The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-03-22
NEWSY NOTES OF
 CLIFTON SCHOOLS
cHRONICtINGS OF EVENTS OF EDUCATIONAL INTEREST AZ. FECTING PATRONS AND PUPILS OF CLIFTON SCHOOLS.

The following is a statement of Thrift Stamps sold by the different schools to date:
 Eighth grade, 453; Seventh grade 39O; High school, 342; North Clifton. 131; South Clifton, 1897; Shannon Hill, 20; Total, 2733, or $6s3 .OO worth.
 Francisco A. Velasco of the Sixth grade, South Clifton building, won the Kodak, the prze offered in the recent contest in making series of drawings illustrating The Manufacture of Copper"
 Miss Fuckers fifth grade class spent Friday afternoon pfcknfcking in the Wards Canyon, due to winning 4S stars by having neither an absence nor tardiness for forty-eight half school days. This is their third pic nfc this year.
 The girls of the Seventh and Eighth grades and the high school have prov ed to be of great assistance to the women of the town in Red Cross work. A schedule has been arranged by which the girls of each grade go to the auditorium for from one to two hours each day and help with the cut ting and folding of bandages and pduS. OOll6 Ol LuG SlTlS nave ed considerable skill in the work and are able to turn out as much work as the more experienced helpers.
 The principals of the high schools of the State have been appointed to enroll the boys between sixteen and twenty-one in the-United States Boys Working Reserve. Nation wide pub licity is being given to the movement in order to organize the boys into a potent factor in relieving the short age in labor on the farms. Several of the high schaol boys have volun- teered for the movement and they will be enrolled this week and their names sent to Lindley B. Orme, Fed eral. State Director, at Phoenix.
 Offers Prizes in Stamp Sales
 MT. Murphy, the genial janitor of the schools, has made most liberal offer to the students ofthe high school. He will award three prizes of five, three and two dollars, respectively, to the students selling the most thrift stamps. This offer has proved an incentive to the pupils to sell Thrift Stamps and has created spirit of competitor among students of differ ent grades.
 In the Eighth grade, Blanche Baker is working for Students Certificate and four others have received prog ress pins for Palmer penmanship work.
 The students of Gregg shorthand are developing great speed on familiar matter, over two hundred words per minute having been written by the following: Emma Risdon, Agnes Clark and Manuel Duran.
 Instead of the students certificates which is uSually aimed at after a years work in shorthand, our stu dents will take the examination for the Gregg teachers certificate. This examination comprises a rigid test on all principles, and entities the holder to teach the subject in any state in the Union. The examination will be held about the first of May. George E. Colby, Cartoonist-
 The last number of the Redpath Lyceum Course will be given at the auditorium Tuesday evening, March 26th, 1918, when Colby, the Cartoonist will give one of his famous perform ances.
 MT. Colby is a cartoonist and hum- orist of the highest quality and will please. any audience. The Kansas City Times says: MT. Colby's pic lures are worth seeing, while his talk is interesting and funny, as well as instructive"
 The Chicago Tribune says: "Re- markable for combining in his treat ment, strength, sentiment, delicacy and a nameless charm"
 Colby is simply great"
 Admission: Adults, 50 cents: chill dren. 25 cents Come and laugh, bring the children, they will laugh with you.