River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-05-13
AT The NORMAL

IlFSI nOHOfo Ill IIlc OlI4o AHNOOA
Track Meet last week.
The debating team will leave
Friday morning for Stevens Point
to dabate there that evening.
Wednesday Prof. Malott and the
class in school supervision spent
the day in Ellsworth visiting the
school there.
Remember the st. Croix Val
lev Track Meet n e Normal
Campus next Saturday, May 18th.
It will be we'll worth attending.
John keenan,, who has been do
inc short-course work has e
turned to school. He will grad
uace with his class this spring.
The walks on the new campus
are being rapidly completed.
AS soon as they are completed
The campus will be given a final
cleanup and seeded to grass.
The debate with Superior will
nrobablv be held here on next
Thursday, May goth. In order to
w sure and not miss it, watch
f0r hand bills announcing it.
Last week the official enroll
ment for River Falls was 81 and
for Oshkosh 572. Two new stud
ents have started this week, how
ever, and if no new students have
enrolled at Oshkosh, We are ahead
Of them.
The Horticulture Glass will
start spraying the Orchard OF Mr.
Will Chinook n ext week. IHey
have already pruned this orchard
and Mr.. Chinook reports that he
Is we'll pleased with h e work
done by the students.
Last Thursday and Friday Prof.
Malott attended a conference of
h heads of the Rural Depart+
ments of the different Normal
Schools at Madison. The Confer
ence was called by a resolution
Of the Board of Regents at their
February meeting.
The No-mal Ease Eal Team had
4 streak of bad luck last week.
They were defeated in both Of
their games. Campion defeated
them Is to 1, and Lacrosse bested
them by one point with a score
oe3to4. 20 h Of these games W ere
PLAYED away from home and would
individually have been more ia
vorable if played on the home
grounds.
Pres. Crabtree underwent an
operation last Monday. The OPP
Grafton was highly successful
and it is hoped that he will make
4 rapid recovery. He had been
bothered for some time with this
trouble and i was only recently
that he felt that he could spare
time from his work to undergo an
operation. If his recovery is as
rapid as is expected, he will re-
turn in two or three weeks.
The Girls Glee Club wishes to
publicly express thanks to Mr.
Johnson of Johnson and Cranmer
60. for his kindness in sending for
Indian suits for the boys an
owls in the Hiawatha Operetta
without charge to the club. Mi
Johnson certainly shows q good
shirt in helping River Falls ana
her institution. The Operetta net
fed about sixty dollars towards
the yictrola for the model school
Nj the planting, including the
corn. has been completed on the
Normal Farm this week. A n y
ono who wants to see fine growth
O f alfalfa grown in one year
from seed should see the plots on
the Normal experiment grounds.
There are three types Of plots;
some without treatment Of any
kind, some in which the seeds
we're inoculated, and some which
we're both inoculated and fertll-
ized The last named plots are IN
~ far the best condition.
4 new class for normal school
work has been organized for the
scond half Of the semester, new
in normal school work. 1t is
class in surveying. The student is
taught to use the transit in his
work and other instruments nee
essary to such work. This work
is almost wholly out Of doors in
fields. The class is busy this week
in laying coarse 70, sewer from
the South Hall to the South Fork.
Next week it is possible il Will
be at work laying an addition to
the city for Mr.. Victor Bailey.
The school is called together at
assembly in the auditorium o n