Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 99, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 26 February 1976 — Page 10

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If I could be President. . . If Icould be President, I would ... —stop the smoking and drinking and I v would stop people from polluting the air. —Chris —live in Florida. And I would go swimming every day. —make two speeches a month. Kim HUL —all the robbing would be stopped. —Junior Mast —make a law that would not allow any hunting in any woods, any time. If we want animals to roam the United States, we must not kill them. —Tammy Personnett —stop pollution. And I would pick the school lunch. —Shelley Reaker. —see that every school would have a vegetable and fruit and meat. Beth Morin. —make more rules. —Jeff Miller, —stop people from fighting. Rachael Meyers. —be the nicest one. —Angie Allen. —ever see that nobody would smoke or drink. —Ronnie Schmucker. —see to it that all the wars would stop. —Gary Mullet —stop people killing people. Tina Miller. —have all the people happy. Barbara Kemp.

Sports Baseball is O.K. But too many people get in my way. Usually it lasts all day. , That is really a dismay! Basketball is just fine. But I always step over the line. You play it with a spherical ball But you really have to be tall. Not too often do you fall. Football is the best Except when 1 hurt my chest. It isn’t a game that you rest, But it is really a test. You play it with a pigsken ball, But be careful not to be too small. All the time you get clashed And sometimes you get bashed, And other times you get mashed, But I hope you don’t get smashed. But football is really fun. Especially for those who come in number one. - - - —Paul Beery The Debate Douglas and Lincoln debated on slavery and Kansas. The debate started with Douglas saying some very good things. Lincoln said, "This government cannot endure permanently half-slave and halffree.” Abe had a sense of humor that often was needed to relieve people when bad arguments developed in the debates. He once said this about Douglas, "I don’t know why you like to hear him when he Uon’t knowhow to put his shirt on so that it buttons down the front.” Douglas often got up and would say "Lincoln is a nullity, a maker of clumbsy jokes, a third-rate country lawyer who resembles a gorilla.” But Lincoln still won the friendship of the people. I think that Lincoln would still win because of his humor and honesty and other things. —Scott Mikel

The Sun Shines Bright In First Grade

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The first graders are making a family book telling about the people in the family: the work, play, needs and special times. Pictures by: top to bottom, Susan Stutzman, Greg Mullet, Jerry Hershberger, Jeff Seaver, Jarrett Nettrour and Pat Wolfe. Other children participating in the project are Jeff Boyer, Tracy Clark, Wendy Cleveland, Marlis Farmwald. Tom Griffin. Michael Heckaman. Trish Martz, Missie Marvel, Pauline Kuhns, Becky Morin, Mark Miller, Jeanette Nissley. Brian Hamer, Gary Robinson, Jeff Slabaugh and Amanda Kuhns.

South Elementary Prepared by South Students

"My version of the Gettysburg Address"

Forty-seven years ago our fathers came to America and believed that men are all the same. Now we are fighting a war to see if our land, America, can live. We are on a battlefield of that war. We come to give a piece of that field as a final place for those who died, that America might live. It is good for us to do so. But, in a bigger way we can not. The brave men living and dead, who fought here, have made it worth more far above our power to add or subtract. The world will not remember what we say

I admire. . . Lincoln most because His honesty. He walked five miles to return a penny. Bernie Morris Although Lincoln put the preservation of the union as the first great purpose of the war, by 1862 he knew that abolition of slavery should be made the second great purpose. —Tracy Yoder He put the union as the second great purpose of the war by 1862 when he knew the abolition of slavery should be made the first great purpose. Loren Slabaugh * He was so nice and brave. Well, to prove it, he got off a train to free Bechy’s father from under a wagon. —Wendall Troyer ® Abe was a guy with a lot of jokes. Asa matter of fact, his mother told him not to get the house dirty and ha got a neighbor boy and made footprints on the ceiling. —Rod Nettour His honesty. He once walked many miles because someone was cheated! out of some money. He walked those miles to pay the money back with his work. —Lesa Evans There probably isn't any other president that would stop a train and walk through mud to free a man. —Lyle Falkner He freed slaves by winning the Civil War with his Union Army. Ernest Chupp The honesty he had when he let one of his neighbor's books get wet, and he took it back and offered to work in a cornfield for three days. This honesty followed him through his years of being President, and trying to reconcile differences in the 'Civil War. —Kim Anglin

Abe was born on February 12th, 1809 on “Sinking Spring Farm,” in the, backwoods of Kentucky. In 1816 he moved to Indiana. In 1818 his mother died. He went to school. He learned how to read and write and “cipher to the rule of three." He didn’t have a pencil or paper but he still did his lessons and sums on boards with a piece of charcoal. Later he had a pen made of wild turkey quill and ink from blackberry root. They say he read every book he got his hands on. When he was seventeen, he stood six feet four inches in his bare feet. Abe split wooden

here, but it can never forget what they did here. It’s for us, the living, to do the unfinished work which thev foueht here have so proudly won. It’s for us to be faithful to the task before us—that from these ho noured dead we take faithfulness to that cause for which they gave the last measure of faithfulness—that we here highly promise that these dead shall not have died uselessly, that this land under God shall have anew birth of freedom, that is made, ruled, and serviced by the 4 people. . .shall not die from the earth. By Lisa A. Heckaman.

Abe Lincoln. . .

rails to fence in ten acres ot land and hence, years later, when a candidate for the presidency of the United States, he was nicknamed the “RailSplitter.” Later on his nickname was “Honest Abe.” He became postmaster and the mails was so small he carried the office around in his hat. Lincoln got married. He had four boys. Three died young. The only one to live was Robert T. Lincoln. They say that through the years a Bible lay on his desk. He read it often and many times he spent all night in prayer. He was shot on a stage on April 14, 1865 —Debbie Tillotson.

