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April 19, 1929 WILME·TTE LIFE JUNIOR LIFE Third Annual Marble Meet Scheduled for Tomorrow The third annual marble tournament. is to take place at the Vi1' .ge Green Saturday, April 20, at 9 :30 o'clock. The games · that will be played are "Fat" and "Big Ring." Last year the boys played "Big Ri,ng" at the Stolp school. The year before, 1927, was the first . marble tourney and the boys played "feat." This game was also played at Stolp. This )·ear the boys will choose which eyer game they want to play. If you hope to win this contest the best thing vou can do is to practice. You may be poor shot just now but you still . have a few hours to practice, that will put you in the finals for the United States Championship at Atlantic City if you try hard enough.-Roger Palenske, SA Stolp. Eighth Grade Girls Pick Members of Ball· Teams The two eighth grade rooms of Stolp have chosen their girls' baseball team. They are as follows: Beth Mcllraith, cal)tain, Lucy Clagett, Katherine Thompson Helen Winslow, Mary Elizabeth French: Dorothy Neal, Margaret Mcintosh, Ann Marie Wilson and June Kehl. The other team is: Janet McNulty, captain, Frances Ellis, Marjorie Seubold, Eleanor Moulding, Selma Wax, Rosie Russo, Alison Burge, Ruth Seymore, Eileen Burke, and Eleanor Jackson. We hope we will be very successful and play very good games. - June Kehl and Eleanor Jach:son, SA Stolp. HOWARD GIRLS WIN Th·e girls of 6A Howard played a game of baseball with St. Joseph sixth grade and won. Howard won 19 to 2. We put most of them out by striltes. Ev'ry ball that we would pitch to them they wpuld strike at. Audrey Borre, our captain, Et.nd Eleanor Steen, were pitchers. The pitchers on St. Joseph's side pitched so well that we hit just about every ball. The lineup is as follows : Audrey Borre, pitcher and left shortstop ; Eleanor Steen, left shortstop and pitcher; Katherine Brandt, catcher; Geraldine Bunch, first baseman ; Mary Dunning, third baseman, and Jean Perrill, right shortstop. The game was exciting and both teams played well.Jean Perrill, 6-A Howard. SCOUT TREASURE HUNT The Wilmette Girl Scouts, Troop 4, went on a treasure hunt Tuesday. We started at the. Methodist church. We went several places and finally came to a woods on Main street in bacl<: of Wood court. It began to , rain then and it was very mushy and the brush was thick. By the time we got back to the church we were tired, cold, and hungry. The pork and beans and spagetti and everything else tasted fine. Our captain, Miss Hump~re:ys, and our lieutenant. Leddy Stiles, had prepared it. It rlidn't take long to satisfy our hunger. We always look .forward to these dinners and hunts.-Winiirerl Ban y, eighth grade, St. Francis. "MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY" Tuesday, April 9, the 7B Howard started to read the book, "The Man Without a Country," by Everett Hale. This story is about a man who expressed an oath, the wish that he might never hear of the United States again. His wish was carried out and all his life he lived on board a bo:tt hardly putting his foot or. land. No uews ever got to him about the United States or the word home.-Margery Taylor, 7B Howard. A TI'ENTION! EARLY GOLFER a Howard Sixth Grade Wins Two Banners in Athletics Th e sixth grades of Howard won two banners. One is for football and the other is for soccer ball. Bob Specht was thE' captain for football and Billy Grinehl the captain for soccer ball. Bob was th~ first boy to receive a letter in the sixth grade. The banners and letters were given to the bo~s by Mr. Todd, the principal of Howard school. This took place in the Howard school gymnasium at 2:45 o'clock, April ~. The girl~ and their teacher, Miss Larson, are proud of the boys' skill in th ese games. The boys now haYe their banners hanging in their room.