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October 14, 1929 (6 pages)

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929._ rere . _ MONDAY. OCTOBER V4, a= THE NEVADA ciTY NUGGET am entered fice at Nevada City, under Act SUBSCRIPT One Year, any address in California, in advance Outside California, in U. S. _ Three Months .. One Month ... A Legal Newspaper of and Nevada County, as published at Nevada City. Arthur A. Willoughby hublished. weekly on Mondays at Nevada City. California, as mail matter of the second class. in the postofof Congress, March 3, 1879. ON RATES eheeecoweees General Circulation ee Nevada City defined by legal statute. Printed and Editor and Publisher Associate neanenneqenececeeee Elsie P. Willoughby OPEN HOUSE “School days, school days ‘Dear old golden rule days, Taught to the tune of the hickory stick.”’ These are the memories that were “acl in the minds of the pareuts of the students of N. C. H. S. on Thursday night, October. 10th, when they gathered in the assembly hali at the beginning of the “‘open house’'’ program. Each paren was. provided with a _program.-ofstudy...of. his_son._or daughter and followed this schedule through seven minute classes. Considering the fact that it was the first day of school the students found little difficulty in finding their respective classes in obeying the rules and regulations such as single file on stairs and no gum chewing. At the end of the seventh hour two students doughnuts ed after a few remarks by Mr. son. , The purposes of this program were to’ acquaint the parents with the work that the students are doing and give the teachers and parents an opportunity to meet each other and to discuss any problems that might arise. bells were rung, calling the to the assembly © where and coffee were servWilAbout seventy parents were present. This was a very good percentage. although the faculty would have liked to have seen more present. However, the faculty felt very much encouraged by the cooperation, which the parents gave. PRESENTATION OF PRIZES Presettation of. prizes to winners of. Fire Prevention Contest was hee at an assembly Thursday morning. Mr. R. J. Bennetts, president of the Chamber of Commerce, awarded the prize of five dollars to Bob Tucker, 4 member of the Freshman class, who won first prize and two and a half dollars to Margaret Rector, a member of the Junior class, who won second prize. Mr. Bennetts also said a few words on the great amount of property which fires destroy. He said, “The dmount of money loss due to fire,is enough to finance two great projects which are being contemplated, that of relief of devastation of the Mississippe Valley by floods and that of the deepening of the canal from the Great Lakes to the Ocean’. These remarks made us elearly realize that the fire problem is a grave situation, Mr. Bennetts also. thanked the faculty and students for»their splendid cooperation with of Commerce. HS STUDENTS REUNION SS NORTE four prominent alumni of N. C. H. S. On Saturday the 5th of October two members of the Senior Class of searih of two of their posed to be somewhere All expressed themselves as having had .a grand glad that they came. JUNIOR CLASS MEETING The Junior Class Giese dele a meeting October 9 for the purpose of electing two students to represent the Junior Class in the decorating of the high school building for parents’ .entertainment Thursday . October 10. Carl Hieronimous and’ Bernice Coughlan were elected. The} next business. discussed was the plans for the play that the Junior Class intends to give’ before the essembly on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The president, Cari Murchie, appointed Cecelia Genasci, . Lois Eden and Lionel Davies as the} executive committee for this play. -The pupils having been questioned as to the number of parents coming Thursday night, cards were presented to them by the class supervisor, Mrs. Hulen, who directed all to fill in their names, addresses, ages, and subjects taken. These cards will be used by the parents just as similar ones were used by the pupils at the beginning. of the term. The last item transacted was the presentation of the report cards. These were met with the usual outbursts of horror. and pain’ which the class supervisor tried in vain to