1899
Lafayette Weekly Journal, Friday, 7 Apr 1899
Our school closed on Friday with 19 graduates in the township. The
baccalaureate sermon will be delivered on next Sunday evening by Rev.
Overmeyer at M.E. church. Graduating exercises on the Tuesday evening
following.
1900
Lafayette Home Journal, 15 Mar 1900
Sheffield Township will have one more week of school. The schools will be
out on March 24.
...
The following from this place will try the eighth-year graduating
examination: "Spitter" Roth, Claud Johnson, Loyd [sic] Bartmess, Fred Lash,
Boyd Lesh, "Bunker" Brindle, Harry Brown, Emma Burkhalter, Florence King,
Ethel Bayless, Mabel Tooey, Katherine Frantz and Josie Newman. Miss
Margarette Hill and Miss Madline Guard will try the 4th year high school
examination at the same time. The examination will be held on next Saturday,
March 17th.
1901
Lafayette Weekly Journal, Friday, 5 April 1901
Sheffield township will be well represented at the State Normal at Terre
Haute by the following teachers: Misses Ada Motter, Maud Brown, Lama Laesh,
Edith Snoddy and Pearl Hill....
No going back on our schools when fifteen boys and girls graduate from our
graded schools. Thursday night, April 11, will occur the annual commencement
to be held in Dayton. Great preparations are being made for the event.
Lafayette Weekly Journal, 12 April 1901
April 10
All the members of the eighth year class passed the examination. The
baccalaureate sermon will be preached next Sunday night at 7:45 by Rev. Mr.
Perry of Lafayette in the Presbyterian Church. The commencement exercises
will be held in the Methodist Church on next Tuesday evening, at 7:45
oclock. Rev. F. N. Palmer will deliver the address, his subject being
"Shall we be Thinkers in the Worlds Activities." All are invited to attend,
admission free. Following are the names of the graduates. Claude Johnson,
Robert Friend, Clarence Brindle, Harry Goldsberry, Jerome Edris, Alma
Crowden, Vernis Moyer, Pearl Gifford, Edith Ballengee, Katie Masters, Mary
Brown, Dale Brand, Eugene Clapper and Oscar Lind.
...
April 9
The commencement exercises of the Sheffield township schools will be held
in the M.E. Church, Tuesday, April 16. An address will be delivered by Rev.
F. A. Palmer. The baccalaureate address will also be delivered in the M. E.
Church by Rev. F. T. Perry, next Sunday morning.
Lafayette Weekly Journal, 19 April 1901
On last Tuesday evening the 16th annual commencement of the Sheffield
township public schools was held in the Methodist Church. The church was
pforusely decorated with flowers of all description. The class made an
excellent appearance, all the girls being dressed in white. All matrons,
roses and hyacinths. There were fourteen in the class and the following was
the program:
Male Quartet"Alice, Where Art Thou?"
Prayer..............Rev. Mr. Snepp
Male Quartet"Annie Laurie."
Address: "Shall We Be Thinkers in the Worlds Activities?"..Rev. F. N.
Palmer
Solo"The Sleeping Sentinel"........................W. F. Smith
Address to Class and Presentation of Diplomas....County Supt. E. C. Crider
Male Quartet"Good Night."
Benedicton.......Rev. F. N. Palmer
Mr. Palmer gave an excellent address and held the audience at his will for
fifty minutes. His remarks were practical, logical and sufficiently
sprinkled with humor and pathos to make it intensely interesting. Mr. Crider
spoke of the necessity of being active, not passive. He told the story of
the dreamer, who slept while all the opportunities of life passed by. He
congratulated the class upon its appearance and success and said that the
hoped that all would go on with their work in high school. Quite a number
from Lafayette were present.
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