The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-05-24
GOOD FOR BLUES
A Crowded House Greet the "DeestriCt
Skule' People in the Exposition
Building Tuesday Evening.
Latent Dramatic Talent is Made to
Blossom With all the EfTulgenCe
Of a Monday Sun.
ARE COMING SLOWLY
But lhirty-fOur Filings Were Made We'd
neSday and Most Of Those Were
Homestead Applications.
NO FLIES ON THAT SHOW.
The old school Methods of the Early
Youth Fully EXempliiied.

The old school Methods of the Early
Youth Fully Exemplifed.
The opening of the reservation Tues
day was q tame affair in comparison to
the opening of the "Deestrict Skule"
in the Exposition building Tuesday ev-
ening. The managers had made seat
ing preparations for about 300 people,
but before the curtain went up more
chairs had to be brought in and even
then people had TO stand up, while the
balcony was opened to admit of more
room. 1t is safe to say that there were
fully 600 people in attendance. The
affair was arranged, and given under
the auspices Of the w. R.C. of the city,
the participants being selected largely
from the Corps and the c. A. r. post,
owing to their we'll known dramatic
ability. Before the curtain went up
the Mandolin club rendered popular
selection and Immediately afterwards
q procession of school boys and girls
passed in front on their way TO school,
The school room reached Prof. Frank
lin McAdam Goodykoontz the teacher,
stalked into the vacant room with two
stout switches under his arm which
seemed later to carry good deal of al
gument by their menacing position on
the desk The bell ringing induced
the children to enter the room. And
such great array of costumes greeted
the audience thae they simply roared
with laughter The ladies or girls,
rather, were dressed in gowns of pecul-
lar hue, short and no particular atten-
tion was paid as to whether they fitted
or not. Beneath the dresses appeared
the bloomers of forty years ago, some
OF which were trimmed in point lace,
ruching, and on one pair was some red
embroidery work. For once bangs
were obiterated and the hair was plas-
tered down as smooth as possible
Those little ones were pictures OF
youthful loveliness and must have re-
quired considerable fixing up before
being sent Off to school. Judge Abbey
wore coat that struck him in the mid
die of the back, and Geo. A. Silsby and
Dr. Moore We're tiny urchns in short
pants, and seemingly they couldn't get
their breath for the pants. Don Rog-
ers and Geo. Johnston couldn't bare the
idea of making their debut in anything
but regulation store clothes.
Well school commenced finally in
earnest by the teacher expressing de-
termination to earn his salary in one
way or another, and as the thing devel-
oped he seemed to want to earn it by
the use of the rod rather than by i'm
parting knowledge. Roll was called
and the entire school joined in singing
an exercise. illustrating the various
things they could do, and the tardy
scholars came in with lame excuses
The infant class was the first heard and
they managed to spell a few easy words
and read short sentence which show
ed that the spirit of learning among
the little infants was deep seated and
hard to rouse the dormant ideas The
bad boys on the rear seats kept up con-
tinual warfare and the teacher made q
free use of the ruler in Quieting the
disturbance. The spelling class Great
ed no end of fun in the way words were
murdered. Don Rogers insisted in get
ing an into every word and some
times two. The geography class show
ed wonderful amount of knowledge in
answer to questions propounded. The
last question: where is Sioux Falls?"
stuck the whole class, it wasn't on their
map. And the grammar class showed
no further knowledge. Here the
"5mart girl, " Jane Pickles made a bril-
liant showing. She knew her lesson
and knew it we'll, by the aid of the
aid OF the book concealed beneath her
apron. School was dismissed for din
ner and the kids assembled on the play
or ulds to eat their lunch and to en-
JOY those innocent games Of pleasure
All through The morning exercise Il
vein of fun was kept on the run aud
during one Of the classes Ed. Skinner
done some exercises on the black board
drawing a correct picture Of Prof