The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-18

Leila Hollom, Leonard Nc
Connell, Lucille Thomas and Joe Baker
are out Of school on account of illness.
Mrs. c. a. Williams was visitor in
the building Monday afternoon.
Gerald Friend is nursing sore
hand, the result Of an accident while
playing with a BIB. rife.
Pupils are much interested in the
Garden Club and work has already
begun. Plots in the school garden
have been assigned and some planting
has been done.
George, Bacon, Mildred Brown and
Wanda Glayworth of Grade VII cons
tributed to the Parent-Teachers' pro
gram last Monday afternoon.
The motion picture program this
week included the following: Making
a Stetson Hat" and "A Trip Through
Yellowstone Park" A large number
Of patrons were in attendance.
The children are happy to have the
playground apparatus in use again.
1t is hard to tell which is the most
popular, the swings, teeter boards, or
giant strides.
Webster School
Miss Grace Rowe, principal of Web
ster School, left last Saturday for
Washington, D. c., to begin govern
ment work. Miss Ida WEIGH of Grant
School has been transferred to fill the
vacancy.
The following pupils have purchased
War Savings Stamps since our last
report: Grace Raffety, Bob Carbon,
Theodore Allsup, Erma Wood, Byron
Ver Pfoeg, Frederic Johnson, Dorothy
Stump, Esther Yer Slug, Ada Scheuer-
man, Kenneth Wood, Jessie Arkless,
Mildred Patterson, Frank De Board,
Charles Bensmiller, Craig Hanna.
Those who purchased Thrift
Stamps: Frederick Johnson, Erma
Howell, Gladys Hopkins, Mary Dye.
Wauneta Jones, Dorothy Stump, Car
son Hunt, Florence Hook, Esther Yer
Slug, Paul Pinkerton, Arthur Moody,
Mary David, Don Mckinley, Lloyd Will
son, Willie Curry, Billy Walker, Louise
Kentfield, Charles Moore, Gussi De
Long, Walter Daniels, Carl Hoar
Hazel Bryan, Blanche Bollinger, Grace
Bensmiller, Thelma Johnston, David
Fairchild, Clark Bean, Bert Wake
Reta Pearl McOmber, George Hook,
Robert Bensmiller, Dickerey Hopkins,
Dorothy Bish, Mary Hoyt, Walter
George, Helen Yer Ploeg, Milton
Brown, Margaret Scheuerman, Paul
Davis, Aldyne Breneman, Helen Les
ter, Ruby Warren, Marguerite 0key,
Leo Klontz, Harry Reed, Craig Hanna,
Mildred Patterson, Ronald Parsell
John Dulin, Earl Green, Howard
Chrisman, Frank Bowles, Edward
Blatter, Helen Padgett, Charles Bens-
miller, Joe Gasperi, Alice Karle.
The kindergarten has the picture
for the best attendance for the past
month. The sixth grade has the pic
!ture for best attendance in the upper
grades.
Thaysen Curry Of the kindergarten
is improving from his recent throat
operation.
Opal Lock, Mary Padgett, Gus Alb
bott, Leroy Lenhard, Mildred Patter-
son, Helen Lester and Ruby Warren
have returned to school after having
had the measles.
Martha Padgett found the first dam
delion blossom in the first grade,
March 20.
Roland Walker of Grade III moved
to Abba during the spring vacation,
Willie Curry returned to school
Monday after illness of several weeks,
Charles Moore is a new pupil in the
third grade; he comes here from
Bloomfield.
Walter Moore entered Grade ii
Monday.
Henry Rozendal was transferred on
Monday from ii A Webster to ii A
Grant.
Miss Mary Reynolds, Normal Train
ing girl, has been teaching in Grade
II this week.
Ada Reynolds has new Liberty
bond
Ada Reynolds, Frank F'leener,
Florence Howell, Bernice Brown are
out of school, i'll of measles.
Mrs. o. P. Flower has been teach
ing fifth grade this week in the place
of Mrs. Anderson.
Miss Edith Hoffman, principal of
jefferson School, is leader of, the
School and Home Garden Club. She
came over and explained the work of
the club to the pupils on Wednesday,
and as a result many pupils have
joined the club. We have our school
garden plowed, staked off, and will
meet at a. m. Saturday to plant.
The pupils of the Submarines have
finished knitting their blanket and it
will be given to the Junior Red Cross
to be sent to he Belgians.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Harry Johnson
sold to our ward $46.15 in stamps, and
on Thursday, $13.25-a total of $59.40.
Grant School
Mrs. f. B. Wilcox visited kinder
garten Monday morning.
Marion Henness, one of the Kinder
gartners, had the misfortune to
break his arm.
Sixth grade has received three pen
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