The Topeka state journal., 1921-12-10

son. George Bishop AND Edd Wood.
The first round of the intercIass
| basketball games closed Wednesday.
December Z. The standing of the
classes are as follows:
Won. Lost.
oehlOiS
juniors ....z
SOphomCreS
Freshmen 20
Mr.. Cock announced in the bulletin
| for Dseem Der 6 that all boys wishing
| to throw snowballs should go to the
state house grounds. This rule is to
| hold good thruout the winter. AS
( the streets md sidewalks are for the
| public use, students must take their
amusements where they will not in
terfere with passersby.
The cast for the senior play. The
Fortune Hunter has been chosen.
| The tryouts were held Thursday. De-
cember ! The cast is large number.
/ ing fourteen boys and five girls The
cast that has been chosen includes
I the following:
Nathaniel Duncan. n............ Perce Harvey
Henry kellog. Robert Myers
George Buruham. ..--.-.... William semple
James Long. g.-.--...-....... oliver Sned1ker
Robbins -.DelbeFt Boutwell,
Larry Miller ...........-........
Willie Bartlett .......... Clarence Gossard
Roland Barnett. ........ Harold Rethmeyer
! Sam Graham. m............... Oliver Snediker
Mr. Lockwood .--.-,.--.... Don Halnes
Tracey Tanner. Harold Seely
! Pete Willing Wilbur Naylor
Betty Graham. Minerva Garrett
Josephine Lockwood. ..... Edna PePpmeyer
Hebsie slocum cWattv) rie;.P ma1SIe Coie
Melissa Parsons (HD -. Charlotte Kessler
The plans for the alI-schooI party
] a Qr-n oTaf1
committees have nearly completed all
| arrangements for a highly successful
| party. The affair is one of the out
standing events of the school year and
will be given December 16.
The Christmas froIie of the senior
! sub-senior classes will be given De
| cember q. The party will be one OF
the pretentious social affairs of the
| high school season. Extensive Christ
mas decorations and favors will be
| used.
The first hour physics I class was
| entertained with a few experiments
with liquid air performed by Mr..
| Richards. the instructor, Tuesday, De-
| cember 6. The liquid air used was the
remainder # that used by Mr.. Rich
ards in his lecture tt the officers and
| employees ana their friends at the To-
peka Electric company Monday night.
! The experiments were novel and spec
| tacular. They were of great value to
/ the class, whose work at this time is
devoted to the subject of heat.
The senior play to be given next
month will have one of the most ex-
| tensive sets of scenery ever attempted
by class. a great many pieces of
| furniture as well, as numerous drops
and other stage fittings will be neces-
sary. The name of the senior play is
| The Fortune Hunter"
The students in the art department
are making beautiful Christmas gifts
They are jessoing boxes to be used
| for needlework, candy or fruit and
| artistic picture frames for copies Of
/ famous paintings. Batik is being used
to great advantage in designing table
! runners, collar and cuff sets and
doilies. Delightful creations in bags.
pillows and lamp shades in batik OF
fers delightful variations in tones and
values.
One of the novel features of the all
school party will be the stunts pre-
( sented by the various classmen with
| the aid OF their faculty advisers. AS
] the freshmen and sub-freshmen have
no advisers. a committee was selected
| TO act as temporary advisers. The
teachers aiding the first year students
are: Miss Wolfe, Miss Boyles, Miss
Tomson and Miss McCauley.
The prizes for the November con-
| test of the Remington Typewriting
! Co. were awarded Monday, December
! 5. Gold medals were the first prize,
but no one received a medal because
the contestant must first win a leather
card case. The second prizes were
! the leather card cases. Forty words
minute without mistakes We're the re-
! qufrement for this prize. A certificata
was thethird prize. Thirty-five words
a minute must be written without mis-
takes for this award.
T. E. Blackwell. of the National
Cash Register Co, spoke to the sales
manship class on Tuesday, November
%. He gave some startling facts
about the high prices since the last
war. Mr.. Blackwell said, THE ques-
tton OF today is DO you want to keep
taking the old salary, or do you want
to become more efficient and get a
watchword Of the day in the retail
business. To be a good salesman one
must know his goods and also the
| remainder OF the stock. Every sales
person should make a good appear
ance and be on time.'
I The weekly meeting of the student
council of T, H. S. was held Tuesday.
December 6. The chairman of the
| all-School party committee renorfad
that nearly all of the party plans had
| been completed.
The council nominated the following
persons for king and queen of the all
school party:
King. Queen.
| PeTce p Harvey Frances ESteriy
| JOY Bulls Virginia Miller
Albert T. Dyal Edna Peppmeyer
1 OF the 23S students. whose names
| appeared on the honor ron, IT re-
| ceived grades of a. One hundred and
| fifteen received the next highest hon
or with no grade below B. One hum
dred and six received an average