A COMPLIMENT FOR THE AUTO SHOP.

The Chippewa Spring Water Co. appreciated the repair work that our garage did on one of their trucks last year so well that they brought another one of their trucks in on November 20th to have overhauled. The truck that we repaired last year outruns their trucks that had been repaired in other shops every way they compare them. We can justly pat ourselves on the back.

Mr. Kingsley has mounted on a rack in his department a complete assortment of different types of bearings used in the construction of an automobile. They could stand a little study from all the auto students.

Seeing that we got another Chippewa truck in the garage Mr. Kingsley might exercise his muscles on it again as he did on the other truck last year. His muscles need development. (?)

The Automobile shop claims to have three of the biggest (?) heavyweights (?) in the school in Vernon Nelson, Albert Crane and Emil Olson.

Mr. Perkins claims he hasn't touched his motor to do any repair work for three years, and has run over 20,000 miles.

If Welander don't stop talking Swede we will have to send him up to Swetland to learn the English language.

Don't sit or lay on cushions in a car unless it is necessary. Then cover the cushions if

you can.

Don't handle the steering wheel with greasy hands unless it is necessary, then wipe it off.

Don't pour water all over the car and the motor when filling the radiator. It looks bad, to say the least.

Don't monkey with the lights, horn, shifting lever or anything else on a car unless you are supposed to. You might get in trouble.

Don't keep a load of tools on the running board while working on a car. Keep them on the floor or on a bench.

Don't try to adjust a carburetor or any other instrument or mechanism unless you know just what you are trying to do.

Don't crowd around a car that has just came in. The owner wouldn't think much

of the place. Don't play or run around a car. You might cause some damage.

Don't disturb anyone else working on another job. Let them alone.

When dismantling a part take notice of how it came apart, and also put the parts together and don't scatter them all over or they'll get lost.

Don't use monkey wrenches, pipe wrenches or pliers on nuts or bolts. End and socket wrenches are best.

And in other words, do all you can to give the school a good reputation.

Mark Eng when Kingsley starts Bolin.. He shivers for his clubroom.

What do you say to having a boxing match between Corbett and Kingsley?

Some students are shocked when they get into the ignition room and work on some of the apparatus. One fellow was heard to say, "Wow, I've got some high tension!"

The building construction department is just as busy as ever getting out orders for the other departments in school.

Section C. B. boys have just completed a l-story garage on the shop floor. This garage is 12 feet by 16 feet and was built so that it could be taken down in sections and put up again, which we hope to do on someone's lot, in the spring. The sections are now stored in the department awaiting orders of the purchaser, whoever the lucky one will be.

This garage is provided with two 4-foot and 8-foot swing doors, made of beaded ceiling on a heavy frame, and were built complete by the boys. There are windows on each side and a large, long one in the rear that will furnish ample light for a work bench.

The walls are made of 6-inch novelty drop siding on 2x4's 24 inches on centers. The roof is a gable roof of one-third pitch, with wide eaves and well proportioned verge boards, that sets off the building like a high silk hat. The joints between the sections are covered in such a way that the batten strip adds to the beauty of the building.

Mr. J. R. Peterson, the instructor, and section C. B. are proud of this job and we think they ought to be.

The boys of section C. A. are now taking work in cabinet making and woodworking millwork and are building 20 instructors' desks. They have just completed the machine work and are now assembling them. They will also fit the hardware, stain, fill and varnish these desks complete. The boys are

doing this work with the same dispatch as though they had worked for a long time in a commercial shop.

The rehabilitation shop men completed several weeks ago a section of a house that has already proved of great instructional value. This is a complete, full-size corner section of a house, showing the first and second floor construction, with a hip roof. This section is quite novel in that after it was completed, sections were cut out showing the inside details of nearly every portion of a house. Several types of wall insulation were used as well as systems of floor deadening and as

many different details of a frame house as could be put in a model of this kind. The boys that built it received wonderful experience on this model and the drafting students constantly refer to it.

Mr. Geo. Hutt's class in estimating for builders (B. C. 20) is still growing. They are now taking off quantities and estimating the cost of houses.

We received an order from the American Institute of Baking for a glass partition, to be built in their laboratory, which has been started. This job will afford the carpentery some good practical experience and by the way the boys are going at it, it will be a masterpiece.

The rehabilitation students in drafting are progressing nicely and have started to estimate buildings. In a short while they will be able to take off quantities from any kind of plans.

All of us in the building construction department are, and the instructors throughout the building should, be pleased with the new instructors' dining room. Section C. A. built the partitions enclosing this room and built the china closet.

Evening class in carpentery (B. C. 1-5), under Mr. Soderberg, is now taking up roof framing, and are learning the mysteries of the steel square.

The evening class in building construction drafting was so large that it had to be divided in two. One class meets on Monday and Thursday evenings, under Mr. H. Adolfus Peterson, and one Tuesday and Friday, under Mr. C. H. Fargo.

Mr. W. N. Jones' class in mathematics for builders (B. C. 8-11) is progressing nicely.

Mr. Hancock said he heard a robin the other morning when the thermometer registered 10 below. We would like to know where he gets it after July 1st.

Bob Gerdes had some big Thanksgiving Day and shall always. On this day there came to his home a fine baby girl.

We are still wondering whether he set fire to the bake shop on that day to celebrate or because he was sore that he, too, wasn't the father of twins.

Most of the instructors and students were away on this day, but those that were here wrung his hand and congratulated him.

They dug into their pockets again and sent flowers to Mrs. Gerdes, and were glad to do it.

The twins were furnished with powder, rattles, bottles, safety-pins, etc., by the students and instructors. Nor was the mother

forgotten. To her was sent by the students and instructors in this department beautiful yellow chrysanthemums, the kind that all ladies like.

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Mr. Juvrud is the happiest of happy fathWhen asked if it is a boy or a girl his smile grows greater and he replies, both. Some day the boy will doubtless remind his better half of the fact that she doesn't make bread like mother used to make, and get away with it. And when the baby girl has reached womanhood and been joined in wedlock this remark will doubtless be made to her, too, for none escape. Then would it not be nice for her to reply in this manner, and neither do you make the dough that my father used to make?

Some years ago, Prof. Harry Snyder, at that time chemist of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, examined a specimen of ancient Egyptian wheat collected from an old tomb in the Luxor region whose age, according to archeologists, must have been not less than 3,700 years. The kernels of wheat were in a good state of preservation and resembled modern varieties of spelt or emmer. On analysis it was found that the inorganic constituents of this ancient wheat were practically identical with those of modern wheats of the spelt variety, and that the protein content, when compared with that of present day wheats, was approximately the same on a moisture free basis. The starch grains were identical in form and structure with those of today, and the fuel or calorific value of the whole grain conformed to results obtained from modern varieties.

It is interesting to note in view of the many statements in popular literature that wheat from Egyptian tombs still possesses

germinating powers, that this specimen of authentic ancient wheat showed no activity when subjected to germination tests. An examination of the literature of this subject substantiates this fact, and it can be stated without fear of contradiction that germination experiments on authentic samples of ancient or mummy wheat have always given negative results. It seems to be the general view of plant physiologists that the germinating power of wheat is lost after a few years.

The work of Prof. Snyder tells us that the wheat of old Egypt was practically identical in composition and properties with the wheat of today, and from a consideration of this fact we may better appreciate the long and difficult road that has been traveled through the ages by farmers, millers and bakers in their struggle with the mysteries of wheat. What scientific investigation has done for the baker, and his fellow workers. the farmer and miller is a long story. It be