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l.=sc~tes=====:!l~ewsI J UN I 0 VOL. I, NO. 20 R .L I FE grades of Stolp a wonderful treat. She chaperoned us to the Northwestern Observatory Thursday evening, May 17. after dark. · Before w e wt-nt into the observatory Miss Steve ns pointed out some of the constellations. In the east we saw Bootes, the herdsman and Lyra the harp. Vega is a star in the constellation of Lyra, the harp. It is the bright star toward which the solar system is movinf,;' at the rate of 12 miles per second, but Vega is moving nway at 12 miles p<:lr second, so there is no danger of collision with tht- othf>r stars. . Abon~ us we saw Ursa Major, the . big dipper or thf' big bear. Miss Stevenfi pointed nut four groups of two stars which are th e fe et of the big bear. We saw ersa Minor, the little dipper or the little bear, C emini, the twin stars, Coma. Bf'renice~ or Bernice's hair, which we saw dirl'otly o\·erhead and Corona Boreales or tht> Northern crown. Much ~o tht> ex<'itement of everybody we saw a shooting star. 'Ve lhf'n went inside the observatory. Through tht· tt>lt>scope we saw Gamma Leonis a double star in the constellation Leo, the- Lion, and also a star cluster in the constellation H(> rcules <'ailed Messier Thirteen w~1kh was named after the Frenchman :\lf:'ssier who <'atalogued 112 star cluster!':. Through the ~mall t<>lescope .this grouT) lookt>d like a faint haze but through the large telescope it a}l)wared to be a clustt>r of man;\· stars. A photograph of thi'> l'fuster shows iiO,OOO stars. - .Janet 1\kllraith, SR Stolll the~ ToldbYl Publiahed weekly by the achool children of Wilmtttt undtt tupetvision of Wilmette PlauoJround and Recreatio, Board. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, JUNE 1, 1928 Gives Impressions on Music Festival Held at Patten Gym The Twentieth season of the North Shore Music F estival · opened Monday, M~L 21, and closed May 26. There will be th·e concerts covering a period of one we.ek, with two open nightf', \fednesday and Friday. The artists engaged were all of distinguished calibre and leaders in the musical world. The choral workers were brilliant and known for their melodic quality. There was presented for the first time in the history of the festival, a large male chorus of about 1,000 voices. The entire Chicago Symphony Orchel'tra performed at all concerts. On Monday, May 21, the conductors were Mr. Stock and Mr. Lutkin. The soloists were Isabel Richardson Molter, soprano; Alvene Ressequie, contralto; Eugene Dressler, tenor; and Rollin Pea:'\e, haritl!ne. On Tuesday, May 22, the conductor was Mr. Stock and the. f'oloi!o;ts, Marguerite D'Alvarez, contralto and Richard Crooks, tenor. Thursday, May 25, the conductor!' were Mr. Stock, Mr. Lutkin and Mr. Reckzeh. · Soloists were Dorothy Speare, soprano and Jacques Gordon, violini~t. Saturday, May 26, at 2 :15 o'clO<'k, the conductors were Mr. Stock and Mr. Beattie. The soloist was Florence Macbeth. soprano, and there was a children·~ t·horus of 1,000 voices. At 8 :15 o'clock, Saturday, Mr. Stock and Mr. Lutkin conducted and the soloists were Cl:-. ire I·ux, :;;oprano, and Laurence Tibbet, baritone.-.lack Stackhouse, 8D Stolp Russia It is tru·e that Russia is larger than Learn of Astronomy in Wilmette Heavies Visit to Observatory Defeat Boltwoods Miss Ste\·ens gave some of the eighth in Season Opener These Enjoyed Tickets for Al's Coo Coo Show Tht> following pt>oplE> receiwd tickets to AI K\·ale's Coo Coo elub for having the best articles In the JuNIOR LIFE for May 18: Chester Hanson, Interview: Virginia McConnell, SeYenth Grade Play ; Paule Soule and Bernard Saxon. Track Meet Story; Bob Hess, St. Franeis play; Philip Hoelz, Debate story; Paul Ogilvie, Honor Roll ; l\lazie Moua.t, Moosehat't program; Doris Goode, seciet:r story; Jane Blaylock, Candy Sale story ; Albert Roemer, St. Joseph yells: Eleanor Ricks, Girl Scout story ; John Osborn, personals; Otis Gooch, sport story; Dick Cullen, Baseball story ; Dick Steen, Trophy story; Evelyn Youngquist, Award story; Carol Linn, Field Day story: Albert Ackerman, Ticket ·rt>port; Yivian .