The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 06, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BIG LAKE WILDCAT
Published Every Friday In Big Lake, The County Seat Of
Reagan County, Texas
J L WERST, JR. AND J L WERST, SR
Editors and Publishers
Entered as second-class matter January 2, 1926, al the post office
At Big Lake, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879
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Big Lake Elementary School News . . .
Orade 1A (Thursday, February 12, at P. T. A.
Valentines with a messuge “I There has been so much sickness
Love You" and "Please Get Well that it has been difficult for us to
Soon,” Is the order of the day We find enough substitutes for our
are so sorry so many children will play.
be unable to be here Tor our party in art. we have been making book
Friday. We’ll be missing each of covers for our language arts’ papers
them so much And today we are which we will show at "open house"
sending you a Valentine so bright1 March 6
and gay. with our very best wishes. J arf, very proud of our record
New pupils enrolled since Feb. player the P T A . Rave us Wo arfc
2nd are. Wayne Nichols, Angelina j very grateful to them for this. We
V burro, Shirley Ann Elkins, and feoj jjiey jiave supplied our great-
learned to tell time.
Our mothers met and planned
our valentine party last week. We
are looking forward to a Joyous
afternoon. We went to thank Mrs. j
Bryant for the lovely Valentine box
she brought to the room yesterday, j
We think It’s very pretty and are
filling It with Valentines.
Mrs F. A. Wycoff returned Tues-
day from Cedar Valley, near Aua-
tln, where she had been vlaltlng
with her husband. Mr. Wycoff is
employed by the construction com-
pany that la building the 24-lnch
Shell pipe line that Is being built
from McCamey to Houston.
A guest In the Roland McReavy Rev Jack London, pastor of the
hume Is Mrs. McReavy's sister. Mrs. First Presbyterian Church, Mrs.
Julia Wellman of Port Huron. Mich. London and Mrs. John Nunn were
She arrived here last Saturday for in San Angelo last Sunday after-
a week's visit with her sister and noon and evening attending a
family Presbyterian meeting.
MRS. V. F. GUDEWELL
Insured Livestock Hauling
Box 66 Phone 90
Big Lake, Texas
Lolse Childers These make a total
enrollment of 32 children in our
group.
Our thanks to you Mrs Basham
for the beautiful Valentine box.
See yon Friday.
Orade IB
We have the following new pu-
pils In our room: John Robert Chil-
ders, Julie Chadduek, Duannn Dod-
son. James Crane, and Patty Jo El-
kins. This makes us thirty-one en-
rolled, however some days there
has been as many as fifteen absent
due to the various diseases.
We are happy to welcome Carl
Ledlow back. He came the first day
after the Christmas holidays and
then became 111, and has been out
ever since.
Wc will have our Valentine party
Feb. 13 The children are making
est need.
Orade 3C
Orade 3C has got a new record
player We listen to "Waltz of the
Flowers” nearly every day because
that Is our favorite record We are
also going to have a play Thursday,
February 12, 1953. The name of the
play is "The Valentine Auction."
by Carolyn Wilburn
Orade 2A
So many children In our class
have been absent on account of
measles, chicken pox and other
diseases. It would be hard to name
them all. We will be so glad when
everyone Is well and back in school.
The teacher has been absent too,
but soon we hope to be catching up
on our work again.
We are making valentines and
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Valentines and printing each ar(* ,ookln8 forward to our Valen-
others names on them. They each tlne Party on Fr,di»y Each chnd
have u box in our post office to put *ias a P°^ office box to put valen-
them In.
They are still working on their
paper animals. Most of them are
painted and ready for shellae.
Grade 3A
Our new pupils are Janice Nich-
ols. Lana Huebel and Evelyn Chil-
ders We have lost one pupil, Jerry
Thomas, who has moved to Mona-
hans.
We have been busy practicing
our play, "The Valentine Auction,"
tines and letters in.
Sandra Nix and Rob Craddock are
two new pupils in our room
Grade 2C
We are building a store in the
room. Each morning we have a new
supply of groceries. We are learn-
ing the cost of foods and how to
make change. Also we are learning
foods we should eat every day and
why.
We made clocks in schools yester-
whlch the third grades will give day and already most of us have
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lour home will hr warmer in winter, cooler in summer,
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Werst, J. L., Jr. & Werst, J. L., Sr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 06, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1953, newspaper, February 13, 1953; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633735/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.