Jackson High School - Osky Wow Yearbook (Jackson, OH)

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-■ 9 OSKY WOW - 1918 A TRAGEDY : (.Stage directions: Miss Martin had been telling her Freshman Latin Clas« about Caesar’s famous Tenth Legion, and finished by informing them that when they became Sophomores, if i heir school work was excellent enough to be compared with the military accomplishments of the Tenth Legion, they, too could be called members of the Tenth Legion. Now read on.) Scene 1 The Freshman Latin Class on the following day. Enter The Freshmen riding on ponies, accompanied by Miss Martin, on foot. Bertha H approaching Miss Martin timidly: “Miss Martin, I want to ask you a very personal question; and I really don’t k'iow whether I ought to or not.” Miss Mrrtin reassuringly: ‘‘Well. Ber- tha, we can just step into the office, it will he more private there.” Scene 2 The office. Enter Miss Martin and Bertha. Miss Martin: “Well, Bertha, what is it? Bertha: I want to know if Corliss Parry is a member of the Tenth Legion.” Jim has a friend, he's not very old. But still he’s long si nee gray; He’s not a man, but more faithful, they say-He’s Jim’s old Fox-dog. Tray. Old Tray, they say, is very gay. And handsome, strong and wise; But say ! he isn’t in it, When it comes to my old dogTige. —Author Unknown DONT’S FOR SENIORS: Don’t try to emulate Tim’s Six feet two; it can’t be done. Don’t eat so much as you did when you were Freshmen : it isn’t patriotic to act the hog. Don’t crib your Latin and Spanish ; it’s liable to ruin your sight. (And your grades too, if teachers find it out). Don’t try to talk as much as Marianne; you might wear out the language. Don’t argue wTith Mr Shumate; he's too old to change his mind. Don’t wait for Wyke to make a noise to know he’s present; he never says much (in a recitation). Puer ex Jersey lens ad school; Vidit in meadow Infestum mule. Ille approaches-O magnus sorrow! Puer it skyward Finis to-morrow. Moral Qui vidit a thing Non ei well-known Est bene for him Id relinqui alone. —Anonymous Ira’s opinion of Wyke: Pour years have passed, nd Wyke is still in the Arithmetic class! Wyke’s opinion of Ira, Say, wonder where Ira gets all his Latin translations?

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OSKY WOW - 1918 ODDITIES OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 1917-18. When we were Freshmen, our Teacher in Compisition and lihetoric told us, among other things, chat when we were describing an object, one of the things we ought to do, was to point out the ways in which that particular object differed from every other object. In other words, that a good description ought to call attention to the oddities of the thing described. As this idea struck us as b ung a good one, we have never forgotten it, and so we rhot we might apply the priuciple to a “write-up” as we say, on the school year. One of the long-to be-remembered features of the year was the big snow. On Saturday the 8th of December, the sky was streaked with cold, grey clouds, and all Nature seemed somehow to know that King Winter was about to come in person. Late in the afternoon, a few fleecy flakes of snow came floating down from the airy regions aoove—Nature’s Laboratory; and a Freshman, dozing in the 6tudy hall, was heard to mutter something about coasting. About dusk, it began snowing in earnest. And while Sleep was busy waving over the countryside, nis mistic bough, wet with Stygian dews, King Winter was wrapping Mother Earth in a blanket of spotless white, tucking Her away to sleep for nine long weeks. What matchless rapture was the school boy’s! And how he did make good use of this, the biggest and most lasting snow that has been known in years! Another featute of especial interest was the appearance of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, on March 7. This display of an electrical phenomenon was probably the most wonderful and most universal that was ever known in this part of the country. It could be seen in all the Northern and Central States, and even in some of the Southern States, and the telegraphic and other electrical instruments were effected, all over the United States during the whole of the day. Lis first appearance here was as a great patch of red light in the sky, a little west of due north. Later this changed to two arches of greenish-white light; and about 8:80 p m huge pillars of fire were seen iu the sky, from which two streamers of white, like the beams from a pair of mighty searchlights, shot to the Zenith, there to disappear, and then to reappear south of the Zenith. The display was at its greatest beauty about 9:30 p m when the whole north suddenly became aglow, and flashes of red, green and white lights, beautifully inter-mingleu, flickered and glimmered like the hungry flames of a raging fire. The crafty Hua took advantage of the light and paid London a visit by air. The entire northern sky was illuminated with a brightness equal to that of the early morning, and, as if to accentuate this brightness, the south was shrouded with pitch blackness, thus hiding the approach of the raiders.

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B OSKY WOW - 1918 WHAT THE SENIORS RESEMBLE Bluff............ Paul Dewey Reynolds Chatter ................Marianne Lewis Telegraph pole..........Thomas Gerken Studiousness..... Anna Maude Fehrman War ................ Elva Naomi Whaley Modesty ................ Herbert Jones Ignorance................... All of us Humor............. Mr David J Shively Jr Powder-puff............. Mary Scurlock Innocence......... Mary Florence Osborne Ability .........Walter Raymond W kle Great Man .............. Ira Stephenson Domestic science ......... Alma Rice Child ..................Nell McClung Thrift Stamp ..............Edwin Arthur Dreaming................Edgar Hunter Good looks..............Nellie Stevenson Wisdom ................. W J Shumate Love....................... Anne Jones Steadfastness .......... D i is Shumate Attentiveness........... Ruth Scurlock Friendship...............Corinne Evans Bashfulness............... Harry Bruce Politics................ Corliss Parry Sport.................... Vinton McCoy Joy................................ Kate Harper Talk .................Grace Schellenger Pleasure..............Clara Eisnaugle Bravery................. Lava McGhee Wind................................ Ray Johnson Common sense...............Helen Oiler Latin Shark ...........Catharine Crnssin Song............................Gertrude Morgan ‘‘When I rose to speak” related Mr Shumate, telling of the experience of his college days ‘‘someone threw a cowardly egg at me.” “What kind of an egg might that be?” put in Maude McKinniss. “Oh, one that hits you and then runs.” ATTENTION SENIOR FELLOWS Upon hearing that the Sophomore girls were invited to serve at the Junior-Senior, one of the Sophomores said he thought the Sophomore fellows ought to be invited too—to see the Senior girls home. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today,” quoted Mrs Gerken reprovingly. “That’s right, mother” agreed Tim cheerfully; “sol guess I will finish up the other part of that cherry pie right away.” Ruth Shumate: I tnought you were go- ing to sell the auto, papa. Mr Shumate: I had intended to, till I read the alluring story my advertising man wrote; then I decided I would keep it myself. The World gladly welcomes the graduate of Jackson High.