The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-06-14
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Program For Affair Arranged to
Take Place in the Congrega-
tional Church
Especial to the Farmer.)

Stratford, June 1.-THE class day
exercises Of the High School are in
progress this afternoon on the lawn
! at the Center school. The program:
I Selection, Stratford School band;. ad-
! dress by president Of the senior class,
| George Hale; class history, Mabel
! Tooley; class poem. Josephine Hough-
! ton; class prophecy, Jean Peck; proph-
/ ecy on prophecies, Anna Peck; presen-
! tation of the class spoon of knowledge,
Winifred Torwroe; mementoes, Anna
| Heig; class will, Edna Vfner; class
! song and planting Of ivy, Harriet AL
! len: musical selection, Stratford School
band. . - e
The commencement exercises of the
/ High School will be held at the Con-
| gregational church on the evening of
! June %. beginning at o'clock. The
/ church will be decorated for the occa-
| sion in orange and black, the colors
of the graduating class. The program:
/ Music, Aide de Camp March and Mid
shipman March, Nby the stratfol d
school orchestral invocation; How
Lovely Are the Messengers. Mendels
sohn, rendered by the combined High
School chorus and glee club; Grafton
by George Hale, class president; ora
ton. American Humor, by Josephine
Houghton; cantata, Barbara Fritchie,
Jordan, rendered by tho combined
dress, Professor william B. Bailey of
Yale University; chorus, Come, Let
Us Sing, Mendelssohn; remarks, Will
liam B. Kelsey, superintendent of
schools; presentation of diplomas, DR..
William B. Cogswell, president of the
Board Of Education; chorus, Largo,
Handel; benedictfon.
Rev. e. n. Packard will preach the
baccalaureate sermon next Sunday
evening at the Congregational church.
He will take as his subject the class
motto, ''Volens ct Potens.'
The senior class of the High School
will hold an informal reception and
luncheon In the annex at the Center
school, this afternoon.
The following committee will have
charge of the athletic events at
Knowlton Park on Labor Day, a part
of the fifth anniversary celebration of
Okenuck Tribe of Red Men: Ivan L.
Beardsley, Alan Wilson, Charles An
( drews, Emmett Beardsley, Jr., Henry
Meachen, willard Baldwin, Harry
Meachen, Robert Atherton, Allen
Beardsley. William Seward, Ernest
Wilcox, James Vanes. Jr., John era
ham, Arthur Beardsley, George Mosh-
Ter, Ernest Cox, E. H. Beers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hart of Glen
ridge, ". Y, are at their cottage at
Lordship, for a few weeks stay.
Miss Claycroft of Oklahoma City, is
the guest of Mrs. John A. Schof1eld of
South Main street.
The following program has been ar
ranged for the Sunday school parade
which takes place June IS: Grand
marshal, Philo p. Haven; aides, pas
tors and Sunday school officers; High
School band, w. B. Kelsey, leader;
primary department, Donald Sammis,
marshal; cradle roll department, ba-
bies in carriages, accompanied by par
ents, A z. Merrill, marshal; junior de-
partment, Frederick Gary, marshal;
intermediate department, George
Booth, marshal; senior department,
Walter Blamey, marshal; home de-
partment, in automobiles, E. w. Peck,
marshal
Members of the home department
who would like to join in the process
sion will indicate their wish to the
leader of their home department, or
report to Elliott w. Peck, and provis-
ion will be made for them in automo-
biles. The members of the cradle roll
department will assemble in their own
carriages, accompanied by their par
ents or attendants ALI who would
like to join will send their names to
Superintendent of their department. 1t
is desired that a full representation be
made.
Mrs. A. s. Bunce ds visiting friends
in Redding.
A. P. Beers who has been visiting
his brother, Harbor Master E. H.
Beers, has gone to Tuckahoe, n. Y,
where he is experimenting the con-
struction of the new town hall.
John Ford, colored, who died in
Bridgeport this week, was well known
in this town. He worked for Charles
W. Blakeslee for 35 years and was
uniformly reliable and faithful.
An addition made necessary by in
creasing business is being made to the
rear of Plumb & Bartram's store in
Main street.
The work of raising the old bakery
building has begun, and it will be
placed on rollers ready to be moved
when the wires in the way have been
removed.
Work has begun on the new house
Main street Sidney Beardsley has
and Charles w. Blakeslee is building
the cellar Mr. Blakeslee is also
building a cellar 30x60 for John Beck
at his place in Milford
The funeral services of VIM. Henry
Benjamin yesterday afternoon were
very impressive in that members of
the family were assigned the several
parts Edward l.. Bullock sang
Nearer, My God, to Thee, after
which Charles Russell, a grandson of
the deceased who is attending the
Christian Workers School at Spring
field, read the last half of the fifteenth
chapter of First Corinthians, which
was followed by prayer and a brief
sermon by Rev. c. S. Bullock. The