WHITESVILLE, Indiana
1886 Graduation Exercises
- thanks so very very much to Pegeen for this cool piece of history - it's a tad hard to read so I've also typed it below:
WHITESVILLE, Indiana - April 30, 1886 -- 7 o'clock
Note: These seem to be speeches from some of the schools - probably the top two-or-three in the class but it may also be the only ones graduating that year - might be fun to do a little research on this - anyway thanks so VERY much to Pegeen for providing this nifty source
The Common Schools the Hope of the Country
MUSIC - Prayer by Rev. J.M. Stafford
MUSIC
"Education" ............................ Walter Van Scoyoc ................... Mace
"The Power of Virtue Over Vice" ..... Fannie Smith ................... Whitesville
"Fame" ............................................ D.W. Casky ........................ Crawfordsville
"The Value of Education" .............. Emma Dickerson .............. Lapland
"Importance of Self Knowledge" ... Charles Wingert ................. Whitesville
MUSIC
"The Time for Moral & Intellectural Culture" ... Mattie J. Tomlinson .. C'ville
"James Russell Lowell" .............. Robert Weeks ........................... Whitesville
"We Have Reached The Bay In Safety .." .. May Elliott ................. Ladoga
"Invaded Rights of the Laborer" ........ Marion Baker ................... Crawfordsville
"Now What?" ....................................... Anna Wingert .................. Whitesville
MUSIC
"Industry and Perseverence" .............. Darwin VanScoyoc .......... Mace
"Industry" ............................................ Josie Imel ........................ Whitesville
"Every Man the Architect of his own future" .. Lenna Somers ...... Ladoga
"Refinement, a National Benefit" ......... Ettie Vanscoyoc .............. Mace
"The Mill Can Not Graind With the Water That Is Past ... Hattie Harrison .. Ladoga
"America's Future Problem" .................. Henry B. Hostetter ............. Ladoga
MUSIC -- Conferring Certificates of Graduation .. by Superintendent Overton
MUSIC -- Benediction