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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1914
Page
26
The local prep league points race shows little change as weather halted most games. Czintz maintains a lead over Scott of Boys’ High, with Scott trailing by 18 points and Phillips by 48, while most teams head to indoor venues next week to resume play.
Landrum visited us Tuesday praising the examination papers of Gfth arade B. Miss Graves reported the school well. Seventh grade had a trio of restor s Tuesday. Second grade B spelling match produced names. We boys organize two baseball teams and soccer football is active with 1-1 score vs Canuund City. Junior Civic league met Friday debating Panama canal influence. Judges favored the affirmative. seventh grade and others contributed readings and recitations. Mary Pressly.
Fraser street school draws strong attendance as the Spelling League boosts effort across grades. The first grade B posted 99.5 percent, with 33 of 41 pupils perfect for the week and 820 words spelled with eight misses. Fraser, nicknamed The School of All Nations, features students from the United States and many other countries. Music by Miss Harralgon, sports talk, and upcoming composition content hint at a lively school season led by SAM PASKO.
In the sole game of the week Donald Fraser five defeated Marist College 35 to 14 on Fraser’s court. Phillips led Donald Fraser with 17 points while Dodge credited Marist with all points from his plays. Hubert and Brown contributed for Fraser, and Marist’s defense struggled to stop the rapid Fraser offense.
The district issue lists students with perfect attendance for each grade from first through eighth. Names span multiple grades including Agnes Cunningham Grace McMichael Maybelle Moss John Percock Percy Si¢Michael Edwin Williams Charlie Winburn Jene Winninghoa Marion Williama Eddie Whitaker Louise Simpson Virginia Jett Marceltine Hunerkopf and many others. Each student received a carnation on Thursday January 29.
Miss Claudia Ery appears in a street school play photographed by Price. The event involved local participants and featured a small cast in a community performance.
The eighth grade welcomed Oliver Turner a popular pupil from 1912 and Henry Cleveland who plans to join the night school. Seventh grade Current events club discussed news from Mexico and China. Fred Abrass will miss school a month for business. Georgia place notes mention Brunswick Milledgeville and Atlanta with a prophecy of a future seaport. Spelling matches excite grades six and five while fourth grade celebrates Abeiling victory. William Reynolds illness noted and career pace to become assistant paymaster. Robert Jones and Brinkly Howard aim to finish bookkeeping in one year. Mr Landrum visited. end with Harry Allen Pearson.
The Formwalt school community laments the delay in receiving trophies for 1913 amid hopes for a better baseball season. Principal Ivy is urged to provide a definite trophy date. Notes on teachers Miss Bridtwell sick, and grades reporting progress accompany two grade picture items titled Fire Storm and Jon Haeburn’s Boyhood and the Rabbi.
The Faith School pupils presented a Georgia Day program featuring grade performances and named selections including There Is No State Like Georgia and Song of the Chattahoochee. Teachers Miss Harralson and Miss Bulleze observed grades, with first and fourth grades praised for excellence and sixth grade noted for consistent excellence since September. Barry Goldberg.
Eugene Hinton Jr reports the tenth grade swept all school banners and the attendance picture. The week included rain-damaged terraces, a party for Superintendent Slaton, spelling and geography contests, and a basketball banner win by the seventh grade.
Crew Street fifth graders staged a good society program with dialogue and solos led by Mary Anderson, Charles Graham, and Neal Pittman. The sixth grade planned a spelling match for next week while fifth graders celebrated recent fractions success scoring 1760 on a test. Frances Craven Parks notes Miss Milledee’s welcome from primary grades and praise for first and fourth grades.
Luckie Street School honors cleanliness with stars for orderly desks floors and chair arrangements. The term end prize goes to the top star classes and a Georgia Day program featured recitations songs and a phonograph selection by grades and named performers. Margaret Braunchamp contributed The Wand That Puts to Sleep and notes on sleep inducing wands across cultures follow.
The Walter Rich Improvement club meeting featured a fourth grade program with recitations and dialogues. Students discussed committees, spring flowers, and funds to buy plants for beautifying the school grounds. The eighth grade won a spelling banner and Mrs. Ox-Rood and Miss Smith visited various grades.
The second grade led attendance last week while the second and fifth grades earned the most stars for lines. Students plan a museum upgrade with new specimens as jonquils bloom. They set rose vines, anticipate Dr Toepel visiting soon, and expect good marks on end-of-month reports.
Mary L. McLendon edits the Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association bulletin. The piece lists officers, departments, and regional leaders across Georgia, discusses suffrage philosophy, youth and age voting questions, feminist movement relations, constitutional aims, and calls for turnout and education. It notes debates, literature sales, and events, including birthdays of suffrage leaders and a New York gala.
Interest in grammar school baseball in the city has grown from modest beginnings to two leagues, North and South, inspired by amateur pioneer Shelley Ivey. Formwalt and Calhour won the first public school championship. numbers of teams doubled, hinting at field needs as more schools enter the sport.
The Christian Herald discusses radium as a modern cancer weapon and urges government support to retain radium deposits in the west and to aid universal access. It recalls Hezehuh king of Judah 700 years BCE with a prostate-like growth treated by figs and fire in a biblical account, drawing a contrast between ancient remedies and current science.
A narrated dialogue portrays a poor sobbing girl recounting gifts returned to a man who had given her tokens. The exchange reveals her heart’s hesitation and the mother urging resilience as the girl recalls locket gloves and other trinkets, finally stating she returned all his offerings. The verse reflects regret, tenderness, and childhood sentiment in a domestic scene.
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