Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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2£oti Collins 2.ost Appetite lor Clncken Back home possum hunting is one of the chief sports, especially in the fall when watermelons are yet good and the potatoes are still in the ground. At this season the possum is in good condition to serve for a Sunday dinner. In the evening the boys gather about the home of Frank Johnson, who keeps the hounds. There are generally four who make up the bunch, but sometimes a visiter or two. They met one evening about eight o’clock and proceeded on their hunt. About midnight, which is their luncheon hour, they visited a melon patch, and also found some potatoes to roast. As they were roasting the potatoes and eating melons Tom Collins stated that he would like to have a chicken; claimed he could eat half of it without trying. The other boys being satisfied with their melons and potatoes would not go with Tom to get the chicken- He was afraid to go alone, so he did without. But they promised him that the next hunt they would have chicken if he would do the stealing act. Between hunts the other boys fixed a plot for Tom. They went to their neighbor, Chester Ames, and asked him to have his team hitched to the buggy and hid from sight. Then he was to get behind the door in the hen house and when Tom entered, knock him down with a pillow and take him in his buggy out southwest toward the county seat, as though he were about to have him arrested. “I’ll do it Saturday night,” agreed Mr. Ames, without hesitation. Well, Saturday night rolled around and Tom was first man there- At eight o’clock they started, Tom in the lead, and telling how long it had been since he had roasted a chicken. By half past eleven he was ready to steal the fowl. Tom’s heart began to fail him when he got within a hundred yards of the house. But the boys began to jolly him so that he went on. The plot worked fine. He got inside the door when Ames hit him with the pillow and broke it open. The feathers flew all over Tom. The other boys were hid in the weeds a short distance away and heard him “holler for dear life.” but no aid came. Then he tried to coax Ames not to have him arrested, said he would never do it again and promised almost everything. But Ames could not be moved. He took him out about eight miles from home and turned him loose. He got home next day about two in the afternoon, and hadn’t even had watermelon to eat since the night before. Tom has never mentioned a chicken roast from that time to the present day. —Ben Moore, ’ll.

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SCARLET AND GREEN VOL VIII ALBURN I l CA I SCI IOOL ALBURN. (Portofccc South Auburn.) NEBR.. MARCH 22 1911 NO. 7 END OF BASKET BALL SEASON DEBATING TEAM CHOSEN TRACK TRAINING BEGINS SCHOOL FINANCES GOOD ONE DEFEAT FOLLOWED BY REV. VAN FLEET AND PROF. MANY COOD ATHLETES LOST HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING IN POOR THREE VICTORIES EVANS ASSIST AS JUDGES. WITH LAST YEAR S SENIORS REPAIR. bask't Ball Seri Successful On the Society Organized on a Firm Basis and The Class Meet Gives Prorrise cf Being Whole For Auburn Goal a Good Program R« ndered a Hot Contest B tween Juniors Tottirt. Eloquent Oratory. and Seniors. secretary of Board Makes a Report of I: e Condition of School District. With a double header nt the Daugh-ertv Hall Wednesday, March h, followed by a gome with the Peru Senior on the next Saturday night, the basket j nail aeason fur 10- 11 rim to an end The first team this year has played twelve match games, winning seven . and losing five. Against our opponent w have piled up 376 score while there were made agon t os 254 score-Alt..g -th«r we are proud of our record 1 since the scores of the games wc lo t wore very clime Tho aeconJ team lisa plnved but two game but won both of these. Thin speak well for our teams next year. Tecumseh 34 A. H. S. 33. Friday. February 24th. Auburn and Tecunmeh met on the basket ball field for their last game this year. Auburn hid been defeated by throe points, so the garni? hero win of grent In. tercet. The first half started and ' was easy tu »c that both trains w going to play for life. After tweiy minutes of l;urd work the half endvo. the score being 17 to lf« in fuvor Tecutmeh. The second half was as hard » ns the first, it being nip and Thin lasted until the whistle the game, with a score of 31 I favor of Tecumseh. The line- La t luce-lay the second meeting of tho Literary society • held in thn laboratory of the hign school