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Publiahed ~klu be~ thl rchool chrldrtn of W ilmtttl und« auptrvision of W ilmettt PlauoJround and Recreation Board. VOL. I. ~0. 40 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 9, 1928 Stalling has a new Ford. I asked her for a ride and she promptly consented. It was agreed that I should meet her In front of the Howard school at 12:45 o'clock and we would see if· the shiny new car could "eat up the road" as well as t-he old Ford could. That noon as I approached the building I saw her sitting in the car. As I came closer I noticed she was trying to start the car. Soon I was seated and she told me she had flooded the engine and we would have to wa.it until the gas ran otf. As we sat there waiting a. group of boys gathered arotmd. After r:t few mlnutfos she tried again, but she had no luck. Like in all stories a -hero must appear and one did appear. He was Bill Sorsen. He was one of the onlookers but seeing her plight he offered to start the car. ~Irs. Sterling wa2 a bit doubtful but she finally consented. Wihen Bill 1\'as nearly ready to start the car he put down the spark, pulled out the choke and stepped on the start'r. The engine coughed and died. The process was repeated. The car started. coughed, spat and soon It was running perfectly. Bill was going to get out but . Mrs. Sterling said tllat since he had started the car she was going to give him a ride also. We went South on 17th street to Isabella and then we turned east. She stepped on the gas and we were soon spinning along at 35 miles per hour. We went down Wood court to Mrs. Stalling's residence to see if there was any mail for her. We found the WILMRTTE LIFE and then went on. up Prairie to Lake and from there to school. I decided it was a pretty good car, thanked her for the ride and went in school as tlle bell had just rung, happy, none the worse for my experience.-Dick StE>en, Howard 8A. · Evergreen Tree, Indian Proving That Fords Brave!' Performs at Stolp Are. Good Cars After Thursday morning, November 1. Mr. Loring entertained us in the assembly One Gets 'em Going room at the Stolp gymnasium. Mr. Lor~Irs. INQUIRING REPORTER Question: What would you like to be ten years from now and why? 1. Jack Steen, 7B Howard: Miner, because it is hard work. Filtration Plant Is Source of Interest to Wilmette Pupils Thursday, October 11, the Howard school 7A and 7B went to the waterworks in Evanston. Mrs. Groves, our Social Science teaoher and Mr. Todd accompanied us. We took a North Shore line train at Wilmette avenue at 1 :24 o'clock. First we went Into the boiler room and one of the men drew diagrams about the intake pipes and told us what they did If . fish, rubbish, and ic0 got in. One of the men opened up one of the big furnaces and told us to go by quickly. It was terribly hot and the coals were just white. · Then we went to the filtration plant and had an interesting talk. There were long cement tanks ·filled with water that was being filtered. On the ledge beside every tank was a dial that said "Loss of Head." When the arrow points to ten, the water is terribly dirty and they change it and run that in the sewers. Then we each got a sample of alum. Alum Is used to take the dirt and clay down to the bottom. We had a very Interesting time.-Helen Perry, Howard 7B. ing had with him an Indian friend named EvE"rgreen Tree. Evergreen Tree sang a number of songs, some of them being the morning songs which the Indians sang when t-he sun was rising in the early morning. Evergreen Tree also imitated a Rocky Mountain Wren, the howl of the Timber Wolf and the Rocky Mountain mocking bird call. He also did a Buffalo Dance of his tribe to which Mr. Loring accompanied him. 1\lr. Loring showed us a tom tom, a Medicine Man's kettle, · and an Indian Tobacco bag. Evergreen Tree danced a Spirit Dance which the Indians of his tribe dance when mourning for their dead. Mr. Loring accompanied him. Mr. Loring also accompanied him when he danced an Indian War Dance.-Mary Finlayson, 8B Stolp. 2. Alfred Struebing, 7A Howard : Mechanical engineer. Because it ls a prosperous job. 3. Marshall Doose, 8B How a rd: Carpenter. Because my fath er is one and you always have work. 4. Muriel Meyer, 8A Howard : An aut-hor of books. Because I like to imagine things and put them in stories. Eighth Grade Girls Get Close-up Look at Moon Howard 7-8 Grid Team Has Successful Season Howard 7B had a very succe ssful year in football. We had our first game with 7 A Stolp which we won 6-0. Other scores were as follows : Howard 7B (13), Howard 7A (0) · Howard 7B (12), Stolp 7D {0); Howard 7B {6), St. Francis (6): 7B Howard ( 6 ), Stolp 7C (13) ; 7B Howard (0), St. Joseph (39). Games won, 4: lost, 2: tied, 1.