The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-06-06
Close Of Public !.
School Term.

The Pennington Public Schools last
Friday, May 30th, closed one OF the
best, yet one Of the most interrupted
school term in its history. The year
was seriously broken into by the IN
fiuenza epidemic, causing an enforced;
vacation of eleven weeks, but both
the teachers and pupils put forth ex-
ira effort and as result the full
years work was accomplished. The
pupils and teachers should be COM
mended for their excellent showings.
The graduating exercises. OF the
High School, Grammar School and
| Douglass School were held this week.
On last Sunday night the baccalau-
reate sermon was delivered to the
High School graduating class at the
I'M. E. Church, South, at 8 o'clock. The
sermon was delivered by Rev. ID. a.
Mitchell, whose subject was "Life's
Sovereign Power" theme which ne
ably presented. The choruses by the
Junior Glass and the vocal solo by
Miss Wilhclmina Herwig were also
exceptionally good.
The graduating exercises of the
Senior Glass were held Tuesday night
at s o'clock in the High School audi
torium.. Although the weather was
unsatisfactory the auditorium was
well filed by the relatives and friends
of the graduates. The valedictory
and salutatory addresses were de-
livered by Mildred Meyers and Chill
dress Tetley, respectively, and the di-
plomas were presented by the Presi-
dent of the Board of Education, Geo
X. williams. The program was ably
rendered, each participant doing theil
part we'll.
The Senior Glass roll is as follows
Otis Bugg, Virginia Castleman, My
ra Dobbins, Annetta Klein, Floy Lon
! don, Dee Allen Mckinney, Joe Mar
ty. ]. Tom Miles, Florence Nations
. Iva Richards, Elise Rickus, Lucille
, Simpson, Ethlyn Spradling,, Berth'
, Strahlman, Corrine Taaffe, Chlldres'
Tetley. Frances Tetley, Johanni
Trauernicht, Anna Lee Walker, Mar
garet Wichman, Richard Williams
Trix williams, Madeline Zimmerman
s. Suzon Gardner, lin Mid-year).
The Grammar School graduating eX
, ercises were held last night IN tn
: High School auditorium. The gradu
/ ates of the Grammar School should D
r commended for their excellent pro
i gram. Louise Lang and Leila Davi
|, delivered the valedictory and saiuta
/ tory addresses, respectively. Tn
i class was presented with their diplo
S mas by F. M. Karsch, of the Board o
9 Education.
n The.class roll of the Eighth grade is
n Marie Beatty, Smily Boord, Alie
!. Boord. Hiawatha Boyer, Walter BROCK
j. miller, Clarence Carnahan, Christir
) Counts, Leila Davis, Bessie M. Der
e man, Mary Fleming, Geraldine Gal
d Donald Carton, Fayctte P. Grave
;. Louise Griffin, Leo Grote, Haz'
i Hawn, Douglas Heifner, Elmira He
k mer, Dorothy Henderlite, Leona Horl
q Harry Horn, Grace Huff, Home
: Hughes, Florence Hunt, J: M. karscl
joy Kite, Virginia Keith, Louis
J: Lang, Viola London, Georgia Londol
,, E. j. Mckinney, Ebert Menge, Edlt
Myers, John Ryan, Ruth Sander
,e William Shaw, Carl Sides, Rena
Smith, ]. o. Swink, Mary Tetley, Wi
7: liam Tucker, Dora Waugh, France
Whittier, Harold Wulfert, Addie I'm
5, mer. -.
On Monday night the graduating e.
O, crcises of tie Douglass School we
:. held in the Masonic Hall. There we
S, twelve graduates, who each render,
their part very we'll, bringing, crec
0, both upon their scholarship and t
ability of their teachers, Miss Day
,h Baker and Miss Edith Cayce. The
%. plomas were presented by Geo.
10 Williams