June 19, 1909
SCHOOLROOM DOORS CLOSED.
Last Day of School Is Welcomed by
34,000 Boys and Girls.
The end of the long trail for the school children came yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock when the final grade cards were issued to some 14,000 boys and girls, in accordance with the custom in Kansas City, all of the schools held commencement exercises and the last of these were concluded yesterday afternoon.
The school rooms all over the city have been closed and their doors will swing open only to let the janitor and repairer into the buildings until next September. The small boy can now pass the big brick building without even a glance toward it, and within a few more weeks he will have forgotten, momentarily, the thraldom of the past ten months.
The school year has been a very successful one from the point of view of the board of education. The number of graduates in all of the schools is 1,716, and the year's enrollment is an increase over that of the preceding year.
