Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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15 boys of the high school for about twenty minutes on different phases of agricultural study. He emphasized the need of interest in agricultural work, and the economic importance of knowledge in the art of keeping the soil in condition that will give the greatest return possible for the labor and capital expended on that soil. He also spent a little time on the value of good seed and what could be done with the money that could be earned each year by more careful selection of seed corn and treatment of seed oats. Mr. Piper was the representative who was sent to the High School by our Farmers' Institute, which was then in session in Paxton. PARENT-TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION On Monday evening, January 8th, the Parent-Teachers’ Association held their regular meeting in the High School Assembly, the teachers of the city schools furnishing the entire program. Miss Perdue and Miss Stue-land represented the grades and talked on various phases of grade work. Mr. Berg gave an interesting talk on “High School Work and Home Studv.’’ Miss Kaar, in the discussion of her subject. “Domestic Science in Paxton High School,’’ showed the condition of our domestic Science Department as it now is and what it might become in the future. Miss Dunham and Miss Flora rendered very pleasing vocal seletcions. At the close of the literary program, a short. Victrola concert was given. Some very fine records were played and one of these, the Mad Scene of Ophel'a from Hamlet, sung by Melba, was presented the high school by the Assoc'aHon. The members of the high school greatly appreciate this opportunity afforded them by the Association of listening to one of the world’s great artists. A Long School Day. Since the change of train times on the Lake Erie R. R., Paxton High school students who live in Clarence are having a rather long school day. It is now necessary for them to breakfast about 5 o’clock in the morning, take the train at G a. m. and reach the school building about a half hour later. They are not able to return until after 7 p. m, except a few whose class programs permit them to leave in time to get the 3:12 train in the afternoon. New Classes Organized. The new classes organized for the second semester are as follows: Physical geography, 2 sections; commercial arithmetic, 1 section; American his-torp, 2 sections; English history, 1 section; civics, 1 section; botany. 2 sections and special review classes in arithmetic and grammar. New Typewriters for the Commercial Department. One new Underwood typewriter has been purchased recently for the commercial department. The old L. C. Smith has been exchanged for a new Underwood and the three No.. 4 models of the Underwood, purchased two or more years ago, are to be changed for new No. 5’s. With these additions and changes, the school will possess six practically new No. 5 Underwood machines. With only one kind of typewriter, the practice work will be greatly facilitated. Mr.. Berg, who has the honor of being a member of the executive committee of the Ford County Teachers’ Association, informs us that plans are about completed for holding the annuel meeting in Gibson City, March 8th and 9th. This means that we will have a short vacation at that time.

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14 NON-RESIDENT OR TUITION STUDENTS. Dis. No. 50, Ford County—Mary Currie, Paul Currie, Robert Currie. Dist. No. 54, Ford County—Mahlon Kenuey. Dist. No. 55, Ford County—-Ralph Stanford. Dist. 56, Ford County—Gladys Auk-land. Nobel C. Johnson. Edna Swanson. Dist. 74, Ford County (Clarence)— Leonard Johnson, Earl Hutchinson, j Claude Peters, Gordon Carson, Helen | Swanson, Ethel Swanson, Carl Peter-1 son. Dist. 76, Ford County—Harry Flannery. Dist. 77—Clyde Martin, Helen Johnson. Dist. 78. Ford County—George Tib-by, Mae Tibby, Mabel Congram, Elfie Carlson. Dist. 79, Ford County—Olga Stoltz. Dist. 81, Ford County —Mayme Cleary. Dist. No. 82, Ford County—Agnes Harnes, Harold Barnes. Dist. No. 83, Ford County—Lillian Tackwell, Loretta Deany, Shelby Horner, Hazel Horner. Dist. 84, Ford County—Beulah Anderson. Opal Morrison. 