The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-02-28
SCHOOL NOTES
Evelyn Kusba-Editor-in-C Chief
Junior Notes


Junior Notes
Members of the Audubon Society
had a most enjoyable time at their
sleigh ride party Thursday evening
Feb. 21. The Society was a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. ellison. They
were chaperoned by Misses Everhart
and Peterson.
The two eighth grade English
classes competed Thursday Feb. II In
the conjugation of verbs and the
Thompson Language Drill No. AZ. In
the limited time at our disposal we
could not find verbs whose forms any
of eleven of the pupils could not give.
The first section carried away the
test was won by the second division
The two divisions OF the 9th grade
English class met in joint session
Wednesday February 20 for the
finals in the public speaking contest.
Each contestant read his selection so
creditably it was difficult to decide
who really did the best work. By
ballot the class decided the following
were entitled to the first, second and
third places:
First-"The Spellin' Bee" by Paul
Lawrence Dunbar-Esther Larson.
Second "The Raggedy Man," by
James w. Riley-Ruth Benson.
Third" Mandalay," by Rudyard
Kipling- Richard Sweetman.
One of the contestants, Vivian
Coons was unable to be present.
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We are sorry to lose Dorothy and
Benny Grossberg from Junior High.
We wish them well in their new home
in the cities.
Miss Wilson has returned to her
work after a weeks absence due to
illness. We expect Miss Bugbee to
return Monday, March 8.
The children in the lower grades
have been studying the harp, cello,
violin, cymbals, and piccolo during
their appreciation lessons in music.
A little third grader was very anx-
ious to tell about the instruments he
had seen at the Caughren theatre on
Saturday night. He said, "a sello
began to play little tune and it got
too high and the violin had to finish
it up" A fiirst-grader referring to a
monotone, "Miss Scott, Babe is
singing way down in his boots this
morning."
Groups from the lower grades sang
for the Junior High assembly last
Wednesday.
Second and Third grade group.
Little George Washington.
Six Little Kittens.
Jolly Clown.
Fourth Grade group:
George Washington.
Red Leaves.
Mister Postman.
Fifth grade-Mlss Baney.
AS a result of the first of the six
weeks examinations given in spelling
in the fifth grade Friday, there were
20 one-hundreds, and only two be-
low passing.
The Jordan and the Studebaker
won the race in spelling the past
week in the fifth grade.
Those having perfect attendance
since the beginning of the fall term
are: Dorothy Walker, Harold Rogers,
Carl Smith, Willis Dahlem and Let
mond Rose.
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Senior Notes
Mr.. Morse spoke to the Civics
classes Monday, on the problem of
Farm Loans. We found that Mr..
Morse made clear many doubtful
questions and gave us much addition
al information.
The Boys and Girls Glee Club of
the Senior High is practicing twice a
day to make up for lost time.
Our High School Basket Ball
team journeyed to Glenwood Friday
night and defeated that team with
1912 victory. Those who witnessed
the game from here were: Mrs. Otis,
Anthony Schoenhoff, Edward Borg
mann, Evelyn Kusba, DIR. and Mrs.
Moynihan, Margaret Moynihan, Vir-
GINA Kells, Donald Sugden, Edward
Peterson, Dwight Hanson, Ray
Borgmann and few others who ar
rived just in time to see our boys
at their best. Those who witnessed
the game were certainly proud of our
boys. Harold Nelson who took Sam
Grossberg's place as guard put up
a dandy show and kept up his end of
the team. Each one played well
which is told from the score. We're
all ready now for Long Prairie and
Melrose- and then-the Tourna-
ment.
The Junior English classes are
studying the works of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
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Mr.. Morgan refereed a basket
ball game at St. Cloud last Friday.
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Mr.. Falk is attending the National
superintendent meeting at Chicago.
Even though long way from home
he kept in touch with Mr.. Otis in re-
gard to the Glenwood game, and
when he learned of our victory he
Immediately wired Mr.. Otis a tele-
gram of congratulations to himself
and his team. 1t certainly made the
boys and Mr.. Otis feel "good."
Carol Coons gave his Grafton to the |
assembly last Wednesday and Ivy
Hildebrand gave her defamation to
the assembly this Monday. They
both are fine and every one is hoping
that the judges will think the same
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