girls in the fourth grade have been working industriously on birdhouses. This is a part of their science work, which they find very interesting under the instruction of Mrs. Vasey. They also are making a large map of North America, showing both the physical features and products.
Hot Lunch Menus: Monday – Vegetable Soup; Tuesday – Lima Beans; Thursday – Baking Powder Biscuits with Creamed Chicken; Friday – Mashed Potatoes and Creamed Wieners.
The Monday morning assembly brought three entertaining readings to the students. Those who spoke were Winfred Holmes, giving “Unknown Soldier,” Leota Schlarb, “Little Dub,” and Arleen Pritchard, “War in the Nursery.” These are our representatives in the sub-county declamatory contest at Maxwell.
February 12, 1931 Vocational Agriculture Eighty-five farmers gave the desired information in the community farm survey that was concluded last week by the Ag. Boys. The Farm and Home week, which opened last week at Iowa State College attracted many people, including the Vocational Agriculture class and their instructor, Mr. Towne, who attended on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The boys had planned to attend a lecture, but they were unable to gain entrance because of the crowd. As alternative, they made a tour of the college barns and studied the livestock. In the afternoon, they attended the corn show. A series of milk testing experiments has been conducted in the Ag. Class this week. Each boy tests the milk of his own farm cows and thus gains practical, useful knowledge.
Grade News: First Grade: We are reading the last story in our primer. It is “The Circus” story. Second Grade: We have been making Valentines. We are studying about Abraham Lincoln. Lois brought a picture of a log cabin to school. We cut out some log cabins. Third and Fourth Grades: The boys and girls in the arithmetic classes are studying Roman numerals. Seventh Grade: An interesting Lincoln program, prepared by Miss Signs and the seventh grade was given in assembly Monday morning. The program opened with the student body singing “America,” and the giving of the salute to the flag, followed by a history of the flag read by Alta Tiffany and Alta Vasey. Oscar Serbein gave a splendid talk on the life of Lincoln and the Gettysburg address.
Collins 29, Maxwell, 30. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, the Collins boys met the Maxwell boys on the home floor in an attempt to redeem themselves from the defeat by Maxwell some time ago. The Collins boys started out in the first quarter by gaining a slight lead. After that not so much fight was shown until the last quarter. At the end of the half Maxwell had a 10-point lead on Collins. The home team came back determined to win, however, and put a lot more scrap into the game. With this added energy, the Collins boys brought the score close. Maxwell tried stalling for time, but did not get by with it. The ball was kept close to Collins’ basket, but they couldn’t score and so lost the game by one point.
History of Collins (Myrl Huntrods, Grade 8) A well-improved agriculturally rich township lies in the southeast corner of Story county. It was one of the first townships to be settled in the county. The prairie grass that once covered Collins township grew to a height of many feet, held water in places and made numerous small ponds. The first white man to settle in Collins township was Wm. Parker, a native of Indiana, who came to Iowa in 1848 and stopped in Oskaloosa until early in the spring of 1849, when he settled in Collins township. He lived in this township until his death in May, 1891. The first white child