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PAGE SIX THE LBXHIPEP NOVEMBER 2G, 1024 THE ROBBINS RECORD Edited by the Students of %pbbins School The Staff Grade 7 I i- Fannie Porter Cowles Grade 7 II Wilma Beck Grade 6 I Stokes Adderton Grade 6 II Kathleen Johnson Grade 5 I Frank Newsom Grade 5 II Margaret Sparger Grade 4 A Winona Goode Grade 4 B Cletis Beck Censor ^ Miss Caroline Mann HISTORY OF BEXIX'GTON (As sent by Fannie Porter Cowles to Fna mae Johnson, Siler City, X. C. the leaders in educational progress in the State. Lexington has two banks with total resources of over $3,000,000. Lexington has forty-five manufac turing plants. The total of all these products is more than $15,000,000 an nually. Lexington, the county seat of Da vidson County in the heart of the Piedmont Plateau is noted for its climate, industry and agriculture. Lexington is on the double-tracked main line of the Southern Railway also on the Winston-Salem South bound. It is also on the main line for tourists going from the North to Florida. Motor bus lines connect Lexington with all the cities in the im mediate vicinity. We have nine miles of paved streets and 51 per cent of the total mileage is paved. Lexington has just completed a new theater costing $225,000, giving to us one of the mo.st modern theaters in the South. The Southern Railway has just completed a fine I’as.senger Station costing $42,000. I.exington lias a suburban popula tion estimated in 1023 to be not less than 10,000. .There are ten churches in the city repiesenting the leading denomina tions, having a mmbership of 3500. A new pipe organ has just been in stalled in one of the churches. I,exington has two modern schools for the white and one tor the colored. A new High School building has just recently been comiileted, at a co.st of $250,000. Throughout DavbDon founty consolidation of districts has resulted in the county’s being one of MY TRIP TO NEW YORK. ATHLETICS. Treasurer, Madeline Thompson, President, Arthur Raker; Secretary- Treasurer, Fred Hackney. Through the Association we have sold $143.05 worth of candy. Out of this we cleared $43.45, which has been used to buy the following play ground equipment: see-saws for the primary pupils, basketball for the girls and football for the boys. Every afternoon, at the close of school the different grades play bas ketball and football, under the super vision of our play ground director. Miss Reid. —ELIZABETH RUSSELL. (By Stokes Adderton) I started Saturday night at 9:04, and reached Washington the next morning at 7:35. In Washington I saw the National Museum, in which the Roosevelt collection is kept: Lin coln Memorial; the White House and Washington Monument, which is 555 feet high. In the evening I went to Arlington Cemetery, where I saw the grave of the Unknown Soldier and the Amphitheater. Late that even ing, I took the train to New York. While in New York, I saw the Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History, Armistice Day Parade, which took an hour and thirty minutes to pass. I also sav' the. Aquarium, in which all kinds of fish are kept. While in the theater, I saw Jackie Coogan in iierson. If you took him your program he would autograph it. I also saw Governor Morrison. Saturday evening, I .started on my way home, coming by boat to Norfolk and from there by train to Lexington. WISE CR.XCKS. Miss Weaver—“Who was the Gov ernor, when North Carolina seceded from the States?” Bennie Huffman—“Abraham Lin coln.” • * * Cletus— “On what grounds does your father object to me?” Uori.s—“On any ground within a mile of the house.” • » • Miss Cridlebaugh—“Describe the battle of Guilford Court House?” Elmer—“Well. one side had a Court House and the other didn’t, so they had a fight about it. * * * Mias Mann—“What is the case of hou-^e in this sentence? 1 saw the house.” Gilmer—“In the excussive case.” On the 12th of October at 4:00 P. .M. a football game wnas called be tween the seventh and eighth grades. The score was 19 to 20 in favor of the Sth grade. This is the second i)layed between these grades. Since the 7th grades won the first game, the tie will be played off soon. —FRED HACKNEY. DRINK IN BOTTLES The students of the Robbins School have org.anized two .Athletic Associa tions, one for the boj's and one for tile girls. Thc> officers are: Presi dent, Elizalieth Ru.ssell; Secretary- I Arnold-Holman | I Leonard | Dl Hi Iti b' ^ FITINTTURE 'U I and rH I NOVELTIES I U]
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