The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-03


 Iris "The Star Spangled Banner they're trying to sing,
 But they don't know the words of the precious old thing.
 Hark, "the twilight's last gleaming' has some of them stopped, But the valiant survivors press for ward serenely
 To "the ramparts we watched" wEen
 some others are dropped, And the loss of the leaders is manifest keenly.
 Then "the rockets red glare gives the bravest scare, And there's few left to face "the bombs bursting in air" 'Tis thin line of heroes that manage to save
 The last of the verse and "the home of the brave."
 From Normal Instructor
 William Laurie won the arithmetic speed test we had several days ago.
 Leila Wilcox, Maurice Storey and Adolph Smith have been doing espe- cially good work in writing during the past two weeks, and the papers of many others show great improvement We had saving some of the old lan- guage and spelling papers and the other day we distributed them for com parison with later papers. The boys and girls feel that they can do much better writing now as they have tried very hard.
 One of the new songs we are learn ing is called "The Little Chickadee.' ''
 The other day William was asked the meaning of the word "palace." He started to say, "A palace is a big cas- tle" But he said, "A callace is big pastle."
 Section One was lined up for oral spelling. Several pupils had passed toward the head of the class making a very compact line and leaving lit tie elbow room. Hoping for relief Adolph raised his hand, and hesitating for the right word, said, Its a-it's too tight here!"
 From this time on our school work IS to begin at nine sharp. The last bell begins to ring at one minute of nine and stops at nine. Pupils not in the room at nine o'clock are counted tardy. Afternoon work begins prompt Iy at on o'clock.
 The little people are trying to see how many of them can have "clean records" for the month. Quite a num- Der were neither absent nor tardy last month.
 We have been studying the drill sheets in arithmetic sent from the Jul neau office. Just now we are using '"Thompsons Minimum Essentials In grading the work both accuracy and speed count. Last week we had a written test. Leila Wilcox handed in a hundred per cent paper Gin ac, curacy) at the end of seven minutes Gwendolyn Brimmer Maurice Storey and Milton Pratt also had all answers correct Gwendolyn finished her pa per in eight minutes and the boys in eight and one-haIf minutes. Betty Weedin used only five and one-half minutes on her paper with an ac' curacy grade of 97; Roy Holdiman six and one-half minutes, accuracy 9S; William Laurie six minutes, accuracy 95.
 The following had grades above ninety but took more time to finish the test: John De Leo, Kathryn Scheffler, Louie Anderson, Clara Olsen, Frank Foster, Julia Braxton Minnie Dooley and Adolph Smith Only three fell below the passing mark of SO Another test is to be given Friday morning.
 Section One reading contests were won by Gwendolyn Brimmer Qast week., Pearl Dverseth and Frank Eos ter. In Section Two Bobby Tender son won the first one and Evelyn Hen derson won the second. We are sorry that almost all of the children had been dismissed when ou1 visitors came on Friday, but the pu pills who were waiting to read at the Parent Teachers meeting had a little class and read for headmarks. We hope to have the visitors again wher we are doing our regular work.
 Julia Braxton and Leila Wilco1 were the only ones to hand in hundred per cent arithmetic papers on Thurs day. The work consisted of ten ex amples in addition with "carrying.