Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-08
EDISON JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOL NOTES

At the close of school yesterday
nine sections had registered one
hundred per cent! in the Edison
Junior High School Red Cross drive.
These sections, in the order in which
they registered one hundred per
cent, are: 9B-9, 9B-2, Obs, SB-2,
SAL, 7B-9, SB-3, TAP and 7B-7. No
statistics were available for the 9TH
er thirty-one sections of the school,
but indications are that they are re-
spending literally. The faculty has
registered one hundred per cent.
One member who had been in over
seas service said: Il will always an
swer to the call of the Red Cross
for 1 know what it did for the boys
overseas and how efficiently it met
all calls thmat were made upon it,"
A recent election in section SAL
resulted in the election of the fol-
lowing officers: President, Craig
Williams; vice-president, Beulah
Amspach; secretary, Gladys Bolan;
assistant secretary, Grace Enterline;
treasurer, William Barnhart, assist
ant treasurer, Ralph Messersmith;
class captain for boys, Ralph Gle
land; lieutenant for boys, John Nc
Kenie; class captain for girls, Flea
nor Wagner; lieutenant for girls,
Miriam Macdonald; parliamentary
critic, Isabel Whitmeyer; assistant
parliamentary critic, Francis Russ;
watch your speech critic, Anna
Knupp; assistant watch your speech
critic, Marie Slough.
During auditorium exercises the
students practiced a few yells for the
game to-day. They were led by Karl
Barth and six other boys. Cheer
leaders will be elected next week.
During the auditorium exercises
yesterday Better English Week"
came to a climax in the presentation
of two playlets, entitled 1.-The Cor
rect Speech School" and "The Mys-
terious Thirteen" composed and
staged by Miss Julia Ryan, with the
assistance of Miss Ella Ryan.
IN the correct speech school, Mr..
Heagy, of section Obs, played the
part of Mr.. English, who was mas
ter of the school. Eleven boys who
a job, but not to hold one applied
to Mr.. English for instruction in
good English in order that they
might hereafter hold the job and
advance.
The boys who played the part of
the scholars in search of good
English were: Albert Millar, Fred
Webster. Leon Nieman, Russell
Free, Theodore Selig, Joseph Gimper,
George Snyder, Laurence Hess,
George Bennett, Karl Barth, Tru-
man Thompson.
Mysterious Thirteen" vas a play
in which girls represented thirteen
bad English" mice charmed by a
fairy dancer. But the Good En-
glish" cat got them and laid them
all low and then brought them back
to life when she found that they
would speak good English. The en-
tire. play was set to music. Mary
Collins, a ninth grade girl. presided
at the piano. Eliza June Shupp was
the Fairy Dancer" The Good
English cat was Anna Mary Moog.
The rest of the cast were girls from
the seventh and eighth grades. Judg-
ing from the fact that the students
admit that they never realized that
they were butchering English so
much, the campaign has been a sue
cess and should bear good fruit
throughout the school term.
Section OBJ rendered short lit
erary program after they had con-
Quoted the routine business of the
home room activity period yester-
dav The program consisted of rec
itaticns bv Miss Genevieve LingIe
and Miss Leona Hopes and chorus
singing bv the entire section. The
vica- -nresidenf. Miss Lingle. nresided.