The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-12-06

tcrSOnal MeutlOn-AECe Dcan-Cl8SS 9S
Miss w. Gallagher, who formerly at
tended school at West Superior. was en-
rolled as member OF the High Schoo
on Monday.
The last two weeks register in thu
Filth grade reported 81 enrolled and 81
present both morning and afternoon
every day.
Mr.. Wood aad Mrs. Fisher visited the
Third grade during the past week.
Two new pupils have eptered the
third q ade, 50 that now 4S are regis
tered.
On account of the illness of her moth.
er, Miss TAFT is unable to attend to her
school duties.
Claude B. Lewis enter tanned the teach.
ers and the members OF the Senior class
at his home on Thursday evening OF
last week. An enjoyable time was re-
ported bv all. AS there is but one boy
in the class. he did remarkably we'll IN
seeing that they reached their home in
safety.
Excellent reference books in geography
history and literature have just been re-
ceived, and have been distributed among
the libraries Of the various grades in
Guiding that of the High School. Each
grade now has a library OF reference
books especially suited to that grade
and teachers are making valuable use OF
them.
The following is a story of Gemila, the
Little Desert Girl copied as written
by Nellie S. Hansen of the mixed grade,
aged nine years: Gemila lives out on a
desert. The desert is very large, and on
the desert is nothing but sand and
stones. There is no grass. Gemia's
house is large tent. The tent is made
of bear skin end inside of the tent is
very warm. There are two rooms in
the tent. One is for the man and the
other is for the children and their moth
err. they have Tor their chairs and beds
large mats and cushions. Gemila
is very brown and she has a
straight nose She has short hair and
it is very dark. They have for tn III fooG
hard bread and dates and they have
ostrich eggs. They live in one place un-
til all the water is dried up then they
move away. Gemila is moving
away. First they bring out camel
up another camel and put all the mats
ohu ou. t1CN DlIIS uD
another and put two bags of water on
his neck. Then they bring another
camel for the children and their mOthe :.
The camel kneels down and the children
and their mother get on his back.
warm to work. Gemila's father has a
large black horse which he leads. And
when they are out on the desert if
Gemila sees a ostrich claps hei hands.
The fifth regular meeting Of the S. c.
H. 5. literary society vas held on the
evening of December 3rd. The meeting
was called to order by the president at
7:3O. After the roll call the minutes of
the former meeting were read and &C.
cepted' The following program was
then rendered. Recitation by Mary
Dobbin, entitled. Only an Invalid, was
we'll given. An interesting sketch of Sir
Roger DeCoverly was given by Miss
Edith Whipple which was followed bv
recitation bv Frank Mccormick A we'll
rendered Grafton, The May Flower, was
given by Miss Blanche Hall. An enjoy
able surprise of the evening, was a vlo-
lin solo by Harold Lamb, accompanied
by Ethel Smith. After recitation by
Otto Dumert. Miss Essie Irwin recited
The Lost Chord, Charles Kusba recited
A Slave i'll the Dismal Swamp. after
which followed another recitation by
Minnie II hoffman. An interesting essay
by Mable Hartley showed the develop
ment Of the steamboat i'll the nineteenth
century. FANNY Norris rtcited The Viii
lage School Master. Mr.. Norris being
asked by Mr. Stanton for some sugges-
tons gave some excellent advice on the
Rotations. The meeting then adjourned
for one week