Chester Academy
Exhibition
Friday Evening March 18, 1864.
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Order of Exercises.
1. Prayer.
2. Declamation, The Capture of Fort Donelson,(Park Benjamin)
Henry Masterson.
3. Declamation, The Dissolution of the Union, Ira H. Green.
4. " What good will the Monument do?
5. Dialogue, The Sweetest Word. (Everett)
James H. Tuthill.
6. Music.
7. Declamation, Change,
John C. Green.
8. " Woodman, spare that tree, (Morris) John Doyle.
9. Dialogue, Two Poets, (Fowle) Alice Wood, Clara Houston.
10. " Alexander the Great, (Fowle) Charles Wells, Lewis Meeker, Thomas Hughes, James B. Tuthill, John Doyle.
11. Music.
12. Declamation, Appeal to Englishmen, (Beecher) Chas. H. Green.
13. Compositions. Agnes Wood, Nettie Ostrander.
14. Declamation, Eulogy on a member of the Texas Legislature, Restcome P. Conkling.
15. " The War for the Union, (Colfax) C. Elmer Allison
16. " Matches and over matches, (Hayne.) John J. Durland.
17. " Matches and over matches, ( Webster) Charles H. Board.
18. Music.
19. Compositions, Emily Durland, Elmira Secord, Carrie Durland, Libbie Smith.
20. Declamation, The best mode of Marrying a Wife, (Artemus Ward) Lewis C. Griggs.
21. Recitation, The kiss in School, Alice Wood.
22. Dialogue, The village with one Gentleman.
23. " Quaker Courtship, Resteome P. Conkling, Phebe W Wood.
24. Declamation, The proud Miss McBride, (Saxe) James H. Owen.
25. Dialogue, Uncle Sam receiving, or the United States from 1861
to 1862.
26. Music.
27. Recitation, Miss Prindle's Soliloquy, Ella Galloway.
28. " Maud Maller, (Whittier) Lizzie Roe.
20 Dialogue, Borrowing a Gridiron, (Fowle) James A. Seely, Andrew C. Howell, Charles H. Board.
30. Declamation, Heroes and Martyrs, (Chapin) Jesse Durland.
31. Acted Charade, Contraband. (Original)
32. Declamation, The War Justified. (Original) Howard Allison.
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