The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-11-06
GIRL SCOUTS

This week on Wednesday the
Girl Scouts had a rally of all the
troops in the old gym. They had
their meeting and afterwards the
girls played games. Later the men,
bers of the Council served a delic-
ious lunch for all the Girl Scouts.
AS you have probably noticed the
school has installed a coca cola
machine in the lunch room. The
profit on this goes to the Girl
Scouts.
BOY SCOUTS
The Boy Scout regular meeting
was held last Wednesday evening.
Before the meeting a half-an-hour
recreation period was conducted by
Jean Jewell Knot tieing was
stressed during the meeting under
the patrol leaders, Fred Cooper,
Dick Berggreen and Richard Mel
son. Next Monday, November 3rd,
the Scout executive, Horace Gorton
from st. Cloud, will conduct a dis
trict meeting here.
G.A.A.
Last Monday night the G.A.A.
girls had their Fem Frolic. Music
was furnished by a nickelodeon and
everyone had a good time dane
ing. Later caramel apples, hot
dogs and pop was served. Black
and orange crepe paper and two
large bundles of cornstalks served
as decorations.
AGRICULTURE
The increased progress Of the
FLA. activities is well under way
for the beginning Of our second
year in existence.
Some outstanding activities in
which the local chapter has taken
part in thus far are as follows:
The trial corn plot which demon
strated the relative quality and
Yields of various hybrid and OPEN
pollinated varieties of corn adapt
ed to this area.
On September IS, five delegates
from the local chapter attended
the district FLA. convention at
Perham.
Seven members attended the
marketing school on September rs,
there they learned certain steps on
marketing besides how to grade
sheep and much more useful mar
keting information. Now we are
studying the feeding, care and gen.
eral problems of dairy cattle.
On Tuesday, October 18th, some
of the agriculture boys went to
South st. Paul where they pur-
chased some feeder steers for the
coming years project.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS
The seventh grade Industrial
Arts class has completed the course
Of drawing and is busy in the
shop. The first project is door
stop with a sailboat motif.
The ninth and tenth grades have
been making stage scenery for the
operetta. The tenth grade indus
trial arts has done considerable re-
novating Of equipment in the shop.
SENIOR NEWS
In German II we have decided
to take one week to memorize the
grammar rules. These are rules of
the definite article, noun declen-
sions and pronouns.
The chemistry class has been
learning how to find things on the
periodic chart such as the atomic
ture structure containing the atom
ic weight and atomic numbers and
their balances. We are now trying
to make formulas balance. Miss
Robertson has not yet found out
what our alphabetical grades are
but we have some good numerical
grades on the test on our last unit.
The Readers Digest" for Novem-
Der has arrived and the English
class has been reading it. There
are some very good articles which
I think everyone should read such
as Seventy Percent is Not Pass
ing" Look Out for Wooden
Checks" and a great many others.
JUNIOR CLASSES
In History the Junior class has
the first part of Jefferson's Admin
istration. They are all buckling
down to some hard study in pre-
paration for the chapter test which
never fails to appear on Friday.
Miss Swanson's English class has
been entertaining the class with
group pantomimes and five minute
speeches. Monday they will DO
back to the studying Of literature.
Sigh!
The pupils in bookkeeping class
are beginning to think themselves
quite smart because they are doing
real bookkeeping with the use OF
ink.
This week the Stenography I
class has started to write short
hand. So far we have not heard
any complaints.
TYPING
The tipping classes have started
taking five minute tests, on which
all errors are checked and recorded
on a chart each day. We are hav-
ing a contest to see who can get
the least number of errors each
week. Besides that we hand in ex-
ercises every day.
ENGLISH
The sophomore English classes
have been making a great deal of
progress. They have now finished