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. 1 · f,~~Told by L!_he PUpils I PubliiMd WHkly b" undtr 1uperviaion of Wilmette Plauground and R«rtation Board. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, MARCH 16,1928 E·joy l·st~ection To·r of Wilmette · Telephone Exchange Last Tuesoay 11188 Brickey took us to Yi8lt our ne,chborhood telephone exchange. It a8 a two-st.Q.rY butlding bullt of red brick. Inside of the ftrst ftoor were tall racks and frameR covered with tiny wires and connection& tach little wire has a nunlber to lt. In the back of tbe room there were two m.a.cnlnes, oo.e which makes the telephone ring, and tne other gave current to flash the l.ghts on and otr on the IIW'Itchboard upstairs. · ID the bakment were other machines wbleh makes telepbonlnc poaalble, alao U..re waa a amall room closed otr on one aide where there were la~e tubes of acid. They were to repair things which an out of order. The ~ld had an awful smf'll and I did not want to stay in · there Next we went upstairs where eleven cperaton were alttloc, facloc a lone -.rd. which ran halt way around the room. Each operator bad on a · pair of ear phones and a mouth piece hung around her nec,1 7belr hands were busy with looc buttons and cords, while they .-oke In low tones .Into the mouth piece. 'ftaen the chief operator, who was showus around uked what my tel~Pilone aumber waa and aald ..suppoee your mother lB calllnc the butcher." . No1f~·.lthe operator takea one of these long ; ~ . . . plup In on the butcher's number, wlllch Ia in the answering jack. lni~. llllldlately the butcher's bell will rlDC. When mother Is through talkloc she wiD set a signal and take down 'tbe plap. Aci'OIIII the room is where the long dls- .. ,. _...__..;....;;..-;.,._ .·"' ...---........_-....,1, :Teachers, Pupils· ~· I -----------------: ·Poems Win Praise During the ftrst two months of school the Howard school 6A grade studied Egyptian history. Then they wrote poems about Egypt In their EngllBh claas. The poems below were the ·three best poems to be put In WILIIIII'l'TB LIJ'IL -Janet Wight, 6A Howard. In Egypt, the land o the Nile, 'rhe Egyptians walked for many a mile To worship and· praJ' to the God of the Nile That they believed In, In their day. Tbe children went there sometimes to play, But they went there mostly to worship and pray ·' To what they thought was the God of the Nile. But If It wasn't for the Nile and the Egyptians, why say We wouldn't have half the things we have today. -Tom Lively, 6A Howard. In the land where the sun Is hot all day, All day Its rays on the desert. play. SmaU boys and girls in mud houses slept While many dreams through their minds crept. All . along the Nile, which flows many. a JJdle, ..... . . . . P~·work and play In the sun all day. Then are ·~ temples and pyramlde; great add e~ll, · With pictures and monuments, ~~ add to It all. . ~- >1:.:;. b.._:: They 'bad stories and myths, both funny and sad, · ·· · Telllng of Pharoahs who were both great and bad. There were many gods with funny faces, And they all dwelt In different places. Honorlnstrt~ctor _ Spring Poe~s Busy Who Leaves Stolp .____ sP_BII_a_ _ __ Little wlld violet 80 pretty and dear', With your wild beauty enchant the sincere. Birds all so sweetly singing their songs The wanderers for their boyhood homes ong. The dawn of the day at last Is bert~ A blade ot grass has just appeared That little page glad tldlnga he brings For with him comes his Lady, Madame Spring. -llarle Skog, Howard. 1 I E17l& ...... · Ern& The seventh and eight~ graders of the Stolp school regr~t very much that :Miu Helene C. GroBSenbacher, their literature and spelling teacher, has left this school to teach in the Carl Schura High school of Chlca«o. . KIBB Grossenbacher is a resident of Chicago and has ~n teaching here for three years. She is a graduate of the Carl Schur· High school and of Northwestern university. Besides working in literature and spelling, :Miu Grossenbacher has helped a great· deal In the :Music department by accompanying the Boys' and Girls' Glee clubs and working on the Spring Festival music with Mrs. Cla.r.k. On :March 5, the day she left, the teachera gave a luncheon In her honor at Vera Megowan's tea room In Evanston. The claBSes in the Stolp school Jtresented her with a pair of Shakesperian bookends, Kipling's poems bound, "The Nature Lovers' Kilapsack," the "Life of WGlllam Shakeatpeare" by Rolfe, and "American New Ag_e." I think all the pupils will mlBB her greatly although she promised she would come back and visit them as