The Dickinson press., 1908-02-08
High School Notes
fBy Bernard ANGELS

n10n SCHOOL N0IoS
@(By Bernard Angell.)
Don't forget to celebrate Lincolns
birthday at theopera house next Wed.
nesday evening.
The next bookto be by the A
class Of the second grade is Duttonss
I'm Field and Pasture"
Or. Robertson, president of, Wesley
college, gave a very interesting speech
to the eighth grade and high school
pupils Monday morning. He gave much
good advice, driving it home, with humor-
gus stories, which kept the scholars
laughing much Of the time.
Through the courtesy Of Secretary Of
State Blaisdell the high school has Sc
cured three copies Of the North Dakota
Blue Book for 1907, n copy of Arm
strong's Early Empire Builders of the
Great West, and twenty copies of the
Constitution of North Dakota.
The following pupils in the fifth grade
have been perfect in attendance: George
|Goodale, Jessie Hill, Perry Kono. Ray
Lyon, Anna Kenney, John Ochenfeld,
Laverne Roquette, Lille Reid, Olive
Richardson. Lily Roberts, Gertrude
Krauth and Christ Miller.
The, school has just received a valuable
exhibit of cotton goods from ]. & P.
Goats. The exhibit includes specimens
of spool making, cotton carding, spin
ming, twisting and bleached and dyed
thread. From the same firm was re-
ceivedta an exhibit showing the processes
of needle making.
Miss .Thacker's seventh grade pupils
in geography are making relief maps Of
North America showing the Topographic
cal features and the products Of the
different regions. The products are
indicated by placing a small specimen
on the map, representing the region in
which it is produced.
The following pupils have been per
feet in attendance and punctuality in the
second primary during the month of Jan
uary: Marcus Bake, Clara Goldstein.
Florence Higgins, Martin Jahr, Carl
Kono, Bertha Krauth, Ruth Pendergast,
Bertha Wannemacher, Lois Belden,
Floyd Henderson, Ethel; Peterson, Me:
lissa Watson and Samuel Glerup.
[ abraham Lincoln, Commoner," at the
opera house February 18th. James H.
Batten gives his great lecture on Abra-
ham Lincoln under the auspices of the
high school on the evening of Lincoln's
birthday anniversary. There is no bet.
ter way of celebrating Lincoln's birthday
than by hearing this lecture. The 3pSH3.
ceeds will go toward purchasing gosp
reading matter for the school children. N
The seventh grade geography class
undersMiss Nelson has been studying
how limestone, sandstone, clays and coal
are formed. Specimens of the different
hAii0S oA.SOoi AAOA! FH1S ~. 6AoPAASS ollN
including limestone and sandstonesswere
obtained from the geological department
The mi in which salt and, fresh
water deposit their sediments was illus
trated by taking two large glass jars, one
filled with water and the other with water
in which salt had been dissolved, anc
stirring into each a mixture of sand, dus'
and gravel and letting it settle. The
students were surprised to see how much
quicker the material in the salt water
settled than that in the fresh. In the
bottom of each dish was found first ;
layer Of gravel, OF top Of this a layer o
sand and then a layer of clay. An ex
pertinent was also performed showing
that wood is composed of carbon, waite
and infammabie gases. This experimen
made clear the changes which take plac'
in woody material and result in the for
nation of different kinds of coal.
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