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Show Appropriate "Armistice Day" Exercises Held at High School Although no extensive preparations prepara-tions had been made for the observance observ-ance of "Armistice Day" in the Gunnison Gun-nison High school, an impromptu affair af-fair was staged that proved intensely intense-ly interesting. At two o'clock a program, pro-gram, consisting of patriotic songs and addresses by men who had been in the service in the United States and abroad was given in the assembly assem-bly room at the school, and the day was fittingly observed by the patriots patri-ots of the school. The program opened by the school singing "The Star Spangled Banner" under the leadership of Fred Fjeld-sted. Fjeld-sted. Mina Beauregard, who nas hist returned from the Siberian coast where he has been doing service for the United States, gave a. brief talk of the lite of a soldier in the foreign lands. He also exhibited trophies, comprising money and pictuics and war relics, and his description was most entertaining. -' Roy Madsen, instructor of agriculture agricul-ture and mechanical arts, and who , also saw service in the camps of this country, gave a brief outline of (be doings at Camps Ft. Riley and Ogol-thorpe. Ogol-thorpe. where, he was stationed. Mi;. Madscn's address was followed by the experiences of Leo D. Bardsley, instructor of social science at the High school. Mr. Bardsley was stationed sta-tioned at Ft. Leavenworth and Camp Beauregard during his period of service ser-vice in the army. |