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Told by the Pupils Publiabtd wttkly by tbt ttbool cbil4rtn of Wilmttll untltr euptrvision of Wilmette Plauground and RtcrMtion Botlrd. I r I ~~ VOL. I NO. 48 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 4, 1929 ., Marshall Finds Animal Study Very Interesting The story of animals is a very Interesting story. I think we should study the animals of our own country because there are just as interesting studies of animals In our country as elswhere. When we went on our trip to YeJJowstone park we had a bear and her two cubs at the hotel every morning to get breakfast. After awhile they became tame and they did not have to fear anybody in the hotel. You should always be kind to dumb animals and they will always be your friends. -Marshall P eterson 7B Howard. Learn Latest Dance "Steps" Teats Feature FineJ Week of School in Year 1928 The seventh and eighth grades of Stolp school observed their last week in school In 1928 by tests, Christmas storie::;, plays, and Christmas trees in the various rooms. There was more or less competition in decorating rooms. 8B had the best d ecorated room in Stolp. In Literature we had to look up the Bible verses, Luke 8-15. which told of Chri st's birth. Each student waH responHible for a Christmas story which Hhe or he had to tell in school. Some of the stories were: "Birds' Christmas Carol," "Noel" "Whar the Ch imes nang-," "The Little' Match Girl," and various other stories. Each room had a Christmas party but no eats. Friday the last day of school we ~ad assembly. There was a two-re I movmg picture, "Ho.ly Night." They tri.ed to get "Scrooge" but could not g t 1t. There was singing· of Christmas ,arols and a Scripture lesson. There was more or le::;:o; a Christmas spirit all week.- Lawrence Buckmaster, Bob Hewitt, 8B Stolp I I I This Class Was Hit Hard by Epidemic of Influenza The "flu" hit the SB class of Howard hard. There being only a few members in the class in the first place, the remaining ones g et twice as many que~tions and glances. On December 19, there were the following out of school: Dorothy Whitney, Evelyn Haugsness, Agnes Anderson, Marjorie Warble, David Ooy, M~rshall Doose, Louts Kludy, Jerome Nevins, Bruce Meaker, and las t but not least, Lee Blaylock, our president. -James Kraft, Ho\Vard 8B THE BRAVE SOLDIER Brave Soldier was the name of a man In Japan. One day he was going for a journey. He would have to cross rivers and go through wnods and go over mountains. At last he came to a village and everybody was weeping in the village. He wondered why they did ~o. He asked a man why they were weeping. The man pointed to the last home on the street. He went on further. He saw two little girls sitting on a step. He asked the girls why everybody was weeping. They pointed to the same house at the end of the street. So he went to the last house. He asked what was wrong. A lady said somebody has to go to the temple in a woods and that she would go. She said who went would not corn~ back. So the soldier said, "Have you a dog?" She said, "Yes." He said, "Put thf' dog in and see what will happen." So Lhey put the dog in the basket. That the night the dog was In the temple. A lot of cats had tor nopen the baske t and the dog jumped out of the basket and killed the leader. All the other cats ran away Into the woods.-James Chronis, Grade ""'lve .Central TDIEL Y lV ARNING Miss Hardick's ronm of Central school had quite a lot of children absent. The names of these children were Elsie and Billy CreHsy, Emma Jean Coffman, Bobby Anderson, Elaine Buck, Richard Harper, and Dick Jones. Most of them have the (Photo by Staff Photographer) flu but they wlll be back soon. Please keep your children from getting the flu. - ·Harold Ray, Fourth Grade Central Ballroom dancing clas.;es sponsored by the Central-Laurel Parent-Teacher ' ) association will resume their les,;ons next week. Here is a typical group of youngsters learning their "steps" at the Wilmette Woman's club building. Head of Junior Police Has a Mystery to Solve "Hap" Gathercoal is not the .owner of a pair of "plus fours" which was given to him by the Howard Junior Police. Without accepting them "Hap" handed· them to ~Ir. Davis because "Hap" does not choo!-;e to run In "plus fours". He does not like to wear plus fours, especially this pair of plus fours, as they have a 50 cent price mark on them. "Hap" is not sure the Junior Police gave them to him as Miss Skidmore, Mr. Stone, and .Mr. Davis all look suspicious. -Eleanor Ricks, Stolp 7A. _____,.____________________________ Will and the Circus DISPLAY BOOK TREES Mrs. Bright from the Wilmette Public library gave smaU p:1.per Christmas trees to all the rooms. They are to put pictures of ten of the best books that the children have read. They are to give them to the library and see who gets the ~ best one. They Will be displayed at the Public library.-Jack Edmonds 7A Howard TEACHER IS ILL We had a substitute teacher recently. Her name was Miss Wells. Our own teacher, Miss Fox, was sick with Ia grippe. We all tried to help our new teacher. We all liked her very much. But we were glad when our own teacher came back.-Grace Smith, 5C Central. ADDITION PROGRESSES TO HOWARD The brick work on the new addition is up to the first story and going higher all the time. Snow delayed the work for quite a while. Fourteen lockers have been moved from the west wall in one piece. Ed, the -janitor, said that he thought the building would be done about September.-Dick Steen, Howard SA KEEP BOOK RECORD The eighth grade of Howard has been keeping a record of the books the pupils have read. Mrs. Stalling had each pupil fill out lined cards. We drew lines for the date the book report was handed in, the name of the book and the author. We have had three book reports since Septeniber.- Jane Carol Sundlof, 8B Howard. NICE TDIE AT DANCE PARTY The annual dancing party of the Martine dancing class was held on December 19. We all had a nice time and expect to go back again.