r- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, MAY 22, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE 6. Paper on Commercial Depar! serious than the rest of the Seniors, ALEXANDER BAKER HIGH SCHOOL ment—Nathan Shapira. but she is ready always to have some 7. Music—Double Quartet. fun. AND BORDER BUDGET 8. Class Will and Prophecy— She is one of the oldest members (Continued from Page One GEO. P. WATSON, Editor Minnie Hanson. of the class and has always taken as the best ideas on education practice. These are home 'economics, agriciiknre, active part in all school and social 9. Japanese Drill—Junior High Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Matter commerce, manual training, music kindergarten, junior School. functions. She is a dandy piano high school. Next year will find the kindergarten on a different player but does not desire to make 10. Valedictory, Agriculture—Frank SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR this public. Nevertheless she has O'Malley. schedule and special attention paid to free hand drawing and penmanship. given good music at different times Every true American will display his flag tomorrow in honor 11. Presentation of Diplomas—Frank during these past years. She wishes Palmer. of the patriots who served their country in the wars in which it ha? The junior high school organization, including the seventh, to enter the to take up nursing been engaged and observe in a becoming manner the day set apart eighth and ninth grades, will be completed arid quartered in the old but because of the regulations of that Class Colors—Lavender and Maize. to their m'emory. institution she is preparing to wait building. Special attention in this department will be paid to supervised Class Flower—Lilac. a few years before doing so. study and library instruction. This new department is Motto—Keep Sailing, Never Drift. A state of anarchy exists in this city and county due to a certain Roy Wilson entered the class in the ALEXANDER BAKER HIGH SCHOOL Sophomore year and since that time element refusing to observe the law. The city and county auiliori'es WILL has become one of the most popular admit their inability to cope with the situation. How much of all the boys. His favorite of all longer are the taxpayers going to stand for this rotten condition (Continued fr"m Page One the things which accompany any high St. of things school education was the athletic get along in school without being 5 sent out of class. Perhaps they may part. He made a first class football player and was "right there" in Secretary Land's proposition to spend $5,000 in clearing and tise this ability in. shop work. basket-ball. He is merry and happygo-lucky 14. RUSSELL ILTIS—Devises to improving each eighty acre tract to sell to honorably discharge and takes a joke with the Toots Gagnon and-Burtice Waller all soldiers, sailors and marines on forty years' time is a good one. best of them. He is going to the "U" his extra books—also a bag to carry Just imagine what such an expenditure on such a tract in Koochiching them in. Russell hates to give these next year and intends to specialize in county would mean. Forestry. up, but is pressed for time. 15. MINNIE HANSON—Gives Exie McCormack is the one girl in It must have been a heart breaker to President Wilson when Lamona Hoppe all her frivolous and the class who has attended school care free habits. May Lamona not foe learned that the "galleries" to which he played when he called here since the first grade. She is overdo. good scholar and makes some tor the recinding of the beer and light wine prohibition law, were very 16. FRANK O'MALLEY—Bequeaths of the very best of averages. Exie has empty, as far as general public sentiment in favor of. his saloon presidency of Area and his speech specialzed in Commercial work and without a license proposition was concerned. making to any person who wishes to for the past two years has been able become tongue-tied stutter and hie to work at different offices in town. Until the Germa^i people realize that their army and navy were 17. We, as a class, bequeath to the £:he has a great source of ability and future Seniors our great supply of •s very capable. She is serious at the not only licked but received the worst licking that any nation ever knowledge, our supreme intelligence Hartman, right times when there is some fun G. V. Kinney, Supt, Miw Frances Principal got, there can be no hope of repentance for the crimes they committed and our wonderful diginty. going on, she is in the thick of it. and no willingness to sign in good faith any just peace terms aoing remarkably well for its first year, and better things may In testimony whs?eok .we. hereunto We expect that Exie will make a success presented by the allies. set our