Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 3, Number 2, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 December 1939 — Page 7

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First Grade. We are very busy getting everything done which we have planned before Christmas. We drew names for our Christmas exchange. The gifts are to cost not more than ten cents. Our doll house furniture is painted white and we are making a large rug. Marie Stiver added a very large gold fish to our aquarium and we appointed Dick Kitson overseer of the aquarium to see that he did not eat our smaller gold fish. So far everything is fine. The narcissus Janis Weimer brought are blooming now. We are beginning addition ana subtraction in our number work. Mrs. Ralph Disher surprised us again Monday afternoon with apples for each one. She looked like Santa Claus’ helper coming in with her big basket. We made Christmas bells to take home and put in our windows. We still have many children absent on account of sickness. Bobbie Whitmer brought some real sleigh bells to school. Second Grade. We wish to thank Mrs. Ralph Disher for the nice* treat of apples which she gave us Monday afternoon. Jack and Robert Dean, Rosetta Holderman and Lyman Lawson are ill this week. We have a young author in our room. Jack Clark has written ana illustrated a story about “Th* Little Boy Who Flew Away.” He made a special copy for our reading table. We have been enjoying the dramatization of our Christmas stories. We are working on Pack 4 of our number combinations. Virginia Ringler and Donna Blakesley brought some more evergreens. We have made a chart showing the different kinds. Third Grade. Mrs. Raymond Kitson visited school last Thursday afternoon. She watched us cut out Christmas trees and decorate them. Some of them are very good. The best ones will be hung on the burlap in the back of the room. Several different people have been absent because of colds. We are reviewing in all oar subjects. We are also learning Christmas songs, the Christmas carols, “Don’t Wait ’Till the Night Before Christmas,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “and Hello, Mr. Kringle.” This morning the children were read a Christmas poem which was written by someone in their own class. This certain little girl said that she read “The Night Before ■Christmas” and that her mother helped her with some of the words. The third grade thinks this poem is such a good one that we want everyone to read it. SANTA CLAUS Santa Claus is a jolly fellow, Always busy as a bee, Making toys, blue, green and yellow, To put under a glowing Christmas tree. His face is ruddy and red, He’s fat and chubby and full of glee, : He wears a red cap on his head, And shiny black boots that reach to his knees. He drives a shiny red sleigh, Pulled by eight tiny reindeer, That take him on his way, As he spreads Christmas cheer.

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He is a sly little elf, Each year I stay up late, But I go to sleep in spite of myself, Long before he reaches our gate. So I guess it’s best, To let him go his way, And find my presents with the rest, 1 Under the tree on Christmas Day. —Connie Lou Weingart. Fourth Grade. Mrs. Harry Rosenberry and Mrs. Chester Stiffler were visitors in the fourth grade one day last week. Kathleen Campbell returned to school after a week’s absence. Stanley Reed was absent Monday on account of illness, names for a xzfiflffetaoshrdlutao Last week the children drew names for a Christmas gift exchange. , Fifth Grade. With the mid-year examinations one week away, we have been reviewing our past 12 weeks’ work. We drew names last week for our gift exchange. Everyone agreed to keep quiet about it and see who could keep their name a secret until Christmas. Have you seen our window scene of the “Three Magi”? Pleas® come around to the northeast side of the building and see it. We are proud of it. Our calendar is Santa Claus and his reindeer dashing across the snow. On each day of the month is a small drawing representing some Christmas toy, decoration, or tradition. Seventh Grade. It seems that some people don’t realize how near Christmas really is because we still hav two boys that just can’t behave. It would be a miracle if Mr. Beck didn’t have to pass out papers everytime we had a test, but I guess “miracles don’t happen.” It took a certain boy over 3 hours to write eight hundred spelling words. He wrote the words as a punishment for missing more than five. The absent members this week were Billie Applegate, Rosemary Telschow and Robert Hughes. Eighth Grade. Atf&it everyone has a cold thia week. Let’s hope we get over them soon. There was a question brought up in general science class about Columbus and what boat he came over here in. Eldon Reagon answered the question by saying the “Mayflower.” You can imagine what happened then. What happened in the music class last Friday? It is rumored that a certain boy had his suspenders broken and nearly lost his pants because he took a certain girl’s hair ribbon. Was his face red? Some of the eighth grade boys and girls wish to thank the Dixie for delicious hamburgers they have won. We drew names for a Christmas gift exchange Monday. If everyone pays their dues by next Wednesday, we shall take about $2.00 out of the treasury to buy candy. •‘Free ‘Wimpy’ at Dixie.” Bruce McClintic

