Volume 11 , Issue 37

1905 - Northwestern Normal News

On page 23 of The Oklahoman, dated December 3, 1905, the small headlines read, "Northwestern Normal." It goes on to read, "Prof. H. C. Meier left for Waynoka last Wednesday to visit his wife and to spend Thanksgiving in the country on his farm. During his absence his classes were taught by Prof. G. H. Wilkinson and Prof. Herod."

It goes on to read, "Sandor Vigg of the senior class delivered an excellent oration last Tuesday morning in Chapel on the Might of Destiny. Mr. Vigg is a young orator of no mean ability and we predict a brilliant future for him. He won first honors last year in the Intercollegiate Oratorical contest.

"The rhetoricals for the second quarter being next Monday and many are looking forward to them with fear and trembling.

"Prof. John W. Wilkinson by special request has just completed an article on Radium for the Journal of Education in Boston, Massachusetts, and one on Oklahoma and Woods county for the Western Trail, a monthly periodical published by the Rock Island railroad.

"A splendid address was given to the students last Monday morning by Dr. J. F. McCormic on the importance of proper sanitation and cleanliness. He stated that nearly every case of typhoid fever was caused in a measure by the presence of the common house-fly and yellow fever by certain kinds of mosquitoes usually found only in houses.

"The bubonic plague he claimed was usually scattered by fleas and the common house rats, malaria by the swamp mosquito, and son on. All came from causes which he said could easily be eliminated.

"The usual cold snap materialized in time for Thanksgiving and the thermometer dropped to freezing without giving due notice.

"Mrs. H. C. Fellow has returned from Woodward county and will spend the winter in Alva with her husband, Prof. Fellow.

"Several nice new cement walks have been laid around the school premises of the Alva City High School, which materially add to the beauty and convenience of the premises. The time is not far distant when Alva will need another handsome building fully as large as the present one.

"Miss Della McDaniels was initiated into the mysteries of the Order of the Shakespearians last Saturday night and we have no doubt that she will prove a worthy member of that society.

"President Conway by special request gave a short talk to the physicians of Woods county at their special meeting over which Dr. McCormic presided last Monday afternoon. President Conway endorsed the doctor's statements condemning the use of patent postures which contained for the most part nothing but the vilest of whiskey."
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