Algona Advance (Newspaper) - June 1, 1905, Algona, Iowa THE ALGONA JUNE A NIGHT OF ORATORY High School Class 05 Have Fine Program for Commence ment OPERA HOUSE IS CROWDED Eleven Graduate Thursday and Receive Coveted A large audience greeted the high graduating evening at the opera The oc casion was a delightful not only to those who received their diplom but to their parents and to the other citizens who witnessed the commencement exercises as The full program as advertised was suc rendered without a from beginning to The orations were delivered amid a scene of splen Decorations of ferns and flowers in great profusion were handsomely and tastily arranged on in front of the while in the background was a conspicuous display of black and senior class colors above them and in sight of the audience was the motto in artistic Its Up to You behind them were the professors and tors who had guided them through their high school careers beside them were the representatives of the board of education who were to deliver to them their merited diplomas and In front of them was a little sea of up turned faces beaming with happiness and In that audience were fond fathers and mothers who had sacrificed much of their own comforts in life that their sons and daughters might receive all the benefits of the twelve graded From these surroundings the young candidates for graduation seemed to catch an inspiration to aid them in giving expression to high and noble The orations were quite averaging about 700 They were well committed and most of them well The musical features of the program added much to the pleasure of the The orchestra rendered several selections that were received as usual with popular The chorus by the high a couple more by the girls glee and a Tocal duet by Mae Palmer and AVood Cowan were all enjoyable portions of the commencement After the invocation by Spray the speakers turn appeared before the footlights to discuss their chosen Walter with with a fine recited the various deeds performed by John the Modern Diplomat which caused him to be recognized as the greatest of American manner of speaking is convincing he had no trouble in carrying audience with Nina Brace in her oration on Scorn cited numerous illustra tions where deprived of ties usually enjoyed by the masses of by pluck and persistency had overcome obstacles and reached the crown of Her account of the career of Helen Keller was exceed ingly well Ralph Hutchins came to the de fense of 111 Used Men who had at first been denounced by the public for theories they but who later wore found to have been those who paved the way for the triumph of truth over He spoke with great rapidity and Dorothy Clarke had a well composed oration on The Club which she delivered gracefully and charm She pointed out the beneficial results of being modern club woman and of the advantages she had over her sisters who are opposed to such That portion of her oration where she contrasted the wo men of fifty years ago with those of former caring only for the members of her own family but the latter caring also for the welfare of was happily Harold Quarton in speaking of The Scattered Nation made a gal lant plea for better treatment of the wandering His excellent deliv ery showed the result of careful train His production was of such a nature that we have used it as an editorial this Neva Potter in reviewing the life of Benedict Arnold painted some beauti ful word pictures of the deeds per formed by The Patriot Hewas seen on bis black horse charg ing the foes in various battles and His and his afterwards rising to the heights of Then he was for an im trying to deliver Amer ican forces into the hands of the for which he became a dis Mildred Carters oration was Jean Val Jean one of Victor Hugos in From the stdry which she related in smooth lowing she drew the conclusion that society would be better if help was extended to the unfortunate way ward instead of pushing them deeper into the A kind word spoken at the right in her gives better results than kicking one after he is Jean Val Jean had served a sentence of nineteen years for stealing A priest took him to his home and befriended but Jean stole the silverware and Again the priest came to his aid and finally persuaded him to live a better The debate on the resolution That Trusts and Monopolies are Beneficial to the People Financially was a fea ture that was as much enjoyed as any other portion of the Lonnie in the absence of the first speaker for the opened the debate to disprove the He hurled a storm of argumentative missies against his op in great He charged the monopolists with having no con science or heart and robbing the people in a variety of He at the idea that trusts could be of any benefit to the Theodore Nelson was a whirlwind on the stage in defending the trusts and He spoke with great force and fluency and surprised everybody with his oratorical Among the several illustrations he used to show the benefits of concen one of the best was that of the railway companies build ings roads over the country which had increased the wealth and comforts of the Ralph Laird pitched into his opponents in genuine political debate style and knocked into smithereens all the arguments that had been pro by his He held np to ridicule all that had beed said in favor of the trusts and then went on to show how the corporations buy and sell judges and other high officers of the state and Following the debate after congratulating the members of the class of 1905 for their deportment and success in reaching the highest rung of the high school presented them to the school board as worthy candidates for gradu on appearing with the coveted diplomas in his was greeted by a storm of applause from all parts of the Before deliver ing the credentials he congratulated the members and gave them some excellent advice in a neat and little The benediction being pronounced by commence ment exercises were declared LAUREL THE GRAVES Fallen Heroes of Civil War Are Lovingly Remembered on Memorial TUCKER IS ORATOR Exercises at Opera House are Fine and at the Cemetery Deeply Tough on Belmond A traveling man in Nebraska dis appeared suddenly and left a note saying he had gone to