The Dickinson press., 1915-11-20
SCHOOL NOTES

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The cooking class cleared over SIS
from their sandwich and coffee sale
last week. The money was used to
defray the expenses of the recent ex-
hibit.
Mr.. Danish put up a handsome
bracket on the north wall of the high
school auditorium Monday for the
class championship cup which looks
very pretty standing there, decorated
with a large ribbon bow in the last
years Junior colors.
Mr.. Smith, representing the D. C.
Heath Book Company, visited the
schools Friday.
The five best North Dakota essays
in the high school have been selected
and will be handed in to Supt. C. E.
Ward not later than Saturday. Those
who have written these essays are
Lucy Armstrong and Edward Shaw,
juniors; Agnes Moe, sophomore and
Charles Angel! and Mildred Perkins,
freshmen.
Supt. P. S. Berg called a grade
teachers meeting Wednesday night
when the study of geography was dis
cussed.
The new basket for the gymnasium
which was ordered last week arrived
Wednesday.
Beulah Kellicut is now rooming in
the eastern part of the city with the
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Kellicut,
were in from out north to visit her
the latter part of last week.
Supt. Berg was giving grammar
and geography. tests in the grades
this week.
Darrell Travis is a new scholar this
week in Miss Mason's room.
An epidemic of chicken pox has
broken out in Miss Commits grade,
four pupils being out of school with
the disease.
The rooms under Misses Mason,
Lyken and Slindee are the only one
in line for the half holiday this
month. This small number is due to
the great amount of Illness in the
schools. Monday there were twenty
in the high school alone who were
absent because of sickness. But Miss
Mason's little folks come as regularly
as a clock, their attendance being 100
per cent again so far this month.
Edgar Berg is quite i'll with pneu-
monia. Hiss classmates, the seniors,
| sent him a beautiful bouquet of flow
ers Wednesday.
Misses Eikenberry and Lyken are
very proud of the new curtains in
their rooms.
The boys glee club held their first
practice Tuesday night. Miss Dumke
has high hopes for the work the club
will accomplish and o o expects to
select a boys quartet.
Misses Brown and Ried entertained
the teachers at the Rev. A. c. Hacke
home last Friday evening. The girls
brought their sewing and enjoyed a
very pleasant time. Mrs. A. G. Hacke
assisted the hostesses with the lunch.
The teachers had gathered for social
purposes several times before and al
though they have no really organized
club, still they plan on meeting at
least once a month at the home or
rooms of some of the teachers.
The Metropolitan Glee Club will
give a fine concert at the high school
auditorium tonight (Friday).
Harold Hill has been out of high
school for two weeks with a cold.
DIR. Herbert Talks to School
On Wednesday morning, DR.. Herb
ert, a noted lecturer and writer from
Ohio, brought a message to the high
school students which will not oon be
forgotten. His message was n of
cheerfulness, hope, inspiration, and a
striving for high American ideals.
DR.. Herbert has more faith in N. D.
than in any other state Of the union,
for big impulses must arise in a new
country. However, the people of N.
D. and of America at large, are fac
ing a most insidious temptation, that
of becoming so interested in conquer
ing material and physical things, that
they forget the intellectual, the cul-
tural and the spiritual.
He who gets money for it's own
sake, becomes the dollar worshiper;
he who gets it for the sake of giving,
@a~~O0. Dyspepsia