The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1920-01-15
SCHOOL NOTES
Editors
MARTIN CESLER
EDITH BEERS

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Johnson.
Normal training examinations on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday OF
this week.
The Osceola High School basket
ball team meets the Leon team on
Thursday of this week.
The semester examinations begin
on Friday of this week and will be
completed next Monday. This post
pOnement was made on account OF
the State Normal Training examina-
tic science in our school: Sne has
Miss Anna Pratt, of Burlingame
Kansas, will arrive at the end of the
week to take up the work in domes-
tic ssience in our school. She has
had four years of successful exper-
fence and comes highly recommend
ed. She is graduate of the Kansas
Agricultural College at Manhattan.
Miss Black, who taught domestic
science in our schools for two years,
has been substituting for two weeks
until we could secure another teach
err.
Leon High School boys basket ball
team played the Decatur team on the
Leon floor last Friday evening and
were defeated by the score OF 5 to 4.
The Leon players were John Sulli-
van, James Hansell, forwards; Clar-
ence LaFollette, center; Clifford Bill
lington and John Springer. guards;
substitute, Wendell ZimmNman.
Mrs. Bryan Robbins is training the
High School girls basket ball team.
Three more High school rooms
have been wired for lights. All the
High School rooms can now be
lighted.
New High School classes next Sc
mester will be commercial law. ZOol-
ogy,' commercial geography, manual
training II, arithmetic, methods.
psychology.
The Parent-Teachers meeting last
Friday evening was we'll attended.
This was a general meeting. The
speaker was Miss Theresa Dansdill,
of Des Moines, and her subject was
"Public Health The association
is very much interested in securing
the services of a school nurse. Miss
Dansdill told how this might be &C
complished. There is no reason why
the Leon schools cannot fall in line
with other schools of the state in
ty is finding a nurse. There are at
the present time more than twenty
five more applications than available
nurses.
The lower grade section of the P
T. A. had their sectional meeting
last Wednesday afternoon. Some
! gifts for playground apparatus were
reported. The Civic Club gave $40
There was also collection of SO
{! Civic Club also donated $40 to the
South School. This section of the
P. T. A. plans to put on an operetts
| in the near future, the funds from
! which will be used to purchase play
ground apparatus.
The physics class is studying cleo
tricity The new lot of apparatu!
received this year makes this worl
very interesting.
! Mrs. Hill visited Miss Epperley'
room Tuesday.
/ Paul Caster and Lulu Shinn wer'
absent from Miss Grogan's room
Tuesday on occount of sickness.
i Mrs. Ellis and little son Raymond
visited Mrs. Roberts room Friday
Marie Snyder entered Mrs Rob
erts' room Monday.
Mrs. Bess Adair visited Fiftl
grade room Monday.
The Sixth grade had a spelling
contest this week. Margaret Louis
Stout and Ella Johnson were tn
champion spoilers.
The Sixth grade pupils finishe.
their physiology coursei this wee]
and will now take up history work
Louis 'Worden returned to schoo
last week after short absence.
Edna Nordyke and Arthur Coffil
were absent from Mrs. Swisher'
room Monday on account OF illness
Semester examinations will b
held in the Seventh and Eight
grade rooms this week.
Several were absent from Mis-
Rumley's room Monday on accoun
of bad colds.
The Seventh and Eighth grade
have been studying their lesson
from charts the past two weeks.
Delphine Marvin and Opal Cla,
are absent from the Fifth grade OF
account of sickness.
Seventh and Eighth grades ar
getting ready for their declamator,
contest work.