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THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDA Y^STY v F. G. SCHREINER OKIm tn Bank Building Telephone W-W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; One Year,...,. $1.5# Six Month*. 7Sc Three Months. Mr Thursday, June 14, 1917 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES (Continued from last week) Valedictory Friends: Tonight we have reached the goal of four years of efforts. Our com­ mencement is an event to which we have looked forward; it is an event we shall remember as a happy one, but happy as this night may seem, each one of the seniors is conscious of a certain regret; regret that in a few moments the class fellowship borne and strengthened in McHenry high school will be broken; regret that tonight we shall leave our be­ loved school and enter another in which we must meet with larger ex­ periences and greater difficulties than ever before. Tonight a class speaks its gratitude to a community and to the board of education for the liberality with which they have supported an institution from which the students have derived many benefits. The board of educa­ tion by its wise choice of teachers during the last four years has given us training which should make the community better. For as the chil­ dren of today are fashioned in heart and mind, so will be the men and women of tomorrow. Dear parents: Tonight we also ex­ press our deep gratitude and appre­ ciation which each member owes to" you for the many sacrifices made for us during our years of school life. Since we entered the first grade who have been more solicitous of pur wel­ fare than you ? Our future as our past will mean more to you than to others. We hope we shall not fall short of your expectations. Dear teachers: We are leaving Mc­ Henry high school tonight thrilled with its lessons, and its memories. To you, our instructors, we owe much for your aid and guidance in helping to mould our characters for a more worthy and noble life. Your ability and your ideals have urged us to wish for higher things; your .inspirations have given us strength to attain our hopes and ambitions. We feel the genuine sympathy with our student i interests which has brought about "the degree of harmony now existing between our teachers and the student body. We bid you farewell, trusting and knowing that the life of each of us will be better for having spent these*years under your care. Members of the undergraduate classes: We are happy that to you we leave a school liberally upheld by the community and guided by efficient teachers. We will always have pleas­ ant recollections of you all. With the sincere hope that your remaining days at our beloved high school will be as profitable and as happy as ours .have been, we say farewell. Classmates: For the last time we are assembled as a class. Hereafter we shall experience separate triumphs and separate disappointments. The opportunities of these past four years, which we have shared equdMy, have passed, and now the is§ue of the fu­ ture for honor or for shame rests with us individually. How faithfully we "willi cherish the remembrance of our school and class as we go on our var­ ious ways, spurred on always by our motto, which urges us to the utmost. With the brightest of hopes and an unfailing affection for you all, I bid you farewell. Nellie Doherty. Class Will ~ : . : We, the class of 1917, being about to depart from this sphere in full pos­ session of a sound mind and memory, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby making void all former wills at any time heretofore made. And first we do direct that our funeral services be conducted by our friends and faculty with all the dig­ nity our situa^jon in high school has merited.. 1. We give and bequeath to the board of education a sweet rest from our petitions. We have asked for much and have marvelled much that they could ever refuse such a class as seventeen. 2. To the high school we give the two songs, The Students' Way and The Midship Mite. May the future classes cherish them as we have done and may they often be heard echoing in the hall of that dear school as they were so often heard in those days so dear to us. 3. To our dearly beloved sister, Nineteen, we bequeath all the bless­ ings that she may need. May all the championships be hers as they have been ours in the past. 4. To our infant sister, otherwise known as the freshman class, we be queath this advice with our best wishes: Copy seventeen. Learn to work and to win. When desperation is about to overtake you think of us and be encouraged. 