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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1925
Page
3
The Home Economics class hosted an Easter themed banquet for the High School Board the superintendent principal and wives. Decor featured yellow white and green jonquils and table accents. Menu included Grapefruit Cocktail Olives Veal Birds White Sauce Mashed Potatoes Peas and Carrots Parkerhouse Rolls Easter Salad Cheese Wafers Apricot Sherbert Layer Cake Coffee Nuts.
Agricultural class works on lawn care to boost grounds appeal. Sociology plans a May Springfield trip to explore the state legislature and historic sites. Miss Duffy makes Latin engaging with Roman slides during eighth period. Manual training finishes spring meet hurdles and pole vault standards. Biology collects wildflowers with each student pressing at least thirty five. Physics and chemistry plan a Drasser Electric Plant visit soon.
Official notice from The M. T. H. S. News Marshall Illinois lists roles editor in chief associate editor society editor sport editor exchange editor local items editor column editor alumni editor department editor and business manager with communications address set to Marshall Illinois. The document identifies staff names Faye Findley Mary Stephenson Virginia Knipe Parlee Hurst Kenneth McConchie Eleanor Snavely Mary Casteel Jordy Lewis Edith Wright Walter Booth and Bill Rector.
The article champions a higher plane of scholarship and the new Zoom in athletics. It highlights better extra curricular activities and a courteous student body as core goals.
Editorial urges all students to keep desks clean and put athletic gear away. It notes freshmen desks resemble a cyclone and praises girls for cleaning dressing rooms while urging boys to improve order. Emphasizes economy and school appeal to visitors.
Fifteen area high schools with vocational agriculture programs will enter a preliminary livestock judging contest at Newton on May 2 as preparation for the state high school judging contest at the University of Illinois in late June. Contest includes fat cattle dairy cattle hogs and poultry with eight students per school. trophies and medals will be awarded.
A long list of social visits and gatherings across West Union and nearby towns. Residents including the Wrights, Mayer, Figg, Moore, Snavely, and Stout hosted or visited friends, with trips to Terre Haute, Martinsville, Rob inson, Annapolis, and Covington. A surprise party honored Mildred Sports for her eighteenth birthday on April 14.
The preliminary essay contest at MT High School built toward the county Literary Meet with six contestants Roy Baird Creal Clark Parlee Hurat Virginia Knipe Herbert Sisson and Wilbur Clark. Each wrote on Child Labor in the United States and the tonic was chosen by lot from six prior study topics. Essays were sent away for judging.
A noisy figure known for sensational claims presses for proof amid tangled rumors. Journalists scrutinize motives and available documents while officials deny substantiation and urge caution in repeating unverified details.
Miss Hughes will cultivate voices of anvils for the anvil chorus. Mr Hornbrook will brush up on languages while Jimmy pulls new words. Miss Duffy attends summer school to rescue soaring students. Mr Brown goes to India for animals to use as football players.
Coach Harry Sockler of the champion Junior team selects the all school basketball quintet. The announcement lists the five players chosen for the school wide honor and reflects the team’s season success.
Report of a foreign news roundup from Harrison High Chicago noting a student speech on wasted study time saving money, cheerleaders with vegetable names, a swimming meet, and hopes radios will enter US high school classrooms. Debates on child labor were reported with the affirmative winning.
A collage of light humor and campus chatter features jokes about divorce and domestic life, dancing, and a chorus of freshie and senior exchanges. The snippets include quips on dry goods versus wet goods, wig mishaps, and playful misunderstandings amid student and town life.
The Latin Club will present two photoplays at the Pythian Theatre on Monday April 20. The Man Without a Country and The Halfback will appeal to students and citizens alike with patriotic themes and sports excitement. Proceeds go to cover expenses. tickets cost ten and thirty cents. high school orchestra will provide music.
Debating team members were awarded the school emblem M by coach Garvey on Wednesday morning in recognition of their work. The M badges for literary activities are Old English style in red on white, distinct from athletic letters. recipients include Leon Davidson Louise Arford William Rector Faye Findley Fern Lucan and Milton Dickens.
Fragmentary lines speak of social notices and private reflections in a county scene. References to family roles and gatherings hint at local life and enduring traditions amid partial OCR text.
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