Hallowell High School - Venture Yearbook (Hallowell, ME)

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JOKES J. Hayes- You may be only an undertaker's daughter, but you're the 'burys.' O. Cummings- I was absolutely historical with laughter. C. Niles- You mean hysterical. Olive- I don't, I laughed for ages and ages. S. Hewes- I call her 'Mine' be- cause she is such a good little gold diggerf' J. Fish, as he limped home from the dance- I don't mind having rings on my fingers, but hang me if I can stand belles on my toes. Miss Perkins- How is it, Amie, that your essay on 'The Dog' is ex- actly the same as your brother's ? Amie- We've only got one dog. D. Nelson- The brakes refuse to act, Barbara ! Barbara- Then stop the car, Donald, I shall get out and walk. If I throw this away, what will billet-doux, sou? What do you ask me, faux-pas? K. Miller- Listen, I've got a little play up my sleeve. L. Braley- That's nothing, I've got a big run in my stocking. Miss Perkins- Define the middle ages. V. Ledew- They used to be 30 to 45, now they are 50 to 70. Doyle Vautour: They give sheep- skin sweaters at college. !And he really thought that that was what getting your sheepskin meant! Miss Haskell, teaching the An- cient Marinern: Explain, 'The sun now rose upon the left.' Stanley Perkins: It rose in the North. One Senior, planning for the pic- nic: If we go to Pemaquid, we can go in bathing. Second Senior: No need to go so far! We can do that by just stand- ing on the school steps. Life for Donald Albee is just one vacation after another! Where is Hayes ? I don't know, but look for Arlene Smith. . S. Fuller, in Shorthand Class: How do you write these words any- way? Ledew: With a pencil, Sarah. Mrs. Gilpatric, in Shorthand Class: Fish, will you try to sit onrthat chair with all four legs on the floor? Mr. Gilpatric can run! How do we know? You should see him chase Juniors who hang May baskets! Miller: He wept to leave his young and bony bride. Sawyer: No! They were tears of joy if sheiwans bony. Teacher: What are osiers? Nilson: The things you make a stew out of. fDid he think them oysters?J

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Ili ff My WWW' Ill d if 1 lj lil ft 5, 1 My WM .a,,i a, T ' 7 ALUMNI .NE WS - 1927 Harrison Miller is employed on an orange farm in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. The school was saddened to learn, a short time ago, of the death of Violet Ingalls Arnold. Charles Gatchell has a position at the Augusta Flower Shoppe. Leo Sheldon has a position in Au- gusta, for the summer. Mrs. Anna Emery Hutchinson has a position at the State House. Eugene Arata has a position at a filling station in the city. 1926 Munro Getchell has been seriously ill with pneumonia. Leona Hersom graduated from Farmington Normal School this year. Ernest Hutchinson has resigned his position at the Journal office and is working in Old Town. Herbert Choate is taking a special course in telegraphy at Rahway, New Jersey. Catherine Fish has returned to her duties at the Central Maine Hospi- tal, Lewiston, after an absence due to illness. 1925 Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hescock are the parents of a daughter, born May 29. Mrs. Hescock was Miss Christine Lord. George Barker is employed with the Tom Carroll Revue. Dorothy Colson is at the sanato- rium at Fairfield. Muriel Hayes was recently mar- ried to Harold Newcomb of Gar- diner. Albert Browne has finished his junior year at Harvard College. Harriet Nutting has completed her junior year at Wheaton College. 1924 Helen Pearce and Robert Vickery graduate from Kent's Hill this June. Delphine Andrews, Frances Fuller and Lee Hescock graduate from the University of Maine this year. Alfredo Masciadri is building a new filling station, which he will manage. 1 91 7 Bertram Johnson is attending Northeastern University. 1 915 Mrs. Mona Warner Moulten has moved to Baltimore, Maryland. Allen Niles, a railway mail clerk, is visiting his mother, Mrs. L. N. Niles. Maurice Hayes was married re- cently to Miss Alice Carey.

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The VENTURE 29 Miss Perkins: Who is Bridges? fShe meant England's present poet laureate.J James Fish: Hallowell's leading Democrat. Gilpatric: What is a formula? Marion Colson: Something you fill in to get your allio license. Senior: Who bobs up in the Freshman 'lclass when work is needed ? Junior: Norton. Senior: Well, he has some dis- tance to bob. A McKelvey, climbing in the window at 2 A. M.: This must be the steep, steep sides of- Ben -Lomond. Mrs. Gilpatric: Fish, stop wrig- glingf' Fish: Any fish wriggles when he's hooked. Some say that rain makes things beautiful! We wonder if that's why Grant goes out in the rain without his hat on. Heard in Junior English Class when the lesson was about to start: Why bring up this subject? A good motto for the right one, Variety's the spice of life. CAlbion has already claimed it as his.D Miss Perkins: Mansir, spell pro- pagandaf' Mansir: P-r-o-p-e-r- g-a-n-d--a. Teacher fafter spending 20 min- utes teaching the pronunciation of vase l: What do you see on the mantel-piece at home? Pupil: Father's feet. Miss Perkins fdiscussing a ques- tion in Shakespearejz The Bible says 'Thou shalt not kill! E. Willis: Yes, it also says 'Thou shalt not steal,' and then after that it says, 'I shall help him who helps himself! That last bit must be for some folks in Hallowell High. . Teacher: Don't you know that punctuation means that you must pause? Bright Freshman: Of course I do! An auto driver punctuated his tire in front of our house Sunday and he paused for half an hour. - A farmer hitched his team to a telephone pole. Here, exclaimed a policeman, You can't hitch there ! Can't hitch ! shouted the farmer. Well, why does the sign say, 'Fine for hitching'?