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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1929
Page
2
Moravia High School students face tests on November 21 and 22 to improve grades after last six weeks yielded four B or higher marks for Harvis Stafford Norma Lee Firkins Lucile Coltrain and Leona Easter. Teachers strive to raise scores and reduce F's.
On Monday of last week November 11 Moravia High School pupils and teachers observed Armistice Day by singing America Johnny Comes Marching Home Long Long Trail Smiles Keep the Home Fires Burning Stay Spangled Banner ALC 33. Misa Ellis read the singing May McDanel played the piano and a prayer for Our Nation was read.
Moravia High charts a red hot basketball season with four lettermen returning Ernie Kaster Kenneth Cullers Noorden Slavin and Pearl Broshar leading the squad. A robust schedule features home and away games from December to February plus tentative tournaments and a strong emphasis on training rules for all boys athletics.
Twenty second Lynch Declamatory Contest set for November 26 with twenty entrants across Oratorical Dramatic and Humorous divisions. Notable selections include Lucile Coltrain At The Grave of the Unknown Soldier Josephine Foster The Still Undiscovered America Opal Roger Engineer Connors Son Dorothy Dodd The Last Leaf and Norma Lee Firkins China Blue Eyes. Previous winners include Clarence Sheldon Helen Main and Norma Lee Firkins.
The Freshman Homemaking Classes continue the breakfast unit and will learn to make quick breads such as muffins and biscuits this week. The advanced class finished the color unit and will start the social relationship unit next. Seventh and eighth grade girls will soon learn how to make cocoa, notes L. C. 32.
The Young Teachers Society met in the Normal Training Room last Friday for a 20 minute session. Clarence Sheldon presented a talk titled The First Thanksgiving. Plans were made for the annual Homecoming for Normal Training Department graduates now teaching in rural schools, possibly December 7.
A compact clippings card lists varied items including a dating style Wanted advertisement for a bedroom measuring 22 by 11 feet, a note of a youth killed and dies, a proverb about work, a remark on radio stations in the U S, and a line about cadets hearing wild.
Kentuckians held for slaying boy may recover. Mr White built a new front porch on three sides. A wise man thinks he knows but little, an ignorant man thinks he knows everything. A series of brief quotes and exchanges appear throughout the page following the bungalow notice.
Ralph Davis, a 1928 M H S graduate, visited Tuesday of last week. The school welcomes graduates from different years to tour various rooms and subjects, enjoying a few minutes of exploration.
A poem fragment describes a freshman approaching with growing unease. The figure halts and gazes toward the street before advancing again, the scene conveying a freshman's fear and arrival.
In the Commercial Department many typewriters stay busy with day duties while shorthand classes meet. Several students received awards for speed tests with Remington 40 words per minute certificates awarded to May McDanel and Genevieve Donovan. A 60 words per minute Shorthand II certificate went to Veril Lugle, Maurine Smith, Genevieve Donovan, and Leona Kuster for five minutes at 60 wpm with a B6 percent grade. An 80 word rate will be tested soon, with the possibility of a word certificate signaling strong work. No first class tests yet, but they will begin soon. LK. a
The Juniors held a lively party in the high school gym last Tuesday evening. Students and a few teachers joined in games such as taffy pulling and apple ducking for apples. Everyone left hoping for another similar gathering soon.
The Moravia High School football team completed the 1929 season with a decisive victory over Tracy. Moravia dominated every phase, gaining 6547 rushing yards to Tracy's 87 and 419 scrimmage yards to 9, while Tracy struggled with six punts averaging 14 yards.
The questions ask about snake species known, if fish swim up Niagara Falls, author of the first modern novel, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Iowa's admission as a state, the meaning of Economics, handling an old horse in a bathtub, and Columbus voyages to America.
Fragmented trivia style item lists various claims. It includes notes on corn called little corn, pedestrian left side rule, Rome’s fall 476 year, stock drop claim, a cryptic song line, butter price, a Paris dated signature, credit transaction definition, and a mayoral claim about Jimmie Walker. The fragmentary text mixes errors and unclear attributions.
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