Ione High School - Nugget Yearbook (Ione, CA)

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LITERARY THE LILY CLUB AT A BASKET BALL GAME The lone High School played a game of basketball with the ,lonesville High School two weeks ago, at lone. It was a very rough game and Jones- ville promised us a much rougher game when we gave them the return game at Jonesville. This just suited The lone High. Of course this is not real basketball but when a team thinks it can play rough we try to give them their money's worth. As a rule the Lily Club does not go with the basketball team to other towns but as we were guaranteed an excellent game and because the basketball team needed our support we decidd that we would go. Reverend Smith was opposed to going at first, but at our club majority wins, and he came over to our side at last. Everyone wore his best clothes. Miss Alice jones, fone who seems to know nearly everythingl was dressed in a lovely evening gown, and on her feet were small white slippers. We all thought she was wearing too much jewelry but she said that she would take the chance. It was a pleasure to be with her, she was so beautiful and lively. Oswald Jenkins who is just a lawyer looked very neat indeed in his dress suit. ln fact Oswald jenkins, and Mr. john Smith our politician were hard to tell apart since they were dressed so nearly alike. The Reverend Smith looked as if he were doing something that he knew was wrong. But he thought that he would try anything once. We were worried for awhile thinking that Miss Nancy Sanderson, a society belle, and Miss Ruth W'hite were not coming since they were so late. We had seats reserved for the Club so that we could be close together and compare notes on the game, as we wanted to get a good line on the players, during this game. At last the late ones arrived and we climbed into our high powered ma- chine and we were headed for Jonesville. We were in high spirits, as we al- ways are when we put aside business for pleasure. We had heard that the roads were in bad shape but never thought that they were as bad as they were. We had hardly gone a mile when our machine went off the road to let another machine pass, and in trying to start it again we found that it was stuck in deep mud. We piled rocks and boards in under the wheels and finally reached the solid road again but everyone was covered with mud. We had several mishaps of the same sort before we reached jones- ville but we didn't mind as we were all muddy from the first accident. The Reverend Smith had gotten the worst of it though, for he had tried to push the car from behind the wheel when it started spinning. We thought that we would have to dig him out of the mud to find him. just as we reached our seat in the hall the whistle blew and the game was on. lone piled up a score of eight points in the first two minutes of play. This showed that we had'the best team and that Jonesville did not have a chance when both teams played clean basketball. Then the fun commenced. The rooters from lone thought that we were out of luck as jonesville had it over us a little on the weight of the teams, but that didn't matter as we were much the faster of the two, and were in the best of condition. Before the half was over both the players of the teams and the spectators were growing very angry at one another because lone was winning and Jones- ville was losing. lf the whistle had not blown and ended the half there would have been a' regular gang-fight in a very few seconds. The ten minute in- termission helped to cool the crowd off. Nearly five minutes passed by before the fight between the spectators began. It was quite a fight because everyone who was able joined, and it Page Scvente-1-n

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HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA lv ln the past year we have taken a great interest in our music regardless of the many disadvantages which have confronted us. With Miss Collett as leader, we have been able to make splendid progress. This is the first year there has been an orchestra in the High School. The personnel is as follows: Director-Miss Collett. Pianists-Esther Amick, Lucille Yager, Esther Prouty and Dixie Stewart. Violin-Viola Fairbank. Cornet-Allen Martin Saxaphone--Vernon Stoltz. Trombone-Kenneth Woolsey. Drums-Byron Prouty. At the several parties given at the High School the orchestra has pro- vided music for dancing. It need not be said that the success of the orchestra is due to our capable director, Miss Collett. DNIXIE STEWART l':igv S t , .J X? Q

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seemed as if everyone was able. The members of the club went out the back window and then we found that the Reverend Smith was not with us. We hur- ried back through the window and as we were above the fighters we could see everything that was going on. It took us some time before we could find the other members of our club. At first we thought the Reverend Smith was either knocked-out or that he had left by another exit. But at last Oswald Jenkins called our attention to a small group off in a corner by themselves. ln the middle was Reverend Smith who was doing his best to help the cause along. His clothes were in rags and his face looked as though it had been pounded with a sledge hammer. ln a short time both sides had had enough and quiet again reigned. The State Militia had been called out but was so slow in getting there that they were too late. As the game had not been fini- shed the soldiers stayed and were put on sentry duty. The rest of the game was clean and at the end of the game the score was close but in lone's favor. The people of both towns parted good friends. l told you that we would have been better off at home, exclaimed the Reverend but one could see that he was almost glad that he had come. By the time that we reached home again it was very late and as we were all very tired each one slept well the rest of the night. PAUL KELLY. 'F 3 95 THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF MY LIFE Once upon a time a party of about ten of us decided to go coon hunting. My cousin who had come up from Oakland and who had never seen either a skunk or a coon before, was in the party. We started about eight o'clock and went four miles down in the field. We reached the fig trees where the coons always came for figs. All of a sudden we saw a black object creeping along on the ground. We all yelled A Coon . My cousin started toward it for she thought it very cunning and wanted to pat it but about that time we discovered what it was and yelled A Skunkln. She immediately retreated and not only saw this one but she got the odor and she declared she never wanted to see another. Well, the dogs killed the skunk and then we turned the spotlight in the fig trees. After watching for quite a while we saw two bright and shining eyes. They were those of a coon. We could not get him down so the boys began to shoot at it. After wasting about a dozen shells one of them hit it. Down it fell with a thump and the dogs right after it. They shook it until it was dead. My cousin wept bitterly when she saw the dead coon. We then went over in another place and ate lunch as it was then about eleven o'clock. When we had finished we started back and there ran a small coon down the creek. The dogs started after it and it ducked under the water. They finally succeeded in getting it. It was just a baby coon. But we had a pretty good hunt, getting two coons and a skunk. We reached home that night about twelve-thirty declaring that we had spent a very adventuresome evening although that probably won't be the greatest adventure l shall ever have. , MATILDA AMICK '23. Page Eighteen