Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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IO SCARLET AND GREEN j rarlet attft (Srmt CHAS. B. BARNHART EDWARD P. STODDARD Business Managers FRANK STOWELL. Editor in Chief. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jessie Allen, Senior John Hanna. Junior Bonnie Huffman, Sophomore Varro Tyler, Freshman Otto Mutz, ’o6, Athletic Roy B. Coeur. ’05. Cadet Alex Stoddard, ’05, Literary C. Ray Gates, ’o), Alumni Subscription 25 Cents Per Year All general matter and contributions for the Literary Department should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief, and all business communications, subscriptions, advertising, etc. to the Business Managers. Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice South Auburn, Nebrrska. March winds! c. A statistician has discovered that rope jumping causes more deaths than foot ball. Let’s stop this barbarous sport at once. CL It was surprising to know how many were so willing to be members of the literary society the evening of the final contest debate. CL We may envy some of our neighboring schools who are having their spring vacations now but the tables will turn next June. CL The decision of the judges at the final contest debates proves that Auburn has a curiosity it can brag of. It is a boy who can out-talk the girls. CL A letter from an alumnus published in a recent exchange says that the thorough work he did in his earlier school days has made his work in college much easier for him than for some of his classmates who were not very diligent in the High School. CL The last number of the Auburn Lecture course for this season has been given. By the large number of names that were handed to Prof. Simpson, Wednesday, evening it is evident that the people of Auburn have been greatly pleased with this year’s course, which is unanimously declared to be the best that has ever been given in this city. Prof. Simpson is to be congratulated on the success he has had in conducting the course alone. There is no doubt that the entertainments next year will be of as high order as those of this season have proven to be. CL We are sorely in need of more room for an athletic field. The little two-by-four lot on which the pupils of the High School have practiced for the past two decades has been outgrown. A whole vacant block or more would barely accommodate the present needs. Should the attendance of the High School increase in the next four years as it has in the last four or five, the school board will meet with a problem that they will have to solve by buying a vacant block. If the street on the east side of the school building would be closed it would be greatly appreciated by the pupils and faculty. This street is used but little, and is so close to the boulevard that it would not interfere with traffic at all. We would like to see the city council take interest in this matter, and know that if they would close the street it would prove a benefit to both the city and the schools.

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SCARLET AND GREEN THEMES WRITTEN BY PUPILS OF THE A. H. S. AUTUMN. By Alma Kleckner, ’05. The leaves and grass are changing their fresh green, the flowers are all gone, and we no longer hear the songs of birds, for they have left their summer home and gone south to stay until the bright flowers and the warm sunshine shall call them back again. As one passes along the road by the woods he hears the laughing of children and on coming closer sees that they are gathering baskets of nuts. Now and then a squirrel scampers along the ground with a nut in his mouth; he too knows that summer is past and is laying by his store for winter. The fruit that once adorned ths trees is stored away in caves and cellars, and the farmer, now that the harvest time is past knows that the season for rest and merriment is at hand. C. FRIENDS. By Hattie B. Codington, ’05. Friends are one’s dearest companions; those peisons in whom one may confide all his joys and sorrows with the assurance of receiving honest, heartfelt sympathy in return. There is nothing that a true friend will not do for one, provided it be right and possible. He will not betray the confidence reposed in him. In sorrow he will grieve with you; in joy he will rejoice with you. There is an old saying: “Your mother is your best friend,” which is indeed a truth; one which many of us fail to realize. A true friend is not one who in prosperity is very, very attentive and over anixous to befriend you, but when poverty and trouble come to you will not recognize you as a friend nor offer to assist you. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” CL Miss Lydia Barnes, a student at the Peru Normal, visited her old friends and classmates until train time, March 6th. SPRING. By Grace Holmes, ’05. “Spring has come with leaf and grass.” —Tennyson. Spring usually includes the months of March, April and May. To mo it is the most pleasant time of all the year, because the grass and trees are turning green and things are beginning to vegitate. Everybody and everything is glad that spring is here and seems to be starting in life anew. The trees show their appreciation of the warm spring days by sending their leaves out into the sunshine, and when the winds come they are so happy they keep their leaves and branches waving. The birds are returning and filling the air with their cheerful songs, and who does not feel better after listening to them? The farmers enjoy this season the best of all. They like to prepare the ground for the seed, and.like to plant the crops and to anticipate what the returns will be. It seems good to them to have the pleasure of getting tired again after the good day’s hard work and their sleep seems to do them more good. The farmers’ wives are not idle. When their housework is finished they go into the garden and plant seeds of all kinds. Some are flower seeds, but the vegetable seeds are first thought of. And last, but not least, the children are making the most of springtime. They are glad that the long, cold, winter is past and that they can once more romp and play out in the sunshine. I will say again that I think all around springs is the happiest season of the year, and the one most enjoyed by everybody and everything. CL The German pupils are undergoing regular Friday morning tests. (This explains those scared and haunted expressions you have noticed on the faces of High School pupils hurrying to school on Fridays.) The papers are always returned, marked 100 per cent or lower.

