Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — More Township Graduates. [ARTICLE]

More Township Graduates.

HANGING GROVE. The graduating exercises at the Ban ta school house last Friday night passed off in good shape Everyone on the pregram was fully prepared. The essays of the live graduates were as follows: “Patience,” Laura Kenton; “Reading,” Ida F. Overton; Elvin Overton; “Springtime and Education,” Sallie Culp; “Honesty,” Katie Robert son. Miss Robertson is from Milroy township, all the others from Hanging Grove. Mr. C, R. Peregrine made some excellent remarks upon the aims and value of education. The certificates of honor for the two townships were pre sented to the children for perfect attendance at school at school and Master Albert Overton received a silver star in honor of having been neither tardy nor absent for five years.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The school house at Saylorville was unable to hold the crowd that came to the graduating exereises last Saturday night. The house was packed as it was a year ago, to the utter-most, while there were fully as many more in the yard, endeavoring to hear through the door and windows. The graduates read their essays as follows: “Thought,” Della Thornton; ’‘The Art of Printing,” Blanche Hoyes; “Punctuality Procures Confidence,” Flora Sayler, “Reading”, Laura Yeoman; “Necessity for an Education,” Dema Hopkins; ‘‘Rise and Progress of the United States,” Horace Henkle. Declamations were spoken by Ada Strong, James E, Hopkins and Ora Hopkins. These were interpersed with music, and everything passed off as pleasantly as could be wished. Fortythree pupils of the township had been perfect in attendance and punctuality for the past year and received their rolls of honor, while Lemuel Henkle, Della Thornton and Augustus Yeoman received the silver star in honor of having been neither tardy nor absent at school for five years.