Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-24
LIST OF GRADUATES
Insterestins Exercises Held at Public
School Building When Rural
School PUPILS Graduate

The Rural School Graduating Exer-
else took place at the High School
bhilJing on Saturday afternoon, July
10Th.
In spite of heat, haying and harvest
ing, the people came in large numbers.
filing every available space in the room.
Nearly all of the fifty-three graduates
were present from the various parts of
the county. The young people from
Kimballton came in to take part in the
exercise, even tho they had had a pro-
gram of graduation at Kimballton at
the close of the school year. 1t is an
encouraging sign to see the people tax.
ing so active an interest in educational
matters
The Misses Mildred and Eloise Buck
opened the program with piano duet,
I'll Trovatore, which was beautifully
and skillfully rendered The Rev. j..
H. Freedline, pastor of the Methodist
Church, offered the invocation, and
Miss Lorraine Graham, in her
sweet and melodious voice sang Be
cause Love You"
Mr. Pellet of Atlantic then gave a
talk on agriculture. expressing the thot
that in this day and age it requires an
energetic, wide-awake mana student
of agricultural problems to do success
full farming He gave many helpful
suggestions regarding the care and
handling of bees; and to show that it
ia quite possible to thoroly understand
these little singing creatures, MIR
Pellet entered screened cage with a
hive of bees and demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the audience that be
could handle hundreds of bees in any
manner he chose without fear of being
stung.
A few pupils from the second grade
then sang a number of. songs wholly
without accompaniment. They entered
heartily into the spirit of the songs.
Mabel Graham delighted the audience
with violin solo.
Supt. Oblinger of Greene county gave
a helpful and suggestive talk on some
of the problems of the rural schools.
He said that the biggest problem was
the small school where the teachers
Just put in her time and drew pay.
He advocated consolidation where it
was practicable He showed the need
of advancement along many lines and
stated the fact that the rural schools
had not kept pace with the progress in
farming, Supt. Oblinger is man of
wide experience in school work and
knows whereof he speaks.
Before the presentation of diplomas,
Miss Stearns spoke from the heart on
the subject, Ideals She mentioned
ideals that had been before her In
youth, but these had faded and given
place to something more worth while.
Her thot was expressed in the follow
ing poem by w. j. Dawson, copy OF
which was presented by Miss Stearns
to each one present as a souvenir of the
day.
THE NoBLEsT GRACE
'Tis something. when the day draws TO disclose
To say. Tho have borne burdened mind
Have tasted neither pleasure nor repose.
Yet this remains-to all men. friends or foes
have been kind
Tis something when hear Deaths awful treat
Upon the STAIR that his swift eye shall lind
Upon my heart old wounds that often bled
For others, but no heart L injured
l have been kind.
Praise will not comfort me when / am dead:
Yet should one come. by tenderness inclined
My heart would know II he stopped DER my be-
And kissed my lips for memory and said
This man was kind
Lord. when from Thy throne Thou judgest me
Remember, tho / was preverse and blind.
NY heart went out TO men in misery,
gave what little store had TO thee.
My life was kind.
Miss Berger, teacher of music in tn,
Audubon schools, sang beautiful solo
and the Rev Mr.. Freedline pronounce,
the benediction. Following is the lis
of graduates:
Leonard Esbeck Theodore Pedersel