High School Observes Lee and Jackson Birthdays
Barnard E. Bee Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy held a program at the high school auditorium honoring General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. Students from the public speaking class presented addresses readings and songs with veterans from the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp in attendance.
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Barnard E. Bee
Daughters of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall’ Jackson
Old Confederacy
The
Union
Albert Sidney Johnson
William Gunn
Frederick Abbott
William Madden Hill
Bonham School Orchestra
Marjorie Will
Robert B. Lee
Henry Herndon
Marie Robert
Katie Sheehan
Stonewall Jackson
Robert M. Putman
Helen Gordon
Marion Johnson
Olivette Wise
Albert Sydney Johnston Camp
Philomathlean Debating Club Debates Noon Schedule
The Philomathean Debating Club held an afternoon meeting with a five minute speaking limit. The affirmative won as Ruth Roby Thelma Van Riper faced Lois Huerman Margaret Church. Helen Gordon spoke on educating immigrants and Louise Lucas read The Last Triumph of the Virginian. Committees were named for the semester and a Junior Philomathean visit planned.
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Philomathean
Ruth Roby
Thelma van Riper
Lois Huerman
Margaret Church
Students Hear Dr Hibben At Local Academy
Dr John Grier Hibben head of Princeton University spoke to students at San Antonio Academy and West Texas College in the High School auditorium. He described addressing a body of young men preparing themselves for life and noted Europe would not host such a large gathering.
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San Antonio Academy
West Texas College
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Hibbon
Europe
Audi
Ruth Henry Bids Farewell as Mark Twains Club Ends Term
The retiring Mark Twain Club president Miss Ruth Henry gave a farewell address Friday. Miss Venna Cocke became the new president and urged maximum cooperation for strong results. Readings included An Humble Romance, A Tardy Thanksgiving, and Cassidy. Kipling Day slated with Henry presenting life and style of Kipling.
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Mark Twain Club
Ruth Henry
Venna Cocke
Katie Jenke
Pauline Huck
Faye Woods
Debated Mexico Intervention Stance at Hayne Society
In a Hayne Society debate Harold Bateman and Edward Clavin spoke against the motion that Mexico intervention would be justified after the 18 American miners murder. Bateman named best speaker. Jacobs and Wolf formed the affirmative. Visitors attended. new members Paul Deitz and Werner Rennert took the oath.
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Hayne Society
Harold Bateman
Edward Clavin
Mexico
Messrs
Isadore Jacobs
Osias Wolf
Paul Deitz
Werner Rennert
Harry Halff
Hayne
Cannon
Roseman
Huse
Dubinski
Carle
Thomas
Belgian History Club Opens With Business Meeting
The History Club held its first meeting under the new regime with Miss Ade laide Lane as president presenting plans for the year. The group will use the printed year book as its main activity and aims to distribute dainty year books by March. Committees were named for programs and year book tasks, plus a standing committee to recruit new members.
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History Club
Adelaide Lane
Denay
Ruth Ragsdale
Bella Rose
Eing Schrand
Rheta
Clare Ladd
Osnah Sadovsky
Robert Putnam
Sadie Feller
Isabel Foster
Belgium Lecture by Prof Van Tomme at Room 13
The program committee announces Professor Van Tomme of Belgium will lecture at the meeting in Room 13 next Tuesday at 2 15 PM. A graduate of the University of Louvain he will discuss Belgium in General and Generals in Belgium. Mr Kiesewetter will give a talk on Mernier a Belgium Sculptor to follow. Public attendance invited.
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van Tomme
Belgium
University of Louvain
Belgiun
Kiesewetter
Mernier
Water supply discussion at San Antonio High School
Miss Iida Goldbeck led a talk tracing the water system from artesian wells to hydrants, while Miss Irma Huebinger reviewed a health topic for soldiers in Europe. The society adopted a year book, ordering about seventy five copies to be pocket sized for members, with distribution planned at Wednesday's meeting.
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San Antonio
Iida Goldbeck
Irma Huebinger
Europe
Travis Junior Congress Changes Meeting Day
The Travis School Society of the Junior Congress shifts its meeting from Tuesday to Monday. Twenty members under leader Mursand debated preparedness with Cunningham and Cartwright for the affirmative and Lentz Hagelstone for the negative. Judges Hubbard Meerscheidt and Hill ruled two to one for the negative.
