The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-10-03
BUDGET OF NOTES FROM THE
SEVERAL BUILDINGS ..
LINCOLN FOOTBALL LINEUP
Garfield Has Parent-Teachers. Jeffer
son has Four Minute Takers.
Webster Pupils Write to
Boys in Trenches.
Lincoln School

good because there are thirty enrolled
this year, the largest enrolment for
several years. The girls in the kinder
garten have had perfect attendance
this week. There were twenty-five
Thrift Stamps sold to kindergarten
children on the three Thrift Stamp
days. We hope that by next Friday ev-
cry child in the room will have at
least one stamp. Keith Ives has a
serious case of tonsilitis, but is i'm
proving, and we hope he will be in
school next week.
Gladys Faith of Second Grade has
been absent three weeks on account of
illness. Max Widner has moved to
Des Moines. Maxine Barnhill is far
Their in the trenches than the other
soldiers in Second Grade and working
hard to be the first into Berlin. Orval
Kilfoil has entered Second Grade b
class, from Fraker. Gladys Smith has
been visiting in Des Moines this week.
Evangeline, Eugene and Franklin Cod
dard have moved to the country. Ellen
Brubaker of the o. II. s. Normal
Training Department, observed in Sec
ond grade two days and taught Read
ing and Phonies, Friday. Mrs. Myrtle
Morton visited Second Grade Wednes.
day. Max Roberts has the best record
in spelling for Grade II. Cordelia Will
liams received word this week that
her father had landed safely in
France. Archie Ferguson has been out
this week on account of sickness.
Fourth Grade children have purchas'
ed twenty Thrift Stamps and one War
Savings stamp this week.
Mary Stockham has been elected
President and Carl Brantinghom Sec
rotary of the "On to Berlin" club.
The Sixth Grade has bought more
Thrift Stamps this week than any
other grade in the building. Leroy Har
vey was the first one to plant his fac
! in Berlin.
Marion Vanderlinden entered VII
Grade last Monday. Seventh and
eighth grade were 100 per cent in
punctuality this month.
Ruth Harvey and Dorothy Swick
have the best record in the Sth grade
for Spelling the past month.
Our football team has been we'll or.
ganized with the following members
rull back, Richard Barnes; quarter
Orville Turner; left half, Fred Shat
fer; right half, Vincent Hoff; Left
end, Harold Miller; Right end, Lee
Swick; left guard, Cecil West; right
guard, Arthur Witt; left tackle, Joe
Howard; right tackle. Roy Andrews;
center, Melvin Dykstra. Subs-Ray
mond SEEK, Wayne Ives and Capt. Ev,
erett Allen. Motto-"Beware."
Garfield School.
A very enjoyable mothers meeting
was held Thursday afternoon. Mrs
Marsh Williams, vice president of the
Union Parent Teachers Association
was present and organized a Garfield
Parent.Teachers Association to meet
four times year.
Laura Templeton and Ellen Bru-
baker of the o. H. S. Normal Training
Department observed and taught in
the First Grade last week. Helen
Smith is with the second grade this
week.
Frank Fishburn was the prize win
ner in Second grade for the best rec
ord.
Charles Saylor and Marjorie Toye
won the prizes for the month in the
Third grade.
Miss Casa Conover supplied Friday
afternoon for Miss Hardin who was
called to Knoxville by the death of a
relative.
Oscar Rains was absent Tuesday be-
cause of illness.
Jefferson School.
Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs Morris
visited with us Friday afternoon. Clay
ton Mason entered school this week,
having just returned from his summer
vacation in the west Tracy Brislin is
new pupil in Grade | coming to us
from Abba.
Kathering German was the first
child in Second Grade to reach Berlin.
She has started on her second trip and
has arrived at the fourth trench. Each
child in Second grade has been pres
ent the entire week.
Third grade B has had only one half
days absence during the month. Cor
della Price, formerly of Leighton, has
entered III B. Doris and Nellie Land
grebe have moved to the country.
Two boys in Nv B have gone into
Berlin; Burr Robinson and Joe Baker,
and have started on the second trip.
A great many more are on the way.
Mrs. c. E. Humphrey visited in Nv b
Friday morning. Fourteen boys and
girls in Nv b were neither absent nor
tardy this month.
Anna Handler nf Grade " Ia ont NJ