-Bllly Klein, 7B Stolp l THE NUIROD BOLD TilE "SILVER LINING" On my visit to my uncle's farm a year The pupils of the Byron Stolp school ago, I went out hunting in the pasture. were asked by Miss Hayes to memorize I shot at some crows that were in the the following verses 1n their Bibles, pasture sitting on some pine trees, but Luke II 8-15 for the Chri·stmas play that I missed, so I went over by the cows and was gl\'en in the Stolp gymnasium Friday, December 22. But, as many of the thought I'd shoot some cow birds. When main characters were sick, the play was over a small bluff I saw a gopher sitting, called oft and the children did not have I took careful aim and "bing" another to learn the verses.-Eleanor Ricks, 7A gopher bit the dust-What the-! A calf 1-itood up and started shaking his ear, Stolp. which I had just punctured.-Bill Sorsen, Howard SA. SISG CHRIST)IAS CAROLS On the last day of school, Friday, DeTEACHER ABSENT cember 21, Mrs. Clark picked boys and :\lr. Ball, the manual training teacher, girls from the seventh and eighth grades was absent from Manual Training class to sing Christmas carols. The two last reet:> ntly due to lllness.-Billy Klein, 7B periods they went around singing Christ- Stolp mas carols. They sang, "0 Come All Ye· Faithful," and "Silent Night." There were about 20 children singing ~o it was very good. -Frank Christy, 7B Howard GYM TEACHER ILL Our gymnasium teacher, Mrs. Fanckboner, has been absent for two weeks. Miss Skidmore, who directs the afterschool games, Is taking her place. We enjoy Miss Skidmore very much but we hope Mrs. Fanckboner will recover from her Illness soon.-Jane Carol Sundlof, 8B Howard BEGIN BASKETBALL The SB boys have started basketball with 8A during gymnasium .p eriod. The players ~ay every noon In the gymnasium. They choose up sides In the gymnasium and play basketball. It looks like that we have a very good team.-Ernest Bostrom, 8B Howard A CORRECTION The name of Billy Stackhouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Haines Stackhouse, 1011 13th street was inadvertently left out ot the list of boys from the Central and Stolp school! who received a letter In football. Billy wa1 a member of the Peewee team and played In all the ·amea. He Is a member of the sixth School in 2000 A. D. .-rade. One day I decided to take a trip to the near future and visit Howard school. I was quite surprised to find the children being driven to school In aeroplanes. I went to the science class first and Miss Stevens was planning to take her class on a trip to Mars. They were to be shot from a cannon and she thought perhaps she would be back in half an hour. After they had left I went to see Mrs. Groves. She was also going to take a trip but as she wasn't going off the world she expected to be back in a few minutes. Mrs. Clark was going to Europe to study Gyp:o;y music. Mrs. Stalling and Miss Madsen only traveled about once a week, while Mrs. Jone's class felt very disappointed because she told them the best place to study Arithmetic was in the school room. Miss Woodley didn't teach at all because nobody did any cooking. The lunch period was only five minutes as they didn't eat but Inhaled the fumes of food. I thought I had enough and decided to return to the backward year of 1928. - Ruth Bersch, SB Howard (An Original Story) Will Holly was a very poor boy. He had seen the gay circus procession pass, and he wanted to go to the circus. He started off toward the tent hoping he might earn a quarter. As he walked along he saw a horse running away and an old man was in the carriage. Should he do It and maybe get hurt? This was the question. Then a wave of anger surged through him. Of course, he would. What was his life, if he could save the old man's? As 'q uick as li!;htning he ran out Into the street in front of th& oncoming horses. He grabbed the bridle rein and although lte could not stop them he slowed them down to a walk. Just at that moment the rein was taken from him and the horses stopped. Will turned to face a big man who was smiling down at him. "Well done, lad," the man said kindly. The old man had gotten out of the carriage by this time and had come up to them. "My boy," he said huskily, ~·you saved my l~fe. How can I repay you?" Will looked longingly toward the circus tents, but replied, "Oh no ! I don't want any pay. I did it cause, well, oh anyway I don't want anything." The man saw his glance toward the circus tents and handed him a dollar, "Take that and go to the circus and be sure to have a good time." Will stood still a moment and glanced around to see where the man had gone. lie was ' not in sight. Will went to the circus and had a grand time. That night he looked at the paper and saw in large printing, "Millionaire Gives Boy Dollar to Go to Circus." It was a full account of the day's happening. Also his picture was there. There was never a h:u?Pler boy than Wtll Holly when he went to bed that night, tired but happy, -Vivian Lois Grigsby, 7B Stolp. A 1\IOTHER'S BOY Say tellers let me tell yer I'd be happy as a clam, If I only was the feller That my mother thinks I am. She thinks I am a wonder, And knows her little lad . W()u)d never mix with nothing That's ugly, mean, or bad. And lots o' times I sit and think Gee wiz If a !ella was the fella That his mother thinks he Is. -Eleanor Herbon, Central school. I J, · T AN EDITORIAL Are we living up to the same Ideals as our Puritan fathers were? Yes, and no. It must be rememhered that some of _them were more rigid than good. When they came over our country was started with freedom and justice. Washington and Lincoln upheld these rights when we were in danger and distress. We do not want crooked politicians in our government. Keep it clean. Keep the honest men in office who will uphold our rights as cltiztns of the United States of America. We must spend more time on the hope of tomorrow, or our nation wlll be overrun by crooked politicians. We must use to the best of our abtllty a way to Induce the younger generation to keep the ways of America, free from crooked politics ;tnd politlcians.-Dlck Steen, Howard 8A. I f