Butler High School - Butlerite Yearbook (Butler, MO)

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Prize new THE FATE OF THE E PLUS STUDENT. All alone he sat and studied, Bent on making straight E pluses, Studying, studying, by the lamp light, Burning midnight oil profusely. Honor sought he in his folly, Sought to graduate with honors, As he studied by the lamp light, Taxing, straining, all his senses. To him came his school companions, Begging him to leave his studies. But his soul was lost in study, And he heeded not their pleading. On into the night he studied, Past the witching hour' of midnight, Till his head drooped on his bosom And he sat there still and staring. Thus they found him when the day broke with his open book before him, But he did not read its contents He was cold and pale and lifeless. On a rising ground he's buried With the sighing pines above him, And they whisper ever, ever, Of the folly of this student. T EMMETT BULLOCK us. Sixty-nine

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. l ill-Inrfzi fl rm Being a Boyf'-Jack McClellan. Mother Carey's Chickens -Miss Johnson's Freshmen. Mine Own People -Miss Gorman Cthinking of the Juniorsl. 'Two Years Before the Mast -Sophomores. Last of the Mohicans -Seniors. V Fair Women -Dorothy Cannon, Ruby Orear, Clara Ferguson, Helen Campbell and Norma Keirsey. E Little Men --Clyde VVhite, Emmett Bullock, Eugene H., and Logan Price. Vanity Fair --Clara' Fenton. r . , Old Curiosity Shop --Agriculture Laboratory. All's VVell That Ends Well -Wheii the grade cards are given out. Midsummer Night's Dreamv-A grade card with all E'sL Will' 'The Absentee -Leslie Duvall. ffchild Hanna -Lane. Twice Told Tales -Excuses for tardiness. Much Ado About Nothing -Walter W'illiams. W iil' WV First Soprano --Nina McComb.. jill, lyfjirlil Bonnie Brier Bush A-Beatrice Monkman. Wil? ml, - '4Better Than Gold -Miss Gorman., The Heritage -The Balopticon. ' Chritmas Carol -The song of the 'conditionals'. Hoosier School-boy --Edna Shesler. The Three Margarets --Harper, Hyatt and Yates. Lucile '-Henderson. y WH Mistress of the Ma-nse -Willina Moore. Barriers Burned Away -junior quietude. The Fighting Chance -For the Loving Cup. wi. The Lion and the Mouse -Logan Price and Edwin Rhoades. ,Q 'li W, WTV11 . Chicken Little -Gertrude Lie Van. Z Snow White and Rose Red --Norma Keirsey and Eulalia Sturgeon. The Other VVise Man -Jimmie Tilsey. M yi l Sixty-eight

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Svi,-:Neat nhhing, Well, it's all over now, but we fellers sure had a. good time while it was goin' on. I wish I had another sister to get married. It's lots of fun to stick around when no- body even dreams you're there, an' just watch an' listen. You see, my big sis has just gone an' got married. She was engaged for six months though, before she finally landed her dear Oscar. Me and Sam jest had the most fun while they was engaged. VVhy, we was under the sofa when he popped the question. You see, we saw that he was struck on her an' we thought it was about time he was sayin' somethin'. I heard Sis tell Ma that Mr. Long was goin' to call that evenin' an' Ma she says, Do you think that young man has any seryus in- tentions? Then Sis's face got all red and she says, Why-oh-er-yes, I think so! So me an' Sam we decided to see if Mr. Long had HUY.5C1'YL1s 'te-ntions. WC just crawled under the sofa and waited. We didn't have very long to wait, 'cause pret- ty soon .they come in. Sis, she set down, but Mr. Long seemed awful nervus an' kep' walkin' around the room, but pretty soon he set down too. He kept openin' his mouth an' sayin' Ah-hem, an' then he'd shut it again. He sure was nervous. Me and Sam, we was gettin' nervus too-. There wasn't much room under that sofa an' there wasn't much air neither, an' we knew we couldn't lay still much longer. Besides, there was a littlehole in the bottom of the sofa an' the saw-dust kept tricklin' down my neck. I stuck my finger in the hole but my arm got awful tired. No, we waSn't very comfort- able. VVell, by an' by Mr. Long took his courage in both hands an' got up an' walked over to Sis an' fell on his knees. I thought sure he'd stumped his toe on the carpet, but don't you know, he didn't even try to get up! -He just said, fast as he could, Gertrude, I love you. Will you be my wife? an' then he stopped an' gulped and started to say somethin' else- an' then gulped again. I admire my sister. She always knows what to say. So she says, Y-yes, an' then he put his arm around her an' the-n -I sneezed! I couldn't help it. I got so excited that I forgot an' took my finger out of the hole an' that saw-dust got up my nose. ' My goodness! but that feller ju1nped! Sis, she says Oh, what was that! Mr. Long walked over to one end of the sofa an' Sam whispered, Oh, golly, we're goners! Then I wriggled out at the other end an' Sam follered me an' the-n we beat it. But I got one look at Sis as I went by. I-Ionest I did feel sorry for her. I-Ier face was all red an' she looked like she wanted to cry. Well, that night after supper, Mr. Long came down to our house again an' he an' Dad an' Ma was in the library fer a long time. Then they called Sis in too an' Ma :orne out pretty soo-n crying like everything. I thought maybe the house was on fire 31' Dad was sick, so I said, What's the matter, Ma? Ma she grabbed me an' kissed me. Then she blubbered, Gertrude is engaged. She's goin' to marry Mr, Long. Well, I didn't see nothin' about that to cry about, so I says, What you crying for? I'd think you'd be glad she's landed him at last. He's the one to be cryin'. Ma, she cried, as she run off upstairs, Oh, VVilliam, how can you! just then Dad opened the door and said, Come here- VVilliam, so I went. an' he said, William, this is your new brother. Shake hands with him. I went an' did it, but you bet I didn't want to. But after I got one look at his face, I didn't feel so bad. He wasn't a bit nervus now, but he was smilin' an' lookin' happy like. I liked him lots better. Then he says,' Well, Billy, I'll forgive you for Seventy