Mysterious post office comes alive to Southside School kindergarten classes

Morning class members are Chris Bean, Doug Berger, Timmy Cleveland, Rod Croy, ITy l Jody Dohner, Tim Fuller, Jessie Garner, Shane Hawkins, Brian Heckaman, Jodi JL— \ Ketcham, Debbie Lanta, Denny Miller, LeAnna Miller, Kelly Newcomer, Trisha Nihart, Michelle Pippenger, Don Rohr, Jon Rohr, Joey Schlabach, Brian Seaver, Sheri TT Sechrist, Pam Slabaugh, Dawn Spane, Bobby Sparks, Nikki Thompson, Mary Trader, j;l vjta Kirk Vanßlaircom and Tommy Wood. Afternoon class members are Kelly Anderson, Jerry Bullock, Ty Fields, Laura ♦MI •; Hemmert, Brandon Hollar, Jim Hollar, Robin Losee, Matt McCausland, Jimmy i ||:i Myers, Jerry Miller, Michael Miller, Rita Miller, Sherri K. Miller, Sherry L. Miller, 'jnHHiSlStk Tim Miller, Pat Overmyer, David Pippenger, Tamie Pletcher, Carol Schmucker, ® c *? erer ’ s * ,awn Thomas, Bryan Tindall, Penny Weaver, Aimee Webber and , !R. ioe -tke “It’s a mailbox. It’s all alone, light out, and it’s real quiet. It’s 1 lh, siri.' -■! 111, ".el .1,0., 4F-i"'bUu'f A *. (Hit* it* "tWr*

A Haiku for you ** from the fourth grade The beautiful moon Shining up in the big skyLighting up the world. Leslie Owen Spring is almost here. The flowers will be blooming. That will be so great. Karen Elliott Ginger is a dog. She is a German Shepherd She likes to play rough Quinton Farmwald Oh, February Where is Valentine’s Day? Lost in candyland. Ritchie Diener Look up in the sky. The stars are up in the sky. They shine a soft light. Galen Slabaugh That broken old chain is from an old sunken ship that wrecked on the rocks. Greg Miller I have a kitten: It’s not a real kitten. It’s a glass kitten. ? Lydia Chupp Oh, snow day, no school. We like to play in the snow. We all want more snow. Lisa Fisher Bicentennial Is the best time of the year For America. Carmilla Griffin Small pretty puppy. She likes to play and do tricks. I love my puppy. LeAnn Rohr Note: Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese poem of three lines, containing 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively, referring in some way to one of the seasons of the year. If. . . If I Could do Anything I Wanted for a Day I Would . . . Go to Florida—Rick Nissley. Wear my socks on my hands and my gloves on my feet—Lee Ann Martz. Run without shoes in mud puddles.— Melissa Sterling. Fly iri gn airplane—Jason Wertz. Learn gymnastics—Duane Weaver. Go outside and squirt the hose at my brother—Andy Kiser. Go visit the Empire State Building and go one day without doing the dishes.— Kami Gessinger.

Trip to Florida. . .

Our teacher, Mr. McGowen, went to Florida on Christmas vacation. He brought back things from Florida, like coconuts, starfruit, keylimes, sugarcane, smoked fish and kumquats. We tasted them in our room. We had an extra coconut, so we had a coconut contest. Karen Elliott won the

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Kaleidoscope The whole class takes turns on the family bulletin board. Every week they bring things from their family and things that they made. —Stacy Sparks The whole class came to see Tish Friday afternoon at Tish’s house, because she got hit by a car. They came in cars. They had cookies and milk. Bonny pushed them down. She is a dog. They carneio see me because they like me, and because it’s important to give and show love. —Tish Kolliver We have spelling contests just about all the time, but we do some mathematics books and we do concepts in science and communities and health book and listening, reading, talking, and writing and Rainbows. — Crystal Bullock Base ten is very important in our classroom. One day we decided to have a contest leading cheers about ten. First we had the whole class do it. Then it was four. Then there was a big decision. Their a hearts were filled with grief. Then they

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contest, with a score of 112 points. We also saw slides from Florida, including underwater pictures of fish. Angie Morris LeAnn Rohr Galen Salbaugh Leslie Owen Fourth Grade

decided to choose Cheryl Hall to be the cheer leader. —Cheryl Lynne Hall Our school has a good playground. Matt and Daric and Brian, Tim and some girls were playing like we were Indians. We made a snow fort and then we wrecked it. Sometimes we play Red Rover. One day when we were playing and some fifth and fourth and third graders came and played with us. The girls in our class like to play jump rope. Sometimes the boys and girls play kickball or baseball. In the winter we play fox and geese. We have a dirt road we race on. We play house and some of the boys are dogs, and we play basketball. Matt Tobias The American flag is beautiful. It’s red, white and blue. It’s about our country that we live in. America is big and beautiful and I love it. —Angie Stouder The parents and the children came to school one night. When they were all here they had to guess the word on their back. The next game, we had to find our partners by putting together a picture puzzle we made. We did the math problem on the back of the puzzle to find out the number of our game. We played jacks, marbles, tic tac toe, spelling, clay, hangman, making pictures and writing books. Then we had cookies. —Christina Mast Our teacher made a story up about a girls who wanted to fly and we illustrated it. We chose a color and design to go with the feeling of the story. We made a hand turkey, a worm, and sky. We put leaves in it and dirt. We made a swing and chose music to go with it. I’d like to illustrate another bode when I grow up. —Earl Chupp