Bainbridge Central High School - Echo Yearbook (Bainbridge, NY)

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PAST AND PRESENT Senlor faults are many Freshmen have but two Everythmg they say And everyth1ng they do 511W Z' Guess What' E Q My master s name IS Peewee It ll make you laugh I know But I ll always stxck to h1m Because I love hxm so He s always been so good to me I sure owe hlm a lot But there s not much I can do I m really 1n a spot' And oh the n1ce brown colt To me he d1d gxve I' To make me a home And a place to lxve He IS so very wonderful f Q I thmk I ll never go And lf he dxdn t want me f .I I d be scratched away I know But SIHCC I m st1ll here Q . In my cozy l1ttle nest ' Q Ill stay here t1l I d1e ' t So that s why I wondel How I ever came to be ff .XJ What the people and dogs f-F.. Call the pesty l1ttle flea Cla1re jobson Class of 57 'C' I ai '-' My Hundred Years Sleep When I was half a century old I went to sleep the same way old Rlp Van Wmkle d1d so long ago The world was bad enough at that tlme but when I awoke It was about one hundred txmes as bad To be exact I slept 100 years 5 months I5 days 7 hours SQ m1nutes and SQ seconds When I woke up I was an awful lookmg th1ng w1th wh1skers a m1le long I went and cut my wh1skers off wh1ch made fifty sealskm coats for the women OI so called sealskm coats wh1ch gave me S5 ooo whxch prov1ded ve1y well for my short stay on earth The world was just the way1t was back 1n 1850 everybody packlng guns There were about 150 kllled every day IH New York Cxty alone The people wore very few clothes even less than they had ln 1964 Cars were out of style now and the an pl mes WCIC so thlck that they had to use cops ln the sky They ran 1nto each other at a rate of 60 a second I had been on earth Just two days when somebody up and shot me You probably won t belleve any of thls Ne1ther do I for that matter lVI1llard Howland Cmj Elghth Grade 76 Q . 9 ' - Q I W gb I 1 . ' Vf -A . n Q f ' , ' ' v 1 , if 0 f . , ' . y I. y v ' ' Y. v W For it's the very best. -Y Q . I T 1 . 1 Q -J L6 ' .YY X Q s - y 1 A if v 1 . .' 1

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the locatxon of the brxdge and hrs resrdence where he drd fo1 th1s made them of convement access to hls mxllmg busmess As a result the vrllage grew up raproly about th1s locatxon The mxlls have long smce gone but the creek re mams to plague us Later act1v1t1es of the Ma Jors was the buxldmg of a commodxous tavern on the slte now occupled by the rectory of St Peter s Church and a home for h1s son Rlchard where the parsonage of the Baptlst Church now stands The only rema1n1ng monument of M3101 DeZeng IS the juhand house for whlch reason lt mxght be said to wear the brlghtest hrstorlcal halo of any 1es1dence m Bambrxdge He bu1lt th1s wxth the a1d of hls older son Rxchard fox a younger son Phxhp rn 1813 The house and surround1ng farm land was later sold to Col Rxchard juhand whose descendents st1ll occupy Evldently the problem of youthful delm quency was present back ln these remote jeucho days for IH 1813 some vandal mlnded youths set fire to a half frmshed church located where the fountam 1D the v1llage park IS now located The unfavorable publ1c1ty rn the surroundmg towns caused by th1s shameful act determmed the people of Jerlcho to seek a new name for the town and 1n 1814 by Act of Leg1slature the name was changed to Bambrxdge rn honor ot Commodore W11l1am S Bambrldge who was at that t1me a popular naval hero There was never any personal assoclatlon of th1s famous ofhcer of the Amer1can navy w1th the town The corporatlon of the vlllage of Ba1nbr1dge was formed Apr1l 2I 1829 Colonel Rlchard Julxand was the flrst Pres1dent In 1850 a stock company was organ1zed by Orren Jacobs then engaged ln a tannery busl ness to construct and operate a flat bottom stern wheel steam boat whlch was to navlgate the r1ver between Bambrxdge and Lanesboro Pa a statlon on the newly opened Er1e Ra1l road By th1s method the valley was to be opened up to commerce The launchxng of th1s steamer called The Enterprlse was the occa sxon of a great celebrat1on whxch was stxll v1v 1dly recalled by some of our oldest mhabxtants fifty years ago The board 1tself was 112 feet long and was equxpped wlth an 80 horse power engxne It had a carrylng capac1ty of 30 tons The venture m1ght have met wxth some measure of success had not the valley been Hooded wlth advertlsmg crrculars seekmg subscrlptrons for stock rn the contemplated Albany 8.1 Susque hanna Ra1lroad Thls project was eventually al though