Weekly Messenger - 1918 June 29

              The Weekly Messenger
VOL. XVII.
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918 NO. 36
GALENDAR
MONDAY, JULY 1—
9:40—Rev. Wm. R. Marshall.
TUESDAY, JULY 2—
9:40—Mr. J. T. Newbill, Washing­ton,
D. C; in charge of
Boys' and Girls' Club Work.
10:30—Choral Club.
10:30—Rural Life.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3—
9:40—Mr. J. T. Newbill.
4:10—Y. W. C. A.
THURSDAY, JULY 4—
Vacation.
FRIDAY, JULY 5—
Vacation.
VISIT OF SCHOOL
Last Friday, the Normal School was
extremely fortunate in having as vis­itors
pur State Superintendent of Pub­lic
Instruction, Mrs. Josephine Corliss
Preston, and her deputy, Mrs. Addie
E. Dickinson. They •came, at the invi­tation
of Dr. Nash, to explain to us
some of the details of the new certifi­cation
law and to urge us not to begin
teaching until we are fully prepared.
After assembly Mrs. Dickinson re­ceived
those who had individual prob­lems,
in Dr. Nash's office. It was
after lunch time before Mrs. Dickin­son
was able to get away.
Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Dickinson
were much surprised to find here at
Normal several very dear friends, and
these friends, were delighted to have
the opportunity of a little visit. Zel-ma
and Lenore Roach, Martha Bald­win,
Mrs. Nellie A. Pugh and M. F.
Pugh are the Normal School members
of Mrs. Preston's and Mrs. Dickinson's
"family."
Although our visitors were not able
to be with us very long, we are cer­tainly
glad to have had them as long
as we did, and to have heard the mes­sage
they brought. Through the Mes­senger
the school expresses the hope
that Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Dickinson
may visit us again before long.
MR. THOMPSON TALKS
ON THRIFT STAMPS
On Friday, Mr. Howard Thompson,
representing the county in the War
Savings Stamp campaign urged the
necessity of everyone pledging them­selves
to save and purchase as many
War Savings Stamps as possible. The
government brought this campaign to
a close June 28th in order to deter­mine
how much revenue must now be
raised from other sources.
We are very glad to hear from Dr.
Nash, in this letter just received:
Prosser, June 26, 1918.
Dear Ones at Home:
We have been absent from Belling-ham
only three days, but railway
train and trusty auto have transported
us far from the home base. We had
expected to spend our first night on'
of Seattle at Ellensburg, but were so
late in starting that we stopped rath­er
at Cle Elum. On the way we en­joyed
greatly the ride over smooth
pavement from the heart of Seattle,
through Bothell to Redmond. Before
entering the famed Snoqualmie Pass,
we gazed in wonder and admiration
for a time at Snoqualmie Falls. A
plunge of 250 feet breaks the water
into marvelous banks of spray, and
the rising mist dampens your face as
you look. Twin Falls, crashing down
between narrow walls of rock, also
commanded our attention. I cannot
take time to describe the wonders of
our journey and shall speak merely
of a few personal experiences along
the way. At Cle Elum it was my
pleasure to meet R. Ernest Tucker,
the efficient Normal son, who is serv­ing
as manual training teacher in the
schools of Snohomish. Mr. Tucker is
"doing his bit" for his country this
summer but will be back in Belling­ham
to finish, next summer.
You know the make-up of our
party—Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Swift and
Mrs. Nash are the other three of the
quartet. We are traveling in the
Swifts' Dodge car and are taking
turns at the wheel. Yesterday morn­ing
we stopped for a brief word with
President Black at Ellensburg; later
we dined at the beautiful Commercial
Hotel, Yakima; and still later visited
friends in Sawyer, Mabton and
Grandview. At Sawyer we met a
charming young lady who informed
us that she would enroll in the Nor­mal
at Bellingham in September,
while at Grandview the editor of the
Herald proved to be a dear friend of
boyhood days.
All along the Yakima valley we be­held
fruit trees laden with fruit—
cherries, luscious and abundant.
We are about to start for Kenne-wick,
Walla Walla and Dayton. In
Dayton we hope to salute our good
friends, the Dumas family.
I must now don my duster and
"take to the road," Very best wishes
to all Normalites. Sincerely yours,
G. W. NASH.
Dr. Nash, has received a card, an­nouncing
the safe arrival overseas of
Ben W. Tidball, who was in training
at Camp Jackson.
