Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-10

were 1913 boys enrolled and 1894 girls
enrolled. Boys outnumber girls in
eight of then schools of the city, the
Seventh street school and high school
being the exceptions. The total enroll
ment since school opened last Septem-
ber is 1925.
Ashley Packard GAL, and Mary Beth
Dowell, 7B1, lead in the merit race in
the grammar school, having a consid-
erable margin over their nearest COM
petitors.
Honor rolls will be listed in each
school of the city for the first SEM
ester's work which closes Friday. The
three highest in each class will con-
stitute the honor roll in the grades be-
low sixth, and in the grammar school
the five highest will be considered as
has been the custom in the past. This
list will probably appear in the Sum
day issue.
The Douglas Bulldogs are drilling
every evening for their game Saturday
night against the invading Tucson
D.
last year IA to II in a close and fast
finish and the Badgers are anxious to
redeem themselves. Douglas took two
games from BiSbee last week, 16 TO IL
and 26 to 16, and are playing a
smooth game casaba. HaymOre, Evans,
CunminS, Byrne and Negri are likely
to start on the first string, with Young,
Wheelin and Levy in reserve. Coach
Warren is anxious to annex this game
as it will give decided edge in the
conference race. Tucson defeated the
Nogales Apache, 80 to 6, last week, so
T.. victory over Tucson will mean a
chance at the, southern championship.
All entering first grade students
should register next Monday. The
minimum age limit for entering first
grade is 5 years and 10 months. No
child younger than this will be per-
mitted to register for the first grade.
No registrations after the second week
of the semester will be considered
The second Sword standard SPELL
ing test was given ye.Serday to all
students in the public schools from
second through the eighth grade and
the results show considerable i'm
provement over the first test given a
month ago. In some classes the med
ian score was lower, but for the ma
iority of classes the median was high
er
The words were: Baby, paper, train,
horse, fight, accident children, public,
fortune, famous, service, supply, num-
ber, material, reference, character,
artificial, accuracy, judgment, munich
pal, villain, sovereign, penitentlary,
halleluj abs, rendezvous.
The complete result Of the averages
will be compiled within a few days.
Mrs. Nutter's class at the A avenue
class did exceptionally well, having a
/ median of 9 for the low third grade.
The "a class under Miss Newkirk also
went above the average with a median
score of 6. The 5B classes at A avenue,
Fifteenth street school and the colored
school all had denian of 13, which
hallelujahs, rendezvous.
Miss Beatrice Peters, a graduate OF
Ohio Wesleyan university, has been
elected to teach sophomore English at
the high school commencing the Sec
ond semester which begins next -y4on-
day. Miss Peters has been teaching
| language and reading in the eighth
grade at the grammar school for two
years, and is promoter as a result Of
the resignation of Miss Ruth Miescher
Miss Annette Stuppi, graduate o1
the Douglas high school, class of 1922
and also graduate of the University
of Arizona, class of 1926, with major
in English and dramatic reading, viii
fill the position made vacant by the
promotion of Miss Peters.