The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-19
SCHOOL COMES
TO CLOSE TODAY
Teachers and Students Leave fov
Their Summer Vacation

The bell in the belfry of the Hancock
high school building will be silent for
ten weeks, students and teachers hav-
ing heard the gong this afternoon for
the last time until the beginning of the
19l4-15 school year Many of the
teachers and students will not return
next year, especially the members of
the senior class who were graduated
Wednesday evening.
Yells of the younger pupils pervad-
cd the atmosphere this afternoon as
they were dismissed until the first
week in September. Some of the
teachers left this afternoon and others
will leave tomorrow for their homes
in other cities.
Several of the teachers have an
nounced their intention of teaching
summer school. Supt. II. ID. Lee will
remain in Hancock until the first week
i'm July when he will leave for Mar
quctte to teach in the Normal school
for the summer months. Principal II.
Il. Johnson will not return next year
and will be succeeded by w. II. Cain,
formerly instructor at Kalamazoo cell
lege. Mr.. Johnson will leave Hancock
soon for Lansing, where he will take
summer work at the NJ. \. c.
The following teachers left for their
respective homes this afternoons
Miss Bertha Anderson, Cassopolis,
Mich; II. l.. ANGEL, Kalamazoo; L. NJ.
Bedinger, Berrien Springs, Mich; l..
\. Chase to Chicago for a short visit:
Miss Emily Gustafson. Marquette
Miss Ruth Lagerquist. Gladstone, |
Mich; Miss Matilda Mccormick Mar
quette Archie Il. Nevins, Otsego, |
Mich; Miss Lyle Noble, who will
spend the summer months in Detroit |
and Philadelphia; Miss Harriet Petrie, |
Detroit; Miss Marie Rasey, Ann Ar
bur; Miss Edith Whitcombe, Grand |
Rapids Miss Ella Johnson, Escanaba; |
Miss Doris Collins, Freeport H.; Miss
Margaret Wilson. Houston. Texas. ]
95 to Take Summer Course.
Instructor Nevins of the manual |
training department will visit for two
weeks at his home in OtsegO, Mich. |
and will then return 10 Hancock To in
struct students who desire to take the
summer course in his department dur
ing the vacation months. The manual |
training summer school will open June
4 to any resident of the city wishing to
take the work. Niuety-hvc students
have already enrolled and will be di-
vided into five different classes, each |
class being designated certain hours
Of the day when it may use the equip
ment for woodwork and mechanical
drawing.
Work has been progressing nicely on
the addition to the west side of the
Edward Ryan school in West Hancock
and by the time school resumes in
September there will be ample room
in that school for all children of the
grades Workmen are now construct
ing the basement and expect to COM
mcnce work on the building itself in
tie near future. Repairs viii be made
to the high school building and Cen
tral primary school.
Junior Reception Tonight.
This evening the members of the
junior class will tender reception to
the seniors in the form of moonlight
ride to the canal on the steamer Plow-
boy. The Hancock city orchestra will
furnish music en- route and an inform
al dance will be held at the canal
The Plowboy will leave the Close q
uodgson dock in Hancock at s o'clock.
"han -een-hi" Arrives.
The annual year book the "Han-cen-
hi" prepared by the senior class, ar
rived this morning and will he on sale
in the drug stores of the city for the
next few days. The books also may
be obtained this evening during the
moonlight ride to the canal.
The annual book is creditable
work. 1t contains pictures of the rae
ulty, athletic teams and senior class
snap-sh groups, jokes, witty re-
marks of students. amusing anecdotes
class will, prophecy. history, song and
valcdietory.