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at Village Green The annual parade was held at the Village Green on Friday. june 24. The parade was a huge affair and a- grand success. 'About twenty-fivce doil buggies were decorated in .a large variety of colors, among thein being, red, green and blue. .Besides buggies there Were. bicycles, tricy- cles and wagons which were deco- rated, by Miss 'Skidmore and thé older girls. The parade started at Village Green playground and continueÏ1 down to Washington avenue;- then it turned down to Seventeenth street, continuing:to Lake,:and up) Lake un- tii we again. arrived at the Village Green. The parents were cordially invited to watch their children's activities. and a large crowd of mothers at- tended. After the parade the cbildren were ail tired out, 'but they, were served refreshing pink lemonaàde, wbicb everyod ejyed, since tere werc tWenty gallons.i The 'lemonade wa4 served by Grete VoniReinsperg, Mar- ion Miller, Hope and Jacqueline Mil- ler, Ruth .King, and Bessie and Jo- sephine Costo. After that the parents were enter- tained by kickball and basebail games. - Josephine Costo, Village Green. Village Green Offers Many Play Activities Every afternioon at Village Green playgrounid.we.,practice kickball. Vel practice fromi until 2 o'clock., Tues- day. afternooni we 'picked out the1 teamù for the seniors and the juniors.1 We are making posters now so wi> can get into tbe poster contest. SOmet can make very pretty posters. 1 hope we ail win. eiaygrornna t, 575s A gurprise was in store for us we found wIten we arrived at the Vil- lage Green, Wcdnesday, june 29. Miss Skidmoré told us the croquet set was fixed, and ready for use. It did flot take long to -put the set up. so we were ready to play after five Minutes. Thefilrst. game was won by jose- phine Costo :but' we thought it. was due to .bler1 constant practice at hier grammar scbool. :The second: game was won by Vivian Miller. It was almost a tie with Josephine. but *Vi- vian finally won. We hope to -play and have prizes made of sticks for the winner. Vivian Miller, 'Village G.reen. IVillage Green Victor in Gamei of Kickball Wednesday, June- 29, Village Green defeated Vattmn park in a gawme of~ kickball, 28 to 22. The lineup for Vattnian park was:, Betty Todd, catcher; Dorothy Davis, pitcher; Bar- bara Ormsbee, first base; Marcella Bruchhauser, second base; jean' Macdonald, tbird 'base ; Jane Penber- thy, sbortstop; Hildegarde Voeller, shortstop; Helen Lindstrom, center field; Adelaide Koenen, right field; Elizabeth Eldredge and Marjorie Hill, left field.-Hildegarde Voeller, Vattnian park. Children Busy Learning How to Make Windmilis We are becoming good builders ofi windmills. We were ail Dutch boys * and girls Mojiday morning. Miss Hig-_ gins. got us ail busy making our windrnills. Whîie' making them, we surely learned lots, about the- Dutch folkes. We ail rao about tbe grounds tol see if the windmnills would Nwork. I hope to make some more. Tbe lit- tle tots stood tbeirs up in the sand- box and how nice thév looked in it. -Peggy Apti Butler, Vattman park. One day wheri Bobby was outside, hé called, "Betty, corne here. 1 xant to tell you something real nice. It is a surprise for you." "htis the surprise?" "The surprise is," said Billv, "-that mother bought you a. new buggy, a new: doîl.. Iý.Are you Sick?", "No. I feel queer, because,-I. am s o happy." Ruth Pape,. Village Green. Vattman Park Juniors Lose to Village G7reen The junior boys of Vattman park: lost their first gamne of the season to the Village Green, 3 to O0. The game was 0 to 0 until tbe- fiftb in- n1ing wben the Village Green boys laüncbed a f ew bits.after two were out and produced enough runs to witn the game. Vattmaü made only six frits, white the Village Gre'en boys had thirteen. In tbe third, fourth ai sixtb innings, Vattman park had a man on third base witb îno one out, but no one could bring. bîm borne. Next Monday. Village Green cornes to Vattman vark and this time it won't be suich an easy game for Vil- lage Green.-Fred Aschbacher, Vatt- man park. Girls at Vattman Park Practice Kickball Daily E-very day the girls f rom Vattinani park practice kickball. There are twoj teaims, one for younger girls and the other for older girls. I arn in the 01(1er girl group and' what fun -we bave! 1 like to kick the balf best, and next to this 1 like to pitch. It is fun to pitcb the 'bal and have others miss itî. We- bad a- game witb the 'Village Grreen- team, If. we bave any. inore gan.' I hope we win them Il1. -Jane Penberthy, Vattman park. "DRSSUP" PARADE for Sehoolmates On june 2e, Dorothy Neuses had a beach party. She invited nine girls fromn our rxom. We alnmade our lunches -and Dorothy's mo ther tookc us down to the beach. We went right over. to .Washington park te eat our lunch., We walkedback to the beaich. after lunch. We waited for about an hour, thien we went in swimming. Tbey would not put the rafts out,. because the waves: were tôo bihgh. After a while, wh en we. came out of the water. Marion, Millerý hurt ber foot' on a bench and she. had to have a ban- dage on ber foot.' She bad to put on ber beach pajamas and she couldn't go in tbe water, so she, sat on the' beach 'al thé timie until 5. o'clock. Afterthat, Dorotby's mother carne and took us home. Then we got, two card tables out. We had ice crearn, cake, candyiand -peanuts. After th-at we played kickball. 1 made five runis. After that everybody went home. ýWe ha.d a lovely time.-Marioh, Mag- neson, Village Green. Village Green Juniors Ho peful of Winning Titie Village Green's pros pects for Win- ing the junior playground bail cham- pionship are very Oromising. Jeromne Cicchini, our coach, found this out when the Junior team defeated Vatt- man,. 3 to 0, Monday. Witb "Shani- rock" Kivland at third, John Mitchell at short, and Earl Borre pitcbing. there's a combination bard to bea)ët The rest of the players were: Emul Ze.ramba, catcher, Dick Hall, first base, Leonard Borre, second base. Junior Mayfield, 'shortstop, Harold Kummer. right field,. Henry Jannes. center field. and Earl Thatnian, lett field.-Ed Stancoe, Village, Green. jHo'ward Teacher Hg the children bave had. We hated to gave the cata antte ig have missed ail this fun but will HAS LOTS OF FUN riavontectaaud ts nec corne now each day. Recently we 1 coule to the park each day. I tbis cat to sit up and shal went to the beach.-Costa Lulias, have lots of fun.-Mary Ruth FÉanck,- witb folks.-Jean Fremont, Vattmnan park.. boner, Vattmnan park. park. carL. i *- i jm i '. oI LtLIIJ, 1N.tfl , tar-. a pink wood. pitcher.. Martha Leach, Ici t I want field, Doris White, second base, Vir- bauds ginia Todd, left sbortstop, aud Lii- ttnian,, han Iniz, center field. - Dorothy Bruchhbauser, Va.ttmian ,park., i i. g'