Phillips High School - Phillipian Yearbook (Phillips, ME)

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THE PHILLIPIAN 23 llll'lu1i-i... .. LITERARY j llff llllllllll llll ll I ll THE FATE OF TOMMY IONES OMMY IONES, a poor boy, lived in the big tenement house on Morse Street. His mother was dead and his father earned a bare living for his eight children by work- ing in one of the large sulphur mills of the town. Mary, who was fifteen, cared for her seven brothers and sisters, the eldest of them being Tommy, who was nine years old, but for all they were poor they lived happily in the three rooms of which their apartment con- sisted. This, however, could not have been accomplished without Mary. She made most of the children,s clothes from remnants which she purchased at a low price from a near-by store. She watched the sales of the food stores and bought food on sale prices and cared for the children as well as any mother could, considering the few things she had to do with. Although the Iones family was poor, they very seldom had to run up bills, as they spent their money wisely and saved all that was possible. But one day Mr. Iones was hurt at the mill where he worked, and be- cause of this he was unable to work for several weeks. Fortunately the company gave Mr. Iones accident insurance and be- cause of this Mary, who was indeed saving, managed to keep within the father's means with the exception of one thing. She had run up a grocery bill of ten dollars. VVhen the other children found out the bill could not be paid without extra help they determined at once to help earn the money. They saved all their pennies and did odd jobs, so in two weeks they had sufhcient money to pay the bill. The change was exchanged for a ten dollar bill and this was put into an envelope. Tommy was chosen as messenger boy and so he started out for Hardy's Store to pay the bill. On the way to the store Tommy had to pass his friend's house, the rich, young Spaulding boy. The boy lived in what might be con- sidered a mansion, on Elm Street but the part Tommy liked best was the beautiful flower garden, so instead of going straight to the store and back as he was told, Tommy lingered to look at the garden. As he was still gazing in wonder he heard a cheery voice say, I-Iello there Tommy! How are you? H Tommy was surprised to find his old friend, Ioe Spaulding, coming down the steps to greet him. Hello, Ioe! I thought you went to Boston with your father yesterdayf' No, we were unable to go, because dad had to go to Kingsborough on business,- Would you like to have a bouquet of flowers? I certainly would appreciate them, but you had better keep them for yourselff' Oh, no. I have many more. I'll get the Hower shears. Ioe hurried into the house and in a few minutes returned with the shears. He cut Tommy a beautiful bouquet of flowers and after many thanks he hurried on, only this time he hurried faster because

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22 THE PH aker a second in the mile, a second in the javelin, third in the discus, and Art Blanchard a second in the broad jump. We still watch with interest the running activities of Monty and Macky Toothaker. In the Patriots' Day Marathon at Portland this year, Monty, after a winter of hard work and no training, finished fourth amid keen competition. We expect to hear more from these speedy twins before their track careers are forgotten. Our own track season is getting off to a late start this year. King Winter has been reluctant to leave the park and baseball gives us a lot of competition. A triangular meet with Wilton and Mexico scheduled for May ll had to be postponed because of a very muddy track. If all goes well we shall meet our first test on May 25 in a quadrangular meet with Wilton, Farmington, and Mexico. Then, if our performance warrants it, we intend to enter our proven stars in the state meet at Portland, on Iune 1. In the dashes this year we are expecting to see some speed from the Blanchard broth- ers and Bill Burnham. In the middle dis- tances and distances we are placing our hopes in George Wood, Harvey Lovett, Lester Cof- fren, and Earl Eustis. Burnham and Stinch- field should be sure point winners in the field events. Broad jumpers include Art Blanch- ard, Bill Burnham, Blynn Ross, and George ILLIPIAN Wood, and high jumpers, Ross, Burnham, Wood, Lovett, and Bunny Blanchard. Pole vault possibilities are Don Dennison, Blynn Ross, and Bunny Blanchard. Bill Burnham claims to be a qualified timber topper, and we shall soon find out. P. M. Kittredge. GIRLS' BASKETBALL Tms year there were fourteen girls who responded to the call to practice. Our first game was with New Sharon. We got beaten pretty badly, 39-9. After that we got back in our old positions and for a short time did much better. We wish to thank our coach, Miss Morrell, for her help. Following is a summary of our games and SCOFCSZ Anson Academy Kingfield Phillips Phillips Stratton Rangeley Phillips Phillips Rangeley Strong Phillips Phillips Strong Kingfield Phillips Phillips F lagstali' Stratton Phillips Phillips Flagstaff Anson Phillips Phillips Weld Weld Phillips Phillips

