The Coconino sun., 1917-02-09

Whether or not this epidemic of measles will prevent it's production at the date scheduled is not known de- finitely.
 The debaters which are to meet Tempe Normal school on April 9th, have been assigned to their respective sides. Both combinations are said to be strong.
 Mrs. Rogers is again officiating in her old capacity on the campus as nurse. She has made her headquarters in Morton hall, the "bug house" for all the sick girls.
 On account of the quarantine, the students of the dormitories, assisted by their preceptresses, held a union Sunday school in the Normal school auditorium Sunday morning.
 The students living on the campus entertained themselves Friday night by having dancing party in the Din ing hall. Since no one could go to town the patronage was great.
 In the absence of better excitement, some of the boys gowned themselves in a ludicrous but extraordinary man. ner Saturday afternoon and proceeded to take some snapshots of themselves.
 Last week the seniors were called together by Doctor Blome and the why's and whereabouts of their theses discussed. Some changes in the past method of carrying them on have been made.
 Miss Blome is coaching the play "Mr. Bob," which is to be presented by the two societies in the near future. Judging from the frequency of rehearsals, the production ought to be good one.
 Miss Boyer, assistant in English, has been quite ill. Until Wednesday afternoon her classes did not meet. At that time some arrangement was made for their recitation, although she is not yet in school.
 In order to while away the weary hours during free night the talent of the four dormitories was combined to present a musical and literary en- tertainment in the auditorium Sunday night. And excellent performance was given and majority of the students attended.
 Billy" Borum, the popular senior partner of the firm of Borum and Ramsey, proprieors of the Confection Den-Normal headquarters in the business section-has been keeping his jitney bus rather busy the past few days delivering pies and other sweets to the poor, hungry kids under quarantine.
 The boys are talking up a track meet to be held in the spring. It is hoped that the weather will be such that training may become possible. Late spring is the only thing to pre- vent such contests being held here an nually. If training can be done, it is known that track and field meet can be arranged with the academies at Snowflake and St. Johns, and prob ably with Prescott and Winslow highs.
 Chas. McGookin had the misfortune to spill some sulphuric acid on his right hand in the chemistry laborato- " the other day. The result is he has very badly burned wing and has been giving it the betting it deserves ever since. Whether or not the ulti- mate result of the burn will be serious and permanent is hard to tell but he claims it hurts pretty badly at pres ent.
 With so many improvements in the activities of the school, why do the students not get in the swim right and organize student body organiza- tion? Every school of any import ance whatever should have a student body organization and the most of them do. There is no real good, log ical reason why we should not go through and do likewise. In the lang uage of the world famous Gold Medal Flour people Eventually, Why Not Now%
 Tuesday morning MT. Walker an nounced the fact that the Snowflake Academy was anxious to meet the academic department of this school in debate. All persons who have had less than four years of high school work are eligible regardless of the course they are taking at the present time. A meeting was held Tuesday afternoon and another one Wednes. day morning for those who were in terested in the event and the result is that several students will enter the try-outs.