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Show MILFORD SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ARE MANY VARIED MILl'OKD HIGH -SCHOOL AGAIN DEFEATS MINERSVILLE Enthused with confidence in their strength and ability, the Milford high school basket' shooters overwhelmingly over-whelmingly defeated the Minersvllle quintette in the Milford gymnasium last Friday by a score of 32 to 14. Both teams entered the fray with the remembrance of the Minersville game of ,two weeks ago vividly in mind and each hoping to outdo the previous performance. Minersvilb; drew first blood with a field baske: by V. Myers. The Milford boys soon raised this ante however, and from then until the finish the game was always to the maroon and white. The first half was characterized by excellent ex-cellent playing on the part of both teams, both collectively and individually. individ-ually. The opening whistle of the second half found both teams more or less ".up in the air.". The Minersville Miners-ville boys seemed a little discouraged and the Milford team was hardly accustomed ac-customed to having a lead at the end of a first half. The boys like the experience ex-perience of winning though, and they intend to do it regularly. Schow is more like a streak of lightning on the floor at every game, and when lean and lanky Bond takes two steps he is right under the basket bas-ket and his pitches are true and steady. Captain Tanner played his usual high class ball, all over the floor and marshalling his men- with veteran ability. White and Merrill at guard also deserve very commendable commend-able mention for the manner in which they kept their opponents from tossing baskets. The Minersville team is young but fast and with experience should develop de-velop into a substantial organization. organiza-tion. The two men who particularly attracted attention were V. Myers and R. Banks, center and right forward for-ward respectively. Their foul pitching pitch-ing averaged very high; in fact, far superior to that of the Milford aggregation. ag-gregation. Mr. Larsen, , Minersville . coach, refereed the game. Other officials, of-ficials, of the game were: McAlister and Griffiths, scorekeepers, and Wells and Stewart, timers. " HIGH SCHOOL NOTES A benefit dance was given at the high school gym. on Wednesday night. The proceeds .went towards buying a medal for George Atkin and helping the rest of the boys at the front. In order that the students may be able to have better access to the library and thus make more extensive extens-ive use of it, most of the books have been moved to one of the classrooms. class-rooms. This room is used very largely for study periods and students stu-dents are allowed' to take reference books out for one period if they so desire. ' The Freshman class will give a dance on Friday night. Judging from the interest being taken in it, this dance will prove as successful as all of the school dances have done so far. ' The event which seems to be creating cre-ating more enthusiasm than any other this week is the basket ball game scheduled for Friday night. The game will be between our local high school team and the team from, St. George. The St. George team, we are told, has a good record behind them, but we are sure that our boys will make them play for what they get. Our team has been victorious in the two games played so far and they don't intend to be defeated' at this game. With school and town supporting them, they should be able to carry off the honors for the third time this year. The three new typewriters ordered for the commercial department have arrived and are being put to a very good use. All the typewriters have been used from nine o'clock to four every day and the new ones will be greatly appreciated. There has been considerable agitation agi-tation among the students, concerning concern-ing a year-book. Just how far the enthusiasm will extend remains to be seen, but we feel that this subject sub-ject should be given the consideration considera-tion of every one. A year-book, if successfully published, would mean much to the school, but in order to be successful it must receive undi-; undi-; vided support from the students and j the town. Dances will be given regularly on i Friday nights during the ' holidays : just as they have been during the school term. At the Board of Control meeting last week a system of student body government was discussed and a committee was appointed to draw up ; a suggestive constitution for the proposed government. At the last meeting of this board, the committee made a report of the work done by them and the matter was given considerable con-siderable attention Under the new system, the Board of Control will act i aj a center of government and will probably do most of the business of ; the school. An Informal Court con-! con-! sisting of three magistrates will con-; con-; stitute the judiciary branch of the j government and will be given power t to sentence any offenders as they see fit. Two more members. Mr. Wells and Merrill Miller, were added to the committee and the constitution will be given very careful consideration considera-tion before it is adopted. The new system will probably become effective effect-ive soon after the holidays. j ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Juvenile Officer John Barton made us an official call Thursday of this week. After going over the business in hand he decided that our local officer, of-ficer, Roy Rogers, was meeting and handling our juvenile delinquents in an admirable wray which he commended com-mended very highly. We hope to see one hundred per cent of our Milford teachers in attendance at-tendance at the State teachers' institute, insti-tute, which will be held during the Christmas vacation. We teachers owe that much loyalty to our county and our oounty superintendent. There are a number of the elementary ele-mentary school boys and girls who have become enthusiastic and patriotic patri-otic enough to buy Thrift Stamps. . Miss Evans, the chairman of our school committee, is very enthusiastic enthusias-tic about the thrift stamp work and is receiving able support from the other teachers. We wish that the local Red Cross chapter would in some way connect us up with the Junior Red Cross work. ; The teachers of the elementary school take this opportunity of wishing wish-ing all of the pupils and patrons a 1 Merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous New Year. DEBATING WORK A commendable interest is being shown in the informal debating work being given in the English department depart-ment of the high school under Miss Street. Particular mention is due the eighth grade in the junior division, divi-sion, which has shown an ability equal to that of many students more advanced in years. Of the senior division di-vision the twelfth grade is taking a live interest in the work, giving good indications of much competition for places on the team to represent us in the State High School Debating League. Mr. Bates is in receipt of a list of debating propositions, submitted by the state chairman. A preferential vote will be made on the questions in helping to decide a subject for debate de-bate for all participating high schools. The questions are all live and of intense national and state concern at present. Thus we are assured as-sured of some very interesting debating de-bating work after the Christmas vacation. va-cation. At no time before, in our national history have the issues. confronting con-fronting us as a democratic people been so vital and keenly sensed as-at present. With this spirit as an impetus im-petus debating everywhere is assuming assum-ing unprecedented importance in assisting as-sisting students in becoming real citizens of positive abilities In the affairs of our great democracy. ". |