After searching Belmond and vicinity and failing to discover him his relatives have decided that he changed his A Creeping Blood poison creeps up towards the causing Belje that a friend dreadfully burned his it swelled up like blood But Arnica Salve drew out the healed the and saved his Best in the world for burns and Conner drug Try Taylors vanilla ice cream with chopped NOTICE OF Bids will be received up to Thursday June for old bridge lumber at half section line Section Plum Creek JOHN For gasoline stove and sheet iron wood All See Why suffer with spring cross no no appetite Rocky Moun tain Tea will make you well and keep you 35 Tea or Tlie delightful weather on Tuesday allowed an immense crowd to be pres ent to witness the Decoration day The opera house was over crowded and hundreds who sought admission were obliged to remain on the The post and kindred organizations were present in a The program was excellent The music rendered by Benjamins Congregational chor us was especially Following the reading of orders and Lincolns fam Gettysburg speech by Adjutant Shelley and the invocation by the orator of the President Frederick was introduced by Commander William The speaker is fine appearing on the platform and has a magnetic His voice is clear and his enunciation His address was of high containing noble sentiments that showed his heart was fired with patriotism and filled with a burning desire to elevate the moral standing of the young and rising He paid eloquent tributes to the great leaders of the Civil and Spanish American wars to the rank and file who decided the struggles with bay musketry and artillery to the field and hospital nurses to those who fell in the conflicts on the field and to those who suffered with mental anx iety at The principal portion of his was a review of the character and services of It was of such a nature that made it valuable from an educational stand In eulogizing the great com he referred to the numerous deeds achieved to justify him in the praise he was bestowing upon the famous conqueror of Lee and the southern In closing he likened the soldiers who fought for love of country with the Christian people who fight for the Masters cause for the moral principles it He made a strong appeal to the young to investigate all the economic and social problems of the day and to see that they were correct ly Following the address Miss Ethel Laird feelingly recited a which caused an incident of the civil war to be fresh in the minds of her hearers The swarms of little girls dressed in who ered in the flag delighted the audience with their beautiful and touching They had been drilled by who has received many compliments for her success in training the children so The procession to the cemetery in the afternoon headed by the was a long It is seldom as great a crowd centers there as was present on that The cemetery never was more beautiful nearly every grave was decorated by loving friends of the de The soldiers graves were ten derly laureled by little girls directed by army All the exercises there were impressive and DIVING HORSES Will Give Free Exhibitions in Algona Each June 5 and waging of war causes national char and capabilities of citizens to develop from obscurity to public The sermon throughout was highly patriotic and was delivered with an eloquence that is rarely equalled in pulpits or on the platform by orators of national repu Nothing but the fact that the meeting was held on kept the audience from demonstrating their appreciation by continued ap He spoke extemporaneously and with great No synopsis of his sermon will do him After referring to numerous Illus of how countries in the old world had arisen and fallen of how war had followed peace of how the conditions of those countries had been changed of what various classes of people composed those countries and how the stars of victory had been caused with resplendent Spray graphically described how war in this country had been a great search light in demonstrating to the world the capabilities and national characteristics of the rank and file of American He asserted that the heroes of the revolution and of the war of whose deeds are recorded on the pages of had not been created for the but that those wars fur grand opportunities for reveal ing their fitness and England did not know the courage and temper of the American colonists till she met them on the battle So too the whole world was amazed at the display of courage with which bro thers fought brothers during the four years of our civil It caused the obscure powers of Sheridan and scores of other Americans to reveal their One of the results of the Spanish American war was that it lias given us a Theodore one of the most satisfactory of Touching the stars and stripes that stood near Spray addressed the muto emblem of the nation with intense animation and flowery He closed his sermon by saying that now as peace prevailed war against vice must be waged till the stars of success MARRIED FIFTY THE MEMORIAL WHEN YOU WANT Of any soft wood or hard wood cord wood or stove call up phone Money to Loan at 5 per For well locat electric See Be sure you get Taylors ice Rev Spray With Rare Eloquence Speaks to a Large Audience Sunday The church was crowded Sun day morning with an appreciative audience to hear Sprays memorial the Ag Relief Corps and Company in a Miller of the Presbyterian church offered the open ing Tenny the clos ing Holmes read the scripture The special music consisted of a couple of hymns that were sung by the choir and au a selection rendered by a dou ble male a vocal duet by Potter and Mabel Carr and a vocal solo by Miss Schuler presid ing at the pipe Spray based his sermon upon the declaration found in Nehemiah of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars From this text he de the general proposition that and Dodge Celebrate Their Golden Anniversary on Friday The golden wedding of and celebrated Friday evening at t heir home on McGregor was asocial function greatly enjoyed by not only the captain and his wife but by the many who were present to do honor to them on that delightful It was fifty years ago that evening at that Dodge and Miss Lydia Curtis were joined in the