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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1929
Page
8
A compact collection of notes and items ranging from jokes and poems to culture notes and miscellaneous sections. Includes references to convocation and athletics with brief mentions of music box and grade notes.
The Sidney basketball team lost 19 to 17 at North Platte then defeated Gothenburg 27 to 18. North Platte won on late luck despite Sidney leading most of the game. Gothenburg’s Barnes led the Swedes to a 9 to 2 halftime edge before Sidney's rally. Next week Potter and Alliance visit Sidney with Sterling at Sterling.
The upcoming carnival at Sidney High School will be held Friday night January 18 in the vocational agriculture building. It is promoted as the biggest and best yet, with all students and the community invited to attend and enjoy a good time.
The forenoon home economics class hosted mothers at a Friday tea. Thelma Brewer and Helen Johnson welcomed guests. Vera Dimick presided at the tea table. The pink and white decorated room and pink nut cups complemented a delightful afternoon, with mothers expressing appreciation.
Opening of the semester brings solid geometry with Mr. Davis and bookkeeping with Miss Abbott. Abbott also teaches business English to commercial students and trainers. Gillette leads American literature, Fitzsimons supervises declamatory study, and Weymouth heads a growing debating class with an expectation of a strong team in Sidney.
Cornelius Sheldon started kindergarten last week. First grade girls held a doll show with dolls brought by Santa. Second graders plan toy week and making toy books. Kathleen Carlton returned to third grade after a weeks absence. Wayne Brown was absent several days. The junior high enjoyed a radio program Friday morning.
Leonard Fine was out of school last week with flu. The fourth grade is studying government and has learned many interesting facts about local and county officers and their roles.
Midyear exams last Thursday and Friday finish the first half of the school year. Registration delays avoided, the new semester starts Monday January 20. Eighteen weeks are seen as a success and students are urged to strive for a strong second half.
Dale Chambers Vernon Stiverson and Bill Jortan attended the basketball game at North Platte Friday night. Mrs Mulets and Mrs Dimery were substitutes at Eastward last week reaching the first and second grades. Arthur Zike Don Jorgenson Edgar Johnson Fred Vath and Heinie Bauman motored to Denver and Fort Collins Sunday. Wilmena Kennedy was absent from school Monday morning having gone to Fort Morgan to attend the funeral of her uncle. Everyone has thoughts of the exams. Three of the class of 29 Kermit Moore Fanabell Zike and Irene Brooks will finish their work for graduation at the end of the first semester.
Announcements covered registration and meetings for a proposed declamatory class and a ten minute rally Friday during convocation periods. The assembly has enjoyed these periods. If the first two efforts prove as fruitful as the rally, student benefits are assured.
The chemistry laboratory equipment installation is nearly complete with the arrival of a laboratory table capable of seating 16 students. It features water and compressed air jets, a sink, acid proof wood surface, and 16 small plus two large compartments for manuals aprons and apparatus. The table will enable extensive experimentation next semester.
Home economics girls plan a community project to obtain an electric six tube Atwater Kent radio for the school. Nash coffee certificates from every can will fund the radio, with 6550 units needed. Mothers of Sidney cooperate, and the carnival features handkerchiefs vases clothes hangers and other novelties along with hot meals and a fortune teller.
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