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SCARLET AND GREEN 11 Local News. Miss Sly visited friends in Lincoln Saturday March 18. In the March number of Purple and Gold, of Belevue College we see that “Bud” Kearns was elected vice-president of the Adelphian literary society. Prof. Simpson still seems to have a longing in his heart for his native state of Kansas. He has recently moved as near the Jayhawker state as he can get and be entitled to a vote in Auburn. Misses Addie Jones, Otis Lorance and Bertie Phippenney, entertained the Etoile club at the home of the latter Tuesday evening, March 7. The evening was spent in social games and a general good way. At the annual city election held April the fourth, T. H. Gillan, John Hanna, Sr., and S. T. Farmer wcrejelected members of the school board. T. H. Gillan takes the place of J. W. Armstrong, John Hanna takes the place of H. C. Callen, and S. T. Farmer takes R. M. Gillan’s place for three years. Estella M. Clark and the Chicago Lady Entertainers appeared at the opera house Wednesday evening, March 29th, on the final number of the lecture course. The program consisted of readings and vocal music and was greatly appreciated by the audience. Before the program commenced outlines of next year’s lecture course were passed through the audience, with the request that those desiring to patronize it sign the papers. A large number expressed their appreciation of the course and willingness to support the enterprise next year, by filling out the forms mentioned. Everyone who believes in providing high class entertainment for the citizens of our town should assist in this effort. The Literary society is in receipt of a letter from Nebraska City, arranging for a debate between the Auburn High school and the Nebraska City High School debating teams. The questions decided upon is: “Resolved: That the government should own and control the railiroads of the United States.” Nebraska City is to have the affirmative side of the question. The debate will be at Auburn some time in April. The debaters from Auburn will be: Parson Stocker, Gertrude Tyler and John Hanna. A debate is to be arranged with Fall's City or Tecumseh. A different team will represent Auburn. Exchanges. Who killed the Lee bill? The South Omaha Tooter, of course! We are glad to receive the Mirror, of the Manual Training High School, Indianapolis, Ind. It is a well edited paper. Red and Black, of Salt Lake, Utah, has a cartoonist well deserving the name. His cover design is “just too cute for anything. ” The Stator, of Corning, New York, contains a fine article on Athletics by the famous Yale foot ball coach, Rev. George B. Cutten. The Phi Rhonian, of Bath, Maine, contains a good editorial on “School Spirit,” which might apply to a few in our school— but only a few ! The Buckhannon, West Virginia, Pharos and the Shawnee Arrow, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, each record the loss by fire of their high schools. Every department of the North • High School, of Columbus, Ohio, is well represented in the Polaris for March. It also contains several good stories. Purple and Gold, of Bellevue college, Bellevue, Nebraska, has a striking cover design drawn by the staff artist, Grace Kearns, an alumna of the Auburn High School. We do not know how to sympathize with the editor of the Boise, Idaho Courier, who laments that the pupils do not furnish enough material for the paper. We have to leave out good articles each month. The Yellow Jacket, of the Tecumseh, • (Neb.) High School is out at last, after being assisted by Lloyd Mellott and Charley Barnhart, of the Auburn High School. We wish the Yellow Jacket success and hope to see the next issue soon. The American High School is a new exchange published at Indianaplis in the interest of every high school and every high school student. It offers prizes for good stories, drawings and jokes. A copy of it may be seen by applying to the business managers. - The March number of the Ottumwa, Iowa, Argus, expresses its regrets at the loss of one of the lady teachers. The Ottumwa people will now know how to sympathize with us in the loss of Miss Gardner who they had the good fortune to take from us.