The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

(Communicated).
The following program is in the
Possession of William p. Fowkes, an
old Clarksburg boy now living IN
Buckhannon. which may interest
many of your readers. The particle
pants were mostly Clarksburg boys.
from ten to seventeen years of age.
The Academy as 1t was called.
stood on the ground now occupied by
the Towers public school building and
before that, the Randolph academy
sIood nearly on the same ground,
which opened It's first session In AuS-
INST 1895. So it will be seen that for
8 enc hundred and nineteen years the
path to this ha11owed ground has re-
sounded with the pattestng feet and
playful voices OF the Clarksbur2
young folks and thousands OF men
and women scattered all over the con-
tinent look back to this time hOnored
spot with grateful recollections:
Northwestern Virginia Academy
~ Order OF Exercises
Tuesday Evening, March :2;:s, 1913.
Prayer.
.StsE Music.
The American indiana. D. Cam
den. Jr.
The Winged worshippersD.
Eewes.
Cassabianca-J Criss.
Duty of Literary Men to Their
Gountry-W- w. Werninger
Reply of Colonel Barre-U Hay
1nond.
Changes in Life r. J. Smith.
You Cannot Conquer Anlerica.
H. Lee.
Alexander and the Ropber-A. c.
49gNInnre and II. In yupop,I
Music.
Effects of 1nter,pe7ancg-.J a.
Hursey.
Patriotism-W. p. GoF, Jr.
Washing ton-J. Y. Moore
Coming or LaFayetteB. Il.
Smith
The Pilgrims M. Harrison.
E1oquence-C. Golf
English TRAVELLER. r. Smith, Jr.
Yankee Land1ord-A. T. Eavisson.
Music.
The Illustrfous pead-G ~. Dill
worth.
National soverignty-J. Barnes.
The Inebriate-W. NJ. Lewis.
,Fhe Whiskers-A. p. DAWSON
The Will (Heirs, ]. H. Dent, A. J.
Smith, n. p. Worthington); lawyer,
w. G. Harrison.
W So
Murder Will Out. H Dent.
Temperance. b. Ebert.
Speech to Jury-C. L. Harrison.
Music.
South Carolina Patriotism-N. E.
Worthington.
National character-W. C. Har-
1ison.
True and False Patriotism j.
Smith, Jr.
The Gridiron-C Captain. c. T. Lew
is; Irish sailor. c. T. Harrison:
Frenchman, A. P. DAVIDSON.
Music.
Debate Was Washington or La
Fayette the greater man-Messrs. Da-
Sisson. Dilworth. Harrison ana
others.
Music.
Benediction.
OF the twenty-six boys who took
part in the ceremonies described
above fifteen Of them are known to
have participated in the great Civil
n var which burst upon the country a
few years afterwards.
They we're of course divided in
their allegiance, and some Of them
fought in the same battles though on
opposite sides.
So far as is known none OF them
were killed nor dangerously Injured.
These exercises were always held in
the little Methodist Episcopal church
that stood on the brow of the hill a
short distance east of the academy
building, overlooking Cain street.
The G. D. Camden. Jr.. whose name
s appears above, was the son of the
Judge of that name who long presided
n over the circuit court.
David Hewes whose father was
colonel In the Union army is now liy-
Ing in Charleston.
Jack Criss who after the war set
tied in Baltimore, and afterwards
6 moved to Texas. and died there. His
ther. Aaron Crisis. was long a sue
II cessful merchant in Clarks burg.
Watts Werntnger lived for some
Years in Baltimore and died in or near
there.
Writ Raymond. son of Luther. died
at the early age of eighteen after Civ
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