The Oklahoma Weekly (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1921 Page: 3 of 4
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THE OKLAHOMA WEEKLY, THURSDAY, DEC~MBER IS. 1921.
PAGE THREE
Basketball Is Principle Interest of State High Schools
*—-— a apv ai 1111 iii m iin rnDiirn
! Jennings high school defeated the Redj banded, and will be unable to play any
Fork high school in the basketball games post-season games.
tbat were played at Jennings on December
9 The boys won with a score of 52 to A bond issue of $225,000 for the erec-
10 and the girls won with a score of, tion of two junior high school buildings, __ ....
to 7 I and the site for one of the buildings will planned.
— _ i be submitted to the voters of Enid in
Waynoka high school will enter their the near future.
new high school building after the holi-i
Reports on the annual Christmas Red
Cross roll in Pawhuska, show that the
city schools are 100 percent in their
membership.
gll Stuvyv! o j
days. The first program in the new
auditorium will be the senior play, "Rom-.
ary Road."
ture. In connection with the study of
furniture that is to be taken up next by
the class, visits to the furniture stores,
for the purpose of picking out furniture
of the different periods, have been
An accident prevention campaign was
conducted in Lawton schools. The pur-
pose of this campaign was to impress
upon the children the necessity of the
principles of safety.
' During the last five years Hobart'#
high school enrolment has increased
from 271 to 376.
HIGH SCHOOLS TO GET
CAMPUS PICTURE FREE
Owen Will Divugle Stadium Plans at
Pep Meeting for County Club
Organization
The university authorities plan to plact
a panoramic birds-eye view picture of
the University of Oklahoma campus in
every high school in the state thru th<
ALUMNI CLUB FORMED
BY IS AT BARTLESVILLE
O. U. Graduate* Form University Club
to Work for Betterment of
Their Alma Mater
Alumni of the University of Okla-
homa in Bartlesville met November 29
and organized an Oklahoma Univer-
sity club, it was reported here Fri-
A high school Parent-Teachers' asso-
1 ciation has been organized in Alva high
school.
Miss Lucile Wallingford, one of the
members of the senior class of Broken Yukon high school celebrated Ameri-
Arrow high school was selected as Brok- can Educational week on December 8
•en Arrow's maid of honor to the queen, with a special program. The girls' glee
at the Tulsa Harvest Feestival. 1 club, and the high school orchestra fur-
| nished the music. Mr. Nash, editor of
Marietta high school won four sue- the state teachers' paper gave a talk,
cessive football games before the last
'game which was played Friday. This A motion picture machine has been
name resulted in a victory for Gaines- bought for the Drummond schools by
vjjje I the business men of the city Educational
pictures and clasical stories will be shown
- Hobart high school has a male quartet, as soon as the machine is installed. The
which is directed by Stanley J. Bryant, pictures will be shown in the high school
formerly a member of the Oklahoma uni-, auditorium.
versity quartet.
Tulsa high school glee club sang at the
Ad club luncheon, in connection with the | E. R. Kraettli, secretary o
observance of American Education I versity, Saturday.
every J day. The following officers were elect
county club organizations, according to J Freiburcer. oresident
the uni
week.
' Each student in Muskogee high school
keeps an expense account, in connection
with the thrift campaign, that is heing
conducted in the high school.
The "Egyptian Princess," an operetta
in two acts, was given Thursday, Decem-
ber 8, in Anadarko high school auditor-
ium. Half of the proceeds will go to
the high school annual.
Watonga high school defeated the Wa-
tonga town team 27 to 23 in the basket-
ball game played Monday night.
These pictures, 16 by 42 inches, will
be given free to the county clubs upon
request. It is the plan to organize the
'stuf^its from every county into club
ed: Walter Freiburger, president;
Louise Elledgc, vice president; J. D
Plunkett, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. War-
ren L. Felton, publicity manager.
The members of the club are: Mf.
and Mrs. Frank Small, Mr. and Mrs
unrWiits from every county into ciuds *>"=• >
TucSSay night during the all-university J - D Plunkett, Mr and Mr! Warren
poZLutpeP meeting to be held a. L. Kelton, Mr. ball, Long Gdlesp,,.
Girls of the senior and junior classes
'of Broken ArroW high school entertained
the football team with a banquet.
The senior class of Hobart high school
is the largest class in the history of the
high school. It has a total enrolment of
73 members.
