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Page Six The Journal Tribune and Shopper, Consolidated, WilHamaburg; Qf Icial Coun W1LLIAMSBUBG HIGH SCHOOL MIRRO VOLUME Thursday, April 1, 1948 NUMBER 11 MIRROR STAFF HMTOR: Marilyn Lewis ASS'T. EDITORS: Mary Frazier Margaret Behrens GRADE SCHOOL NEWS: Lorena Von Ahsen and Elaine Sanders- Md TN.T.: Jeanne Evans, Ruth Boland, Marilyn Rdberts Joyce Lipsius and Rosemary Keil. STAFF: Cris Evans, Carl Evans, Lorren Stahl, Milford Heitman, Mary Van Steenhuyse, Pat Bean, Delaine Walters, Mary Blwood, Shirley Wetjen, Laverne Schmidt, Kathleen Lenoch, Marilyn Tanner and Virginia Sandersfeld. Freshman Fancy Follies Margaret "Civilization. 1 Buddy "I've got Plenty of Nothing." Elda "You Don't Know How Lucky You Are." Don "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke." Oonnie "Moonlight My Donna." INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER FREEZER BURG IMPLEMENT CO.

Phone 24 WillUm.burg Irene "Rumors are Flying." Donna "I'm Walking the Streets Over You." Marlene Fetzer "I'll Walk Alone." Jim Hasley "I Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart." Alice "Alice Blue Gown." Donna "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning." Delaine "The Echo said No." Eunice Lorenz "Golden Earrings." Larry "Give Me Five Minutes More." Leland Lortz "I'm My Own Grandpa." Dorothy "The Whole World Is Singing My Song." Ruth "Always." Kenneth "Jealous." Mary "Dale Won't You Dance (With Me." Loren "I'm Nobody's Sweetheart." Shirley "Now Is The Hour." Carol "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old." Dorothy "How Soon." Dorla "Woodchoppers Suite." H. S. Music Contest This year has seen many mark ed changes, first was the "New Look" and now the "New Place." The "New Look" pertaining to our flashy new uniforms and choir robes and the "New Place 1 meaning the location of the Music Contest. On April 3 the soloists and small groups travel to Iowa City where they will compete in the pre- state contest. The following Saturday, April 10, the larger groups will be Washington bound where they will enter in another branch of this contest.

Now that all the criticisms have been carefully read from Music Festival, everybody is prao ticing especially hard. We hope these coming events will be mere stepping stone to "State." H. Personality Portrait Hats off to this senior girl because "Personality" really should be.her theme song. She not only has the ability to get along with Tomorrow THE BIG PARADE OF GIFT WATCHES AT Steiner's Here they are a brilliant selection of America's greatest watch values same price cash or credit. Greatett Watch Value her fellow classmates but also has a way with the teachers.

If (here is anything to be done she is always ready and willing to pitch In and do her share. This year she is vice-president of the class and has acted as cheerleader for the last three yearsT Writing letters is one of her favorite pastimes and most of them are addressed Then too, she is in such activities as, drama, choir and glee club. But life Isn't all fun for her because she also is able to make good grades. I again say, "Hats off to a swell person." The answer to last week is Louie Sandersfeld. W.

H. High School Party An oochid goes to the freshmen and seniors who were hosts to the sophomores and juniors at a party held Tuesday night March 9 in the gymnasium. After a game of volley ball, a "walking man contest" was presented with Mervin Blythe as the walking man. Alice Jones was the winner of all the wonderful gifts including a toy airplane, car and house. Later in the evening a progressive dance was enjoyed and refreshments were served.

All in all everyone had a very exciting and wonderful time. W. H. S. District Speech Contest The District Speech Contest of the Iowa State High School Speech Association will be held at Williamsburg March 24.

