Texas Week Recalls Independence Hero Stephen F Austin
The Glow Worm notes Texas Week covering Texas independence on March 2. Dorotha Darwin recalls Stephen F Austin as founder and father of Texas and Moses Austin’s land grant that enabled a Brazos River colony founded in 1821.
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Texas
Texas Independence
Mexico
Stephen F. Austin
Moses Austin
Stephen
Brazor River
Austin
United States
Dorotha Darwin
Absentees Rise Across Grades in Local School
Mary Alice Harrison and Velma Holland urge students to return as records show one third of first grade, one third of second grade, one fifth of third grade, one third of fourth grade, and one third of sixth grade were absent this week. They express concern and hope for prompt attendance.
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Mary Alice Harrison
Velma Holland
Second grade teaches community helpers through pictures
Pupils display drawings showing a child helping his mother with washing a dog guarding his master's playthings aiding the organ player, creek water for cows, and horses helping the farmer. They have learned to tell time marking post office hours and studied flag etiquette as their class ends.
Third Grade Pupils React to Ill Teacher Miss Sallye
The third grade pupils express sorrow over Miss Sallye's influenza illness this week and look forward to her return. Students enjoy Mrs. Manning's instruction while missing their teacher.
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Miss Sallye
Janis Jayne Horton
Homer Frank Coffman
Bettye Nell Yeager
Billy Joe Riddle
Jimmie Lou McCorstin
Ruth Lightford
Roy Taylor Jr
Don Newman
Lonnie D. Martin
Betty Jo Pierce
Fourth grade studies transportation history and poetry
The class examines the exchange of goods and interdependence of communities, tracing earliest travel modes such as pack trains wagons and stage coaches and discussing present day travel. Longfellow poems booklet projects honor the poet's birth with student compilations.
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Longfellow
Fifth graders study birds and test outcomes noted
Language arts study on birds led by group captains Wallace Reeves Foucheaux Vestal Pattie Everheart Edith Harper and Martha Louise Vestal. In spelling fifty words girls beat boys while six headmarks named Betty Jane Harper G C Brown Cecil Magers Billie Jo Phillips John Biggerstaff and Robert Owens appeared. Arithmetic tests showed progress after retakes with Packards rising from zero to eight and Lincoln Zephyrs from four to eight.
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Wallace Reeves
Foucheaux Vestal
Pattie Everheart
Edith Harper
Martha Louise Vestal
Betty Jane Harper
G. C. Brown
Cecil Magers
Billie Jo Phillips
John Biggerstaff
Robert Owens
Packards
Lincoln
Map Week in Sixth Grade Highlights Dependency
Sixth grade social science classes create maps showing Texas reliance on the rest of the United States for groceries fish paper and forests. The notices acknowledge the deaths of J. W. Cantrell and Billy George Queener and report that Billie Rachel Dixon and C. J. Watson returned to school after an absence. Billie Rachel sprained her ankle in a bicycle fall.
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United States
Texas
J. W. Cantrell
Billy George Queener
Billie Rachel
Seventh Grade Girls Build Dormitory Corner in Class
The home hygiene class under county health nurse Miss Edna Druliner, composed of seventh grade girls, has fenced off a corner of the old sixth grade room and is furnishing it as a bedroom in order to study practical living skills.
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Edna Druliner
Home Care Class Receives Bed Donation From Mayor Echols
Betty Atkinson and Mary Dale King define social science as the study of a group of people in the home, school, community, and world problems. Mayor Echols provides a bed for the class and is thanked for the generous donation.
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Echols
Mr. Echols
Betty Atkinson
Mary Dale King
Seventh Grade News Sevens grade groups study city services and notable figures
Mr Manning divides students into groups to explore town business such as water, lights, gas, railroads, banking, clubs, and churches. In arithmetic they read five large numbers for a colored block. Fords and Chevrolets tied Friday morning. Language arts groups study inventors ancient heroes presidents writers women Texas heroes explorers with oral reports booklets and a word list.