The English literature class of Broken
" Arrow high school gave a Shakespearian
program in the high school chapel Fri-
day morning.
The juniors of Hobart high school
^avt "A.l of a Sudden Peggy," Friday
* night for the purpose of financing the
annua! junior-senior banquet. Music
■or the play was furnished by the Senior
* Soulful Symphony orchestra.
The senior and sophomore girls of the
Broken Arow high school will play a
basketball game Tuesday afternoon.
* Stratford high school opened its bas-
ketliall season December 2, by defeating
Vanoss high school by a score of 54
to 24. Stratford high school announces
.he fact that their basketball team is
open for dates, and that no high school is
ha r red.
The juniors of Yukon high school put
on a clever carnival, on December 9.
The proceeds are to be used for the jun-
ior-senior banquet.
Collinsville high school girls
organized a basketball team.
have
Watonga high school has elected Max
the fine arts auditorium. The club
meml>ers may make application for the
pictures, one for each high school in
their county, as soon as an organization
is perfected. It will be the duty of each
club to see that these pictures are given
to the high schools during the holidays
Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of
the university, will talk to the students
during the meeting and will give several
suggestions for work that can be car-
ried on by the students in the interest oi
the university during the holidays.
Louise Elledge, Elsie Harris, Ludwig
Schmidt, Walter Frieburger, M i s t
Brown, Doctor Torry, Ernest Koester,
and L. B. Holland. The main object
of the club is to help the university a-
much as possible, in the way of approp-
riations from the legislature, influencing
high school graduates to attend the uni-
versity, and organizing O. U. studentf
and alumni into a unified body.
INITIATES TAKE
ROCKY REPTILES
TO HEAR CHAPEL
cu «... Ben G. Owen, veteran athletic men-
Odell as "Jimmic Pep" and Johnnie' tor of the Sooners, will open his Stadi-
The Konawa 1^ school basketballj U tab.„,h a. th^.si.u,,, yell leader, j tun ,£ (kl, ^ 0>m p.^Parade Nature'.
teams have played four practice basket-! Col!jnsville high school girls held a for Soonerland. Stony Samples in Honor of
ball games, and won all of them. The ' ^ ir, who b;lked a pie! Prospective Imtiat.on
team is being coached this year by Smith, ^ subscription to the school UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GIVE ' ,
formerly a player with the Oberlan col- InTBlack?for the re-' INTERESTING PROGRAM "Look out! Get your feet outa
lege basketball team.
mainder oi the year. The pies were
The seniors of Yukon high school wi'.L auctioned off to thetoys.
entertain the other three classes with a
Christmas party, December 15, in the
high school library.
The senior class girls won the Faculty
cup that was offered by the faculty of
Lawton high school for the winners in
the class basketball tournament, which
ended Friday.
Plans are being made, and officer.-,
elected tor tht starting of the Javelin,
the Yukon high school annual.
John Fowler was elected secretarv-
trtasurer of the senior class of Weather-
ford high school.
Texhoma high school moved into their
i new high sihool building Monday. 1 ue
' auditorium of the new building has a
I seating capacity of 7c0. j hav
I c -h
Educational moving pictures are being
hown once each week during assemblies
at the Muskogee west high school.
Cherokee high school has adopted a
new grading system in which all absences
and tardinesses are included with effort,
attitude and promptness, on the report
card.
The Dustin high school boys' basket-
ball team defeated the Eufaula boys by
a ■•core of H2 to 9.
The seniors of Lexington high school
have received their new pennant, and it
is now on display in the high school
auditorium.
"lxx>k out! Get your feet outa' tli
, r .i . ! wav! Bang I ! No, it isn't a new kind
Emphasizing the fact that now s 1 * K ,s nu.r,ly on, of thc Rock
time to start makmg a university record^of a dan^ rt y ^
the following students who were home | Hound P> K
from the University of Oklahoma for | rock.^ ^ ^ ^ ^ m
their Thanksgiving holidays, conducted i I
a very interesting chapel program, in pound) rocks, groans and sore
* .it C* ,A1n • m v/iUIlP I llt'S(l«lV (
Marietta high school: Imogene Steele,
Lehigh high school basketball teams
been organized. The first game
!uled for the girls is December lb.
