The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-03-28

Bernice Kinkade, Normal Trainir
| Student of o. III. s. visited Grade II
lClass B, this week.
i Grades w and v had a good tim
n this week cleaning the school var
ut was a willing crowd that worke
and the grounds now show the result
of their labor.
Next Monday afternoon at four o
clock the following film be exhibite
at our regular Motion Picture program
Goal and Coke Industry" Making
Modern Shoe" and "A Visit to tn
Zoo" This win be very interesting
| program, and will be used to supple
ment our regular Geography and Ian
guage Glasses,
From time to time Safety First
bulletins are exhibited in our hall ant
school rooms. These posters silently
carry the message Pupils are always
anxious TO see what the next one has
10 say, and il is not long before every
one. has read 1t.
Webster School.
Marjorie Bean, who has been at
tending school in Des Moines has en-
tered Webster Kindergarten.
Two-thirds of the Kindergarten
children own War Saving Stamps or
Thrift Stamps. David Fairchild from
Clinton and John Caldwell from Fair.
field have entered the First Grade.
Miss Toy of the Normal Training
class visited First grade ON Thursday
morning and taught classes Friday
morning very satisfactorily.
Miss Coffman visited Second Grade
Wednesday morning and heard recita-
lions on Thursday,
Mrs. Carbon, Mrs Yer .Ploeg and
Mrs. Breneman were visitors this
week
The contest between the Submar-
ines and Dreadnaughts continues. The
Submarines are ahead this week in
Penmanship Awards, Alice H. Karle
having been granted a diploma while
Charles E. Bensmiller and Marguerite
Okey were each awarded certificates.
The Submarines also have the high.
est per cent of attendance thus far
this month as well as excelling in the
Arithmetic Test. Mildred Patterson. a
Submarine, acted as editor this week.
The following have invested in
Thrift Stamps since our last report:
Aldyne Breneman, Helen Lester. Ruby
Warren, Earl Green, Edward Batter,
Joseph Gasperi, Helen Padgett, Rom
aid Parsell, Gilbert Reynolds, Mildred
Patterson, Alice Parks, Grace Rafferty,
Charles Forche, Milton Brown, Mary
Kalbach, George Hook, Alice Pitt,
Harold Moody. Paul Raffety, Eliza.
beth Ridgway, Jack Hook, Hazelle
Bryan, Carl Hoar, Grace Bensmiller,
Erma Wood, Kenneth Wood, John
Thomas, Esther Yer Steeg, Dorothy
Stump, Arthur Moody, Florence Hook,
Mary David, Erma Howell, Paul Pin
kerton, Ada Scheuermann, Don Nc
Kinley, Audrey Ridgway, Zelda En-
inert, Doron Warren, Harry Caring,
Dolph Malone, George Bowles, Lydia
Duerr, Helen Knox, Alyce Brene-
man, Evaline Raffety, Paul Peterson,
Katherine Walker, Leola Clark, Jean
cite Boals, Godfrey Bennett, Fran
els Anderson, Catherine Notch, Har
old Sehuermann and Harry Green.
War Savings Stamps have been pur.
chased during the past week by Ron
aid Parsell, Paul Davis, Helen Lester,
Mary Kalbach, Bob Gallon, Florence
Howell, Hazelle Bryan, Leroy He'd
lund, Ruth Winnemore, Harry Green
and Leola Clark. s.~...
Grant School
The penmanship awards for this
week were: Progressive Pins-Ruth
Edris, Basil Crist, Frances Matthew.
Earl Caldwell; Improvement Certifi-
Gates lola yanderwal, Margaret Bri-
ley, and Eva Critchlow; Buttons Ho-
mer Moore and Victor Hovey.
Miss Erwin and Miss Clendenon
have been .hoeing tulips this week.
We can see them grow.
The teachers of the first four grades
are certainly wide awake. A little ar
ticle appeared in the Herald concern.
ing the Tussock moth Immediately a
campaign for the gathering of co.
coons was started. The result is as
follows: Fourth grade 766; Third
grade $50; Second grade 4S2 and First
grade 100.
Mrs. ]. A. Dewitt visited sixth grade
Monday.
The children very generously re
sponded to the call for the relief OF
the Belgians Beryl Richmond and
Dodds Larimer volunteered TO take
the package to the Winters Building
They took two big loads.
Jack Maxwell and Robert Bamford
were our reporters last week.
Mrs. Doggett visited third grade or
Thursday afternoon.
Dorothy Jacobs is moving near Ere
mont
Donald Merchant moved into Fiftf
Ward
Warren Teter has been absent due
to illness
Ruth Maxwell has returned n