Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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Know-all Pugh. bedecked in his three inch collar and l1is new shoulder pads. 28. And yea! he was more handsome than last year, if such a thing could be possible. 29. And there was his august majesty. Librarian Scheerer, in'his natural form, without any shoulder pads or nicknames. 30. And there was among those, who sought toloal and hold down a seat in the bank, only one boy. And this one was none other than l'aul Slow-moving Sheafer. 3I. And he was almost lost among fourteen girls. 32. And it came to pass that in a few weeks the Juniors lost their stage fright and the leaves began to turn brown and Brown began to butt in and look silly. 33. And Captain Elephant liuz Mills did arise and call for the foot ball candidates. 34. And a goodly pack of youths did respond. 35. .But they were green. 36. Yea! they were very green for there were but two veterans amone' them. Pu 37. But they had spunk and they did contend great- ly with each other for a place on the team. 38. .-Xnd when the team was picked it was of last material but small bulk. 39. And they did play well for an almost entirely new team. 40. And they did make a great showing when they tied Hazleton. their rivals. who had some men on their team weighing tons, who it was said took a special art course for their studies. 41. But lol they did go down before the great on- slaught of the Reading team. 42. For the Dutch team was composed of giants. 43. Forsoothl they were two hundred pounders. 44. But our team did have a successful season, lor they did more than was expected of them. 7

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15. But they did at last find one in the Right llonor- able joe J. liehler, who had taught Pine Grove a goodly pack of knowledge in two years and who promises to do wondrous well in his new abode on the throne of the illustrious P. lfl. S. 16. llut lo! there were some other great changes, for the noble monarch of the second Hoor had taken up his abode in a better position. 17. And another worthy successor. tiof the same colorj, fresh from college, named Prof. llertram Ciirllov- ing Strohmeier, who is the real thing both in scholastics and athletics, has taken up his strenuous duties. 18. And there was another great loss when the re- nowned easy-grading Miss Roads submitted her resig- nation. 19. lilut still more luck, for the modest Miss lloyer, a graduate of llryn Mawr. stepped right in and continued I'-lzidaine Roads' easy history tests. 20. llut lo! the greatest event of all was the arrival of that pack iseventy-eight in numberl of juniors. 21. The janitor had to put two or three iron sup- ports up to keep the floor of the forum from collapsing. 22. They took one whole line of the Seniors' seats and then they were not satisfied for they even tried to hang their wraps out by the Seniorsf 23. llut the snippy juniors were not everything, for the all-knowing Kliddlers were there in all their dignity and they frowned on the Juniors and said, 24. Be not too ambitious, ye are but children. need- ing the sage counsel of older heads. Look to us for an example of higher culture. Look up to Mr. Pat. Schol- lenberger for a model, for he will teach you how to look wise and when to get your hair cut. 25. And there were among the multitude. that assem- bled at the portals of the High School, a small crowd of Seniors. ' 26. But they made up for it in dignity and appear- ance. 27. For there was among them Clarence Dramatic 6

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45. But we shall live in hopesg and woe to the ri- vals of the 1907 tea1n. 46. And so endeth the chronicles of the hard-lighting football team, 47. And when the snow began to fall and Prof. Kehler became used to yelling, Seniors will you please get to workf, 48. Manager Hebrew Felix did call for the basket- ball candidates. 49. And they were a strong bunch. 50. And after Prof. Strohmcier had coached them exceedingly well, 5I. They played that bunch of giants from Reading, who beat them at football, and they did Verily wipe the floor up with them. 52. And yea! they did the same with all who came along the pike. 53. And it came to pass that when all the games had been played, 54. They lost but one game, and that was to Potts- town, who had a lloor to play on that was a correct imitation of a bowling alley. 55. And lo! when the season ended the Lebanon bunch. whom we had beaten, did lay claim to the cham- pionship of central Pennsylvania. 56. And we disputed it. 57. Yea! we did challenge them to a game to be held on a neutral tloor. 58. And lo! they quit, for they cancelled the game. 59. And we were very proud, for there was but one team which had beaten us and we had beaten them in a return game. 60. And we did have their pictures taken, so that we would have a remembrance of that noble team. 61. And it was placed among the other great ath- letic teams on the walls of Prof. Str0hmeier's sanctum. 62. And that was the end of one of the most suc- cessful basket-ball seasons of the P. H. S. 8