The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1914-05-06
SCHOOL NOTES
School Calendar

High school senior class play, Fri
ay evening, May 10.
Baccalaureatte sermon. Sunday
evening, May II.
High school senior class day, We'd
nesday, Nay 20. pr
Eighth grade day, for Kowa, Baca,
and Prowers counties, Thursday, May
q.
Commencement, high school COM
mercial department, Thursday even
ing, May Fl.
Commencement, high school four
year course, Friday evening, May %.
Alumni banquet, Saturday evening,
May %.
The senior class play is entitled,
1.-THE Gentleman from Indiana" and
is arranged by Professor Roger H.
Molten Of Colorado College from
Booth Tarkington's well known book.
1t was given recently by the gradual
ing class of the North Denver high
school and was pronounced the best
play North Denver has given in years.
The play will begin at eight o'clock.
Admission will be SOC for adults,
35c for school children. Tickets will
be on sale at the Up-to-Date Drug
store.
The Baccalaureatte sermon will be
given in the H. 8. auditorium by Rev.
E. E. Brace Of the Methodist church.
The seniors on class day will give
an evening program all their own,
to which their friends and indeed ev-
eryone interested in school matters
is cordially invited. There will be
no admission charged for this pro-
gram.
Eighth grade day is one Of the big
days Of commencement week. The
program and other arrangements are
in charge of the high school seniors
and the purpose is to interest the
eighth grade graduates of Prowers
and surrounding counties in the high
school work that is being done at La
mar. In the forenoon at ten o'clock
the visiting eighth graders from Bent,
Kowa, Prowers and Baca counties
will be entertained with q baseball
game between the Pioneer and Lin
coin schools. At noon arrangements
will b made for big basket dinner
in the high school basement In the
afternoon 1t one O'Clock the seniors
will entertain the eighth graders with
. fine program in the high school
auditorium. At ESQ . field and track
meet viii be held ut the high school,
consisting Of the following events:
100 yard dash, 8 pound shot put,
220 yard dash, high jump, pole vault.
40 yard run, base ball throw. running
broad jump, go yard relay. Last year
the Baea county eighth grade track
team carried of the honors. and they
will send strong team this year.
Holly will send q team for the first
time this year, and will be q strong
contender for the pennant. Copies
of the rules for the track meet may
be secured by addressing Ross Weir,
Lamar, Colorado.
The commercial department will
have its first formal commencement
this year. Hon. C. C. Good
ale will deliver the commencement ad-
dress Thursday evening, May 81. The
graduates in the commercial depart
ment are Bessie Koen, Marie Cook,
Lila O'Neill, Eva Pittman, Addie
Smith, Ruth Turney, John Nassau,
and Harry Higbee.
The high school four year course
on Friday evening,
May 20, will close the regular school
work Of the year. The state superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction, Mrs.
Mary C. C. Bradford, will deliver an
address.
The big time Of commencement week
for the students Of former years will
be the Alumni program and banquet
on Saturday evening, May %. The
program will begin at eight o'clock
at the high school auditorium and the
banquet at the Ben Mar will be serv-
ed after the program is concluded.
The graduating class will be formally
initiated and the Alumni promise to
have one Of the most enjoyable re-
unions in recent years.