quell. ENGLISH For the first six weeks of school in the classes taught by Miss Mabel F. Main, English II, first period, had the least absences and English ‘ III, fourth period, scored the highest in grades with 2 which is equivalent to B. time and being. the’ ‘ Elzear / them. \ procedure the 80,000 or --{{um. . . iar with the ways. of the Great was their joy and when instead of :two they City the, NG Se arrol Foley, marching It need nof take {strength of the imagination to picture the scene that followed when one stops to eonsider that four lads had not set eyes on anyone from their ‘Old Home Town” for two months an_— exceedingly long time when one is just starting out in life. When the preliminary of hand-shaking slapping on the back was over, the six proceeded toward the economical yet worthy place to satisfy that greatest the human being, namely, ‘“hunger.”’ After having appeased there hunger, which took quite a while between news of the ‘“‘Alma Mater”, the “gang’’ took in a talkie which of course had a vaudeville with some of ‘“‘Hollywood’s Beauties’. in it. This part of the amusement over with so early, next thing on the program was either to take in one of Frisco’s night clubs or participate in a few “hops to the ‘Hotel Oanland” but both were abandoned because of financial ! The remainder’ of the was psent in sight-seeing ing over old times. The boys’ separated with relue“evening"’ and talktanct, the alumni stating eloquently an average of. how much they would like to visit En-. the old school for a day ant giving glish IV ranked second in scholar-. their greetings to send back to ship with an average of 3-2 which otherg. rates about C. Yadgs George L. Jones, past Myers Mobley, Howard Penrose,'8Tand master of Masons in Cali: and Noble McCormack, Jr.; were in . fornia. attended the grand lodge Berkeley last week end attending, “session which was held in los Anthe football game between U. C., Seles last week. and St. Marys. . Walter Evans of Forest was in Rudolph Dahlberg of French Corral consulted a doctor in this city, last week for an infected arm. ' this city recently. Subscribe for The Nugget, THE ROSE LEE. BEAUTY SHUPPE Hair Dressing and Reauty Work. Famous Adele Miller Toilet Articles. Louise Martin the Chamber — _THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA Editor Senior Reporter Junior Reporter Nadine Sutton Bob Polglase Harriett Bleakley Sophomore Reporter Barbara MeMinn Freshman Reporter = 22.2.5.5.6.. 4s: suriecbuuiecsseccise Warren Chapman Athletic Reporter -.. EDITORIAL SCHOOL SPIRIT Addison Janes By Deynes Foley A seheol_is. not complete without auified school spirit. Yet, why is it that we hear so many “I won’ts"’ and “I: don’t knows” in our social activities? Perhaps it is because we think too much of our English or Algebra. If so, we must immediately change, so as to make our:school a ong-ness with loyalty to everybody and everything in it. Only about sixty per cent of the School are really the affairs of our _ school, can’t we see that it is essential for all the Why students to the school if they . wish to have a well rounded education?’ enthuse into those would be benfitted. make school life brighter for n’t it be pleasanter? HONOR ROLL School spirit still runs high for the Alma Mater is ‘the, case of 1930, Bob Polglase. and Addison Janes, were wandering hopelessly about the streets of Berkeley in school-mates of the Class of ’29, who were sup. amongst so people, emerging i from tht California Memorial StadAlthoogh this seemed a hopeless task they did not despair even thoogh they were somewhat unfamil. surprise beheid four stalwart youth of the alumni of Coughlan, Byron Janes, Elbridge Skeahan, and toward much ; these and most emotional sense of embarrassment. . ‘away. a Senior— Nadine Sutton. Junior— Harriett Bleakley Sophomore— Barbara McMinn Freshman— Warren Chapman. rolled. However, tem. is passing, while last responding 4 was a failure. {fore the value of. been also raised, causing jority to grade ‘here. in any subject one _perfect in all its departments. “must receive at least three gain the Honor Roll. Ancther for the smuail+ percentage Siudents -is due to the some of the teschers ‘mark strictiy this aliow the next six ito go up, thus encouraging pills who would begin low and fact perfer period the naturally climb high er Cause may’ be cuity of settling work dffer the tion, is. published next month, ‘confident that it will ‘ong. or Roll belong to the ciety which means received enough points to merit the natural down to be twice Honor in the past them this high ~ position. However, the Honor Society lowing that any pupil Honor Roll becomes member of the. Society fore able to derive. its meny advanand to. encourage
