Ben Blewett High School - Brochure Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ffaiiipji Jraibnreat ,BIFEN left the cage door open Nappy hesltated only a moment then out and away over the tree tops he Flew wlth hrs mother s lamentlngs and scoldmgs rmg mg ln hrs ears After Hymg slowly over the c1ty he declded to roost rn a large green garage As rt was gettmv very cold he fiew rn 1rnmed1ately But what a receptron he recelved' 'lhere were prgeons squlrrels rats mrce and cats and all scolded and fussed at hxm He went out the nearest exrt and hld under the eaves of a house That nlght Nappy was terrlbly lonesome and lt was snowrng very hard At length he Flew mto the house He was roostrng comfortably on a llght when a lady arose 1n a great frlght turned on the lrght and yelled Ellza there s an owl rn my room Elxza got up and called her father who came runn1ng 1n and gave Nappy such a chase that he was glad to Fly out mto the cold and the snow All the next day Nappy fiew mto houses only to be chased out again so that when he flew mto a lady s room and she got up and chased hlm he was ln no humor to be fought He flew at her face 1n a fury The lady ran to the telephone called someone and told hlm to come up and put Nappy out I a few mlnutes a man came rn caught Nappy and put h1m 1nto a bag lt was a very repentant Nappy that was carrled home next mornmg and glad he was to have h1s mother prune h1s feathers and h1s keeper feed h1m If you should ask hxm Nappy would tell you that van1ty and adventure do not become anyone Martha Morrrs Severson lhc XXIDIIIHQ Hun HIS was to be the thlrd and final game of the season The Cam WFT, den school had a good team and had proved rt to every other ya school but the Gardner Camden had challenged Gardner to play Q64 and had declded on two out of three games the wlnner gettmg the school league pennant Both teams had one vlctory to therr credlt Thxrty mxnutes after Bert jackson reached the field the game started Jackson s team the Camden took the field jackson played center field The Gardner s first man Butler struck out The second followed suit but the thlrd the opposmg prtcher knocked a hot llner to Conners the Camden s shortstop who dropped lt Wlth one man on the Gardners took new hfe and the next man h1t 1nto left field Lann1ng the left fielder tr1ed hard to get the ball but rt was lmposslble and the runners were on second and th1rd base Sanderson the next batter knocked a fly to Sloan the second baseman Yer out' shouted the ump1re , V, , A ,. lt 1 rl., - ' l . - V , , , . . . - U . . C . . D , . . , , - . , , , , . A K i , 1 . . . U . 7 9 7 . - Q, - ' s Y 5 . , . . , . n . , - . v V - ,. . ' X K , . , Q' 'Q 2 U ' . - n lille? AMQZ Q. , 1I'4 XII: tg 1 if v Y 7 Y ' ' , . Y 7 ' Y . . . . , - , Q v - , 1 - . . V . - , , . - .. . ., - Il

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X X X N f W X R XX XXII X I Z 1 ' nn, WZ gl s: Q gf I QM Stor x C onttst HE unror Lrfe announced a Story Contest for the Year Book Hp and strarghtway there was a great scratchrng of pens Manu Kd scrrpts prled hrgh over the heads of the judges who at the close of ffbjt. the contest leaned back rn therr charrs stretched themselves com fortably and then went to rt Such a collectron of harr rarsrrro 1 e splrttrng thrrllers was surely never gathered together before The Jud es had a reat trme and are savrng many of the storres that cant be prrnted rn the Year Book for later copres of the unror Lrfe so that you may all enjoy them Here are the names of the puprls who were grven honorable mentron Margaret jones Irvm Kerckhoff Rrclaard Prather Leona Mueller Ke meth Kraft And here are the wrnnrng storres llrt xxl E wasn t very old when he had hrs frrst adventure He was born rn the zoo one summer He had four brotlsers but they had been f sent away because therr home was too crowded He asked hrs as' W, mother why he had not been sent wrth them and she had replred My dear lrttle Napoleon I heard our good keeper remark to a gentleman that he had kept