The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-10-27
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

October 20.
The report cards were given out
Wednesday.
Last Monday all of the advanced
students in the commercial department
took speed and accuracy test in type
writing over the work they have been
practising on for the past six weeks.
Through a mistake last week Mar
garet Plerson was given the honor of
receiving the highest grade, instead of
Glayds Mutrie, in the cooking test.
Mr.. Cannon has promised the sewing
classes of the high school a new sew.
ing machine, which is much needed
since the number of pupils has in
creased.
Mr.. Fleishman and Miss Phillips of
the high school faculty were absent
from their classes last Friday. and
MISS Blckford Thursday. Mrs. H. G.
Cooper taught for Mr.. Fleishman, and
Mrs. Rowland taught for Miss Bick-
Iord; Miss Baker had charge of Miss
Phllllps morning classes, and her af-
| ternoon classes were dismissed.
Last Friday the local team iourneyed
to Vancouver where they received
| their first defeat of this season bv
score of 81 to z. Vancouver used
heavy line plunging in their main
plays. This gave them considerable
advantage as they outweighed Hood
River who played mostly off.tackle
smashes. James Johnson made Hood
Rivers only touchdown at the end of
the first half and Pat Slavens kicked |
goal. The lineup for Hood River was
James johnson, h Clifford Greene, q
Paul Sletton, f Pat Slavens, r h Will !
lam Swick. e; Joe IseI, ! t; Kenneth
McClain, | g; Russell Wilbur, C; Paul
Huelat, r G; Russell Scobee, r t; Glenn
Greene, e. The substitutes were
Sletton for Greene, Slavens for Sletton. l
Ross Cooper for Slavens, Robert Will Il
bur and Reece Hawthorne.
An assembly of the high school stu
dent body was held last Wednesday at
| o'clock. The regular program under
Mrs. Henney's direction was given as
follows: Piano selections, "Tn the
Swing and robin GoOdfellow" by
Georgiana Slocom; song, 'The Night
lngale, " by trio of freshman girls,
Virgie Oxford, Irene Bower and Lois
Jean Sinclair; recitation, What Some !
body Did. by Ora Mckee; songs, "a
Perfect Day" and "Pal O'Mine" by l
Tom Clarke; reading, columbus,
by Viola Colvin; duet, "Carry Me
Back to Old Virginia, by Jessie Slet- J
,on and Frances Fuller, and a chorus
long, Our Old High" by the boys !
ylee club. d
The workers in the manual training
hop have just completed three book I
ases and two rocking chairs which are h
o be entered in the county fair of v
ext year. Many projects will be com f
'leted in the next few weeks such as n
mall stands, waste paper baskets, Il
andle sticks, one bed, etc. Each stu a
ent who takes manual training for le
redlt is required to make an accurate a
'orkable drawing of each project he Z
lakes. This overcomes the tendency 81
owards making mistakes in cutting q
he stock. fC
During these first weeks of school &C g
he girls in the first class in cooking ~ ~
ave made good progress. They have ~ ~
iken up canning in two ways, the cold - -
ack and open kettle, using peaches ~
nd tomatoes. Some puffy omelets,
aked apples with raisin stuffing, pop DC
1ers, plain and corn meal, mullins, by
iklng powder biscuits, corn fritters, 81
allies, fruit rolls and cocoa and coffee ell
ave all been analyzed as to their be
feet on the body and to their proper cd
They have also analyzed er
e four different kinds of flour and iir
liking powders and their respective ly
fects on the human anatomy. This WI
eek the class is taking up the con- Ht
ructiOn of salads. mi
Mr.. Laraway expects to have the ot ~,
Nor rings and pins ready in about s''
% weeks. AS the material of both
e rings is of l4-karat gold they will tei
doubtedly be entirely satisfactory III
the class. There are 10 juniors Gr
10 are not planning to get the class sta
lblems. ers
The usual plan of having spooky cos
ne parties on Hallowe EN- has been tnt
)ken by the seniors. They are plan the
lg to give hck time party which hrs
~ consider to be as appropriate for the
s occasion. However, this has not eve
IN formally announced. ent
The monthly teachers meeting was al:
d Friday by Supt. Cannon in room | Ppaal'
the high school building. frn ca,
edwin Bryan, a junior in the high \
DOL, has been i'll for the past three ~
eks. ahC