Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-03-03
High School Notes.

High School Notes. :
James Nichols has started work witt
the manual training class.
Nellie Milligan taught Miss Fessen
denis room Tuesday morning.
A written English test fell to the 10
of the Sophomores on Monday.
The Sophomore classes are enjoying
construction problems in Geometry.
Two sophomores, Ruth Miekle ant
Freda Schwab, are down with tn
measly measles.
The girls made about So with thei
candy selling at the inter-society pro
gram last Wednesday.
The Sophomores ought to be praises
for the beautiful way they decorated
the assembly room Friday morning.
Miss Hurd and Miss Mortland re
turned Saturday from Fayette where
the latter was a judge at declama'
tory contest.
The two columns of high school notes
last week should make some one agi
tate the establishment of a regular
high school newspaper.
The freshmen boys are kept busy
putting down and taking up the plat
form before and after the entertain
ments. But such is life in the fresh
man class.
Get onto this, you base ball rooter:
Cresco has the team, my boy;
Cresco has the men;
Cresco has the steam, my boy;
We're out to win again.
A correction must be made in an
item of the high school notes of last
week which stated that a number of
books are to be added to the English
shelves of the library. Some new
books are to be placed in the library
but they are not all to be copies of one
play.
The account of the entertainment
last Wednesday night having been
written by one of the members of the
male quartet he very modestly made
no mention of their appearance, but
all who heard them were of one accord
in pronounclng them good singers. 1t
is hoped that we may hear them again.
The quartet is composed of Walter
Caward, Harold Nichols, Earl Gam
mons and Carl Klaffke.
The senior class and the high school
faculty were delightfully."- entertained
at the home of Earl Gammons, presi-
dent of the class, Tuesday evening of
last week. At $50 a splendid, six
course dinner was served which met
with the approval of all. After dinner
letters were written by the whole par
ty to each other, dated five years
hence. Some interesting facts were
disclosed. After this the party was
entertained by two readings by Allie
May McCook and solos by Walter Ca
ward and Bessie Eaton. Later the
whole party joined in on several songs
and then the guests retired to their
homes pleased with their evenings en-
tertainment and feeling that Rev. and
Mrs. Gammons and Earl are lroyal
hosts.
The annual patriotic program Friday |
afternoon was we'll attended and
seemed to be thoroughly enjoyed by
every one. This year the plan was
tried of having each room provide part
of the program and the plan was
certainly success. After brief open
ing remarks by Mr.. Selle and music by
the High School Orchestra the third
grade gave an interesting dramatiza-
tion of Barbara Frietchie. this was
followed by several songs from the
tiny tots of the first and second grades,
an amusing dialogue by four fourth
grade boys, song and drill by the
fifth grade, farce from the High
School, a song from the sixth grade,
a reading by Sarah Davenport of the
seventh grade, another song by girls
from the sixth and seventh grades, and
was closed by dialogue from the
eig hth grade. Several of the Post and
Corps remarked as they were leaving
that it was the best program they had
ever attended. We are glad to thus
pay the old soldiers an honor and we
only regret that their ranks are grow
ing thinner and thinner year by year.
The program at the high school last
Wednesday evening proved to he a sue
cess in every sense of the word. The
nigh school orchestra furnished the in
music for the evening in a
most creditable manner. Florence Nc
Cook read Tom Sawyer's Love At i
air" which made big hit with the
audience. Florence is pleasing read
r. and exceptionally good for one of
Ter age. The subject of the debate
vas Resolved that American cities
hould adopt the commission plan of
government. The negative was pre-
ented by Leone Graf and Reuben
ohnson of the Roberts society and the
ffirmative by Vera Hardy and John
lash of the Roosevelt society. Two
f the judges decided for the affirma-
i've and one for the negative. Both
ides presented their cases very well.
,ha sneech of Reuben Johnson WAS es-