The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-06-13

| IHer WORK at COlumDla university.
Miss Colvlle is also going to take
summer work at Columbia university.
Miss Cowles has gone to Wheeling
where she will spend a few days, af-
ter which she will go to Martins Fer
ry where she will be Joined by her
brother and together they will take a
trip through Porto Rico and Cuba.
Mr.. Doherty was called to Cincin-
natl on business, after which he will
go to his home in Reynoldsburg
where he will spend his vacation.
Mr.. Sanders left Friday for Newark
where he will spend few days with
relatives and from there he will go to
Delaware for the commencement and
from there to his home in Lima where
he will spend the summer.
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Miss Campbell left this morning for
Ypsilanti, Mich, where she will spend
| her vacation.
Miss Mcintosh is spending a few
days at Detroit as the guest of friends.
Mr.. Blosser left today for Hicksville
where he will spend a few days be-
fore he enters Ohio State university
for summer work.
Little need be said about the high
school commencement this year in
face of all that has been said, so this
will be little more than a mention.
There were seventy-two in the class.
the largest class in the history of the
high school. An excellent and inspir-
ing address was given the class by
Mr.. H. G. Williams, editor of the
Ohio Teacher, and the speaker GER
tainly left an impression upon the
minds of all who heard him. Some
from the class are going to work; 9TH
ers are going to college. Already, the
Goodrich company has hired five from
the commercial department, while at
Logan, the Hooking Valley company
is after another person from our COM
mercial department who has the same
qualifications as Lory Gilpin who
started to work there some time ago.
This certainly speaks for itself for
the quality of the work done by the
students of our commercial depart
ment.
The high school chorus, assisted by
Miss Fleming, Mr.. Kelly and Mr..
Sperry, rendered delightful program
last Tuesday evening at the high
school auditorium. The attendance
was light, but the people in attend
ance appreciated the efforts of the
chorus and soloists very much. This
concert, If possible, is to be made
permanent affair and will be given
each year during the commencement
week.
The schools closed up this year
very smoothly, only one thing of note
occurring to mar the final rounding
up OF the school year and that is the
loss OF number of our high school
teachers. Both in the grades and in
the high school all went off smoothly.
A pleasant thing to note at this time
is that large number of the pupils
from the grades who are expecting to
enter high school next fall are taking
the college requirement course. Full
ly 60 per cent are doing this and this
speaks well for the foresight of
Young America.
The examinations in the grades
were held this week. In the 5th, 9Th,
7th and Sth grades only two branches
of study were required arithmetic
and geography in the first three and
arithmetic and history in the eighth
grade. The class graduating from the
eighth grade this year was quite a
large one and a singular thing about
the class is that there were more
girls than boys graduating.
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Friday morning Of this week the re-
port cards were given out to the pu-
pills of the Mt. Vernon public schools,
telling them whether or not they pass
ed, Also at this time the teachers
turned into Supt. zemer their annual
reports and from them Mr.. Zemer will
make his report
Since vacation is here, many of the
alumni of Mt. Vernon high school who
are attending college are home for
their vacations, or soon will be home
Friday evening the boys of the
class of 1916 entertained the girls