The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1918-11-23
MANY ATTEND.
after VACATION
LOCAL SCHOOLS OPENED MON.
DAY WHEN FLU BAN
WAS RAISED
Teachers Named on Committees for
The Various Patriotic
Campaigns


lifting of the Spanish influenza ban
on meetings, with an attendance in
Colville schools of about 859e of the
average daily attendance. Twenty
students We're absent from high
school and thirty-eight in the gram
mar school. The attendance has
improved since the first of the week,
about 9O%o of the high school en-
rollment and $3.50 of the grammar
school attending.
Any pupils or citizen who knows Of
places where either boys or girls
might work as part or entire pay
: for room and board are asked to
notify Mr.. Sutton at their earliest
convenience, Inquiries come in oc-
casionally for such places.
In order to facilitate as much as
possible the work of various patri-
Otic and benevolent causes, the fol-
lowing committees from the [seachers
have been appointed. These COM
mittees will undertake to conduct the
various campaigns in the most eff
fective manner possible.
Junior Red Cross-Miss Seal, Mrs.
Sherwood, Miss Mccormack.
Thrift and war savings stamps
Miss Dueber, Miss Burke, Miss Shu-
man.
Food conservation-Miss McCor-
mack, Mrs. Woolard, Miss Lauder
dale.
: Junior Four-minute men-Miss
Burke, Miss Boyce, Mrs. Woolard.
Audobon societies-Miss Aspend,
Miss; Baughman, Miss Farley.
Red Cross Christmas seals-Miss
Boyce, Miss Schroeder. a ~
Modern health crusaders = Mrs.
Thomas, Miss Lauderdale, Miss Nor
ton.
Old paper, rags, junk-Miss Seal,
Miss Brown, Mrs. Woolard.
Social, special observance, new
ideas-Miss Carlin, Miss Brown, and
Miss Norton.
School garden army--Mr. Elliott,
Miss Baughman, Miss Carlin.
The committee on constitution and
bylaws for the associated students
has had slower going than they
thought they would. The task did
not prove to be SO simple after all,
but they will soon have report
ready.
Orders have been received to dis
continue the collection of fruit pits.
The Colville school children will turn
theirs over to the surgical dressings
department Of the local Red Cross
to be used as fuel. Thus their
work is not lost by any means, and
they are to be commended for their
excellent work. They are glad to
have the pits used as a fuel instead
of having to see the war go on. The
pits will be gathered up Monday
afternoon, 2:30.
The ranking students for the first
six-weeks work are Helen Huddle-
son, average 95see and Sela John
son, average 911s% in the senior
class. Jean Acorn and Mildred Sac
kett both have an average of 94e6,
and Lola Smith has 92h, in the
junior class.
In the sophomore class Alsberg
Anderson has an average Of 93%%
and Evelyn Hughes 91h3e. In the
freshman class Dorothy Anderson
has an average of 94%% and Lor-
eta Briggs an average of 9246. It
is possible that some mistakes have
been made, and if so they will be
corrected if attention is called to
them at the office.
A student may be exempt from
the semester examinations in the
classes in which an average of 90%
or better is earned for the semes-
ter's class work and tests. The pass
ing grade in the grades and high
school is 1870. Parents should re-
ceive reports of the pupils promptly,
and should make it known if they do
not.