The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-12-06
SCHOOL NOTES

"SS "0ii dtteHueu ny Tue SCHOOL
patrons and enjoyed by all.
About thirty of our high echool
students accom- panied the basket
bail teams to Georgetown where
our boys won the game by a score
OF 81 to II. A dance was given
and refreshments were served after
the game and a splendid time was
reported
Supt. S. A. Norris attended the
State Teachers Association at Pu
eblo last week. According 10 the
State Secretary he was the only
teacher from Clear Creek county.
Pueblo does not have the accom-
modation that Denver does ard
there was not nearly 50 many tea
chers in attendance as last year at
| Denver. However splendid pro-
grams We're given and splendid
and profita BILE time was had by
| those in attendance.
| Most of the high school teach
ers spent their Thanksgiving in
Denver
At call meeting of the board,
Mrs. Gleason was elected to fill
he place of Mrs, Garrabrant as
Secretary, who is visiting at Tren
ton, Mo.
The A. l.. F. Literary Society
gave an enjoyable Thanksgiving
program. One of the features
was the "Soldiers Chorus by
the Glee Club.
Christmas programs will be
given by all grades and the
High School. You are cordially
invited to attend some of the ex-
ercses.
Christmas vacation will begin
Monday Dec. 22, and last one
week to Dec. 20, with holiday
on New Years day.
A basket batl game between the
High School teams will be played
at the High School gymnasium on
Friday evening. Come and see
good game.
1t would be splendid thing if
part of the old basement could be
converted into a gymnasium for
the grade boys and girls--we need
it.
The school board is considering
the proposition of putting in set
of play ground apparatus, consist
ing of swings, turning poles, slides,
etc. This certainly is step in
the right direction and will be
money well spent. The manual
students will proba bly, do part of
the work.
A basket ball game with Cen
tral City is scheduled to be played
in the near future
Jos. Wood and .Oscpr Johnson, two
miners employed on the Seven-Thirty
mine at Silver Plume, are believed to
nave met death in snow slide that oc-
curred yesterday morning. John O'Con
nell another miner, was carried down
Main gulch, but wss found late last
evening, unharmed but somewhat
bruised. Searching parties have been
at work since the accident in and
effort to locate Wood and Johnson but
up to this writing they have not been
found and are believed to be burriea un-
Ger great amount of snow and debris.
This slide came down the same gulch
as the one that occurred in 1900 when
seven men met death, the bodies of two
having never been found,
Sir Walter Scott's, '1vanhoe" viii
be presented at the opera house next
Thursday night. No explication of this
wonderful book could be expected.
Every lover of Scott will understand
the great merits of his writings. Then
with King Bagget and Leach Baird to
represent the leading characters, the
picture will be complete.
A. A. Slower left Tuesday morning
for Long Beach, California having re-
cevied = dispatch that his mother was
dangerously i'll He arrived at his des-
tenatination Thursday and advices SER
vice received in this city are to this eff
feet that the condition of the patient