The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-02-22
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A new magazine has been addet
to the Junior high English clas.
reading list, Youth Today" The
articles in this magazine cover 9
variety Of subjects which are yer,
interesting and educational.
JUNIOR HIGH CLASSES
This time we'll start out with
that bright, cheerful room at thu
end Of the hall-why Of course it..
Miss Swope's. Her classes had ar
unusually busy week this pas
week. First Of all they received 8
letter from their travelling report
er, who tells them about a very
peculiar mine in Peru. There are
many metals taken from this mine
among them copper, lead and bis
mith. The chemist in this mine ha.
very long beard, which he says
protects him from lead poisoning
and from lead dust. He also de
scribes the building of a high rail
] road across the Andes. Next weel
he will write from BOLIVIA. He fly!
from place to place. Donavon Han
sen received a letter from a class
room correspondence. His, is boy
in Tasmania, New Zealand. A grouI
Of seventh and eighth grade girls
have been working with the Sen
ior girls on a selection for the
Speech Festival" which is to bt
held next Saturday.
Mr. ocvo,,ccan,S bnx,cp oJoSsas
are on the study of Electricity
They are having a series Of ex
periments as their method of study
A radio is the study of the last
experiment. They plan to make
it a total wreck" and then try an6
put it together again. The girls
classes are studying diseases anG
how to prevent them. Mr.. Ras
mussen is starting a project or
"soiless growth of plants" This
is done by means of chemicals
and it is said the plants affair
great heights. Tomatoes and string
beans will be the first victims Of
this experiment. The eighth grade
are on the study of Foods" They
tell me there are three different
types used in the body. (Don't
tell me the others we eat aren't
used.) These foods build, regulate
and protect our body.
COMMERCIAL NEWS
The Business Law classes have
been studying about bailments fol
the past week and will continue un
der this unit for some time.
A bailment is a transfer of pos
session Of property without the
transfer of the property. The two
parties to a bailment are the ball
or, the one owning the goods anc
transferring them, and the baiiee
the one to whom the goods are
transferred.
They have been studying abou'
Ibailments in general and bailments
for the benefit Of one party. Tne9
will later learn the bailments tol
mutual benefit.
The students in the Stenograph!
II class who passed the 60 wore
five-minute transcription were Rits
Otte, Alberta Prasch, Mary Hlg
bic. Joyce Kane, Dorothy Hennings
gard, Mabel Kinsella, Margare
Markson, Dorothy Peterson, Bern
adine Dirnberger, Fern Swartfag
er and Margaret Stanley.
We're going to have a little les
son in Commercial Geography ane
see if we can learn some OF the
things that the class is learning
This lesson is going to be on emma
The Chinese are a farming people
lovers Of the "Good Earth The!
produce the greatest crops OF any
country in the world. Today sew
enty-five per cent of the population
are tillers of the soil. There arr
less than two hundred thousant
square miles under cultivation II
China but on this area the great
est crops of rice, tea, soy beans
sweet potatoes and millet are pro
duced. They also raise huge flock
of poultry, and China is the great
est exporter of frozen and pow
dered eggs in the world. Pigs ar
raised in large numbers for foot
and the expectation of the bristles
The farms are so small, they aver
age about four acres in size. Th'
soils are so well cared for the!
may obtain two crops year.
And now what has the Book
keeping class been doing? Well
let's see. They're still working OF
the journals and now they are re
cording promisory notes in the orig
inal book Of entry. They are als'
calculating interest.
HEALTH NEWS
Well, it's time to get the health
news again and after approaching