The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-08
games popular in China, since they
enioyed Dr.. HeadTand's talk in chapel

games popular in China, since they
enjoyed Dr.. Head1and's talk in chapel
Tuesday. g.
The third grade reading class play
ed Madam Gadski's record The
Walkure", as a summary OF their
reading lesson on Wednesday,.
Willard Ward presented the third
and fourth grade with fine, beautl-
fully colored picture of General Perish
ing.
The fourth grade has some Isaac
Waltons thus early in the season. Our
two Clarences went fishing near the
school farm and caught fifteen fish
Donald Carman was not as lucky at
the Chautauqua grounds, "only one,'
he reports, but was ready with ex-
cuses, as all good fishermen are:
current was too swift" Better luck
next time, Donald.
A very pretty Martha Washington
geranium is frightening Miss Nor
tons room.
The fifth and sixth grades have
modelled the basque flowers in high
relief on the tablets of clay.
One day last week Donald Bateman
set up a burglar alarm in connection
with the door. He made the device
for ringing the buzzer in manual
training and brought his batteries
from home. This wonder was the CEN
ter of attraction for a whole day.
The seven AS elected the following
officers for the spring term.
D,,,;Jopt E,cthor SorOoc
ce-President- Moffitt.
Secretary-Victor Davidson.
Treasurer-Leone O'Neil.
L. w. Zeibel who has been surgeon
at Fort Dodge, has been given the
principalship of a school at Marten,
N. Oak. Mr.. Zeibel expects to be re-
leased from his present work in Au-
gust.
The following girls have been elect
ed for positions next fall:
Alma Onstad, Dickinson, 9th grade.
Anna Holland, Enderlin, 4th grade.
Oma Mahin, Eglend, music and
grade work. -.
Ella Lamb, Glendale, 9Th grade.
Nina Peterson, Lakota, music and
art.
Louise Drahmann, Montpelier, home
economics.
Mary Kahn, Lisbon, home eco
Monies and manual training.
Muriel Coomb, Sherwood, home eco
Monies.
Dean Winthrop's home in Winthrop,
(By Florence Earley)
One of the most interesting things
which saw on a visit to the East was
Massachusetts, suburb of Boston.
John Winthrop of the Massachusetts,
Bay Colony built it in 1649, for his
son, Dean Winthrop, the first COVER
nor Of the town of Winthrop. It is
kept up by a historical society in
Winthrop, and is taken care if by a
woman who lives in it. It is an old
fashioned, white house with beamed
roof.
AS you enter the house, right in the
wall there is a trap door that leads to
the place where the English used to
hide from the Indians in early days.
The passage is very dark and is not
very inviting. "-.
In the basement there is a large
brick archway which is used to hold
the house up. 1t is 50 large that it
takes up a good deal of room in the
small basement.
The kitchen had an old-fashioned
cook stove, but the woman was cook
ing on a modern gas stove. For the
back door there is queer old Dutch
door which is a sort of a double door
You turn one latch and it opens the
top part and you turn the bottom
latch and it opens the bottom part.
In the sitting room there is an ole
fashioned fire place and around it are
many old fashioned things including
some bellows to start the fire with
There is also a case with many his
torical things in it. One Of the things
that thought was so very interesting
was piece of Rose Standish's petit
coat, which was very fancy. 1t wa:
embroidered with great many bright
colors. There were. also many his
torical pictures. On the wall there j:
sign saying, "Please register" 81
before we left the room we registered
n a large book they had.
In the upstairs room there was
great deal of furniture including ;
four-poster bed and an old spinet tina
they used for piano. There was ais
little baby cradle. Most of the fur
niture upstairs was given to the 50
ciety by people who being to it in
stead of being the furniture that orig
;na11v he10nped To the house,