you because you were the frnest and best lookrn of my five chrldren Nappy was very proud then and strutted about the cage rn a manner whrch made everyone laugh 'Cf 3' That nrght Nappy sat and thought and thought and thought H thought what a truly wonderful brrd he must be and then he decrded that he was too magnrficent to stay rn a cage wrth those old owls that were so slow and poky that they drdn t even have names After that he sat always by the door of the cage drsdarnrng to speak to hrs frrends and longrng for the chance to Fly to the crty and rmpress hrs great ness upon the people At last the chance came The keeper very carelessly 'U X IK I 'ff X I 1 X 1 X 'X . Y I I I I V X II fl 2 X i I I I SX X' 3 ' U X X X XX X X 5 Ei :Y Q? JIU Q- T ex, 2.2-f 1 22 T' :lg Q ii, NXT 3 Z 'HI' I I X 3 f X Ie '-'I 5 X f MI X f I F' I 'I-5 Y X I . I ,gmvr it X I I rx, gd .. .' U' I U I U g, . 4 'J . . 1' .. -0 Y ' 1 ' - ' , ' O , ' . e

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mam The Camden s mmng was not as CXCltlI'lg as the Gardner s for only one man succeeded ln gettlng on the bases Nothlng more of 1mportance hap pened 1n the next seven lnnlngs Nelther slde galned The first half of the ninth was a repetltlon of the first Two outs two men on and then another out The Gardners were confident that the Camdens were not going to gam The Camdens however had dlfferent op1n1ons and proved lt when the first batter Lanmng shd under the second basemans arms and reached second base safely The second and th1rd batters made outs jackson took h1S place at the bat The last out and one run to gam or wm' The first ball whlzzed by and smacked lnto the catcher s mlt Ball droned the umplre At the second ball jackson swung lustlly and almost h1t the ball almost Str1ke' come the monotonous volce of the umplre The next two throws were balls The next was fouled Through a haze jackson saw the pltchers arm stra1ghten and the ball come WhlZZlHg through the a1r He swung w1th all h1s strength A crack a roar from the grandstand and Jack son started for first He reached lt also second and th1rd The ball was not yet recovered so Jackson sped for home Lookmg over h1s shoulder jack son saw the thlrd baseman get the ball and throw lt He saw no more One last effort and a sl1de The catcher s glove was on h1s body Safe' rang out the umplres volce That won the game The next man h1t safely to second the next to first putt1ng the other man on thlrd Then another man h1t a double scormg the other two and then a swlft ball cut hlm down at thlrd But Camden was w1ld Four to nothmg and Cana den ahead ackson too was S3t1Sf:l8d He had m de the wmmng run' Charles Lozler A Stolx of tht Mldcllc Ages Kegcvig N the year of grace 1520 1n a village suburb of Parts there was an jf, I 9 1nn which was a popular rendezvous of travelers The host was a Gascon of questlonable character and queer manners He was S fl the step father of a son who was obllged to work at the 1nn One day two wayfarers stopped at the mn They were a queer pa1r One was a soldler of evldently hlgh rank whlle the other was a sallor of ragged appearance The host sat down w1th them and after a long conversatlon they rose and started for the door The soldler turned around when he was halfway to the door and e clalmed ln a hoarse vo1ce Have everythlng ln readlness for to mght then went out the door His fathers lntlmacy w1th these strangers had aroused the boy s susplclons and that night he resolved to be on the watch After dark he got up and donned h1s clothes and chmbed up on the porch and walted Out of the darkness there appeared suddenly fifteen men well armed and equxpped 4 .A A 1 I l l ' t J , . . - - v 7 ' 9 v a . , , Y 3 ' ' Y ' Li 99 ' , l n Ll ' 19 ' ' . , . . . . ' 1 v - . , . n y A . , . LA U9 ' I ' V 9 ' 3 1 J . 2 . A . , . . ,. . , . . 1 Y x f x ' ' . t 4 t L l Y,1 . . . L7 -Y 1 V' - ' . . V ', lil, . I ' o 1 xylffh N - Xl ' P-, 10 .- fygwgs Ax, f. - v ,.,,,.c, ASE. - n OPM' - X- . . . H . . . . ,, , - . He . , . . . , . . . , . . ,,