The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-11
The T amarack
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began A small light glowed, then a
huge flame of fire shot upward as the
immense home coming bonfire was
ignited. It's Pickering light showed an
odd asemblage of band members, Pep
tomists, football heroes, stu en- is,
alurnnae, and townspeople. The Pepto-
mists burst into song and were quickly
Joined by the crowd. Butch" Rolseth
acting as master of ceremonies intro
duced Mr. Hayes who gave character
istic HAYES speech Mr.. Billings repre-
sented the Lions Club and the business
men, and Arne Lee and Turk" Lamp |
ton. the alumnae. Regardless of the +
position of these speakers, as alumnae {
or as interested lookers-on, they all +
showed they were back of the team +
and anxious TO help all they could.
The bonfire burned lower and lower I
and faces became obscured and the as
sembly was reminded that on the
morrow an important game was TO be
PLAYED. There was a general exodus
and except for the embers of a once
huge fire, the field was left in gloom.
FIELD TRIP
! The biology class after their pleasant
and interesting field trip of Monday
! feel that they are we'll acquainted with
/ the many bees of Libby. Forrest Man
/ icke, who was stung by one OF these
| insects, begs to state that he knows
them little better than well. The
classes under the supervision of Mr.
HAYES went to Mr. Huchalas bee
apiary. There they were seated on
woodpiles. benches. and other miscell
anious things and given a scholarly talk
by Mr.. Huchala on the various types
of bees, what they ate, and the COM
mercial aspect of the bee business. Mr.
Huchala has been studying bees for SO
wears but he says he doesn't know all
he'd like to know about them yet.
PEP MEETING.
The Peptomists girls made first APP
pearance in their new costumes last
Friday afternoon at a pep meeting.
The Peptomists attire consists of
smartly tailored purple corduroy Stacks
and gorgeous satin blouses. Needless TO
say. the entire school was delighted.
The beautiful clothes plus the attractive
wearers were sufficient incentive for
the peppiest pep meeting of the season.
The Peptomists presented a novel
series Of songs in which the summer
activities of the coach and team were
disclosed. Yell Duke Rolseth and Yell
Duchess Martin performed their duties
even better than usual. When the meet
ing came to an end, everyone was liter
ally full Of school spirit, and judging
from the results of the Terriers tight
Saturday, the team absorbed more than
enough of the pep of this meeting.
Last week a representative from the
department of agriculture visited the
Libby schools for the purpose of in
forming the students of the lower
grades concerning the appearance and
danger Of the barberry bush and the
black stem rust
HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
This year Miss Sonner has divided
her course of study into three divisions
the Breakfast Unit, the Luncheon
Unit, and the Dinner Unit. The Break
fast Unit has Just been completed. The
classes have been divided into two sec
tionsAand each section takes turns serv-
ing Breakfast to the other section.
LATIN COUNCIL.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Latin council was held Friday, October
4. The entertainment committee for the
next meeting was appointed as follows
Bella Brown, chairman; Marie Kujawa
and George Krebs. Suggestions for the
bulletin board were discussed. The re-
mainder of the period was Latir
spelldown.-Violet Becker, scribe.
NEWS NOTES.
Miss Crewes second grade have start
ed as a project the making of fal
book. Art, language, and penmanshiI
are correlated in the booklet. The class
as a whole make one page and from
the sheets submitted one page il
chosen. Each child, when the book is
completed. will have one page in it.
The monitors for the lower sixth
Grade this week are Jean 1keda anc
Clifford Anderson
The first graders have begun tht
reading Of their first primer.
The second grade under Miss Crewf
dramatized several fall poems last week
Delma Nixson, who is in the thirc
grade, is seriously i'll She has beer
absent from school for a week.
Phyllis Roestel is new pupil in Mis-
I.arson's first grade.
The rooms are busy making Hallow
= cen decorations this week,
The High School ticket contest TO
the Eureka game ended with the Frosl
in the lead for the 1917 profit. Tha
class turned in the most money ant
h the other classes in this order. Sophs
Juniors and Seniors.