Blairstown High School - Comet Yearbook (Blairstown, MO)

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I I PAGE 60 19 .4. THE COMET OUR FRE94MAN,CLASS Billy is a handsome freshie Who is liked by everyoneg He is always very dressy And is very full of fun. Mary Ruth has a lot of sense And she's as busy as a bee 3 She flirts around with every gent No matter who he be. Martha is very tall and slim With hair of wavy browng She likes to stick us with a pin That makes us jump up and down. Betty Jean is never stillg She's always on the gog She keeps her eye on handsome Bill Who sits in the very same row. Fern is very short and fair And the girls all like him, too 5 He has beautiful golden hair And does what he's told to do. Virginia is a girl so sweet With eyes so very blueg She speaks to all the boys she meets, Especially the smallest two. Dickie is a might fine lad And very content is hey He is one who can never be mad And is happy as he can be. Elmer Lee is the ladies man Who is handsome we all agreeg He does for the girls all that he can W And loves to hold them on his knee. James is a lad with red, curly hair And freckles upon his noseg He likes a girl so very fair Whose locks have tints of gold. TEACHERS'BEAUX Mr. Abney is a man with very large feet And has dark eyes and hair 5 He loves a blonde so very sweet 9 They'd make a lovely pair. Miss Sutton is very cute, but fat, And she is very, very pertg She likes to wear her lovely hat When she goes to see Delbert. B. H. s.' H El

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19 4. THE COMET IT DOES NOT HAPPEN Would you be surprised if: Rowena stayed at home Saturday night Annabelle wasn't thirsty Dick had his lessons every day Mildred made an F Marjorie read the paper Margaret Lee didn't scream Wayne forgot to say, I don't know Kenneth didn't hide behind Maxine in citizenship class Gilbert didn't look innocent Fern didn't make faces Bud Newman didn't cause a laugh Woods' car started Maxine and Annabelle didn't go to the office to study together Miss Sutton didn't look sleepy Prof didn't make breaks Mary Elizabeth didn't have to work on the paper Edgar Lee didn't blush Mr. Abney didn't go to Warrensburg during week-ends Geneva didn't have to sit on the front seat Marie didn't write so many paper stories Fay made any noise Mary Ruth didn't skip ' 1 Wilma didn't like candy William Gallihugh didn't agree with Prof Elmer Lee didn't get in a school play James didn't read Wild Westerns Charles didn't spend so much time clock-watching Maxon didn't watch Maxine Chester didn't get good grades in math Betty Jean didnlt like to make notebooks Martha didn't prove she was right William Hopkins had his English lesson Homer didn't like Blue Highwayman Helen didn't have the toothache Virginia didn't primp continually Abney said a good word for a negro Annabelle didn't argue politics? B. H. S. E! ll 1-1 PAGE 59 38

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THE COMET WE CAUGHT. BEFORE PUBLICATION A kind feeling of gratitude and a 'thank you' for his many favors are our sediments. Csentimentsl X Shot-up was used for shot-put in the track story Mr. Abney: Do you believe in monoply? Martha: I thought monoply was a game. Misss Sutton: Helen, do you have a current event? Helen Woods: Yes, President Roosevelt's son was fined for parking too long. When the truck stopped at Petersburg :- Mr. Abney: Is this Norris? Hubie: No, this is just the rhubarbs of Norris. Mr. Abney: When was the government of the United States established? ' James: 1492. Mr. Abney: How do you find the area of a circle? James: Two times the length plus two times the width. EXAM INATION ANSWERS Miss Sutton: What is watered stock? ' Student: This is when men drive cattle across the prairie and they stop to water them. ' Miss Sutton: What is guerrilla warfare? Student: This was a war between gorrillas. Definitions given on an American History test. Filibuster -People who rode on cow ponies. Spoils systemWThis system is about postage stamps. Underground railwayaA railroad that went underground a little way to ship slaves underground. ' B. H. s. EB 44 ...- PAGE 61 38