This contest will include the following schools Centerville, Columbus Junction Crawfordsville, Davenport, Fairfield, Grinnell, Hedrick, Huron Keota, Kinross, Knoxville, Mt Pleasant, Mt. -Union, Muscatinc Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Pleasahtville Washington, West Liberty, Winfield and Williamsburg. The program will begin at 9:30 in the Congregational Church Methodist Church and gymnasium At any of these various buildings there will be things of interest to all. Oratorical, dramatic, humorous interpretative readings, original oratories, extemporaneous speaking and radio speaking are the many divisions. To advance to the District Contest, each contestant has won a division I rating at three previous contests.

Winners in the meet will compete in the State Finals at Boone in April. Williamsburg has three entries in this contest, A humorous reading, Modern by Her- aert Stettler, a radio speech, "The Marshall by Marilyn Lewis, and the one-act play "Balcony a fantasy-drama by Donald Elser. Those in the play are: Sd Evans, David Boland, Herbert Stettler, Patsy Chandler, Elaine Sandersfeld, Keith Rathjen, Mararet Behrens and Rosemary Keil. Good W. H.

Wllliamsbiirg Music Festival On Friday, March 12, Williams- mrg was the site of the annual music festival. Students from various neighboring schools participated in this event. The schools which participated in this festival were Parnell, North English, Mil- ersburg, Conroy, Marengo, Victor and Williamsburg. Williamsburg was represented jy vocal solos, instrumental solos, girls trio, the band, boys glee club, choir and other instrumental selections by students of our school. Two very capable judges were hired for the day.

They praised and criticized the things which were right and wrong. The wrongs will be tried to be corrected before the music contest which will be held In Iowa City on April 3 and in Washington on April 10. The small groups will compete in Iowa City, along with the vocal selections, and the large groups will compete in Washington on, April 10. STEMER1 JEWELRY MAWENGQ, IOWA GRADE NEWS Pint Grade The first grade joined the second in a visit to the York Creamery in connection with the study of milk. They had an interesting movie on the care of milk from the ime the cows are driven into the tanchions until the milk is pas- eurized and bottled at the dairy.

Each child was given a booklet on milk written by the great child- en's author and illustrator, Lois Lenski. March is always the month tor itudying about the of iolland. The first grade learned hat many of the customs of the Jutch are quite different from iurs. Some very good free-hand drawings were made of "Life in Holland." A red tulip blooming in a can ias given a bit of extra-color to he room. The children learned a poem about how March roars in like, a ion and goes meekly out like.

a amb. They are beginning to hunt lor signs of spring, too, now. W. H. Second Grade What is more interesting than learning what happens to our letters after we stamp them and drop them into the post office? In Language Miss Balton read us a story about a letter that was written by a little boy living in Texas.

It was sent by air mail to Ohio where it was delivered to a radio station. The man opened the letter and sent a package by parcel post to the little boy in Texas. The package traveled by train. In pur readers we read the story, "The MsUmsn on. the This story told what the mailmen on the train have to do with the mail.

We "also gained much valuable information from our Unit Study "The Post After we our study we went to the local post oHic? to see how it was handled there. W. H. S. TWrd Grade In our arithmetic class we are having lots of fun- We have learn ed our multiplication tables and are learning how to do two and three figure problems in which we cftrrar, Somftimes we play games witn our multiplication tab.

les, such as "Upset the Time Tab, "Around the Clock" and "Ktof el the These help us to iJearn pijr Language class has been spent earning to write letters. We know iow that a letter has five different parts and each part has a name. We compared it with ourselves. A etter has a heading (our' head), a greetings (our mouths) a body, a closing and a signature (our name). After we finished our unit, we wrote letters to one of our ex- classmates, Virginia Sheetz, who has moved away.

We have just. finished a unit in geography on lumbering and are working on a fishing unit. We have learned many things about seas and oceans and how they are valuable to man. Last Thursday we saw a movie, 'The Children of Holland," in connection with our reading in one group. Our group has been reading stories about Holland and we have started to make Dutch Villages.

