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16 THE HESPERIAN orators were well and critically received. J. H. McGuflfey, H. B. Alexander, Miss Esther Smoyer and Kecnc Abbott were the orators: II. B. Alexander was given first place and Miss Smoyer second. The Ashland club was pleasantly entertained Monday evening by Miss Mary R. Campbell, 606 north Sixteenth street. About thirty were present. Chancellor MnrT.can gave a short in formal talk and also Hon. H. II. Shcdd. Talks by Superintendent J. W. Crabtree and Miss Frances Birdsall, music by Misses Wilson and DuBois and dainty refreshments filled out the evening. At the next meeting the Senior class and faculty of the Ashland high school will be entertained by the club. Last Friday the Seniors hold a regular meeting for the election of officers. Miss Myrtle Wheeler was elected president, Nelse Pollard, vice-president; Helen Harwood, secretary, and Tim McCarty was re-elected treasurer because of his success in making members pay up. John Almy, the retiring president, was given the onerous duties of sergeant-at-arms. The cap and gown com mittee was given authority to contract for same. There was considerable dissatisfac tion shown in the manner the commence ment day orator had been thrust upon the class not with the orator chosen but in the manner the powers that be arrogated to themselves the entire selection in this mat ter without even consulting the class. Pre viously it had been the custom to allow the Seniors free choice in selecting their mouth piece for commencement day. A committee was appointed to find out who was responsi ble for the change and why it was made. The meeting was most harmonious, every officer being elected unanimously. Holiday Excursion Rates. Via the Burlington on Dec. 24th and 25th and also on Dec. 31st and January 1st, 1800, the Burlington will sell round trip excursion tickets at one and one-third fate to points not over 200 miles distant on its own lines. All tickets good for return until January I, 1890. For further information and tickets apply at B. & M. depot or city office, corner Tenth and O streets. G. W. Bonnell, O. P. & T. A. LAW SUIIOOI. LOCALS. Mr. Killen is now president of the Junior class. Mr. Oastor was olected president of the Maxwell club at its last meeting. The open session of the Maxwell club has been postponed until after the holidays. W. V. Hoagland and his whiskers, both of North Platte, were visitors last week. A. H. Martin has been confined to his room for some days with a fever. Ho is re covering slowly. There is some talk of organizing a "whiskc club" in this department. Mr. Martin is being boomed for president. Win. Mentzor, '95, was a caller last week. Since graduating ho has been associated with Kinkead & Kinkead of Des Moines, la. Mr. Sinclair of Bancroft, having been defeated in his race for county superintend ent of Thurston county, has returned to school, no hopes to complete the course this year. There were thirteen applications for ad mission to the bar at the recent examination held by the supremo court. Three appli cants failed to appear, three flunked and of the seven who passed Mr. Koenigstein and Mr. Hendricks received respectively first and second place. They were the only rep resentatives of this department and each had more than half a year's work beforo com pleting the course. How's that for the law school. A Remarkable Announcement. A brief paragraph can hardly do justice to the interesting announcement) which The Youth's Companion makes for the coining year. Not only will some of the most delightful story-writers con tribute to the paper, but many of the most emi nent statesmen, jurists and scientists of the world. No fewer than three cabinet Ministers are an nounced, among them being the Secretary of Agriculture, who chose for the subject "Arbor Day," the celebration of which he originated; Secretary Herbert writes on "What the President of the United States Does," and Secretary Hoke Smith on "Our Indians." In a fascinating group of articles under the
