Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The program of the Webster Lit-'' crary Society, which was to have been given Wednesday, has been postponed until Friday. It was impossible to get scenery for the play that was to be given and so some extra numbers had to be arranged for and the program altered. Mr. Williams and Dr. Kresler, members of the school board, spoke to the students of the high school Wednesday morning and urged the pupils to show their appreciation of the new building through their actions and studies. In the few days that the building has beef! occupied it has been noticed in several classes that more interest is being taken in the work and it is hoped by the teachers to keep up this interest and to raise the percent of scholarship. School will close Friday for a week’s vacation for Christmas. The seniors held a class meeting Friday evening and elected their officers for the year. A great deal of Interest is being taken in the basketball league. The boys play two nights and the* girls three nights one week and the hoys three and the girls tw r o the next week. There are ten teams in the boys’ league and five in the girls’. The boys’ teams are named the following; Reds, Maroons, Greens, Browns, Whites, Yellows, Blacks, Purples, Blues, Grays. The girls' are: Blues, Reds, Blacks, Whites and Grays. A schedule is being made and will be announced after vacation. The first game, however, will probably 7 be with Lowell on January 3rd. The new library system seems to be very successful and more books are being brought in each day. It is evident that more benefit is gotten from outside readings and* more books are being used than before this plan was used. The Ladies of thp D. A. R. have arranged for a contest in which the members of the senior class will bo permitted to take part. It will bo of some historical subject which is to be' decided upon later and a prize is to be given to the person with the best paper. Madge Winn, a member of the freshman class, was out two or three days on account of sickness.