Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06


| Christmas holidays, were announced
Wednesday. They are Kenneth Col
| Inns. George Nordlinger, George Bell.
Howard Kernoodle, Blandford Jen-
Edward Steele, and Misses Sadie Read,
| Helen Bridget, Hannah Dorrittee, Ruth
Weeks, Margaret Littlehales. Helen
Chase, Elizabeth Schaaff and Clara Con-
| rard.
Carter B. Keen. director of the pos
| tai savings system, was a speaker at a
| meeting of the Brookland Parent
j Teacher Association Wednesday. Mrs.
| Wall and Leo Stock furnished musical
numbers. Mrs. Charles V. Burnside
| presided.
| Six boys of Western High School Rifle
| Club recently qualified as junior marks
men while at rifle shooting instruction
at the Center Market Armory. Their
40 points standing. 43 points prone; w.
| H. Knox, SO standing, As prone; Thorn
ton Parker. Al standing, AZ prone: F.
NJ. Durfee. Al standing, As prone; J. S.
Holmes. As standing. As prone; Ramona
Richardson. AZ standing, Al prone.
| Pupils of the second grade of the
| Van Buren, School Friday afternoon
presented 1.-The Land of Harvest" I'M
der the direction of their teacher, Miss
Edna Ellis.
Those in the play were Martha Lee.
Hanes, Elizabeth Wilsue. Mildred An
ders. Eileen Hudson, Florence Con-
ners. Marie Ohms. Louise Chase. Gladys
Inez Field. Marguerite Myers. Theo-
dore Entwisle. William Kimerling.
Earl Armstrong. Lloyd Sydnor. Will
| liam Acton, William Weitzel. Richard
Sonntag, Melvin Willet and Reuben
Baxter.
The boys have shown their ability
with tools by the erection of large
sage and scenery supports, while some
| of the older girls have designed and
| made a curtain for the stage.
Several other plays are now being re-
| hearsed and are to be given at fire.
quent intervals during the present
Rifle teams of both the Western High
| and Mckinley Manual Training schools
| did some good work Wednesday after
noon in their training for the national
begin shortly at the Center Market
| armory range, according to the opinion
| expressed by the National Rife Asso-
| citation of America. In addition to the
Western High School Rife Club made
their junior marksman qualification
| for the War Department decoration.
Those who qualified with their scores
are:
fR. E. Livingston, 50 standing. 40
! prone, total 81; David Caldwell, "A
standing. 45 prone. total SO: D. +.
| Weaver. 45 standing. ~ prone, total
50; a. r. Stands, 43 standing ~ prone,
total ST; Otto Praeger. jr. 80 standing,
~ prone. total 81; Richard Stands, Al
standing, 46 prone, total 81: P. a. DON
nally. 40 standing, 43 prone, total SO;
j. Armstrong. n standing; As prone,
total 81: J. Lenwitz, 40 standing. As
prone, total 50
| All of the local white high schools
| with the exception of Central are to be
| represented by teams in the competi-
| ton for the trophy presented by the
| War Department representing the high
school shooting championship of the
United States.
| Victory by the republican party in
| the next presidential election will be
| for the best interests of the United
states according to a decision reached
| by a debate of the Daniel Webster
| Club at Business High Friday after
noon The winning team comprised
Joseph McGarraghy and William Mazo.
| While the negative side OF the argu-
ment was supported by Norman f.
Duehring and Phidias Nicolaides. First
honors went to Mr.. McGarraghy, while
the second were awarded Mr.. Duehring.
Pupils of the sixth and seventh
grades of the Bruce School recently
dramatiZed the story of the Pilgrims
and their first Thanksgiving. The per-
formance was given in costume under
the direction of their teacher. Miss A.
| s. Payne. Included in the audience
which witnessed the production were
| Miss NJ. +. Shadd, supervising princi-
pal of the eleventh division, and NJ.
Grant Lucas. principal of the Bruce
| School.
Those who took part in the play were
Clara Bruce. Thelma Blackwell, Luz
i Gle Campbell, Joy Wallace. Mabel
son, Nathan Slaughter. Howard Pow
| ell. May Thorn. Otis Colston, Ida Lon
| don. Viola Molten and Hattie Register.
| Parents day" was held at the Am
/ bush School recently, a program being
/ given in which children from the first
to the seventh grades participated.
of the school. told the story of the
| first Thanksgiving day Addresses
were made by Rev. Joseph Matthews,
chairman of the Ambush Home and
! School Association; Mrs. Susie Brax-
! ton, secretary of the same organiza-
/ ton: J. e Walker, supervising prin-
! cipal of the thirteenth division, and
| Miss Alice V. Shorter. principal of the
| school.
Country children should be taught
in terms Of country life," declares w
T. Hodges. superintendent of schools
| IN Alexandria county, Va, in bulle-
| tin Just issued by the United States
! bureau of education.
! In order to discover some Of the
| definite things that have been done in
| rural public schools toward infusing
| into both parents and pupils the stay
on-the- farm spirit. Mr.. Hodges sent
5000 letters to superintendent
throughout the country who have ru-
raj schools under their supervision.
FROM the replies many suggestions of
| special value have been received.
/ Farm arithmetic, farm geography
and textbooks in agriculture" have
been secured by Berks county, Pa.
| Newton county, Mo-. has succeeded in
making the school a community center
by having work done to supplement
| that done at home and by inducing
patrons to visit the schools. The latter
1 is accomplished by the "old farm
| wagon and big dinner plan. whereby
as many as 1000 persons in the COM
| munity have visited one school on a
| certain day in the year.
/ A teacher of Warren county, Ind, who
| gave her pupils the "option Of work in
agriculture or Virgil" was astonished
to find that in practically every in
| stance the students took both subjects,
Il and the grades rose beyond anything
\ before experienced.
| I'VE have improvised domestic science
i teaching by means of coal oil stoves
and kitchen utensils, which the patrons
| of the school gave through a Kitchen
| shower, says an enthusiastic teacher