Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1918 — MARION TOWNSHIP COMMENCEMENT [ARTICLE]

MARION TOWNSHIP COMMENCEMENT

Trustee Wood, of Marion township, held his eighth grade commencement at , the Consolidated school south of Rensselaer last Friday evening. A large crowd of interested parents and patrons filled the room to listen to the well rendered program. The Rev. J. Budman Fleming, of Rensselaer, opened and closed the program with a very patriotic invocation and benediction. Music furnished by an orchestra from the two schools of Fajr Oaks and Wheatfield. Carroll Burroughs, cornetist, and Ethel Burroughs, pianist, were from the Fair Oaks school orchestra. Essie Helmick, violinist, and Dorris Geffert, snare and bass drum and bells, were from the Wheatfield school orchestra. They furnished excellent music for all of the general numbers. Wilda Littlefield, of Rensselaer, favored the audience with a much appreciated vocal'solo. Miss Beatrice Tilton and sister, played a piano and violin accompaniment to this solo. Miss Beatrice Tilton rendered a violin solo that was received with appropriate applause. Her younger sister played the piano accompaniment for this violin solo.

Prof. Thos. F. Moran held the audience spellbound for a full hour extolling the military virtues of the Sammies and elucidating the treachery of the German militarists. He voiced his conviction that the United States was ordained by the divine to deliver the oppressed of Europe from the mailed fist of the Kaiserists. The audience remained in close breathed silence from the beginning to ena and expressed their approval of Prof. Moran’s well balanced patriotic convictions by an extended applause. Supt. Sterrett called upon David Horsewood to make himself known since he was the winner of the highest county grade. The boy acquitted himself very favorably by giving his views on attending high school. Supt. Sterrett then spoke briefly upon the significance of the exercises and the ease with which the pupils could get a misconception of graduation. The county superintendent then recommended the class to Trustee Wood to confer the honors of graduation upon the seventeen boys and girls graduating. Trustee Wood in a very pleasing manner discharged his part of the program. He gave the class some very, carefully prepared advice which was so wholesome that they each felt a conviction setting to enroll in the high school the coming year. The e ?~ ercises were about two hours in length and the program so varied that pivoted interest was secured at every moment. 4 ( The school room was very tastefully decorated. Mrs. Harvey Wood and mothers of the graduating class came to the Consolidated school during the afternoon and by sacrifice well known to everybody gave the room an appearance that furnished a larger part of the inspiration of the evening.