Y STATES
It is interesting to note in the
growth of the Normal School how far
our fame reaches over the country.
This Summer School includes in its
attendance teachers of experience
from as far east as Washington, D.
C, as far north as Alaska, and as far
south as California.
In this weeks' Messenger is a list
of students who have taught in the
states outside of Washington. Watch
in the following number for your
friends of this state listed by counties
and cities.
Montana—Bayha, Jessie; Kolb en-son,
Margaret; Meyer, Amy E.; Mey­er,
Frieda C; Satre, Alice E.; Val-lean,
Verna; Williams, Eda.
Michigan—Gordon, Mrs. Jennie M.;
Ralph, Ethel.
Alaska—Packer, Ray.
North Dakota—Strand, Matilda.
Iowa—Van Eaton, Bessie.
Wisconsin—Court, Thelma M.
Kansas—Craig, Ruth.
Arkansas—Deeg, Mrs. Leona; Bon-ham,
Eunice.
Minnesota — Keefe, Myrtle N.;
Wright, Jennie D.
Oklahoma—McClellan, Ethel S.
Canada—Winters, Mrs. Ida F.
* Washington, D. C.—Baldwin, Mar­tha
K.
Oregon—Campbell, Eula; Coryell,
Ruth; Forrest, Dorothea; Lyon, Ger­trude;
Everett, Estelle M.; McDon­ald,
Mrs. Jessie F.; Allen, Bertha C;
Converse, Mrs. J.; Sawyers, Denabell;
Clark, Helen K.; Anderson, Ida O.;
Hoon, Bertha; Keeney, Irma; Mann,
Isabelle T.; Nowell, Leila; Pugh, Nel­lie
A.; Rice, Opal; Senska, Lela;
Simpson, Gladys; Wagner, Inez M.;
Wagner, Leota; Anderson, Margaret;
Denny, Roxie; Dunham, Bessie M.;
Pugh, M. F.
Idaho—Chambers, Harriet; Nisbet,
Maggie J.; Oxford, Dorothy; Smith-am,
Esther.
California—Shane, Mrs. Ethel H.;
Robertson, Helen; Peery, Lydia R.
Missouri—Stanley, Louie.
Pennsylvania—Cynthia, Mrs. Thom­as.
South Dakota—Mosher, Mrs. Emer­son
M.
West Virgina—Nutter, J. A.
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bond and family
take this means of expressing their
thanks for the expressions of kindness
extended them by the students and
faculty of the Normal School during'
the: past two weeks.
Get the thrift-habit through buying
War Savings Stamps and help pro­vide
the sinews of war winning.
TO
Chautauqua, which will open in Bell­ingham
on July 6 and continue for
seven days, will bring us a program
of entertainment which should not be
missed.
To open we will have the Old Sol­dier
Fiddlers under the personal di­rection
of Col. A. Pattee, two of the
Old Boys in blue and two in gray.
They have a wonderful program of
war time, camp fire stories and songs
—a program that makes the blood
tingle.
Music on the second day is built
around Fenwick Newell, the splendid
American tenor. Mr. Newell is sup­ported
by a capable company land
will, we believe, give one of the most
thoroughly satisfactory programs of
the entire week.
On the third night we will have a
splendid departure, in a company of
talented players in several one-act
plays; short dramas from the pens of
the greatest dramatists of our allies.
This evening is in itself a liberal edu­cation.
At the very last moment this spring
the Ellison-White Co. was able to se-
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LIBRARY HAS BOOKS
ON MANY SUBJECTS
Is History your delight? Art? Lit­erature?
Or Science?
The Normal library has some excel­lent
material on the history of the
northwest from earliest times to the
present day. This matter is authen­tic
and valuable as it contains many
early books and journals in the orig­inal—
some of them being over two
hundred years old. Of course this
material is kept in a locked case.
The art section has many beauti­fully
illustrated books which show
the development of art and the influ­ence
of the different countries upon
it. The plates and reproductions of
masterpieces in these books are es­pecially
good. This class number is
750.
Special attention has been paid also
to literature. It has a splendid array
of books on the historical develop­ment
of literature; also a good repre­sentation
of the different forms, such:
as: Drama, poetry, essays, and fic­tion.
The modern drama is especially
strong, also present-day poetry.
The Bellingham Normal has always
been proud of the number of up-to-date,
formal, scientific books in its
library, and now this year there has
been added a great many new prac­tical
books on birds, insects, trees,
nature study, landscape and veget-table
gardening, and agriculture.