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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
7
The seniors have worked two weeks on The Ghost Bird a mystery comedy. A rehearsal during vacation is planned to enable a performance soon after Euster. Further announcements will follow.
An open forum discussion among freshmen debated abolishing six week tests. The class concluded tests should remain for their own good. Other topics included extending noon to an hour and a half and improving student conduct.
Miss Oleson leads first graders Jeanette Morf Maxine Peters Enecia Lamb Roger Boeckman Virgil Duecker and Lillian Bathke as they pass the 75 mile mark in a number race in blue cars The group aims to reach 100 mastered addition combinations and ride a red car Their band practices for the spelling contest next week.
Miss Milroy's class reports a cold Monday and warm Thursday while studying the sun and shadows. Students created sun shadow pictures, performed folk dance, clown, animal imitations, wrestling and boxing skits. Health chores are checked daily, weekly scores tallied, and the class maintains a news bulletin board to encourage outside reading.
Miss Boyle's class reports narcissus blooms mostly white with some yellow. Pupils measure classmates for height in feet and inches, while arithmetic covers inches feet and yards. A Dutch program honored mothers with songs, dances, and a serve lunch.
Iowa extension poultry specialist W M Vernon outlines two clean-ground methods for brooding chicks: a yard rotation plan in a large garden or fenced 1 to 3 acre area and using fields adjacent to the farmstead. Details cover yard division, fencing, crop placement, rotation timing, and green feed, plus brooder placement and early grass strip practices.
A historical page lists songs and characters including In Wooden Shoes and We Like Windmills featuring Sue Zenovia Henning Billy Lavern La dage Hans Betty Stuckenberg Greta Eunice Peacock and others. The Windmills is a song performed by all with a closing address by Betty Schmidt.
In Miss Conklin's sixth grade English class a debate titled That a Policeman Is More Important than a Teacher showcased affirmative speakers Edward Donald Everett Wilmer Arnold and negative speakers Violet Iris Edwin Laura Iola. Judges Gertrude Loren Melvin Florence deemed the contest close with the negative slightly ahead. Lavern was timekeeper. The class also covers six weeks tests, scale drawings in arithmetic including a 1 inch equals 10 feet basketball court and a tennis court, geography on Alaska, and notes that Iola Kuker wrote the weekly news.
Ellen Wie Brand returns to school after illness. Camp fires held joint practice Monday night for about half an hour. Both groups continue nightly rehearsals all week except Wednesday for their play.
March 21 is proclaimed Bird Day by Iowa law and urged by the Iowa Fish and Game Commission to protect and aid birds year round. The article notes birds eat insects, spread weed seeds, assist sailors in fog, and support crops, urging citizens to provide food, nest materials, houses, baths, and protection, and to keep bird counts from winter visitors.
Iowa officials note the state has some of the nation’s best trout waters in the northeast, with 27,000 adult trout stocked last fall. Improvements and cooperation of sportsmen are hoped to yield premier fishing over five years while spawning-area protections preserve future fry.
The spring flight of ducks and geese has started statewide with Pintail, Mallard, and Baldpate appearing in large numbers. Between now and mid April observers will have many species in peak plumage across Iowa.
The Fish and Game Commission explains why openings for game fish are delayed to May and June. The article notes biological and conservation reasons behind the seasonal closures and their aim to protect breeding periods and sustain fish populations.
A brief note argues that safeguarding in early spring is not merely desirable but essential, calling for vigilance as seasonal conditions shift and new risks emerge.
Mr. Q. A. Clark, living on a La Porte City area farm, moved there 21 years ago. John Jago, deputy warden of Waterloo, notes that during the first summer on the farm he caught a small chub about three inches long. The fish later grew to about 14 inches in a water tank by March 1, 1933, when inspected. Read the Leader advertising.
A vintage medical notice promotes Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for constipated babies. It advocates daily half teaspoon for bottle or breastfed infants to prevent fretfulness vomiting and poor weight gain. The ad cites the doctor's forty seven years of practice and 3500 births with no maternal or infant loss.
Stagehand suggests lowering the curtain as a stage manager frets over a living statue in performance. The hiccuping prop becomes a comic disruption backstage.
Miss Ruth Sheets, a Michigan schoolteacher, touts a nerve remedy she used during college and teaching duties. The ad promotes the medicine at drug stores with a large bottle priced at $1.00 and a small bottle at 25 cents, offering a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
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