Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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7 SCARLET AND GREEN school. If we work diligently there is no reason why we should not win the statue this year and the next and the next. Of course there is no need of beginning the rigid dieting and hard practice which comes a few weeks before the striggle but neither is there any need of eating anything and everything We should begin to take light exercise which will work off any superfluous flesh and which will strengthen the muscles. Any of the habits which go to weaken the muscles should be stopped if we would be ready to meet the requirements. We have noticed several of the upper classmen out practicing for the various events but have seen only a few Freshmen out. Now. Freshmen, you are the ones upon whom the honor of your school will rest for 'he next four years. You may not be able to do anything this year against the higher classmen, but if you compete this year, even if you don’t win anything, you will be in better condition next year. Students of the High School, get out and practice. If you will we are sure that the statue which is now in the possession of Falls City High School, will adorn the front of our assembly room the next year and the next and the next. To Whom It May Concern: On the evening of March 18, there occurred one of the dirtiest, meanest, most low-down, contemptible, despicable affairs which has ever happened in the history of the Auburn High School. On the evening mentioned, a debate took place between a team from the Nebraska State Normal School of Peru and c.ne of the Auburn High School Alumni Association. Following the debate, the members of the A. H S. Basnet Ball squad intended to give a candy feed for the purpose of buying a picture for the school Annual. The candy was placed in the entry, ready for sale, and the door locked Sometimes, however, iron bars will not keep out thieves and robbers. During the debate some of the tough, rowdy element of the town, also members nf the High School, climbed in at the window and, taking two large platters full of candy, made their escape, eating what they could and then, after the fashion of hogs who want to k®ep others out of the trough even after their own stomachp are full, the ruffians threw the rest away, kindly returning the platters. This dirty trick was done by members of the school. Furthermore, these renegades who did this are known to the editor and he highly resolves that their names shall be published abroad and that every member of the school and every citizen of the town shall know who they are. They should be ostracised from the society of all good students and citizens, and if the scoundrels who perpetrated this base atrocity had their just dues they would be placed where all thieves find their bode. The Editor. TREATISE ON HIGH JUMPING In the beginning was earth created; then, stop watches were invented. Figure for yourself how long the A. H. S. has been without one. But at last, tlsnks to the Holmes Gilman Publishing Co , Unl’t’d, the which is composed of Carl B. Holmes, Scaretoonist to His Majesty the King of Spades class of 1910, and Cozier Wellington Gilman INCORPORATED, class of 1909, we are to have one. These two young men, who are the big squeal in this matter, put their heads together and-PRESTO—behold A Treatise on High Jumping, benefit of stop watch for A. H. S. This little book is a bandy thing to have about the house, to lend o your neighbors, and when the baby has torn the cover off may be worn as a chest protector and liver pad. Everything in it is new and down to-date, why even the paper and printer's ink had never been used before, so it is with great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, that we recommend it to the afflicted. (Thank you.) Don’t forget boys, that the baseball and track season has now opened, so all of us get busy and keep our flag high in the air.

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 LITERARY AND DEBATING The Auburn High School Debating Team, composed of Louie Rogers, Alma Plasters and Mildred Hanna, have established during the last few weeks a record which few high schools can equal. Our team, as selected by Mr. Hanna, has won successively from Nebraska City, Plattsmouth and Tecumseh. This is a team of which the High school should be proud and to which should be lent its hearty support. NEBRASKA CITY VS. AUBURN. The first league debate in which Auburn is a member was held in the Presbyterian church in Auburn Feb. 19. 1909. Our opponent, the Nebraska City High school, was ably represented by William Utterback, Max M. Cohn and Milton Blundell, who supported the affirmative side of the question. The judges. Professors Whitenack. Searson and Hendricks, rendered Auburn a unanimous decision. Don’t forget the Annual. Only 50c. TECUMSEH VS. AUBURN. In a debate at Tecumseh Feb. 29, our team again maintained its prestige by defeating their opponents and adding another victory to their score The Tecumseh team was composed of Morgan Davis, Robert Davidson and George Chamberlain. Well, Auburn won again, so see that your friends have all subscribed for the Annual. A cook died in Brooklyn the other day worth $200,000 and the papers say she left no heirs. Have they looked in the butter? Cautiously our gang hero crept up to the redskins tent, slowly lifting the flap he peeped within. There lay the sleeping Indians. He raised his trusty winchester and took aim at the heart of the nearest savage. Purple whiskered Pete the Pirate never missed his mark and—(to be continued) —Curzon. Mr. Hanna —What is a direction, did you ever see one? Icky—Yes, sir. Mr. Hanna — Where? Icky—On a medicine bottle I asked the lady for her hand. In the sweetest tones I could command; £he answered me in accents bland, Go to papa. And when 1 found that he was dead And the kind of life he had lead, I knew her meaning when she said. Go to papa.