this beneficial goal. PHYSICS CLASS . LARGE ns Mr. A. P. Philanders, a sentative from: theply Co., the number enrolled’ nia for a school of this size. He also stated that schools try to induce enroll in the physics classes. ‘aven go so far many merits of a physis course. _Physies is the study of the natural phenomena and physieal changes of matter and energy. this definition one can exsity dérstand the many helpful lessons which are’ offered. by this course. .only a scientific course but a very practical one, Many prine! ‘pals learned can be put to practical use in every day life. ‘ From lt is not THE HG SCHOOL NEWS Falited — by the Students, Nevada City High School The standard for the class was as follows: PRESS ap ie ee an opel penne rary ree a 10 OS oe 34 Go oa saad Gs cus Scaad a abusuevscatesses 37 5 BLA ge speree SU ee oes BENE eater a pee een eO Ie ye 12 . 7S Ba analy hope yy perro sey at Nisinigewosascen ea 8 . ly students of the Nevada City High’ sclicitous about: Susie cussed. A previously appointéd committee acted upon these suggestions 5 participate in the social activities of and planned the entire year’s activiIf those, who have school spirit would try to who have none some of their own, feeling the school Surely it would those ‘ ; tes who think it dull, and really, wouldmeéting j Journment of the class ' 1929. Post Grsdasiens ies Katitye Green, cers and following . appointed should attend. Vivian Cerro, chairman of the rooms committee announced that each girl would be taxed five cents. This) money will be used to buy en ne elt peak 1G more mirrors’ for the’ girls’ rest slowly increasing as only five, that pte is about 3 11-13 per cent of the entire school, made sufficient) points for the last six weeks to be enthis condition can be partly explained by the new sysAccording to this. system. A-D yeur the ¢or® There= the C and B has the maTo get 4n A must be almost: One A's to reason of Honor that to $0 as to weeks marking . The luncheon was a big success and purather than to start high and fall down. Sti!!l anothdiffischool free life of. vacabut when the next Honor Ko!l we feel as Only three pupils of ‘the Honthat they have . their making the a temporary and theretages and pleasures. This new law has been adopted to aequaint the pupils with -the Society’s ‘advantayes more to aim for renveUniversity Supvisited this school recently. He was astonished when he learned in the physic class. He said that’ he believed that this was the largest class in Califormany larger students to They as to have science professors come and speak upon the SENIOR MEETING A Senior Class meeting was. held Wednesday, October 9, 1929 for the purpose of passing the quarterly report cards out to the’ siudents. Mr. Kjorlie urged the students to put forth ‘more effort, to raise} heir grades and eliminxte failures. ‘Although this standard is a fairgood showing it can be greatly improved upon. Among the things that were dis. eussed were plans by which the student body could be made a more active organization. Many suggestions. were submitted by the Seniors. Some of these suggestions will undoubtedly be carried out during this semester. Another. problem discussed was the year schedule calendar. Many activities were suggtsted and disties at a meeting held after the admeeting. GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION MEET Girls’ Association held a Wednesday, October 10, 1929, tor the purpose of discussing plans for attending the Women’s Civics Improvement Club meeting, which will be held on October 14, It was decided that the offigirls who were! The HONOR SOCIETY LUNCH A luncheon was” given. by the Honor Society of the Nevada City High School. last Wednesday, October 9;:1929. The proceeds of the affair’are to be used for the annual tuition fee of the Society award.ed annually to a senior of it’s number who wants