Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-23
Interesting Items OF News
Written For The Press By
Ell CentrO School Pupils

| Walter Damrosch. He has been the
director of the New York philhar-
monic orchestra for the past 40
years. Mr.. Damrosch is now &C
years of age and German by birth
1 hope we study other men in opera
as interesting as Mr.. Damrosch.-
Betty Surface, 8A-2.
In literature we have an honor
roll upon which are recorded the
names of the pupils, giving the best
reports each week.-Vivian White
| head, 7A-2.
A number Of our penmanship pa
pers were given back to us last week
for comparison. We all marveled at
the progress some of us had made
These papers will be kept until the
end of the year.-Kathryn Jane
Henderson, 7A-2.
Last Friday we had a test over
all the work we had in the seventh
grade English book. The ones who
pass will be in the eighth grade Eng
lish class, the ones that fail will
have to review all the seventh grade
English Beynon, 8B.
In social studies we have written
compositions about the first three
colonies that came ito America. We
told what kind Of people came, why
they came, and where they settled
Charllne Mack, 8-B.
In the 7-B arithmetic class we
are progressing very rapidly. We
are now reviewing addition, sub
straction, multiplication and divi-
sion.-Allene McChristy, 7-B.
In public speaking we had a de-
bate. The debaters we're: Affirma-
tive. Forrest Burke and Roy Ro-
bertson; negative, Bill Bays and jim
Burke. The question was: Resolved
that Four Years of Experience Are
Better than Four Years of College. ="
The affirmative won.-Ada Trimble
BAL.
Last Tuesday we made an outline
in history. 1t covered the chapter,
The War For Independence This
is the first outline we have had this
year.-Ruby Schultz, SAL.
Harding School
When we went to Point Iona I
looked through a spy glass. My
brother said that you had to pay
nickel to look through them. a
man would fix them. My brother
kept fooling with them and he fixed
them all right.--Roland Aaron, IA.
Last night I had a fight with a
little girl. She would scratch me.
All that I could do was to hold her.
You couldn't guess who it was. II
was my cat.-La Verne Abel, 4A.
Last Friday l made a boat. It
goes by itself The paddle is be-
tween rubber bands that I wind up.
Sol Roulette, 3A.
Tuesday our school yard was full
of mud. Some boys brought some
! into our room. We made models OF
things in the Mexican Twins. =
4 Marilyn Harmon, 3A.
Yesterday man said TO Pete and
| me. Boys, what are you making?'
/ We said, 1--WE are making a pigeon
! pen He said to us, DO you want
one of our pigeons?" We said, Yes,
/ we want a mother one" The next
morning he gave us one.-Wayne
Purdy, 3A.
Washington was the first Presi-
| dent of the United States. He asked
! Betsy Ross to make Our first flag.
The flag had seven red and six
white stripes and thirtee nstars but
f1nfr hor CT Mo Il N
a picture of Betsy Ross yesterday
Garland McLane, 3A.
l took my rabbits and chickens to
the fair. l won two first prizes and
one second prize on my rabbits 1
am sorry IL rained during fair week.
Allen Williams, "a.
Betsy Ross was the first one to
make our flag We drew a picture
of her yesterday, My picture is az
e-Melvin Graves, ga.
East Side School
We made George Washington
soldier caps today Then we
marched around the romo and sang
many soldier songs.-Antonia Gar
cia. IA
February IL was Abraham Lin
coins birthday. Our teacher read
us a story about Abraham Lincoln.
Beatrice Mejias.
We are making a log cabin. We
are making it with sticks and cut
ting them with saws.-Fidel Ro-
nero.
We had a Valentine box Monday.
We made Valentines. Miss Curry
gave me a Valentine.-Viola Tay-
Tor, Third grade items.
Yesterday we covered our books