The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1922-02-17
NUMBER s
YALOBUSHA COUNTY
GIVES HER FIELD
MEET PROGRAM
Program for County Field Day
to be Held at Oakland Thurs.
day And Friday, March 10th
And 18th.

At a meeting of the teachers Of
the county held at Coffeeville Satur-
day, the following program for field
day was adopted:
Literary Events
General Rules: The literary events
will be divided into junior and senior
sections and so arranged that honors
will be divided among the larger town
schools, consolidated schools, and one
and two teacher schools. Junior
events consists Of contests among
grammar school pupils and senior
events of contests among high school
pupils. Only one pupil from a school
will be permitted to enter any contest.
Such contestant must be bona fide
student of the school from which he
or she enters and must have attended
school 80 days during the session. In
the case of the town schools an ad-
ditional requirement of not less than
rs per cent general average in class
room work was added to the above
requirements. The words "honest
effort, were substituted for the rs
per cent average in the rural and
consolidated schools. All teachers
expecting to enter pupils in any Of
he literary events will please notify
Miss Lerline Billingsley, Oakland,
Miss, one week in advance of the
meet, giving names and grades of
such pupis. The following are the
literary events:-
Thursday night-reading and de.
clamation contests, junior contestants
limited to 5 minutes each and seniors
to 10 minutes each.
Friday morning-speed and accuracy
tests will be given pupils from rural
and consolidated schools. These tests
will be based on Monro's Measure
nent of Ability Tests and will con-
ist of easy mechanical problems an6
1uest'ons that will test the pupils
1bility for speed and accuracy In
geography, spelling, reading and
arithmetic. from the. 4th to 8th grade.
Town school contestants in both the
iunior and senior divisions will cover
work that has been done during the
Trst part Of the present session.
runior contests will be held in geo.
yraphy arithmetic and spelling in
-rades from 4th to 9Th, and one
unior composition. subject to be Sc
ccted at the meeting. High school
contests will be held in Algebra,
geometry, earlv progress, modern
progress, and American history. also
me senior composition, subject to be
elected.
Athletics
General Rules: The athletic
events will also be divided into JUNIOR
and senior divisions, the junior sec
ion consisting of pupils be.ow 10
years of age and the senior section
IF pupils Is years and above. Other
general rules are the some as those
for literary events. Athletic con-
ests will be held on Friday afternoon.
All teachers expecting to enter pup
Is should notify Mr.. H. G. Ramsey,
Oakland, Miss, one week in advance
Of the meeting.
The contests will be as follows
Relay race for boys, junior and
senior, four.
80 yd. dosh for junior boys and junior
girls.
IS yd. dash for senior girls.
100 yd. dash for senior boys.
so yd. race for junior and senior
boys.
Running broad jump, same.
Standing broad jump, same.
Running high jump, same.
Egg race for girls.
Potato race for girls and junior boys.
Tug of war, etc. as time permits.
Basketball game between Coffeeville
High School and A. H. s.
Basketball game between two con-
solidated school teams to be de-
cided.
A basket dinner will be furnished
by the town of Oakland on Friday.
It is suggested bv the Teachers
Association. however, that others
bring baskets to supplement the
hospitality of the people of Oakland.