The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-03-05
SCHOOL NEWS

The last basket bail game Oi the sed
son will be played tomorrow night at
the rink. The II. X. II. S. boys quin-
tet will play the White Salmon team
and the H. K. II. S. girls sixtet will
play the Gresham girls. The local
bows were defeated twice It the hTst
of the season by the w. $. team. This
was while they were in poor condition.
In their present form the W. ). team
will have to show lots Of pep to out,
class them. The girls team defeated
the Gresham team at Gresham, but
there are rumors around the school
that il was the Gresham girls second
team they defeated. They let the
"ozone" out Of the basket ball tomor-
row night after the game. and store
the COW hide on the shelfItill next De
cember.
The local debate teams defeated the
White Salmon mentors both here and
at at White Salmon. Ella Mcdonald
and Olive Richards, chaperoned by
Miss Furrow, debated the negative
side of the question, Resolved, that
the government should own and ope-
rate all telephone and telegraph lines
within its boundaries. Mary Shep-
pard and Ruth Harris debated the
affirmative of the same question here.
The Judges at the debate at Literary
last Thursday night decided in favor OF
the negative side on the question, RE
solved, that the japanese should not be
allowed the right to hold title to land
in Oregon. The negative debators
we're Lawrencs Hershner and Ella Me
hans. The averages of the debators
were, Ella Niehaus, 81; Jack Stanton,
90: Lawrence Hershner, 81; Anna
Krussow, 80.
l.. p. Harrington, field worker of in
dustrial affairs of the state department
of education, will lecture before the
School and Home ASSOCIATION Tuesday,
March 10, on the subject, "Agricul-
ture.
The high school boys met last week
and elected Allan Harris track captain (;
Bill Mcclure, captain of feld events.
and Harry Woods base ball captain.
Two track captains were elected this
| year instead of the one to govern all
events. The baseball outlook is good.
! The first practice was held Monday.
Mcclure, Art Johnson, Jones, Shrum
and Hershner of last seasons team,
are out practicing again this season.
Harry Woods, pitcher of Business
Mems League fame, and Bill Dethman,
are trying out for pitchers box and
Berry and Dobson are trying for
catcher's position.
Warren Wood, from Santa Cruz,
Calf, has entered high school. Wood
is trying out for sprinting and pole
vault in track, and shows promise of
becoming a star man on the II. r. HIS.
track team.
Hayes Bickford, student body treas
urer, has collected S78. 50 student body
dues so far, and is still parting stu
dents from -four bit" pieces.
The proposed school conso lidation
has l55 enthusiastic supporters at the
high school. Forty students at II. h.
II. S. are tuition paying students.
there are many more boys and girls in
the valley that would like high school
education, but because of the tuition
are unable to attend. When the other
districts turn the state school money
over to the students and let them pay
this 50 in on the tuition, as several
are now doing, reducing the tuition
cost to $2l for them, the difficulty is
remedied in part. The plan for the
proposed consolidation is dwet upOr
at leng tn in another column of this pa.
per.
The Hood River correspondent fol
the Oreg0nian was at the high sChOo
Tuesday and secured picture of the
manual training department for &
Twrite-up in the Oregonian.
The senior class members have re,
ceived their class pins and rings. The
emblems are round with Hood River
High School" on the outside and IA
in the center.
The junior class is planning a con
cert to be given Friday night, Apri
10. A trio Of singers. elocutionists ant
musicians who are working their way
through college at McMinnvilIe by Civ.
ing concerts, will be here on that date
Ray Culver, who sang at the higt
school several times while here last
month, issone of the trio. The facult,
has examined the financial side of tn,
concert and approved of the entertain
ment. The sheckels received will bt
used by the junior class to pay off ,
class debt and pay for the annual ban
quet given to the senior class during
commencement by the junior class.
The White Salmon and Gresham bas
ket ball teams will he given a recep
tion tomorrow night after the baske
I'ball games.
Truman Butler was at the higl
school Tuesday morning and talked t.
the students on the subject, 9TH
Need of an Education in the Busines
World. "
The H. r. II. S. athletes will b,
given letters this saeson if plans nov