Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-02-18
OUT OUR EAST WINDOW.
tBob Writer Says)

All the mump patients from the
neighboring buildinp on the east. in
cluding Miss Barham, having return
ell to their duties in the schoolroom,
everything would be going along i'm
about its usual way except for tho
fact that the Seniors, not being con-
tent with doing things rs underclass-
men do insisted upon taking their
vacations in n different way, two of
them already having spent few
days at home enjoying interesting
attacks of the pink eye, which, we
are told. may be due in part to the
regular attendance ut chapel of a
canine student who is strongly sus-
pected of possessing an optical organ
OF that particular hue, and may he
due in part to II natural resentment
on the part OF the Seniors that the
mumps, beinr poorly distributed, did
not even get around among the othr-
er three classes supplying each mem
Der with one mump apiece.
We have often been asked why we
didn't take our Record of the March
of Progress with us and move into
larger and more commodious quart
ers, such as no doubt would beiit the
dignity of such local institution as
ours, but we are firmly convinced
that so long as basket ball games
continue to be played occasionally on
the courts at the rear of our work
shop and there seems to be just lots
of things about the press that need
attention on those particular after
moons, we would find it hard in an
other building TO satisfy our press
man with the perfectly substantial
wage which he now receives, because
of the superior conveniences which
the present location affords.
Now that mid year cxame are cover
and gone" as friend of ours play
fully puts it, one teacher informs us
that she is daily being bcseiged with
questions from the anxious pupils as
to just how long they must wait be-
fore the February tests will begin
which. Judging from our own rich
experiences dating back to the time
when we too were blithe and happy
school boy, is chiefly for the purpose
of creating an impression of intense
| interest in their work in the hope
that it might possible accrue to theii
benefit when the report cards bearing
the teachers numerical opinion oi
them are handed out.
FOR some days we have noticed
the boys wandering about at noon.
and recesses without Il solitary thing
to do to amuse themselves, and W,
suppose that since the groundho}
didn't see his shadow and there ism
going to be any more snowballinf
thi syear. Prof. Bobbitt and the teach
ers will have an awful time trying
to find work for idle hands TO do un
til marble season begins.
| The hot school lunches which tn
Domestic Science department ha
been experimenting with for the pas
| few weeks are attaining quite a lit
tie success. which is due, very likely
to the fact that the chief daily con
tainer of the heat, or the "picce d
resistance" as the hotel menu woul
state it, is cocoa every day, and o
days when there isn't cocoa. soup.
And so long as the local boys con
tinue to defeat Wittens Mills to tn
tune Of nineteen to eleven or there
abouts. we will be perfectly willin
to put up for short hour with tn
incidental bloodcurdling warhoop
with which these events are usual
. attended.
, The good results of the introdut
tion Of regular spelling classes in tn
high school have already been nt
ticed, according to Miss Anita Gille.
Ipie, although one Of the Freshme
:, still insists on spelling knife with
capital N. .,.