Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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eng1ne began to mlss It coughed sm or e1ght t1mes choked k1Ck6d and went dead I aa usual 1n such cases got out 1nd uncow ered the e11g1ne I looked at the tlmer I examxned the 1 1l1es I looked It the c1rbureter I cleaned the spark plugs I looked at the magneto a11d l1st ot 1ll I thought of the gaeollne tank It was queer I h 1dn t thought ot It f11st but I nexer had to do th1s w1th the old machlne and wasn t used to It Neverthelees the tank was dry I sat down on the 1unn1ng boa1 d to th111k what to do Those ln the car asked what w1s the m 1tte1 When I told them I w1s out of gasollne they thought It w1s 1e1y st1 mge th It I should start out wlth out enough gasollne I thought th It too but thoughts Cl0lI t m 1ke g 1sol1ne As I was walklng round and round the c1r IIB 1115 1e1dV lll my despalr to walk to town I heard a H0188 up the ro 1d It sounded l1ke an 1utomo b1le The sound came nearer and nearer and a l1ttle gray ca1 came chug glng around a turn IH the road I recogn1zed my old machlne Oewald waa at the wheel proudly puthng at a long c1gar seemmgly ae cool as could be When he drew up at our car he was ha1Ied w1th e1clamat1ons of dellght for the occupants of my machlne dld not rel1sh the ldea of 1 tour m1le walk to town Oswald w1ll1ngly agreed to take the company bICk so all of us p1led 1nto h1s l1ttle machlne and started out There IS not 1nuch 1oom fo1 e1ght people IH a four passenger car but we finally got ho1ne all 11ght Oswald and I started back w1th some gasohne I w IN much proxoked so I spoke out exactly what I thought I w1sh th 1t bl 1sted In ICIIIIIQ w 1s 1n the fac tory where It came from I m so tlred ot lt I w1sh l had nexer bought It I exclumed Ill tell you what Ill do Osw 1ld you hnd me 1 bus P1 IO1 th 1t thnn, and Ill glxe you fifty doll1rs I ll buy It remarked Osw 'llfl c1lmlV Have you got the money I I 1skul Well not all of 1t but Ill tell you w h'1t Ill do I w1ll gne Xou th1e machlne and two hundred doll 1rs All r1ght I answered You c1n wrlte me out 1 check 11ow Walt a mlnute Osw 1ld 1nswe1ed lxe found the buyer so fifty from two hundred Ieax es one hundred 111d flitv doll IIS llltl he h 1nded me the check I couldn t go back on my wo1d so I put the check 111 my pocket I rode home IH the l1ttIe c1r some poorel but m11ch h 1pp1er It takei all Oswald m 1kes to keep h1s cal runnxng now but 1t se1xes h1m 11ght for the trouble he st1rred up by SL1gg6SIlllg th It I buy 1 he 1dl1ght I shouldnt worry though for I thlnk I came out on top atfer 1ll because Im happy and what good would there be1n l111ng 1t we we1 en t h 1ppy I V H 14 A HAPPY RECEPTION OME on Jesale are you go1ng to that commlttee meet1ng I thlnk thls recept1on has been put otl long enough don t Vou ' rem1nded Rowena Marvell when Jess1e Sylxester was Ill the mlddle ot 1 sentence ln Cmsar They had been room mates for two whole Ve 1rs and were the beat of chuma Rowena was exery g1rl s chum but Jessle 1ust 1fl0l1Z6d her The commlttees d1scuased the b1g m1d 1e1r 1ecept1on It was an an nual affalr at Falrmont College and had been pOStp01lQd unt1l late 1n the 1. ' 1 . 