Our other group has finished the old readers and has begun new ones. We like them very much. We also saw the movie, "How Nature Protects Animals." Our room had been decorated tor Saint Patrick's day. We make potato men in art class. Potatoes of all sizes cut fo torown construction paper and decorated with green shamrocks.

Shamrocks were used for hats, necklaces, ties. Faces were made with black crayola. The last physical education period was spent on walking with the fourth grade. We tried to see how many different signs of spring we could notice. W.

H. S. Fourth Grade We have just begun a new chapter in arithmetic, "Using Fractions." We are going to work with one-fifth, one-sixth, one-eighth, and two-thirds. We are studying China in geography. We have found out that things they do are opposite ours.

For instance their family name is first then their given name. Language class has proved to be very interesting as we are making book reports and becoming familiar with the authors. We are reading "The Good Master" by Kate Seredy for our opening exercise. We decorated our room with shamrocks and horseshoes for St. Patrick's day.

We made the shamrocks and horseshoes in art class. W. H. Fifth Grade During the past week, the fifth grade has been studying On Friday we are giving a courtesy skit for the sixth and seventh grades which consists of three parts: Reasons for being courteous, importance of courtesy in King Arthur's court, and a mealtime converation. The pupils in the first part of the skit are the following: Caryl Jane Newcomb, Charlotte Wiliams, Emil Elick, Mary Pat Beilstein and Mary Ellen Cash.

Patricia Tanner, Marilyn Mason, Den- Oliver, Myrna Sue Lenoch, ffayne Miller, Marilyn Grant, Warvyn Halverson, Maria Lou Jones and Dick Papritz will tell about the importance of courtesy King Arthur's court. In the mealtime conversation, Earl Van Steenhuyse is the father; Susan Yearian, the mother; Elizabeth Sears, Nancy, a nine year old girl; Don Lortz, Joe, a fifteen year old boy; and Audrey Lewis, Sally an eleven year old girl. Jon Peterson and Teresa O'Donnell will give the conclusion of our courtesy skit. Our geography study of Hawaii and the Philippine Islands during the past week has been made more vivid by souvenirs. We have seen money, reed purses, a luncheon set, shoes, large -knives, dresses and a cocoanut brought by Maria Lou Jones, Wayne Miller, Jon Peterson and Charlotte Williams.

W. H. Sixth Grade March 16 Billy Driscoll brought to school to celebrate ils 'birthday. The sixth graders have completed their Easter pictures, which are church windows with candelabras and Easter lilies in them. In Iowa History the sixth graders are beginning a unit on Iowa County.

The eighth graders are studying he units of government in civics. W. H. Seventh Grade The seventh graders have been rying all year to get ten 100's in pelling out of our class of 15. Last week we accomplished this.

Those who got 100 are: Janet Claypool, lorence Fleming, Ronnie Lipsius, Uta O'Donnell, Kay Osborne, Jim Schallau, Leo, Van Steenhuyse, Dorothy Wallace, Elaine White and Jeanette Williams. In health class we are working on a foods unit. We have been col- ecting pictures for the different itamins. Also we have found pic- ures of food, rich in carbohyd- ates, proteins, fats and minerals. In language class we are work- ng with adjectives and trying to master the degrees of comparison, W.

H. Eichth Grade The eighth grade is learning how make various constructions in arithmetic. They are making good use of their rulers, compasses and protractors. They have started a new unit in Science entitled "The World of Living Creatures." In connection with this unit, they are making a scrap book, which includes a collection of pictures, drawings and notes. The seventh grade arithmetic is beginping the study of lines and figures.

Very soon they dre going to be experimenting with compasses, rulers and protractors. The sixth grade arithmetic class has just finished its study of fractions an4 is now ready to study some work in measures. -rW. H. Senior News The econ.

class has been studying the organization of big business and all toe terms connected With it. They have also been studying apput smaller business enterprises. Government regulation and ownership of business and how the consumer affects the entire busi ness setup a feature of the Tbe next unit is the exchange of commodities. Freshmen News In homemaklhg the girls have finished their dresses and are learning how to cook. In algebra they are trying hard to master square roots.

