The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-10-26
CANON CITY HIGH
SCHOOL NOTES
(By Max Hardy)
Chapel

Last Monday morning in chapel
period. MIR. Maxwell of the Y. NJ. c. A.
gave an exhibition of exercises and
drills used in the gymnasium and
also talk on The Values of System
attic Exercise" He did dumb bell
drills. exercise on the parallel bars.
etc. In his talk. he told how a per-
sons health could be built up by
work in the gymnasium. He said that
the Y. NJ. c. A did not develop
strong men" or many Hercules. but
IL did produce healthy. all around de-
veloped men. This talk and exhibi-
ton was given IN the interest of the
Membership contest which is on this
week.
Membership Contest.
A good many boys from North
Canon High School are playing on
the teams OF both Major and Minor
leagues in the Y. NJ. c. A contest.
They are doing some fine work and
quite n few runs have been made by
tie younger fellows. However. the
boys seem to enjoy the free lunch
cons more than other work:
Forensic.
Last Tuesday the second meeting
of the Forensic league was held. At
this meeting there was no literary
program, but the time was taken up
in amending the constitution and in
the transaction OF other business. At
this meeting four new members were
elected. They were: Finis Parks.
VIM. Carlson. Earl Fulkerson. and
Wilbur Combs.
A week ago Saturday. Profs. Hogie
and Gambill went to Florence where
they acted aE referee and umpire in
the football game between Florence
and Saiida. Last Saturday they were
again asked to perform this office in
the game between Victor and Flor
ence.
The second Invitation shows not
only that they were liked very well
but that they gave Florence salts
faction for they won last week by a
score OF eleven to nothing. Quite q
few Canon fellows went down to
each of these games.
Bible Class.
There was a fine bunch present at
each of the North Canon High School
bible classes this last week. The
Junir-Senior class met Thursday
evening with twenty-five present.
Finis Parks and Claude Ray cooked
and gave the boys the best meal so
far. even II the hamburger steak was
not quite done.
The Freshmen-Sophomore class
met Friday night with John Sinden.
Newton Merriam. and Smith Batche-
lor as cooks. They also had big
crowd and a fine meal. lot of in
terest is being shown in these classes
and prospects are very bright for the
same enthusiasm all thru the year.
Military.
Military drill was again started
this last week under the supervision
of Prof. Gregory. on Tuesday the
squads were drilled by the older fell
lows and everybody got down TO bus
mess and worked hard with very fav-
orable results.
weather, the company was taken in
to the building and n few of the
older inen gave an illustration from
the platform. of the correct way to
do the facings. the position of the
soldier and steps and marchings.
Tho officers will be chosen in the
near future and drill begun in ernest.
Basket Ball.
The hikes for the basket ball
squad. have been kept up in addition
to the regular practices Beginning
this week gmes Will be played be-
tween different class teams and from
these teams the school team will be
chosen. More fellows are coming out
TO practice than have for several
years and there are some fine material
for winning team.