THE BOOK OF MEMORY

Program of the Pageant Given at Belleville, June 24th, 1925

PART I—SYNOPSIS

The Memorial Book opens. The Memory Sprites appear leading forth the Spirit of Belleville, who sends her knights to bring settlers for the community. Joshua Bradley, one of the early settlers, goes about founding schools and encourages the opening of one in Belleville. He is shown visiting a little log school house. The citizens of the community decide to build Union Academy and hold a donation party to obtain the necessary funds and aid. Representative citizens from surrounding communities offer assistance. Jedediah Burchard, a traveling preacher, is shown in a perilous trip across Henderson Harbor. He brings his sailors safe to shore by prayers, thus converting several of them. The Old Academy is in danger of being sold at auction for failure to pay a mortgage because of hard times among the settlers: It is saved from this fate by one Calvin Clark.

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

CHARACTER GROUPS
MEMORY SPRITES—Mildred Wodell. Flora Dickinson, Barbara Mather,
Thelma Harvey, Addie Dack, Doris Nichols, Agnes Cole, Lillian Scouten,
Dorothy- Beard, Adene Brown, Frances Abbott, Bertha Lean, Frances Hicks,
Mildred Hall, Sarah Brandow, Edna Gregory, Vera Downer, Mildred Mfoore,
Jennie VanBrocklin, Velma Washburn, Mary Hedger, Ruth Archer, Hazel Robarge.

FIRST SETTLERS—A. Hubbard, Wm. Fulton, C. Nohle, G. Randall, H
Barney, H. Paul, K. Overton, C. Brimmer, G. Bull, Jr., Florence Randall,
Florence Ellis, Frances Overton, Gladys Williams, Merle Green, Clara
Scott, Inez Brimmer, Lila Bull, Betty Overton, Richard Overton, Franklin
Bickford, Richard Bull, Frederick Mather, Ella Brimmer, Flora Carpenter,
George Randall, David Chapman.

LOG SCHOOL HOUSE—Teacher, Miss Helen Wood. Children of the Old
Settlers Group with the Following: Phyllis Ralph, Helen Coulter, Elinor
Ralph, Helen Chamberlain, Bobby Littlefield, Virgil VanBrocklin, Florence
Ellis, Yvonne Williams, Doris Archer.

DONATION PARTY AND GRADUATING EXERCISES—Old Settlers
with the Following: A. Scott, Geo. Converse, E. Matteson, W. S. Martin,
Howard Barney, Chas. Kennedy, Ella Matteson, Hazel Littlefield, Laura
Newcomb, Harriet Montague, Doris Converse, A. F. Lockwood (Joseph
Bonaparte).

GRADUATES—Esther Nohle, Mary Barney, Marian Stevens. Ralph Chap-
man. Wm. Fulton, Hugh Coulter, Thomas Beard, Fay Hunter.

SAILOR GROUP—Hugh Coulter, Wm. Fulton, Harold Paul, Carl Nohle.

AUCTION GROUP—Taken from First Settlers Group.

PART H—SYNOPSIS
A Soiree is given in honor of Jack Barney's return from college.
Thomas Jefferson Jackson, later to be known as "Stonewall," is the guest
of honor at this party. At the opening of the Civil War, students of
Union Academy volunteer their services and enter the war with Jack
Barney as their leader. Major Barney is killed on a southern battlefield,
and through the kindness of "Stonewall" his body is returned to Belleville
where funeral ceremonies are held. Norris Shepardson, farmer and poet, at
a large meeting plans the. Memorial Book in which records of gifts to
Union Academy may be kept. The Class of 1925 of Union Academy receives
symbols.

CHARACTERS OF PART II

CHARACTER GROUPS
THE SOIREE GROUP—Members of Other Groups with the Following:
Martha Collins, Ruth Poor, May Carpenter, Edna Fillmore, Gladys Brewer,
Esther Bates, Fern Abbott, Mrs. C. M. Overton, Mrs. Dean Littlefield.

UNION SOLDIERS—Ronald Dodge, Gilbert Scouten, Roger Overton,
Mitchell Littlefield, Ralph Champan, Glen Randall, Wm. Fulton, C. M_ Pierce.

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS—Thomas Beard, Stanford Bates.

FUNERAL PROCESSION—Consists of All Male and Female Characters
of Part II.

ENDOWMENT -GROUP—Same as Soiree Group.

GRADUATING CLASS OF 1925—Margaret Bigelow, Lila Bull, Sarah
Butt, Edna Gregory, Edna Springsteen. Ralph Day, Clifford O'Brien, Kenneth
Otis, Mitchell Littlefield, Gilbert Scouten, Lynn Springsteen, Willard
Wood, Miliar Matteson.

PAGEANT CHORUS—Mrs. G. Chamberlain, Mrs. Frank Lee, Jr., Mrs.
R. Huested, Mrs. L. Kirkland, Mrs. S. Ormsby, Mrs. L. Bates, Eva Laughlin,
Alice Poor, Mrs. H. Chapman, Mrs. R. Beard, Mrs. G. Robinson, Merle
Green, Mrs. H. Wodell, Mrs. C. Church, Mrs. C. Brimmer, Mrs. R. Golding,
Mrs. C. Wiswell, Mrs. A. Lyman, Mrs. W. A. Mtether, J. Smith, R. W.
Scouten, C, Bickford, E. Poor, L. Kirkland. A. Golding, T. Montague, Chas.
Hudson. D. Brown, K. Overton, B. L. Waters, C. Hubbard, R. Huested,
C. Church.

Throughout the Pageant the characters are played by descendants of
the originals whom they represent, wherever it was possible to secure them.

DIRECTOR—Muriel Blum Outwater.

READER—Mr. Robert W. Bowman.

PAGEANT COMMITTEE—Mrs. W. A. Mather, Mrs. R. W. Bowman, Mrs.
H. H. Chapman, Miss Hazel Hungerford.

GROUP LEADERS—Mrs.-S. H. Keyes, Mrs. G. A. Bull, Miss Elizabeth
Fillhart, Miss Helen Wood, Mrs. N. H. Chapman, Mrs, J^A. Coulter, Mrs.
H. H. Chapinan.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE—N. H. Chapmjkn, Iva Lyman, Barbara Mather,
Clinton Hubbard.

CHORUS DIRECTOR—Mrs. Laura Barker.

ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR—Mr. Ben Gilbert. Supported^by members of
the Watertown Symphony Orchestra and local musicians.

COSTUME COMMITTEE—Miss Florence Ellis, Mrs. Keyes, Mrs. H. H.
Chapman, Mrs. G. A. Bull, Mrs. J. A. Coulter. Knights' Costumes designed
by Prof. Sawtelle, Amherst, Mass. Costumes of Knights, Sprites and
Children made by Miss Helen Farr mer, Mrs. Laura Newcomb, Miss Grace
Adams, Mrs. H. C. Bull, Mrs. C Mather, Mrs. K. Overton, Mrs. Etta Ralph,
Mrs. L. C. Kirkland,, Mrs. Jessie Rogers, Mrs. 6. A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. W. A. Carpenter, Miss Carrie Paul, Mrs. G. Hunter, and Girls of
Homemalring Class. Knights Accoutrement made Try C. A. Church and
decorated by Clinton Hubbard.
Book of Memory decorated by CHnton Hubbard.
Properties and Stage made by A. P. Lockwood, assisted by Agriculture Classes

Lights, Amplifier and Seating in charge of Mr. George Wood.

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Article as it appeared in the Jefferson County Journal
Wednesday, July 1, 1925
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