Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1903 — SCHOOL NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOL NOTES

Items of latereet Regarding tie Rensselaer Public Schools

Oka Pancoast, who has been sick with pneumonia, is slowly improving. It is not expected that she will be back in school for another week. Grace Goughian, of the Sophomore class, who has been out of school some time, is back at work. Numerically speaking, this is a bad year for cate. At the laboratory in the neighborhood of forty cate have passed through the door that never turns outward. It is commonly believed that a cat has nine lives, but with ether all nine of them yield with little complaint. These forty cats, (making 360 cat lives) have laid down their lives all for the cause of science. Criers have wandered to and fro around the town saying “Got any oats? Got any cats.” It is probably true that every pupil can now tell a cat by its mew, and knows its anatomy so well that he could pick out a cat’s bones and distinguish them in the dark. Gats have so many points in common with people is a chief reason in studying them in the Zoology class. Hurrah for the basket ball team, and hurrah for the plucky team it defeated. We take great pleasure in recording the fact that the Rensselaer girls are leaders in athletics as well as the boys. The following is the literary program for Friday, Feb. 27th: Instrumental solo Cecilia Hollingsworth Recitation Ethel Sprigg Vocal solo .Boyd Porter Three part story I. Helen Lamson 11. Thompson Ross 111. Gail Daugherty Original paper Loe Pancoast Vocal solo. ..Ethel Ferguson Recitation Grace Warren Speech Lemuel Hammerton Instrumental solo Mabie Kenton