Ione High School - Nugget Yearbook (Ione, CA)

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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

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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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A HALLOWEEN PARTY About twenty-five'young people in a certain town were looking forward to Hallowe'en Eve with great pleasure. The people had planned to give a certain girl a surprise party on Halloween night. This girl was not liked very well among the others so they were going to give her a surprise party and play all kinds of tricks on her and make her do things they knew she would not like to do as she was so modest or stuck up as they called it. So after planning everything for about two weeks Hallowe'en Eve finally came. At eight o'clock they all met at a certain place and then went from there to the home of the girl. She lived about two miles out of town. When they arrived at the house they couldn't see any lights so they opened the door and walked into the room. lt was pitch dark and they could just hear a faint noise coming from some place in the room. They managed to find a flash light which one of the boys happened to have. They turned it on and be- hold , there stood an object which every one knows as a ghost. He looked to be about eight feet tall. They were so frightened they dropped the flash light and there they all stood in the dark. The ghost was making all kinds of noises and started to run after them. They were too frightened to get into their machines so all started to run to town. They ran two miles. lt seemed to them as if it were about six miles. They all reached their homes safely but wondering how it had all happened and especially on that night. The next day they went out to get their machines and the brother of the girl they were going to give the party for came out to meet them and told them how it all happened. They found out all about it and also learned that the girl's brother had been the ghost. So they decided whenever they gave another party it would not be a surprise. DORIS AMICK '23. 'F -QF -15 GROVER VALLEY Just as the sun was setting behind the purple hills Harlan Grover came riding into the old farmhouse. One could tell at a glance that the old house had seen better days, but at that time it meant a great deal to Harlan. lt was that little place he called Home . He had been riding in the far corners of the Grover range and he knew he was late for supper as the well known supper bell had sounded quite a while previous. The old lantern light had been hung on the back porch by his thought- ful mother, but Harlan's thoughts were not of home. He was thinking of the cattle on the ranges. After unsaddling the horse he turned it in the pasture and rushed suddenly in the house. Say Dad, the water holes are dried up and the cattle are without water. l don't expect it to rain for another month yet. Whatl exclaimed the elder Grover, why I was to all the watering places yesterday and they were brimming over . So you told me , replied Harlan, 'ibut l noticed footprints around each hole and it wouldn't surprise me if they were made by Holt's men from Rocky Gulch. They are probably trying to draw our attention to that section of the range while they start rustling on the far side . The only way l see to stop that band of cattle thieves is to get Jud Lawson and his men to unite with us and go after Holt's gang, drawled Grover. l believe l'll go over and see them to-night, replied Harlan. He had a two fold purpose in going to Lawson that night. The first and most important reason to him was to see Elsie Lawson, and secondly he would talk to Jud and present to him his father's proposition. Harlan had been paying quite a bit of attention to Elsie lately and he began to think that she really liked him. He had a very pleasant evening at the Lawson's. Jud pro- Pagc Nineteen