The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-01
THE MUSCOGEE
SCHOOL CLOSES
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES RE-
Fleet CREDIT UPON BOTH
TEACHERS AND PUPILS.
Special to The IournaI.


MuscOgee, May 31.-At eight o'clock
Saturday evening. May 18th, the clos
( ing exercises of the Muscogee school
were held in the Muscogee hall. The
school closed the most successful
year in its history The nall was
. crowded to its full capacity with pso-
pie to witness the closing exercises.
Mp Creary, of Bluff Springs,
N 5mber of the school board, and
sUpt. n. b. Cook were present, also
I Prof. James Tate, of Roberts. A short
! talk was given by Mr.. CTeary and
/ Prof. Tate and also by Mr.. w. c. Lott,
/ supervisor of the Muscogee school.
Ten certificates were presented by
Supt. Cook to the eighth grade. The
members of the eighth grade this year
= were five boys and five girls. They
made a very high avaragage in schoI-
arship, attendance and department,
and We're each given a first grade cor
tificate. Half of the class received
/ 100 in attendance and the other MEM
| bers of the class were only absent on
/ the average sOf three days each for
/ the wear Those who received Ger
| tficates were: Paul Merritt, Fred
Merritt, John II. Patterson, John
! Long. Jim Jennings, Lila Patterson,
| Matte Lee Bell, Nellie Mullins, Julia
! Waters and Rebecca Taylor.
! After the certificates were pre-
! scented thiTty-siX prizes were given by
/ the principal. Miss Eva Vaughn. in
J October, 1907, a prize was offered to
/ every child in school who should come
/ to school every day in the year and
was not taTdy once. In Nav. 1908,
| seven prizes were given. In October,
! 1908, the same offer was made and as
/ a result in May, 1909, twenty-five
prizes were given for regular attend
/ ance. Those who received prizes for
attendance were: Jesse Dickson
! Glover Lott. Fannie Mcclure, Annie
Lee Mcclure, Fritz Bradley, Marjorie
| Tompkins. Joe Jennings, Vernon
! Hinote, Walter Ellis, Minnie May
! Mullins, Irene Ward, Andrew Ellis,
! VeIma Bell, Gladys Mosley, Charlie
| Carmichael, Louise Welsh. Marie
! Mosley, Robert Bell, Paul Merritt,
Jim Jennings, John Long, Matte Lee
Bell, Jennie Merritt, Matte Lee
| Trammell and Sophia Long.
! In grades five, six and seven a
prize was offered to the child who
| kept the best arithmetic and language
note book in the class. In the fifth
/ grade the prizes were given to %able
Bradley for arithmetic and Gladys
\ Mosley for language work. In the
sixth grade to Ethel McKinnon for
/
! metic In the seventh grade the prizes
were given to Leon Mosley for Ian
! guage and Albert Henderson for arith-
/ metic.
Joe Pittman, of the sixth grade was
| given prize for being the pupil in
| Miss HendersOn's room who had i'm
/ proved most during the year IN pen
manship. Robert Bell, Joe Pittman,
Irene TOmpkins. and Claudia White
were given prizes for having the
| largest number of good" papers at
the end of the year.
| The MusCOgee school has had on its
roll during tho year the names OF
/ one hundred and thiTty-five pupils.
/ During the term several pupils have
moved away so that school closed
with one hundred and nine names on
/ the roll. The average daily attend
ance for the school year was one
/ hundred and two. During the month
/ of April with an enrolment of 112
pupils there was not one tardy mark
| in the entire schoo. rhe pupils in
the two higher rooms, Miss Vaughn s
room and Miss Henderson's room,
| each have the honor of having the
record of one, month in the wear in
which there was neither an absent or
( tardy mark for any pupil in the
rooms.
On Saturday evening the following
| program was given:
Eighth grade class song.
! Presentation of certificates.
/ Honor roll read; prizes given.
Gypsy Song" grades l and 2.
! Drill. Looking Backward" grades
/ and >.
! Song When Visitors Come Round"
/ grades 3 and 3.
! Recitation. scene from Mrs. Wigs
! of the Cabbage Patch Vivian Par
/ keT.
Song, Rainbow" ninth grade
! Drill. The Mill Wheel" grades B.
/ 6 and :.
Duet. The Chase of the GazeIIes, y
Hattie Lou Trammell and Nellie
( Mullins.
! swedish folk dance, grades 1 and 2.
/ Recitation, "A Warning" Sophia
/ Long.
Song, The Grand Old Flag grades
and ,.
Drill, ''TOpsy Turvy," grades >, s
/ and :.
Dialogue, Fast Friends" Vivian
and Kate Parker
song It's the Pretty Things You
/ Say" ninth grade.
Song, Good Night, Ladies'