belatedly a success as It was not uutxl 186, that the rallroad was completed from Al bany to Bambrldge Later th1s Company was accluxred by the old Delaware 81, Hudson Canal Lo and has smce been operated by thenr successors Fhe mdustrlal hrstory of Bambrldge may be summar1zed ln two words LUMBER and MILK Durmg the frrst century of 1ts exlstence logg1ng and lumbermg and later the mlllmg and fashlomng of the wood gleaned from the hxll srdes mto useful and readxly salable art1cles of commerce were the back bone of the lndustry of the town The Culbert factorles of the 1860 s among the Frrst to make use of steam power were for over a quarter of a century a part of the ut1l1zat1on of the lumber harvests of the locallty Whxle lumber domlnated the 1ndustr1al scene for the hrst century there developed soon after 1890 a defimte fadmg out of xts xmportance and slowly at first but wlth mcreasmg tempo there occurred a growth of the product1on of mxlk as an economlc support for the growmg townshlp Creamerxes were bu1lt and the farmers 1ncreased the s1ze of the1r herds of mllch cows Mxlk prod ucts mcludmg the adaptatlon of casem for many useful purposes 1nclud1ng casem plastlcs and glue found ready markets The manufac ture of machmery for the separatlon of butter fat from raw m1lk became at one t1me a l1vely lndustry All of these m1lk related products have put the accent of Balnbrldge bus1ness on MILK for the past half century and are l1kely to contmue to do so for the rema1n1ng half of the second century of 1ts exlstence Most other 8CtlV1t1ES mn the bus1ness hxstory of the town have been of a very local charac ter The manufacture of beaver hats 1n Jerrcho days later the makmg of shoes boots clgars household furmture the ra1s1ng and processmg of flax and wool the mrllmg of gram the black smxthxng the Burgess 1ron foundry the stage coach and llvery bus1ness and more recently the auto garages and fillmg statlons the Frank Lew1s const1uct1on work these have confined themselves largely to the xmmedxate localxty But rn LUMBER and MILK and therr anc1llary mdustr1es Bambrldge has certa1nly pushed xts markets far mto the outer world Dr Edward Danforth Dr Edward Danforth has lnved the busy llfe of a small town physxcnan here for fifty years In addrtlon to the twenty four hour Job as vxllage doctor he has also found t1me to become an authorlty on the hxstory of hns nat1ve town and to hlm we feel very grateful for the hlstory of Bambrxdge he has wrltten for our Echo , . . . , x v - 1 . , ' . . , . , ' . . , . . . , . . 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IN LITERARY ORKS Ode to a Study Hall Desk Proud are your anclent carvmgs Story of deeds once bold Never was here a t1m1d s trace dy. Only of brave are told I Some are deep and steady lmes In scorn of bemg caught Whxle others waver as tho the eye Q Watched for her who taught My K .U J I Secret but for us who know ' 13 Your tales shall ever be For tho the glance finds only lmes It s the fmger that we see Rxght Off the Test Papers' A revenue IS another name for a mmlster Hlspanola IS southeast of the Umted States lower end Champla1n was a French explorer He wanted to go to the New World to get some land and a body of water So he drd and he found some too A wr1t IS a strong fee11ng ' x A Inner tubes Oh' Whats the use of studymg' Emerson wrote For everythmg you have mrssed you have ga1ned somethrng else and for everythmg Q n you garn you lose somethmg Therefore I dont see through rt If I dont study and mrss my exams I w1ll gam somethlng else and lf I do study and pass my exams I mrss somethmg else So I don t see any use rn study1ng Ward K1rkland Cmj 26 How Rudolph Got Hls Red Nose Once upon a trme there llved ln the woods a relndeer named Rudolph Rudolph had a red nose Can you guess why? Well xt all started when Rudolph was hungry so he ran off 1nto the woods Rudolph got so t1red that he stopped But he drdn t stop for long He even forgot that he was trred of runmng for rxght 1n front of h1m he saw a bush of nrce red berrxes He ran so fast that he couldnt stop And what do you thunk' He ran stra1ght 1nto the bush of be rrres When he came out he was loaded wxth them He shook and shook untrl he got all the berrxes off except one llttle berry on hrs nose and that wouldn t come off no matter how hard he shook That s how Rudolph got hrs red nose Nancy Hayes Grade 6 Mrs Stnles . y S 3-. . t E X 4 ' . S . ,, ff f r . pn, tl sl , ,1 . M 1. ' ' ' . 2. . . . , 3. 'i . . -X . ' 'ks 4. . . . . Q 5. Q. What tubes carry the blood thru the body? g KV