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= Told by the Pupils Publiahed wuklr; br; tht achool childrtn of Wtlmtttl an4tr IUptnJiaion of Wilmette PltlJJflround tmd RlcriGtion Botlfd. 1 VOL. I NO. 43 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 30, 1928 Thanksgiving Doy Who's Who in Howard 70 Years Ago Told Class officers8B-President, Lee Blaylock ; vice by This Grandmother president, Bettye Kirwan; treasurer, My grandmother told me about Thanksgiving Day seventy years ago. "Thanksglvln,- Day was a day to look forward to. The preparations usually bepn a week or two before Thanksgiving Day. I often helped with molding of the candles-electric lights were not Invented. "But, of course Thanksgiving day was the best day of all. We had a large fireplace with a spit on which the Turkey was placed with a pan underneath to catch the juice that dripped from the meat, while it was being turned slowly before the fire. "The turnips were put Into a small iron kettle and hung over the fire on a crane. The pumpkin or mince pie and sometimes both were baked In the oven. We also had preserves, pickles, jellies, and such thlnn. "My grandmother often made soda biscuits in a spider, a four legged sktJlet. She first raked up the coals, set th~ spider over them and put a lid on and piled coals on top, and My ! the biscuits that came out of there. These with maple syrup were a meal in Itself. "There were always guests fbr Thanksgiving and we children would have to wait for the second table. The dinner was usually the noon meal. "After dinner we visited and the people who could 1>lay some - instrument would bring it ajong and play for us and some of the others would sing. We would tell our experiences that had happened since we had seen them and they would tell us theirs. "The guests usually stayed for just the day, because most of them lived on farms and they had to go home to attend to their cattle and horses "I think I have told you etiough to give an idea of what Thanksgiving Day seventy years ago was llke."-Alice Freeman, Howard. Bill Grant; Sundlof. secretary, Jane Carol SA-President, Dick Steen ; vice president, Allee Nord ; treasurer, Ronald Fuermann; secretary, Muriel Meyer. 7A-President, John Osborn; James Chambers, vice president; Elaine Angelbeck, treasurer; Janet Wright, secretary. 7D-President, Frank Christy ; vice president, Helen Perry; treas1.1rer, Lois Sandburg; secretary, Alfred Brown. Instructors-Mrs. Jones, SA-Mathematics, SpellIng, Writing Mrs. Groves, 7A-Social Science, Writing Miss Madsen, 7B-EngUsh, Literature, Composifum, Writing, Spelling Mrs. Stalling, SB-Literature, Grammar, Composition, Writing, Spelling Mrs. Clark- Music Appreciation, Glee Club Miss Scheldler-Art Mr. Ball-Manuel Training Mr. Gathercoal-Gymnaslum, Boys' Sports Mrs. Fanckboner-Girls' gymnasium Miss Skidmore-Girls' sports Miss Woodley-Domestic Science, Sewing Miss Stevens-General Science Mrs. Maher-Music Miss Gayton-Librarian -Ronald ~uermann, 8A Howard. Fifth and Sixth Grades Have Interesting Assembly Tuesday, November 20, the fifth and sixth grades had an assembly. David Miller, president of the 6A Civics club, had charge of the program. A scene from the book, "The Adopting of Rosa Marie," was given by Miss Fox's room. The next thin~ on the program was a piano solo given by Betty Rosen from Miss Brown's room. This was followed by Miss McPartlin's room which had eight boys and girls dressed UP to represent books. The next thing on the program was a little talk given by Eleanor Williams of Miss Scott's room entitled, "The Value of Good Books." Mary Ella Waldner gave a reading from the book "Katrinka" by Haskell and she was followed bv Billy Boddie who read from the book "Indian Boyhood" by Eastman. These two pupils were from Mrs. Julian's room. Miss Johannsen's room was represented by Mary Spear who read a poem entitled "The Duel" by Eugene Field. The purpose or main idea of our assemblv this week was to represent book week._:_Marjorie Jane Weiller, 6A Central. Obsene Book Week at 7th-8th Grade Assembly Tuesday, November 20, the Stolp seventh and eighth grade assembly had a very interesting program presented by Miss Larsen's room from Howard school. The program was given because of book week. It con~isted of different scenes from books. The scene that was the winner was a scene from "Topsy and Eva." This was a very interesting and humorous scene. The announcer was a boy dressed up as a page with a bugle which he blew before each scene. Most of the scenes were from well kn_9wn children's books; mostly all could be guessed from the page's descrlptlon.