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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
3
A dormitory tale recounts girls failing to eat as a toaster mishap causes a small gray mouse to become trapped between wires. Nurses flee in panic as smoke fills the room and the students are overcome, leaving them faint and deprived of toast.
The Periclesian Literary Society elected officers for the second semester led by Orville Hoberts as president and Nelle Eikenberry as vice president. Edith Cribbs became secretary, Harry Vandivier treasurer, with Ronald Vandivier as prose cutter and Mary Bradley judge.
A Saturday event at the YWCA featured soup doughnuts pie and coffee after a game. The Yeomen Women Workers club served soup and desserts while raising about 20 for the Student Friendship War Fund toward their 850 pledge.
A wartime poem by Leslie E Dunkin critiques war as a beastly force that devastates homes and youth. It urges citizens and leaders to seek democracy, justice, and peace, invoking God to grant release from bloodshed and to restore moral order.
Sanitary, durable folding toothbrushes with guaranteed bristles. Suitable for personal use and for sending to soldiers at the front.
The campus reports eleven students will not rejoin next term while at least five new students enter, including reentries and transfers. Several will pursue service, travel to California, or begin work, with new courses like Plant Physiology and American Literature planned alongside changes to Bible and Logic offerings.
The Roll of Honor lists Harris Smith and several others with service entries ending in 08 to 49 and many classes. Seven more passed examinations for service but await call. Others, including Reid McCain and Wallace Ross, entered officers training at Camp Taylor Kentucky. Y M C A work at Camp Taylor and Hattiesburg involves Elmer Dils John Barnett and Harvey Chandler.
Notice announces the wig and queue section will start rehearsals for the play The Lion and the Mouse on Tuesday with A J Beriult directing or leading the effort.
Elwood Watkins chosen by Prof. Bernault to portray Herbert in On the Stairway to be staged in February before the Metropolitan School of Music in Indianapolis. Grace Barnes and Agnes White hosted a party Saturday night for joint birthdays with rice cream and cake served.
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