Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — SCHOOL NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOL NOTES

Item* et Interest Regarding the Rensselaer Public Schools

Miss Ida Merrill, daughter of Dr. Merrill, entered the Freshman class * Monday. She came from the Hammond sohools. Misses Harris and Keith went to Chicago last Saturday and saw Mansfield as Brutus in the play of “Julius Caesar.” Mr. O. E. Frazee spent Saturday and Sunday in the country at Mr. Ed Parkison’s. The first literary exercises of the year were held last Friday afternoon under the direction of Lemmnel Hammerton, president and Helen Lam son, secretary. The exercises were first class. To maintain that standard means a very profitable year’s work. The possession of a piano by the high school has aroused a similar desire in the grades. During the last week they bought and moved in a piano. It will be used principally in passing the pupils oat and in at the intermissions. Next Saturday at the Athletic Park occurs the return foot-ball game with Monticello. The boys are working hard and the school and town will support them right loyally we know. With such a backing of “rooters” and the team doing their very best, there is a fighting chance for onr team to win, despite the fact that the Monticello team is mnch heavier than our own. The game will be called at 2:30 P. M. Admission twenty-five cents for everyone above the seventh grade, others fifteen cents. And now the bull-snakes, the garter snakes, the grass snakes, the blue racers, the vipers and the rest of the snakes have moved into their new Fifth Avenue mansion down in the high school museum. Architect Sprigg, with an eye to snake convenience, beauty and utility has designed and built a four roomed home for them. There are screens at all the windows and doors, and running water in every room. Each of the living rooms has in it a tree for the young snakes to plsy hide-and-seek in and for the older snakes to rest in. That the snakes are pleased with what has been done for them, you can tell by the merry twinkle in their eyes.