El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-17

Ischool as a unit Of the reserve officers
training corps and told OF the efforts
OF the corps to have a training camp
Of two weeks IN the Ruidoso noun
tains- Miss Katherine Flynn gave a
resume OF the work OF the entire
school year
/ Madame Jean Willard sang. accomp-
anied by George Daland. Little Anna
] Douglass Evans played plano selec-
] ton.
/ Plans were discussed by the assocla-
/ tion for the beautifying OF the school
I grounds, the first work 10 be IN
] identifying the terrace. The hydrants
are being put in at present and so
I viii make possible the work
/ Following the program and IN
stalaltion OF officers, a social hour
was enjoyed and tea was served by
/ Miss Margharetta LeBaron. assisted
[ by the girls OF the domestic science
department
The annual May play festival Of
Morehead school which was taken
part In By mothers. teachers and
pupils OF the school who represented
all the nations OF the earth was
held on the school wan Friday
night from 7-3o TO @ o'clock From the
grand march in which nearly 1000
peOpel took part. 10 the closing num-
Der on the program. there was no re-
taxation in the fun and interest
One OF the most interesting features
OF the evening was the Happy Fam
Ivy consisting Of a neero mammie
and her II children. Miss Laura
Lovett. the Norehead history teacher
took the part OF the mammie. The
children ranged from the 1s-m0uth
pickaninnv in Its mammie's arms, 10
the sfE-L0or-lad- There was the
Chinese maid who went arm In arm
with the overseas boy Mrs Mary
Russell made a hit as a French gentle
man and Miss Vida Putnam was an
interesting young soldier Just home
from France and wearing wound
stripes. Miss Lucille was a lovely
pierrette, Miss Mary Pool made an
attractive Dolly Warden maid, Miss
Nancy and Minna Edwards repre-
seIfted ballet girls, Miss Eula Brown
was a dairy maid and Miss Edith
Rogers a country girl
The fancy dancing was under the
direction OF Miss Nancy Edwards and
Mrs Fred Plukett. There were the
dancing fairies, the brownies, Span
fish girls the Highland lassies and
snake dances. School boys took the
made attractive soldiers. One OF the
most popular features OF the program
was the animal show, put on by the
high seventh grade
The mothers OF the children added
to the fun Of the evening BY selling
The proceeds Of the festival went TO
the support Of II French orphans
adopted by the Norehead school.
"Ths fastest typist IN the world.
L Hossfield. demonstrated before the
student body at the high school
assembly period Friday. Alr. Hoss-
fields record OF 143 words a minute,
with no errors for one hour. on IN
familiar material exceeds last years
record Of 135 words a minute The
champion demonstrated to the pupils,
giving valuable points and advice on
how 10 operate a typewriter In his
one-minute tests he wrote l26 words
a minute with one error on unfamiliar
matter. 246 words a minute on
memorized sentence. and the last he
allowed the students TO ask him ques-
tions while he wrote. and answered
every question making 156 words a
minute.
The fifth period salesmanship class.
under j. 2. Gilkey. was entertained
by r A. Farrell. Friday, who lectured
on craftsmanship. Mr.. Farrell whose
many years experience enabled him
to talk on such a subject interesting
y. gave many valuable points 20 the
class. and. his talk being both educa-
tioua1 and interesting, was enjoyed
very much.