Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-05-14
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the high school under the auspices of
the junior high school pupils. AS physi.
cal education forms a part Of the course
of study in these grades and as much
emphasis should presumably be laid
upon it us any other ninety minute a
week period in that department., it was
necessary because of a lack of apparatus
to devise some regular form of exercise
from which the pupils might learn some
thing, exercise the body Systematically
and derive some enjoyment. Mr.. Stautf,
who has conducted these classes since
October, was forced in lieu of a lack OF
equipment to rely upon his memory of
past experience as a guardsman and as a
cadet to work out the setting up eXer-
cises, the facings, the machinery manou.
vers and other incidentals pertinent to
the drill of the soldier OF the '90s. Many
commands we're taught the pupils, so
we'll in fact that the squad leaders could
take their respective units and drill
them either alone or even in the com.
pany of the other squads on the floor OF
the gymnasium without a supervisory
command of a teacher. The numbers
from the general setting up exercises to
the final competitive best squad drill
we're IN competition both collectively
and Individually. Eight squads, four of
boys and four Of girls, participated; the
judges at the close OF the exercises pre-
pared a very close decision; the Messrs.
Richard Burke, Chas. Green, w. r.
Ople and Harry Price acted as judges.
They based their decisions o. a thorough
examination of these elements: Obedi-
ence to commands, execution of COM
mands, marching, general work and
general impression. Squads Nos. one,
five and six worked very closely in the
eyes Of the judges who finally decided in
favor of squad five for the second place
and squad one for the first. Squad six
receives honorable mention. The mem
bers of squad five are: Nellie Graves,
leader; Lillian Windemuth, Erna Schad-
windel, Rosie Heating, Ollie Wegley,
Margaret Dehman, Emily Bostik and
Eva Syre. Squad one: Zilpha Steven
SOB, leader: Mary Thon, Anna Nowatzkl,
Christina Kueneman, Mary Halliday,
Susie Schwartz, Flora Belle Mcleod
and Kathleen Mahoney.
The decision as to the best individual
ly drilled pupil was very close. Herbert
Schulke, Erna Schadwinkel, Ida Milne
and Beatrice Pomeroy seemed to outrank
all others. Eventually the decision ran
toward Ida Milne and Beatrice Pomeroy
each of whom found equal favor with
the judges. The toss-up gave the laurels
to Beatrice Pomeroy. Thus Beatrice
Pomeroy received the dollar cash prize
for the best Individually drilled person
and Nellie Graves squad gets the two
dollar prize and Zilpha Stevenson's
squad takes the other dollar prize. The
latter prizes are to be invested in some
mementoes and presented by the squads
through their leaders to the school to be
hung in whatsoever room the squad
chooses. OF course the names of the
squads will appear on the mementoes.
lhe class IN senior reviews took ,he
schools final local examination in psy
chology Friday. In four weeks they will
do likewise 10 pedagogy
While Mr., HaIla was away on his triL
to Fargo his classes received instruction
from MIR. hohler in the morning and MIR
Stauii in the afternoon.
Word was received by MIR. kohler tina
be VAS rtecte supervisor of the
training department of the Havre. Mont.
puolc schools at " salary of 81 900. II,
has The offer under consideration.
AS the annuaI conference of city sup
e~rlnterdents meets under the auspices o
the state board of education at the uni
yersity Friday aud Saturday, Mr.. Staut
goes thlther to represent the Langdol
schools.
Tuesday each BOY and girl was tn,
recipient of each a package of vegetable
and flower seeds furnished the school
by Congressman Helgeson. These ar,
intended for the pupils Individual gar
5 den plots,
; Miss Clara Sponheim one OF our inter
mediate department teachers has accept
ed the position as teacher of the fifth
grade in the Park River school. Mis-:
S%ponheim leaves US because of a bette
financial offer and because of the chanc,
of promotion.
Friday the high school track and fielt
team left for the annual A. G. meet il
Fargo. Principal Halla accompanied
the team and as coach he selected Johr
Robertson, Marcus Smith, Alex Mclean
and Stanley Walker as members of the
team. In the pole vault John Robertson
tied two others for first, whereupon the
} three took each three points and left thu