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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1928
Page
8
A Mattern High School notes unit describes classroom Christmas activities. Students earn rewards for spelling accuracy via a fireplace chart, plan a Christmas picture study on Correggio's Holy Night, and craft posters and booklets while avoiding tests this week. Several students listed as top spellers are named.
Visitors in the first grade room last week included Mrs. E. D. Hering and her son, Jackie, along with Mia, Fickle, Betty, and Mise Grosse as guests in the classroom setting.
The Seniors held a coasting party Tuesday night. A playful riff about turning back time appears in the event account as classmates recall walking to a restaurant and sharing moments from the evening.
The Girl Reserves gathered for a craft session last Thursday. Silver bracelets were started but few details were completed. The next G R meeting will be the Christmas nesting and all members should bring gifts for the Christian Home.
Glee clubs practice the cantata Child Jesus for a performance next Thursday evening December 20 at the Community building. Clifford Dillehay Lloyd Short Faye Hurst and Francis Jones take the special parts. Pianists Frances Cadwell and Bernice Wilson will accompany. The orchestra debuts the same night before the cantata.
Two sophomores, Donald Rigging and Robert Frink, are noted for receiving new football sweaters as part of a progress reporting week. The piece comments on ongoing studies and a recent ruling affecting a portion of the group, expressing cautious optimism.
The Freshmen Algebra crew sails through intensive graph exercises with daily drills. Captain Rohrbaugh set rules to help the crew cope with deep study while Pavey Atkinson earns a sweater and medal for football prowess.
Our perfect spellers for last week were Maurice Alberta, Cecil Biggerstaff, Winifred Brown, Thelma Davis, Dean Hyzer, Bobbie McCormick, Daley Smith, Kathryn Swain and Robert Walkley. This week in Spelling If we Ret 106 per cent each day we can place a star on a little Christmas tree. Georgia Marie Hilton is the only one in the room which is 4 th in week. We hope she will be back soon. We are learning how to multiply with zeros and with two figures in the multiplier. Some of us think it is quite hard but we will soon learn it.
Junior girls in Home Economics were excused Friday for earning a 90 plus six week average with no absences or tardies. They visited local grocery stores on Thursday December 7 to study products and prices for future marketing projects and plan another food sale on Saturday December 16 at Malfield's.
Tommy Reed marked his eighth birthday as the second grade enjoyed a visit from Miss Edith Grosse and mothers. Students praised spelling winners Bertha Heehhing and Lerah Caldwell and noted sales of Christmas seats totaling 11.35 with Julla Jean Steele leading at 2.45 while Clayton Hertz fell short at 1.25.
A fifth grade class held a Christmas seals sale earning 10.12 dollars. Top sellers were Edward Wearin 2.50 Carolyn Cook 1.60 Enid Pace 1.05. Visitors included Mrs. Filton and Mrs. Linguist. The class studied western states and noted King George V and Alice Longfellow’s death aged seventy eight. They also planned carol songs for the program.
A set of student jokes shared in class reveals humor about politicians inventors and romance. Quotes include reactions to John Brown’s raid admission by Republicans and Edison’s talking machine. The exchanges show light classroom banter among named students and a father promising five dollars for passing.
Nebraska University led by Louise Genung and Marjorie Thompson won the Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago, with Kansas State second and Ohio State third. High individuals were Dale Sheol, Louise Genung, and J. C. McLegan. Nebraska earned the National Live Stock and Meat Board Trophy.
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