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Old Goodland Closes Friday
Hugo Husonian 5/30/1912

Federal Supervisor Brown will be Present And Participate in Closing Exercises.
Interesting Program Will Be Given By Pupils In Evening Commencing at Seven O’Clock

    The closing exercises of the Historic Old Goodland Schools will occur at the school building four miles southwest of this city Friday May 31^st.
    Professor Bacon has arranged a splendid closing program for the finish of the term. The usual exercises of the school will be held from nine until twelve o’clock, and the inspection of the garden and farms will be made by Federal supervisor John B. Brown.  One prize will be awarded for the best corn but first, second and third will be awarded for garden products. The competitive military drill will commence at 3:00 P.M. and close at four o’clock, but one prize to be awarded in this.
    The evening program will open at 7 o’clock in the evening, a national song by the school being the opening event. John B. Brown will deliver the address along educational lines, followed by Bailey Spring, secretary of the board of directors.
    The school children’s part of the evening program is as follows: 
            “Larboard Watch” by the Glee club.
            “Indian Trails” by Johnson Bobb
            “Our Hired Girl” by Sylvester Johnson.
            “Po Little Mamb” by Male Quartet.
            “Our National Flag” by Ed Brashears.
            “Little Tonkin Girl” by Little Folks.
            “Hiawatha’s Childhood” by Grace Thompson.
            “The Unknown Speaker” by Simon Austin.
            “How Can I Leave Thee” by Male Quartet.
            Bow and Arrow Drill by the girls.
            Choctaw song by the school.
    An address by Superintendent Silas L. Bacon will be one of the features of the evening program, the speaker to outline the work that has been accomplished at the historic school and a part of the influence it has had in the development of this section of Oklahoma.
    The closing exercises of the Old Goodland will mark the finish of one of the most successful terms ever held there, and those who are in position to know declare that the school was never on as high a plane in the educational field as now, the new departments having added to the field of usefulness and given to the pupils who attend not only an opportunity to learn in the field of knowledge of books, but it gives practical teaching in the way to handle agriculture in the  most profitable manner.

transcribed & contributed by Doris Dykes