The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-02-14
RIVALRY AMONG WARDS FOR THE
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WEEKLY NEWS OF SCHOOLS
Lincoln and Garfield Will Entertain
Parents Next Week. Excellence
in Writing Rewarded. Bust.
ness Men Talk Thrift
Lincoln School.

ING pupils: Harry Snfago 500; Arlle
McVey 800; Ruth Wentworth 500.
This grade also owns $41.20 of War
Savings Stamps held by the following:
Evelyn Vanderbilt 1864; William
Landmesser 1854; Helen Vanderbilt,
1854.
Lincoln teachers and janitor are
proud of their Red Cross poster with
100 per cent
The Germans have entered Lincoln
School in the form of measles.
Leo Shapera of Second Grade owns
a $50 Liberty Bond.
We are preparing for an entertain
zlment for the benefit of the Junior Red
Cross to be held at the High School
February Is at 1880 p. m. Tickets sell
for ten cents each. Won't you come?
Lloyd Harvey of the Sixth Grade
owns a $50 Liberty Bond.
Eighth B girls are rejoicing over
FIVE weeks perfect attendance.
Grade Five had added two War Saw
ings Stamps and four Thrift Stamps
since the last report.
Garfield School.
Garfield school will unite with Lin
coin school in an entertainment for the
benefit of the Junior Red Cross. The
program will be given at the High
School Wednesday night, Feb. IS.
Pupils of Miss Myers and Miss Har-
din will help entertain the Lincoln
Garfield Parent-Teachers' Association
next Friday afternoon at Lincoln
school r.........
But one child of the Second grade is
without Palmer button. The entire A
class have the Gold Star and the B
Glass with one exception the Silver
Star Primary pin,
Mrs. Saul Morgan visited the First
and Third grades Monday afternoon.
Webster School ~ 5r,.ss
Grade Three has had the BEST At
t,ndance' picture for the lower grades
since the beginning of school in Sep
TENDER. They have patriotic calendar
this month and every day that the at
tendance is perfect is a red letter day.
This has been red letter week.
Mrs. Chester Bryan and Mrs. Rob-
ert Walton were visitors in Grade
Three this week.
Webster school, beat Jefferson
School 4 to l in the Basket Ball game
played February 2, 1918, but was de-
feated by Grant school 26 to 7.
Room has the Best Attendance
Picture" for the upper grades, having
had the same all this school year.
Mrs. Hoyt Beans was a visitor in
Grade VI Monday. The pupils of this
grade have made special study OF
the fuel situation in the United States
The following is our Thrift Record"
to date: Thrift cards II pupils, 5000;
w. S. s., II pupils, $98.SS. Total
amount $149.3S. e..-
Nineteen pupils, of our building own
Liberty Bonds which amount to $500.
Jefferson School
Thirteen first grade pupils have
joined the Junior Red Cross.
The following pupils were awarded
Gold Star Buttons for excellence in
penmanship: Helen Ship, Jack Will
lams, Sylvia Grill. Mabel McMurray,
Helen Chalmers, Gerald Harrison,
Thomas Vroom, Vandora Kelley, Eu-
gene Japson, Dorothy Blake, Roy Ad-
ans, Madge Richmond, Florence Ris-
ney, Doris Evans, Sheridan Hallom,
and Ralph Marcus. The following pu-
Ill, nd ri Cilunr pnttnnC
for excellence in penmanship: Ernest
Chuck, Catherine German, Agnes Hud-
elson, Dorothy Risney, La Verne Shoe
make. ~. Off,.
Irwin and Sylvia Grill have been abb
sent this week on account of death of
their little brother. ..
We are working hard to buy Thrift
Stamps. The Fourth Grade B Class OF
twenty two pupils own twenty-four
Thrift Stamps. In construction work
we made Thrift booklets, in which we
write, each day, something new which
we have learned about the War
Savings Plan. Friday afternoon Mr..
Flewelling gave us a nice talk about
0TlII. - E'.f
The Fourth Grade A Glass has elev-
en- Junior Red Cross Memberships. The
Language lessons on Thrift and the
War Savings Plan are interesting and
helpful. Our room was represented at
the Parent Teachers Meeting Monday |
by the girls who sang group of songs, |
Martha Myers and Martha Barr
have each received Progress Pins. The
Sixth Grade has eight names enrolled
in the Junior Red Cross. Seventh |
Grade has twenty-five w. S. s. and
thirty-three Thrift Stamps placed to
its credit. s
Parent-T Teachers Meeting Monday,
Feb. 4, was a grand success, about fif-
ty mothers and fathers attending;
supt. o. r. Flower was present and
gave talk in which every one was !