Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-05-31
Educational Institutions of the City
Soon to Close.
iUTLINE OF THE EXERCISES.
Graduating Exercises OF Decorah
lFigh School, Luther College and
immaculate Conception
Il Academy.


nient exercises. The festivities of
the week will open with the baccal-
aureate sermon by Rev. Dr. M. Will
LEI on next Sunday, June 4th. On
Wednesday evening, June 7th, at
the Grand opera house, the class
play will be presented by the Glass
OF 1911. "A Bachelors Romance"
has been chosen as the play for this
year, and it promises to be one of
the most successful and most pleas
Ing ever given by the school, Mr..
B. B. Morss has for some time been
engaged in training the class for the
play. The plot is an interesting one,
with plenty of good humor, and the
selected for the various parts have
shown peculiar adaptation for
them. The cast is as follows:
David Holmes. Edgar Engle
Gerald Holmes. Royal McClaskey
Martin Beggs. ). Sigurd Hanson
Harold Reynolds. Harry Void
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Miss Mulberry. Ruth Kennedy
Helen LeGrand Anna Peterson
Harriet Leicester Florence Miller
Miss Clementina. =. Aagot Borge
Sylvia ... Emma Jewell
On Thursday evening the regular
graduating exercises will be held at
the Grand opera house. the COM
mencement address being delivered
by DR.. Bolton of the Iowa State Uni
versity. Tickets will be fifty cents
for both evenings, the class play on
Wednesday and the commencement
eANTeises on Thursday Tie I4ogian
for the commencement exercises will
be as follows:
Music. Girls High School Quartette
Lillian Winter, Ruth Ingvoldstad,
Margaret Sihler, Marie Sperati
Invocation.
Vocal Solo. 49,. Miss Nellie Jewell
commencement Address ........
DIR. Frederick E. Bolton, S. U. l.
Presentation of class completing
grammar grades and awarding of
diplomas
Presentation of Glass of 1911-Supt.
j. c. Richter.
Awarding of Diplomas-Dr. II. II.
Green, President Board of Educa-
ton.
Benediction.
All pupils completing the work of
the eighth grade will be presented
with diplomas and admitted to the
high school.
The following are members Of the
graduating class for this year:
Sigurd Hanson.
Edgar Engle.
Harry Void
Florence Miller.
Ruth Kennedy.
Anna Peterson.
Aagot Borge.
Emma Jewell.
On Friday evening the annual
Junior class reception to the gradu-
ates, the board of education and the
teachers will be held at the high
school building.
Immaculate Conception Academy.
The program for the commence
ment exercises of the Immaculate
Conception Academy is not yet COM
plete, but the exercises will be held
at the academy building on Tuesday
evening, June 18th, at eight o'clock.
There are three graduates this year,
Misses Cora NJ Broghammer, Eliza
beth f. Welsh and Katherine Slack.
The exercises will include the pre-
sentation of a play and ether num-
bers which will make an attractive
evenings entertainment.
Luther College.
The annual commencement eXer-
cises at Luther College will take
place on Wednesday, June 21st.
While the program for the festivities
of commencement week is not yet
complete, yet the usual concerts and
programs will be held, with the bac-
calaureate sermon on Sunday, June
18th. Full announcement of the
exercises for the week will be made
in these columns when the program
is complete.
j. r. Feney, wrecker of the First
National Bank of Fayetteville, Tenn
having shown by his physicians that
being sixty-nine years of age and in
poor health. any Imprisonment
would kill him, President Taft has
adopted the unusual plan of giving
him until September / next in which
to get into proper physical condition
to Withstand Incarceration.