May Pole Day
1920
RESEARCHED BY : TINA EASLEY
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PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE - NEWSPAPER - FRONTPAGE
VOL.XXIX
JUNE 3, 1920
MAY POLE DAY YESTERDAY P.M. WAS A SUCCESS
LARGE CROWDS WITNESS PROGRAMS RENDERED AT EACH OF THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
THE MAY POLE CELEBRATIONS THAT WERE PUT ON BY THE THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF THE CITY YESTERDAY WERE ATTENDED BY NUMBERS OF PATRONS AND FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOLS.
THE SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL BEGAN AT 1:30 AND IT LASTED TILL 2:45 .THE OPENING NUMBER OF THE PROGRAM WAS A GRAND MARCH BY THE ENTIRE SCHOOL WHICH PRESENTED A PRETTY PICTURE COMPOSED OF CHILDREN DRESSED IN ALL COLORS OF COSTUMES. CROWNING OF THE MAY QUEEN , MISS CARMEN MUELLER BY NOBEL MILAN WAS THE NEXT PART OF THE PROGRAM. SWEET MAY DAY SONGS BY THE SECOND GRADE WERE PERFORMED. THE BROWNIE DRILL COMPOSED OF 12 BOYS WHO WERE DRESSED AS LITTLE BROWNIES BROUGHT FORTH LOUD CHEERS FROM THE LARGE AUDIENCE THAT WITNESSED THE PROGRAM. THE EXERCISE OF THE SOUTH SIDE SCHOOL ENDED WITH THE MAY POLE DANCE .
THE WEST SIDE SCHOOL PROGRAM BEGAN AT 2:30 AND LASTED UNTIL 4:00 AND WAS ATTENDED BY FOUR OR FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE . PERHAPS THE MOST SPECTACULAR FEATURE OF THE PROGRAM AT THIS SCHOOL WAS THE ROBIN HOOD DRILL BY THE FOURTH GRADE BOYS. ALSO THE RAINBOW DRILL BY THE THIRD GRADE GIRLS DREW LOUD APPLAUSE .
THE EAST SIDE SCHOOL DID NOT BEGAN UNTIL 4:00 AND THE PROGRAM EMBODIED MANY OF THE SAME FEATURES. GRAND MARCH OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL . CROWNING OF MAY QUEEN ,ISIS COFFMAN BY PRINCIPAL J.E. CLAYTON . ESCORT OF MAY QUEEN , WALTER CRUTCHER .
MANY KIND WORDS OF PRAISE WERE HEARD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON OF THE EARNEST WORK OF THE PUPILS AND TEACHERS .