The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
ARbOR DAY
in {. CHICAGO
YESTERDAY
Especial to THE TINES


East Chicago. April 29.-Yesterday |
belonged to the children. It was the |
children's own day. For it was Arbor |
day and dedicated to- ali growing |
things, children, plants and flowers.
There were exercises in several of
the city schools. including the Harrison.
the Washington and Mckinley build
ings, and to these the parents were in
vited and the children dressed up in
their very daintiest in the cases of the
girls, and their best toys in the cases
Of the boys, with something extra in
the way of fresh necktie the like
and looked their best. They also did
their best in the way of providing at
tractive entertainments which quite as
tonished their elders in point of the eff
ficiency and ease with which they went
through intricate drills, spoke pieces"
and sang songs, every one appropriate
to the day.
AT the Mckinley building a platform
in one end of the s,s hall had been
carpeted in green and hung with flow
ers. A rain of bright hued blossoms
made floral canopy over the platform.
and must have put the teachers to no
end of hard work to get it in readi-
ness for the occasion. Here the main
features of the entertainment were the
floral drill by the primary pupils, and
a cantata The Flower Queen by rooms
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The floral drill opened the exercises
and was participated in by girls only
carrying floral wreaths which they dis
played most prettily and gracefully in
the intricacies of the march But this
was only one of many interesting things
done BY the younger pupils. The clos
ing feature. the cantata, showed good
chorus work and there were three girls
with sweet voices, who did the solo
parts. Lillian Lewis was the queen and
wore long flowing costume of white.
flowers on her and about her person.
Marie Lloyd and Mabel Lind sang a
duet very seetly and Marie Lloyd,
SOLO
| Then there were recitations, the
reading of the Arbor day proclamations.
some little girls impersonated The
sleeping seeds in the Great Brown
Earth and sprang into blossoms with
floral caps their heads, while others
of their class mates sang about them.
There were riddles for the children to
guess, and everything was very sweet
and pretty.
County superintendent of Schools
HIGHWAY in the absence of State Sup
erintendent Greenhouse, gave nice
talk in which he felicitated the people
of East Chicago and Lake county gen
orally on their civic pride, and city
superintendent E. n Canine had a few
words to say on the influence of Arbor
day and what the present occasion had
accomplished for the children in a
practical as well as an artistic way. He
spoke of the Language" benefit it had
| resulted in, the children having been
given the task Of writing the invita-
tions to parents and the members of
the Commercial club. and learning
much thereby
At the Harrison school a program
similar in character but different in
detail was successfully carried out.
The first number was a song. THE
Sunshine Message" by the pupils of
room ?. Apple Tree story was given
by room 1 and this was followed by
The Return of the Birds a class ex-
ercise by room and next Violet, But
ltercup and Dandelion." an exercise by
three boys from DOM was given.
The next number was THE Rainy
Day" a class exercise by room 1. Helen
Fisher then gave recitation entitled
THE Secret" which was followed by
a recitation SPRING me- by Margaret
Lusby. THE Cat and the Bird" was
an exercise by room 2. and room then
gave "Arbor Day Song" The Gard
ners' the subject of an exercise by
the boys in room /. The program con-
cluded with song in three parts, first
! the bulbs second the wind and third
the sand man.
II The exercises We're conducted in the
| auditorium of the high school from :
} until 3 and a good crowd of parents
frsfe radr 81 Cnhn
ent. The children all acquitted them
selves with credit and everybody en-
ljoyed the exercises.