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Travis School Society
Travis Schol
Meerscheidt and Hill
High School Congress
Compulsory Subjects Debate At Jeff Hall
A Friday debate in Jeff Hall weighed mandating core subjects: math, physics and chemistry. Proponents Reavis Cox and Luz Robalin urged compulsion, while Harold Hill and Irving Archer opposed. Judges McCalla Foster and L R Smith ruled for the affirmative. A declamation on Lincoln's Gettysburg dedication impressed. a second vote backed yearbook printing 22 to 3, with distribution planned at the next meeting.
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Jeff Hall
Reavis Cox
Luz C. Robalin
Harold Hill
Irving Archer
Messrs. McCalla
Foster
L. R. Smith
Kenneth Mceee
Lincoln
Gettysburg
House
Robert Putnam
Weldon Davis
Alex Garza
Lee Roy Smith
Spanish Club Elects Officers at San Antonio High
The San Antonio High School Spanish Club held a close spring election naming Alex Garza as president Reavig Cox as vice president May Hull as secretary Luz C Robalin as treasurer Bertha Booth as sergeant at arms Corrine Mair as parliamentarian and Nellie May Scrivener as reporter. The new president announced the year book system for next year and committees will meet to prepare a year book for members.
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San Antonio High School
Alex Garza
Reavig Cox
May Hull
Luz C. Robalin
Bertha Booth
Corrine Mair
Nellie May Scrivener
Debating Teams Chosen For Inter Society Contest
The Congress and Jeffersonian Debating Clubs named their final teams after a Friday session. Six veterans are excluded per side due to Triangular League rules, promoting younger debaters. Jeffersonians selected A Walter Bergstrom and Alfred Appleby. B Ben Morris and Phillip Archer. C Kenneth McCalla and Robert Melton. Congress chose A Oscar Wolff and Lee Hubbard. B Walter Comstock and Alexander Meerscheidt. C William St Claire and Richard Smith. B teams meet Friday March 3. The affirmative argues municipal government should be commission form.
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Congress
Jeffersonian
Jeffersonians
Walter Bergstrom
Alfred Appleby
Ben Morris
Phillip Archer
Kenneth McCalla
Robert Melton
Oscar Wolff
Lee Hubbard
Walter Comstock
Alexander Meerscheidt
William St. Claire
Richard Smith
Principal H. H. Ryan Leads Modernized Main Avenue High
H. H. Ryan, named principal of the San Antonio high school, champions self government, an elective system, and outdoor sports. He has a long career from 1906 including Whitman College and Boise high school, later St. Louis schools, and a Columbus University A M. The school now boasts courts for boys and girls basketball and a volleyball facility with plans for tennis, while Ryan actively participates with teams.
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H. H. Ryan
Main Avenue
Whitman College
Ellensburg
Wash
Ryan
Columbus University
Louisiana State Normal
Boise High School
St. Louis
San Antonio
Congress and Jeffersonians Duel Over Support Teams
The debate sees the pro side backed by Messrs. Comstock and Meerscheidt of the Congress, while the anti side is supported by Messrs. Morris and Archer of the Jeffersonians.
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Messrs. Comstock and Meerscheidt
Congress
Messrs. Morris and Archer
The
Jeffersonians
Inter-Society Clash Preview Between Jeffersonians and Congressmen
Jeffersonians and Congressmen plan a debate on reforming labor and social conditions. Frederick Hein opened the meeting with a war representatives declamation and the day’s topic was the single tax. The affirmative led by Allen and Meerheidt failed against Oscar Wolf and Jack Allensworth. The session closed with a long address on high school responsibilities.
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Frederick Hein
United States
Messrs. Allen and Meerheidt
Oscar Wolf
Jack Allensworth
Jeffersonian Congress Debating Clubs Elect New Officers
The article notes resignations of the reporter and secretary led to new officers Lee Hubbard elected secretary Oscar Wolff reporter. Bartlett Cocke offered criticisms of value to the debater and speaker as six members were chosen to represent the Jeffersonian Congress for the inter-society debate.