often_ as poBSible. MIBB Orrel Davis, a graduate of Northwestern university last year, Is s~cceeding Miss Grossenbacher. -Emma Bickham, 8A Stolp. ~ I f 8:PBING Hail to the Spring of tbe year These are the reasons I know It Is near. First the Robin with bls joyous song w no it see mas to us has long been gone, And then the gentle spring breeze That whispers softly through the trees, And the little brooklet begins to ftow And all of Nature's children seem to know That Spring Is here. -Albert Lind. THE COMING OF SPBINQ ·when the clouds float by and the sky is blue, When the trees are budding and the ftowen too And the bumble bee starts her song to BlDg Then I know 'Us a sign of spring. When the windows of the houses fty open And mother nature gives us her token, The warm south wind which we know will bring The beautiful time of the year, the spring. · -Elaine Alberga. The The The ADd taace operators are who auwer long ......_oe calla and an information oper...... ablo. . GolDe downstairs we saw a little door wlalcb ·lei. ·-private" on lt. We went in ~18 room and BaJV lockers and a lunch nom tor the operators. Otr this room wu a rut room for the operators. It learned of many sandstorms on the 198 a co.,- little room with chairs, maga- We desert there. - - . a vlclrola and a writing desk. Which were both hot and very bare. Alter that we went borne. Egypt ~Jp.Ve many ·deas both great and -Betty McCollum, Grade 4, Logan. small~ Whloft \Ve use now~nly not quite all. ·! -Russell Almdale, 6A Howard. Wilmette Cagers i~ Put B·oltwootl Out of Title Chances lth Graden HeU Talk on lnaunnce Busineu llr. Law, father of one of the 8B boy8, pve the Howard eighth ttrade a talk on Insurance, February 24. Mr. Law came at the IIU'Itatlon of Mrs. .Jones, teu!her ot mathematics. He explained tlae subjeet very thoroughly and we aD feel we proftted by lt. The four ldDds of Insurance~ life, ftre, marine, and caaualty, we now know about. Fire IMuranoe Is Mr. Law's business and, ·tng a slang phrase, "He knows his Olllone." We learned a great 1deal more fNm that abort talk t)lan we could have from several days studying our arithmetic book11. Mr. Law's talk wa~ appreciated by all of us. -Lauretta Andei'BOn, SA Howard. Girl Scouts on Health Record; Award Comina The Girl Scouts are on health record DOW. Georgette Becker and Betty Turck are working hard for a- pin. 'They ftnd It hard work to give up candy and cake eo long, but they do their best at lt. The rhymn they use Is as follows: We don't like co«~ We don't like tea. We're on health record you see.. -Betty Turck, 6A Central. SWELL IEKOBIAL PUND 'ftle 6A echool room of the Central .ehool bad a candy sale to raise money tor the picture we are trylnc- to buy tor a memorial to Kl~ Cuwell, teacher tor many yean, who died last year. We rallied $7.20 and all the eandy sold out Ia ten minutes. This salfll wu held In ttte lower hall of the Central school, 'l'ueeday, !l'lrch 6, after school. -Eleanor Rick., 6A Central. G~~~~mlttee A few Wf'ekll qo 111'11. Sto11fn~ too" BIBANC'! SCHOOL :&OOX t .-ton to a .cllooJ room look attractive. y 4eelded that curtains would make · room look better. OUr duea are ten _..ta a montb, nr fifty r.ent11 for six tlaa. th'lt made about ten dollal'll. A daJ'II lAter " rommlttPe went down ................ ~ tile oarta.... -4:- .... 7;lbbJe. IB Howard. to tbe BaYeD eallool at BY· p throu.rh It and see wftat The Wilmette Heavywelgbts launched upon their second attack on Boltwood March 2 at Lincoln school gymnasium. It Isn't much of a gym, as the heavyweights can tell you, and the floor of the old attic groaned and creaked under the strain of an exciting basketball game. Boltwood gave our heavies a ten point handicap. Using these ten pglnts at the end of the first quarter, the score watt Wilmette 15, Boltwood f-at the half, Wilmette 20, Boltwood, 10. The game was very close. Bolt wood put on a heavy fight In the second half. By the end of the trame they Ern& hR.d actually made 8 more points than A way tar from here, \VIImette About one minute before the Is a land both brown and sear, Pnd of the game, the score was tied. It has manY. deserts and rivers few, The> teams were fighting to the flnlsb Its sky Is always clear and blue, . There are many pyramids and temples, and when Wilmette got two fn>e ·throwB the whistle blew and Boltwood Is now too, Of the Pharoahs whom we never knew. practically out of the cham-plonshtp, losln~ two strale-ltt games to Wilmette. Final scorP. 