Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-03-23
PATRONS DAY
ON FRIDAY
SECOND OF 1920 TERM WILL BE
OF GREAT INTEREST TO ALL
PATRONS
PRIZES FOR BEST BIRD HOUSE
All Citizens Are Invited To Come and
Note Progress

Friday afternoon of this week will
be Patrons Day at the Bonners Fer
ry schools, the second one of the
term, and all patrons and everyone
interested in school work in any part
of the county, are invited to attend.
The first Patrons Day was held
last fall and now that several months
have intevened. there will be an
opportunity for those who attended
last fall to note the Improvement and
advancement of the students in the
various grades and departments.
The trustees and faculty Of the
Bonners Ferry schools feel that these
Patrons Days not only create more
interest in the public schools on the
part of the older folks but that they
encourage the pupils to greater and
increased efforts.
Following is the program which will
be rendered Friday:
1:10-2:30-Regular work in the grade
building. Inspection of exhibits
and Art display in the grade build.
ing.
Military drill by high
school boys; calesthenics drill by
high school girls; physical culture
drill by grade boys.
3:00-4:00-EducationaI film and BIZ
optical views in high school audi
torium.
5:00-Inspection of high school
building. Home economics and man
ual training exhibits, high school
building. Bird house contest in
high school building. Light re-
freshments, domestic science room.
One of the events of this Patrons
Day will be the exhibition of bird
houses and the awarding of prizes.
Three judges will be appointed and
the following prizes, arranged for
by A. ]. Kent, will be given: i,
First prize ..........................-. SO.
Second prize a............................. 200
Third prize ................................ 1.50
Fourth prize ............................. 100
Fifth prize rs
Plans are now being made to form
a bird protective association in the
grade and high school. A day viii
be set apart in the near future known
as the Bird day. At this time es-
says will be written relative to the
bird problem of this county, discus
sions given and the organization per-
fected. Song birds are destroyed
in North Idaho by cats, hawks, eng
ish sparrows and boys who stone
birds or rob their nests. Statistics
show that house cat will catch on
the average so song birds a year.
In the east birds average a pair to
the acre but in the arid regions of the
west they average a pair to every
two acres. In this county of ours
which is natural paradise for birds
we have perhaps two pair to the
acre but this number can be in
creased ten fold if the boys and girls
will band together for the protection
of the robin, the meadow lark, gross
beak, oriole, chicade, house wren, blue
bird, humming bird and other beauti-
full birds found in this county. To
promote the bird protective associa-
tion and to create interest on the
part of the pupils in our own school
and any others who are willing to
join the association, this contest has
been arranged. 'Twenty-seven bird
houses have been constructed and
will compete fer the prizes, Every
citizen in this community should be
present on Patrons day and see the
bird houses.