-Edwin Horn, 7B H owa rd Penmanship Holds Interest of Howard Eighth Graders H oward 8A pupils are trying hard to improve their writing. Miss Geiman said that we all had a chance for the Zaner Writing diplomas that we try for at the f' nd of the year when we hope to ha Ye one hundred p'r cent writing diploma ~. -Betty Hurtt, H oward 8A. REDUCE · TRAFFIC' DA:s-(a:n Th e safety of th e Howard SC'hnr· l pupils has b een gr at ly inc'r '!\Sl·d by tlk opening of Ridge a \'cnu e. There u~t>d to be nearly 200 cars passing by the H ow:trd t::chool in one day wh en the patrol boys were there. X ow there are only a few. T-h e Chief nf Police ha~ giw·n u::la rg-e "slnw" ~igns to b put in th middl P nf the Btreet at morning, noo n a nd night. The cars haYe to Rlow down to p al"s th ese signs.-Frederirk L~o- aso n, 8A Howarrl G F.T Kl(' K FR0-:\1 KIC:KB ,\ LL The g-irls and boys in the · i~hth gradt's ~ ur ely like to play kickball. Every morning and nnnn before ~c-hool b egins we play kickball. \\"f' play at r eces~ and sometimeg after schnol. \\"e either play bnys against the girls o r choose ~ides. '\\~e ~urt-ly do haw· a lnt of fun.-Alice ~ ~Jrd, . A H(,ward. Genuine Indian Performs for Howard-Logan Pupils Thursday, November l, Howard school and Logan had the pleasure of seeing the most wonderful Indian we have ever seen. He demonstrated every call of birds and imitated th e wolves. He did many interesting dauc es whi ch frightened the little folks and the tea.chers had to take them out. He ~howed how the Indian funeral cm:·to ms differ from ourg.-Kathlyn W(>Jter, .A H oward. OC1'0DER 31 (;(·blin wit eht-s do their worl"t, Pumpkins into far(·.· turn Little eandh·s in t111m1 burn. Boys and girls who lc,ok lik · bhc· ·ts Put these lanterns on the posts, Ring the bell and slip away, "Wbat is that?" the people say. TOrGH TO RE L~TE \\re liked this poem in our room for Following is a li~t nf the SA H owa rd we aU learned it and put pictures of jack o'lanterns on our papers. We had who ·have bet-n late ~ince the first of a Hallowe'E>n party in Mrs. Burtner's 0<'tnb,·r; Bill :::nrsen. · Jt·ssie Steele. Carl room.-Doris J a ne Frykman, 3rd Grade, Anderson, Dorothy Yet tH, D (Jr othy \'()11 man, Yirginia l\fain P. ~Irs. J ones makes Central It pretty hard for the peopl . who have been late. They also g't their markg · "NO PARKING" lowf·rf'cl in .'ucial ~cier.ce . -Bob Kh·mm. 1\fond~ morning, October 22, I found a A H oward notice to flagpole sitters on our ftag-staff. It was· a "No Parking" sign that we use f' HF.CKS C'O~DUCT on our drfv'way. I hope ftagpole sitters ~frl" . J r·Jks ·ha~ a ne w mPthod in k epwill understand.-Albert Ackehnan. SA ing sixth, seventh, and eighth grade r,ecHoward. ords in conduct. She has written th e marks for five weeks on her board al; ()FFER SPECIAL HELP . The upper grades of the Howard school r<>adr a r.d is probably making · a C'Onduct \"irginia )[aine, A started Remedial period work Monday,: chart otherwise. October ~!. The boys and girls who need H r. warn . SJ)eCial tielp in any study go there in this pertdd.-Marjorie Iverson. SA HowEXCITING GAllE ard. \Ve had a very excitin~ game of kickb~ll last '\\~edne::-day. We played bf'ttPr BOLD POSTURE TEST . than we did all year. We had played St. Last Friday we had our posture test Joseph once before and they had beaten with .Mrs. Ball. It was lot2 of fun. There us but we were the victors of thi~ P.'~ me were four people who passed the test. with a score of 41 to 15.-Marjorle They were Janice Grossman. Betty Leach, Warble. · SB Howard. Mary Cg\eebee and Ralph ElAOn.-Mary Ocleabee, · .Mlas Fox's room Central. GIRLS EXCEL DOTS Mrs. Jones can be proud of her 8A Howard girls this year, They have won BEGilf VOLLEY BALL 8BA80N SA cirls' volley · ball season opened every game they have played so tar by W eclne8da.y. October 24. Our first 'J)rac- large scores. The SA boys were not tloe came wu under the supervision of quite as progressive. They lost and won )(ba Stddmore---Jn Howard umna.slum.- alternately.-Yirglnia Maine, 8A, HowJean Dunning, '8A Howard. ard. Thursday, November 1, some of the girls from the eighth grade Hloward visited the Northwestern Observatory. There were about a hundred people visiting the observatory, most of whom were grammar school children. The man in charge focused the telescope on the moon, and let everybody look through it. We first looked through a small telescope which was fastened to the large one. In this we saw the whole moon. In the large telescope we only saw a small part of the moon looking very rugged on the edges. We then went out on a small platStockholm is the capital of Sweden. It form outside the observatory and looked We visited the at the moon through a smaller telescope. was very beautiful. Then we went down stairs and saw the royal palace. It had paintings, tapesobservatory library.