5. To our eldest sister, Eighteen, our real and rightful successors, we bequeath the following: 1. Our senior place in high school, which she has merited. May she by her good work be awarded a place in the halls of fame. 2. Our spirit of harmony. Let her cherish this gift or she will be lost. 3. Our seniwr physics. It is hard to part with it, but that, too, must be. May Eighteen prove worthy of this bequest and may it help her to solve some of the problems in high school as it has done us. The rest of our property not already disposed of we bequeath to our super­ intendent for his own personal use. We hope these articles, consisting of pens, pencils, rulers and numerous stray text books, will keep in his remembrance the class of seventeen. We hereby appoint our superintend­ ent the sole executor of this, our last will and testament. In witness thereof we, the class of seventeen, the testators have to this will set our hand and seal this thirty- first day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. Helena Adams; A Senior Rhyme Now I'm the poet of this class, As soon you will suspect; Others were aching for the chance, But me they did elect. We've plagued the teachers these four years, And now that we are leaving, I don't believe you'll "find a" one Of them who now is grieving. And yet this group is noted for Its many willing workers, In all the time we've attended sohool Not one of us were shirkers. "Jimmy," the giant of our class, By all known for her muscle; In arguing has come out last In many a hard fought tussle. And here's the fat boy of the school * Paul Stephenson by name, * Whose skill in all athletics Has won him wide spread fame. And there's Aileen O'Reilly, Who never broke a rule; She never whispered or wrote notes, The best girl in the school. Pagey, as a timid freshman With lunch box in his hand, tin a bright September morning Came to join the band. A senior now he pukzles o'er A question that's not new. He asks, "What in all creation Can a graduate find to do?" And Nellie D. is fond of pets, Her pony came to school. The teacher said it could not stay, It was against the rule. Now Nellie weeps forlornly, Forsaken and alone. She says, "If you've a pony, dear, Just keep it safe at home." Our largest boy is Eddie Buss, So quiet and so shy, He has a great ambition To succeed Mr. Nye. Now what to say of all the others I really do not know. I cannot find another rhyme, I think I'd beter go. But to you, the under classmen, We would leave a word of cheer, Just to help you on and upward Thru each succeeding year. Lives of seniors should remind you You caij make your lives like theirs, And departing leave behind you, Footprints on the high school stairs. Florence Harrison. Reply to Key Oration Class of 1917: It is with pleasure and gratitude that I, in behalf of the class of 1918, accept this coveted gift which you present to us this afternoon. This key you say has been a sure refuge in time of trouble, a guide which never led you in erring way and above all it field the secret of your success. For three years we have wondered at that success, envied it and longed to know y.our secret. Dear seniors, n^xt year we, with this much prized key, will take your place as seniors. Cares, troubles and grievances will arrive manifold, but we shall harken unto your advice and consult this key when in doubt or trouble. It shall be the earnest en­ deavor of each apd every junior to do his utmost to keep this key spot­ lessly clean as you have done; and at the end of our senior year our name? shall also be inscribed in the hall of fame just a little bit higher than those of . the class of 1917. Elfreda Block. •• • ••••••• •*••••-•• * *** I PROBATli N::\VS j i : li'Himshet; by McHenry County U»trart Company, Woodstock, Illi- iois. Office in Arnold Block, east sid« »f public square. Abstracts of title :in<{ conveyancing. Money to loan on real estate in sums of five hundred to ten thousand dollars. Time and pay­ ments to suit borrower. Phones 634, !MW and 911.1 Real Estate Transfers James E. Spire & w to Archibald Wengler, Its 52 & 53, Orchad Beach sub-div, sees 24 & 25, McHenry $10.00 Edmund Kno\ & w to Joseph May, Its 6 & 10, A. H. Han- ly's out-lts; It 13, Co. Clk's plat, sec 27, McHenry $2250.00 Joseph May & w to Fremont Hoy, pt It 6, Ass's plat, Ringwood 850.00 Fremont Hoy & w to E. C. Hawley, pt It 6, Assr's plat, Ringwood 10.00 Mabel Hazel Gustafson, 18..Marengo John Blazier, 25 Dunham Twp. Carl Fredericks, 25 Sharon, Wis. Sadie Knutson, 25 Sharon, Wis. Read The Plaindealer.