bonds of matri mony and started on their journey together as companions for Thir ty years of that journey have been spent in this where they have earned the respect and esteem of a large circle of On the event of their reaching the fiftieth mile stone of their journey their home was filled to overflowing with merrymaking The captain and his and Joe Paxson and Miss Lucy Curtis re the guests with the glad hand shake of Relatives pre sented them with a costly mirror and neighboring friends with a handsome new model Then numerous members of the James Taylor post and by their who after an appropriate and well worded presentation placed upon the lapel of Dodges coat a Grand Army badge of Ladies of the Belief Corps next tiled into the Then their chosen after beautiful and touching introduc tory fastened to the waist Dodge an emblem of gold of th order she Following these affecting scenes th local lodge of the Knights of arrived in a A general giggl followed when some one yelled cut Better hide the silver After they had been squeezed int one in th name of the order presented Mi Dodge with an elegant gold headed ebony cane and Dodge with beautiful and costly urn Each was artistically with appropriate inscriptions of the Preceding the presentation Harrington delivered the follow ing to the which bore the sig natures of members of th order To and Dodge We your brother members of Algona Lodge Knights of tend to you our fraternal greeting on this the anniversary of your wed ding and ask you to accept fron us these humble tokens of our regard To Brother we pre sen this that it for us in our bear some portion of the weight of accumulated cares that in variably gather round us when we are least able to bear them and as you trudge on through Life and the weight of years we ask yoi to and in fancy hear from this mute the words of each knight here lean upon and when your needs are greater than these humble means can supply we will be there in person to to and to point through the gloom of sorrows night the stars that shine To for fifty years the most worthy center and guardian of that love of of wife and child that has clustered round the sacred shrine of this knightly the most sacred sentiment in that ancient Grecian scene that made possible the Knights of you we present this that it may for us and in our guard and protect you from the storms of May the love in your heart and the sunshine in your ever be as radiant and fresh as the aroma and beauty of those bridal roses that blossomed and bloom ed for you on that bright May day fifty years With you t both we leave our fondest wishes that you may live to enjoy and celebrate many returns of this In response to the several presenta tion remarks and Dodge fittingly expressed the gratitude of their hearts for the gifts that had been unexpectedly bestowed upon Following the presentations came the refreshments and an hour of social intercourse which all thoroughly The Algona harp orchestra was present and helped to enliven the merrymakers and all went merry as a marriage On departing each wished the honored couple many years of continued Shot White Prairie George Edwards captured a white prairie chicken on his farm The bird been shot in the neck and lived but a short It proved quite a curiosity as it was the first white prairie chicken ever seen in this Edwards sent the carcass away to be stuffed and will keep it as a for Takes a Whack at the We are willing to do printing any duly elected officer of Kossuth providing said printing is for use Hi his and run chances of jetting our resolution or no reso Money to Loan at 5 per WEDDING Corey and Miss Eva Johnson are Mar ried at Mason City Yesterday and are Living in We seldom find time to attend a wedding fifty miles but we did so yesterday when we witnessed the ceremony at Mason City that united Miss Eva Johnson of that place Fred Corey of Algona as partners for The wedding occurred at the home of the brides parents at Holmes In a room elaborately the contracting parties with joined hands under an elegant canopy of smilax and snowballs and before a background of black haw ferns and flowers and each pledged a lifelong fidelity to the ring service was beautiful and Hearts and Flowers was played by Miss Edyth Waller of Rockford while the bride and groom through the ribbon preceded by the niece of the bride and little Zelda niece of the the ring Harold a nephew of the After the greetings and congratula tions that followed the the bridal and the numerous rela tives and friends enjoyed an elegant where mirth for an hour reigned The bride comes from a fine family and is a lady of culture and Those present at her wedding saw evL dence in abundance of her popularity and the wide circle of her Her and Charles formerly lived at Charles Jty where Johnson was county recorder for four Later the family moved to Osage and still later to Mason City where Corey wooed and won their youngest Miss Coreys high standing in this is too well known to need any He is worthy of a good and has found We ulate him on his The bride and groom received many costly and elegant gifts of cut fancy as of esteem from their Those attending the wedding county were the grooms Agnes his Corey and his Ella and his Julius and Holmes and Reed and wife of this rom New Hampton was his and from his Miss Calla Of jhe brides relatives there were her and of her Arthur and wife of her Ira Knapp and hus and of Mason City besides many rs from the latter place and As Fred had decided to do nothing iy halves he ignored the electric street ar and conveyed the wedding 0 the depot in the swellest turnout he city But the jokers got 1 their When the transfer agon came with the brides trunks hey svere decorated with ribbons and ore the large Just Married h joy At the depot a perfect bower of rice fell alike on the just nd The conductor got a part f it down his When the train Wesley some one fired a bag f rice into the car at Fred through he but ye editor got it plunk the There was a grinning in crowd at the depot the big sign on the trunk was and Fred Corey went dir ect to their new home in the Cowg house just east of John Goede are now permanent residents The band them a serenade last as an intro welcome to
