The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-10-11
SCHOOL NOTES


day afternoon.
Inc 18th grade pupils are busy max
ing Columbihe booklets.
Rose Plute of Florence, has recent.
~ enrolled in the 4th grade.
Clara Sunich has returned to school
ai'er an absence of nearly four weeks,
Ward Morrow, John Somrak. and
Frances krizmanich are absent from
school today.
John Yudnich and Tony Gallowicb
nave been absent from the 9Th grade
the past week.
iwo more new pupils for the Sd
grade are Joe PUTT and Mary Alma
fenman of Canon City.
The chemistry department will be
IN possession of their new table soon.
Mr. Stokes is engineering the work.
Frank Zapraysek was absent from
the 4th grade all of last week. be-
cause of an injury received while
playing.
Several of the girls have brought
beautiful plants to the Sth grade
room. These add great deal to the
appearance of the school room.
The 9Th grades are very enthusias-
tic Health Crusaders. Some have
more than seventy Health Chores to
their credit for the past week.
The 4th grade recently received new
language books The children are
very much interested in dramatizing
the stories found in the new books.
Crested Butte high school will put
out debating team this year and
many of us seniors hope to find our
names on the list-watch our column
next week.
The United States Department of
Agriculture sent the 9th grade sew
eral farmers bulletins which will be
used for reference work in the agri-
cultural class.
Mrs. j. NJ Page entertained the
teachers and nurse at her home the
evening of Oct. 8. A number of the
teachers learned to play cards, Mrs.
Tinsley and Page being card sharks.
A pleasant evening was enjoyed by all.
We received our Botany laboratory
supplies some days ago, but just re-
ceived the Geological equipment. We
are all fixed now in the way of labo-
ratory equipment except few chem
ical supplies. These, however, are on
their way
The class ring samples have arrived
and we seniors are busily selecting
our 1924 class rings and pins, due to
the fact that we are the largest SEN
ior class in the history of this school
and we hope to set pace not to be
exceeded by any class to follow.
A nature project for autumn is
being carried on in the I'd grade;
it consists of a study of autumn
leaves This week we are making
booklets in which we expect to write
the poem Come Little Leaves, and
also paste in different kinds of leaves.
Two very complete sets of maps
have been received by the high school
for inspection by the various history
classes. Maps are badly needed for
instruction in American and Ancient
history and it is hoped that these
may be found satisfactory for that
purpose.
The mechanical drawing class this
week is studying projections, and the
use of their instruments such as the
draftman's ruler, linking pens, and
T square. They have completed sew
eral drawings, the necktie rack and
drawing board. We hope to get out
and do some practical work before
long.
Each Wednesday morning the 9Th
grade civics class reports on impor-
tant current events. This week the
pupils are each beginning current
events notebook Good topics of in
terest, pictures and cartoons will be
pasted in these books. This plan of
current event notebooks is becoming
more popular in the upper. grades
each year.
The high school committee, consist
ing of students from the Junior and
Senior classes, arranged an evening
marshmallow roast at the. reservoir,
Thursday evening. They invited the
entire faculty to join their fun, al
though the entertainment was direct
lv intended for the Freshman class.
Every one who attended reported a
good time.