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Show OUR SCHOOLS What's Going- on in County Educational Institutions This Column Belongs to the Pupils and Teuolters Keep It Filled MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL Governmental A council meeting was held January Jan-uary 10 for the purpose of filling the vacancy In the Court of Original Jurisdiction left by Nathan Smith. Eugene Pitchforth was elected to take his place. Leo White was elected elect-ed from the first precinct. The council coun-cil also selected Vivian Duffin chief of police and confirmed his appointments. appoint-ments. The following officers, Harry Har-ry Ravis, Lee Pitchforth, Merrill Miller and Howard Gospel were appointed. ap-pointed. A law was passed prohibiting nuts being brought into the building. Social . The past week has been spent in teaching the various classes the standardized dances. The dancing has been under, the direction of the faculty. The basket ball team leaves on Friday morning for Hinkley, where they will play the first game of the series. From Hinkley they go to Delta where they will play the team of that town. The first game to be played at Milford will be on Friday January 19, 1917 between Milford and Murdock Academy. The team is in good condition and although it is their first year in the league they intend to make a good showing for themselves. Educational The students are preparing for the final exams for the first semester, semes-ter, which will come the latter part of next week. The second semester the junior class will study American History two days and Civil Government two days and current events one day a week. Edgar White, county superintendent superintend-ent of schools visited the school this week. LIBRARY AXD DEBATING CLUB After all the excitement of the Christmas and New Year celebrations, celebra-tions, the Milford Library and Debating De-bating Club comes out on top of the pile to begin Its work for the coming com-ing year. The club is now ready to receive members, who may obtain an admission ad-mission by applying to the secretary for membership cards and paying an admission fee of fifty cents. The club will be glad to receive any good books which the public may see fit to endow upon us, just drop a card to Box No. 3 and the books will be gladly called for. The club will hold its regular meeting on Thursday, January 11, at the High School at 8 p. m., and regular business will be transacted. Yours for a better Milford, REED LATOURETTE, Secretary. B. A. C. NOTES By Lloyd White Last Thursday morning found the classes again filled with cheerful stu dents. All seemed to have enjoyed the holiday festivities and the visit with the folks at home. Now we are glad to resume school work. The first events to break the monotony mo-notony of school work since the holidays hol-idays were two class parties, held on Saturday night. Gordon Hunter entertained en-tertained the College "Kids" at his home where a very enjoyable time was had, the refreshments being pop-corn and apples. The Juniors were given a card party by their class father, Mr. Lunt, at his home. The faculty are now busy preparing prepar-ing for the Farmer'B Round-Up, to be held from February 5 to 15 and for the night school which is to commence com-mence January 22. Next Friday night a basbet ball game will be pulled off between the Murdock and B. A. C. teams. No league games have been played yet, but we are confident of winning a place of honor in the state meet because be-cause of the glorious success our boys met with in their recent tour through Beaver county. Mr. Knudson is coaching the school quartettes who are learning a number of songs which are to be sung for the benefit of the Roundup Round-up visitor and is also working" on the opera "Little Almond Eyes" which will be presented in the near future. The student activity committee are considering a number of plays, one or two of which will be staged as soon as possible. MURDOCK Wednesday, January 3, we came back to earth again, but found only our teachers and a precious set of books waiting for iis. However, by now we are down to good hard work and have forgotten all about holidays. holi-days. If a stranger was to visit the school grounds about 2 a. m., he would think that the Murdock students kept late hours and so we are lately. late-ly. Cramming for examinations is in order now and as a consequence much midnight oil is being burned. We all have dreams wherein A and A plus dance phantastic dances before our eyes. Let us hope that these dreams come true. Friday morning in the chapel, the Philomathean Club entertained the school with the following program that certainly ' was interesting: Duet Meredith Erickson and Ca- millia Malser. New Years Resolutions, Zoe Robinson. Rob-inson. Solo, Louree Skinner. Club History, Eva Bowman. Instrumental, Catherine Bernard. Reading, Celia Jones. ' Dialogue, Loretta Stoney and Camilla Ca-milla Maeser. For variety sake the closing number num-ber was a "ragtime." This was played play-ed to shock the Faculty, but it did-not did-not shock them much. At noon the club entertained themselves with a big feed. We all saw the "Rainbow" Friday Fri-day evening and were more than pleased with it. A hearty welcome will be given when ever the U. of TJ. will favor us with a visit of this kind. The work for the Year Book is progressing rapidly. Manager Wool-sey Wool-sey has secured the photographer, J. J. Booth, who, will be here in a week or two to start his work. Don't forget to boost the Year Book and help out all you can. The basket ball team is working off the evil effects of the holidays. Rogers, whose foot was badly hurt in the game with Dixie before the holidays is back to work again and the other men are in fine shape. Friday, our boys leave for Cedar, where they will play that night and in Dixie Saturday night. Nine rahs for the team. Are you ready for the Aggis dance January 12? It is the best ball of the season arid you can't afford af-ford to miss it. The Aggie boys are noted for their ability to give you a good time. They want to see you (here. ZOE ROBINSON Correspondent to the "News." , MINERSVILLE ITEMS The schools have resumed their normal spirit after a pleasant Christmas Christ-mas vacation. Practically all of the former enthusiasm is now back, plus an added vim of the recuperated teachers and the inspiration of those who attended the U. E. A. at Salt Lake. There is a little flurry of anxiety at the close of the first semester and the discussion of enhanced and broadened work for next year. Last Friday's assembly was taken up in a heart to heart discussion of our inventory of the first part of the year's work with the students of the high school, and some pertinent points of the future plans. The Parent-Teachers Association met Wednesday evening with a slight falling off in attendance due to the excessive cold. The same enthusiastic enthusias-tic and optimistic spirit was present, however. The program consisted of a Ladies Trio, the Woodland Rose Sung by the members of the High School chorus; A Lecture, "The Educational Ed-ucational Co-Partnership, delivered by Will T. Morris of the faculty; Male Trio, Barcarolle, from "The Chimes of Normandy" sung by boys from the high school chorus and the meeting was concluded with a discussion discus-sion of better means of furthering the contribution library that was begun be-gun at the last session. R. W. Dot-son Dot-son was nominated the chairman of a soliciting committee with plenty at competent aid. Under the plan, anyone may either give outright or simply lend books to the library having hav-ing been convinced that it is a very profitable investment. If one hundred hun-dred people can contribute two books each there will be accessible to each one two hundred hooks, an immediate imme-diate dividend of 10,000 per cent, to say nothing of the increased interest it will engender in the Evening Social So-cial Center movement. Funeral services were held over the remains of Mrs. Tilly in the meeting house on Wednesday at 2 p. m. The deceased was seventy two years of age. The services were reported as impressive but in some respect not well attended, especially by members of the choir for the reason rea-son that so many were in the school. WIL T. MORRIS Special Correspondent. |
