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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1951
Page
4
A narrator urges a puppy to enjoy life and joyous dreams while possible and warns that winter day will come when those dreams may be remembered as fragile faith and a future loss. The tone shifts to a cautionary lyric about fading happiness and the inevitability of change.
SHS students tested vocabularies during a hall session. Names include Ruth Jannssen, Bob Smith, Mimi Miller, Marilyn Cassens, Mary Snavely, John Michel, Nancy Kunde, Dean Zellar, Miss Schumaker, Pat Elgie, Donna Boyings, Mr. Brandau, Mort Kenner, and Lois Good. The term manutorgium is defined as a towel or napkin.
The Sterling Township High School Band presented its annual winter concert on February 14 at 8 00 pm in Sterling Coliseum conducted by Darrell Dunham. The program included classical works and Gershwin selections with a boys quartet performance and a radio broadcast by WSDR.
A 17 year old asks if staying out until 2 AM was wrong, addressing a correspondence column. The reply urges reflection and personal responsibility, advising the teen to remember limits and consider consequences.
A stream of names and items circulates about lost and worn rings and jewelry among CHS seniors. Accents fall on who owns what with references to birthdays, clubs, and Navy connections, revealing a lighthearted campus rumor mill.
A community birthday roster lists residents with birth dates from April. Notable names include Lino Carrillo Clifford Dettman Barbara Wilson Jo Anne Ohda J Lee Dunbar Janet Williams Deloris Hubbard Tom Slothower Ronnie Williamson Janice Scott Betty Weeks Joan Benishek Mary Huntley Craig Castle Esther Wolber and Delmar McNin Royal Johnson Richard Cox Colleen Wickis Shirley Hippen Donald Hollow Joyce Jacobs Lois Erickson Helen Stern Judy Swain Doris Kunde Sandra Huber Bill Arnold Pee Wee Hernandez Pat Elmendorf Betty Scott Dolly Bell Nancy Rothstein Dick McCormick Lester Weinstine Luella Bushman Daryl Knutsen Delores Maass.
The piece explains the Ides of March from the Roman calendar noting the thirteenth day except in March May July and October when it is the fifteenth. It mentions Caesar’s assassination as the doom day and comments on Shakespeare’s use of the phrase.
The piece tests common adages stating which are true and false. It asserts fright makes hair stand on end as true, growing pains are not perfectly normal as false, eating dirt per lifetime as true, poverty increasing marital bonds as false, and school days as happiest as false with middle years most contentment.
A long itemized roster of patrons and local businesses including Gerdes Jewelry Behrens Furniture Store King Cycle Shop The Smoke Shop Mervyn Ree Michel's Paint Store Gehring's Jewelry Eberley's Dry Cleaners O'Day Shoe Metzner Grain Elevator Rock River Sport Store Haldeman Motor Co Wiles Dodge Plymouth Davis Soda Grill Sterling Floral Shop Haskell's Sullivan's Clothing Store Park's Music Store Grimes Hardware Woolworth Wyne Deaver Manion's Al's Radio Shop Frank Ewing Motor Sales Ruth Stevens Jeanne Ward Foley Motor Sales Gartner's Shoe Shop Grebner's Shoe Store Winn Sandberg's Paint Store Connell's Clothing Annabelle Ray Jewelry and others.
Mention of March 15 in America stirs unease as people recall the income tax due date. The line echoes a historical warning about Ides of March and the modern tax deadline.
A student and teacher exchange in a high school setting centers on classroom informality and grading. The discussion touches on crossing streets, knowledge growth, and a joking about absolute zero in a test.
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