Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 1, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 November 1938 — Page 13

CLASS NEWS (Continued from Page 1) were ready to talk business. After the yearbook proposition was settled the class was a little in doubt as to what they should have put on the front in the way of a title. “S. H. S. Class of 1939” was finally decided upon as the name for the book. GRADE NEWS (Continued from Page 1) afternoon very much. We had sevLast week all that the children seeined to think of was their four days vacation and the Hallowe en party. Now that they are both over we rather wonder what tomorrow will bring. The children seemed to have a good time at the party. First they masked and then along with tne other grades formed a parade and went down town. When they got back to the room they had quite a surprise. There sat a “negro mammy” waiting for them. They all guessed who she was and it turned out to be Mrs. M. D. Ruple. Other visitors today were Mrs. Irving Bishop, Mrs. Bert Whiteheaa and Mrs. Roscoe Rex. ' Napkins were made by the children. Games were played in keeping with Hallowe’en. Thanks to all the mothers who donated popcorn and apples. Everybody enjoyed the afternoon very much. Miss Simpson seemed to be very happy over the football game that North Manchester won. I wonder why? Fourth Grade Katherine Holderman returned after a six weeks absence. The fourth grade enjoyed a Hallowe’en party and popcorn, apples, and candy were served as refreshments. The children had loads of fun, making out what the candy figures were that Mrs. Gantz treated

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them to. There were 16 pupils who were neither tardy nor absent last month. Fifth Grade We’ve had a few more days absence this month with sore throats and colds coming on. However our absence amounted to only 14 daysThere were 26 who were neither tardy nor absent. Monday afternoon after the costume • parade, prizes were awarded to those considered the best dressed boy and girl. Phyllis Silvius dressed as a colonial lady and Harry Bishop dressed as a pirate received these two awards. Popcorn and candy and apples were brought by different pupi»s and distributed among the grottp. Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Causer were visitors during the afternoon. Sixth Grade This is the end of the second month of school. There has been 31 days of absence this month as compared with 12 days during the month of September. Joe Bauer was absent four days visiting relatives in Alabama. Doris Frevert, Margaret Miles, and Wille Caughlere were absent this week. The average daily attendance for October was 42 and the per cent was 96.4. In reading we have been trying to memorize the Gettysburg address. Reporters for next week will be Josey Rapp and Thomas Reagan. Opportunity Room The party held in the opportunity room Monday afternoon was a huge success. For prizes, Mrs. Hess nad 3 Hershey bars and 3 big five cent suckers. Mrs Charles Bell sent a plate full of divinity candy and Mrs. Sawyer sent popcorn balls for all the children. All had a wonderful time. Visitors were Carl Hoover, Mrs. Gerald Bushong, and Tommy Strieby.

In the Feed Lot Ducks should thrive well and be ready for market at ten to eleven weeks. •• • • The United States contains more than 986,771,016 acres of cultivated farm lands. • • • Official testing of poultry for pullorum disease is now authorized by law in New York state. • • • A sidewalk farmer is a person who lives in a nearby town but continues to operate a farm. • • • - The Siamese farmer erects a charm in his grain field to keep bad spirits away from the crops. Broodiness may be a serious handicap to high egg production during the summer months, especially among the heavy breeds. * * * More than 1% million farm tractors are used on farms. , • • * Some 60 varieties of celery are cultivated in the United States. • ♦ * Foreign insect pests often do so much damage to crops in this country because they have left their natural enemies behind them. • « « One hundred years ago the average fleece clipped from a sheep in the U. S. weighed approximately two pounds. Today it is eight. Jungle Is Termed Safer Than Cities by Priest Cleveland.—After 32 years in the Amazon jungle, Brother Raphel Haag is bewildered by the multitude of automobiles on the streets of modern American cities. The rush of motor traffic so confused him that he gained the impression there were more automobiles than pedestrians on the city streets. Brother Haag made his first trip to America since 1905 to visit a brother, Herman Haag. The priest is a teacher in the mission school of the Holy Ghost fathers in Teffe, Brazil, on the Amazon river. Being a missionary is the safest occupation at Teffe, Brother Raphel is convinced.

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■Windmills have done man’s work for centuries, grinding corn, pumping water, and performing other laborious tasks. Now they are undertaking a new job: helping to speed telephone conversations along the wires. The Bell Telephone System’s fourth transcontinental telephone line, recently completed to southern California, crosses many miles of barren country in New Mexico and Arizona, and for long stretches is far from electric power lines. Yet a source of electric current is necessary to supply the batteries used in the unattended repeater stations which stand at intervals along the line. There is an almost constant wind across much of the desert territory in the southwest. Why not put it to work to generate the needed power for those batteries? So for more than a year the engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories have been experimenting

with windmills. On top of Schooley's Mountain, in northern New Jersey, they built one where the breezes coming up the valley kept its vanes turning merrily. At its base they built a shack where they made measurements and checked results. What was learned there proved the practicability of windmills as a source of power, and now they are to tower over a number of repeater stations along the fourth transcontinental line. They will go to work in a breeze as gentle as seven miles an hour, and they are equipped with governors to slow them down in a gale. If the wind dies, or for any reason the windmill gets out of order, a gasoline engine automatically takes up the task of charging the batteries. If by some chance this too. should fail, an alarm would sound at the nearest inhabited repeater station, perhaps 60 or 70 milesaway, and bring a repair crew, long before the batteries could be seriously depleted of their current.