Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-04-12
- HIGH SCHOOL, NOTES e.
.. EDITORS
HATTIE STUART,
MYRTLE BELL.

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Cassie Dahl has left school on ac-
count of illness, but we hope she will
soon be able to return.
The class in physical geography is.
studying the physical features Of Mon
lana.
The last programs of the Star and
the Crescent societies were rendered
last Friday.
The class of English l. have nearly
finished their study of Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice.
The report cards were given out last
week and many received an average
OF 80 per cent and above.
The music classes are learning a
new song, entitled, Let the Hills and
Wales Resoun."
The junior class in geometry has.
about two weeks work before finish
| ing the stated portion for this year.
The morning division of physics
had a little excitement Thursday
morning. The class is getting start
ed in electricity, and in experimenting
| with the "Holtz' machine several
members were unexpectedly shocked.
| Miss Hawkes. came to school Mon
day with her hand bandaged, but not
on account of an unexpected gasoline
blaze.
The basket ball teams has been la
menting that the hall has been en-
gagged every night, SO they did not get
chance to practice this week.
The third year pupils are beginning
to write their essays for the last of
school.
Next week the Cicero class will fin
ish reading the required amount of
Ciceros orations, and in order that
We may not forget the nature of Cic-
ero we will have our minds refresh
ed by an examination On the same
| soon.
This fine weather is very good
incentive to the pupils to stay out of
school, but of course the high school
pupils would not do anything like
that
Ever since before Rev. Donaldson
gave his illustrated lecture on THE
Lewis and Clark Trail" Mr.. Silloway
has frequently used the opening per-
iod in the morning in telling us about
the Lewis and Clark expedition, and
western and Montana history in gen.
eral, and we have learned that Lewis
and Clark were the first white men
to step on Fergus county soil. They
touched Fergus county on the north
along the Missouri river in 1906 and
they killed their first Rocky mountain
goat on the border of Fergus county.
The next and last preliminary orator
ical contest will be Friday night, APP
ril the 14th. There VIII be five or
six contestants. Come all and en-
courage the young folks in their work.
The final contest in oratory will be
Friday evening, April 21st.
We are all sorry that Mr.. Silloway
will not be with us next year, but
we are very glad that we are going
to lose none of the other teachers
The high school glee club and the
high school orchestra brought show
ers of credit to themselves and to
the school Friday evening at the Wom-
ans Club lecture, where they had been
asked to take part.
The museum, which has been moved
5 into the large library room upstairs,
) was opened Monday morning. There
are four large glass cases, two of
which are against the wall, and are
filled with birds, varying in size from
the eagle to the humming bird. Two
, cases extend through the middle of the
5 room, lengthwise. They are about
, six feet wide and eight feet long, and
: are both filled with birds eggs. All
: of kind are arranged in small box
es and each box is named SO that
? anyone who can read may know what
: kind of eggs he is looking at. Around
} the walls samples of the various
: kinds of owods of Montana are shown.