County Teachers Exam Held at Marshall High
The county teachers examination ran Friday and Saturday March 19 and 20 at Marshall High due to court in session. Over fifty students sat including Lora Marlowe Herman Renner Clarence Low and others from M. T. H. S. The test covered common subjects plus pedagogy and general science with an average pass mark of eighty and no grade below fifty.
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Casey
Lora Marlowe
Herman Renner
Clarence Low
Fenton Collier
Berniece ‘Gard
Gladys Phillippe
Mary ‘Phillippe
Lascille Thompson
Evelyn Graig
Pearl Baker
Kathyrn Mayer
Carl Lucan
Stella Pearce
Arnold Croddy
Ralph Gallington
Bessie Tapscott
Mable Siverly
Mary Norton
County Institute Fund
Marshall
Grace Stanfield
Carolyn Murphy
Senior Class Plans Benefit Movie for Annual Bid Day
The seniors met during assembly with Mr. Colbert urging graduation focus. They discussed financing the Annual and decided to stage a benefit movie aided by Mr. Cox, with the film title to be chosen by the committee. Bid day is set for April 16 followed by the annual party.
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Colbert
Cox
Valso
Practical jokes debated by teachers and students
The Inquiring Reporter interviews Bill Rector Hornbrook Norton Fern Lucan and Garvey about practical jokes. They mostly approve with limits and caution that humor should stop short of harm or personal intrusion.
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Bill
Hornbrook
Norton
Nothin
Fern Lucan
Our Platform for M. T. H. S
The staff outlines five platform points promoting scholarship a new athletic Zoom an honor system improved activities and a courteous student body with editor credits and staff roles listed.
The Three Rs Expand to Three Cs In Public Education
An editorial argues education has moved beyond the basic reading writing and arithmetic to a rounded program that includes character culture and citizenship. It praises school buildings as community centers and notes associations like Parent-Teacher groups linking schools to families while stressing physical and artistic development.
Freshman, Sophomore Teams Open Class Tournaments
In early games the freshmen and sophomores beat the cellar-bound freshmen with seniors, juniors, and sophomores winning. Sophomore girls lead the girls’ bracket with three wins and no defeats while junior girls split 1-1 and seniors and freshmen remain winless.
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Davidson
Beuhler Eitle
Carpenter Gard
W. C
Ramsey Phillippe
Craig Thompson
Teeta Welsh
Beuhler
Carpenter
Hitel
Bassett. Fresh
Sophs
Shepler
Coombs Bennett
Casteel Cline
Township Talk Notes From March Gatherings
Katherine Cunningham attended the Grand in Terre Haute on Friday night March 19. Several locals including Booth Poorman, Harry Sockler and George Taubeneck were seen at Hip podrome that evening. The item also lists visits and weekend stays involving numerous residents across Terre Haute Charleston Paris Ewing Marshall Bellmont Greenup and Marshall with names such as Nora Epler Mildred Craig Lucille Craig and Mary Johnson among others. A Psalm of Geometry passages appear as stray text with classroom references and humorous lines from John Bright.
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Katherine Cunningham
Terre Haute
Booth Poorman
Harry Sockler
George Taubeneck
Hippodrome
Lester Henry
Charleston
Gene Taylor
Nora Epler
Bellmont
June Metz
Agile Bitel
Lucille Craig
Margaret Crisham
Paul Shepler
Mary Pulver
Chas. Sweitzer
Forrest Rollings
Harold Adams
Eleanor Stiner
Hazel Lambden
Greenup
Marjorie Sears
Mary Beauchamp
Lucille
Mildred Craig
Mildred Haugh
Frances Ferris
Loraine Nelson
Andred
Loretta McConchie
Kathleen
Geraldine Elderedge
Forest
Roe
Roscoe Wans
Paris
Home Economics Short Course Sponsored by High School
The high school will sponsor a practical home economics short course starting March 29 for two weeks. State departments and manufacturers support it. open to all who can attend. Activities include talks, demonstrations, and lectures by experts from University of Illinois, Marshall and Chicago, with instructors from state health and home economics departments.
