Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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BOURNE HIGH SCHOOL 19 CLASS PROPHECY OF 1932 L eaving Monument Beach was a sad and hard task. I had been home for a visit and was now on my way to the Monument Beach flying field to make my return trip to East Greenwich. Upon arriving at the flying field I met Earle Chase, who was the pilot of my plane. Not having seen each other for a long time a conversation started. “Have you heard or seen anything of the class of ' 32? I asked him. “Yes, I met Grace Spofford and Edith Wood in their radio shop at Buzzards Bay last Tuesday. Edith said that they had just sent a new radio up to B. H. S. to replace the one they ruined during their Junior and Senior years.’ ' “Carolyn, do you know Pearl Henshaw and Gwendolyn Gibbs are running a classical dancing school in Buzzards Bay over the new “Quality and Price Shop?” Keeping up the talent of the past.’’ “No, I didn’t know that! Who runs the “Quality and Price Shop?’’ “Kenneth Griffith is owner and manager, and says he soon hopes to have a chain of “Quality and Price Shops’’ across U. S. Have you seen the morning paper?’’ “No, why?’’ “I saw in the morning paper where George MacQueen had won a law suit against Russell Wentworth. George brought the case against Russell for running over his prize Guernsey with a motor- cycle. George is the owner of the Bay End Farm and “Putt’’ is running a motorcycle factory in the town of “Head-of-the-Bay.’’ Harold Colbeth was MacQueen’s attorney. “Earle, I was thunder-struck when I went into the “Five and Ten’’ at Sagamore City. I met Henry Quattromini, the owner; Constantine Coppi, his floor-walker, and Reginald Swift, the manager of the toy department. Mr. Nagle always said Coppi would make a good floor-walker !’’ “Well, that may seem funny, but I received more of a shock when I went into the “Bournedale Night Club’’ and noticed the sign at the office door which read:

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18 APTUCXET MURDER WILL OUT I T is often said that “murder will out ’ This was proved to several people in a small village called Mellonville. Mellonville, chiefly interested in growing melons as the name suggests, had as residents a group of young people who were rather mischievous. One night they decided to raid one of the melon farms. They made their way to the farm in an old automobile which had a most annoying rattle. They stopped the car and listened, scarcely breathing. Everything was silent. No one had appar- ently heard them. They gathered the melons and climbed back into the car. The melons were sliced and they proved to be delicious. The next morning the farm owner came down to the village and called on all the young people who had eaten the forbidden melons. The last person upon whom he called was Gordon Connor. “Gordy,” as he was called by his chums, listened respectfully and asked at last, “But how did you know we took them?” Mr. Grimns’ eyes twinkled in spite of his serious countenance when he replied, “Oh, you shouldn ' t have left the rind at regular intervals from my farm to your homes!” Milia M. Puukka ’32 Continued from Page 17 Forty-third: We give and bequeath to Mr. W. Stahura our dumb waiter to put away his dishes for him in the lunch room. Forty-fourth: To Mr. K. J. Coady, our dear principal, we give and bequeath a periscope that he may see the pupils without look- ing through his fingers when reading. In witness whereof we unto set our hand and seal this 24th day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty. Irene Katherine Taber Constance Anne Pope Witnesses: Florence Burrows Helen Roza Kenneth Griffith

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20 APTUCXET Milia Puukka — Owner and Manager Florence Burrows and Margaret Ortolani Star Performers for this week only. Well-known on Broadway as “The Giggling Twins.” “Carolyn, last Sunday afternoon an aeroplane landed here to refuel and I went over to speak to the pilot. Who do you suppose it was?” “I don ' t know, I’m sure.” “Bernard Hyllestad, out for a little spin in his new aeroplane that his father had given him when he graduated from Annapo- lis! He had a certain friend from Brighton with him. They had just come out for the usual Sunday afternoon ride and had decided to see Old Cape Cod a moment.” “What are you doing now, Carolyn?” “I’m teaching Geometry at East Greenwich Academy. Mr. Coady and Mr. Peebles always said that they had never seen or heard of another pupil like me.” “The other day Bernice Cunningham and Arlene Thompson gave me the pleasure of their company. Bernice is Dean of Lin- coln Academy, and Arlene is the Latin teacher.” “Friday I met Marie Crosby, Nellie Dill and Virginia Brackett in Wareham City. They are stenographers in Flora Phinney’s millinery shop.” “Earle, have you seen Hope Swift or Albert Johnson lately?” “Yes, they are both coaches at B. H. S. The students say that they never have seen coaches like them since former ‘Coach De- mers’ left!” “I read in the New York Times, Earle, that Constance Pope is travelling between New York and Paris buying dresses for Madame Irene Taber, designer and owner of 5th Avenue’s most famous store for ladies’ wearing apparel.” “I noticed that the former Keith car shop has a large sign on it, ‘Charles McGowen Car Shops’ Managed by George Hunt ” “By the way, what became of Ralph Ellis, Donald Fisher, Tom Stockley and Carl Chase?” “Well, let’s see, Carolyn. Ralph Ellis is fish and game warden of Sagamore and is living in peace because he made a lot of monev trapping in the Bournedale Creeks. Ruth Schroeter is his private secretary.