The diamond drill., 1919-03-22

and War Savings stamps in the For
est Park and Maple Grove schools
from March IL to March 20 shows
total Of sl5722. The honors are as
follows:
First
The Assembly $50. SO
Miss Behan's room ........... 3Q.59
End Miss Erickson's room. 49,. 2SS4
Third (Miss Packards room. m... 1897
Honorable Mention
Miss McClellan's room ........ 11.64
Miss lsham's room ............ 1926
The little second and 3rd graders
in the Maple Grove school did very
well with their total Of $4.S5.
On Friday. March rs, the depart
ment pupils will give very interest
ing thrift program in the Forest Park
assembly. The program will consist
OF recitations, musical numbers and
interesting talks, but the crowning
feature will be a debate by the S-As
on this topic: Resolved, That pen
ny saved IS greater than penny
earned.
Several returned soldiers have been
invited to tell of their interesting ex-
periences. Come one; come all. You
are invited.
1t will be great disappointment to
pupils and teachers IL the parents and
other friends of the school do not come
out to hear this program. The boys
and girls have tried hard to make II
a success.
On last Thursday the department
and fourth and fifth grade pupils
gathered in the assembly room to lis
ten to an interesting talk by Mr. Ke-
tunen, member OF the staff of the state
organizer OF boys and girls garden
clubs. Mr.. Ketunen told us OF the
needs for good garden work during
the coming summer and emphasized
the money value OF the products rails
ed by the boys and girls during the
past summer The total amount for
the state was about 100000 OF which
our own garden club contributed
about $4,000 1t is hoped that the 4O,-
600 children of Michigan who planted
gardens last summer will continue
their work this year.
The speaker said that the work of
the boys and girls OF Iron county
showed UP very well when compared
with other counties in the state. Mr..
Ketunen did not forget that "A little
nonsense now and then is rellshed by
the best OF men," and told us funny
story about Harry"
The sal class recently lost one of
its best pupils when Russell Mayors
was allowed to take up work In the
high school and the grading room.
During a previous year Russell had
completed certain extra work which
prepared him for this early promo
tion.
Fred Sensiba, a TAI pupil, has
written the following sketch concern
ing the War Savings stamp society OF
his grade:
The Fores: Park school children
have done a great deal to help Michi-
gan out of the mud. Everybody is do
ing his best to buy Thrift Stamps and
War Saving stamps. Fred Schmid
and William Zdravecky of TAI have
done their "bit" Fred gave $25.25,
and William gave s2626, although
they both had hard time trying to
persuade their parents to let them
take II out OF the bank, The children
are digging in now and it looks as
though Michigan will soon be out OF
the mud.
The following report was sent in
by 6-1:
Uncle Sans Helpers held their
meeting March 13 in room 8. The
meeting was called to order by Lucille !
Williams. A report was made on the
number of stamps sold. Dallas John
son gave talk concerning govern
ment needs. Astrid Benson was ap-
pointed TO read an article at the next
meeting.
Our school has been honored dur
ing the past week by the presence OF
a returned soldier. Corporal II. A.
Tiegs, the only brother OF our princi-
pal, Mr.. II. W. Tlegs. Corporal Tiegs
received his promotion while in the
overseas service. He received his
general military training at Madison
barracks and special training in aer-
ial photography at Rochester, N. ",
and arrived at St Mareni, France, on |