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Sophomore Class. The home management class is laying out a fifteen dollar layette. It is understood that they will be laid out if their layette isn’t laid on Miss Harrington’s desk by the nineteenth. Betty Gcrdy thinks is hard to swallow those tall Latin stories. The sophomore class hit the jackpot in citizenship “x’s” last month. We hope it won’t happen again this month. Opportunity Room. Our attendance this month is the best we have had this year so far. The boys and girls have been spending many happy moments this mending toys and making several useful articles for Christmas presents. Grade teachers are not only asked but are required to teach the effects of alcohol and tobacco on th human body and I am wondering if it is askiftg too much of some of the business men in Syracuse to please stop selling tobacco to children in the grade school. The youngsters are not hesitant in the least in telling where the purchases are made, and I am sure the citizens of this community will not approve of the boys havinb cigarettes and matches stored in their dinner pails. Please give us your cooperation. Junior Class. Robert Burrow was born in Three Rivers, Michigan, one cold March sth, in 1923. Bob came into our class two years ago from the Three Rivers school. He weighs 144, is 5 ft 10 inches tall, has dark brown . hair and eyes. His hobby is collecting pictures of wrecked cars and I hear he has a few swell ones. His favorite color—Sky-Blne-Pink. My, my! Corlyss LeCount “Free ‘Wimpy” at Dixie.”

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Are we color blind or is it just an optical illusion? Bob declares that what gripes him most or what is commonly known as a pet peeve, is, not eating on time. But when he does, there’s nothing he would rather have than escalloped potatoes. (H-mm ... I call that good taste.) I’ll bet you never could guess (or could you?) that more than anything else, he wants to be a race driver. All I can say, is that he’s not doing bad at it right now just around here! • * * Missing Washington’s birthday by just one day, the stork brought William Miller on a February morning, the 23rd, to be exact, in the year 1923. A charter member of our class, Bill is 5 ft. 10 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds, has brown hair and eyes and likes blue the best of any color. His hobbies are going on fishing trips (and what boy doesn’t) and playing basketball. He’s on the second team this year. Bill’s favorite dish —pheasant and the very tho’t makes my mouth water. His pet peeve, like most of us, especially right now. is WAR. Good for you, Bill. As an ambition, he says he’d like to drive a semi-truck, or become a famous guitar player; maybe we even have a future Gene Autry in our class, kids. So, signing my adopted “ John Henry” and leaving you in peace, I remain, “Scatterbrain” Senior Class. The senior class party was held Saturday night with twenty out of thirty-five members present. They attended the first show at the Pickwick Theatre and then went to the high school building for a chili supper, which had been prepared by a few girls of the class. Later a radio was hooked up and dancing was enjoyed by many. The party was chaperoned by Miss Hamman and Mr. -Slabaugh the class sponsor.

HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES FOR 1940 GO ON SALE FIRDAY Issuance of 1940 hunting and fishing licenses will be started Friday, December 15, by county clerks and agents but the new licenses will not be valid until January 1, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, announced today. The advance sale of hunting and fishing licenses and other licenses issued by the Division of Fish and Game is for the convenience of Hoosier nimrods and anglers who like to avoid the last minute‘rush or to give new licenses for Chrstmas gifts. Use of licenses as gifts has increased in popularity in recent years. For the remainder of 1939, the hunter, fisherman and trapper must have a 1939 license. The 1940 licenses are effective for one year starting January 1. Licenses other fiian the combination hunting, fishing and trapping license, which will be placed on sale Friday include: resident women’s license for fishing only, non-resi-dent hunting and fishing licenses, non-resident 14-day fishing licenses; resident and non-resident fur buyers licenses, resident and nonresident licenses for taking mussels; commercial fishing licenses and licenses for possession of certain types of nets, for game breeding. for possession of a ferret or fitch, for taxidermist and or taking protected wildlife for scientific purposes. < All licenses with the exception of those for hunting, fishing, and trapping which are issued by county clerks and agents, must be secured from the director of the Division of Fish and Game. 406 State Library Building, Indianapolis. Notice to Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts will have their Christmas . exchange next Monday after school.—Marise Dillen. “Free ‘Wimpy’ at Dixie.” Mrs. Win. Sheffield READ IT IN THE JOURNAL - FIRST

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