The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-05-11
NORMAL NEWS NOTES

NORMAL NEWS NOlES
The Model School children have
been planting their gardens this week.
The general supervision of the work
falls to the Agriculture Department
under the direction of Mr.. E. j. Calf
ney, but the critic teachers and the
cadets assist in supervising the actual
planting. The school gardens are q
regular part of the school work and
have proven themselves very profit
able both in the output and the by
product of lessons learned.
Mr.. Everett Davis spoke before the
Parent Teachers Association at Ia
gus last Saturday evening.
Miss Elsie J. Cook spent the week
end with her parents at Fessenden.
The Scouting Glass taught by Miss
Lulu Potts, Director of Physical Train
ing, enjoyed hike to Oak Park last
Tuesday and breakfast cooked and
eaten in the open. A series of six
hikes, each of greater length are plen-
ned for the course. A group of the
class are responsible each time for
the preparation Of a wholesome meal,
thus putting into practice their les
sons in outdoor cookery. The mem
bers of this class are being trained
for leaders of Boy Scouts or Girl re-
serve Groups. The young men of the
class attend local scout meetings re-
gularly each week and assist the local
scout masters in their work.
Miss Chrissie Bulge, Secretary of
the Normal School, spent weeks va
cation with her parents at Grand
Forks. Miss Laura Cotton was in
charge of the Office during Miss
Budge's absence.
The Parent Teachers Association of
the Normal Training School held it's
regular meeting at the gymnasium on
the afternoon Of May 3rd. The pro-
gram included health drill by pupils
of the first grade with Miss Mae Row.
ley, Primary Critic directing; read
ings by Miss Dorothy Whitson, piano
Mrs. Simpson; and
address by Miss Mae Belle Adamson,
Red Cross Public Health Nurse. Miss
Adamson recently conducted the
health inspection in the Training
School and gave report on the same
with helpful suggestions for dealing
with defects found. At the. business
meeting, reports were given of. the
sessions of the Parent Teachers sec
ton of the Teachers Association re-
Gently held in Minot. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. F. ]. Pepke and
Harry Conklin.
Dr.. Adelaide Woodward, a medical
missionary in India, was the Assem-
ly speaker on Friday. She was dres-
sed in the costume of the native Indian
woman and spoke in very interest
ing manner of the lives and customs
of the people among whom she works.
She also read an essay on The Horse,
written in English by an Indian boy,
which illustrated some of the difficult
ties Of expression in a foreign Ian
guage.
Rev. G. L. White was the speaker
at the regular meeting of the Y. W..
c. A. and took for his theme, The
Great Hunger (by Johann Boyer.)
The leader for the afternoon was Miss
Hattie Olson. A piano duet was
played by the Misses Lucille Maier and
DeMaris Kelly. These same young
ladies played the Accomplishments for
the hymns also, Miss Kelly at the
piano and Miss Maier on the cornet
President and Mrs. L. H. Beeler
entertained at six o'clock dinner on
Friday evening at their home on
Fourth St. N. w. The following
guests were hidden. Mr.. and Mrs.
Everett Davis, Misses Eleanor C. Bry-
son, Grace Nebold and Lulu Potts.
Covers were laid for eight.
Plans are progressing splendidly
for the Annual Commencement held
the week of June IL to 16, 1922. The
exercises include the following events.
Baccalaureate Sermon, June II; DR..
r. A. Beard Of Fargo.
Reception by the President and Fa-
Guilty, June 18th. .:
Glass Play, She Stops to Conquer,
June 18th.
Model School Commencement. June
18th. Il.
Normal School Commencement,
June 18th. Address by Lewis w.
Crawford, "The Frontiers of Ro-
NANCE ";
Glass Day Exercises, June 18th, at
nine thirty A. M.
Federal Staten Shipped 275,O00 Trees