St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1914-06-05
Central School Notes

Thursday, May 2S, the Gram
mar School base ball diamond
being in readiness, a game was
played between our team and the
High School team. The score
was 8 to z in favor Of the visit
ing team. The principal feature
of the game was the heavy hit
ting by Wright. who put the ball
over the fence for a home run
with two men on bases. Ander-
son pitched for the Grammar
team and won praise, even from
the opponents. The batteries
were Wright and Bellinger for
the High School and Anderson
and Keliher for our team.
Friday morning. a general as
sembly was held in the Central
School. The stage had been
beautifully decorated with flags
and roses by the girls oi Room
IL. Three veterans of the Civil
War honored us with their pres
ence and Mr.. Chambers gave a
brief address to which the chill.
dren gave n rousing applause.
Three patriotic songs were sung
led by the girls of Room IL.
On Saturday, Decoration Day.
at IL O'Clock about 500 pupils
of the three grade schools. with
their respective principals and
several assistant teachers, met
at the Central building, and
after being presented with flags,
and given preliminary orders.
marched as escorts 10 our local
veterans, 10 where n temporary
monument had been erected
The pupils OF Room 10 acted as
marshals and drummers, assisted
by George Marlett. the expert
drummer and honorary member
of the Corona Orchestra, and
also by a drummer from each
building.
Room 9 Helen Edmonson
earned the highest average i'm
the 6B grade first division. Mar
gerry MoXon earned the highest |
in the second division. Both |
averages being - per cent each. !
Room IL Raymond Bredesen, |
Carmolita Henry, and Gladys |
Gray were the pupils receiving |
the highest averages i'm Room |
IL. Marie McQuarrie completed
the $50 examples in simple addi-
tiOn i'm two minutes and ten
seconds, making a record for
Room IL.
Room l2-A quick written test
in multiplication consisting of /
l62 examples was given in Rooms |
~. Ia and 10. In the first divi-
sion of the SA the average per
cent was 96.6 and the average
time was Q minutes. Three
pupils made l00per cent, Ches-
ter Hays finishing In z minutes.
In the second division of the
SA the average per cent was 90
and the average time 10 minutes
and SO seconds. lonia Cooper
finishing in SA minutes, having
perfect answers.
In the first division of SA Ruth |
Edmonson ranked the highest
in scholarship receiving . per
cent and was perfect in spelling
and history. I'm the second diyi-
sion Ruth Cowles and Nettie
Moe averaged 93 per cent each.
being the two highest. There
were fourteen pupils neither
tardy nor absent.
Room l5-The recently con-
Quoted multiplication test result
ed in Hazel Linquist answering ,
the l62 examples correctly i'm z
minutes and George Downey
in 7hminutes. Average class
per cent was 9. The best scholar
ship averages in Room 10 were
made by Lawrence Serrurier who
earned 97.5 per cent and Mary
Jones who earned 96.6 per cent.
There We're IL boys and l6
girls with perfect attendance
records. making a total of % and s
4 per cent of 99.2 for attendance !
and punctuality. {
On Wednesday at 10 A. Nj. d
,ne of the mounted police of the :
English Army in Canada. and a y
champion of the Boy Scouts. 8
poke TO a general assembly of 9
.hildren in the Central building
md announced a lecture for Fri
lay at $3.50 at which time he will
exhibit curios of war from all
he English possessions in the