to enter college. the Honor Soeiety wishes to thank everyone who. patronized’ it and especially those whocontributed anything. The menu consisted of weinies, ro'ls, salad, pickles, and cake, Everyone reported a good time. and the members of the Society were rewarded by that for their hard but willing work. 8 FRESHMAN CLASS MEET The Fresaman Ruth Rector and Warren Chapman to represent, their class in the Student Body at a meeting held Wednesdiy. They. also chose «blue and gold Three flowers: yellow ose, and buttercup will be voted upon at the next meeting for class flower. A commitiee to submit a-elass motto was made up of the’ following: have selected as class colors. the sweet pea, The meeting was cailed to order by the president for the purpose of . time during last wéeéky SIMO EE OOO LOE BELTON CORE EEE Sessssscecetsesoeeees Ree es Sa ie ke 2 . S a e So 7; +8 teates’: reseasery: o ‘a 5 an ke oes oie: * ie , 3+) ~ ‘s > stele 2. eee Bader theres Sree the Merle she rhode age ie stake se steviens oles ole ole eee alesteae at en ee erm — . HISTORY CLASS ELECTION. The U. S. History Class, under direction of Miss Main held an elecSOPHOMORE MEETING an distributing report cards and to! tion to elect another set of officers make out program ecards for the for the second six weeks of school. parents who attended ‘school’, Bob Tr oterese was elected president Thursday night. The two executive . while Eiizabeth Thomas was elected members elected from the SophoSecretary. more Class were Betty Bettles and . ~ Bill ‘Tamblyn. As. there was no A successful hunting party comfurther business, the meeting Was posed of F. J. Brophy, of ‘Berkeley, adjourned. 'and Drs. Houseman and Brand of 2 San Francisco and Frank Davics C. W.Kitts, of San Francisco,. returned from Forest Hill divide. and a former membor of Nevada, They proceeded to Alleghany where county bar, was a professional visit-. they intend spending a few days * during last week. hunting. Frank W. Craig, former Nevada John Fortier of the Bank City resident, visited here a short America force’ in Nevada City, spent his vacation around the bay. Midi lode tedek dei ieieiuieeblelth oh denies dit doko edited i eter de ALCO—REX The new rubbing alcohol compound, for Massage or Bath Cooling — Refreshing — Invigorating 50c the pint REX—SALVINE A soothing compound for Burns, Cuts, Cold Sores, Chapped Skin. The Tube, 50c These two new REXALL preparations have just been placed. on sale,-and both have-exceptional merit. : : : X “eae ' Guaranteed to give satisfaction! R. E HARRIS THE DEPARTMENT DRUG STORE The ex Store Ask for the Community Silverware Coupons SERED ROE OREM HOHE EES HOE EH reste ene ees teate Leohele sealestorle teste feateadeok opeope {at teeeeerenens renin ashe denteetenteofeatenteote leon aleatente deateoteaty este stealiigenteofeateteatiateateats ras Mea fe % 2. Seieiieik %, ras Neier THE GROCERY STORE WHERE COURTESY AND SERVICE PREVAIL But not only that—we have the largest, most complete stock of pure, fresh groceries in town at prices that are resaonable. Trade with us and you will always get real VALUE! We have anything you may require in the line of foodstuffs—and always the BEST of any particular product. Just give us a trial. J. 1, JACKSON Number One eaesle eeiterfeterieofeiesieies! Phe: We Deliver Bele detetteliiolesteeininiileiieiobetioieiey oie Heake oleae ake nents oe se obese theme ie he oy = tuth Rector, 3eth Curnow, Katherine Celo, Albeita Robinson, Henry, Toccolini, and Bob Tucker, BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Coach Pedersen and Manager Joe Cortoseeill sent letters for games to .iteen clubs and schools. There will scon be a dance by the high school for. cquipment for the hall. Mr. Pc 2e-sen announced that basket-ball practice will begin next week. FIRE PREVENTION Mr. -Asher Ireland, a United States Forest Service man, who is traveling through the country, lecturing on the-evils of fire and the immediate necessity of prevention, presented a short program to the Student Body on Monday, October 7, 1929. Accompanying his lecture he showed two reel films of animal life in the forest and the devastating effect which fire has on the forest, animal life and last but not least the future genérations. 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