Bethel High School - Key Yearbook (Bethel, NC)

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JOKES A primary teacher expecting a group of teachers to visit her room to observe, told the children to wash their hands, face, neck and ears very good that night. One little boy went home and said, Mama, Miss Zahniser told me to wash most all over tonight. Nannie (absently) — Why, Miss Overton, I didn ' t know we had Comus today. I thought we were going to have Milton. Miss Ferebee, (filling out register) — Sarah, in what year were you born? Sarah— 1709. j Hubert Burroughs (after studying physiology and geogra- phy) Miss Beckwith, isn ' t the alimentary canal in Europe? Frank Martin (to Luther Nobles, whose boisterous laughter hac ' disturbed the class)— Say, Luther, why don ' t you put on a muffler? Freshman — Miss Overton, is North Carolina a dormant state Miss Overton — Why? What do you mean? hieshman — Why, I ' ve just read a sentence which says that the toad spends the winter in a dormant state. Frances Smith, one morning, after looking vacantly into the sky for five minutes, suddenly said: Oh! By the way Annie Gertrude, I have a ' mulish ' last go trade for you. ' After Annie Gertrude traded with her, Frances innocently said, Somebody said that you were the best dresser in town, but that you would make a much better chiffonier.

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FOR THE LACK OF A COLLAR BUTTON (By Robert Burroughs) There was going to be a party Friday night. The boys were to wear a dress suit with a stiff front shirt, and a high collar, the kind preachers wear. I gathered all my outfit Friday afternoon. My dress suit was ' boMt two years old and, as I had quite outgrown it, it fitted me very tightly. This did not matter for that was the style.. The coat was too short, but this was altered by removnig some of the padding from the shoulders, and trimming the spike tails 1,0 as to make them look longer. The coat was very tight across ;l- ' e shoulders, also. A f ter supper I went to my room to dress. I gave my suit an- other close inspection and found it in good condition. I immed- iately began dressing. The trousers fitted very tightly. The coat was so tight across the shoulders I could hardly get into T}ie collar was very uncomfortable as I had not been accus- i crned to this kind. My stiff front shirt felt as if the wash v,o- man had left the ironng board in it, When I went to the mirror to take a look at my hardware, for i;at it is what it felt like, I discovered the collar was riding the . ' nding. When I tried to fix it the collar button on the rear Jell on the floor and rolled under the dresser. The dresser was very low and with all this paraphernalia on I certainly had to do some skillful maneuvering to roach that collar button. About i ' ie time I got my hand on it I heard something like a hand sav ' cutting a dry gourd and a queer feeling ran over me. I thought the lightning had struck very near me. When I raised up and looked in the mirror the secret was revealed. My collar v.-as cracked in two places, the shirt front was broken in four pieces, my coat was split down the back from end to end, and my trousers wore a total wreck. But this was just a part of it, for when I began to reason it out, it nearly made me sick to think that this great calamity happened to me nad I could not go to the party. And all of this was for the lack of a collar button. The End (but not of a perfect day.)

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Miss Overton (to ninth English class, which was studying Franklin ' s Dialogue With the Gout — What is the gout? Dodie — The gout? Why, it ' s a dialogue. Miss Beckwith — If you should live in any other country than the United States, which would you prefer? Camile (innocently) — California. Miss Beckwith — Martin Luther, what are the uses of the skeleton? Martin Luther Carson — The skeleton teaches young boys to know how to be doctors. Robert Williams (in third grade) — Miss Lassiter, let us take bome extra size. (Exercise). Jimmie Warren to Miss Lassiter — Please put the monster ' s (monitors ' ) names on the board. Miss L — Jimmie, what do we mean by a truck farm? Jimmie — A place where you keep trucks. Larry Bullock — Miss Lassiter, when will we get that animal (annual) that you were telling us about? Robert Burroughs was on Mrs. Wilson ' s music class practic- ing a song one day which read like this, The ' orn of the ' unter is ' eard on the ' ill. This jarred Mrs. Wilson ' s nerves, so she asked him why he never sounded his H ' s. Robert replied Don ' t you know there are no H ' s in music? It only goes up to G. Miss Andrews, (calling roll) — Answer for yesterday morn- ing and this morning, too. Irvin Taylor — Twins!