name and affix our seal on the of what ever she tries to do and reasonably be expected of it in its second and succeeding years. wish her the best of luck. should consider the public library, or ratherYheTchools °,l °f We It to is impossible convince the general public that the railroads indentifira* »»-"uoij Lord one thousand ni^e hundred and Nathan Shapira is a shark at anything mdentihcation with it, as a special department. Last August thp nineteen. that has to do with Mathematics. have been efficently managed under government ownership when public and school libraries joined forces, effecting a union in afcT He has, during his high school THE SENIQR^'LASS. a deficit of two hundred and fifty millions is admitted during the cordance with the law pertaining thereto. Under the provisions career, been very active in athletics. past fdur months and the government asks the taxpayers to shell Hi? favorite work has been in the of the contract entered into between the school board and the library OUR PATRIOTISM out one. billion two hundred million more in addition to the five commercial room but he also likes to board the school .district appropriates $500 per year toward hundred million dollars appropriated for the railroad administration make jmgles for the benefit of the (Continued from Page One 1918 and 1919. tbe librarian's salary and the purchase of books. For this, and for rest of the class. We have not been other considerations, the library serves the needs of the city schools. kept in contact with the school. informed as to what Nathan expects The class of 1918 did not have a to do but we do know that he is State library aid is given as heretofore. The school has had a teacher A few weeks ago Alderman Engstrom and Lang made a motion Senior class play because they did planning to go to the "U" next year. giving half of her time to instruction in the use of the library to cut the water rate but the other five members of the board voted not wish to detract an opportunity Cara St. Lawrence came last year in all of its phases. This work will be confined prettv largelv, against it with the usual grab all policy to exact from the taxpayers for the Red Cross to make money. started right in to take awav and hereafter, to the junior high school. not an amount equal to what the water is worth, but what they ,The Juniors that year gave theeir Sen- the boy's honor in Higher Algebra, thought they could get away with. They are finally bearing the The increase in attendance in the home economics department *or Prom for the benefit of the Red Physics and Geometry, for if some of *he boys are mathematical sharks, voice of the people and are getting ready to bring the water tax makes the employment of an assistant on half time nceessary. This Cross thirty dollars over and turned to that society. Claia is more so. She was the onlv down to what is nearer right and reasonable. work is required of all girls in 7, 8, 9, 10 grades. The manual And now the school is getting a girl in the Physics class last year and training and commercial departments hold their own, and more, memorial tablet for the two bovs got one of the highest marks. She in popularity. Alderman Jack McDonald has proved himself too weak to whom the gold stars represent. They is going to summer school this year The associated schools share in th'e benefits to be derived from stand the pressure of the gang. A week ago he voted according have worked hard to provide enough jntends to teach next winter. and these departments sinde the home .economics, agriculture and to his conscience and for the best interests-of his constituents by money and will be able to make the Russell litis is the only boy in the memorial a school memorial before manual training instructors visit them more each month during class who attended school here since voting for the lowest bidder for the city printing, but when the the year. they are through this year. his first year. Russell has the most question came up again last Monday night he voted for the highest 'In all things the school has provenj contagious chuckle of any one in Night classes are maintained for seven months during the year bidder and an unnecessary cost of several hundred dollars to the itself patriotic and as helped the Lu school and is a source of much amuse taxpayers. in the commercial and manual training departments. The enrollment S. A. to the best of its ability. We ment. He has a great store of ability this year has been larger than usual in both, about 70 in the all feel as tnough we are partners in but is very modest and does not wish former and over 20 in the latter. Thes»e classes will be continued It is with unusual pleasure that we dedicate this issue of the the peace league and that what con-: to let it be known. When