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/. y Commencement Exercises
Baccalaureate Services

Baccalaureate Services
y All churches united on last SUNDAY
morning to observe the annual bac
'calaureate services which were held a
fte Baptist Church at II o'clock. Ey.
cry available seat and much STANDING
room was taken to accommodate all the
interested friends. Prof Thos. L
Tinsley, newly elected music instruct
or for next year was present to preside
at the piano and played the procession
al, tour. juniors being ushers, and the
large class CARRIED in cap and gown
made their entrance through two aisles
to the pews reserved for them by mark
ers OF green and white streamers A
committee of Juniors had also placed
handsome decorations of ferns and
flowers on the chancel. The School
Board and the Faculty were present
in a body.
A beautiful musical number was rem
dered by Miss Marjorie Owens and
Mr., Burr Stokoe with Mr.. Sam Kas-
sewitz at the piano. Rev. Elder read
the Scripture lesson and offered pray
er. Rev. Bruce Nay of the Central
Christian Church preached the bacca-
laureate sermon and it was splendidly
given and received. His practical talk
was based upon twelve Scriptural rules
Of conduct which Rev. Nay called the
''be's' such as be dilligent, be faithful.
etc. 1t was discourse characterized
by sympathetic understanding of his
hearers and by a practical application
of Scriptural teaching to their immed-
late needs.
Rev. Whitley Langston was present
and pronounced the benediction. The
CLASS retired to the music of a re-
cessiohal.
Graduation Program
The need of an auditorium recurs
with imperative emphasis on each
commencement occasion, the one time
of every Year when it would seem the
rights of our citizens to hear and see
their young sons and daughters in
graduating exercises are not only
abridged but actually obliterated by
the want of room to hold the crowds
that gather in vain to enjoy these
programs. The discomforts and the
positive danger of these overcrowded
rooms at all school Exercises should in
all soberness of judgement overcome
this parsimony of our citizens in re-
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taxes and give our town what our
young people deserve and what we all
might enjoy safe and adequate au
dterium in connection with our high
school
The graduation program was held
iii the jury room of the County Court
House as usual, and it was of high
order. The address of the evening was
given by Hon. John N. Holder of the
State Highway Department at present
but for MANY years a member of the
legislature and identified in many ways
with the best interests of the state.
Preceding his splendid address, the
following program was rendered:
Salutatory, Virginia Mcdonald; Es-
say, Highways as Memorials, Chas.
Newcomer; Essay, preserving the
Ideals and Traditions of the Old
South" Beulah Lavender; Valedictory
Will Ed Smith; all were delightfully."-
original in treatment. The music was
highly pleasing including a quartet, in
which the favorite singers Sam Kas-
sewitz, Mrs. Carl Fellars, Miss Mario
RE Owens and Mr.. Burr Stokoe, blen-
ded their fine voices in delightful
ensemble and the young player Viola
Lovett and singer, Helen Williams,
gave pleasing numbers. At the con-
clusion of the program the large I'M
ior Class were heard in splendid CHOIR