Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-09-29
SCHOOL NOTES.


ment OF the schools and the judges de-
liberated for some time before giving
Boyne first place. The Boyne City
work was from the drawing, sewing
and manual training departments and
was all OF a high order. This is the
first time that the local schools have
been so near to winning first place and
plans are now being made for a much
larger and better exhibit for next year.
The fifth and sixth grades of the
Central school are being operated on
the departmental plan this year as an
experiment. Part OF the teaching in
each grade is done by both the fifth
and sixth grade teachers, one having
English and Arithmetic and the other
History, Geography and Physiology.
All of the elementary grades are doing
fine work in penmanship under the
supervision of Miss Grace White. All
pupils will be judged in penmanship by
the Thorndike Scale for the Measure
msnt of Handwriting, this scale running
from examples entirely illegible to
those perfect in form.
The West Side kindergarten has an
enrolment of %.
The fifth and sixth grades are now
enjoying their new readers, the Elson
Grammar School Readers and III. All
of the grades now use the Everyday
Arithmetic books which were started in
the third, fifth and seventh grades last
year.
The high school foot ball team played
its first game of the season at Boyne
City, Wednesday. The team is made
up of the following players: Giffin and
LaLonde, ends; Stafford and Nachazel,
tackles; Snyder and Jones, guards;
Fowler, center; Dicken, quarterback;
Jepson, left half; Milford, right half
and captain; Porter, full back; Danto,
Woods, Tousch and Cummins, substi-
tutes. The team meets Charlevoix
there next Friday, Oct. Z.
The dressing aoom for boys in the
high school building has been enlarged
and new steel lockers have been order
ed for the same.
The high school athletic association
has purchased entire new foot ball suits
for the team.
The work in manual training has
been extended to include the boys OF
the fifth grades. The fifth grade girls
are all taking sewing this year.
B. j. Holcomb of the agriculture de.
partment of the high school had very
interesting booth in Floral Hall at the
fair Most of the charts and material
used were loaned by the M. A. C.
The freshman class of the high school
numbers forty with several from the
rural districts. This class now occupies
Room 5 as its own session room, in
charge Of Miss Sprague.
Thirty-two high school students are
taking chemistry. Chemistry and
Physics are now alternated and Physics
will be taught next year instead OF
Chemistry. This is done to save the
expense of buying supplies for both
subjects in the same year.
The largest seventh grade in several
years entered the high school this fall
There are SO in the class and they have
Room 10 as their session room.
The commercial department of the
high school is overcrowded in the short
hand and typewriting classes, there
being 26 students taking first and sec.
ond year shorthand. Merle Dean has
been awarded an Underwood certificate
for obtaining speed of forty words
per minute, an average for ten minutes
writing. Several other students are
working for these certificates.
The new Cleary system of book.
keeping in the high school is proving
very efficient and interesting.
The eleventh grade agriculture class
is studying soils this semester and will
take up farm management next semes-
ter. There are ten boys in this class,
all of them interested in farm life.
Miss Olivet Bartlett is the new clerk
and librarian in the superintendent
office.
Charles Newkirk, Melvin Roy and
Xelle Miles, now members of Company
| of the National Guard, visited the
high school last week Miles is making
good as a half back on the regimental
foot ball team.
Victor Cross, Helen billiard and
Grace Malpass OF the Class of 1916,
entered the M. A. c. this week, and
George Vance of last years class is
also attending there.
Alfred Bergman of the class of 1911
has an excellent position in an archi.
tect's office In Detroit.