Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-03-22
School Notes.

School Notes.
The Primary pupils have learned a
March song and sing il nicely.
The Seventh Grade pupils handed in
some good work in geography. Monday.
Miss Emig gave her pupils nature
study lesson on the silk cocoon Wednes-
day.
Elsie Benton is making her best efforts
to master the secrets of factoring in
algebra.
For drawing work in the First Grade,
some original ideas for decorating pur-
poses We're drawn by the pupils Monday.
Miss Anderson gave her pupils an in
teresting lesson Monday. on the Hol-
land people, their peculiar dress and
homes.
A copy of j. G. Gabriel's painting of
the Dutch Windmill and poem on the
same were studied in the Fourth Ian
guage class Monday.
Miss Nolte reports that i'm recent
written test the Fifth Grade
Language class an average class standing
OF ninety-tive per cent was made.
Mrs. Statzel's Ninth Grade Latin pup
ills completed their grammar lessons
Wednesday. They will now take re-
view, and translation of Latin stories
The Tenth Grade Plane Geometry
d class began work in the Fifth book this
week This class has made we'll and
will complete the outlined work nicely.
Miss Emig has her pupils finishing up
several odds and ends of hard work that
they began some time ago. They were
working on ratfia hats the first of the
week
Some selections from Longfellow's
Hiawatha with original drawings by
the pupils were formed into neat
booklet by the intermediate pupils as a
general exercise this week.
Silk, velvet and satin,-what they are
and how manufactured, formed very
interesting subject matter for a general
lesson in the Third and Fourth Grades
last Friday.
Miss Anderson told her pupils an
appropriate story aud illustrated it with
blackboard drawings. She then had
the p pills reproduce the work as nearly
as TIL, could.
Six sick, Sixth Graders, is the re-
port this week, from the First Grammar
room. And two more absent visiting,
leaving only ten the first of the week to
carry on the work.
The American Literary class is now
studying the period of the great states
men, Webster and Clay's time. HAYNES
speech in reply to Webster is being read
as outside work by the class.
Hollis Hamlin has proved himself a
splendid student. He has work ed sing
= y Cor the most part in his algebra since
entering school, and will easily finish
3 the years work with the ninth grade.
5 Our book keeping class can't be beat
} Most of the class can now open and
, close a set of books and make all the
4 ordinary entries in correct form, and a
y few execute their work with surpris-
j ing degree OF correctness and confidence
: In the Second Primary room the q ues-
) ton was given. what mark would YOU
8 put after asking a question: One of
y the little people avoided spelling the
long word, Interrogation. by writing his
2 answer,-"Put a figure five up side down
< with a dot under it,
: The High School will give its last
5 program OF the year Friday of this week
y The question for debate-s'Which has
5 done the most forcivilization. The Inven-
= tor, the Warrior, the Statesman or the
\ ! Literary Genius These will be up-
: held respectively by Harry Cotton,
5 James Paige. Bonnie Hunter and Elsie
y Hunt.
) We Will have a fine class to graduate
> from the Eighth Grade The class con
) sists of Mary Powell Dora johnson,
Z Carrie Gault. Annette Delahoyde, Flor
4 ence Thorn as. Grace Rabson, MAY Hun
y ter, Eta Spencer. Essie Herrick James
j Rendleman, Galen Cotton and James
? Huyck. All these will not however
) pass into the High School this year.
s Extracts from Il letter from Oman
~ | Witthauer:
r Anita. Iowa
s March Is. 1906
\ | Nv Dear Old Prof
= 1t makes me laugh
= 10 think how easy we got OIL
BY The time Art and me ran off
r And when we got back
s The switches did whack,
\ And our pantaloons crack
- over here they treat you fair
q They make You bend over the sea-
sy of a chair,
r The switches sweep wildly through
the air
\ And light, Oh, can't tell you where
= Since coming to Anita
= have formed the acquaintance o
ay lovely Juanta
= have entered my class
> But in order to pass.
J Next year step higher
= My grades require
4 So send them at once
sJ Or they'll think I'm Ounce:
3 And accept the thanks
: OF one of the cranES