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Home Economies
Colbert
Everett Taubeneck
Lulu Silverman
Kansas City
Annie Lou Maxwell
University of Illinois
Silvermail
L. N. Waddell
Chicago
Lucille Ralston
Marshall
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Fannie Brooks
Adah Hess
Lucille Allen
State Department
Elizabeth Ball
State Health Department
Better Speech Clinic Guides Freshmen to Clean English
Sixty five freshmen trek to Biology and Algebra rooms then to Room 32 for daily Better Speech Clinic therapy. They fix plural verb agreement, pronoun use, punctuation, spacing, and spelling under doctors of English with Be Skeat guiding the voyage toward better spoken and written English.
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C. H. Ward
Portia
Shylock
Coleridge
Ward
Dramatic Club Night Shows Readings and Skits
The Thalian Society held its March meeting in the Music room with a program by initiates and members. It featured readings Entertaining Sister's Beau and So Was I, songs It Must Be Love and Sometime, Then I'll Be Happy, and plays Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and Enter Dora-Exit Dad performed by a group of members including Agile Eitel Herschel Mce Carty Harry Sockler Fred Regtin and Everett Shoemaker.
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Thalian Society
Elizabeth Rhoads
Genevieve Waldron
Mary Bradley
Effingham Teens Win Inter Class Basketball Titles
The Junior girls and Senior boys from Effingham captured their respective inter class basketball tournaments. Urbana High School's Junior class held a track coast ing party, while Hammond High English classes paraphrased Burns in a verse on Ford and utility.
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Effingham
Urbana High Tradk
Spring Fever Helps Seniors Fight Off Spring Fever
A satirical note urges seniors to curb spring fever and focus on studies as final weeks of school approach. It jokes about warm creek baths and classroom heat while stressing hard work, diligence, and preparation for graduation.
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Patrick Henry
Mr. Garvey
Miss Jones
Bill Nye
Alumni Notes From Champaign Weekend Visits
Roy Baird, class of 1925, spent the weekend with homefolks. Grendel Bennett, class of 1915, has returned to Champaign after illness. Fred Meebling, class of 1918, was home on Tuesday March 16 due to the sudden death of his niece Emrogene Bohn. Jordio Lewis, class of 1935, of Champaign spent the weekend with homefolks.
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Roy Baird
Grendel Bennett
Champaign
Fred Meebling
Emrogene Bohn
Jordio ~ Lewis
Correction to Virginia Morgan initiation into debating club
The text notes Virginia Morgan was among those initiated into the debating club. A stray dialogue fragment follows with disjointed kitchen table exchanges and scattered phrases about money water and freedom, likely OCR noise from the page.
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Virginia ” Morgan
Music Students Entertain During Opening Period
Music students perform opening exercises with an orchestra program on Thursday and student vocal and piano numbers on Tuesday. Selections include March Salute the Flag Intermezzo Shades of Night The Prisoners Song and Nights of Gladness. Vocal soloists Louise Foley Rose Bower Marie McDaniel Sylvia and others accompany, with Sylvan Sketches Where the Cool Moss Grows. Mrs Thomas and Miss Wheeler guide this group ahead of spring contests.
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Louise Foley Rose Bower
Rudolph Friml
Marie McDaniel
Sylvia O
Helen Coldren
Louise Thompson Sylvan
Helm
Mrs. Thomas
Miss Wheeler
Mrs Truman Reed Honored by DAR President
Mrs Truman Reed of Oil City Pennsylvania has been named as a page for the Daughters of the American Revolution national convention in Washington D C this April. A former Marshall resident and MT H S class of 1918 graduate she joins other honored youths to be entertained at the White House.
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Truman Reed
Oil City
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington, D. C
Reed
Isobel Robinson
Marshall
White House
Tower Man Watches Freshmen Fall Into Campus Spree
The Tower Man chronicles a lively morning on campus with chatter about freshmen antics in class and hallways. He notes spring fever, mislaid caps, and a rowdy assembly as students rush between classes and the track team gains notice. Samuel Finkoiner leads the outfield of activity.
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Samuel Finkoiner
Echons
Blackburn
Westminister Abbey
William Rector
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