Imperial Valley press., 1915-03-01
Students Climb Signal.
(Bv Thomas r. Wilson,

About twenty-four students took "a
trip to Mt. Signal on Friday and Sat
urday. They left the school in hay
rack at about 4 o'clock Friday after
noon and arrived at the camping
place, which is about two miles west
of the High Line canal, about 9:30.
They Immediately built fire and
had supper, after which they all sat
around the fire and sang songs and
told stories until about l.. 80. They
started to climb the mountain about
7 o'clock the next morning. The first
to reach the top arrived in one hour
and twenty-five minutes. Everyone
who went reached the top, the chape-
rones as well as the younger ones.
Following is a list of all who went
and in the order in which they reached
the top: James Starritt, Kenneth Da-
Wis, Paul Parsons, Cecil Agnes, Gustav
Carhart, Estelle Needham, Thomas
Wilson, Lenore Perkiss, Louis Ha-
man, Alethea Hillhouse, Gordon Dun
lap, Leah Wilson, Lawrence Mccoy,
Mabel Grogan, George Herr, Miss s.
Mrs. G. A. Tilton, Laura Stewart,
ROSeT bIll III diU MI. 1Illllil, lOlll
Jones and Lillian Todd.
They left the top about II o'clock
and they began arriving in camp at
about 2. They left camp about 4:30
and arrived in town about ten, with
everyone half asleep. 1t was declared
by all to be the most successful trip
ever made.
The debating class enjoyed a very
interesting debate. The question was:
Resolved, That President Wilson did
right in vetoing the immigration
bill.'
The speakers of the affirmative
were Markell Wachtel and Eva Lien;
those of the negative were Laban
Brewer and Imogene Aten. The de-
cision was in favor of the affirma-
tive
An exceptionally good debate was
held in the assembly by some men,
bers of the debating class. The ques-
tion was:
Resolved, That the United States
government should own the merchant
marine"
The speakers of the affirmative
were Leslie Tilton and Vinyard Wood.
Those of the negative were Fred Ber-
II ry and Kenneth Davis. The decision
was in favor of the affirmative
/ The final game in the girls inter
class basketball series was played be-
tween the Freshmen girls and the
Sophomore girls. The Sophomores
were by the far the favorites and it
was generally believed that they would
win, but for some unknown reason
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them and won the school champion
ship. The final score was 20 to Is.
This was the last game to be played
this year.
+ The Freshmen and Sophomore boys
played the Senior and Junior boys a
game of baseball This was the first
game of the season and was very in
teresting. The score was Q to 8
showing how closely matched they
were. The batteries for the lower
classmen were Harvey and Ayres; for
the upper classmen, Merriam and
Aten.
The pupils were fortunate in hav-
ing DR.. Cook of the Presbyterian
church to speak to them this morning.
He spoke to them on the subject of
whats the Use?" He read little
poem which was entitled "What's the
Use?" which said that if man got
money he was CRATER and if he
didn't he was a bum; if he was an
active worker in the church he was
hypocrite and if he paid no atten-
tion he was a heathen: if he was in
politics he was a CRATER and if he
wasn't he didn't do anything for his
country: if man died young he had
bright future before him and if he
/ lived to be an old man he had missed
his calling, so what's the use?