it comes to next year, and it is hoped that Americanization classes may be maintained cerns the Big Four, vitally concerns automobiles and engines no one can Press to the graduating class which is the largest and undoubtedly also. us, because we helped in our small get around him and he is our original the best all round class to be graduated from our local high school way to make victory possible. speed king. English is his Waterloo metic. W congratulate them upon their successful graduation and expect Enrollment. At the recent Senior class meeting in most cases when it comes to Although exact figures will not be Eulalia Dougherty, Sixth Grade. more from them than from any other class thus sent forth, either to President Wisard appointed the following writing short stories he can't be bear. available until the various reports Adele Rother, Sixth Grade. further study in higher institutions of learning or in the selection committees: The lunch com-i He is slow and methodical but when come in this week, the enrollment in Maude Graham, Fifth Grade. of their life work. Their studious habits and good deportment have mittee for the picnic, Florence Watsjn, he begins something he fiinishes each of the schools of the districts is usually Clemintine Notton, Fifth Grade. Rose Rauscher, Exie McCormack been a credit to tli'eir teachers as well as to themselves and the substantially as follows :t. Next year he is going to the Jennie Tuel, Fourth and Fifth and Minnie Hanson. This committee! along with the rest of the boys strenuous war period during which they have been pursuing their Grade. International Falls was appointed for the gathering together and we hope and trust that he makes Senior High School 94 studis has left a deeper impression upon them than usual of the Marv Leehy, Fourth Grade. of material for the specir Junior High School 89 good at whatever he attempts to do. Ann Forberg, Fourth Grade. necessity of theirs being a life of real service. Senior page in the Press: Rose Raus-I Grades 594 Benardette Mecure came to join Ellen Glenn, Third and Fourth cher, Frank O'Malley-and Roy Wi!-, Kindergarten 601 the Seniors this year staid Grade. and only son. I until Christmas because she ha-i The County Commissionerse held a special meeting Tuesday and Ranier Julia Keltgen, Third Grade. fundiUpper 17 enough credits to leave school then. sold bonds to make up the deficiency in tbe road and bridge Upper Ethel, Thompson, Second Grade. CHARACTER SKETCHES OF Since that time she has been teaching Rose Glenn, Second. so that money duie from the state for gravelling the roads would be ^°^er Ericsbur school at Fairland. She came back THE CLASS OF 1919 Mrs. Kaneen, Second Grade. turned over. They all feel glad to get the county decks el'eared for Upper 13 to graduate with the members of her Ellen McPartlin, First Grade. action after having been strewn with useless and unnecessary ob-j Lower 34 (Continued from page one.) class and was most welcome. Benardette Eleanor Finney, First Grade. btruction so long. It doesn't take long to get into an awful jackpot? Ray has a very lovable disposition Helen Daily, First Grade. we wish you would ask him. We are but it takes a long time to get out of it. However the years of carelessness Beaver No. 1 and has become very dear to her Ranier not aware of Marcellus' future ambitions Beaver No. 2 class mates. She is humorous and and the years of still worse useless expenditures hav»e, we Gusta Haug, Principal. nor do we know what he aspires Lymjin Grace Underwood. sunny and will make a success in her taught their lessons so that in the future the same mistake will t'USt. to be but we hope he is success- teaching. not be made. Ericsburg Minnie Anderson joined the class a 9 6 3 Francis Wisard is one boy who never Gertrude Meurer, Principal. in 1917 and is a source of never ending The Teacher# 4 Anna Jones. tires of eating. He is the president amusement to her classmates, MUNICIPALITY OWNED UTILITY PLANTS This city, and associated territory, of the Senior class and well liked Ray ^he cretainly does love a good tim6, is to be congratulated for having Myra Buoye. by everyone. Francis is very fond and although she never, never bluffs, such a uniformly good corps teachers. of out-door life and and he his Beaver No. 1 It is a notorious iact that very few cities and towns have the As a corps they canritjg: be she usually has her lessons up-to^ate. Esther Meyers. nshing pole are the best of friend,. slightest as to what costs them to and conception it build, operate beaten in any community in the State. Once upon a time Minnie played Francis is very fond of Agriculture Beaver No. 2 maintain a municipal utility plant. Possibly in some instances they A wise handling of the salary question basket ball with the