building. There was a noticeable in. crease in the size of the assemblage ' the invitation of the society having been'extended to the Alumni and the! former members of the High School who would be willing to shore the! joys and the sorrows of helping out in the program, or in other words be active membera of the society. f nly members of the ancle Me al' admittance. Severe I new m They are: Vera Anderson Halite Wor rn Ben Ut - Carri Ada La In lust year's cl meet the three upper classes ran in very close quarters. For a while Use sophomore held first place and then the seniors. In the meantime the Juniors were making a still but harJ race for second place, which they did not secure until after the relay, winning second in the meet by only two points. Those taking a first or second place • nny event we allowed to go to Suutheueld at i'1 ‘mBKl hO i - at follows: Tecumseh i . Stewart Aol K. Stewart .f... K. Colnnm r . . Quack- Peek tf • •• .... L. Wagner ... -It ... Peru K re shies 20 A . H. S 2 Peru Freshmen and tho A. half had a fu t and exciting gan basket (all Friday » vt-nir.g. Marei P ro had the advantage in every especially in sixe. Tn they dl fail In use several time in the f In the first half Auburn fai! throw a field goal, while Peru pegging away and before the was over made four goal . When thr second half ws started the little fellows from Auburn saw they must play for blood in order to win. This they did. After a few stunts in team work ami with Mastin' tine work at throwing fouls. Aut urn found them stives on their feet (except when they were hit by cue of the Peru men.) The game ended with acore 20 to 24 in fuvor of Auburn. The line-up was ns follows: Peru Aubuin Overton ...rf ...........Muslin Wickham .... If........K. Smith Lively..............e......Quarkenhush Cook..........rg...........L. Smith Cornell ...........Ig...........Gtrlaw Stella 18 A H. S. 2nd S2. f.ait, btiv not least, the second team defeated the Stella High School. Although our team won the game. Stella can w«?fl feel proud of their men. Wo can easily excuse Stella, CumtiH ueJ i)« Pat Jomr. w ■ ■ » - aui-pt the ret .lion a wn carried. The rex. aaineiia was to pick out the executive committee. A motion was made to maintain tbe temporary com iuitte« aa appointed by Mr Doremus. The motion was carried. The committee eonaist of Hard Heed. Paul Keedy. Geraldine Bell. Harry Scudcrs. So the society thus became an aris. tccrncy. ruled by the beet. A there was nr other business to come before the house the program was given. Tne first number was an instrumental solo by Alberta Mutt, entitled Tho Storm.” The music was up to the title and was enjoyed by every one. although some of the more timid ones were frightened n little nt first. Next on the program was a debate given by six boys, two of tho Senior and four of the Junior class. The question for debate was: “Is tho Policy of maintaining the United States Navy at lt« Present Strength Preferable to the Policy uf Substantially Increasing 1(7’’ The atlirma. tive was upheld by Wiley Langford, Boo Moore mid Leo Smith, and the negative by Paul Cooper. Verno Comtimmtd i’m ftigt two. Big B. vhu is th. the twelve Blaine ChtMtr? ■ ’mmF • ir honor in tbe higii . . now clears the bar at five feet and one inch; and Webby” Perdue will do ; the sprinting fur them. The Juniors are slightly handi-capped, as they have a shortage of ! boys tn their class. However, they will offer what they have at what they are worth. The Seniors have a good chance for tho class meet, as they have Little Quack, who ha« developed into a wonder at the high jump and pule vault and Robert Gerlaw has plenty uf wind for the mile and the half-mile. Iven E. Ma tm. 12. Are Given Holiday. On the beautiful spring afternoon of February 2A, the students of the high school were given n much appreciated holiday for their good behavior and willingness to work during these tedious, tiresome spring days when everything is calling us to be out of doors. That the pupils enjoyed this was evidenced by whispered conversation uf ''What'll we do.” Let’s taka u walk,” Wouldn’t a ride be swell?” and we wish to thank the faculty for it. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF AUBURN. NEBRASKA: Gentlemen:—! beg tn submit the following as a condition uf the school district at the pres-nt time, taking the last annual report filed the second Monday in July, 1910, as a basis tu start from. there was at that time a cash balance of...............$ 6169 60 Receipts since that date ns follows: From the county treasurer... 