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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1937
Page
6
The piece argues that the word industry means systematic employment steady attention to business and human effort to create value. It urges students to study regularly organize notes and focus in class and study hall to maximize learning and future success.
Reading enhances study, knowledge and personal development. People read for enjoyment, knowledge, or hobby interests, broadening horizons and forming independent opinions through engaging material.
A reader questions student use of foot scrapers at the school door on cold days and urges pride in the building funded by taxpayers. The piece then defines a stingy-puss as a petty mooch who crowds others at social spots, warning readers to reform before the next party.
A dreamlike poem describes a blue gray mist and a small voice heard at night. West Wind stirs a glowing glade, dew falls, birds nest, and flowers lie in sleep. The speaker searches the scented night but cannot locate the small voice or its call.
A sociology class listed favorite reads such as Heidi Teen SevenTeen Last Days of Pompeii Macbeth When Knighthood Was in Flower Unchartered Ways Little Women Ben Hur White Flag The Little Minister The Crisis Scarlet Letter and others The group spends more on movies than books averaging 1.63 dollars per member monthly while some contribute none The class holds 810 books total averaging 18 per person.
A brief line notes that collaboration is valued and that continued support will be appreciated, signaling goodwill and mutual benefit without detailing actions or figures.
The Wallace school reports many students with perfect attendance across kindergarten through fifth grade and lists those with perfect spelling in several grades. New pupils Rosalind Harwood and Harold Van Winkle are mentioned, along with a note that all twenty four pupils earned grades of A or better.
Description of Miss Roberta Stone's music office with a new table for Miss Ruth Stewart, a funeral cape for the operetta, a green bookcase packed with music, and photos of former students. A student asks about pep club as others tune Major and Minor Triads while an electric victrola sits atop the piano.
A collage of gossip items recalls Ray Whisler and Frances Sartor, Jean Davis with Dick Birney, Mary Hunston with Jimmy Campbell, and other romantic intrigues from recent Tuesday and Sunday evenings. The column references Cheerio and Dixie Carter, mentions of an ice rink hope, and playful tales about the Chalupa twins and Santa Claus with candy.
The sixth and seventh grade geography rooms feature a museum of advertising products showing manufacturing stages for oil ink sugar coffee flour and rubber and coal and rock specimens plus charts. Plans include after school movies on European countries and dam projects.
Lincoln first grade pupils plan a Home Unit around a donated playhouse from Graham Department Store. They describe their homes, builders, and room use while exploring home types and family roles. The project aims to teach regulation, cooperation, and how families secure food, clothing, and security.
The article notes freshmen across subjects engaging in new units. Latin students plan Latin storytelling and Christmas songs, while math students study interpreting graphs. English classes begin Silas Marner, science covers heat distribution, and business training simulates banking operations.
Africa and New Zealand are mentioned as the object of this exercise to get answers and start a correspondence. The students had some work last year. Next week the class will begin interesting letters in the study of Asia.
Washington High School Glee Clubs present the operetta In Old Vienna on Thursday evening with Miss Roberta Stone directing. Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 8 00 at Phil in and Hebner's Drug Store for 25 cents. The cast features Jonas Pennington June Pennington and Lady Vivian, with Maurice Brayton conducting the orchestra and a string quintet providing numbers.
Dr T W Preston spoke to a high school assembly stressing personal purpose in education. He argued the most valuable thing in the world is fire, and challenged students to examine why they attend school. He used humor and a Texas ranch tale to warn against vanity and urged value through deeds.
The Heights School pupils engage in daily exercise totaling fifty minutes weekly with outdoor bat ball and other games. Captains Mary Johnson and Joe Goodlander lead bat ball teams while grades perform dances and relays indoors. Perfect attendance praised across kindergarten to fifth grade, though space limits hinder activities.
A partial roster mentions Jean Walker Steele Paul Dodder Cecil Replogle Viasta Musil Ramona Riley Bonnie Ryan Pat Smith Wilma Thompson Ruth Wead Dick Turner and two gypsy dancers Betty Drake Frances Adams with unclear context or event.
Student reporter Rat Wead visits Heights School to report cracked exterior walls, sinking plaster, and sagging doors. The building is crowded with two grades sharing a room, prompting plans by the school board to replace four small structures with two larger modern buildings in north and south locations. Heights is prioritized due to its worst condition, though concerns about safety persist if delays continue.
The Washington Junior College teams set off on a three game swing through Albia and Centerville starting today. They face Albia tonight, then Centerville Tuesday, with a return trip home for a game at Tore Friday. The squad hopes for three wins despite limited knowledge of the opponents.
Marthe Timmerman from Waterloo Tow and Dorothy M Raymond from Trinidad Iowa join He Grade School staff. Timmerman studied at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and Stockton College Missouri. she teaches English and language arts to the IC and fifth grades, collects poems as a hobby. Raymond attended Stockton College and Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. she teaches spelling in the fourth grade and enjoys handwork and reading. Betty Bishop becomes a junior class teacher after completing coursework at Bedford. she lists swimming horseback riding as hobbies and is taking English American History Typing and Short Story courses.
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