Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-02-15
School Notes.

The children of Grade five are now
selecting seeds and shrubs for their
home gardens.
All pupils taking the home music
work for credit should bring their
statements to the Office this week. :
Grade three has received letters
from the third grade in Barton. These
letters are to be answered soon. In
this way the pupils keep in touch
with children of other communities.
Orleans high school won the bas-
ket-ball game with the ST. Johnsbury
Independents last Thursday evening,
81 to 8. IF the boys can maintain
the pace set in that game they will
make good record.
The first and second girls teams
played a three-period game which
was won by the former by the close
score of "a to %. This shows that
the first girls will have to look out
for their laurels to hold first place.
All the pupils in the schools were
weighed Friday. Practically ali Of
them showed the amount of gain to
be expected of growing boys and
girls. A number, however, are still
underweight.
The pupils of the fifth grade have
been very much interested in taking
up the study of silk culture and the
study of leather. Many specimens of
each have been obtained and studied.
They are now taking up the study of
the aeroplane.
The motion picture, "Back to the
Farm" was shown to the pupils of
the school on Thursday of last week.
In the picture the children saw the
great. benefits of electric power on
| the farm; how it changes drudgery
into pleasurable work and makes the
farm more profitable.
They were shown the two types of
electric plants; one making electri-
city by water power and the other by
| steam engines.
The pupils of the sixth grade are
| taking up the study of famous men
Thus far the following have been
studied: Mendelssohn, Chas. Dick
ems, Thomas Edison and Abraham
Lincoln. Several of Mendelssohn's
best-known selections as, "The Spring
Song," Midsummer Nights Dream
and con. the Wings of Song" were
played on the Victrola. In the study
of Lincoln, "The Perfect Tribute" by
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
was read.
| Few of the high school pupils
would have recognized the upper hal
of the school building Friday morn.
ing. A portion of it had been trans
formed into pleasing arcade
through the center of which ran 9
long banquet table. Red and white
the colors of the school, and of the
Valentine season, were tastefully US
ed in decorating the hall which com
bined the same color scheme in the
candle shades, place cards and menu
cards, all made an appropriate set
ting for the gala occasion.
The event was the 18th commence.
ment anniversary CD of the classes
of 1922 and 1923. At z o'clock a de-
licious six-course banquet was serv-
ed to over 80 guests, Throughout
the evening music was furnished by
an invisible orchestra. The last
course was followed by several af-
ter-dinner speeches, musical selec-
lions and impromptu toasts and thus
closed the three hours at the banquet
table.
After social half hour of mod.
efn and oldfashioned dancing, the
advanced English classes who haC
planned the event and the home eco
Monies classes of 1924 and 1925, who
had served the dinner went home feel
ing that their project had been &
grand success.