basket ball Lulu Gould. and most days he can be found hoeing by the board, and of bourse team in Bemidji and since that time don't care, but as a plain business proposition they should know and grubbing in a garden near Lyman some other considerations havener, she has tried with might and main Mable Anderson. whether general the school building. He also is going it is being maintained partly from revenue of the abled Supt. Kinney to keep n€|irly get a team for the Alexander B. Although to the "U" in the near future. His Senior Class Roll municipality. It is very natural, however, that city officials want all of them for next year. Those who she has been unsuccessful to Marcellus Carew. main ambition is to be a farmer and to make as good a showing as possible and are only too willing to leave will be replaced by as goftd as a certain degree, she has always Roy Frank, Sec. and Treas. he says that the first thing he wants allow their successors to assume the burdien of renewals to the prop- can be found. It, Russell litis. boosted athletics, and is one of the his wife to know is how to cook He The roster of teachers for this:year erty- The result is that in a few years not much value is left to champion ticket sellers in the school. Frank O'Malley, Valedictorian. has a sunny and lovably personaltv is as follows Just now Minnie's greatest desire is the plant, for it is mostly junk—S. S. Kendall, member of the Colorado Arthur Shapira. and when he laughs it is impossible Frances Hartman, H. S. Principal. to take up kindergarten- and play Utilities Commission. Nathan Shapira. to be serious. Minnie Leavitt, English and Libra- Roy Wilson. ground work and to go to a boarding Taking them as a group or indivd- ry- school where she can have a perfectly Francis Wisard, President. my class mates are the CREDIT 1 th,nk Alice Wilkinson, History and Latin. "swell time." Minnie Anderson. best bunch of good scouts I can ever Julia Swanson, Science and Mathematics. Roy Frank is a veteran in the class. Ileen Conlon. hop to run aecross. They are partners We can remember Roy when in knick Minnie Hanson. The world turns around on credit. What is credit? It's a misery and partners in fun and Edith Mattson, Home Economics. Exie McCormack. erbockers, he used to be sent into the Hry special kind of belief. Also it's the measure of your promise frolic. It is hard to leave them to (Flora Williams). f'nW. Bernardette Mercure. hall to be spanked and reprimanded separate all over the wide, wide pay. So that peopfe are trusted, not because they have material J. Freed, Agriculture. .• Rose Rauscher, Salutatorian. for sticking the girl ahead of him world but I hope that wherever they security, necessarily, but because they have the right kind of Grace Hixson, Commercial. Clara St. Lawrence. v-ith a pin. He has outgrown ail go they will meet with good luck Burnett Fogelberg, Manual Training. eyes or voiee-or courage-by which you know that they will pav! Florence Watson. these childish pastimes and nowadays and good fortune. Although I do not Commencement Program ihe latte Pierpont Morgan many times admitted that he loaned he goes by the name of Roy wish nor do I think that their or my Harriet Dane, Music. $ 1. Salutatory and Reading, Hiawatha—Rose Chesterfield Frank. He intends to go money up into the millions—on character, alone. One way to find ambitions will be filled without hard Rose Zaloudek, Text book library, Rauscher. Music with to the "U' and take up a law course cut how big a man is ,is to see how much he can borrow. For a bie work, I do wish that after they have office, supples, kindergarten. 51 Pantomime. and we believe that he will make a put in a certain amount of labor man must be ^able to borrow big. Recently Uncle Sam borrowed Mrs. F. C. Corell, J. H. S. Principal, 2. Mayploe Dance—Primary Department. first-class lawyer, because he will argue their ambitions and hopes will be from his own family over a dozen billion dollars. And these billions Georgaphy and Civics. any point, whether he believes fulfilled. So, here's to my classmates Frances Kosmoski, J. H. S. English caiwe from children, women, men and workers of both low and high 3. Chemistry Demonstration—- RusseH it or not, just for the joy of arguing may joy and happiness attend them, Penmanship. litis. estate. The whole world knows that Uncle, Sam will pay» When anc putting some one in the hot-box wherever they are. Katherine Rauscher, J. H. S. Hisil 4. Music—Double Quartet. throwing question after question you are able to borrow big, you will be able to do big. For you by AROSE RAUSCHER. tory- 5 Patriotic Pageant—Intermediate a them. will be big!—George Matthew Adams. Mrs. Inez Lacey, J. H. S. Arith­ Department -Florence. Watson is a little more It pays to Advertise la tha^Pross