The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-12-21
SOUTH CANON HIGH
SCHOOL NOTES
(By HUGH LoeAN)
stereopticon Pictures.


Thursday morning during chapel
period the stereopticon was used. A
number of slides of scenes in England
and Scotland were shown. The d:der-
ent slides wee assigned to various
persons and as g ch slide was thrown
upon the s'-Gcn some one ssva Nv
facts abo'.t il. This made The ei;er-
taiament ge-- interesting. ina lar
Ic,n showed the pictures verv clear
" in spite 81 The fact that sn light
cIert IN a'"tIC the window shac"S-
Those slides ere secured from lie
University o. Colorado and A.r. Var
aer plans TO get set of slides each
week.
Debating
A debate was held last Friday after
noon on the subject, Resolved: That
Capital Punishment Should be Abol-
ished." The affirmative side cham
pioned by Ethel Smith, Roland Marti-
nez and Marie Farmer was given the
decision by a vote of 3 to 2, over the
negative side. composed of James Har-
vey, Gertrude Poet and Robert Stock
el. This debate was the best which
has been held so far this year. Some
very good arguments were presented
by both sides.
Basket Ball Squad Entertains.
On Friday evening the basket ball
squad entertained the students and
teachers of the school at the high
school building Soon after the
crowd had assent bled the meeting was
called to order and a vote was taken
10 find out how people ranked in
school. The vote was taken for the
boy; the biggest fiirt; the best ladies
man, the best boy athlete, and the
crankiest teacher. Then the crowd
adjourned to the basement where a
by the members of the basket ball
squad. The first event was a wrest-
ling bout between King George Cor
Vile Bailey) and Kaiser Wilhelm
drew. Next horizontal bar was erect
ed about four feet from the floor and
Jim Haze and Earl Thompson, both
blindfolded were placed on either
end. Each tried to knock the other
of the bar by hitting him with rolls
of paper supplied by seconds. Fol-
lowing this was three-round boxing
match between Carlson (Glen Hoov-
err and Gunter (Hugh Logan) which
resulted in draw.
The fourth event was a duel be.
tween Alexander Burr (Alvin Gard
ner) and Aaron Hamilton (John De
vivier). Both contestants showed
much iskill bat >Gnally Burr decided
that he had more chance if he ran
so he left the arena like lightning,
closely followed by HamiIton's
sword. Hughes (Ford Cooley and
Wilson (Glen Hoover) next had a
wrestling bout. A pillow fight follow.
ed this. Each participant was blind
folded and lay perfectly fiat on the
pillow with one hand and hitting his
opponent as often as possible with a
roll of paper held in the other. 1t is
needless to say that this created
much merriment. The next event
was boxing match between Jack
Morgan donald Foote) and Jess
Willard John Devivier). They fought
for two rounds blindfolded, during
which the referee got the worst of it
The one round was fought in the usual
way
The last event on the program was
the running of the gauntlet by mum
Der OF the basket ball squad.
Refreshments of chill, apples, cider
and doughnuts were served.
Result of the Voting.
Monday night when Mr.. Deibert an
nounced the results of the election 4
was that the most popular girl wa.
Ruth Ferkel, most popular boy Ear
Thompson; biggest firt, Ethel Smith
best ladies' man, John Price; bes
boy athlete, Amen Hall; best cir
athlete, Jane Lewis; most studiou
student Roy Evans. The vote TO
the cranktest teacher was a tie be