Public School Notes Reports New Pupils and Class Activities
Two new pupils Edith Nolting and Margaret Homann joined the room this week. February's weather chart logged 21 sunny days and 7 cloudy days, with three snow days. A March hare weather calendar uses paper rabbits to mark fair, stormy, and windy days, with color coded ground and weather symbols. A number race tracks additions to 25 miles per car color, with students listed for tan and yellow cars. The class visited a canal bridge, windmill, and learned from stories about a Dutch girl and boy and Dutch windmills. Visitors Irene Doepke and Mabel McIntyre stopped by. two new boys Warren Nolting and Edgar Homann increased the class to seventeen boys and seven girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Nolting
Margaret Homann
Jeanne Doty
Maxine Peters
Gerhardt Rettig
Forrest Bolte
Lavern Droste
Joe Omelik
Gerald Bisbey
Patricia Hale
Jeanette Morf
Virgil Duecker
Enecia Lamb
Roger Boeckmann
Harvey Kowalsky
Kenneth Shipp
Florence Boeckman
Irene Doepke
Mabel McIntyre
Warren Nolting
Edgar Homann
Narcissus bulbs sent and flower show planned at Cedar Falls
A letter requesting eighteen narcissus bulbs to Bancroft's Florist Shop in Cedar Falls arrived last week. The bulbs were received within days, and volunteers are gathering stones to plant them. A flower show is planned later. In class, Dutch stories were written by Jean nine Krueger, including Holland-Holland and a tale about Kit and Kat visiting a windmill.
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Bancroft
Cedar Falls
Jeannine
Holland
North Sea
James Bisbey
Kit
Kat
Grandfather
Jeannine Krueger
Windmills and Dutch Homes In Fourth Grade Class
Fourth grade, under Miss Chesebro, used Dutch themed lessons this week. Students built windmills with components contributed by Betty Stuckenberg Eunice colored the piece Millard Pries supplied a banana crate and box to stand it on they covered it with cloth then formed windmill arms from a box. They also described Dutch home cleanliness and shoe removal practices and created blue spelling books featuring windmill designs.
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Holland
Betty Stuckenberg
Eunice
Millard Pries
Beryl Goodenbour
Lucille Everding
Zenovia Henning
Sixth Grade Reflections From Miss Conklin Class
Sixth grade notes describe lessons in arithmetic checks and indorsements and promissory notes. English class had students explaining a game as if explaining to foreign children. History covers Slavery and Civil War topics while geography completes the Pacific states.
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Aritthmetic
United States
Pacific States
Window decorations brighten school room display
Washington Oregon California children Loren Carpenter Florence Gebert Violet Shipp helped decorate the windows with Dutch windmills geese and green and yellow curtains. Four boys added plant decorations in our room on Monday while recess remains pleasant with warm days and jumping rope. News by Arnold Waterman.
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Washington
Oregon
California
Loren Carpenter
Florence Gebert
Violet Shipp
Arnold Waterman
School News Briefs From Junior High and Fifth Grade
Reports from L W Vanderlinden and Miss Ensminger note eighth grade English tense tests and silent readers about Theodore Roosevelt on Americanization. Seventh graders study Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face and earth moon sun geography with a Tuesday test. Fifth graders tackle nouns plural formation and Iowa history, with a unit on how Indians lived and lost their land and new reference books. Also included are brief profiles of Einstein and Lady Astor with Shaw on socialism and democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leona Doepke
Helen Thomas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Towa
Gretchen Hanff
Florence Bunger
Iowa
Lois Buls
Arlene Schwein
County Seat News Items of Interest
Town notes report officer elections for the coming year with Mrs L C Kern as chair and Miss May Brotherton as assistant. A school board slate includes Arden Young H L Leslie and Anson Woodring. A 40th wedding anniversary surprise for Mr. and Mrs. August Moeller is described with cards music and a picnic supper. City plans discuss unemployment relief garden land use on 23 acres south of town and care of the dumping ground. Several residents face illness injury or hospital care including Dr C F Carstensen typhoid fears and Ray Tabor heart trouble with major surgery recently.
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L. C. Kern
May Brotherton
C. H. Groening
W. A. Rohlf
Business Girl’s Department
Woman's Club
Irene Luesenhop
Elizabeth Staehling
Mary Donahue
Arden L. Young
H. L. Leslie
Anson Woodring
August Moeller
W. A. Watkins
William Howard
Carl Ducker
Unemployed Relief Club
C. F. Carstensen
Ben
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Board of Health
Frank Thoren
J. Y. Hazlett
Ray Tabor
Tabor
H. E. Moehling
E. H. Kramer
Helen Micher
H. G. Benedix
Marie
Nebraska
Milwaukee
Board of Education
American Lutheran Church
C. E. Kennedy
Margaret
Carrie Burrington
Chicago
Kennedy
Emma List
California
Duerschner
Carl Reichert
University Hospital
Gems of that
A fragment from a Sydney bulletin quotes a wife asking about a promised ring as the husband reads a practical illustration. The text hints at a metaphor about gems and gifts in a domestic exchange.
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Bulletin
Sydney
St Patrick Dinner Party Ideas and Green Menu
A humorous guide suggests a March 17 dinner party with green decorations and games like In the Manner of the Word. It includes a St Patrick themed menu featuring green shredded accents, easing guests into a playful Irish mood with blarney rhymes and party favors.
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St. Patrick Way
Progressive Dinner for Young Couples Dinner Club Ideas
A columnist advocates forming a weekly progressive dinner for six to eight couples, with each home hosting a different course. The menu features Lobster and Crab Cocktail, Asparagus Soup, Black Walnut and Marshmallow Yams, Pear Heart Salad, and Apricot Sherbet on Angel Cake, with detailed prep steps for each dish.
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Virginia
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