'Dist. 85, Ford County—Everett Smith, Kenneth Smith, Ralph Covert. Dist. 86, Ford County—Edgar Peterson. Dist. 89, Ford County—Viola Lind-gren, Gladys Burkland. Dist. 90, Ford County—Ruby We- berg. Dist. 91, Ford County—'Lulu Frette, Amy Swanson. Dist. 92, Ford County—Mary Kellar. Dist. 94, Ford County (Elliott)—Abide Hanson. Dist. Ill, Iroquois County—Walter Congram. Dist. 142, Champaign County (Lud- low)—Florence Bear, Fletcher Cole, William Cole, Roy Flick, Benton Funk, Dist. 197, Champaign County (Ludlow)—Anna Watson, Roy Wampler. Dist. 198, Champaign County (Ludlow)—Florence Hodam, Lowell Hod-am, Bessie Hamm, Mary Webber. Dist. 199—Lonore Pearson. Vermilion County—Helen Heinz. Dist. 206. Iroquois County—Guy Pa-cey. County Superintendent of Schools, Prof. H. M. Rudolph, Meets with Serious Accident. The serious accident with which Mr. Rudolph met some weeks ago, will not be news to most Reflector readers. It may, however, to some of our former P. H. S. students and teachers to whom this issue comes, be news equally painful as it was to those of us who learned of the accident within a few' hours of its occurrence. He fell on a slippery walk—with the not unusual result that one of his hip bones was fractured. For a time, it was hoped that he would meet with no complications to retard his recovery or make the long weeks and months usually required for the healing processes to do their work in fractures of this kind, more trying or more burdensome. However, as a result of a severe cold, pneumonia developed about two weeks ago. At the present time he is greatly improved, and it is hoped that nothing else may transpire to delay the time when he shall be able to resume his work In the interests of the schools of the county. SPECIAL TALK ON AGRICULTURE (By Prof. Piper of the Southern 111. State Normal University, Carbon-dale.) On January the eleventh, Mr. Piper of Carbondale, Normal, spoke to the

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16 Sopliomoie 'Department CONTAINS SOME OF OUR NAMES, SOME OF OUR WIT, SOME OF OUR PICTURES, SOME OF OUR CONFESSIONS, SOME OF OUR CLASS STATISTICS, AND ABOVE ALL, A SAMPLE OF OUR LITERARY GENIUS, IN THE GRIPPING STORY OF “Miss Susanna and Her Courtship’ Sophomore Class Statistics. We, the Sophomore class of this year, are forty-five in number—twenty girls and twenty-five boys. Just the right number for coupling ofT—with just a few over. The average size shoe of the girls Is four and one-half. The smallest being a number two. If all the sophomore girls would stand with one foot before the other, the length of the line would be twenty feet. If one would attempt to shoe the twenty pair of feet of the girls, at twelve dollars a pair, which is the price per pair for those made of shark hide, it would cost him exactly $240.00. (Wheel) Taking it for granted that girls take two pair a year the amount would be $480. One could not wear these shoes at all times and places, so taking in all the shoes needed, there would be added to the last amount just $500, the total amount of cost of shoes being $980. The average size of glove of the girls of the class is five and two-thirds. If the hands of the girls were put down in a straight line the line would measure 220 inches. The girls’ ages vary all the way from fifteen to seventeen. The total age of the girls of this class is three-hundred and ten years. The average age is fifteen years. Of the twenty-five boys there are five blondes, nine mediums, nine brunettes and one with auburn hair. The average weight of the boys is one hundred and thirty-six pounds. The heavy weight weighs one hundred pounds The average size snoe of the boys is size eight. If the boys would stand in a straight line with one foot before the other the line would extend over thirty feet in length. The average age of the boys is fifteen years and six months, three weeks and two days. The average weight of the brain is said to be around three pounds. If this is a fact, then the total number of pounds in the weight of the brains of the whole class will be 135 pounds or more accurately 2160 ounces. (Of course that is saying that none of our brains exceeds the normal weight.) Taking it for granted that every member has attended school for ten years, the total number of years attended will be 450 years, or 121,500 days if one attended school every day, but that is not possible. If 35 students of our class walk six blocks to and from school four times a day, for five days of a week and twenty days of the month for two years, we have been in high school, the total number of miles walked would be 38,240 or once and a half times around the earth. (Can you beat it!)