1)204 19 From non-resident tuition.... 5S9 2t From the state of Nebraska for normal training)........ SBQ 00 ‘nes, licenses......... 100(1 00 -ither sources..... 49 76 urcca since July ......... 119362 79 Expenditures. wages....... 3 6843 03 buildings 1192 73 1............. 673 60 ary and reforms and chart .. . . 1408 74 [dies and apparatus of js kinds.......... IN 68 tor services..... 973 50 jf other expenses..... 644 99 xpendilurc since July .......................$12986 17 ,h on hand March 6lh, 1 ..................... 6477 62 Total .................$19362 79 I desire to say by way of explanation that the items of fuel, repairs, books and supplies mentioned abovo will be almost the entire total for the entire school year, an it has been the pul icy of the board to purchase theee items during the summer when there is no school. The bonded indebtedne. of the district. amounting to $16000.00. which bo been nut'landing since 1896 was called in the first of October 1910, all of the bonds have been presented to the county treasurer for payment except six. amounting tu $3000.00, and the interest on those stopped the first day of October l8st The proceeds from the bond levy for 1910 will be ample to take up these six bonds whenever they are prerented for payment. leaving the district lr e from debt. The 1910 school enumeration gave us n school population 981. with a total of 831 enrollment. The condition of repair of both the Athens and Antioch building is good. The attendance nt the Antioch buildings is crowded and mav make it ncc» «ary to provide another room then- before another year. The condition of repair of the high school building i bad. The building is over crowded, the heating plants are two of them in bad order, and tho Continue on pace two.

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C|)e |s torj of tfje “©It UrtsI) Eatp” Everyone in the neighborhood seemed to have a grudge against the Old Irish lady, who lived in the little white house surrounded by apple trees, and, judging from neighborhood gossip, there was a substantial foundation for this dislike. She was said to be responsible for the always sudden deaths of the dogs and cats of her animal loving neighbors. Chickens, too, that assembled in her garden, unless they had an unusual amount of cunning, were, as a reward for their temerity, never allowed to leave the premises alive. All intercourse between the old lady and her neighbors had ceased, and she was left to live utterly alone. One morning as Mrs. Jones, her nearest neighbor, was throwing out the dishwater, a white kitten came up. It was rather a good looking cat in spite of its likeness to a skeleton. It looked up at Mrs. Jones as imploringly as a cat can and meowed. “No, no, kitty, I can’t do anything for you this morning,” she responded, giving it a slight impetus with her foot. The cat moved onward between the boards of the fence separating the Jones property from that of the Old Irish Lady. It trotted timidly, but not fearfully, up to the back porch of the little white house, whereon sat the old lady, contentedly watching the doings of her neighbor. Then it halted directly in front of her, squinted its eye and meowed. The old lady was quite taken aback. That was the nearest any animal had come to her for a long while. She gave a quick glance all about to see that no one was looking and then ventured to say, “Come Kitty, Come Kitty.” The cat came nearer still and she put out her hand and stroked it. “My, you need something to eat,” she said., “Just look at thim bones.” With much effort, she arose, went in the house and returned with a saucerful of milk, which the cat lapped up greedily. After finishing a second saucerful it settled itself in the sun and decided to stay awhile. Just as the cat’s benefactor was taking the saucer back in the house, Ella Jones looked out and saw the proceeding. With a gasp that could be heard a block, she sank into a chair and laughed until the tears came. By noon everyone in the neighborhood knew of the occurrence and developments were awaited eagerly. But the old lady did not change in her attitude toward the cat. “Well,” remarked one of the neighbors about a week after the cat’s advent, “That’s the most fortunate thing that’s happened here in a long while. That cat has softened her heart toward all animals.” One night, however, the cat got lonesome, and sought to relieve the oppressive stillness by weird and plaintive “meows,” which increased in volume until Mrs. Jones had to put down the window of her bedroom in order to get any sleep.