Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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Goto HARRY DREIER for Baseball and Tennis Goods. Plainfield Agent A. G. Spalding Bros. Imperial Bicycles All kinds of Sporting Goods, Musical Instruments, Etc. 261--263 West Front Street, PLAINFIELD, N. J. WATES EYES JE AAMINE DPR SATISFACTION GUARANTEED VV ACRES We LOC ES ial NES ee ay) REP AIRE DiibBy Vier ALS Capital, 100,000 Surplus, 90,000 Deposits, $50,000 3 per cent paid on both Checking and Savings Accounts. 707-721 Broad St., NEWARK, N. J. Nice Gloves for — the Young Man and Miss for Dress and Street KID GLOVES—and Suede, one and two clasp— $1 in latest shades; also white and black.......... SILK GLOVES—White for Misses, button and clasp style, at.......... 98 an d 50c FABRIC GLOVES—White Lisle and Cotton for Misses Tand'2 clasp) and sack styles ...0.).. i825 « 12cto 50c | LACE and SILK MITTS—from .......25c to 1,75 pair Fire @rackers and Fireworks at HARPER'S, 411 Park Ave. Plainfield’s Leading Millinery Store........ MILLER’S PHARMACY Headquarters for FANCY SODA WATER Try Cherry Cream Puff, ‘‘Walnut Bisque’ also Nut Frappe—ALL NEW PARK AVE. and FOURTH ST. James B. Guttridge GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, BEEF, VEAL, MUTTON, LAMB, PORK Smoked and Salt Meats, Vegetables, Etc. Telephone Call 331-R NETHERWOOD, N. J.. Try a Pair of ——t=— Doane’s Oxfords Plainfiela’s Leading Millinery Store........

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At NEUMAN BROS.’ 501-503 Watchung Ave., The Leading Grocers, You can always find every possible delicacy. Fruits—Foreign and Domestic. Tels. 146 and 131. H. E. Gayle Hardware Co., JOHN J. PRAED Mernchart nalior Fine Custom Tailoring Dress Suits Pressed at Short Notice Satisfaction Guaranteed 314 PARK AVENUE Press System on Shirts. SWAIN, 317 West Hront St., Plainfield, N. J., H. W. PAK SHALE Is now showing a beautiful line of Garden Seeds and Fertilizers. House Furnishing Goods. Tel. 468-R. FRONT ST. AND PARK AVE. Proprietor Carbons, Platinums, Plain and Ameriean Steam haundry, Sa “i pane ae ew Frames, Artists’ Materials, etc. 122 Kast Front Street. Paintings Cleaned and Restored. M. C. VAN ARSDALE, MAhkKMSTRKONG: Shoe and Rubber Plumbing, Heating, Roofing Distributor. and Leader Work. All the new shapes in low cuts. 427 EAST FRONT ST. PLAINFIELD. | 330 PARK AVENUE, - PLAINFIELD. ‘av ws BLAIR, Special Rates to Livery and Boarding Stables School Classes at JO al WEST SIXTH STREET. a ngh (e) rn e S TELEPHONE 152. nae J. HERVEY DOANE E. B. MAYNARD, Jeweler and Graduate Optician ii onsor a | A r ti S t All kinds of repairi : ele pumeanveas The Best Service in Town. Tel. 334-R 115 Park Avenue 141 North Avenue, - - PLAINFIELD. SPECIAL SUMMER PRIVILEGES Y. M. C. A.——$3.00, June J to October 1 Swimming Pool, Shower Baths, Tennis Court, Bowling Alley, Star Course 1904-5 Ast for Particulars

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W| The ORACLE | “Tam Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.” BOARD OF EDITORS Editor-in-Chief, PERCY M. BRowN, ’05. Literary Editor, School Editor, Exchange Editor, Corresponding Editor, LILLIAN SNODGRASS, ’05. ANTOINETTE AALHOLM, ’06, WESTON GAVETT, ’07. BENJAMIN HERMAN, ’06. Business Manager, . Assistant Business Managers. HOWARD LAPSLEY, ’06. GEORGE BENTLEY, ’05, ANNA RUNYON, ’05. Associate Editors, Mr. LINDSEY BEST, y ' Miss GRACE E. BURROUGHS. STAFF OF REPORTERS 204, FRANCES VANDEVENTER, 205, AIMEE CONANT, FRANCIS ANDERSON. CHESTER BRIGGS. 06, GERTRUDE HUNTER, ’07, GERTRUDE ABBOTT, DUDLEY STRONG. GILBERT GRIGGS. Published on the first Wednesday of every month during the school year, by the students of the Plainfield (N. J.) High School. Printed by THE RECORDER PRESS, Babcock Building, Plainfield. 10 CENTS THE COPY 75 CENTS THE YEAR VoL. 2 COMMENCEMENT NUMBER No. 9 JUNE, 1904 (he eriiston? ola Gram or, “Sand [This Essay won the George H. Babcock Prize in English Composition. ] NUMBER of years ago, a lugger, bound from Mindoro to Manila, was being coaxed by a gentle east wind through St. Bern ardino Strait. Its cargo was very commonplace, in fact even dirty, for it was a cargo of sand. Moreover the sand itself was not out of the ordinary. It was not the romantic sea sand which is ground from coral and shells and carried about over many miles of ocean bottom until it is finally tossed upon some beach, but it was sand formed of rock waste which had been lying for innumerable years in a dried-up river valley in Mindoro. This was not a much-traveled sand but it was a very humble stay-at-home sand which had started life as rock somewhere upon the mountain side. Under the in- fluence of rain and weather the rock had gradually become pulverized and carried to the valley below where men had found it; -and as these men knew