The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-10-05
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High
School

books. On Tuesdays the seventh
and eighth grades come over for
one-half hour; Wednesdays the
ninth grade comes, and Thursdays
and Fridays the grades from kim
dergarten through the sixth grades
come. All grades are competing to
have their classes the weekly lib
rary champions. The room having
the highest per cent for drawing
and reporting books gets special
recognition.
COMMERCIAL NEWS
revamped building and what time
we had! OF course, we liked it
because we missed classes. We car
ried over books, tables, chairs,
typewriters and what not! We are
all moved and settled now and are
really getting down to work.
The tipping I students have found
that learning the alphabet all over
again isn't such an easy thing when
their fingers get all tangled up in
the keyboard. But after a long
practice of Iii space" and eff
space" ETC., they have learned the
keyboard.
Miss Riley has found that the
students like to type so well that
they come down to the tipping room
during study periods and after
school to practice.
There are two classes consisting
of fifty-two students.
Miss Hunt is teaching economic
geography this year. Their first
lessons in geography were on CHM
ate and it's effect upon people and
products. They are now beginning
the study Of occupations and they
find that agriculture is the basic
industry, and also, that it employs
more people than any other one in
dustry. They have learned that
three-fourths of China's population
are engaged in agriculture. One
half of the Japanese and one-fourth
of the United States are also en-
ployed in agriculture.
AS we stepped into Miss Hunts
stenography 1 class the other day,
we were surprised to see how fast
they are progressing in their short
hand. They have been learning
shorthand symbols for longhand
letters and are reading from the
printed shorthand quite readily.
Frances Arvig holds the highest
record in tipping II. That record is
43 words a minute. Margaret Jep-
peson, a postgraduate student, is
close behind with 80 words and
Jane Hall with 81 words.
Come on class, see if you can
beat them! But be careful to be
accurate and concentrate on youi
work.
Miss Hunts bookkeeping classes
started on their way in learning
about early and present needs for
records. There were so many pup
lis wanting to take bookkeeping
this year, that they are divided in
to two classes, So in all. They
have learned the use of simple and
classified cash records and of per-
sonal balance sheets. With these
records well-known they began the
study of budgets and are now keep
ing household records.
A majority of the seniors this
year are taking up business law
Miss Riley has two classes consist
ing of 81 pupils in all. The stu
dents have finished the unit on
Sources and Administration" and
have learned the kinds of courts
and the officers of court. They
are now studying the industries of
the countries and the relationship
of countries and industries.
The stenography II classes found
that they had forgotten much of
their shorthand over the summer
months, but Miss Hunt is remedy
ing that by reviewing the vocabu-
larry and using the 5000 most-used
forms in shorthand. The tipping
tests will vary this year, the stu
dent taking time out to erase all
errors made. Uncorrectable errors
and time used in making correc-
tons are penalties inflicted. This
method will better present office re-
quirements. They will also learn
to proof read all material. These
are rules set up by the Typewriter
Educational Research Bureau.
Our speed record typist is Shir-
ley Carpenter, leading the class
with a record of 60 words per min
ute with no more than five errors
for a period of ten minutes. Fol
lowing in order are Alberta Prasch
with AZ words, Margaret Stanley
with 46, Grace Chandler with A,
Aurelia Gartner 43, Bernadine Dim
berger AZ, and Eunice Sanders and
Viola Woeste with 35.
These tests were corrected &C
cording to last years rules.
HEALTH
The health department has chang
ed it's quarters. We now find Miss
Bone behind the walls of the kit