Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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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.