Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

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x were the salutatorian, Miss Clell
i Meadows, and the valedictorian, Mis-.
* Ethel Taft.
. The exercises opened with an over
ture by the high school orchestra
followed by an invocation by Rev. O
. ]. Edwards, pastor of the Scandinav
- ian Lutheran church. The higl
Il school chorus then rendered a sailo
song in a pleasing and effective man
ner.
Aside from the excellent choruse.
= rendered, and the orchestral number
+ the musical feature of the evning wa
& a number by a male quartette com
:. posed of Will Ferguson, Peter Rein
ertsen, liver Eclov and Howard Gross
' 1t showed that the Watertown higl
school contains superior musical tai
ent with voices that promise much
for the future. Mrs. Cosgrove, in
structor of music, is to be congrat
ulated on the talent shown.
Judge sherwood's Address.
Judge C. G.. Sehrwood, who pre-
sides over the circuit court in this
district, delivered a most impressive
and timely address, directing his re
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Life, said the eminent local jurist,
is three-fold. 1t is composed of the
physical, the mental and the moral
being. No man is complete whose
development has been along any one
of these phases, or even any two.
The requirements of genuine man.
hood and w~omanhood demand that all
three phases be cultivated and devel-
oped 10 round the human being as he
was intended to be by the great Gre
atOr.
There is no royal road to success.
1t depends upon the person and upon
the application he makes of the tai
ents with which his mentality and
morality were endowed. No man
has become great in history in the
sense in which greatness is measured
who has neglected the moral side of
human nature.
Judge Sherwood closed his address
by a plea that each member of The
class would proceed upon the theory
that the worthwhile things in life are
those which tend to elevate morally
and spiritually and to contribute to
the sum of human happiness.
At the conclusion of this well re-
ceived address, Professor l.. B. Par
sons presented the members of the
class with their diplomas, accompany
ing the presentation with a few time
y observations with respect to the
duties of citizenship and the relations
that mankind bears to one another in
the busy social and commercial act
ivities OF life.
The Eighth Grade.
The eighth grade exercises on Fri
day likewise drew a large gathering
of interested spectators. The pro-
gram was carried mainly by the mem
bers of the grade.
The address of the occasion was
delivered by Hon. j. G.. Mcfarland,
whose remarks were both interesting
and instructive throughout. He urged
the pupils to remember that success
is largely dependent upon knowledge
coupled with experience. Optimism,
he said, is essential in the making Of
the world to move, for the passimist-
ically inclined is to apt o act upon
his own tehories and utterly fail to
comprehend that it is optimism that
spurs tt action.
He admonished the class to bear
in mind that its members are passing
from boyhood and girlhood into
young manhood and young woman
hood and that ~henceforth they will
be regarded as young men and young
women upon whose shoulders will
soon be resting the responsibility for
commercial and governmental AFFAIRS.
He urged them to qualify for the i'm
pending obligation soon to be placed
upon them.
The local chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution mao
charge of the exercises in connection
with the awarding of prizes. In this
connection Mrs. Hagman p~leasingly
rendered an original composition, and
Mrs. E. St. Claire Snyder briefly spoke
of United States history.
Mrs. S. F. Spencer thereupon
awarded prizes as follows: First
priZe to Lee Trenholm. and second to
Geneyieve Mclaughlin. Honorable
mention was accorded to Myrtle
Greer, Walter Michaels, jeanette
GRAY. Maud Harrington, Charles
Noonan, Violet Nelson. Wayne Wal
lace, Robert Ingle. Reynold Bellatl,
Walter Brufat, Mildred Klinge, Fan
chon Parsons, Phoebe Ferris, Frank
Coffey and Thora Johnson.
The Membership of the Class.
Eighty-eight members of the grades
pass into the high school for 1916. as
follows: William Aldrich, n
Doncstecl. Vinton Cunningham,
Blanche Desmond. Benjamin Edwards
Joseph Edwards. Forrest GarVln'
Olive Gray. Walter Gilruth, Robert
Rorswill, Forrest Harrcll. Maude liar-
rington, Essie Hughes, Robert lngle'
Frank Lautenschlager, Grace Lal)ou'
Walter Luck, eVrne Mccain. Gene
We've Mclaughlin, Charles Noonan
Violet Nelson, Lucy Potticary, Minnie
Rice, Thilda Rund, Mildred smith
oliver %Stutenroth. Winifred Taecker'
Lenard Shoultz. Ruth Void, Wayne
Wallace, Lillian Barkely, Reynold f.
Bellati, Walter NJ. Brutiat. Fern Grim
err, Percy Grinolds, Edward W. Han
son, Mildred A. Klinge, Fredelia
Krohn. Esther Schnackenberg, Lydia
e. Mutchler. Lydia Waldron' KUN
Waldron, G. Lee Trenholm, Ruth e.
Coggshall, Myrtle e. Greer. Alvera \.
Jefferson, Eva L. McLaughiH, r.
LLOYD Whitman, Walter II. Michaels'
Ruby NJ. Hommel, D. Marie suck
Theresa c. Mitchell. F. Arthur Lyon
Nellie NJ. Best. J. Harold Binford'
cb,rloe r RrickeU. F. Isabel Brown,