-Chester Hanson, SA Stolp. WATCHES SKOKIE FIRE My sister came home all excited and told mother that the sky was all aglow. We went to the window and It was. It was pretty. First It would be red then it would die out. Then it would start up RA and 8B Stolp girls started the volleyagain. It started at 7:10 o'clock in the evening. I do not know when it finally ball tournament Thursday, November 21. died down. It was too high for a bon- In · the b eginning 8A was leading. In a fire. Later we found out that It was a few seconds 8B with very good playing fire in the Skokie marshes. It burned a caught Up and then succeeded in getting few trees and some grass. Otherwise ahead. At the half the 8B girls were leac'Hng by a few points. Then three of It did little damage.-Helen Ra ventos. their best players had their turns and their scores shot up to 39 while our score CLUB PLANS Xl\IAS PARTY stayed at 15. It was a very exciting 7A Howard has a club. The officers of and interesting- game. The 8A girls are the . club are John Osborne, president: to be more successful in the next Jam's Chambers, vice president; Janet hoping game which they played against 8B. Wright, secretary; Elaine Angel beck, .June K ehl a,nd Lucy Clagett, Stolp. treasurer. We have to pay ten cents a month for dues. Our president says . if REWARD FOR REPORTERS we bring in our dues we may have a Mrs. Jones, Howard SA teacher, is urgChristmas and slelghrlde party.-Elaine ing her rlass to try harder for the JUNIOR Angel beck, 7A Howard. LIFE. W e han· been ahead before so Mrs. Jones took five minutes off from our GOOD START usual morning Arithmetic class Friday The 7A Howard have gott-=!n a good for writing for the JuNIOR LIFE.-Virginia start In their second Social Sclencfo Maine, 8A Howard. pamp,hlet. It is very Interesting and it shows us a lot of things that we never EN.TOY GYM CLASS thought about before. The morning of ThP women's gymnasium class meet!'; November 20, we start~d the first map In every Thursday night. They have ~ the lttle book of desk maps. Mr~. GrovE's wonderful time. I know b~cause I have our Social Science teachers, s~ ys that watched them. They are going to reduce. our days of fancy maps are - ov~r. I It's a beautiful sight. I know because think she Is rlght.-Janet Wright How- I have watched them.-Fleeta Freeman, ard 7~ ' 8B Howard. Stolp School Girl Teams Star Volley Ball Season Barbara's Dad Takes Hand at Playing Kickball Game Northwestern's B tearr. - won by a score ...__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __. of 7 to 0 from Indiana's B team at Dyche stadium Saturday. Both teams had not lost a game. For Baseball may have been developed from the English game of "rounder" to which, thirty minutes the teams fought evenly. Then came the kickotr In the second half. however, it bears little similarity. The game first took shape in New Eng- Roy Lemming, fleet-footed purple back. land and in the vicinity of New York was on it and his mates had all but a and Philadelphia. The Knickerbocker few of the Hoosiers blocked off. Once club of New York., considered the parent out of the crowd there were only three ball club of the United States, was Hoosiers with a chance to stop him and formed in 1845. Crowds of New Yorkers Roy sprinted to the side lines and speeded used to cross by the huge ferries to Ho- to the goal. Then Johnson made the place boken to attend games between the kick for Ute extra JPOint. That long run Knickerbockers and rival organizations. had discouraged the Hoosiers but they During the Civil war baseball was a came in a desperate attempt to tie the favorite form of amusement in camp. On score. In spite of the soggy ball, the purple the breaking off of hostilities, the army of returning soldiers carried the game to made some good kicks. The . Northwestevery town and hamlet and baseball ern lineup: Prang and Finne) at ends ; ~eemed to spring up quickly everywhere. Scott and Luttlng at tackles ; Levin and From 1865 onward It has been re- Singleton, guards; Vall, center; Johnson, organized as a national game. Rivalry quarter; Klarr and Lemming at halves; between amateur clubs led to the em- and Davis, fullback.-Jack Allworth, 7D ployment of salaried players. Then came Stolp. thP- organization of clubs Into circles, in which each club goes around the circuit playing a series of games with its associate clubs. 'The National league, formed In 1876, now includes Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Thursday, · November 22, Miss Brown's Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, room played Miss McPartlin's room in a and New York. The American league, a game of soccer. The captain of Miss rival organization dating from r~organi Brown's team is William Warren. The zation in 1900, includes Boston, Phila- others were Lloyd Snyder, Bobby Tansill, delphia, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Carl Gindele, Adelburt Miller, Byron Chicago, St. Louis and Washington. Fisher, Frank Randell, Russell Livingston The American association is made up and Stewart Lake. of Rt. Paul, Louisville, Milwaukee, The score was Miss Brown's