| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER 11 Pupils’ Locals. If II ** St. Valentine's Day February 14. This is Abraham Lincoln’s Day—February 12. We learn that Barbara Schmidt is now at Dawson, not far from Bismarck. Washington's birthday is twelve days off. Are you ready for the masquerade? A good many of the little girls in the art class improved their time this week by drawing valentines and sending them home. Ruth McKinnon was remembered on the 9th with a gold signet ring from her parents. The occasion was her twelfth birthday. Carl Anderson, a member of the graduating class of 1907, is reported down with small pox .at his home in A net a, N. D. Last Tuesday Evelyn Dryburgb received some photographs of her aunt, and little cousin, two years okU and such a cute little thing! The-other day, Mr. Lull of Boston, Mass, gave the children an interesting talk on the munufacture of paper which t he children enjoyed greatly. Olaf Lund by thinks that he has been without, a watch long enough, so tie sent for the watch he left at home and received it Thursday morning. Mali Ion Albert, one of our boys of last year, is attending school at Faribault and is among the number there at present down with diphtheria. The uLit.” held a business meeting February 4th to elect new officers for the remainder of the school year. A literary progream was given last night. Those who expect to graduate this year are: George Flamer, Marie Skov-holt, Gtidbjorg Oddson, and Mabel Thompson. They have commenced work on their essays. Mrs. Long was on the sick list this week, but managed by some charm that is all her own to pull through. She has been doing the part of the Good Samaritan lately when several members of our household needed attention. The management of the Grand Opera House extended an invitation to the School to attend the Saturday matinee, Feb. otli. Moving pictures were a fen- 3* ture of the program and they furnished excellent material for school compositions. The kindness of Messers Cowley and Minmo, managers of the Opera House is apporecuiliecl by the School. The following have been made glad by boxes and packages from home since our last issue: Elizabeth ltauser, Julius ' Eyolfson, Esther Paulson, Cora Edwards, Joe St. Lawrence, Clenora Halvorson, Edith Bjork, Herbert Billigmeier, and Doris Francis. \ -^oince skating this week has been un-\ usually good, the girls make a bee line to the rink right after school. They have put aside their sleds for a while as coasting just now is as poor us skating is good. A heavy snow fall is all that js necessary to drive them back to the* Neills.” ' X Mr. Bangs received a picture recently of a group of hoys at the School in Faribault, Minn., and among the faces recognized that of Joseph Margolis, a former puptf of this School. The hoys were on their return from a hunting trip and the picture showed, nine nice fat rabbits. William F7bel writes from Hebron that he will soon prove up a valuable claim and writes to express his regret at having to leave school to get the claim and now wants to know if he can coine back to school some more as lie realizes the value of an education and his need of more. Marie Skovholt values the January (21) issue of the Valparaiso University Herald, published at Valparaiso, lnd, more than any other issue for the reason that it contains cuts of the sophomores of the medical department of the University and biographical sketches of each member. The likeness of her brother, Hilmar, was here reproduced. The father of Philip Heitpel, Mr. Adam Heupel and one of his partners in business, Mr. George Sattler, were vis-itorsat the School Feb. 2. They were on iheir way to Duluth and Minneapolis to attend a eoveution in the former eitv. During their absence the third partner in the business had the misfortune to lose two little boys aged two and six in a fire which destroyed his residence. One morning last week a little bird greeted us in the chapel. It was frightened when the children marched in and flitted from one end of the room to the other. Several attempts were made to catch it. It remained perched on the fastener of the transom through the services. It must have got in through an opening in one of the storm windows and out the same way. We do nut envy the kind of weather our neighbors are having this winter. Snow of unusual depth in Minnesota, Iowa and other points, trains stalled • and delayed, etc. while here it has been as pleasant as we could wish it to. he, Wo have almost forgotten the few arctic days we had sometime in December. Since the warmth of our climate has gone so far as to deprive us of our snow, our bus hail to go out on wheels instead of runners, for a few days at least. The ice in the rink melted and froze over again and the glassy surface was smooth enough to make skating worth while. ** The other day Gustave Anderson re ceived from his sister Olga a letter together with a clipping from one of the Washington dailies giviug an account of the tire that did considerable damage to the main building of Gallaudet College last week. This is the part of the. building in which t.he male students have rooms and where the reading room, library and lyceuni are. The fire department was called to put the lire out and succeeded after a bravo and stubborn tight. The floors on the first, second and third stories were flooded with water. No one was injured except one of the tiremen who received a scalp cut from a falling roof-slate. Only one North Dakota boy occupied this building at the time of the tire—Gilbert Isackson. He has the reputation of being a terrible and formidable football player. We presume that he was able to make a terrible tire-tighter of himself that day. Wade Literary Society. A business meeting of the Wade Literary Society was held in the chapel at 8 o’clock on the fourth of February, 1910. The President called the meeting to order and the secretary called the roll and read the minutes of the last meeting. Charlie Dix was admitted as a new member. The election of officers was in order and resulted as follow7: Gustave Anderson, President: John Kessler, Vice President; Gudhjorg Oddson, Secretary; Helen Anderson, Treasurer. After the new officers were sworn in* the meeting adjourned at 8:45. Raphael Kook, Secretary.
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