River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-04-24

just out.
Margaret Spencer, former grad
uate, will teach in the public
schools of Kalamazoo, Mich.
About $3.50 worth of apparatu:
for the Physics and Chemistry Lab
oratory was received last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard gave the
fifth number of the Spring Valley
Lecture Course last Thursday eve.
ming.
BY comparison of the attendance
record at the local school and at
Whitewater it is found that River
Falls has $50 more students.
Carl Rudow will teac h at West
Grand Forks, Mimi, next year, and
will also take up work at the Uni
versity located at Grand Forks.
David Jones has been engaged by
the school as gardener for the com
ing season. Spring work has al
ready begun. Grade pupils will be
at work in the gardens next week.
The following reflections for
next year have been reported: Tom
Berg, manual training at Black
River Falls; Wilbur Shaw, manual
training at Viroqua; Benz. Burrows,
principal at Turtle Lake.
]. ]. Pettijohn, Secretary of the
Extension Department of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, visited John
E. Howard last Friday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard have been booked to
give about twenty-five concerts for
the University Extension Depart
ment the coming season.
Plans for the St. Croix Valley
Athletic Meet to be held at the Nor
NAL have been made. The follow
ing high schools have agreed to en-
ter: Ellsworth, Hudson, Baldwin,
Hammond, New Richmond, Pres
colt, Roberts, Spring Valley, Gala
had School of Hudson, and River
Falls.
The standings of the several class
es in the race for the Silver Trophy
Cup are as follows: Sophomores, 165
points; Seniors, II; Juniors, A;
Freshmen, IL. Four events still
remain on the schedule, two for
boys and two for girls. 1t is con-
coded by the other classes that the
Sophomores will be the cup winners
On Saturday of last week the
Seventh and Eighth grades, under
the direction of Professor Johnson,
Mr.. Stephens and Grin Crabtree,
visited the saw mills, sash and door
factory and power plants of Hud-
son. They also watched the clam
fishers on the lake. They ate their
basket lunches on the Minnesota
side of the St. Croix.
Mabel Megorden has been elected
to Fourth Grade position at Me.
nomonie. Gina Bjorkstad secured
a position in the schools at Stanley
with salary of $50 per month,
Marie Smith will teach the Inter.
mediate Grades at Turtle Lake next
year, salary $50 per month. Emma
Kinney, of class IL, will teach in a
Hudson grade school.
The Girls basketball finals were
played Tuesday afternoon. The
Sophomores won from the Jun.
iors by score of Is TO Is. At the
close of the first half the score was
II to in favor of the Sophomores
al the close of the second half il
was a tie-14 to IA. The first team
to get field throw e points, would
win. The Juniors made a free
throw, which made the score Is to
IA in their favor, but the Sopho
mores won the game few moments
later with field throw.
| The Manual Training Depart
ment may justly feel proud of the
records of its graduates. A letter
from the Superintendent of Schools
of Missouri Valley. Ia, states that
three manual training teachers
trained at River Falls, have made
good in his schools w E. Thurs
ton, of 1912 class, has been re-elect
ed at a salary of $1,000, but has de
| clined. He will take work at Stou
Institute next year. The Superin
tendent asks for man as good a.
Mr.. Thurston. Professor Wriph
thinks he has a man who can FL
the bill.