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Roy S. Holloman
Bartlett Cocke
Lee Hubbard
Oscar Wolff
Congress
German Club elects officers for spring term
The German Club elected Mildred Hesse as Vorsitzende Arthur Goethe as Zweiter Vorsitzender Anne Mugge as Schriftfuehrerin Raymond Ziegel as Schatzmeister Arthur Kohler as Tuerwart Helen Altoff as Deutsche Berichterstatterin Minnie Hirsch as Englishe Berichterstatterin Laura Lane as Bibliotekarin All officers will take oath next meeting and weekly Thursday meetings start with eight extra programs planned Kaffee Klatch hosted by Star McDaniel Hetta Seebe and Milford Zirkel.
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Vorsitzende
Mildred Hesse
Zweiter Vorsitzender
Arthur Goethe
Schriftfuehrerin
Anne Mugge
Schatzmeister
Raymond Ziegel
Tuerwart
Arthur Kohler
Deutsche Bérichterstatterin
Helen Altoff
Minnie Hirsch
Bibliotekarin
Laura Lane
Manual Arts
Star McDaniel
Hetta Seebe
Milford Zirkel
Olympians in Playlets at Brackenridge High School
The Olympian Literary Society, five months old, presented three playlets in the school study hall. Deedie Mae Smith led Hard Times as Sister Jupe, John Hale and Frank Williams starred in Julius Caesar, and fourteen young actors played The Witch Scarecrow and Little Dicken with eleven frightened children completing the cast.
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Olympian Literary Society
Brackenridge High School
Deedie Mae Smith
Jupe
Julius Caesar
John Hale
Frank Williams
Dicken
Auto dealers seek meeting with Texas Attorney General
A committee of automobile dealers and factory representatives will confer with Attorney General Looney next week in Austin. The department has filed suit against many dealers for alleged anti-trust violations in resale price fixing and territorial restrictions. Paul Smith of Detroit, vice president of Chalmers Motor Car Company, requested the interview.
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Austin
Tex
Looney
Paul Smith
Detroit
Mich
Chalmers Motor Car Company
August Weinert Named Justice of the Peace in Seguin
In Seguin Texas February 12 the commissioners court appointed August Weinert as justice of the peace for Precinct No. 1 to fill the vacancy from Fritz Suchart's death. Eleven applicants competed for the post.
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Seguin, Tex
Commissioners’ Court
August Weinert
Shakespeare tercentenary masque planned by Denton college
The Glee Club of the College of Industrial Arts in Denton plans a Shakespeare tercentenary masque and pageant in May. The concert featured old English songs and costumes, with Miss Justina Smith directing and a 28 member chorus and college orchestra.
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Girls OF State Industrial College
Denton
Tex
Glee Club
The
College of Industrial Arts
Justina Smith
Smith
Dorothy McCray
Theodore Nowlin
Farm Chorus In Snowy Winter by Charlie Scott
A lyrical vignette shows a farmstead through a bleak winter day as tiny winged figures quiet the ferns and animals await morning. The farmer, milkmaid, and livestock share routines and calls of "Co, boss" amid twilight milking and nightly quiet.
Night Lullaby Aboard the Ocean
The verse speaks of a baby asleep as dark waters sparkle green under a moonlit sky. Waves meet softly and form a resting place between the swells. A refrain assures the child the storm will not wake or threaten it.
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Kipting
Night Fears and Prayer From a Brave Young Boy
A boy recalls night fears of imagined figures and voices in a dim room. He confesses bravery in facing creepy sights while fearing to sleep, aided by prayers and his grandmother’s advice, and notes his struggle with temptation and hunger.
Where the Place Called Morning Lies
A poetic query asks if morning truly exists and seeks the location of day. The speaker yearns for a mountain view to witness morning and implores scholars sailors and wise men from the skies for guidance.
Over the hill the farm boy goes poem note
A lyrical fragment by J. T. Trowbridge describes a farm boy leaving the hill country with nature imagery. The scene mentions a giant staff, a poplar tree, katydids, dews, a mink, swallows, and crows as the boy walks home cheerful and hopeful.
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J. T. Trowbridge
Patriotism Poem by Sir Walter Scott Exalts Native Land
The excerpt questions whether any man can claim true patriotism if he never cherishes his native land. It warns that a self centered life, regardless of titles or wealth, leads to a nameless, unwept fate, dying without honor or song.
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Sir Walter Scott
Concord Hymns tribute and poem lines
The excerpt presents Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymns with lines recalling the shot heard round the world and a votive stone memory. It notes a deli shop quip about unpreparedness and business from the Detroit Free Press.
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R. W. Emerson
Detroit Free Press
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