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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1926
Page
7
The Marshall Township High School Orchestra under Neil F. Garvey announces a concert at the Pythian Theatre on April 30. It follows a February 27 broadcast from WIBL Decatur with many requests, and will include some numbers from the previous program plus changes.
Leland Routledge and a long list of alumni from Charleston Teacher's College and the University of Illinois are noted for spending Easter and spring vacations with family or friends. Several figures from Depauw University, Butler, Terre Haute, and Franklin College are listed visiting home or on trips.
The Ag Club gains a likely influential member, Joe Junior, expected to keep faculty busy. Agriculture teacher Mr. Connelly plans to entertain him after his arrival Friday April 2, 1926. OR Lucille Thompson visited Wey High School April 6 with Jayne Figg.
The article extols an elevated standard at M T H S with a focus on athletics via a new Zoom in sports an Honor System improved activities and a courteous student body highlighted as key goals.
The outgoing staff thanks readers for support as they bid farewell and wish success to the new editors. They praise contributors, note two stories per student, recognize typists, and recall the annual press conference where their paper placed second behind Rockford High School.
Debating Club members elected Wilbur Clark as editor-in-chief and Glenn Wyrick as business manager. Herbert Sisson was chosen president with Virginia Knipe as vice president. Paul Shepler and Marie McDanless became treasurer and secretary, Sam Prego named sergeant-at-arms. News editors will form staff with Miss Dooley.
Lorraine Nelson attended the Lincoln in Paris on Saturday April 3 to watch the play East Lynne.
The Illinois Theatre, new rival to the Indiana, opened Tuesday night in Room 10 hosted by the Boys of the Thailand Society. A program mixed motion pictures, cartoons, vaudeville acts, and musical performances with guests including the society’s girls and Miss Burkhart.
Stella Pearce, a junior, won one of the prizes in World News classroom magazine’s national editorial contest. Her piece on the fate of Soviet Russia questions the Bolshevik regime and notes Russia’s need to export more than it imports, with a focus on peasant ownership and internal improvements.
A fragment from a newspaper page shows mixed proverbs and malapropisms about value and safety. The quirky lines reference eyes, glass homes, and Ford in a playful, uncertain tone that puzzled readers.
Mrs. Lulu Silvernail a representative of Aristo fleur and cooking instructor at the M T H S short course commends the school as exceptionally fine for its size town. She urges four years of domestic science and public speaking while noting demand for demonstrators and the higher pay they command.
An editor recalls the purpose and stature of M T S founded to educate children for high places. The piece lauds a 275 enrollment, strong football and basketball teams, witty debaters, a top track squad, skilled faculty, and a thriving arts program, claiming the school is among the state’s best small institutions.
Mrs Silvernail wraps up cooking demonstrations at the Short Course with bread cakes and pies for participants. Miss Annie Low Maxwell discusses furniture arrangement while L N Waddell of Chicago demonstrates oil stoves and pan broiling. Miss Ralston of Marshall speaks on clothing fabrics sewing and garments from Cane's Dry Goods.
Names and places span April weekend social visits across Terre Haute Vincennes Casey Paris Martinsville West Union and Goldie Stepp events. Residents including Harry Sockler Katherine Cunningham Elizabeth Cunningham Gene Harrison Lora Marlowe Lucy Beubler and others appear at high school visits egg roasts and bridge parties with multiple Saturday Sunday sightings.
In the deciding game the Seniors defeated the Juniors 17 14. Noland Johnson or Carl Barkley repeatedly gained five yards through the line while Sam Prevo pinned back the juniors. The seniors used interference and fast end runs to surge ahead in the second half and never relinquished the lead as the juniors fought to the end.
The senior class plans a benefit show on April 13 and 14 1926 at the Pythian Theatre starring Reginald Denny with Marian Nixon Otis Harlan and Zasu Pitts in a fast paced farce. The film follows Jones and his fat friend on the eve of marriage, fleeing a poker raid and disguises including a Turkish bath escape and a wedding in a taxi.
A playful student column presents social asides and early observations from the assembly. It features self introduction, misattributed authority, jokes about posterity and authorship, and snippets on stage life from singing to cooking and study, ending with a humorous quip.
A mother asks a teacher to punish the boy next to her nervous son Bly if he misbehaves, hoping fear will induce better conduct. The note and a quip about violins having souls appear in a column snippet from the Indianapolis Star.
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