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Manning
Texas
Stapleton and
Teeman Sanders
Grammar School Baseball Lineup Revealed in Local News
The Grammar School lineup lists G W Ford as catcher Wilton McFarland as pitcher Calvin Pennell at first base Morris Fogle Gillett at second base Jack Thornhill at third base Lewis Versal at short Emerson Sears at second short Paul Simmons in left field Otto Russell in center field Robert Waldo in right field The team awaits a forthcoming game with players Vestal Thornhill noted.
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Grammar School
G. W. Ford
Wilton McFarland
Calvin Pennell
Morris Fogle Gillett
Jack Thornhill
Lewis Versal
Emerson Sears
Paul Simmons
Otto Russell
Robert Waldo
Lewis Vestal
Baseball Wham Girls vs Boys Ends 9-0
Wednesday afternoon game pitted girls against boys with the final score 9 to 0 in favor of the boys. The girls lineup includes Alma Jo Sanderson, Mary Alice Harrison, Malachia Wright, Charlie Sue Childress, Dorothy Sue Douglas, Marjorie Mears, Lucille Starr, Lydia Mae Arney, Myrtle Taylor, and Margaret Coffey.
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Alma Jo Sanderson
Mary Alice Harrison
Malachia Wright
Charlie Sue Childress
Dorothy Sue Douglas
Marjorie Mears
Lucille Starr
Lydia Mae Arney
Myrtle Taylor
Margaret Coffey
Measles Hits Grade One School Outbreak Prompts Parental Health Action
The first grade faced a measles outbreak with many absences. Health teacher Miss Druliner inspected for communicable diseases and found defects, urging parents to have children examined by family doctors. Only fifteen of thirty-eight pupils remain present. restoration hoped soon. Social studies notes interdependence with notebooks, maps, and graphs detailing reliance on others for goods and services. The fifth graders summarize regional specializations from agriculture to manufacturing and demographics.
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Druliner
Robert Waldo
Jackie Lee Thompson
Unclear Names Prompted Riddle About Abilities
A cryptic refrain lists several women with varied skills or traits rumored or questioned by a writer identified as A. J. S. The items mention piano playing reading talking and baseball ability alongside misc descriptors, creating a puzzling, fragmentary line.
Dust Storms Damage 8.7 Million Acres in Plains States
The Department of Agriculture reports 8 710 000 acres in Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado damaged by dust storms. About 57 percent of the surveyed area is damaged with 7 091 000 acres only slightly affected. Erosion emerged after early 1900s dry farming. The study urges large-scale land use shifts and aggressive soil and water conservation across the Southern Plains. Counties surveyed include Bent Powers Baca Colorado Kansas Oklahoma Texas and related counties.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Great Plains
Bent, Powers
Baca
Hamilton
Stanton
Grant
Morton
Stevens
Seward
Cimarron
Beaver
Dallam, Sherman
Hansford, Ochiltree
Hartley, Moore, Oldham
Deaf Smith
Nice Daddy Officer at 3 A.M. Conversation Scene
A man pacing a sidewalk at 3:30 in the morning asks what the officer is doing there. The gentleman explains he forgot his key and is waiting for his children to return so they can let him in.
Iron Irene Died Humming in 1930 Schroeder Case
Harrisburg report recounts Irene Schroeder known as Iron Irene and W. Glenn Dague, partners in a spree of store holdups across multiple states. After their capture in Arizona, Irene sang on the way to execution and both were sentenced to death following the New Castle trial.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Schroeder
Irene
W. Glenn Dague
Hill County
Arizona
Paul
Moore
Dague
Donnie
Benwood
W. Va
Dagne
West Virginia
West
Phoenix
Ariz
New Deal
Margiotti
New Castle
Hazil
Rockview Prison
Irene Schroeder
Robert Elliott
Yale Professor Killed By Bike At Yale
Professor Edward D Robinson of Yale University and editor of the American Journal of Psychology died in New Haven Hospital from injuries after a bicyclist struck him Wednesday morning in front of his office. The 44 year old psychologist was injured when a Yale divinity student rider collided with him.
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New Haven
Conn
Edward D. Robinson
Yale University
Robinson
Yale Graduate School
American Journal of Psychology
Yale Divinity
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