The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-27
SCHOOL IS CLOS.
ING THIS WEEK
Glass of 1918 Wind Up Their High
School Career With Commence
ment Exercises Tomorrow
Nighttime Will Get
Their Diplomas.

This has been busy week for the
graduating class OF Heppner High
Schol, who will wind up their career
presented with their diplomas at the
graduation exercises to be held in the
Auditorium on tomorrow evening.
The program to be followed is out
lined herewith:
Piano solo, "Liebeswaltzer," 80.
............ Virginia Crawford
Invocation. :. Rev. T. s. Handsaker
"'Tis Our Festal Day." Rhys Herbert
High School Chorus
Grafton, .... Industrial Evolution"
Helen Aiken, Salutatorian
Grafton, ...... THE Open Door"
Spencer Crawford
Grafton, Has Christianity Failed?"
Harley Adkins, valedictorian 4
1.-THE Stars Cleaning" Rys Herbert
High School Choru
Address to Glass. j. A. Churchill
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction
Conferring Of Diplomas,S E. Notson
County Superintendent of Schools
Greeting to Spring, -. Strauss
High Schol Chorus
The class play, "Mishaps of Min
erva," was presented on Friday even
ing before large audience at the
High School Auditorium, and was one
of the best presentations ever staged
in this city by a graduating class.
The play is all comedy and required
no very heavy acting on the part OF
any of the participants, but it was
well suited to the class, and the selec-
tion of the parts had been we'll made
by Mrs. Wedding, who was in charge
of the training. And it may be said
right here that much credit is due her
for the excellent manner in which the
young people presented their parts,
and this, too, in face of the fact that
she has been very much pressed for
time in the activities incident to the
closing weeks of the school.
We should say that perhaps the
most difficult parts were taken by
Misses Edith Thorley and Grace Van
Vactor, in the characters, Minerva
Sterling" and Belle Brantley," the
former being young lady very will
ing to oblige and the latter the hust-
ling reporter of the "Screamer.' If
there was anything of Importance 60
ing on, Miss Belle certainly did not
overlook it for her paper and she was
right there all the while. And then
that spell of small pox that suddenly
possessed molly, the maid" and
filled the whole house with conster-
nation and fright, was so well exc
cuted by Melba Griffiths that the
audience became infected with a
serious attack of mirth that lasted
them we'll to the end of the perform
ance. Victor Brown young doc
tor and friend of the Sterling famil,
was character well sustained b.
Harley Adkins, and his transforma
ton into the female character OF
Mrs. Jennie Van Dueson Spyker'
was so complete as to deceive the
very elect. He was good in both of
these characters. Clarence Scrivner,
as Mortimer ]. Sterling;" Lera
Citizens, CLARA Sterling;;" Helen
Aiken, Mrs. Wright" Ina Johnson,
"Miss Palmer Spencer Crawford,
Harry Stevenson; David Wilson.
Barnes, the butler" Thomas Hugh
es, mike Shannon" and Anna How
ard, Mrs. Lydia Sterling" )" were the
other characters of the cast, and each
one held up their parts well and did
credit to the characters represented
Part / of the program on Friday
night contained some excellent num-
bers and was a feature of the enter
tainment we'll received. We desire
to make special mention of the solo
by Miss Thorley, Sing Me The Ros-
Concluded on page five.)