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Show ( MINERSVILLE NOTES An interesting stereopticon lecture on the Boy Scout movement was given by Mr. Wil T. Morris in the school house on the evening of February Feb-ruary 21. The slides showed the activities of a group of Boy Scouts in Clifton, New Jersey, giving the typical activities of such groups, including in-cluding camps, hikes, semaphore signaling sig-naling and first aid work. This lecture lec-ture is the second of a series to be presented on Wednesday evenings, at a price just enough to cover the rental of the slides. On last Wednesday Wednes-day evening the attraction was a song recital by Fred C. Graham. Washington's birthday was observed ob-served in the Minersville schools with a program at the close of the morning session and a half holiday in the afternoon. In the high school the program included essays by the students on Washington as a boy and as a statesman, and of patriotic songs and band selections. In the evening the high school conducted an old fashioned costume dance in the Wood's Hall, where a number of clever costumes were seen. A number of "social hours" have been held after school recently, where the students join in an informal infor-mal hour of dancing and practice in new dance steps. They will be continued con-tinued in the future. LeRoy Potter, small son of Oscar Potter, is seriously ill with typhoid-pneumonia. typhoid-pneumonia. Several new cases of the measles have appeared in town, but so far they have not spread into families other than those in which they first appeared. A |