1- , , I 1 1 n 1 1 1 I Y I . , 1 1 1 1 1 , c . I I I 11 1 1: 1 4 n , c 1 , c c , 1 4 - 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 , , , c1 c , I 1 I yi 1 R I I I I 11 1 . 1 1 , I1 I A I A I v I 1 I 1 1 11 1 1 1 ' v 1 1 I 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 A C 1 C 1 C 1 ZA. , K. .2 2 L. S. , , 4 1 I 1 1 I 4 A 1 I 1 1 c , , 1 L c 1 1 ' 1, z 'z,, 1'-, ' , 1' i . 1' 2 - ' 1 1 1 1 1 I .1 1 1 ,- ' 9 I I I I 4 I 1 1 I I I 1 1 I 1 7 3 5 ' 1 1 1 I 7' 1 ' 1 ' , 1 . 1 , . L. . 1 - , 1' ' D 2 , 1' - 1 I I 1 I I 1 4 I 1 1 1 I F K . . y , I . ' 5. , I I N 1 1 I 11 1 1 1 1 1 A q Cx , 1 s 1 y 1 1' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 11 1 ' - - 1 C 11 L C 1 . 1 1 ,, 11 H , 1 ' Wh so? asked Oswad 1nnoce11tl . 7 an 1 ' ' ' ,', I , , ' 39 , I ' 11 v , V . , . 1 . , .7 ' , 1 'a , , 2 Q 2 Y 1 1 1 77 1 1 Q u y ' an , , , , 1 L , c K 1 H 1 v I 2 1 1 H , . ' 3 ' 1 , I ' I 1' ' . 1 ' 1 I I 1 1 ,I L 1 1 11 ' H , 11 , , ' I , ar , 1 . c 1 1 it I 1 I I, 1 75 ' n 1 1 1 A4 I 1 1 1 , 1 c c 1 1 Q , 1 1 y 1 1 I I 1 11 'I 1 1 1 c - 1 1 , c c I 1 fl 1 I , , 1 . I I I 1 1 1 I c 1 , 1 . 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 I Y I 1 1 1 1 I NI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 '1 I I 1 1 I W I 1 1 1 C K I . 1 I l 4' 1 1 I 1 f a -1 a 1 C 1 1 1, I , 11 , . - - 1 fu - 7 ! 1 ' 1 1 I Y 1 71 1 I I I l I , 11 1 1 C 1 , - 1 l c 1 , 1 11 1 7 I I1 11' I 1 I I ' 1 ' ' -J 2 ' ' . 1 - , 1

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He waa '1 very obllglng fellow and alwaya had '1s I have s'11d a great 1nterest ln my atfalrs too great an lnterest I sometlmes thmk One day as he was washlng off the machlne he remarked Do you know I cant see the use 1n trymg to lmltate a new model wlth thls old wheelbarrow You Q1mply can t do It What I would do now lf It were mme would make lt look and run as good as any machlne ln town I don t c 1re lt lt doesn t look llke new I s 11d Wh It dlflerence does It make to me lt It 18 old style lt lt st1ll runs all I'lght9 I know how you look at It repl1ed Osw 1ld but mat thmk how peo ple would stare at you when you went rldmg along ln an up to d 1te car at le 1st to 1ll outward 1ppe1rances You could 1t you would put a new muf Her on lt to keep down the H0156 1nd you could buy 1 self st 1rter an elec IFIC horn a speedometel 1nd sever 1l other l1ttle LOIINEBIIIEIILQS lor two or three hundred dollars Why man why should I want to put even a hundred dollars on the old rellc when It Qults me yust IS It 1s'? I don t know what you would do lt for repl1ed Oswald but I am mat telhng you what I would do w1th It lt It were mme I would rlde down the street IH a be 1ut1tul mckel trlmmed c1r Wlth 1 mckel trlmmed WlY1dSh19ld and a mckel speedometer to reglster the mlles and 1 mckel t11ll1ght to ahow my number It would surely be styhsh there s no questlon about that At that I left hlm and went lnto the house Hls talk sounded pretty good but of course I d1dnt let hlm know It and at last