It's o.k., freshmen, it took the rest of us a little while to learn too. H. Sophomore News The girls have finished cooking and have started sewing. They have finished their food unit by serving dinner to the faculty. They are now making dresses and blouses.

The biology class is studying communicable and non-communicable diseases. They are learning how the disease spreads and how to avoid becoming ill by the disease. H. Junior News In English the juniors have just finished reading poetry. This poetry included the works of Whlttier, Holmes and Emerson.

They are now starting to study the early essay including the works of Lowell, Hearn and Holmes. Local (Crowded Out Last Week) -Sunday evening dinner guests in the Wilfred Lillis home were Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly and Cyril of North English, Mrs. Locke Murrin of Parnell, Mr.

and Mrs. Tom Lillis and Margaret, Mary Ellen Cash, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hanson. Mr.

and Mrs. lits Umthun of Iowa City were weekend guests of Mr. and -Mrs. Ray Van Steen- huyse. Betty Hasley spent the weekend with her daughter, Mary Kay in Davenport.

Howard Jones, University of Denver student, flew home Friday to visit until Monday in the parental R. E. Jones home. Mr. and Mrs.

Marvin McClaran and Craig of Waterloo also visited Saturday and Sunday in the parental Jones home. Luverne McCallister arrived Friday from Iowa State college at Ames for a ten day vacation in the parental Frank McCallister home. He accompanied his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Joe Stnakel, to What Cheer, Sunday where they were guests in the Ralph McKay home. Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Pitzer and Irene of Davenport visited from Friday until Sunday in the parental Tom Bryson home. Miss Anna Margaret Mavis and Mr. Ken Logan of Humboldt were guests from Thursday until Saturday in the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. F. Mavis. Mr. and Mrs.

Orville Henry and Larry of Ladora were Sunday din- her guests the parental Gus Harbert home. 'Mrs. Myrtle Stoneman and Patty also were guests. Bobby Bullers accompanied his grandmother, Mrs. C.

B. Reece of New Providence, and his aunt, Mrs. Tom Engelbert of Keswick, to Fort Worth, Texas, where they are visiting for a week in the home of Mrs. Roy Graham. Mrs.

Reece and Mrs. are sisters. Mrs. Frank Papritz went to Cedar Rapids, Thursday and visited with her mother, Mrs. F.

E. Conover, from Low (Moor. Mr. Conover was attending an insurance meeting in Cedar Rapids. (Mrs.

Alfred Martinson and Mr. Mrs. Clarence Doehrmann, Anna Kuhnle and Bob Calvert were present at dinner Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Madoerin Jr.

John R. Thomas spent Thursday and Friday in St. Louis and New Cambria, Mo. John and Tom Donohoe and Mr. 'and Mrs.

Tim Donohoe and Miriam attended the First Solemn High Mass of then- nephew and cousin, Father Mlaynard Brotherson, at St. Bridget's church in Victor, Monday morning. They also were guests 'at a turkey dinner served to the visiting clergy and the relatives in the church dining room. Frank Papritz attended a Shellane service school at Cedar Rapids last week. Mr.

and 'Mrs. J. S. Plantz of Des Moines were Thursday visitors in the J. L.

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Donald Stumpff is the owner of a new two-door black Ford. The building department has completed the new post office here and, has done a splendid job. The special church services before Easter were well attended here. The Middle Sunday School held the annual Easter egg hunt here oa Sunday. The wedding of Miss Mary Elizabeth Klaner and Elmer Leonhardt took place in St.

Paul's Lytheran church in Marion, before the Rev. Carl Wuerffel. The wedding dinner was served at the Homestead Hotel followed by a wedding dance at the AWA clubhouse where approximately four-hundred relatives and friends attended. The couple will live in Middle. Burned It is still dangerous to prime kitchen fires.

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