(1rigsby, Recital story· and Paulint' Kehling, Bee stor:r. · Dorothy Enjoys a Visit in Crystal Lake Region Saturday morning at 10 o'clock my aunt, uncle, cousins and I drove to Crystal Lake to spend tht> day. \Ve found a nice place along the river to eat our dinner which we cooked on our own little stove. After dinner W<' drov·~ on a little farther to tht> Terra C'ottn works. There we saw how they form various kinds of pottery and how they bake and cool them In very large o,·en!. I enjoyed this very much as It was interesting to see how some of our beautiful pottery is made. -Dorothy Strauss, 4, Centrw.l STUDY BIBD ·HABITS Today, May 22, David and Ian Haw two bird's nests at the Meadows. The bird nests were Song Sparrow and Kildeer. The Song Sparrow's nest wal" something like the Meadowlark's. The nest was built and grass covered the top. The Kildeer's nest was just on the ground and In It there were two baby kildeers. We were lookinK for the kildeer's nest and couldn't find It and then we went away and hid to see where the kildeer went. It went to the nest where the baby klldeers were. And then "we went to thP nest and saw the bables.-Jan 8tevt"n, 5B Central any othe1· country, having 8,417,118 square mile~. that is · one-se,·enth of the whole land surface of the earth. On this huge area lin~ 182,182,600 people. It is the second largest empire in the world. Its chief seas are the Whitt ~ea on th_e North, the Caspian and tlw Bladi :seas on the South, and on the 've~t the Baltic sea and the Atlantic ocean. Russia is also noted for her long, brown ~luggish riYer~, among the most important being the Kneiper, .the Don, the Volga, the Ura}, the Petchora, the Dvina and the Neva. Although her · water transportation i~ not good, she has 42,4!', miles of railroad, which i::; quite a l"mall amount for a. country of her size. The Ru~~ians, who were first a small scattered band of I>eoJ>le, were conquered by the Nor~emen, who were traders. They took possession of Russia and built Kiev u» as their· largest city. Then as the timt> ~lowly passed, the Norsemen intermingled with the people in that ('otmtry, making a very mixed race. The l\loug·olians then con<1uered Russia and held her in bondage for three centuri~. Mo~cow slowly took the place of Kiev [n importance because she was located where the heads of great river·s and roads met. In 1840 the princes of Moscow 1~<1 a ~tt<.'Cf'ssful war against the Tartars, who were sent back to theit· Eastern homes. The Hussian pe<·Plt:> make theit· living by farming, their chief products belnl' pett·oleum, wht>at, 1·ye, beet sugar, and potatQe~. "'heat in Russia. i~ the rkh man's food, but nussia i~ noted for its rye bread nnd as she is a land nf pea~ ant~ and rye is the poor man·~ fond, great quantities of rye art:' rail'f'd. l!us~ia depended on the out~idt· world in l9H and still dot>s. Even agrkultuml eountries de1>end on otlwrs. Ru~l'in, who hnd a world empirt' in 1914, bt>came a country uf starviug· people in 191!'1 and 1922 becaul'ie of <1readful diseases caused by a famint.' and draught. She co~uld not manufactu.