Moundsville High School - Orospolitan Yearbook (Moundsville, WV)

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UI 1' 2 4 1 5 5 :ll 1? 'Z - N'I I 1 1 . : Q if 'V CALENDAR ,fix Z-a SEPTEMBER : Monday, 5-Labor Day. Everybody labors HD. Registration, Tuesday, 6-School starts proper. I Wonder why the pupils haven't. Wednesday, 7-Locker keys today.- Some jam. Thursday, 8-Some Freshies are hazed down at the ball park. O! Boys. Friday, 9-Mr. Jones arrives. O girls isn't he too cute? We hear he is interested about Bethany-at least he graduated there. Monday, 12-Schedule changed. Talk about contiicts-Oh My! Tuesday, 13-We're getting more ae- quainted with our teachers now- we love them all-as usual. Monday, 19-Orchestra organized. Meeting days on Monday and Wed- nesday at 8:15. Material is fine and we hope to get good results. Tuesday, 20-First meeting of Glee Club. We're to meet every Tues- day and Thursday at 8:15. HGet in line and have your voices tried. Miss Nesbitt will have quite a job with the Glee Club and orchestra both. , Saturday, 24-Boys journey to New Martinsville, This is the begin- ning of the Football season. At the end of the game the score stands -10-O in Magnolia 's favor. We feel they will brace up and win from now on. Friday, 24-Pep meeting in gym. i 'fl ' QW! m if 1? Spoon and Stultzie elected cheer- leaders. Great enthusiasm showed by the student body. Keep the good work up, fellow students. OCTOBER: Saturday, 1-M. H. S. 13, Wellsburg tl, We knew you could do it boys. We 're back of you now. Friday, 7-Big pep meeting in gym. Everybody full of GO. Learned some new songs and yells that will sure knock Sistersville stiff. Saturday, 8-Sistersville arrives but wants to get back soon after the game. M. H, S. 53, Sistersville O. Who said we didn't have a good team? Friday, 14-Left the school house at 7:30 and had a big parade. Red fire, drum corp and everything. Saturday, 15-Boys go to Follansbee. We ,lose-27-0. O well we can't win them all. Maybe we were a wee bit too sure of winning though. How about it boys? Friday, 21-Another big parade. This one even better than the first. High School band is out, Red tire helps light the way and tire crackers has- ten our steps. Mr. Auld takes charge of the parade and, thanks to him, it was a wonderful success. Saturday, 22-Parkersburg 53: M. H. S. 3. The Rig Red seems to be t'Nuf Fed. Monday, 24-Seniors have llallowecn party at the home ot' Mary Welsch

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about the most comic was when a little lad from the Emerald Isles attempt- ed to get the better of a loyal son of Af- rica in a trade of a broken top and a pinching bug for a glass bottle and a part of a fish hook. As you know in the poorer districts of the South the negroes and the 'tPoor whites attend the same schools and often sit together. Such was the case in this particular instance, although the two made a rather striking contrast. Moses Abraham Nebicinezzer Simms was a typical representative of his choc- olate colored race. A funny little fel- low was he with his mahogany skin, his kinky hair and thick crimson lips al- ways spread from ear to ear, displaying pearly teeth, But above all his large, dark eyes which resembled twin stars twinkling from out a midnight sky. And yet tick, tock, tick, tock, tick- the little Mose was no truer type of his unique race than was Mickey Patrick whose red curls and blue eyes tey-es as blue as the sky that canopied the green of the shamrock bordered shore from whence he camej reflected much of the wit, humor and superstition of old Ire- land, the land of fairies and wondrous wishing Wells. The argument began in a subdued whisper and ended in a clashing climax. t'Tick, tock, tick, tock, quote the clock, it did not attract my attention for the first few minutes, but suddenly I heard Mickey say, Oh, gee, Mose, sure and ye know I wouldn't pull it over on ye for the world, but this top of mine sure can spin even if 'tis brokeg and that there bottle of yours ain't very good anyway 'n who wants an old bent fish hook, the likes o' that, I'd like to know. At this the little negro rolled his eyes solemnly and replied, Ah reckon as how mah Uncle Sam caught a fish most fo' feet long t'other day with this heah hook, and that there bottle, am suah enough the best bottle ah evah found. And here Mickey, in his eagerness, tried to guy Mose into the trade and consequently overstepped the bounds of propriety used in addressing any self respecting colored gentleman. 'tOh, come off there, Midnight Mose, sure and if that poor fish was as long as ye are black there sure am some storm brewin'.', Replied Mose, Youall ain't nothin' but po' white trash, an, a red headed, freckled faced one at that and Ah'd rathah be a niggah any day. Pouncel Biff! Bang! The temper of the Irish met that of the African and clashed in deadly combat, and I fthe old clock on the wallj was left so dizzy that I could see nothing but an occas- io-nal red curl or streak of black kinky hair. And I kept repeating this all the rest of the day, Tick, tock, tick, tock. It ain't so much what's said that hurts As what you think lies hid, lt ain't so n1ucI1 the doin' As the way the thing is did, V. H. '24 Mr. Auld: The colored school near- ly burned down yesterday. Joe Cox: Well, I kinda expected it. I saw smoke, so I sex to myself, HVVIIPVP theres smoke there's always tire. Jones: I want to do something big and clean before I die. Bones: VVash an elephant. When Fashion enters the door, bills Hy in at the window.