room 2, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Columbus, Miss McPartlin's room 0. William WarMinneapolis, and Toledo. The Western ren made both points. It was a fine game. league embraces Des Moines, Sioux City, No one was hurt. The goal guard on his Omaha, Topeka, Wichita, Lincoln, Denver team was Frank Randell. and Pueblo. The captain of the team from Miss McThere are many other leagues such as Partlin's room is Matthew Kretchever. the Eastern, Central, Northern, Pacific The others .are Robert Strube, Walter and Southern. Indeed it is safe to say von Reinsperg, Kenneth Wax, Bill Har( there are more ball clubs today than George Oakley, Allen Mills, Frank Staab, there are postoffices. The expenses of the and Harry H'ndrickson. large clubs are met by the gate receipts. Both teams played like tigers. Miss The Federal league, made up of the cities McPartlin's room hoped to win but did of Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. not succeed.- Walter von Reinsperg and Louis, Baltimore, Kansas City, Buffalo Matthew Kritchever, 5C, Lloyd Snyder and Indianapolis, was a considerable and William Warren, 5B. figure in baseball in 1914 and 1915 but was disbandf!d after two seasons. The various leagues are brought into conformity by the National Association of leagues under whose rules all games of prominence are now played. Friday, November 16, the 7B class had There is no better outdoor game for boys and none better calculated to give a fruit shower for Miss Perring. We them strength, health, and activity, and brought all kinds of fruits from bananas none which furnishes more enjoyment to to g-rapefruit. We had club period Friday and after fifteen minutes of business spectators. Indoor baseball is a form of baseball transactions, Courtney White made a moarranged originally for gymna~iums - but tion that we put the business on the played frequently in the open air. The table and have our program. He knew ball is larger than that used in the that we intended to have the shower ordinary game, usually measuring about then. So we put aside our business and seventeen inches in circumference. The Ruth Solomon announced that the first bat is smaller than the common bat and thing on the program was for Miss Perdiffers slightly in shape. The rules of ring. She looked very shocked. Frank the game are formulated by fhe' National Hardin got up, got the megaphone and Indoor Baseball association.-Else von- said that we were to give three cheers for Miss P erring. After lots of applause Reinsperg, 7A Stolp. the basket of fruit was brought in the room.- Lucy Jon as, 7B Stolp. Essay on Baseball I Sees Northweatem Reserve Tea~ Defeat Indiana Squad Four Collaborate to Tell of This Soccer Encounter F G c 8 I1 7B Class Gives Fruit Shower to Miss Perring f ~ i J ~ E One Sunday Jean Perrill and I were playing kickball out in the back yard and I asked my dad if he would play too. He said he would. · My dad is an athletic man. He thought it ~quld be an interesting game for his juniors as well as the grown up men. So h e played kickball the next day with his assistants and that night when he came home he was sore all over. The next morning he said he didn't think that he would play l<ickball for quite a while. But just the other day he ·came home and said that he had 1\IAKE BOOKLETS played it just about all day so I guess he For extra credits in composition work, likes our game after alL- Barbara Ann the seventh grades of Howard can make Eehr, 6A Howard. booklets with pictures showing some incident in the poems or stories that we GOOD START IN SOCCER have read. It is very interesting lo hunt The boys of 8A Howard have had a through old books for pictures and it fairly good start in soccer this year. The seems that the most comm.m things are first g-ame we played 8B Howard and lost hardest to find.-Helen Perry, Howard 7B 6-1. "The second ~arne was with 8C Stolp. We tied 1 to 1. The third game our luck HOLD POSTURE TEST changed when we played Cecil Williams' Friday, November 23, Miss Fox's room famous SA team and won 2-0. We were had a posture test. There were nine highly pleased witb this and intend to children who passed the test. I was one keep up a fighting spirlt.-Henry von der of the nine chlldren who passed it. Hoff, SA Howard. -Lucille Flesch, 5th Grade Central. ENACT BOOKS We had our second assembly for the fifth and sixth grades of the Central school November 20 at the Stolp gymnasium. Each room had a program. Miss Fox's room had a scene from a book c:alled Rosa Marie. Next was Miss McPartlin's room. She had her children (who stood behind large paper books· with names of books) wear costumes from the different books. Then the sixth graders gave programs. One gave a talk which was very nice. Another had stories from different books.-Betty Leach, Fifth grade Central. h ~ ~ 1 tl 1 i I E 8 1 n 7