No Trespassing," a comedy p'ay in
three acts was presented December 2, by
members of the junior class of Lindsay j Stunt night ii
high school. The funds will be spent hooi Was held December 9. Each class (
on thc annual junior-senior banquet,| ))resUiUd an original stunt A prize of The girls' basketball team of iexing
.vhich will be given some time next flvc dollars was given to the class hav-! ujn high school defeated the girls tean.
I
. - . , j sciiri:u:t.u ••
in Ponca City junior high, ^ high schooi girls
spring. *
Jennings and Meramec high schools'
n t-d their second basketball games on!
December 2, at Meramec. Jennings won!
•>ys
and girls' game
The Jen-1
of 31 toj
score of
both
iiin-s boys' won by the score
Jennings girls' won by a
29 to 9.
A four-act play featuring the thrilling
experience of a young war aviator and
likewise a young Red Cross nurse is be-
ing rehearsed by members of the Lind-
say high school. The play will be given
December 22.
ing fite most original stunt. A second
of three dollars .was also awarded.:
"Her Own Money," was the three-act
...medy drama given as the last number
of the Sapulpa lyceum course. This
,irne company appeared in Sapulpa high
school last year.
Viui'..i high school basketball team
played their first game of the season
with Welch high school and was de-
feated by a score of 14 to 10 1 he game
was played at Vinita.
of Lilanchard, by a score of 33 to 22. The
game was played on the Lexington court
A uquc*. was giver for the visiting;
team after the game.
Idabel high school debating club ha-
formed a class which meets three times j
each week to study the state debating,
question.
i • _ |
! The music class oi Lexington nigh
' school had charge of Monday's assembly.
Imogene
Marie Trieves, Geraldine Burney, Byrd j
Draughon, Pearl Harvinson, Pauline
Bailey, Ollie Gilmer, David Conrad,
Frank Jones, Cleo Mayfield, Dewey Wal-
den. Winston Smith, and Cecile Boyd.
Talks were given by Elizabeth Belle, W.
TV Johnson, an-' 1 arl Brown. Oklahoma
University graduates.
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
OF SAPULPA HIGH 1921-22
13—Blackwell at Blackwell,
20—Guthrie at Sapulpa.
27—-Enid at Enid.
3 Okmulgee at Okmulgee-. .
4—McAlester at McAlester ..
10—Open Date.
11—Enid at F.apulpa.
Feb 17—McAlester at Sapulpa ■
Feb. 18—Open Date.
24—Open Date
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Joel West, Ned Hood, Dwayne Jones,
George Grimm, and Ira and Luther Glas-
The sixty-five piece military band of ;ire ,vs 0f Cherokee high school,
A. and M. college gave a concert at the who own wireless stations. Fundamen-j
Lawton high school auditorium. The la]s 0f wireless telegraphy are being
band was brought to Lawton by the taUght in the science department of
senior class, and was one of the most Cherokee high school.
eniovable musical programs that have
•J- . . J°. , | Elizabeth Lennox gave a recital in the
been e ven in Lawton high school. r-uzaucui
8 i high school auditorium at Lawton, for
"The Veil Dancers," was one of the t|ie benefit of the high school band.
features of the school play "Katcha ^ ^
Koo" which had a two-nights run, at lne junior s
STue theatre in El Reno. I school gave a banquet for the brgb school
I football team.
Rev. Wm. A. Sunday delivered
Feb.
March 3—Tulsa at Sapulpa.
March 4—Open Date.
>. • roll 10 Open Date.
STATE TITLE GOES
TO SAPULPA OR PRYOR
Sapulpa 1 igh school football tcafn,
defeated Ardmore high school team ,
at Oklahoma City last Friday, by a
[score of 21-14, and lias but one uioit
game to play in order to have a clear
Lehigh high school defeated Clarita t,tie to the state championship.
high school, Friday in the first basket-, pryor claims an equal right to the j
ball game, thc Lehigh boys have played state honor, and in order to settle,
ibis season; The score was 19 to 14. j w]lo tj,e ftatc champions are. Sapulpa
The girls' basketball tean, of Dustin V" ''' ill Pryor eleven, at
h,£ X. „.ayed the ^ Tul... ^
misunderstanding the g.n.e s un.in-|hol<l the title, of 1921 fottball state
ished championship.
