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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1936
Page
7
A collage of joke lines and banter from a YMCA scene includes snippets about famous phrases, politics, business, and penny candies. Characters named Miss Rawson Don Allen Jesse Owens Uncle Billy Slug U B Mr Young and Mr Bowers deliver quips about taxes battles and blow gum in a lighthearted nightly skit.
A 1920 play set in Mr Henry Knowles English country house at Midsummer Eve. Melisande longs for romance from a knight in blue and gold but finds reality with suitor Bobby Coote and family life. The dream prince reappears in moonlit forest then returns a teacup in hand as the scene shifts to the twentieth century. The production ends happily.
Last year total enrollment was 539 with 97 graduates. This year freshmen total 192 with 105 boys and 87 girls. Sophomores 144, juniors 137, seniors 110 with 5 percent boys and 62 girls. Six post graduates, four boys and two girls. Total enrollment now 587, up 48 from last year.
Sterling Township High School welcomed Haig Arklin, famed oil painter, for an assembly on October 15. He showcased six by seven foot canvas reproductions of European masterworks and gave an informative gallery tour.
Sterling and Rock Falls hosted R A Dad Waite from October 21 to 24. Waite heads the American Youth Foundation and spoke to Hi Y clubs about sportsmanship citing Knute Rockne. He also met juniors and seniors and advised many students facing leadership questions in the library.
On October 5, 1936 in Champaign Illinois two teams of three boys each with Mr Norman Long and Mr Twardock competed in Meat and Milk Judging Contests. The Meat team Bley Wagenknecht Koster placed second and the Milk team Schuneman Ebersole Landis also took second. Individual results show Schuneman ninth in milk and Bley fourth in meat. They attended the Washington Illinois game as guests of the University of Illinois Athletic Society. Five teen new agricultural class members were inducted November 2 as Green Hands.
Uncle Billy’s Scoop notes mixed school gossip including painted nails among football players friends of the Jones family. Bud Seagren buys moo-moo juice. Harold Speer celebrates Mar gie Rhodes’ return from Canada. Junior rings chosen by a committee. Dick Hulse returns home after an accidental shooting injury.
On November 13 and 14 the sectional corn and poultry show will be staged at Sterling Coliseum.
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