Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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The Paxton High School Reflector Volume X. PAXTON, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY, 1915 Number 2. Sophomote Class Numbet REFLECTOR STAFF Editors of Sophomore Number Exchange Editor ............. Athletic Editor ............. Freshman Reporters .......... Junior Reporters ............ Senior Reporters ............ Business Manager ............ Faculty Advisers ............ .... Evelyn Wylie, iV; Agnes Johnson, ’17 .............................Mary Hagens, '15 Dewey Fagerburg, '16 Rudolph Fagerburg, ’18; Theresa White, '18 . Aurel Henderson, '16; Raymond Smith, '16 Marie Newman, '15; Gladys Corbly, '15 .......................James Kerr, '15 ........O. J. Bainum and Mildred Felmley TABLE OF CONTENTS General Department ........ Sophomore Class Department Business Manager's Column Athletic Department........ Senior Class Department.... Junior Class Department.... Exchange Editor's Department Advertising Department...... PAGES 1—13 13- 16 17 18-21 21-24 25- 26 29 30—40

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High School Jewelry We have a fine assortment of Rings, Fobs, Pins, Cufflink sets, etc., with the Paxton High School stamp; very neat and attractive, popular prices—Also Souvenir Spoons with High School Seal. Try our Dollar Fountain Pen; you will use no other Ben Overstreet The Popular Priced Jeweler For Expert Shoe Repairing GEO. P. BUTTON —Go To— Carl Lind Dentist Up-to-date Machinery Practical Experience Comtnandery Bld’g. ACROSS FROM CITY HALL Paxton Illinois j pAXTON Illinois Two Feet “Play Safe” And Patronize Of comfort with every pair of shoes we sell. Your Style is Here THE PAXTON HAND LAUNDRY Phone 333 A. E. Sandberg PAXTON, ILLINOIS. Ross Mullinax, Prop.

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2 The Paxton Hiyh School lief lector in® :[5® 0 0 [5] FOREWORD, EDITORIAL COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS 0 00 FOREWORD. When you step before your mirror in the morning and gaze within, you see reflected in its smooth surface, yourself. If you are contented, contentment will smile lack at you, if you are happy, your reflection is happy; likewise discouragement, amusement and disappointment may be seen —all according to your mood. The aim of our little Reflector is to be the mirror of the Paxton High School. As we look over its pages, we see reflected within, the various phases of our school life; our pleasures are all there, as well as the records of our striving in the class room; and if any of the pages should recall disappointment or failure, they are quite overshadowed by the greater and brighter reflections of victory and contentment and pleasure. Although our efforts may seem crude and unpolished to our readers, yet we ask them not to turn the strong light of their criticism on our Reflector, bringing its defects into prominence, but rather to regard it as the sincere efforts of the High School students to reflect those phases of the school-life and school-work which ar deemed most interesting. The greater portion of the poetry, parodies, and prose writings found in these pages wag not prepared especially for the Reflector, but is here given to our readers to present the kinds and quality of work which is beinc done in our English classes, under the direction of Miss Felmley. Space will not allow us to publish all of that which is deserving, but enough ha? been chosen by our teachers to clear- ly reflect the efforts of our English classes. TWO SUGGESTIONS. This issue of the Rejector contains no Alumni notes. This is to be re gretted, and some one should be ap-po.nted to edit an Alumni Department. This department should be under the direction of some former graduate of the school who is so situated as to be able to report items of interest concern ng alumni. Many P. H. S. graduates are Reflector subscribers, an 1 s ich items would be especially interesting to them. Perhaps the editors of the Junior number, which will appear about the 1st of April, will se? that this defect s remedied. In many high schools a forty minute period is set apart each week for special talks on live topics by members of the faculty. In others a similar period is set apart for talks on assigned topics by the more advanced students Our faculty members could give us something worth while, and it would be a valuable experience for some of the older students to try themselves out as platform-speakers, especially those who expect sooner or later to teach, preach, or practice law. Those in favor of one of these, or of partly one and partly the other, signify the same by saying, aye.