The girls' basketball team of Lexing-: competing in the better cities campaign,
ton high school defeated the girls team . . ,
of Washington high school by a score, "Wives to urn, is the name of the
of 52 to 2 Friday. The Lexington boys' play which will Ik- presented at the Lm-
basketball team' won over the Valley | press theatre, by the Shattuck high school
were in vogue Tuesday on the canipu-
when the Sigma Gamma Epsilon, hono-
rary geological fraternity, held its fui
prior to initiation.
But toting some igneous extrusion a>
well as his girls books to class was 110'
the worst of the aspirants' trouble!:
They had to assume the role of a "Quo
Vadis" by hiking seven miles northeast
i of Norman Tuesday evening, to receivi
the finishing touches and welcome <>!
their future brothers. The. inigratior
urt.d at 4 o'clock in the a'fternooi
and they returned footsore and wi.ary a
10 p m. to the banquet which auaitec
them and the other members at the Kap-
pa Alpha house. ,. .
It might have been said that luri
reptiles once more roamed Oklahoma
when two of the pledges appeared be
fore the "Ad" building haulitu a httl>
wagon on 'whfth stood tli*- dinosaui
which guards the stairway in ^fhe Geol^
ogy, building. ,(i
fhe-dinb'Saur was recalled,, howevct
when the guardians failed W c.'ininc<
r.ifnViicrs 'of. the ' geology faculty tlin:
v. • r'o merely giving it an "airing. •
l' men who wrestled rocks this ycti'
'.(in > ArricSld,' j. ''ri
. l.iiltbridge.'Hatohl D'.mi'.ls Nor
Mi.land. William Harvey,"W. Dow
m. and Owen W i-nsor.
sermon in the Jenks high school audi-
torium, Tuesday, December 13.
The "Ruf Necks," is the name of a
pep organization, composed of twenty
high school girls, in Sapulpa high school.
The girls' basket ball team of Marshall
Collinsville high school put on a carni-
val for the purpose of making money for
the high school athletic fund.
David Anderson, novelist, lectured to
the Weatherford high school assembly.
Wilburton high school gave a carnival
Grove team, by a score of 12 to 4, in the
game played the same night.
The domestic science class of Dustin
high school served the Eufaula and We-
tumka basketball teams last week-end in
the hiffb school auditorium
Wednesday, December 14.
Sapulpa high schools will give the
comedy-drama, "The Man Who Came
Back." The leading lady is May Lewis.
A junior-senior party will be given in
Enid high school on December 16. Junior
tickets will sell for fifty cents, and sen-
The irirls basketuau team oi ° - . rw««
high school defeated the Orlando t~
Friday, December 2, by the cofe of 92
to 3.
DeWitt Clinton high school of New
York City has refused to accept the
challenge of Sapulpa high school foot-
ball team to play a post-season game.
The New York champions have dis-
fcer 2. The money that was made went
to help equip the manual training de-
partment of the high school.
The home furnishing class of Tulsa
high school has been taking motor trips
over thc city for the purpose of view-
ing all of the different types of architec-
Lexington high school students will
give a negro minstrel Friday December ior tickets for twenty-five cents.
23. j junior high school girls of Henryetta
June Blattler and Chester Lewis rep- are making candy to be turned over to
resented Enid high school in the confer- the Red Cross, for distribution among
ence oratorical contests that were held at the poor children at Christmas time.
McAlester and El Reno. highest average in Enid high
Miami high school lad a. the, cbapd school .a. mad. by Dora Hanscu. a
guests, the judge, of the twelve citie* | tumor. Her average was VS.
DEVICE FOR DETECTING
DISEASES OF HEART IS
INSTALLED AT HOSPITAL
The University hospital is installing '•
electrocardiograph, an instrument user
n detecting diseases of the heart, at
cording to a statement by Dr. Warm
Langston, superintendent of the hospi
tal, Tuesday.
The electrocardiograph is the onl.i
me in the southwest, declared variotv
medical men. The instrument takes th
tracings of the heart beats, and is com
posed of a strong galvanometer wit)
powerful magnetic fields which are cor*-
nlcted to electrodes on various parts
of the body. Vibrations indicated b?
the galvanometer shows any excitrsioi
of the heart beats.
NEW PUBLICATION IN
IDABEL HIGH SCHOOL
Thc first Idabel high school pubb
cation will appear soon in one ol
the city papers under the name ol
"I Hi Bulldog". The staff has beer
chosen with Dollie Pyron as editor
in-chief. Reporters have been selected
from the different classes and orgai>
izations iu school.
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