The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-06-17
NORMAL COMMENCEMENT
BEGINS SATURDAY NIGHT

The twenty-third annual commence
ment exercises and quarter centennial
program will open at the State Normal
school next Saturday evening, June 10.
with the closing exercises of the Model
school in the auditorium. There will
be 16 candidates for graduation from
the eighth grade and an interesting
and appropriate program has been ar
ranged for the occasion, including Du-
mont's farce, How Woman Keeps
a Secret" to be presented by ten
young ladies. .@
The cast selected to present the
playlet follows:
Mabel Sweetly. -. Amanda Peterson
Maud Harrison. ...... Winifred ToWne
Mary Morton. ........ Ella May Boyd
Della ............. Madge HagadorR
Clara Lewis ......... Dorothy Selden
Stella ................. Leone Shrum
Hazel Brown .......... Edltn asp
| Nellie Atherton ......... Laura Asp
Marion Carr ........... Lydia Barr
Jessie Cooper ...... Gladys Swenson
Story Of the Play ..' ..'
Mabel Sweetly has just become en-
gagged to Harold, but it's "the deepest
secret" Before announcing it they
must win the approval of Harold's un-
Gle, now in Europe, or possibly lose
ten thousand year. At tea Mamel
has a secret. "Oh, do tell me; I'll
never breathe it to a single soul.
Mabel tells her. In spite of her prom
Use Maude let's out the secret. III
people are engaged it's perfectly silly
for them to tell, isn't it," Stella says
a secret with her is as safe as locked
up in a grave. Della, the waitress,
overhears. you mustn't tell, Della"
do l look like a girl as would tell
other peoples secrets, mum?"
But she can't keep it from her mis-
tress, Mary. Mary hates to tell Sc
cret, but the other girls are too much
for her. "Why, l never told living
soul" They surround Mabel excitedly,
congratulating her. "You mustn't tell
any one, girls" They all promise.
But Harold calls her Unexpectedly
over the phone to say his uncle has
returned, has been told and it's all
right.
"You may tell any one now, girls.
It's no longer secret"
Debate on National Defense
The question of whether the United
States should increase it's facilities
for defense, or not, will be argued ON
the affirmative by Charles Anderson
and Vincent Carroll; the negative. by
Walter Taylor and Homer Chaffee.
Musical Program.
A musical program has also been
prepared by the members of the class:
Piano Solo-"Morning Mood" $3.50. ..
Ruby Halvorson
Song ...
"Fleecy Clouds" ........ Beethoven
Seventh and Eighth Grades
Reading
"The Great american Traveller" -
.....'... ........'.'.. ouIuett0
Anna Greenen
Songs
Spring Has Come"
Cradle Song" .E
Anna Sad
i Song
Good Night" ............ Naegeli
Seventh and Eighth Grades
Presentation of Diplomas
Professor w. M. Wemett
There will be Is candidates for grad
uation: Charles Anderson, Edith Asp.
Laura Asp, Lydia Barr, Ella May
Boyd, Vincent Carroll, Homer Chaffee.
Ruby Halvorson, Anna Sad Dorothy
Selden, Midge Hagadorn, Leone Shrum
Gladys Swenson, Walter Taylor. Win
fired Towne, Amanda Peterson.
Four members of the class comp1et-
ed their work at the end of the spring
term and will receive certificates Sat
urday: Theodore Finney, Anna
Greenen, Mabel Morgan, Ronald
Wright.