The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-03-18
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school after a four weeks absence.
The players this week are: Vera
Lovesee, Charles Otto, Douglas
Kohl, Phyllis Wruck, and Beverly
O'Gara.
The Puppetiers have surprises
| by the dozens for the carnival on
April 8. Popeye and all his comic
strip friends will be there with
plenty of action. Tt will be Town
Hall night with Fred Allen doing
his stuff. Then, best of all, is that
little hola from Honolulu. She's
going to be up from the South
Seas dancing you dizzy like only a
hola-hola can. Don't miss it!
Honor points in tests for basket
ball skill are the aims of the
physical education girls classes e
the present time.
The ninth grade are beginning
work on their Ivanhoe booklets
They will be made up of stories
and pictures describing the story
of life at that time. They will be
covered with attractive Individual
covers.
| ID. A. r. ESSAY CONTEST
The d. A. r. organization of
Sank Centre offers a first prize OF
$3.50 and a second prize Of $1.00 to
the two students in the seventh
and eighth grades and to the two
students in the ninth anc tenth
grades who are judged to have
written the best essays on the cho-
sen topic. This is known as the d,
A. r. History Prize.
The topic for each year shall be
announced by the D. A. R. Chap
ter. 1t shall be a topic which deals
with the history Of the United
States or one which will influence
the writer toward lettering the
conditions existing in the United
States.
The contest shall be conducted
through the public schools. Stud
ents in the four grades mentioned
may write upon the chosen subject
The contest is to be conducted by
the English and history depart
ments of the school.
The essays in the two contests
are limited in length as follows:
Seventh and eighth grades-25C
to 300 words.
Ninth and tenth grades-5O0 to
600 words.
The essays shall be judged on
the following points:
! 1. Facts presented in developing
the topic.
2. Construction of sentence and
paragraphs.
J 3. Originality.
| A. Neatness.
The teachers shall select the best
essays from each group. These
shall be handed to the judges Sc
lected by the d. A. r.
! The essays shall be due this year
by April %, 1887.
The awards shall be made at the
Decoration Day exercises.
Material for essays may be OBJ
tanned from any source.
The topics for the year 1936-37
shall be:
Grades Z and 8-The Story OF
the Statue of Liberty.
Grades 9 and 10-Life of the
Colonial Days-Social and Educa-
tional.
MUSIC
The school orchestra will play
for the first time this Thursday
evening. They will play the follow
| ing numbers:
abide With Me" .-........ Monk
"Levee Song ......-.---..-.- Maddy
aloha Oe' ............-....- Lilinokalant
All of the players have studied
on an average of four months and
some less than that After Easter
vacation fourteen new members
will be added which will make a
group of forty-five.
A boys vocal quartet: Vernon
Bromen, Billy Kaufman, Wallace
Anderson, and Ray Berggreen,
was organized last week and will
sing for future assembly programs.
IN THE LIBRARY THIS WEEK
Miss Ebert gave a talk to Miss
Wilder's Junior Glasses last week
on the American Contemporary
| Novel and how to read them.
The Library has subscribed to a
series of small books put out by
the Leisure League. The first
book is The Life of the Party. It
is filled with games and good times
which would be a very good thing
to read if you are going to give a
party.
Many of the new films are taken
from good books to read and it's
rather fun to know something
about the movies before you see
them. Fire over England is about
the Spanish Armada.
The Good Earth is a novel by
Pearl Buck with Paul NUM- and