Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-11
High School News

The Freshmen gave tie program fr
opening exercises Friday afternoon. u
was rendered in an excellent nsai,iar
and was thoroughly enjoyed Ivy the
high school The first number was the
FOCAL duet The Gypsy Giri'' by Sarah
Notson aud Emma Beckwith: Ruth
Mead, accompanist Then followed u
reading by Florence Scott, entitled "a
Piece of Red Calico" in which ste told
the troubles OF a man in getting some
some calico just like the sample i'll
New York. The third and last num-
Der on the program was mandolin
solo by Burnie Budde. with Ruth Hyde
accompauist.
The plane geometry class are prepar,
ing written work for exhibit at the st.
Louis exposition.
The Caesar class was somewhat sur
prised when recitation period came
Monday morning. the reason being
that Miss Fade passed around paper
and announced that we would do our
exhibit work for the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton, instead of the regular recitation,
For the benefit of the readers who have
studied Latin, it was the translation of
chapter IL of the Commentary |, and
also some prose composition on the
same chapter. The Cicero class was
similarly surprised in the afternoon of
the same day. -
The Caesar class have been busy pre-;
pairing exhibit translations and prose
compositions for the st. Louis exposi-
ton. Z
The botany class began Experiment
I'll the latter part of last week, regard,
ing the relation of water to germina-
ton. In completing Experiment. l
they proved that seeds sprouted more
readily in temperature of from seven
ty-five to eighty degrees. Besides
these they have conducted a number of
minor experiments in class to find the
presence of starch in number of grain
and nuts.
Alice Millett and Louise Notson
gave current events for opening exer-
cises Thursday morning of last week.
The Minneapolis Tribune is the lat
est addition to the reading table, and is
certainly welcome. The papers and
periodicals which may be found on the
reading table are as follows:
Official Gazette OF the United States
Patent Office.
Daily Congressional Record.
Daily Minneapolis Tribune.
Daily Capital Journal.
Daily Dakotan.
Free Press.
The Collegian, from the Southwest
Kansas college. .. 'i' ;,
Purple and Cold from huron college.
Mr.. Sanders has constructed a rack
in the lower hail for the holding Of
brooms, brushes, dust-pans and busters.
The athletic club held meeting Fri
day afternoon IN the recitation room.
The meeting was nothing more than a
talk about things of interest to the
club. Several propositions for the pur-
pose of raising funds we're discussed,
but no definite action was taken.
Miss Mae Sheppard of Clark was a
visitor in the high school Monday.
Tuesday morning Ruth Mead gave. a
review Of the doings of Congress for
opening exercises. She told of the in
production of a couple of bills, one for
the deepening of the Mississippi river,
six feet, from St. Paul to Cairo: the
other relating to the preservation of
sequoia trees in California.
The advanced geometry class did,
some supplementary work the last Of
the week, from two texts Mines
Geometry and Hobbs Elements Of
Plane and Solid Geometry.
lhe pupils Of the high school were
pleasantly surprised, Monday noon
when it was announced that Miss
An Astonishing 0fferl,