Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1919 — REMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.

The annual commencement of the Remington high school was held last Wednesday evening at the Methodist church in Remington. The church was well filled with interested people who listened to a very able address by Dean G. Stanley Coulter on “The Wonderful Year.” Dean Coulter held his audience in perfect attention for a full hour. He presented the mastering idea to his audience that we are measured today and will be measured in the future by the service we render The speaker was a man full of years of experience as was told by the gray head and facial markings of earnest conviction in his appeals to the class and audience. The Monticello high school orchestra gave a musical tone to the occasion that added to the forcefulness of the address. Mrs. Simon Tyler sang a solo entitled, “Sing, Smile, Slumber” from Gounod that was excellently rendered and entirely appropriate. Superintendent L. D. Baker distributed the diplomas to a class of twelve. They were: Chester Biddle, Helen Cain, Opal Capes, Lola Edwards, Nina Gray, Avanelle Geier, Gladys Hawkins, Zoe Jordan, Florence Landon, Clarence Meadal, Bernard Villinski and Will Washbum. All members of the school board were present and showed a spirit towards the school that is very promising to the Remington school system. Frank L. Peck is president, J. A. Washburn, secretary, and C. A. Bonner, treasurer. Will Washburn, whose name appears among the list of graduates, is a son of J. A. Washbum. The Remington school board has made a very acceptable increase in the salaries of the teachers whom they will retain the coming year. They have added Miss Martha Parker to the faculty to teach the seventh grade next year. At the conclusion of the commencement exercises the Alumni association held a grand banquet in the basement parlors of the Christian church. The ladies of that church served a dinner that was exceptionally well prepared and artistically served. The place cards, color and flower decorations and general arrangement was superbly planned and executed. The courses were rendered even more palatable by the many after dinner speeches and toasts that interspersed the banqueting program. A Mr. Biddle, the father of Chester Biddle, whose name appears in the graduating roll, presided as toastmaster. Responses were given to his introductions of the speakers by Earl Howard, Nina Gray, Clarence Meadal, Rev. J. G. Rhind, Frqpk L. Peck, Superintendent L. D. Baker, County Superintendent M. L. Sterrett and others The tenor of the remarks offered by the toastmaster and his speaking cohorts were eulogistic of the splendid school spirit that was uppermost in the Remington town and vicinity.

Someone had better start sharpening up the blade of the city mower. Grass is awfully tall in some places and the weeds are looking unusually healthy. Some day we are going to have to use our surplus amateur detectives, who are getting rusty, to locate some of the folks living in the suburbs.