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a4IARRIVESiI The last was first and the first,‘ •** last, at the February meeting of a the Corona Teachers’ association held Tuesday evening. The gathering was a “meeting” in name only*• the test of it was “party.” Teach-r ers from the Washington school• with Miss Elsie B. Raitt as gener-. t “ .• ♦ , tr al chairman, planned the event and1 a “backward party” was on the pro-* •gram. Everything was backward■for those who did em or wore em. 'At 5:30 in the afternoon there was a general migration of pedga*, guee toward the Iripcoln grammar , school and as they arrived it was• hfird to tell whether they were go-^ lag or coming. VNames were spelled backward on place-cards of animals scissored and sheared after a fashion that betoken evidence of hailing from the Art department of the city schools. Thej1itab!es were set backward _ and _ the«menu was in keeping. Apple pie,with whipped cream, salad, coffee,. .. \roast beef, mashed potatoes andigravy, carrots and peas, rolls and I butter were served at the schoolafter which it v/as annunced that• . *the last course of the menu would* ...be served somewhere but decidedly♦elsewhere in Corona. It was.A dozen cars,/ filled, with Icabods and Icabodesses, lined up and head-' * * 4 . .ed by H. S. Wfoot, proceeded in• *quest of the lost course. The solemn cortege died through the prin-i* * * , . ' . Vcipal streets of Corona and pedestrians leaned against the poBts of our system of ornamental Btreet lights and wondered • why they had jxyt been invited ’to “Si Hoover’s party. The prcession wended itsway thither and you and then hither and yonder, a long way~ upand just as far down, finally arriving at the' back door of tfte Washington grammar school. The lost’ . ' I ’ - lt;»course, a fruit cocktail was there, but did not remain *r 5 Then followed a series of backward' games ''and stunts, including a candy hunVdwrticipat in by three teams tagged so that one had , only t o hear em to know em. dames on tbeprogram fbr the rest pf the evening were ..musioal ' chairs,■iJ■]1
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Mar 02, 1923
Page 3
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CA, USA 22 Feb 2023
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