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Closing Exercises of Oak Ridge School April 25, 1925

Closing Exercises of Oak Ridge School Saturday Evening

The Oak Ridge School south of Boonville Saturday evening, April 25, 1925, at 8 o’clock.

Opening song—“North Carolina Hills” by school

Recitation—The Loving Little Girl—Mabel Smith

Recitation—The Volunteer Uniform—Nary Huff

Dialogue—Choice of Trades—Ten little boys

Recitation—A Little School Ma’am—Norma Brown

Recitation—Don’t—Alta Moxley

Dialogue—Dolly has the Flu—Mabel Hinshaw and Grover Huff

Recitation—Grandma’s Angel—Nellie Moxley

PLAY—Dr. Cure All

Dr. Cure All—Frosty Moxley

Maria—Beulah Huff

Mrs. Brown—Inez Brown

Miss Jane Scimpins—Hazel Smith

Mrt.(?) Alphonso DeJones—Wendell Hinshaw

Mrs. Rockkins—Minnie Pencry

Miss Kate—Nellie Moxley

Miss Seraphina Paddington—Dorathy Huff

Mrs. Scrawny—Lucy Brown

Mrs. Blooming—Letha Huff

Recitation—Nobody’s Child—Mabel Hinshaw

PLAY Mischievous Nigger

Anothy Snow—Mischievous Nigger—Wesley Hinshaw

Colonel Thetten—Anna Moxley

Mons Tripon--Willie Davis

Jimmy Ducks—Wendell Hinshaw

Mrs. Morton—Inez Brown

Fanny Nibbs—Lucy Brown

Valedictory—Beulah Huff

From the front page of The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, N.C., Thursday, April 23, 1925. Sorry about the use of the “N” word, but that was common use 100 years ago.

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073180/1925-04-23/ed-1/seq-1/#words=March+23%2C+1925

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