The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-05-24
GRADED SCHOOLS CLOSE.

the SlOsc or LumbertOn
Graded Schools An Enter
tainment Excellent in Every
Way, Rejecting Great Credit
Upon All Concerned AL Large
Audience Delighted.
Lumberton's Graded Schools
closed a most successful term
Friday and closing exercises were
held in the school auditorium Fri
day evening. AS has been men,
toned, there was no graduating
class, as the members Of the
tenth grade lack six months of
completing the work required
Tor the grade, and the exercises
were participated in by pupils of
all the grades.
Too much could not be said in
praise of the entertainment afford
ed Friday evening. The largest
audience that ever assembled at
the school building, an audience
beyond the seating capacity of
the large auditorium-and this,
too, in spite of rain and mud
sat delighted through the exer-
clses, which lasted two hours;
and during that time there was
not a dull moment. There was
a snap and a go about the en-
tire evening that was delightful.
There was nothing slow, no
hesltancy, nc confusion, no long
waits between curtains; every
moment of the two hours was
packed full of action and pure
pleasure; the audience did not
have time to get through ap-
plause and delighted comment
upon one performance before
something else just as good or
better claimed it's attention. The
children came upon and retired
from the stage and went through
their parts with ease, GOODNESS
and self-possession, with the pre-
clsion but without the monotony
of clockWork. No wondermothers
and fathers in the audience were
proud of their children, and
others less directly concerned
were justly proud of a perfor-
nance which reflected so much
credit upon teachers and pupils.
The order of the exercises was
as follows:
Song by pupils of the third
grade, Miss Agnes McBrayer,
teacher.
Instrumental solo, Janette
Biggs. Miss Leslie Proctor, music
teacher.
Instrumental solo, Mildred
Mcintyre.
Recitation, Lizzie May Page,
first grade, Mrs. R. S. Sledge,
teacher.
Tin Pan Parade, cute bunch
of small boys with red caps and
sashes, second grade, Miss PEN
ME Rowland, teacher.
Song, girls and boys from fifth
and sixth grades, Miss Nettie
Beverly, teacher.
Monologue by Guy Gerald, who
came upon the stage leading lit
tie Elizabeth Shelby by the hand
and said brave little piece. Roth
of LIST grade.
Instrumental solos, Vivian Nc
Neil and Hilda Weinstein.
Where are You Going, NV
Pretty Maid', song by bonnetted
girls with pals and boys with
canes, 9th grade, Miss Leila Nav
Gill, teacher.
| A Shoe-Shine song and whistle
by ID boys from 4th grade, Miss
Sallie Mclean, teacher.
A delightful little stunt with a
sick doll-Hazel Carlyle sits in a
rocking-chair and rocks and sings
to her sick baby, and Ruth Nor
ment brings in the doctor, Harold
Humphrey. Third grade pupils.
Song about his doggie, which
ne wants to give away, by Arnold
Fisher, LIST grade.
instrumental solos, Mary Lee
Caldwell and jamie Carlyle.
Burlesque on school closing
exercises, Annie Ruth Caldwell.
9th grade. This was pure de,
light. Miss Annie Ruth DISPLAY.
ed decided talent.
Class in Arithmetic. Eulalia
McGill acting as teacher, Lewis
Shelby being called upon to an
swer question which he did to
his own satisfaction but not to
his teachers, and the curtain de-
scended while Miss McGill laid
on the switch. Pupils from 5th
grade, Miss Nettie Beverly, teach
er.
Annie Stainback and Lewis
Shelby, so $50 Shy" song and
act that was all to the good.
Recitation, Wilmer Durham.
4th grade.
Instrumental solos, Vashti
White, third grade, and Annie
Ruth Caldwell.
Sarah Carlyle, first grade lit
tie talk with her doll.
Song. girls and boys from 9TH
and 9Th grades, Miss Mamie
Avent, teacher.
Recitation, with doll, Drina
Hedgpeth, I'd grade.
Dialogue, Beatrice Sledge, with
doll, and Marion Walters, with
football, I'd grade.
Flag Drill, with patriotic songs
and toasts, by ten girls from
9th grade.
Song, girls from 4th grade.
Recitation with doll Hal