East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-22
COMMENCEMENT HELD
At ECHO FRIDAY
FOUR MEMBERS IN
GRADUATING CLASS
Very Successful school Year Comes to
a Close-Almost Entire Corps OF
Teachers Are Employed for Anoth-
err Year.
Especial Correspondence.)

Echo, Ore, May 22.-Friday was
the closing day of another successful
term of our public school. Gradual
ing exercises of the high school were
held in the evening at the NJ. E.
church. The four seniors who grad
uated were Audrey Watenburger,
Eva Dunning, Ruth CLARK and Charles
Hoskins, all from the 18th grade.
The church was beautifully decor
ated with the class %colors, brown and
white. The following interesting pro-
gram was rendered before a large au-
dience:
Music ........... Banks Orchestra
invocation ........... Kew. clark
Opening Address
..... Principal Ottimer A. Cannon
Piano Solo ........ Miss Addie Gates
Oration-The Progress OF Science.
............ Charles c. Hoskins
Piano Duet
Misses Anita Howard and Addie
Gates.
Recitation-Darius Green and His
Flying Machine. Eva NJ. Dunning
Quartette-Those Happy Days Gone
BY
Misses Godfrey and Clark, Messrs.
Hoskins and Cannon.
Oration-Weave the Warp and
Weave the Wool .............
........ Audrey NJ. Wattenburger
Music Orchestra
Oration-Our Uncrowned Queens.
Ruth j. Clark
Music orchestra
presentation Of nfn1nnnS
............ Supt. L. w. Keeler
! BeneQlCtlOn ......... Kew. MChalH
That general approval and satisfac'
ton concerning the past years school
work was attested by the fact that
almost the entire corps of teachers
were reelected for the next school
rear. Prof. O.. A. Cannon will agar
be the pricinpal of the high school.
Prof. L. w. Keller was retained a!
superintendent, and the following
teachers of the lower grades. Mis-
rippel, Miss Watenburger and Miss
Darr.
Other Items.
Mrs. Peggy Olmstead left this
morning for a few weeks visit with
her son, I. H. Olmstead of Pendle'
ton.
Miss Irene Rippey left on Friday
for La Grande to visit her sister, Mrs
C. B. Johnson.
Miss Darr went on Saturday to AID
ans where she will spend the create
part of her vacation.
Mrs. A. K. Hammer returned yes
terday from the Willamette vale!
where she has been visiting will
friends in various towns.
Ed IIorsche has moved his salooi
from the Louvre building on Mali
and Duont streets to h Idle Hou
on Dupont between Main and Bridg
streets. The former building wa
considerably damaged by the recen
fire on April 80 and as it was a wood
en- building within the fire Limits tn
: owners were not allowed to repair II
Mesdames Louis Scholl, jr, n 7
| G.. Smith returned Saturday from
|, Portland where they attended t.
= Rebekah assembly.
l Ray Castle has returned from
weeks visit to Corvallis, where h
g had attended school for three years
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Durham and Nj
and Mrs. Walter Lehman spent yes
n terday in Pendleton. =.
r Miss Minnie Baker came up fror
t Stanfield yesterday on the motor an
spent the day with her sister, Mr.
]. r. Hoskins.
T. r. George was a Pendleton visit
or yesterday.
j. G.. Thomas is a business visitc
d in Pendleton today.
e F. M. Scrivener, whose eye was ir
jured while he was shoeing a hors
in his shop here a short time ago,
g reported as getting along fairly wei
Mr.. Scrivner is at Walla Walla VI
der the care Of a specialist. 1t
o though that the injured eye will NJ
have to be removed but it will in a
probability be sightless.
The members of the alter sociel
here who have been soliciting funt
II for the erection of a Catholic churc
in Echo are having success. The
have something over $1,000 subscril
ed now and the promise Of more.
G. E. Fish is in Portland attendt
grand lodge /. o. O.. F., as a del
gate from the local lodge here. M
Joe Bailey vas also elected a del