To the Public.

The prevalence of smallpox in the surrounding towns is such that we are compelled to order that on and after the 15th of November no child will be allowed to attend the public schools, unless they present to the teacher a written certificate from a physician that they have been properly protected (by a recent vaccination) against the infection of smallpox. Prompt and immediate disinfection of all water closets, privies, cisterns and cellars must be accomplished at once.

By order of Board of Health

The Billings High School football team will not go to Miles City Thursday on account of the members having sore arms as the result of vaccination.

The edict of the board of health was most untimely from a football standpoint. Several of our players were sick and out of school while those attending were wholly unable to practice. Mr. Daniels, their manager, tried to have the Miles City game postponed until next Saturday, but their management saw too plainly their advantage and an earlier date was insisted on. At the same time an adroit and highly diplomatic act of courtesy on the part of Miles City rendered null the advice of our home management. Our boys were invited to attend a banquet given by the young ladies of the Miles City high school, and they determined to go regardless of their condition.

With the single exception of losing the game by a small score—two touchdowns in the first half and one in the second half—the trip was most enjoyable. The members of the team received ever kind of courteous treatment possible to the occasion all of which culminated in a never to be forgotten reception and banquet given by the high school girls at the hospitable home of Captain Brown. A record of the trip must surely give this delightful entertainment its full credit in removing the sting of defeat and restoring that exalted state of feeling which our boys enjoyed previous to the game.

The students were kept busy by a carefully planned series of amusing pastimes while the tables in an adjourning room fairly groaned under their burden of delicate pastries and confections with which the fair entertainers had prepared to encompass the second defeat of our team.

The “Black and Gold” of Billings everywhere mingled with the “Purple and Gold” of Miles City throughout the decorations and all other pleasant conditions were crowned by a genial spirit of genuine good fellowship that was most pleasing. When Miles City comes here next we will do something more than merely beat them.

In response to the many complaints relative to the failure of the daily papers to arrive lately, the editor spoke to Contractor N.J. Christopherson about the matter and he states that he is bring all of the second-class mail that arrives in the office at Cokeville. He further says that he is double hadicapped about the parcel post matter as the teams are unable to go into Cokeville, owing to the prevailing epidemic of influenza, and that should they venture within the city limits they would be placed under quarantine. Therefore they remain outside of the city and hire someone under quarantine to bring the parcel post to them. “We are exerting every possible effort to bring the mail to the valley regularly,” said Mr. Christopherson to the writer, “and although greatly handicapped at the present time, we are entertaining hopes of the situation being greatly relieved in the immediate future.”

teamboat’s skiing heritage began back in the early 1900s, when high-flying Norwegian Carl Howelsen showed locals that skis could be used for fun as well as work at the local ski hill in downtown Steamboat Springs. Today, that local hill, Howelsen Hill, is the oldest ski area in continuous use in Colorado and has the largest and most complete natural ski jumping complex in North America. It's where the likes of six-time Olympian and World Champion Todd Lodwick, the most successful U.S. Nordic combined skier, first snapped on his skis at age 7. It's the training ground of World Champion and four-time Olympian Johnny Spillane, who made history by becoming the first American to win a medal in Nordic combined at the Winter Games and World Championships. It's where Steamboat’s first family of skiing, the Werners, first learned the craft every afternoon after school. And it's the home of the first freestyle camps, The Great Western Freestyle Center, which produced many of the nation’s first freestyle athletes. 

As guards kept news media and onlookers from entering, landfill workers on Tuesday poured concrete over truckloads of discarded Atari computer equipment.

Atari apparently had finished sending an estimated 14 truckloads of computer cartridges and other goods to the dump for crushing and disposal when the concrete was poured.

Bruce Entin, vice president for corporate communications at Atari Inc., on Tuesday said the discarded equipment was defective merchandise that could not be repaired at Atari’s El Paso plant.

“This is getting more publicity than I can believe,” Entin said. “I wish I could get this much publicity when I introduce a new game.”

Most of the discarded equipment was video game cartridges, Entin said. He said their disposal was not related in any way to Atari’s financial condition or to the health of the video game industry.

After 31 years of speculating, naysaying and news clipping, Atari’s worst game in history, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” has finally be unearthed.

Slightly before 1 p.m. on a dusty day, video game archaeologists found the first E.T. game as they were sifting through years of trash at the old Alamogordo Landfill.

“Here is the way I look at it,” Warshaw said. “It might be here; it might not be here. I don’t know. Thirty-two years ago, I did a game that people called ‘the worst game of all-time’ that toppled a billion dollar industry. Maybe it is true; maybe it is not. The fact is I did something 30 years ago that is still getting people gathered together, enjoying it, getting some excitement. So the idea that I can be in the center of that kind of fun and excitement really makes me feel good.”

Parents of eight seniors in the Texarkana, Texas, High school are indignant with the school authorities because the eight students failed to make the required grade of 75 per cent in order to be eligible for graduation. Investigation determined the papers were graded fairly, and the only plea the indignant parents could offer through an attorney was that the children had been led to believe they would graduate. This seems to be a mighy poor excuse. The teachers probably suspected the children would not make the grades, but had the indicated the suspicion that some members of the senior class would fail in the final examinations charges of prejudice, bias and favoritism would have followed. A compromise was effected by the school authorities agreeing to permit the delinquents to take part in the commencement exercises on the same basis as the successful students. To make the deception of the public more complete, the students graduating will receive their diplomas “on the sly” during the afternoon. The delinquents are to make up these studies during the next term when they will be given diplomas. In granting such a compromise, the Texarkana board was doubtless moved by a desire to avoid embarrassing and wounding the feelings of anyone, but at the same time such procedure is an injustice to the students who receive their diplomas through work. If the parents of the delinquents had displayed the interest in school work through the year that they did when they ascertained their children had failed, the entire affair would have been avoided.

Maybe there’s something in the water: In a span of 11 years, 5 Norman High School quarterbacks have grown up on one street in this city.

With more than half the houses in Cynthia Circle not having any children whatsoever, the fact that five came from a few homes still astounds residents.

“We just found it the weirdest thing,” said Julie Taylor, the mother of former Tiger players Zac and Press Taylor.

While Zac Taylor may be the most well-known and athletically accomplished of the group, he was not the first.

That honor goes to Jade Noles. The line of succession then fell to Kale Hartsock, Taylor, Press Taylor, and, finally, Sam Tullius, the current Norman High signal caller.

The ball game between the Abilene and Dickinson county high school teams, Saturday afternoon, at Chapman, was called off in the second inning on account of rain. Both teams played good ball and if the rain had not interfered a close and fast game would undoubtedly have been witnessed. Dwight Eisenhower, in an attempt to catch a fly, ran into a fence and secured several bad cuts on his face.