Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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Sophomore Notes Describe the dress Nancy and Priscilla wore to the party.— Miss Wiley. He had a little box he used in connection with his pipe (meaning a tinder-box). Maude, quoting “Silas Manner.” Well another person at the Rainbow Inn was the butcher, red Durham. Mary Shonkwiler. That’s ablative, Gee Whiz! Dolores. Brutus was afraid Caesar’s power would go to his head. Miss Wiley in English II. I’m gonna “cut it out” usin’ slang. Miss Wiley don’t “get me” —Tode. Mr. Frazier had called Mary Louise into the office to get an excuse. When she came back she said to Ota, “Kid, What’ll I do; he won’t accept me.” He had black hair streaked with grey and blue eyes. Hollace. “Are you laughing at me?” asked Miss W. in English II. “No.” “Well then what else is there in this room to laugh at?” Well, I think it was the way she was raised, kinda old maidish like you know. Mary Shonkwiler. Not long ago Mr. Frazier became sarcastic in History and said, Yes, Louis, I think both you and Mary Louise agree with Mary on that question.” To be a good speaker is more to be desired than great riches. This seems to be Mr. Frazier’s motto and the school quite agrees with him. One day Mr. Frazier gave what seemed to him an excellent speech on silos and when he said, If there are any questions you want to ask, now is the time,” Wayne Welker raised his hand and asked, Say Mister Frazier, can you tell me where I can get some of that there silo seed?” Notice—To the citizens of Atwood we give notice that we run the best up-to-date beauty parlor in town. Hair dressing done a’la mode every hour in the day. Lowell C. Stevenson and Harry Brunson. Class, don’t you think Orlando was a kind of nice sort of man? Miss Wiley. The depth of the river was three feet around. Garold, translating Caesar. Mr. Larry went from London to Dover by mail. Francis.

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Sophomore-Freshman Snapshots

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Harry, Mr. Frazier asked in Ag class, “What are the advantages of a silo?” “Well, they are good for cattle and stock to eat.” lone not knowing exactly what coup d'etat meant wrote,coup-d’etat is what Napoleon used to destroy the directory with. Written in red ink on her paper, Mr. Frazier put, “Was it a gun or club?” Dunstan went nobody knowed where. Fred Wiley. Ladies hold no preference here; Louis recite. Mr. Frazier in History. Romans, friends, countrymen, lend me yourtongues—er—that is your ears. Garold. The charterists wanted England to be divided into new electrical districts. Mary. Mary Louise doesn’t ask Harry for cough drops any more. Why? “Now Fred, if you were going to Panama from Austria, how would you go?” Mr. Frazier. Fred. “By ship of course.” Miss Wiley’s favorite saying is, “What’s the joke? Why don’t you tell us so we can laugh?” Tode’s highest ambition is to get $150 a month and be married before September. Garold, compare the word meaning graceful, slender. Miss Wiley We have positive proof that Miss Wiley hasn’t any pets for she makes Dolores and Mary Louise sit in the front seats for whispering. “What is the significance of that big tree being struck down by lightning? Miss Wiley. “What! You mean that tree that was electrocutioned?” Tode. Miss Wiley was talking about some mischievous Sophs, when she said, “You know I hate to land on those kids.” Mr. Frazier is a great fisher as well as philosopher and poet. Here is some of the poetized philosophy which he handed to the Ag class, while he meditated on the Creek bank: “Oh that a fisherman’s life were sweeter For how charming it would be, How conducive to glee, If a fish would bite like a skeeter.” IONE PlNCKARD.