The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-09-02
acliVIty Delng selI-supportlng.
Biu enrolment,


J 1ig enrolment
TWO hundred men ana one hunure.
women Joineu ana Kept up their IN
terest throughout the year. me lie.
: suits can perhaps be best told IN q
nutshell by the record OF the women
In the plunge. In september there
We're only three women VINO oouIu
swim--in April there were 6U. In the
same time The number OF girls wnu
llao become proficient in the water
had advanced from to 40.
tne members OF the clubs have con-
t4oi OF the gymnasium from in the
Afternoon till 10 at night with oeca-
sional exceptions when the high school
teams needed it for scheduled games.
The school as a whole uses 1t from
$3.50 in the morning until the club gets
il in the afternoon.
Community Work.
Community work of the clubs has
ranged from bowling to water polo and
from business men's--and womens-
classes to monthly smokers. They
have formed teams and leagues for in
door baseball. volley ball, handball,
fencing, wrestling, boxing, swimming
anu city league baseball. There were
eight teams OF Dowlers in a tourna-
ment anu two teams went to the
Northwestern Bowling congress.
Glasses in ealisthenics Tor men ana
women were conducted for men ana
women two evenings throughout the
winter.
Girls Circus.
The public school building became,
as it should be, the central gathering
place OF those who are taxed to sup
port il. Frequent entertainments
were staged and were always crowded
A gymnastic competition and girls
circus were especially successful They
were elaborate, yet they always paid
tor themselves. The community has
begun to know itself through its own
efforts 1t mingling in a common cen
ter.
1t would seem that with all this GO
ing on there would be little or no time
for the regular athletic activities of
the school itself. But these amazingly
energetic and versatile athletic di-
rectors did not neglect that part of
their work. Fully 80 per cent of the
Ctu1ant hndu innln1inu GRO do
made regular use of the gymnasium.
Interest in studies was increased by
unique ruling of Superintendent Brock
No student who failed to carry three
studies was allowed to use the gym
nasium until that deficiency had been
cleared.
Classes.
There were two classes a day on
Tuesday and Thursday for girls, and
la like number on Monday and Wed
nesday for boys. This is for those stu
dents in and above the seventh grade.
Friday is devoted to recreative work
and gymnasium games for those from
the first to the sixth grades. The club
idea is carried out in all games, con-
tests and regular class work. Espe-
cially among the girls is this true,
where clubs of from to IL are made
up, names chosen, and emblems worn
to distinguish them. Cooperation, or
ganization and community work are
emphasized throughout.
Aid to Schools. .s.- .
The school has entered with the
same spirit into the competitive side
of athletics. Wallace high school stag
ed a Shoshone county basketball tour
nament in its new gymnasium, and the
home team won 1t entered into other
outside competition in all lines and
always returned proud of itself, IL not
always the victor.
Corrective Work.
The most important side of the ply
steal life of the school has been that
of corrective-medico work. Mr. Cook
who earlier in his life planned to be a
physician, never lost sight OF the fact
that physiques may easily be wrecked
by carelessness or lack of knowledge.
He arranged a special room for physi-
cal examination, and had $3.50 worth
of apparatus and instruments INSTALL
ed. Postural deformities, spinal trou-
bles and other physical Disbursements
are noted in chart made at the fall
examination, and then watched
throughout the winter. In the spring
examination the record is compared
with the earlier one and improvement
noted.
Several youngsters who might have
gone through their lives with constant
~ increasing physical defects were de-
tected early In the year and largely
corrected by regular exercises pre-
scribed for the winters work. Mr..
Cook had already made name for this
ort Of work in Spokane, and he con-
tinued his success in the mining town
All this development sounds 80 mod
ern and up-to-date that something of
the town and its antecedents ought to
be known. 1t was established only
about 30 years ago, and was served by
trails and a single narrow-gauge rail-
road until 1890 when the Oregon &
Railroad & Navigation
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