Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-05-16
GALA Time In
BURKE'S GARDEN
Closing of Graded School Occa-
sion for Much Entertainment
and Many Interesting and
Instructive Contests.
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oaturday afternoon. MIR. r. w. BOP
Dit, principal OF the Tazewe!. nign
School, himself an athlete of ao,ub,r.
college records, ana an entnL sl,sti>,
worher for physical education, was
reteree for all the events. Nj. n. !.
GreeVer and MIR. Ewing Lawson Kept
the scores. MIR. Bowen Nee. was
athletic manager for the scf.ool. The
1azeweli High School orchestra, with
MISS Britain conducting anu MISS
jackson at the piano, Artcd "bunu"
Ior tho occasion, giving NO delight
Iul concerts, one at the opening anu
one at the closing OF the Afternoon
program The tcild Day rogram
was taken from the Gifil.u. bu..et,n OF
The Virginia Literary anl. ,tn.c.ic
League. The event, wi.r .ast ana
second winners fonow. luU yard
Dash, first, Bowen Meek; second
Moss Peery; ~ yard uasn, first ira
BOILING; second, r1eu teery; Three
Legged Race, IirsV, red reery ana
Oscar DAVIS; second, Aiberr Grecver
and John Boiling; foie-rmnning, tie
between Moss reery and Earl stow
efS. Fotalo lace, L,s between George
onort and l....ph Showers. Long run,
mist, Bowt" -uee..; second, Moss
A-eefy; liAi..~ race, LrSt MOSS Peery,
SECOND, Lowe. 4ieek. Running hign
Jump, iirsts &C bet vernai Lana
Dci. ana MOSS iesry; second, tie be-
tween john thompson ana Bowen
-MeeA. Standing broad jump, first,
Moss Peery; second, Bowen Meek;
LACK race, nrst, Albert Greever; sec
end, tlugh Casseli; running broad
jump, Moss teery; Second, Bowen
Meek; 100 yard dash, free for all,
was won by Bls. Bobbltt, just to show
'en how.
Ask the Soldier about the S. A.
When the scores were summed up
1t was found that the athletic medal
mad been won by Moss Psery with
Bowen Meek ns close second and med
ais had been won by Moss peery with
Bowen Meek as close second ana med
ais were subsequently awarded TO
both. The winners of prizes in the
other events will be found by refer
ence to the above report. On Monday
evening two pretty operettus consti-
tuted the program. The iirst, "Hia-
watha," taken, Of course, from Long
fellows masterpiece of musical me-
ter, was picturesque in setting and
costumlng and unusually credltable
LII training. Children are perhaps the
best judges of stage performances
and the realistic scenes of "Hiawtha"
captivated the imagination of the
youthful part of the audience and car
ried them completely away from the
school room into virgin forest to shoot
and dance and sing and love with the
romantic "Hinwatha" and the lovely
Laughing Water" and swnrms of
braves" and "squaws." This is the
cast of characters taken by the chill
dren of the primary and grammar
grades:
Hiawatha, chief of the Ojibway
tribe-Joseph Moss; Hiawatha as
Child-Ralph Gose; Iagoo-Ira Boil
ing; Arromaker - Ralph Showers;
Mudjekeewis-Wiley Boiling; Mission
airy Prlest.-Ralph Showers; Kwasind
William McGinnis; Paupukkeewis
Hugh Cassell; Nokomis, grandma
ther of Hiawatha-Ruth Burge; Min
nehaha-Mary Cassell.
Indian braves-John Boiling, Fred
Peery, Robert Boiling, Francis Snapp.
Indian squaws-Hattie LAWS, Ber-
tie Berger, Essie Mae Short, Eula
Lee Wynn, Margaret Felty, Ethel
iIbbs.
Guides-George Short, Robert Meek
plymouth Rock"
The High School operetta, with its
quaint costumes and pleasing melo-
uies, and the Puritan maiden, Pris-
ella, "archly replying" "Why don't
you speak for yourself, John?" al
query possibly still echoed in the
i.eart of many a maiden, was effec-
h. F1lt ~,
i,risciila-Reba Snapp; John Alden
Gose; Governor Winslow-Earl Stow
ers; Miles Standish-John Thompson.
Puritan MaidenR
Hope -Jessylene Gose; Lesire-
Anna Belle Barger- Faith-Lula La
Wis; Elizabeth-Mamio Showers; Ma
ry-Nello Gose; Charity-Lsna Stow
ers.
Soldiers-Mr. Ewing Lawson, Jno.
Thompson, Vernal Lampbert, Bowen
Meek, Earle Showers, John Meek,
moss Peery.
The Tuesday evenings program
gave series Of contests in declama-
Lion, Recitation and Debate, with pia-
10 numbers and school music. The
committee selected as medalists in
the contest for the best defamation,
MIR. Earl Showers, speaking, "Poin-
cares Greeting to President Wilson,"
l!e medal for the best recitation
among the high school contestants
was wonby Miss Mamie Stowers ana
the prize for best recitation in the
grades by Miss Rnna Davis. Prizes
for perfest attendance and "near'
perfect attendance were given to JOS
cph Moss and j. D. Greever, Jr, re-
spectively. The debate was held un-
der the regulations of the Virginia
Literary and Athletic League. The
subject, as debated in ali the High
Schools Of the State, reads: "Re-
solved, That the government should
own and operate the railroads of the
United States" The vexed question
has been at last settled, no doubt to
the qualification of our puzzled Wood
row, who had to tell Congress he did
MT know what to do with the rail-
roads, by Miss Jean Gose and Mr..