The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-02-14
LFAVFNWORTH SCHOOLS
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familiar with as she may at some time
in her life have grumbling husband
who will be unable to see why his gro
Gerry bill should be so high. When
one stops to realize that so per cent of
the workingmen of this great coun-
try OF ours earn no more than 800
or $40 a month it can readily be
seen why the schools turnout the
United States are installing this course
and teaching the young woman how to
save in their cooking. The high
school students recently held debate
on the question Of whether domestic
science was more beneficial to the
girl than manual training was to the
boy. Both in our mind are very i'm
portant subjects for the coming gene
ration, but we leave our readers to
form a conclusion.
The music and drawing courses
which are in charge of Miss Sims are
very popular with the pupils and sam
Dles of their work indicate much pro-
gress in this department.
The freshman class are at present
engaged in getting out their class
journal which is to be known as the
Bugle. The book which contains
about sixty pages, will be typewriter
and contains stories, cartoons and
other matter about the school and
students compiled by themselves. The
Junior class put out book several
weeks ago and the sophomores intend
to put out such publication at an
early date. Only about a dozen OF
the books are printed which are sent
out to different schools in the county
but they are very neatly gotten up and
are credit to the school.
The high school is divided into two
literary societies, the Hiyu Skookum
and Philomathean clubs which render
a program every two weeks alternating,
and some good entertainments are
given on these occasions.
The last place for the newspaper
scribe to visit was the gymnasium,
which is located in the basement.
Here we find large spacious room
about 40x70 where the basket ball
games and other athletic sports take
place. The room is well lighted and
according to Mr.. Moore is the best OF
its kind in the county. Shower baths,
dumb bells, indian clubs, trapeze and
practically everything that boy or
girl would want to promote health and
vigor can be found here, and it is the
intention of the school board to make
more additions next year. Every
evening the boys congregate in the
gym to practice basketball and they
are becoming quite proficient in the
game, defeating a team of the town
BOYS several times in the past three
weeks. This evening the boys will
play the Cashmere high school basket
ball team at the school and it is hoped
that good crowd will turn out to wit
ness the game as the local team is
put to considerable expense in bring
ing the visitors to this city. That the
game promises to be good one is
evidenced by the fact that the Cash
mere team has already defeated the
Wenatchee team and if our boys win,
which is quite possible, they would in
all likelihood be champions Of Chelan
county.
Taking everything into considera-
ton Leavenworth has good schools
and they are well worth advertis-
ing to the people Of the state and no
one man is more responsible for this
condition than Superintendent c. w.
Moore. Since coming here all his
efforts have been towards the upbuild-
ing and betterment of the schools and
10 this end he has devoted all his en-
ergies. But they have not been
wasted as anyone may find out for him
self by taking a trip thru this institu-
ton OF learning.
Mrs Fred Drebis arrived here We'd