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M THE PH he was anxious for his brothers and sisters to see the flowers, especially Mary. When Tommy at last reached Hardy's Store he entered the side door and after a few minutes the clerk was surprised to see him crying and after a while, through tears, Tommy managed to tell them his sad story. He had lost the ten dollar bill. As poor broken hearted Tommy was start- ing home, whom should he meet but Ioe again, Ioe, too, was surprised when he noticed his little friend was crying when he had been happy such a short time before. When Ioe found the fate of his friend he offered his services to help in finding the money. The two pals joined hands and retraced their steps many times, but it was in vain for no trace of the money was seen. They asked people they knew if they had seen anything of the money but all answers proved to be K' No. Upon leaving Ioe, Tommy started toward the dark tenement house. As he entered the door, Mary suspected something had happened at once. Tommy dear, you look so sad. Surely nothing is wrong? 'l Tommy once more burst into tears and answered, I hate to say it, Mary, but I lost the ten dollar billf' Mary, however, who was always kind and brave, did not scold him but carried on her work in a discouraged way. When Tommy's father returned home, as he was once well again, the sad news was broken to him, and at six o'clock when the family sat down to supper, it was a sad looking family. The next morning during their early breakfast, the telephone rang, and when Mr. Iones answered it he found it was Ioe. Hello-yes this is Mr. Iones-You would like to speak with Tommy?- Indeed Tommy was wanted on the phone and after he had talked a minute or two, his face began to beam with great joy, be- cause Ioe, after a long search, for the bene- fit of his best friend, had found the money in his tulip bed. ILLIPIAN Without finishing his breakfast, Tommy slipped on his coat and ran as rapidly as possible to Ioe's house. After ten minutes of thank you's Tommy returned home. The rest of the breakfast period was spent in happiness and compliments for Ioef Once again Tommy and his family were happy! N. C. T. IT'S A DOG LIFE H AVE you heard the latest, Dick? asked little David Anderson. That swanky Mrs. Rickenbacker next door, has a new French Poodle, which I have heard her tell Mother was be-e-eautiful but I don't see it. His head is just matted with hair and looks just like Mother's dust mop, the hair on his back is sheared right off and so is it on his tail till you get to the end and then it's so heavy with curls that it almost drags. And only yesterday I heard her say she paid one thousand dollars for the old thing! Now if it was Tige, my airedale, she'd paid a thousand for, that would be something, but a thousand bucks for that old dry mop, why thatls-Ieepers, what's that noise? Come on fella! Scarcely had he uttered the words when he heard a shriek, very feminine, and Mrs. Rickenbacker screaming, Oh you vile cur, leave my doggie alone! Oh, policeman my darling, be-e-eautiful Alphonse is being chewed up by that-that common mongrel. Oh, save him, save my darling Alphonse! Sure, and I'll save him: that is what's left, for you but I would hardly call him a dog! Faith, and what a good job the aire- dale did! Do you own him, me son? he asked David as he and Dick came tearing into the yard. Yes-yes-I-do-and he's afgood dog too! Please don't take him away just because he tore up that dust mop! No, me son, chuckled the Irish police- man, I'm proud, that's what I am, proud to see a real dog chew up this article the lady calls a dog. Well lady, said the police- man turning to the lady, if you take good care of this article maybe in two weeks or so