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FIRST ANNUAL COMMON SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
OF THE
WELLS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
JUNE 7, 1907
The Class of 1907
of the
Wells County Common Schools
requests the honor of
your presence
at the
First Annual County Common
School Commencement
to be held in the
Opera House, Bluffton,
Indiana
Friday, June Seventh,
Nineteen Hundred Seven
at Two O'clock, P. M.
STATE AND COUNTY SCHOOL
OFFICIALS.
FASSETT A. COTTON, State Superintendent.
LAWRENCE McTURNAN, Assistant State Superintendent.
A. R. HUYETTE, County Superintendent.
H. L. SWAIM, Trustee of Jackson Township.
C. J. WOLFE, Trustee of Chester Township.
W. H. DAVIS, Trustee of Harrison Township.
E. B. NICHOLSON, Trustee of Union Township.
J. L. JAMISON, Trustee of Liberty Township.
W. H. WASSON, Trustee of Lancaster Township.
J. V. GOSHORN, Trustee of Jefferson Township.
N. L. BLOXSOM, Trustee of Nottingham Township.
F. B. FISHBAUGH, Trustee of Rockcreek Township.
PROGRAM.
Meditation...........................................................................S.
E. Morris
Orchestra.
Prayer and Passion Waltzes.....................................................H.
Grimm
Orchestra.
Invocation.................................................................Rev.
W. C. Martin
Duet..................................................................Numbers'
Bros., Ossian
Music...............................................Girls' Chorus,
Bluffton High School
Class Address...."Claims of the Century Upon Young Men and Women"
..........Dr. S. D. Fees, President Antioch College, Yellow Springs,
Ohio.
"A Spanish Love Song"..................................................................Nella
Glen Hoover, Ossian.
Presentation of Diplomas.......Assistant State Supt. Lawrence McTurnan
War Songs of the Boys in Blue........................................L.
Laurendeau
Orchestra.
Benediction..................................................................Rev.
J. K. Cecil
Nuptial Party.........................................................................A.
Abbott
Orchestra.
Music furnished by the Will Dailey Orchestra, Bluffton.
The opera house will be open at 1:15 p. m. Admission free.
Exercises begin at 2 p. m.
Harrison Township
Virgil Harris
Harry Chalfant
Fay Chalfant
Nina Studabaker
Lancaster Township
Eva Bowman
Goldie Clowser
James W. Hartman
Frank Park
Starlie Wysong
Devona Graham
Leona L. Raver
Orel H. Meyer
Chester Schwartz
Grace Florence Frazier
Jackson Township
Dessa Guiler
Hazel Griffith
Brice Butterfield
Lucy McIntire
Vera Mabel Manring
Clara Alexander
Raymond Elkins
Benjamin Myers
Clara E. Hyde
Leona L. Hyde
Fae Card
Oleva Welsh
Sumner B. Stech
Chester Township
Walter E. Goodrich
Ferne Jarrett
Chloe Hall
Bethel Taylor
Claudie Taylor
Anna M. Crawford
May C. Beaty
Erman Williamson
Curtis Huffman
Fred Crall
Albert Norton
Glen Maddox
Rockcreek Township
Guy Miller
John A. Eichhorn
Pierce C. Harnish
Howard Gilbert
Ethel Bayless
Ora A. Lamm
Orlo Harshman
Franklin High
Ray Hatfield
Ray Fishbaugh
Pearl Gordon
Lela Gilbert
Martin Walbert
Lee H. Robart
Myrl Miller
Union Township
Don McBride
Daisy Fox
Velta Hoopingarner
Irvin Wolfcale
Roswell Newhard
Zepha Platt
Glen Walter
Opal G. Orr
Edna Lesh
Larue Roudebush
Villa Caley
Milly Daugherty
Carrie Crow
Ray H. Kohr
Millie Patten
Harry H. Keplinger
Nottingham Township
Hugh Gehrett
Raymond E. Sawyer
Edson Cochran
Louisa Witmer
Charles Haines
Oris White
Teresa Vachon
Anna Williams
Grant Shellabarger
Victor Sharpe
Loretta Nusbaumer
Lulu Nusbaumer
Chella Garrett
Paul W. Bloxsom
Hazel Settle
Mollie Evans
Lulu Taylor
Jennie Pace
Jefferson Township
Harold Mahnensmith
Ruth Bailey
Helen Hatfield
Ersie Swayzee
Dana Woodward
Iliff Hursh
Lewis Nelson Cook
Emily Cook
Dale Kreigh
June Ady
Bessie Osborn
Bash Ashburn
Robert N. Hoover
Laura Beckner
Ethel Schock
Jeannette Bunn
Faust Millikin
Halden Hunter
Beth E. Chalfant
Erma Goshorn
Liberty Township
Charles F. R. Funk
Helen Surran
Charleton Noe
Jesse Roberts
Daisy B. Buckner
Fern Johnson
Earl Hunt
Emory Hunt
John Morris
Cecil Jackson
Don Gurther Merriman
Mabel Hall
Ray Brunegraph
Verne B. Douglas
Homer Marshall
Dorothy Kizer
Doster Buckner
Sylvia J. Cook
Henry Musselman
Dora Sprowl
Noah Vickery
Planche Miller
Coulson McAfee