Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-02-15
Willow River School Notes

Last Thursday four Pine county dem
lists. under supervision of the federal
government, examined the teeth of all
the grade and high school pupils.
Barnum took the lead in the F.. F. A.
wrestling program as they defeated the
Northern Pine County Chapter Saturday
evening, Feb. 10. at Willow River. AS
the Northern Pine boys have had only
short period of practice they We're at
a great disadvantage. However. all of
the boys put up good fights, making
teresting. The following schedule shows
the participants and the winner of each
match. Barnum being mentioned first
and Willow River second in each case:
Rudebeck VS.. O. Nelson. Rudebeck WIN
ming by a pin; Holm VS.. Rusin. Holm,
time advantage. one minute, eight sec.
Onds: Gilbert VS.. r. Peterson, draw;
Hard VS.. E. Peterson, Hard, time adj
vantage. three minutes; Tanyer VS..
Chas. Stanton. Tanyer. by pin; Spence
VS.. Rusin. draw; Dawney VS.. Gluesing.
Dawney. by a pin; Beno, VS.. r. Alberg.
Beno. by "a pin; Reed VS.. r. Nelson.
Reed. by a pin. The next matches will
be held at Willow River when the Carl
ton Chapter of the F. F. A. will meet
our wrestlers Tuesday evening. Feb. 13.
Friday afternoon the declamatory
elimination contests We're held in the
assembly. The pupils selected for the
final contests Monday evening We're:
oratory. Joe Romanowski. Anthony
Christensen and Bernard Youngquist;
dramatics. Lydia Gross, June Gustafson,
Rogers, Randall Stanton. and Bernice
Wach. Anthony Christensen. June Gus
tafson and Elwood Rogers won first in
their respective contests; and will rep
resent Willow River high school at the
sub. district contests.
The English " classes have COM
pleted the study of the Romantic per-
iod. The English III classes are taking
up debating. The sophomore English
classes are studying "Silas Mariner" In
general science. the freshmen are study
ing weather and Climate" The home
economies girls are busy making useful
garments. The chemistry students are
studying the halOgenS, fluOrine, chlOr-
inc. bromine. and iodine. The senior So
cial science class is completing the study
of economics this week. The geometry
class is completing Book ii. circles. and
the higher algebra students are work.
ing radicals and quadratics.
Mr.. KanS gave an interesting talk
on Lincoln. Monday morning. Thls tax
was not only educational. but 1T re-
minded us of the fact that it was Lin,
coins birthday. even though we had
school.
A health survey of the school is being
made this week.
the past few weeks to develop and
maintain higher interest in care or
books. efficient school work: punctual-
ity, and a more uniform self governing
spirit of school loyalty and discipline.
Monroe CUNNING CHAM. president or the
senior class, was taken TO ST. Mary 5
hospital three weeks ago TUESDAY. he
is feeling much better now, and is ex-
pected to be home soon. We all miss
Monroe very much. and hope he Will
get well soon.
Harry Nyrud has been up and down
with the flu several times the past
three weeks. We hope Harry will be
able to return to school soon. with
three of our best players off our bas-
ketbal team, our boys are suffering
great handicap in the process of re-
organization.