The Alaska daily empire., 1917-12-22
JUNEAU SCHOOL NOTES

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 On Wednesday morning the girls of the Ninth Grade gave an Indian Club exhibition in assembly, which was great credit to them and Miss Wenk, their instructor in physical training. Roberta Coryell and Jack Oswell appeared in a more elabor- ate Indion club drill which demon strated what will be done later by the gymnaisum class.
 Douglas High School Athletic As sociation has extended an invitation to the Juneau High School Athletic Association to a smokeless smoker. There will be wrestling, boxing and a littlebasket ball game between pickup teams. There will be good things to eat besides. As this is the first union of the kind between the two schools. It has aroused q considerable amount of interest
 A basketball game was played last monday between the eighth and ninth grades in the school gymnas- ium The score was to '. On Monday the game was finished and within a few minutes the ninth grade score was raised to nine.
 It has been arranged for the pu- pills who bring their lunch to school to have some hot drink or a boul of soup, on the very cold days. Miss Scott has planned for two girls from the Domestic Science Class to pre- pare the food and serve it to the pupils of the High School. Tables for the pupils of the grades have been set up in the school lunch room and the high school students will use the Domestic Science room The children of the lower grades who were kept at home last week back this week busily making bright ly colored Christmas boxes and dec orated cards.
 The Third grade presented a very pleasing program on Friday under the direction of their teacher, Miss Wheeler.
 The boys and girls who have been knitting for the Belgian children and having money for the Red Cross felt that their efforts were truly ac- knowledged when the Red Cross buttons were distributed to them this week. Every member, about three hundred in number, of the Junior Red Cross are now wearing buttons.
 The Junior Red Cross fund of the Juneau schools is practically s100 at this time. The school children were urged to earn the membership fee themselves and for the most part the money given represented their own earnings for this pur pose. In the elementary grades on ly fifteen pupils failed to contri bute. Nine of this number report ed that they could not afford to give and six neglected it.
 In the Junior High School all are members of the Junior Red Cross and only two in the Senior High School have not contributed.
 The following program was helG Friday morning in the Assembly room:
 1. Star Spangled Banner-School ?. High School Orches- tra.
 3. "The Soldiers Chorus-Faust
 'The Marseillaise" de
 Loyalty to the U. S. Az
 Andrio: High School Chorus. 1. Selection-H School Orches- tra.
 ,. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"
 America. The School
 l htS pEOSTdln Suppldnteu puDllc musical program which had been arranged for by Miss Forbes, direc- tor of the chorus and Prof Sumpf, director of the orchestra. The eu- tertainment was postponed in order to not interfere with the Junior Red Cross entertainment given by the Paroehial school last night
 The Pro and Con Club held their regular meeting Wednesday after noon. The program for the meet ing consisted of two debates, the question being: Resolved; that the City of Juneau should build dove cots for the pigeons, and Re solved; that the High School should elect chorister who should con IIIlIIIlIliIlIII!IIiIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIII!llI!IIIE g