Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-10-12
q HIGH SCHOOL NOTES ~
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BARLOW cHEADLE.
MARY CAMPBELL,

way lhonQ AkeIel Was dUaeHt q udS
last week on account Of Illness.
Maude Hilger has returned from a
visit TO the state fair at Helena.
The base ball team has been organic,
ed with Plat Belden as manager and
Don Anderson captain.
John Crowley. of the class of 1908,
left for Missoula. where he will attend
the Garden City Commercial college.
While riding her pony nea the rail.
road track Tuesday night Judith Waite
vas thrown heavily from her horse
and broke a bone in her leg just above
the ankle.
The reports for the first month were
issued on Friday. Among our fellow
pupils the following attained a stand
ing OF 80 or better in every branch:
Hazel Belden, Mary Campbell, Fannie
Stuart. Many pupils had an average
OF 80 or higher.
An important addition has been
made to the high school library. This
is the International Encyclopedia, con.
slsting of seventeen volumes of finely
finished books. The high school
should be proud of its library, as it
Is one of the best in town and is con.
stantly growing.
A large horned owl. which had been
wounded by having its wing broken,
was brought to Mr.. Silloway by May
~Llttlejohn and Beth Peck. and its skin
VIII be added to our already large col.
lection of native birds. This is the
fourth skin of This kind of an owl to
take a place in the collection.
The high school museum has been
enlarged this week by five specimens
of wood from the Snowy mountains.
They are Douglas fir, yellow pine,
white spruce, lOdge-pole fir, and white
bark pine, in sections about a foot
in diameter and a foot long, with por-
tons of branches and cones.
The glee club has been organized
1t is composed of the sopranos, Hazel
Belden, Stella Woods and Carrie Bean:
the altos, Cora Bean, Gladys Winters
and Antoinette White; the bass, Geo.
Cannon, Clarence Lewis and Archie
Farnum. and Of the tenors, Carl o
Tobel, Leo Beebe and Plat Belden.
Through the kindness of DR.. w. A.
Long the physiology class has had
the use of a skull once carried by one
of the ruffians who tried to shoot up
the town many years ago. The fellow
perhaps little thought that his Uranium
urnNal1 no IN nnLsaat Co. t,I, q. I-t~.
years in the Fergus county high
school.
The chemistry pupils had an inter.
esting time in the laboratory in eX.
~perimenting with radium. The pecu.
liar property of this metal is its read
mess TO combine with water, setting
hydrogen free, which will burn freely
while the piece of radium is floating
Oh the water. ON one occasion, when
enclosed in a large t~est-tube, the by,
drogen found its way through the wa
ter over which il was forming. and
burst out with a strong flash of flame,
scattering water in every direction.
To be an educated person one must
be q student of history. Very often
We find people who do not know the
most common facts of history. That
this is true was well illustrated by
the following interesting story told
by the teacher OF the second year his
tory class: In the reading which was
assigned for class work in one of our
large universities the word "Epistles''
occurred. That night n college man
asked his mate who the "Epis.
Ties were. The room mate replied:
Il am not sure, but | think they were
the wives of the Apostles"
Among the twenty-one pupils in the
first year class only six half days
were lost in attendance, making a rec
ord Of 1920 per cent; in the second
year class seventeen half days were
lost among the twenty-eight pupils
in the third year class. twenty-five hall
days were lost, a record of 81 per cent
Three half days were lost by the
three members of the fourth year
class. a record OF SO per cent. The
average per cent Of attendance for the
month was 1888. a most excellent re
port, considering the varied attrac'
tlouS III lOWu.
The following program Is to be Civ
en- by the Star Literary Society Fri
day afternoon, October l4th:
Defamation, Frank Plum.
Recitation, Hazel Akeley.
Original story, Florence Mcmillan.
Duet, Cora Bean and Gladys Win
tiers.
Quotations, Jennie Anderson.
Recitation. Louise Sellers.
Foreign News Items, Jacob Holze
mer.
Mandolin, Clarence Lewis.
Recitation, Myrtle Bell.
Pen pictures. Cassie Dahl.
Recitation, May Littlejohn.
State News Items, Frank Wright.
Song. Glee Club.
Debate, Ralph Tavenner, George
Stuart, Barlow Cheadle.
The program to be rendered by the
Crescent Literary Society Friday at
ternoon, October 18th, Is as follows.
Defamation, Leigh Sullivan.
Pen pictures, Harry Briggs.
Original story. Irene Johnston.
Piano solo, Alpha Butler.
Pen pictures, Donald Anderson.
Local news. Anna Moshner.
Recitation, Cornelia Cordeiro.
Quotations, Annie Crowley.
Domestic news, George Evoy.
Recitation. Ruth Luton.
Piano solo, Ruth Cook.
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