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PROGRAM
M. H. S. Commencement Exercises, Methodist
Church, Sunday Evening, May Twenty
second, Nineteen Hundred Twenty
one, Eight O’clock.
1. Prelude-Miss Mary Symonds.
2. Hymn —“0 Zion, Haste.”
3. “Unfold, Ye Portals.”_Chorus
4. Trio—“My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice.”
Mabel Dunehew, Irene Brandon,
Thelma Phillips.
5. Invocation.
6. “Barcarolle”___Chorus
7. Baccalaureate....Rev. S. M. Yancey
8. ‘ ‘Traumeri”_Chorus
Benediction.
TEACHER'S INSTITUTE
The Woodruff County
Teachers’ Institute will be
held at Augusta May 30 to
June 3rd. Dr. Harding of the
University of Arkansas, will
give four lectures on Astron
omy.
Mrs. Jennie Erickson of Lit
tle Rock, County Superintend
ent of Pulaski County, will be
a speaker at the Institute.
Miss Emma Reiman, Regis
tered Psychologist, will speak
and hold conferences in Men
tal Hygiene. Don’t miss these
opportunities. The general
public cordially invited.
J. T. CAUGHLEY, Co. Supt.
Adv. ltc.
Mrs. Winnie Crail, who
spent the past three weeks
with her son, Earl, at Marian
na, returned home Saturday.
GOOD ROADS DAY,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
To Every Man and Boy In
Woodruff County Who
Wants Good Roads:
Wednesday, June 29, 1921,
has been set apart as Good
Roads Day and “Your County
Calls You.” Close your stores,
-offices and business places and
take a shovel, hoe, team or
work tool such as you have
and work that day, June 29,
on the roads.
Either report to your over
seer or form community road
gangs and work where you
want to, but don’t fail in this
patriotic duty to your county.
Your district is entirely out of
funds and the collector will'
report the smallest collection
in history.
Don’t be a slacker. Notify
your overseer right now that
you will be on hand, or begin
to organize your road gang.
County Overseer and
E. M. Carl-Lee.
ROAD GRADING TO LET
Two and one-half miles of
road grading to let at Dag
get, Arkansas, west of Cache
river. This work consists of
30,000 yards. Will let this
work in half mile or mile sec
tions to parties who can fur
nish bond that they can finish
this work not later than Aug
ust 1st. Work to start July
1st. For information see,
GROVER McCRORY, W. J.
MITCHELL or WADE JEF
FRIES. Adv. ltc."
“WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES”
Senior Play, McCrory High School, May Twenty-sixth, Nineteen^
Hundred Twenty-one.
Cast of Characters
Jones—Who Travels for a Hymn Book House. Fletcher Lewis, Jr.
Ebenezer Goodly—A Professor of Anatomy.J. W. Comer
Antony Goodly, D. D.— Bishop of Ballarat.Richard Chappell
Richard Heatherly—Engaged to Marjorie.Thorpe Hamilton
Thomas Holder—A Policeman .Vervian Jeffries
William Bigbee-An Inmate of the Sanatorium.. .Elliott Thompson;
Henry Fuller—Superintendent of the Sanatorium.. .Lemuel Taylor
Mrs. Goodly—Ebenezer’s Wife.Fannie Taylor
Cissy—Ebenezer’s Ward.Thelma Phillips
Marjorie ) Ebenezer’s Daughters.\ 2°.ra.Paffls
Minerva ) I Priscilla Smith
Alvina Starlight-Mrs. Goodly’s Sister...Miss Mary Rives
Helma—Swedish Servant-girl......Miss Rebecca Witherington
Synopsis
ACT I. Home of Ebenezer Coodly. Things begin to happen.
ACT II. Scene the same. Fifteen minutes later. Things
still happening.
ACT III. Scene the same. Ten minutes later. Things hap
pen to the very last.
Place:—New York City.
Time:—The Present. Hour:—7:15 P. M.
FARCE—“THE HEAVENLY TWINS”
Presented by the Eighth Grade, Thursday Evening, May 19,
1921, McCrory High School Auditorium, McCrory, Ark.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Geo. W. Barton and Tom Jackson, Students at Yale, “The
Twins,”.Herman Lee and Irving Mitchell
Miss Samantha Brown, Principal of Miss Brown’s Select School
for Young Ladies, .Edna Mitchell
Miss Sophronia Brown, Her sister, .Edith Jeffries
Mrs. Prof. Barton, Mother of Geo. and friend of Miss Brown
Mary Ellington
Helen Clark and Adele DeCourcy, Girl chums in School
Hazel Jeffries and Helen Roddy
Lou Brighton, Clara Cole, Miss Jennings and Miss Johnson,
Girls in Miss Brown’s School,—Ola Quinn, Annie-Lee
Mitchell, Pauline Dilliard ’ Ruth Files.
Janitor, . ....Wallace Hamilton
Detective, . .Paul Bronte
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Other Gi
SYNOPSIS OF PLAl\
PROLOGUE \
Student’s Room at College.—Arrival of GW>
“Uncle John’s country air be hanged!”
ACT I.
•rge’s
mother.—
Scene I.—Street in town of South Hanford, where Miss Brown’s
Select School for Young Ladies is located.—George and
Tom on the way to Uncle John’s, waiting for the stage.
Scene II.—Exterior of Miss Brown’s School.—“I’ll see that
girl and don’t you forget it!”—Conspiracy. \
Scene III.—Grounds of School.—The study hour. \
ACT II. \
Scene I.—Interior of School.— Miss Samantha receives letter
from “Twins” applying for admission.
Scene II.—Street.—“In the lexicon of youth there is no such
word as fail!”
Scene III.—School Room.—Arrival of “Twins.” Burglary.—
Enter dective.—“They might be hidin’ around here
somewhere.”
ACT III.
Scene I.—Grounds of School. “Twins” in Clover.—Watched
by dective.—Suspected of the burglary.—Arrest.—Graand
Climax.—Happy denouncement.