The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-12-11
High School Happenings

The delegates from the four Mid
Columbia schools net here last Satur
day and elected officers, arranged Z
schedule and ordered a trophy for the
Mid-Columbia basket ball league. A,
E. Gronewall. of The Dalies high
school. was elected president and G,
l.. Sly, OF Stevenson high school, was
elected secretary and treasurer of the
league. The trophy ordered was an
lsX42 pennant, black field with Mid.
Columbia b. b. League in gold letters.
The pennant will probably adorn the
piano with the restoof the H. r. H. S.
trophies next year. The schedule ar
ranged may have to be changed to
avoid conflicts. As prepared it is: H.
R. H. .. and S. H. s. Dec. 10; D. HIS.
and II. X. h. S. January 2; II. r. H.
s. and W. s. Jan. 2; D. II. S. and s.
II. S. Jan. l6; W. S. and h. r. n. S.
Jan. l6; H. R. H. S. and w, s. Jan.
%; W. s. and S. II. s. Feb. rs. HIS.
and II. K. Feb. lS: d. H. s. and W. s.
Feb. l3.
The plans for the senior class play at
the Electric theatre Jan. ] and 9 are
materializing. Sixteen local amateur
Thespians will be in the play, Fun in
a Photograph Gallery" The first re-
hearsals will begin next week.
School let's out for Christmas vaca-
tion December 20 and takes up January
B OF next year. This is the longest va.
cation the high school has had for sew.
eral years.
The senior girls sold so tickets to the
Chautauqua concert and made SIS in
that way. This muney will be added
to the gymnasium furnishing fund.
Prof. Young, of The Dalles high
school, and Prof. Gibson, of the local
high school, will meet soonoan ar.
range dates for series of debates be-
tween the two schools. The schedule
cannot be arranged till The Dalles high
school, whiG5 belongs to the st t, De,
batting League. gets its state schedule.
The School and Home Association
will meet at the high school Friday
night, at which time the Manual Train
ing department will be open for inspec-
tion. MIR. Fertig, the manual training
teacher and class of saw and hammer
artists will be on hand to pilot the
guests around,
The boys and the girls basket ball
teams will play at Stevenson Dec. 10.
Active practice is going on now at the
u. B. Gymnasium until arrangements
are made foD renting the skating rink.
The girls team has five players from
last years teams and Is greatly
strengthened by two new players, Ella
Oxborrow and Louise Forry, while
many boys are turning out for basket
ball and q good team can probably be
gotten into form.
The classes have been holding elec.
tions to select their representatives on
the high school annual Mascot. Jewel
Taylor. Of the junior class. Mark Moe,
ct the sophomore class and Aubrey
Pape, of the freshman class are the
new additions to the staff. The cover
for the Mascot will be drawn by Ralph
Crowl, of streetor, Ill.
The debators in last weeks literary
meeting scored high. The percentage
was obtained by adding the averages
allowed by the judges and then taking
the general average. Out of possible
100 hundred points Miss Mary Sheppard
scored highest with an average of so.
Inc averages OF the other debators
were! Miss Myrtle Husbands, 81; Elmo
Jakku. 86 and Harold Blackman, S2.
Several new courses will be, jnsti
tuted after the Christmas holidays.
Anyone wishing to start to school at
this time could arrange course from
the following subjects: Economies.
commercial arithmetic, geometry, bot.
any, English history. modern history
and Roman history,
The class games of basket ball for
boys will be played tomorrow after
school. At this time the seniors will |
mix with the junior champs and the
sophomore basket tossers will compete |
with the freshman andsgrammar school |
artists. The girls teams will not play |
at this time. but will mix some day |
next week. The games will be held |
at the skating rink. No admission will |
be,charged.
The alumnae are making extensive
for the eighth annual
Harold Hershner is in charge |
Of the entertainment.