The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-05-01
EIGHTH GRADE
| GRADUATION
LAST NIGHT
YOUNG PEOPLE ACQUITTED
d THEMSELVES WITH CREDIT
Orations Showed Much Thought and
Preparation and Were Well
Delivered

III A large audience gathered in the
lAuditorium last evening to witness
Ahe exercises of the eighth grade
tEraduates.
La Miss Mamie Funk as first speak
! yr on the program, launched at once
Into rigorous but well worded
criticism of Street Loating." Pictur-
ing as she did the dangers from this
| practice, we could but agree that
| the loafer is the worst enemy to So
ciety This followed by Elmer Nc
Arthur in the oration, THE Wonder
Of the Age" showing thorough
knowledge of the latest inventions.
The speaker made it plain to his
hearers that wonderful progress has
been and is being made in almost ev
cry direction
The first musical number of the
4vening was then rendered by Miss
8kathleen Carter, which was rare
treat to all.
i Miss Redella Gain in an oration
3on Appearances, showed the fallacy
3of judging people or things by ex-
Eternal features, and was very logi-
C1l in her conclusion that correct es-
tlmates can only be made after the
Imost painstaking and careful scru-
tiny.
The next number. Robert E.
Ilee," by Miss Elizabeth MeHarg,
Twas a fitting eulogy to the life of
this great man Numerous incidents,
taken from real life, were cited to
bhow that true greatness lies not in
pomp and splendor but in attention
10 the lesser things of life.
= Miss Jewell Swindell then favored
The audience with a musical number
which was highly enjoyed.
This was followed by Miss Mar
Eurette Straw, in recitation, "The
Bociety Girl. The speaker lost no
ime in tearing the mask from her
hibject, and exposing to full light
The frivolities and Stiffness of society
ifs.
i Perhaps the saddest note, in many
espects, of the evening was sound
Id in the grafton, ''It Might Have
Been" by Miss Elizabeth Dickerson.
Illustration after Illustration were
$iven where the destinies of men
Ind even of nations had been
banged by the qualification of some
khim or caprice. Many lives, the |
Breaker said, had been wrecked on
he shoals of ut might have been"
Il The last musical number of the
gening was given by Miss Mary
Teaver, This, too, was much appre-
$ated as were the other musical |
sumbers. The next grafton was |
Florida," by Miss Gladys Davis.
she speaker was heart and soul in |
ser theme that Florida is the land |
opportunity So we'll was the pic
IRE drawn and so glowing were her
srms the slumbering poetic natures
8 the audience was aroused, caus-
fg them to forget for the time be-
Rg the sordid thing of life.
i In "Memory's Message" Miss Grace
Turrell had as her Grafton theme
lat is ever near us. Outlining, as
De did, the effects of memory on
ze lives of all, we were made to
sel that memory was even more
secious than ever. AS golden
3ain, it connects the past, with the |
Resent, serving as an anchor in time
trouble and as inspiration to
4ngs heavenward.
4Herman Matthias, as valedictorian,
Is heard to good advantage in the
[ason and Dixon Line" A short
Bume leading up to the establish
INT of this line, was given, fol-
sTed by a vivid description of civil
ar struggles and ending in happy
Ez~oration to the boys who wore the
ae and to the boys who were the
say.
THE exercises were exceptionally
sil rendered and highly appreciated
Evidenced by the liberal applause
st greeted each number.
Next came the presentation of
wers followed by Mr.. Jones in a
well chosen words, addressed
4Icularly to the members Of the