Bureau Township High School - Beuro Yearbook (Princeton, IL)

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THE BEURO HISTORY OF ROOM III. When school started September 3, 1928 there were eighteen bright and shiny facets in Room III. The ones who started were: Charles Lee, Francis Schultz, I.eland Peck, Burton Johnson, Russel Johnson, Eleanor May, Eleanor Pihl, Mildred Purvis, Madge Odell, in the fifth gradeg Milford Jontz, John Garland, Dorothy Jackson, Roger White, Russel Richards, Lovilla Herlean, Iris Schultz, Gilbert Neiman, and Hiram John- son in the sixth grade. John Garland, Iris and Francis Schultz have moved 'to another locality so now we 'have fifteen pupils. On the 29th and 30th of September we had the Bureau Township Fair. The high school had stands. There were premiums to tlhe winners of the Livestock and Poultry Shows. There were races and horse races. The grade rooms competed against each other, Miss Walker's room winning first place. On the 23rd of December we had a Christmas program. The pupils from the dif- ferent rooms spoke pieces and sang songs. Our room gave a play. After Santa Claus had come and distributed the presents the board members gave a treat of candy and oranges. We all enjoyed that. On the 31st of December and lst of January our school had an invitation basket- ball tournament. Malden was Champion. On Wednesday, January 3rd, we came back to school. February 14th. we had a Valentine party. We were surprised to have ice cream and wafers as a treat which the teachers served. We all received Valentines from different school mates. On March 4th, we went down stairs to the auditorium to listen to Mr. Hoover take his oath of office. We had our lunch in the auidtorium. We gave two operettasg one for Rooms 1 and 2, which was Lady4bug, Lady-bug and Tad's Inspiration , given by Rooms 3 and 4. The grade school has an orches.tra and a harmonica band. The orchestra consists of six violins, three clarinets, one trombone, one guitar, and two cornets. The har- monica band consists of about twenty pupils from this room. Our grade school has a basketball team. Hiram Johnson and Gilbert Nyman from Room 3 were on the regular team. Our games were as follows: Bureau ............ 8 Malden ............ 30 Bureau ,,.......... 7 Kewanee .,..,.....,, 22 Bureau ...,........ 11 Buda ...... ....... 1 5 Bureau ............ 22 Ohio ,,,....,.,.,...,,... 2 Bureau ..,......... 28 Ohio .......,........ 4 Bureau .....VV,..Y. 12 Kewanee ........,... 18 Bureau ....,,.,..., 5 Manlius ....,.,... 10 Bureau ........,.,. 4 Wyanet ,.,.,.,,,,,... 11 Our grade team went to two tournaments. Soon our school will close, when we all hope to climb a step higher in our work. Page Forty-two

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THE BEURC ROOM ll. My, what a busy, 'happy year we have had. We just can't realize that vacation time is so near. It seems such a short time since September third when the nineteen of us with our teacher, started on our year's school journey. Because of illness, Earl Lee was not able to join us this year. We were sorry tof have Darlene, Herbert, and Leona leave us in March. I Our Bureau Township Fair was again a big event for us. We prepared an ex- hibit, decorated our room in red, green and yellow, and several of us were in some of the contests. We had Christmas secrets this year, too, for we again made presents for our mothers. We painted book ends, shoe trees and hangers, and we proved to be pretty good painters, All of us took part in the grade school pageant at the Christmas program. We had an Indian Village on our sand table, and at Christmas time we repre- sented Saint Nicholas with the aid of cotton and artificial snow. Now we are going to transform our sand table into an old fashioned garden, and each one of us will be a gardener and care for his part of the garden. We have plenty of fun together in our school work and at our parties. We have had contests in learning our multiplication tables, in seeing how many stars we could get on the different months' work, and we have a Good Manners Club too. We cer- tainly enjoyed our Hallowe'en, Valentine, birthday, and surprise parties this year. We worked hard before our parties, and then just enjoyed ourselves immensely. Most of all, we tried our best this year to be 'iGood Citizens , both at school and at home. We want to learn how to work well with our neighlboirs, to be of what- ever help we can in the community where we live, and we want our manners to be such that people will want to be with us, and enjoy our company. Soon we will have another school exhibit, and we're always glad to have visitors. We're glad to have visitors see what we are doing, and the work that we have already finished. Maybe our Harmonica Band will play when we have our exhibit. Have you heard us play? If not, you had better come. We played the most interesting games in Gym this year. And we had a basket ball team-a girl's team and a boys team. We played two games one night after school. Oh, yes, we are glad for vacation to come but deep down in our hearts we hate to be separated from some of our best friends this summer. We won't get to see them nearly as often. There will be so many things to do-fishing, swimming and picnicking-that perhaps it won't seem very long until September again. Page Forty-one

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THE BEURO ROOM IV. Here we are again at the close of another school year, the year 1928-1929. There were only fourteen in our room-five in the seventh grade and nine in thet eighth grade when school began. Of course. in September we had our annual room exhibit at the fair. We tried to carry out the color scheme of green and yellow. We were not fortunate enough to get first prize but nevertheless we were awarded five dollars for our efforts. For the Christmas program the entire grade school gave a group of song num- bers illustrating the Birth of Christ. We tried to do our best under the leadelrship of Miss Walker. Basketball was quite prominent in our affairs this year. We boys played games with New Bedford, Malden, Princeton Junior High and Kewanee. We also took part in the Buda Grade Tournament. Maybe we lost most of our games this year-no, maybe we won most. We VVOfl,t tell because that's our secret, but this isn't a secret and that is we certainly wish to thank Mr. Troyer for his coaching and his taxi services. We girls played b0y's rules all year. We 'had manylinteresting games in gymnas- tic classes against the boys. We played two games with the High School girls and we are proud to say we played the Ohio girls twice and won both games. We most always dislike March because it brings bad roads-consequently ab- sentees, sickness caused by colds, and March moving . Dale Garland moved east of Princetong he was in the eighth grade. Our attendance record also was good until March. We have had instrument practice twice every week. .We always enjoyed these practices under our faithful director, Miss Walker. We tried to do our bit in enter- taining the public whenever the need arose. The last three months certainly kept us busy with the Zone Contest, operetta, school exhibit and plans for graduation. Oh June! Who doesn't like you? Yes, What is uso rare as a day' ini June ? , es- pecially when that is graduation day? Do we know what the future holds in store for us? No, perhaps not, but let's all keep 'hold for the opportunity for more education- at least four years of High Schol. N MQ, 'Qc Get QXNBQ. iUJ.l9,,.N.,9-XiVkkfi, H Niki P Fvti'-tlgmm We MMM' r wvtawma -t fewer' 'l 'KLA Oriel? - L NJWVUV i gr gbxwehfifvmf-be a