Butler High School - Butlerite Yearbook (Butler, MO)

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Evita littppa Svurirtg One of the best programs rendered in the society this year was the Missouri program given january 19, 1917. Snapshots of Missouri ........ ... ...Crystabel Money Mark Twain Reading .... .... W alter Williams Eugene Field Poem ....- D0l'iS Denton Missouri,Resources .......................................... Helen Odneal Missouri Song .... Herschell Hupp. Violet Seese, Mabel Swartz, Nadine Barber Scenic Beauty of Missouri ................................ Edith Soderstrom Piano Solo .................................. ........ R uth jones i Extracts from D. K. Paper. Editor-in-Chief ........................................... Harvey Hensley Literary Editor ................................................ Oia Ayres Subscribe for this paper right now. Don't put it ol? another day. Interest- ing articles on the following subjects: How to grow potatoes on trees and eggs on bushes. --Escol Rosier. How to raise pumpkins without planting the seeds. -Horace Allen. How to hatch full grown turkeys from goose eggs. -George Hupp. ' Many other things as interesting. Subscription price 52.50 a year. Three years 51.00. . Wanted. Energy and ability to express my feelings on all subjects at all times.-Prof. Gorrell. . Somebody to love.-Ralph Harper. Some common sense.-Fred Zimmer. A Good Business Proposition: Buy Logan Price for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth. Notice to All it May Concern. All girls who have not had dates with Chester Kash this year will kindly leave their names in Freshman section room. It is not his intention to slight anyone and your name may have been overlooked. The Delta Kappa contestants in the Inter-Society Declamatory Contest neld Feb. 21 were Ruth Wyatt, Doris Denton, and Logan Price. Doris Denton won first place in the girls' contest. If anyone has died, eloped, married, quit school, got a divorce, stolen anv- thing. sold a book, had a lire. had a good lesson, been arrested, committed sui- cide, or if any of the teachers wish to announce their engagements-that's news. Please phone either the Editor-in-Chief or the Literary Editor of the D. K. Pa- per. . Sixty-t o

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1-QA. SENATE OFFICERS Left to right--Vivian Wolfe tsecretary, 3rd terml, Agnes Black tsecretary. 2nd terml, Lester Maddox tpresident, 2nd terml, Francis K. Godwin tpresi- dent, lst terml, Katie Harp tsecretary, lst term and president 3rd terml. Uhr lirugrraa nf Svhthrni G5nuv1'1111w1t1 in ES. IQ. Sv. Two years ago it was suggested that we should try student government in our school. Some people thought it would be a failure because they did not think the students would co--operate and make the attempt a success. We were asked to hand our names to our section room teachers if we wished to be under student government. Nearly every one handed in his name at the beginning. Before long most of the others who hadn't handed in their names were under student's rule. Each class elected its two representatives, who were to meet with the other representatives and advise and suggest concerning the conduct of pupils. Study hall monitors were elected by the students, whose duty it was to take the roll and look after the study hall in general. We have found that government by pupils is a good thing and we are proud of the fact that we have tried it and have made a success of it. Since we adopted student government our school has become more widely known and this has come about because ot' our system of student government. We have had visitors from neighboring schools who wanted to see how the sysa- tem worked out and these visitors seemed to think the results were splendid. We are glad to have other schools interested in this plan. We have tried student government and have proved that it can be made a success if students will co- operate and work together as one unified body. THELMA DEBOW, 'l7. .L ,,,Q.L,.',,. 1 rg .A ., .7 sa...v...,,...y....f...,.,ai..W,e.v.1,w-..,.4,,-.1 ...-swcf.-.fy-. 4- --. t . - 5 V- - -