Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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26 S E NIOR NUMBER ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■BBHHi The Deb AST year the Northeastern Ohio Debating League was organized, consisting of South High School of Youngstown, Warren and Ashtabula High Schools, Youngstown wasuliabletodehate last year so Murray Cook, Carl Hobishaw, Harry Arvidson and Clifton Sanborn, as our negative team, went to Warren, while James Savage, Ralph Newton, Margaret Baser and Trcva Hobishaw met Warren’s negative team at Ashtabula. Our teams won both debates on the subject, Hesolved: That the Monroe Doctrine Should be Repudiated,” our home team getting a unanimous decision, while our negative team defeated their opponents by a vote of two to one. In the annual Junior-Senior debate held on December 17. 1011, the Juniors, Clifton Sanborn and Jane Dickenson, defeated the Senior team, Murray Cook and Carl Hobishaw, two to one with the negative side of the question, Resolved: That the United States Should Materially Increase Her Army and Navy.” In the second meeting of the Northeastern Debating League, the three schools divided honors, each school winning one debate. The debates were held a re Team on April 23, 1015, the question being, Hesolved: That the (iovermnent of the United States Should Own and Operate All Telegraph and Telephone Lines.” This question seemed appropriate, as it has attracted a great deal of attention in Congress, while this plan has been advocated by several postmaster generals. All three debates were hotly contested throughout. Warren being the only school to get a unanimous decision. At present Ashtabula stands first, having won three of the four debates, Warren losing three of the four and Youngstown having won one and lost one. The team which went to Youngstown this year, Murray Cook, Clifton Sanborn, Martha Stone, with Flora Munson as alternate, lost a hard fought debate with the negative side of the question, the judges deciding in favor of South High by a vote of two to one, while our affirmative team, composed of Carl Hobishaw, Jane Dickenson. Henry Smith, with Hull) Harrington as alternate, won at home by the same score. The six debaters will receive gold medals for their work. Three of the debaters graduate this year, leaving Jane Dickenson, Clifton Sanborn and Martha Stone to uphold Ashtabula in the debate next year.

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S E N I O R N U M K E R 2.'» An Ultra-Modern S t o r y Third Prize Story WALTER WILLIAM WILLING. oratory. IMMIK ami I sat reading one of those modern stories from a modern magazine. We had the hahit of reading to each other because James intended to enter Oherlin in the fall and take up Now reading was a privilege allowed to deckhands only when oil' duty, and the bos'n on the steamer Harvard had an idea that “readin’ never got no work done.” We had reading down to a line art. simply attach a string to the book and to the porthole cover. So. I read to James I), in an undertone while he listened for the bos’n with one ear and for the words with the other. The hero was arrested for two or three impossible crimes, committed by the villain. The case being tried, the heroine had made her plea for her lover’s life, and now the foreman of the jury enters the courtroom. Silence reigns supreme. The serious man cleared his throat and “Duck it!” So I slammed the magazine through the port-hole, grabbed the paint brush and made motions that would have made Jesse Willard look like a 19(M Ford. And then—the porter came down to get a pan of onions. We painted his shoes, laid down the innocent implements of labor, and J. Dean proceeded to resurrect the Heart’s magazine, while I regained my comfortable position. But—there was no magazine. We had not tied the cord to the ship. “Darn good story,” says James. Only one more word and she was finished,” I added. ‘ “Wonder what that word was, James Dean said characteristically. So we wondered and guessed all the way up the lakes and down again. At Milwaukee J. I). Price tried to go ashore to gel a Heart’s, but the mate was grouchy. Nothing was left for us to do hut to wonder what that one word was, upon which the whole story hinged. What a brain it must have issued from! We would lie in our hunks and exchange opinions and reasons for such opinions, hut to no conclusion. We arrived at Fairporl, and J. D. went up to the hamlet to “procure a pamphlet periodically produced and published, termed the Heart’s, hut he returned with a pair of socks and a displeasing idea of Fairporl. Well, we made another revolution, and coming down the rivers Mr. Price made a remark to the effect that some nice man would he taking a job on the Harvard if he didn’t get a chance to procure a Heart’s. I held up my hands in horror, that the Steel Trust Company should lose such a valuable assistant. We pulled into Ashtabula about daybreak. The bos’n handed James Dean Price a red-covered, much-mie gave him lifteen Lincolns with instructions to drop into Christensen’s. We had just finished taking olT hatches when the bos’n handed ames Dean Price a red-covered, much-thought-of magazine. There was a flutter of pages, and you can imagine the look on two sweaty, windblown faces when we found the page and read that much-hated, foreboding word: “Continued” “How did you puncture your lire?” “Ban over a milk bottle.” “Didn't you see it in time ?’’ “Naw; the kid had it in his pocket.” First Mexican Senorita—“She is of a very good family.” Second Mex. Sen.— Yes; one of her ancestors was President of Mexico from 12:10 to 12:10 one day in 1912.” ft ft ft Miss Warmington—“What is the height!) of your ambition, John? J. S.—“Don’t know exactly, but she comes up about to my shoulders.” Levi—“Hepecca, pefore you start for Europe, ve vill put your chewelry dot safe deposit vault in.” Rebecca—“But I van! to vear my chewelry dot steamer on.” Levi—“Humbug! Suppose you gets drowned and your body was not recovered. Levy—“Vy you look so sad. Iky, my boy?” Isaacs—“Yy, last night as ever was I come home and I find Cohen kissing my vife. Levy—“Goot heavens. Iky! Didn’t you kill Cohen?” Isaacs—“Dot’s m ytrouble. 1 can’t. Cohen owes me money.”

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27 SENIOR N U M HER F o o r A GRAND SUCCESS HE FOOTBALL season this year is the best one A. It. S. ever had. We only tied in the county championship with the North End contenders. In the first Maine played with Harbor they were humbled, 2f to 0. This left the two teams lied for the county flag1, because earlier in the season A. II. S. dropped a game to Geneva. Then came the deciding game. Harbor scored first in the second quarter and failed goal. Ashtabula’s touchdown came in the third quarter when Bixler pulled one of the “brainiest” plays for which he was noted all season. On this play he crossed the goal and McDonald failed goal. The score remained the same all the rest of the game and the championship is jointly held by the two schools. OUR RECORD Alumni . 3( A. II. S 0 G. R. I . 0 A. H. S 71 (■ II S 0 Jefferson . 3 A. H. S ; t Shaw (Cleveland) . . 33 —A. H. S 0 Warren 1 v. tfi I'ainesville (I —A. II. S ad Ball Geneva............ C —A. If. S........ 02 Harbor............ 0 —A. IL S........ 20 Harbor............ 0 —A. II. S......... 0 THE FOOTBALL LETTER WINNERS: Bixler, J. Stewart, Garlclon, McDonald, Hoot, Bcl-den, M. Cook, l Cook. Whctman. Willing. Sweet, Ford and Thorpe. The following members of the team were placed on the all-county team by the county coaches: Willing. end; McDonald, tackle; Whitman, guard; Thorpe, center; Sweet, half; Bixler, half. SOME GOOD RECIPES To take ink spots out of carpet—Put carpet in yard: rub well with gasoline and apply match. Move hurriedly. To rid bed of insects—Burn the mattress. If that does not have the desired cITecI, burn the bedstead. To keep an old stove from smoking— Open flue and pul out lire. To keep rats out of the cellar—Chase them upstairs.—Ex. ☆ Fred Thorpe (In Chemistry)—“What is the formula for dilute H2() ”