-e machinery and war mat~rials. Her trade was cut off by enemy countries and her veoj)le were dying. When trade again revived, Ru~:;;ia rt>Yived with it, although she never b.a,c;; <'Ome back to the trade she did haw before the war. Ru!';sia be~ame more prosperous; a ftt>r the war was over, because there were then new methods of farming and because ::<he was fa.:;;t becoming industt·ialized. Also because her trade was again becoming whole. Thi:;; story of H.ul'f'ia proves that "In the world today no trade or country can live to itself." This meat~Jng is best expressed by the- word independence.- Mar·jorie Houghton, 7B The Wilmette hea Yyweight baseball team played their first game against Boltwood, Monday, llay 21, and won 19-13. It was announced in school Thursday, May 17, that the heavyweights would hold their tlr~t practice that afternoon. They had a fine and hard workout unde1· the supervision of "Hap" Gathercoal, their coach. Two teams were chosen. The pitchers were Bob Water!', Ray Kimball, Leonard Wolff and Hugh Saxon. "Hap" told them that they muRt skin Boltwood Monday. The Peewees and Lights also were scheduled to play. The Lights lo~t ·13-8. The Peewees got a forfeit so they won 1-0. The position and batting order for the heavyweig-ht team wet·e as follows: Boltwood Wilmette Feltas, c. f. Saxon, c. f. and p. Dawson, 3b. Huck, c. Srenllo, r. f. Quinlan, 2b. McElligott, lb. White, r. f. Evans, ss. Maine, ss. C. Champion, 2b. Wolft', 1. f . Nordberg, 1. f. Church, 3b. Sewers, p. Ostrom, ss. S. Champion, c. ·w aters, p. and c. f. Williams, lb. The game was going good for Boltwood at first. At the end of the third inning the score was Boltwood 10, Wilmette 3. In the fourth inning, 'Wilmette had a rallv of 8 run~. ThE> final ~core M the sev.en innings was 'Vilmette 19, Boltwood 13.- Bob Hef's, SB Stolp · Seventh-Eighth Graders to Hold Poetry Contest Howard Fifth Graders Delight in Nature Talks Nearly every Friday afternoon Miss Berry's room gives Nature talks. In Mar<'h we parpared a talk on somP. hibernatimg animal. !\Iary Louise AllEn told about her turtles. neorge Greer, Raymond Nelson and a few others told about chipmonks.' !\Iary Dunning, Virginia Green and Jean Perrill told about bears. In April we prepared a 'talk on Spring birds. .ltosse :\[urdison, Doroth ea Hacker and Jear Perrlll told about the meadow lark. · Eleanor Steen, Katherine Brandt and Edith Rouley told about the Baltimore Oriole. Dorothy Johnson and George <1reen told about the Cowbird. All thest> talks wert> Yery interesting. Now we have to prepare a talk on some ftow e rs. I hope they will be as interesting as the rest. -Jean Perrill, 5B, Howard Tlw ~e,·enth nnd eighth grades of Stnlp will havf' th eh· annual poetry contPst Tuel';ilay, .June 2. Three people will be chosen fmm each of the four eighth g-radt> mom:;; to C'(Hnppte in thi~ contef't. Tlwy will ht> C'hosen partly by Yote of thf' otht>l' pf>ople in their room and p:ntly hy the opinion nf the l..itt>rature teacher, l\fi~!i Da Yis. The choice of the poems to bf' usPd are a11 in the "Reading and Living" bonk IT . Tlw sf'venth grndt>~ will ha Ye four per, plP chosen fmm eaeh room :> nd th{'ir choiee of poe ms nre nlso limited to their ReMling and LiYing Book r. - T·~ll·:t lHW C'ulwr, SA Stolp Life of Gold Fish in Precarious State Here \\'lwn T wns eight yearR old, my fatht:>r hrought honlP two golrl fi~h. My brother and I u~ed to haw a lot of fun feeding- and watching them. One day wht>n my f:tther· and mother were away my brother and I wondeq~d what the gold fish. would do out of the water. Fm;;t I stuck ·my hand in and tried to get one.. hut tt seemed to haYe a charmf::'d life. After I had fished around fl)r a .while, my brother wanted to try. He tr1e~l {l nd trfecl but could not get any. Fmnlly I ran into the kitchen and g-ot a large spoon. In a few mlnu_te:;; T hacl l'ornerecl it against the side. of thP b0wl and took it out. The other died Qnon after of lonelfness. - Paul Ho~ldng n Tlnwant t Else