Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-24

about a hundred yards from this
spot, there once stood modest three
room structure known to fame as
The HopkinsvilIe High School, but to
those vitality interested as Ferrell's
School House.
All survivors of the 600 and odd
students who from the first to the
last matriculated therein. and who
are now scattered from Washington
to San Francisco, and from Maine to
Florida, were cordially invited to at
tend this reunion.
1t is my pleasing duty-Pll make
it stronger than ,hat-it ismy high
privilege to welcome to the scene of
their boyhood endeavors the Majors
Boys.
Tonight I'm glad and Pm sorry.
Glad and grateful for those that
came, and sorry that all could not be
present. Some of the boys were i'll,
while others could not leave their
business, while others still could not
be located.
As a member of the Invita- ions
Committee | might, had | been more
coldly critical, have found it inter-
esting to analyze the declinations-to
read between the lines. to move from
cause to effect-to classify as it were,
from their letters, the men these
Ferrell's Boys have become since
they entered the world. struggle, and
who after all are representative
Americans. | might have surmised
that some didn't come on account of
their success in life-others because
of their failure-that some were per-
haps too proud, others too humble.
Or few of those absentees never
got on the real inside of school life
were ever strangers to that esprit
de corps, which in school parlance we
term comradeship.
say these things might perhaps
haveoccurred to a hypercrilical, su-
persensitive person, but never to
one of Ferrell's Boys. The Major
wasn't supersensitive nor hyper
critical and he didn't turn out that
kind of boy.
You are here because you Just
couldn't ay away; they are not
here just because they couldn't get
here. Next time the case msy be
reversed.
No sir-every man Jack of those
absentees knows that we fellows
who stayed here at the school home
have been but keeping school, so to
speak. just to give them the glad
hand, the welcome smile, when they
come back. That Terrell Boy loves
a Terrell Boy in spite of his money,
his brains or his success, not because
of them. Truth to tell. we Terrell
Boys may be just little partial to
the fellow that hasn't quite so much
money and just little bit of fail
ure anyhow. That's Just about the
sort of peculiar animal these Fer
rell's Boys stack up to be. for love
begets love. The fellow with all the
success and the money generally
loves success and money. Those more
unfortunate Gas the world would call
it) have room in their hearts for love
of their fellows. The deduction is
obvious, for 10! Ben Adams name
led all the rest.
We are glad to have you here at
this clan gathering; to swap Stories
of those golden, youthful days. to
look one upon the other and see if
our predictions as to how each would
pan out has been verified. To bark
back and visualize the young fledg-
ling of-Great Scott!-35 years ago.
Meach-and place him beside the
bearded, grayish mature man snd
shake our puzzled heads like old Hoss
Evans in the play when he stole the
pullet and ostrich egg from the same
nest.
And those happenings in the drill
squad and on parade. at the desk and
and at the blackboard. shall We ever
lever forget themY How our es-
teemed citizen. Moses Elb. was lost
off at the cracker end Of company
wheel executed at double quick.
uou, Eoraof Caflaft amiffan with