The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-05-21
Exercises at the Court House.
Largely Attended.
All the Graduates Of Kentucky Normal
College Acquitted Themselves
with Much Credit.

The announcement made in this
PAPER that the Commencement eNer-
c!ses Of the Kentucky Normal Col
lGge would be held In the court house
on last Friday evening served TO
pack the building Long before night
the crowd began TO gather, and be-
fore the arrival OF the beginning
hour standing room WAS at a prem.
ium. The court room had been
tastefully and appropriately decorated,
the beautiful class ColUrs, In lestoons
and streamers, being used to much
advantage In the decoration lCheme
Promptly az the hour the exercises
as heretofore published began, Hnd
they were most successfully carried
through 10 the end. Leander Cox
Caldwell was unable TO be present
Consequently his address, Poe and
His Works, was not delivered, T.
Fred Boch OF Yards, Va, had had
a. operation performed on his
throat, and by the advice OF his
physician his address, 4 Century
OF Temperance Organization, was
not delivered, but 1t appears In this
Issue Of the News
The salutatorIan, Edward X. Spen-
Ger, spoke IN a very self-possesSed
way, OF Old Things and New Ike
Contrasted such ancient cities us
Thebes and BashRn. and the pyra-
mlds and the sphynx with modern
cities and works, drawing a strong
and striking picture, MIR. Spencer
declared that While some are born
great, and others achieve greatness,
he had. in being made Balutatorihn.
had greatness thrust upon him. His
audience thought him equal to the
occasion.
Allen II. Turmen, Of Buchanan.
spoke Interestingly Of Some Ameri-
can Humorlsts. naming ns humorists
such early writer's as Irving Haw-
thorne, Lowell and others, and Twain
and Marshal p. Wilder among the
later ones. Mr.. Turmau remembered
that breylty is the sou! OF wit (and
humor) and made q short address.
Paul J. Frazier, OF Fort Gay, took
his audience skyward and spoke in
gtructively and cntertainingly of
The Planet Saturn. He told of its
distance from the earth, It's size, &c,
and spokc interestingly Of its won
Gerful rings. This old earth of ours
a'so has its rings" bnt TO these
Mr. Frazier did not aIlude. He has
n clear voice and handled his sub
jrct we'll
Edgar w. Pendlcton spoke of The
English Language. He told us of
ifs past. It's present, and its future
what Is was originally, and what
part other tongues had played In
making our language as we now use
It. 1t was scholarly discourse,
we'll conceived and well delivered
Miss Margaret Moore Lackey had
been named Glass Prophet, and 20
her fell the somewhat difficult task
Of predicting the future of each
member of h,r class, We say diff
cult task" for 1t is hard TO draw II
proper line between saying too
little in praise aud too much In flat
tery, Miss Margaret did we'll along
this line, not avoiding SCylla only TO
be wrecked on Charybdis. The hOro-
scope she cast for each of her class
mates was favorable one, fully JUS
titled by what she and the public
know OF those bright young men.
The class OF 1909 should (and do
hold its fair prophet in high esteem.
The valedictorian of the class, Mr..
Allen C. Davis, had for theme The
Lady OF the Lake .a
and ne'er did Grecian chlsel trace
A nymph, naiad OF a grace,
Of fairer form or lovelier face"
So wrote Scott of his Highland her
cine, and so must have Mr.. Davis
deemed her as he must have studied
her as he prepared his able address
9or this occasion, 1t showed thor
ough knowledge of the history of
the times when the lady of the lake
pied the loch In her light skiff, and
none can read of her as Scott de-
picted her without falling in love
with lady, lake and land.
The speeches Of the salatatorian