The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-10
Program of Songs, Poem, Ora
tons, History, Prophecy
and Will Prepared and
Delivered Today.
AUDITORIUM DECORATED
CoIors of Glass Used in Pro
fusion in Assembly Room
Picnic This Afternoon
at Bluff Park.

The class Of 1914 of the Keokak
high school celebrated class day this
morning. This Is the first of the big
events OF commencement week, and
as the name implies is the day in
which the class is the entertainer.
The program is gotten up by the
class, and consists OF various num-
bers in which the class takes part.
Class day exercises were held in the
auditorium of the high school, and
the big room was crowded to its
capacity with the mothers, fathers
and friends Of ths class.
The platform at the front Of the
assembly room had been transformed
into q pagoda OF green and white, the
class colors. The rail at the front
was wrapped in white, and from the
floor Co thu rail were tackled stream
ers of green and white intertwined.
The pillars at the corners were dec
Grated in the colors, and the over
head supports Of thu platform also
were wrapped in bunting.
Streamers of bunting were caught
UP from these supports to point on
the wall at the back. A solid back
ground Of green and, white has been
built against the wall and on this In
block figures were the numerals OF
the class 1914" The numerals In
white were displayed against the
green ground and the two which
wers made in green were displayed
against white ground. The entire
effect was striking. and the senior
boys who worked yesterday to so
decorate the assembly room deserve
much credit for their efforts.
The class wore their cap and gowns
OF gray at the exercises this morning.
Following the final number OF the pro-
gram they sang verse of their song
and then passed out of the assembly
room.
Class of IA Enters.
To the strains Of a march played
by the orchestra, the class entered
the assembly room this morning.
marching down to their seats at the
side of the platgorm. accompanied
by the applause Of the assemblage.
There were forty-three in line.
The members of the class who par
ticipated in the program today were:
Thomas Clifford Agnew, Clarence
Lester Alling, Ruth Elizabeth Bland,
wyman Jesse Bolton, William Nc
Kinley Brooks, Beulah Mae Brum-
ham Collins, Irwin French Coombs,
wilfred Lewis Cresswell, Vivian Isa-
bel Demple, Sanford Pond Drake, Ed
win Sharretts Elder, Ada Estelle
Bever Field, Helen Palmer Gray, Hos-
ace Chase Hinkley, Nina Valerie
Hodge, James Abraham Hollings-
worth, Gerard Lawrence Huiskamp,
Albert Patton Jenkins, Helen Caroline
Kisdaisch, Mary Louise Kiedaisch.
Arthur Kellogg Kirby. Eva Mae Kunz-
mann, Alice Clarissa Linqulst, Verna
LaRue Miller, Marjorie Elizabeth
Moore, Ray Errett Moore, Theodore
Andrew Newcomb, Walter Everett
Nichols, Harry Loeffler Pagett,
Charles Mason Parsons, Mary God
dard Rich, Arthur Wheel Robbins,
George Welker Rollosson, Walter
Schwartz, Floyd Austin Seifert, Leslie
Henry Vaughan, Beatrice Irene Will
hanson, Elizabeth Nancy Wilson, Will
liam Ross Wilson, Jeanette Lenoir
wunderly, Helen Mary Kollmyer
(post graduate).
Picnic at Bluff Park.
The annual outing of the senior
class which always is scheduled for
the afternoon Of class day was to be
held this year at Bluff Park. The
members of the class departed this