Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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Pictures of Pictures. Picture our sweet little Sunshiny Jake A landscape without him would all be a fake. Pieture “Pus” Grube out on a farm— Put him some place where he’ll do no harm. Picture Preach Parker out on a bike, He’s not a bit lazy, just refuses to hike, But he beats all the cars on the Vandalia pike, He’s a picture no artist can paint. Picture Prof. Bean with his Algebra class, Overtime working—poor lad and poor lass. Picture Ross Firestone taking a drink, Picture Miss Higley stopping to think, Picture Post Wells with a cigarette— It’s a combination we haven’t seen yet, But when we do you all can just bet Its a picture no artist can paint. Picture Mab Murch ariding her pony, See the beast balk, without ceremony. Picture Maud 8. when she strolls “round with Murch, Its a “cinch” they think not of the pedagogue’s birch. Picture Stoney whose heart is nigh broken, The stone part is melted—the rest is a ‘‘soaken,”’ His sweetheart has left him without sign or token, He’s a picture no artist can paint. Picture Miss Nimmons stepping three feet To keep pace with the boys—now she can’t be beat. Picture our Dolly hunting a beau, She wants one with whiskers and plenty of dough. Picture Miss Edith staying out late Swinging with Bob on the back garden gate. Trying her best to make a new date—— Its a picture no artist can paint. Picture Miss Baker and a great big tall beau It’s a picture we haven’t seen yet—don’t you know. Picture Miss Garber reciting a piece, Give us a rest, do dry up, and cease! Picture Miss Huffman chewing her nails, Albert Eviston pulling puppy-dogs’ tails, Guy Rummel hunting for bull-frogs and snails, They are pictures no artist can paint. Picture Grace Lowe breaking a rule, Laid down by the pedagogues here in this school. Picture Miss Smith following out her example 24

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Debating. The Butler High School Debating Club was organized October 11, 1907, with Millard Stone as president. Bi-monthly meetings were held on Friday evening in the English room of the high school building. Soon after the Christmas Holidays, Auburn was chalienged to an inter- high-school debate. The challenge was accepted, Auburn naming the subject: ‘‘Resolved that the government of England is more truly and directly in the hands of her people than is the government of the United States in the hands of her people.’’ Butler chose to defend the affirmative of the question. The de- baters were: Butler—Harold Tess, Miss Besse Wiley and Miss Mildred Kenestrick; Auburn—Miss Viola May, Miss Edna Provines and Fred Shearer. KE. B. Dunten of Butler, Dan Link of Auburn, and Prof. Fairfield of Angola, served as judges. The debate was held March 6, at Auburn. The debate was a very creditable one for both sides. The Butler debaters had their arguments the more logically arranged and were decidedly the better on delivery. The affirmative won the decision by a per cent of 82 5-9 to 77 5-11. A return debate will be held at Butler on April 17. The subject is: “Should the U. 8. government own the inter-state railroad, telegraph, and express systems?’ Auburn chose to defend the negative of the question. The debaters were: Butler—Rollo Wiley, Miss Mabelle Murch and Miss Jannet Mason, Auburn—Gilbert DeLapp, Miss Myrtle Hornberger and Miss Bonell Souder. The debate promises to be an in- | teresting one and will undoubtedly be a closer one than that of March 6. Debating gives a valuable training to those who take part. The power to think and speak well when before an audience is of great use to an individual at the present time and will undoubtedly become more and more useful as the complexity of our institutional life increases. When High School days are over, The brightest days of life, And we have entered into This world of toil and strife; When our schoolmates and our friends Are scattered thru the world, Neath foreign skys, ’Mid foreign climes, By Fate’s cruel hand they’re hurled Then will we take this dear book up, And read each grind and joke, Thinking of those who wrote them, And of many things they’ve spoke, Not knowing if they’d hit or not Knowing not and caring less Ah! then we’ll wish that we were back In the dear old B. H.S. John Blaker, ’09. 23

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For a pattern of innocence here’s a good sample. Picture John Blaker and his electric machine, His new-fangled airship will shortly be seen, Soon some other new fakes——incidentals between, Its a picture no artist can paint. Picture Miss Whit in a bathing suit Now don’t you think she’d look very cute? Picture Chuck Elliot when he is sad. Picture Doe Tappen when he is glad. Picture Jack sriding a mule Falling off and calling himself a d-——- fool, This is the way he does as a rule He’s a picture no artist can paint. Picture Harris trying to flirt, Getting scarred and falling headlong in the dirt. Picture Rollo out on a bum To get him back home—you’ll have to go some. Picture Ollie combing her hair, Picture Coy Pifer cross as a bear, Picture Grayce W. free from all care These are pictures no artist can paint. Pieture Peggy chewing her gum I guess she knows how to make it go some. Picture J. Leroy ’mong his plants and his bugs, He loves cats and dogs, from Maltese down to Pugs. Picture Rosalie canceling a date, Picture the poor boy when she’s sealed up his fate, O, these things are all too sad to relate, Its a picture no artist can paint. Picture Blondie winking her eye At one of the boys——all on the sly. She’s a typical type of a Leap-year girl, She needs no start to set hearts in a whirl. Picture our Bromo learning his Dutch, Its a picture that never is seen very much, We think we will label it boldly ‘““None Such”--- He’s a picture no artist can paint. Besse Wiley, 08. 25