I ordered most of the equlpment he had suggested Oswald bought all the old Qtutl I took oft at a very low figure In f1Ct I ne 1r1y g 1ve It 1w1y But when the ma chme w IS fixed up to su1t ex en Osw 11d I w 18 not qulte satlsfled Somehow I could not help envymg the r1ch people IH thelr new models and I trled to make myself belxef I needed one I qhouldn t haxe done thls but the more I tr1ed to keep from buymg one the more I wanted It and ln the end after much argument we declded to order '1 new Cadlllac of the latest deelgn The c1r1tself cost us qulte f1 l1ttle sum and w1th the frelght and equlp ment mcluded made the cost qulte 1bo1e wh It we h 1d evpected Oswald came over one day and IS the result ot h1s bargalnlng rode home 111 my old car Truly he had found hls 1deal ln bargams for he got the whole thlng new hghts and all for 1 small sum 1n comparlson to 1ts coat to me Strange to s1y I had nexer 1dm1red the old c1r so much as I dld when I watched It go out the g1te 1nd d1s1ppe1r down the street I must s1y I h 1ted to part w1th It Th1ngs went well enough for a month Every day I met Oswald golng to or from h1s home IH my l1ttle old c1r It was always chugglng along at the same old pace newer causlng hlm any anrclety or trouble I however thought that my repa1r bllls were much larger than they formerly were Tlres wore out much faster th 1n they had on the old car and they cost more It took three tlmes as much Oll and gasollne to run the new car I'h1s cost money and f1n1lly I reallzed that I had made a bad bargam One brlght Sunday afternoon we all went r1d1ng The b1g machlne could carry eo many more people that we alwaya had to take Qome of the Il9lg'hbOI'S along or they would feel sllghted But we dldn t mlnd that much because It cost 1ust IS much to c 1rry one as halt 1 dozen Well as I started out to sav we were out on the road about four mlles from town The day was xery hot So were we We were nearlng the top ot a h1ll when the A L g g A 1 ,cA c Ac , I 1 ' fl 10 4 r l 1 1 l 1 ' Y A c A, A , A A . , 1 1 ' ' 0 U I . . , . , . . , , 1 11 I , ' ,, U , l 1, . U ' .. , c A , A1 . c - H , ' H ' . 1. H ' ' - , A I , I A 1 .1 ' ' ' - -2 '. zs z 2 2' ' , ' - ' '1 1 1 4 1 '-1. - A ,c 1 A A c ,C . 1 'I 1 I . I V l i 1 h , A c A c - I '!! A. H 1 y 1 v 1 r 9 ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' 1 -1 '1 7' A A l CA An KK 7 ' Y! ' 1 Y- Cl ' 7 ' 1 A ' A 4 c , c A , - 1 .1 . 1 I 1 .D 1. ' A A A, L C ' V y 1 1 -1 ,1 1. 1 ,, 7 9 ' 1 ! ' A ' I 1 1 1 . I . 2 , 2 fa 2 z. ' - I I1 1 I V' 1 1 11 1 1 .1. gA A A 1 , 1A Ac A . 5 '! w .. , Y . . . - , Y f 1 9 1 c A A A 4 A ,c c ' . 1 I 1 l 1 Y I I , A L c c 4 1 X1 4 I 11 1 . .1 I 6. . c , :A A A , . , A, l 1 . I 1 1 ' 'N I 1 , A , c A A A A . . 6 sa, ' a z .' . ' Q ' 1 1 .11 1 1 C C AC C A - 3 sz z ' '. Aw I 1 Y L X AI A C 1 A A A c , A . I I. . 1 K 7 l ' 7 ' 1 V 1 1 u A A 1 , '1 ' 111 . 1 D 1 V .1 1 1 I I C - I . A A , c C A C C C A I A . 11 Y ' 1. Y . , I , . . , 1 1 11 1 I 11 .1 r 1 11 A A I A CA l A C 4 u ,CA A 1 Y l 1 A l, c A 1 -1 K., ' 1

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