-Elsa Carlsen, 8A tries, and hangings from t-he Tenth century. The palace had marvelous fixtures H owa rd. or cut glass. The tables and chairs were wonderfully f'HOOSF. C ,\PTAI~ T ·ht- H r, ward , A girls all stayed in at ca rwd in gold. I saw the dining room. I recess last w ·ek an d \·oted for a volley- was in the room wh er e the Princess Asball captain. Our kickball captain, Alice trid was married to the Crown Prince of X ord, a nd our cheer leader, Kathlyn Wel- BPlgium. I also sat in t-he chair wh er e t r, were tied so we had to vote over all of th e Swedish queens have bee n again betwee n the two Alice has RO often crown ed . We visited one of th e largest churches bf'en captain that th ey chose to vote Kathlyn '\\"eltrr Yolleyball captain, since which many kings and queens have attended. '\Y,e also visited the North ern ~he "·as a capab l ca ptain in all the girls' ~pnrt~ l a~t year.-Yirginia :\Iain e, SA Museum. I saw all the p easant customs. r also saw very old china, pictures, weavH ' ·Wanl. ing-s, toys, games, nee dlework, tools and other handcraft. I had a swim in the J.WH: FOOTR . \LJ~ GA:\IES salt watPr bath . I enjoyea my visit very Th ... flrst football ~a me of the Light- much.-Hele n P eterson, Grade 5, Central. \\' ight team wa s w ·edn esday, October 24, with Haven at R oycemore field, EvanRton. \\·,. lo~t 7 to 0. Our second gamf' was Thur~day, October 25, with K e nilworth at '\Yashington Park. '\Ye l"st 6 to 0. ::\Ir. Ball is our coach . Dick In :Miss Xohelty's sixth grade English PrP~ton is our captain-Richard Hau~ s class we started our diaries. We read 11'"!"~ · · ·\ H owa rd in our "Good English," that Louise M. Alcott, tlw author of "Little 1,fen." and ~ETTIXG FAST PACF. "Little 'Vomen." kept a diary. Nath::).niel Howard ~rhool had eighteen out of Hawthorne had one, too. Miss Nohelty thirty artieles in the JcXIOR LIFE last thHl read us some of the diaries that Friday. \\·,. ow e this to our teach ers she had started while she was in high and h ad ditor · beca use they see that sC'hool. and it was very funny to us. e\·eryon e writ es on some topic. \Ve hope Then she asked us if we would start a w e <'an k eE·p this up. Elenn of the diary and nearly everyone in the room r nirlt~ came from .\.-Henry von der hag a diary. After about eight days she asked ug again who had a diary, and l hFf. ~A How~rd t> Yeryone had. Xewton Rosenberg, 6th Grade i .\'S Dl~FF.AT ill'S Jean Scribbins Thur~da~· afttrnoon . October 18. Howard 7B play d Howard 7A in kickbnll . HA VEX SCHOOL GRIDDERS It was a Yery interesting game and each Wednesday, October 30, 'Vilmette footroom hoped it would win. But to our ball t ea m played Haven Evanston. Havcli~appointment 7B lost. The score was 2!'1 tn 30 in 7A's favor.-M:arjorie \Yedell. en won by a score of 6 to 0. \Yilmette kicked off and Haven received 7B Howard. on their own 30-yard line. The ball changed hands a few times. Then Haven PEP TALK HELPS got thE> ball and Maxwell of Haven made The week before last ~Irs. Jones said a touchdown. The score was 6 to 0 in we would ha Ye to try harder for the favor of Haven. Haven tried to kick .J 1· xwr~ LIFE. '\\·e each wrote something for the extra point but failed. for it and we got sixteen articles · put in g-oal Hann kicked off and \Yilmette rel.Lst week, where we only had eight the ceived on their 40-yard line and ran to week before.-Virginia Maine, SA How- the 5:i-vard line before ·he was tackled. a rd . A few · downs went by and Wilmette got within two yards of a .touchdown. EXJOY A HOLIDAY Tht'n Haven kicked off and Wilmette re)londay, October 29, the boys and girls cPived on their 45-yard line. Haven got of all the North Shore schools had a \'a- the ball again but the whistle blew and ca tion and the teachers had to go to the game ended.-Carlisle Galvin, 6C school. The ~orth Shore division of the Central · Xati ,.. nal Edu<'ation ::tssociation m E>t at the Haven school in Evanston.-Marjorie :\lUSIC NOTEBOOKS I \'erson, SA Howard. The eighth grade Howard has been making music notebooks for Mrs. Clark to collect on Monday. Not having school VISIT ART INSTITUTE The 7B class went to the Art Institute on that day on account of Nte Teachers' OctobE>r 22. I think everybody liked it. Convention, gives us two more days to Miss Upton showed us around. Miss Per- complete them as she does uot teach ring- went with us. She is our room us on Tuesday. ·- Virginia Maine, SA teacher.-Ruth Sanderson. 7B Stolp. Hnward. Helen Enjoys Visit to Royal Palace at Stockholm, Sweden Sixth Grade English Punils Start Diaries