Writes Graphically of Wilmette's Victory The Wilmette Baseball team had their first. home game at the Howard school Teachers Suffer Severe Attacks of T estusout During the lnst wef'l~ the tea:chers of Stolp haYe had a seYere <'ase of Testusout 'fhe pupilR haYe had two or tlwt>e te~ts nearly PYery day. Some of these tests wet'P gin'n to decide whether or not the pupils would be advanced one year. Tlw pupils who do not pass the tests will hnYe to take the tests over again in two weeks. The passing grartC' is 15. Those who do not get a gradtabove passing. then will either be reC'ommenderl fot· summl'l' school or will he ret!'linPd for another year's work. The remainder of the tests have been pnwtice tf>st:-;. l\Tost wi:'\e pupil~ are taking theh· books home nights for a good purpose.-Cheste!' Hanson, 7B ~tolp . = U, If we are good. We are golnl' to ha\'e a Captain Kid 'nle boys will wear pirate cosaDCI the clrla will dress in costame., too. It le the sort of a treasure hant.-Nen Chambers, Grade 4, Logan to the beach, June Kiss Brickey Is .-olng to take our class CAPTAIN KID PICNIC HEAR '1',\J,K ON FISH Mrs. Yarhm f'ame to om· room on 'Frida)·, May 1~. She came to give us a talk on fi:-;h. . Mi;;~ Fox's room heard this talk too. She told us that the egg:;; of ~ome fish are not any bigger than a pm heart Some of the fish she told u~ about nnrl showed us are the Tropical Ftsh, Sword Fish, Weather Fish, Zebra DI~PLAT~ "DR'P' ICE . Fish, ~.tickle Back Fish, and Red Herring. On May 18, MJgs Stevt>ns brought .m FIN Al1 STORY HOUR The St.ver Treltra is related to the Gold some dry ice and showed it to M1~s Saturday, 1\Iay 26, the :;;tory hour, which is ginn ~wr~· Saturday at the Fish. She had ~ome snails with her McPartlin's room. She told us that It is 109 degrees below zero and 114 degrees Wilmette Public library, closed for the too.-Marllyn Kehl.t 5B Central colder than real ice. She also said if year. Saturday finished the Rhlnegold HONOR ROW GROWS you would hold it too long that it would stories which we have had the oppor· The children of Miss McPartlin's room freeze the blood in your hands. She tunity of ht>arlng and hope next year wtll come quickly.-Frances Rapp, Grade have an Honor Row and the children let each one touch it but not long. It who are up to standard in everything was a Yery Interesting talk. -Margaret 4, Logan get in the Honor Row. The children In McCltnton, 5B Central the Honor Row are Carol Linn. Betty BLUE .lAY Baldwin, Betty Jane Bows, and Theron OUT OF SCHOOL I saw a blue jay SD1ith. There are two more boys in the Grace Cent.lfanto, a girl in our room, And he saw me play Honor Row now who were recently pro- has whooping cough and will not be back And he sang to me. moted. They are Berry Berbllnger and to our school any more this year. We Jay, jay, jay. Davld Mlller.-Emll A. Anderson 1lr are very sorry and I know that she ' ,,. ., -Betty Waugh, First Grade, Logan 5B Central. Is, too:~Helen Lfmtstrotn, Grade 4, Logan with Eastmain on Sunday, May 20, at 3 o'clock. Eastmain took ins and Wilmette took outs. Eastmain didn't make. any runs the .first inning. Wilmette made two runs at the end of the first inning. Wilmette was playing Yery hard and made a score of 7 to 2 in the seventh Inning. Then Eastmain came back to bat and their catcher, who~e firf't name ts Charlie, - thought they had to gt>t to work. Charlie made a home run and that inning Eastmain made five runs. Wilmette's team was then up and made one run. Eastmain made ('He run in t~e beginning of the last inning and Wtlmette was up to bat last and madt> one run which made· the score 9 to 8 in Wilmette's favor. Next Sunday at 3 o'elock at the Village Gt·een Wilmette plays Waukegan.-Else yon Rein~pe-rg, 6A Central