24-22 In favor of Wilmette. There Is a river called the Nile, -John Dernehl, 8B Howard. Which has helped the people for a long, long while, Every year it overflows, That Is why their crops grow, So they pray to the god of the Nile, Whom they think has helped them for a We have elr.ht nPw books In the long while. library: "Conquering the Air." by ArchiTheir houses dltrer very much from ours bald Williams : ..The Boys' Book of AirThey had not even a clock to tell the men," by David Crumn: "The Children's hoprs, Book of Birds," by Olive Thorne Miller: "The Boys' Book of Ships," by Charles E. They dressed dlfterently from us, With never a street car nor even a bus. Cartwright : "With the Indians In the The modern work of now days Rockies," by JameR Willard Schult·: Dltrers much from ancient ways, "Trains.. Tracks, and Travel." by T. W. But we owe much to Egypt for her Van Metre ; "More Wild Folk," by Samuel Ideas. - · ScotviJle, Jr., and ·"Young Folks' Book of For maklng our country today what It is.' Invention," by T. C. Bridges. These -!rtarguerite Buckle, 6A Howard. · books are all very Interesting. -Mark Stoddard, SD Stolp. 8B GIBLS WIN The Howard eighth grade girls played SWEETHEART PARTY their first game Mon~ay after school. The Cub Scouts of Troop 1 gave a SB won 9 to 7. The captain or SA's sweetheart party at the Teatro de Laaro. tea~ is Ruth Smith and we consider her The Cubs gave numbers. Then after about the best to be had. 8B's captain that the oolef scout executive talked Is Margaret Ludlger. We have many ex- to the boys and then medals were given cellent players on our teams, this year out to the followln~ : Thomas Antrim . and all of us are very anxious to start who was given a silver medal ftrat and our games with the otber !fChols. · then there were the rest, Dan. PhiJllps. -Lauretta AndentOn, SA Howard. Niles McDonald. John Stut, Roy Brown and many others. Then we went to see OUB BABY Fred Thompson. Then we went home. Our baby's name is Marjorie -Paul Ogilvie, 5B Central. And she's as sweet as she can be She laqbs and smiles the livelong day RETUBN TO CLA88E8 And Bca.ttera cheer In every way. Eugene Harper of 'lA Stolo school came --Jean Ann Kouldlng, Central 5A. back to school on Karch 7 after beln« for two monthR. The boys and girls We are certainly glad to have Lydia out were glad to 11ee him back. . Rogers, Howard 8A, back from Calltor-Robert Werden, 7A Stolp. nla. I hope she is dad to be back. -Marie Skog, 8B Howard. D:BX01f8TBATE8 0'8TBUIIENT8 The bo711 and rtrls of Stolp all enLost : Ladles' orange Parker fountain joye4 our last assembly as Kr. Schupen with gold band around the top part. macher, the band leader, gave a c1emonFinder please return to Miss Davis' room, Rtratlon of the band Instruments. I think 7B. , everybody enjoyed It ve17 much. -Mary Finlayson, 7B Stolp. ·... -PhiJip Osbom, 7A Stolu. 81QN8 OF 8PBJ1{0 buds are on the oak tree yellow datrodll Is free earth Is turning green once more Spring ls opening up her door. -Lauretta Anderson. S:PBING I Jove the season they call spring, When all the birds are beard to sing ; Winter has gone again- to stay, Then to come back without delay. Tbe flowers bloom in the month of May Perfuming the air thro'out the day. Enchanted of mirth as If ln a dream The Fairf<>!'l fro1 1 ~ by the stream. -Nellie Wuaquam, 8B Howard. Receive New Books at Stolo School Lihra" 8:P:allfG The fields are turning again The creeks beginning to ftow And the farmer has begun his old refraln As he plods behind the plow. The bE-es are buzzing on their way, .And w~ rm breezes are ~lowing The larks are singing their sweet lay And the gentle cows are lowing. · The flowers ~round are springing from the The sound of spring is In the alr, And In the forest many birds abound The dog runs wild without care. -Robert Golden. 81QN8 OF SPRING A glint nf green besldP. a brook A snowdrop In a shady nook A uussywlllow standln~ here Tells us all th~t spring Is near. An the fni'I~"CtA fiP.E'm to know Winter Is about to ~o Buds are comln« baclc to bring Tidings glad about the spring. -Lucy Murdtson. IB Howard. BASEBALL IN OPFDG 6B Is Jooklng forward to the basebaJl season. We have piA.YP.d pi'RCtlce JrameA already. Our best rival Is GC. We tied In footbAll 12 to 12. TbPv beat us In basketball 4 to 1. Now we are going to try to ew~n It un '" ba·<>b'lll. -John B~trtholomew. HOWARD 7A WINS Last Monday 7A and 7B Howard played basketball. 7A won with a score 14 to 4. 'fJCeJiy" Welten Is the captain ,..~ 7B'e team and Allee, Nord of 7 A'tt. 'Roth teams played lllllendldly considerIng the fact that they are bednnen. -Lauretta Anderson, 8A Howard.