The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-11-16
SCHOOL NOTES.

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the general public a chance to hear
some fine things in the entertain
ment line this winter. TO attend
good lectures and hear fine music is
a liberal education in itself. We are
so far away from these things that
no one should miss this opportunity,
especially at the price that is being
charged.
The seats have been put together
this week in the new high school
building. They will be set in place
during this week and next week.
Nearly all the carpenter work is
completed on the two upper floors
1t is planned to move over there
with the high school as soon as these
two floors can be occupied. 1t be-
comes necessary to move chairs
from one recitation room to another
as the classes change in the present
quarters. Pupils are seated all over
the house and even then there are
two in a seat in most places.
The question for the Interscholas-
tie League debates this year is
Resolved, that immigration into the
United States should be restricted
by reading and writing test. This
is a question in which every one is
to some extent interested and should
prove a very profitable study to
those who take it up. There is an
immense amount of real live ma
terial on it and the pupils should be
able to present fine arguments on
either side of the controversy.
The pictures which were purchaed
, by the money raised at the Art
Exhibit last spring are being placed
in the several rooms this week. ! 1t
is needless to say that the pupils are
: justly proud of their share in this
work. The walls will show the eff
fects of our work and :the pupils Of
these rooms for years to come will
be gladdened by these works of art.
The Night School was organized
on Monday evening of last week.
Those who wished to do work during
the winter along these lines met
at the Central school at 1880 O'Clock
and enrolled in the classes. There
: will be only two sessisns per week
but it is hoped that a great deal of
:. work may be accomplished even in
these periods.
n
q week the grades for another month
8 are out. All of the reports cards
+ were in the hands of the pupils not
v later than Wednesday and the par
ents should insist on seeing these
car is and signing the same. 1t is
9 necessary that this be done in order
: to accomplish the end for which
9 these cards are aimed. A great a
n mount of good can come from this
brief understanding between the
teacher and the parents.
: An addition of twenty-three new
e pupils to our ranks on Monday OF
$ this week, makes things look like
J. there will have to be some divisions
of certain grades in our school
There are two rooms with more than
> fifty pupils, and still more coming
: in every week.
The plan this year in ranking the
. pupils is changed to some extent
: from that of last year. The pupils
who rank in any one month are
placed on an honor roll, and retained
there so long as their grades are
kept up to the standard of ranking
pupils. This gives set of pupils &
chance to rank each month. Below
we are giving the list of pupils wht
ranked the first month of school al
. honor pupils, and the list Of pupils
who rank this past month. The
E children are showing unusual inter
: est in this plan, and it is hoped tina
the parents will lend them all pos
sible assistance.
Honor roll. Those students who
}. made the ranks last month and arr
o still maintaining high standard o
,e grades. Commencing with the frs
u grade they are rs follows: Alic,
If Chnbbuck, Lille Malm, Stanie.
). Parkinson, Charlie Hart, Edit
1t Thompson, Leigh Bristol, Alice o.
Neill, Wesley Morris, Delber
ID Brown, Merritt Anderson, Gladly
to Hoare, Verl Bentley, Stella Jensen
" Leslie Jones, Lexa Bentley, Iren
to Good, Sprague Stevens, Winefret
m Biethan,, Arthur Smith, Thelm
lie Stevens, May Morgon, Lenore White
Fred Bell, Katherine DeKay, Fred
a Nothdurft, Genevive Millick, Edga
of Knox, Gladys Johnson, Edna Bark
OF er, Mabel Cualls.
q Those ranking in the severa
r. rooms as inditated by the teacher