, '09, in long double room whose
cream and brown tints were brought out
by facade of west windows, the words
of hymn sung round the world in
sixteen different languages.
Mine eyes have seen the Glory
OF the Coming Of the Lord
HIS truth Is marching on"
rolled out in the complete unison of a
score of mixed voices, swelling ia
triumph in Glory, Glory, Hallelujahl"
softening to reverence as:
'.In the beauty OF the Hilies
Christ was boru across the sea
With glory IN His bosom
That traushgures you and me-"
very real thrill passed through the
jammed audience. and tired committees
fel, with religious sense of thankful
ness that Lyon County High School
Dedication Day was on.
The labor of months, beginning in
July with the donation of the campus by
Kaufman & Downey, (their names
should go down for that, the building
BY Arends and Wagner, the final details
Of broad planning for Dedication Day
was rpened into fruition.
How everybody worked For the
program and reception committees forty
letters were written. AT the eleventh
hour Walter Wool photographed, print
ed and mounted 500 views of the build
ing. Friday morning few women tied
these programs with the eolors. The
crimson and gold ribbons against the
brown paper gave rich effect.
Friday morning Mr.. Davies started
from Cambridge at dawn with the
marble cornerstone. to make the thirty
mile drive here By noon. The last let
iers on the stone were chiscled BY lamp
lighl at midnight the night before. At
AT that same hour, In yerington, Mrs.
Hironymops aud daughter Kathleen,
were finishing the last crimson and gold
rosettes for the chorus. The decorating
committee scarcely had time for meals
for two days. The magnificent scheme
OF iatticed red and gold paper festoon-
ing the Rink Hall tells why.
Over in the Yerington hotel dining
room Mrs. DIR, Leavitt and the Knock
ers Club were getting ready to feed
three or four hundred psople, free meals
st noon and night. The actual number
who availed themselves of this was
nearer six hundred. Three shoulders
OF pork. four hams, sixty-hve pounds
OF veal. seventy five pies, thirty cakes,
ten gallons salad. etc. etc, was how Mr.,
Kaufman's list read. That was why he
couldn't be found. afternoon or eve
ming to be introduced as the donor of
the campus. Like Cincinnatus at the
pillow or the hero of the Burning Deck,
he had to be in the kitchen with Mrs.
kaufman and the dozen other women
who were wrestling with the mighty
problem of feeding the multitude.
Wa who wa, wa who wa Lyon
county High School Rah Rah
R-A-H
yelled the youngsters of our first High
School class trying their voices. How
everybody clapped and laughed Again
and again they yelled the lusly-iunSed
dozen and always it sounded too good
to be true as visions OF by-gone college
days rose before and dimmed the eyes
OF many an elder. The spirit of the
moment was infectious. Not a man
there who didn't feel like throwing hi:
cap In the air and yelling, too We
were making history. And we knew it
No wonder the program went we'll
That infectious spirit crept into Father
Molyneux' invocation as ne asked God I
blessing to rest protectingly on thi
house of state. II spoke in Mayo
Fairbanks few well-chosen words o
welcome. Rang out in the Gramma
schools My Own Nevada" (Prot
Van Nostrand. reached climax in DR.
beatty's addresses on Old Glory DR.
Beatty has followed the flag and it neve
loses anything that eloquence can adj
nom him. There was big yelling tim
after he quit. Then Mrs. Davis pri
fnaries were boosted to the tops of tliei
benches, aud tiny, flags unfurled, lispe