The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-05-11
COMMENCEMENT
GREAT SUCCESS
Large Audiences Enjoy
Closing Exercises.
FAMOUS HARTFORD COLLEGE
Reaches Thirtieth Event of
the Kind-DiSplay of
Local Talent.

The thirtieth annual Commence
ment exercises of Hartford College
and county High School were held in
DR.. Beans commodious opera house last
week beginning with the baccalaureate
sermon delivered by Rev. Virgil Ell
gin, at the Christian church. The
sermon was one of the best ever
heard in Hartford and contained much
food for the minds Of the students
who had marched in a body from the
college building to the church.
On the first evening at the Opera
Hol sc, the children of the first,
second, third and fourth grades, under
Misses Alta Likens and Matte
Moseley, furnished an excellent en-
tertainment, consisting of songs, drills,
Rotations and dialogues. The pupils
In these grades gave the highest evil
dence of thorough training and close
personal attention upon the part Of
the teachers during the school year.
On Tuesday evening students in the
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades,
under Profs. w. r. Hedrick
and A. E. Ellis, entertained
in a manner entirely satisfactory to
the large audience which greeted chem
The evening was spent with number
Of good dialogues, and drill by the
girls, each of whom carried a
japanese lantern; and clown drill
by the boys, both of which were es-
pecially enjoyed. Profs. Ellis and
Hedrick have been very successful
with their pupils and they gave evil
dence of thorough training during
the exercises.
Wednesday evening the girls of the
ninth grade gave play entitled "The
Rainbo Kimona." The play consisted
of two acts and was full of laugha-
BILE and interesting incidents. Follow
ing were the cast of characters:
Nellie Van Tassel, President of the
Rainbow Kimona" Society, Leila
Glenn; Ruth Ashton, the Vice Presi-
dent, Daisy Wedding; Alice Marion,
the Treasurer, Flora Taylor; Isabel
Sutro, the Secretary, Bossie Hudson;
Beat ice Courtney, the Class Poet Mary
Elizabeth Felix Olive Mercer, President
of the Basket Ball Team, Anna Riley;
Winifred Turner, Student, Coriane
Woodward; Edith Jones. the New
Senior, Catherine Pendleton, Rose
jackson, Miss Penelope's Impish little
colored maid, Mildred Elsin. All OF
the girls did well, and the char
acterizatiOn of the various parts was
exceedingly well done.
Thursday evening the lcys and girls
of the tenth and eleventh grades
gave a play In three acts entitled
the Professor" This was also well
presented and enjoyed by a large audi
ence. Cast of characters: Professor
John Grindem, Principal of Ration
High School, a man who does the
work of ten, Rhea Hatcher; Mrs.
Martha Morton Grindem, his wife,
who knows very little about the school
really, Alice Taylor; Mrs. William
! Morton, his mother-in-law, who has
never visited Dear John" before,
Beatrice Haynes; Professor Markham
Wright, his assistant who Is scholar
ly and absent-minded, Harry Glenn;
Galliger Gurdy, a blacksheep, Estill
Barnett; Margaret Woodward, other
wise Babe, a Freshman, Leila Magyar;
Mr.. Frank Sawyer, president of the
graduating class, Devert Moseley;
Bessie Tappan, class historian, Myrtle
Williams; Miss Millicent Cameron,
from Philadelphia, a favorte pupil,
Annie Allen Elgin; Miss Sophia Spald-
ing, teacher of elocution Hattie Glenn;
J. p. Thompson, Esq, president of
the Board of Education, Herbert
Felix; Mary, the maid, Beatrice
Haynes Name Hensel, leading lady
in "She Stops to Conquer" Bessie
V. Taylor, Carpenters, Messengers,
Florists and Attendents.
The graduating exercises, which were
free to all, took place Friday evening
with the following program:
March Hollaender. Innovation, Rev.
j. w. Bmner, Vocal Solo-Dreaming
Wellings, DIFFERENTIATION McHenry
Holbrook, instrumental Solo-"Hark,
Hark, the Lark" Schubert List, Ora
tion-"Silent Influences Emma Alice
Keown, Vocal Solo-Dor1s Nevin. Ora
tion-"Panama Canal" Hattie T.
Glenn. Vocal Solo-"His Eyes Met
Mine" Crunfeld, o Success, Z"
Bessie v. Taylor, Instrumental Solo,
.ioszkowski, "Enfanchise-
ment of Woman" Nellie e. Smith,
Vocal Solo-"Conzonetta" Myer-Hel-
arind Grafton odernization of ia
NAM Levi Oscar Coleman Music