Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-01-13
SCHOOL news

VI idSl semester OH account OF
Thanksgiving, Teachers Association
and County Fair; the High School
will extend the semester two DAYS
into this next week.
Bessie Smith stopped school
Monday.
Saturday night, Jan. 10TH, the
Hon. Granville Jones will give a
Lecture in the Auditorium. He
comes as the fourth number of the
High School Lecture Course.
Miss Hansen has presented the
High School with the Review of Re
views" magazines covering the Span
dsh war period. This together with
the numbers presented by DR.. Ri
ley two years ago makes a COM
plete history Of the last 10 years.
The Alpha Literary Society will
give a program Friday afternoon
Jan 21st.
The subject of the program is
WAR" The various numbers on
the program will deal with the war
in Europe. We expect it to be very
interesting. Everybody is cordially
invited.
The following is the program:
Qua1tette, Hymn of the Marseillaise.
Paper-A Glimpse into European
Diplomacy, Helen Wissler.
RecitatIion--Arthur Cox.
Debate. Resolved That America
should not export war equipment to
warning nations. Nels Madsen, Ell
sic Wheeler, Donald Myers, Carrie
Petersen.
Song, The Watch on THE Rhine
School.
Paper, What victory would mean to
the Allies and to Germany, Maude
Perry
Quartette, Tipperary---Carrie Peter
sen, Lola Brinkerhoff, Roy Hen
sley and Walte. Minerman.
Talk, The effect of War on Ameri-
can Labor, Martha Voss.
Reading, The American Flag, Irma
Basham.
Reading, The National Flag, Roy
Hensley.
Song, The Star spangled Banner
School.
The last basket ball game of the
season played on the Extra floor
will be played Friday night, Jan.
18th. Stuart will play here. boys
have come back strong since the
holidays but they feel the loss of
their captain. However if hard work
has any weight they should put UP
| a good game against Stuart Friday.
The Stuart boys outweigh them fron
ten to twenty lbs. per man, and
have had several years experience
! which will all tell against Extra
The dope seems to be against us,
/, but "dope" is often upset, and more
over, our boys never say die until
the last whistle blows. Altho' we
can't promise a victory for Extra
: against such odds, we are conf
dent that all who come out will wit
ness a hard fought and we'll play
ed contest, and especially the Stuart
team will realize that we have a
lgood team.
Attendance for third month OF
school.
Room six. Miss Johnson, Teacher.
Average daily attendance--41.
Per cent of attendance---97.61
Per cent of Punctuality-99.43
Leslie Hartzell re-entered the eighth
grade this week.
Room Five. Miss Turner, Teacher.
Per cent of attendance--97.9
Per cent of punctuality--99.9
Room Four. Miss Hadden, Teacher.
Per cent of attendance--93.7
Per cent of PunctuaVty---99.16
Room Three. Miss Hansen, Teacher.
Per cent of attendancee--94
Per cent of Punctuality-99
Room Two Miss Rider, Teacher.
Per cent of attendance---923
Per cent of Punctuality-99
Room One. Miss Madsen, Teacher
Per cent of attendance--90
Per cent of Punctuality--98.52
| Mr.. Granville Jones who Will
Lecture here Saturday night spok.
at the Y. M. c. A. in Des Moines
| Sunday. The Register and Leade,
says: HE is one of the foremosl
lectureres on the platform.
Evelyn Petersen stopped schoo
this week on account of her par
ant9 MOVING IN Kim ha1lton