--Geraldine Bunch, 6A Howard. ,, STOLP DEFEATS HOWARD Tuesday, April 9, Howard 7B played Stolp 7C in a gam' of baseba ll. The game starJed with 7B up first and we ~cored two . runs making the score two to nothing, in our favor. Then 7C came up but did not score. The second inning we did not score but 7C scored a run making the score 2 to 1. After playin~ HOLD GJtAl\11\fAR TEST the rest of the inning 7B scorf'd three The eighth grades of Howard had a all TESTS, TESTS, TESTS runs to 7C eight rum;, making the final Grammar test. This t es t was arranged score Tests, Tests, Tests ! And more Tests ! 9 to 5 in their faYor. -"~alt e r Fosin sections of \'rhich ther e were five. There lund, 7B Howard. We're all so busy wondering and worryJ were sentences with words and forms to ing about the outcome of these tests in he selected. Rules were also to be selected. the eighth grade at Stolp school that we 1\lAKF. FRIEZE This test was one of the num erous t ests haven't time to wonder about anything Miss Hardick's fourth grade of Cen tra l else. that we have been h aving lately.-Jane We all hope we will pas~ with school has been making a frieze of high grade~.-Beth Mcllraith, SA Stolp. Carol Sundlof, 8B Howard. Switzerland. ThE-y have been work in c· very hard on it, top. It looks Yery nice GET TWO BANNERS STUDY BIRD LH,E SB Howard received both th e ba~k etba ll for it has goats, co w~. mountains, h erdPrs, Howard 7B has begun the study of and the soccer banner in an assembly in children, fowns and waterfa ll~ which birds in the General Science work. Miss gymnasium last Monday aftf'rnoon, la!'t Switzerland iR mad e up of it seems. Stevens, our teacher, said, "I am going period. On th e soccer banner, "soccer" There is very little to do 5;0 we think it to see who can see the most birds this is spelt "~ccor." They are maroon and will be fini shed ~oon.-Jmogene Kaufman, year."-Jjjck Stein, 7B Howard. white the banner maroon with white let- grade 4, Central. ters spelling "champion."-Betty K. Kirwan, SB Howard. SA NINF: IS WIXXf:H All Children Smile for Bernie Th e first team of SA Stolp boy$ play d UEHF:A RSE G IL\D U A 1'10:\"' )fl! SI(' St. Francis in baseball Tuesday at Stolp. The eighth grades at Howard ar st:u·t- A. won another Yicton·. " 'e are very ing their music for graduation, the song ,Droud of the fill (' team. The score was is "Land of Hope and Glory." We are SA, 21, anrt St. Fran cis, 11. W e hope the also leanli.Dg a song for the Xorth ShOJ'e boyR kPep up th ei1· good playing in all festiYal to be held down ~t Patt n gym- the rest of tlwir ganws. - Beth ::\Tcilmith, nnsium.-Betty K. Kirw~n. SB Jloward . c: A Stolp. "LET THEltE BE LIGHT" The skylight was opened up S·) th~ pupils of the Howard upper c la s~-; s C()Uld see their lockers. It has b een dark fr.r many months now but finally openecl up on April 12, at 10 :55 o'clock. It was a Yery light even t and there was very much rejoicing among the PUl)ils of the ~eYenth and eighth grades. The reason it was closed was because the workmen were walking over it and working on th e new part which is coming along fine. lt i~ yet to be washed and cleaned up. There is (JUite a bit of dirt on it. I am pretty !';Ure thit it won't b e cleaned off until the new part is finish ed, so all th ') light won't be there for three or four months. - Alfred Bartnick, SB Howard. Properly selected golf equipment will improve your game 1 ooo/o. Let the experts in our Sporting Goods Dept. advise you. ··------------------------4 Steel Shafted Irons Harry Cooper's choice of irons. Exceptionally fine quality. Stain· less and rustless. Regular $8 iron at $5.00 Steel Shafted Woods Perfect beauti.es with their dark mahogany heads and triple plated . steel shaft. Regularly $8 . 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