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in Glendale. It sure was One Grand Party. Friday, 28-Pep meeting in gym. As many as possible are urged to go to VVheeling. Saturday, 29-Linsly 54, M. H. S. 0. There is a great turn out at Wheel- ing of our students. We at least got the compliment that we were the best yelling squad that had ever been on the Wheeling field. I'll bet Wheeling didn 't say it though. NOVEMBER: Friday, 4-Pep Meeting. Saturday, 5-We were so sure of bring- ing home the bacon today, but in- stead it was something like Triadel- phia 6, M. H. S. 0. I wonder where all the pep has leaked too. Monday, 7-Boys have Football meet- ing. Mr. Tilock gives them a very plain talk. lt is decided to re-or- ganize the team for the remaining games. Hillie is re-elected captain. Can't we get a little help from the student body in this slump of pep? Tuesday, 8-Jr., Sr., Soph., and Fresh., have class meetings to try and get a httle school spirit towards football. Flass cheer-leaders are elected to get up some rivalry between the classes. Posters are being made and displayed all over town. We have great hopes of more backing now. Thursday, 10-Big turnout i11 gym. Have big pep meeting there and then start up street. Never was there so much pep before. We see now that there is still some Get Up in old M. ll. S. Mr. Auld also has charge of this parade, He cer- tainly is a helping hand to the needy. Friday, ll-Armistice Day-Half Holi- day. We truly believe the old say- ing, When it rains it always pours. Spencer arrives. They beat us by one touch down. Oh what luck. It sure was a fine game though. Mr. Bryson had the boys parade before the game in the pour- ing down rain. Three cheers for him and the fellows in the band. Spencer 6, M. H. S. 0. Friday, 18-Everyone on team gives a short talk in the gym after school. If what they say is true-we'll Win the rest or burst. Saturday, 19-Three cheers! M. H. S' 24, Warwood 0, Tilock has a hard time since he considers both teams his. He coached at Warvvood last year, you know. He didn't frown any 'cause we won though. Monday, 21-Nothing much going on any more except school. Vlfednesday, 23-Ano-ther night parade. Our school is altogether different now. They have Some pep. Of course they were always fine, but now they are finer. Thursday, 24-Thanksgiving-Holiday We did it this time. Cameron bows to Moundsville in a 20-0 mud bat- tle. A large crowd go from here, even if it was nothing but rain and mud. Who cares, when we win- how we look-or what we do 0? We paraded the streets of Moundsville when we came home. In other wo-rds we painted the town Red. Friday, 25-We all come to school but no one is anxious to go in. We de- cide to have a parade and show a little of our cheering ability. The whole school goes down to the ball park and yell as they never did be- fore. The board finally decide to give us a holiday if we will come to school for -L5 minutes after dinner.