Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-18
IA Decided Success in Spite OF
! Browning Skies and Occasional
Showers-Big Crowd
Present.
DELIGHTFUL PROGRAM GIVEN.
A Beautiful Out Door Spectacle
School Exhibit is Very
I Highly Praised.
DELIGHTFUL PROGRAM GIVEN.

In spite of frowning skies and oc-
a casional showers which lasted dur
1 ing the entire program of the May
Day Fete Friday given by the
Webster City schools upon the beau
"a tiful lawn between the north and
lsouth central school buildings, about
VI fifteen hundred people were present,
company comprising perhaps the
largest number of Webster City
school patrons alone ever attending
any out of door event here.
The fete was pronounced without
Il reservation to be the most beautiful
out of door spectacle ever seen in the
city and the one thought uppermost
in the minds of the large audience
was the vast amount of work and
1.-THE hours and hours after school
4 which teachers had given to make
this thing possible. To them be-
longs the credit of the perfect rem
dition of drills, dances and songs.
That this may be an event which
will be yearly anticipation for the
1, beholders of yesterdays festival will
be earnestly hoped for. Several
4 stores closed their doors yesterday
between the hours of 1870 and 3
o'clock to enable their clerks to en-
10y the fete and it is also hoped to
establish this custom whenever we
have May festival by the schools.
The pupils of Lawn Hill and the
east side marched to the grounds, &C
!, companied by their teachers, shortly
before 1880 o'clock and Joined the
already large number of children in
\ place upon the lawn.
A wire was drawn taut about the
arena where the events were to take
place and promptly at 1880 O'Clock
to the music of a piano placed upon
the lawn, the procession of the May
festival began, headed by the May
Queen, Miss Ruby Whitman, and her
attendant, Miss Glare Richardson
!, and their four small attendants, two
\, little boys and two little girls who
proceeded slowly to the throne
which was built for the queen in a
rustic bower covered with lilacs and
! snowballs. Miss Whitman was q
a beautiful May Queen, possessing the
long golden hair poetry demands Of
! a May Queen, and she was immed'
lately crowned by her attendant az
ter the procession of May jewellers
l had all passed before her.
81 A Spring Song, sung to the music
of Rubenstein's Melody in F, was the
next number on the program anc
was given by pupils from the high
school and upper grades. Follow
n ing this song "America" was also
] sung by all the pupils of the schools
v with piano accompaniment.
w The boys calesthenic drill had tt
be given outside Of the arena within
the wire, on account of the previou:
marking of the ground on the wes
4 side of the walk. The boys of the
N fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh ant
1 eighth grades took their places up
on the green, and led by Supt. Kelly
gave a splendid gymnastic drill.
Thirty young girls from the uppe1
grades, all dressed in white, mex
gave, under the direction of Mis-
Juanita Hall, a graceful hoop drill
with circlets of pink roses. TIT
drills were all accorded hearty ap
plause,
The flag drill by thirty-two boy
from the eighth grade was an in
spring sight and provoked repeated
applause. Harold Hoffman acted a
drummer, accompanied by Miss Edit
R. Lee as pianist for this drill
which in the latter part was led b,
! Reed Thompson, who gave the mill
tary commands.
Following this came a combina
! ton drill-or 1.-TWO ring circus
being wand drill by thirty littl
girls from the south building, and
parasol drill by twenty-one girl
\ from the high school. The littl
J girls were all in white, while tn
young girls from the high schoc
were dressed to represent tulips, l
orange and red with 2arasols
match. The wand girls were led b
little Miss Miriam Ranworth unde
the direction of Miss Mary Dundol
Next after the combination drill
sixteen little butterflies fluttered OF
at one end of the arena, and tn