Clear Lake High School - Echo Yearbook (Clear Lake, WI)

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SOPHOMORES

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vising many methods by which to make money. We have sold soup at noon time, also popcorn at the basket ball games. Not long ago we ordered two gross of pencils with Clear Lake High School engraved on the side. We are selling them to the students, and the people of the surrounding district. Our class has been the first to reach the fifty per cent mark in perfect attendance We hope that this will increase during thfe last half of this year. —Susie Boyer. Some people would say more, if they didn’t talk so much. Truth never dodges, no matter who shoots. How we admire the wisdom of those who take advice. Abraham Lincoln used to tell the story of a lawyer in a western town who was anxious to be nominated for county judge. He went to a livery-stable keeper, asking him for the fastest horse he had, in order to make the trip to the place where the convention was to be held, sixteen miles distant. The livery-man, however, belonged to the opposing party, and therefore gave our lawyer a horse that outwardly appeared perfect, but which broke down before he had made six miles, so that by the time our candidate arrived, his opponent had been elected. When, on the following day, the lawyeir returned the horse, he assumed a most non-chalant air and quietly said to the livery-man: “See here, Jones, I believe you are training this horse for the Chicago market. You doubtless intend to sell the animal to an undertaker at a good price. 1 could tell by his gait that you spent considerable time training him to pull a hearse. But let me tell you, you are wasting your time. He Will be a dead failure, for he is even tcto slow At a colored church baptismal ceremony, the weather was very cold, so that they had to cut away the ice in order to immerse the candidates. It happened that one V)f the female converts, because of the cold, squirmed about, and in a moment had slipped from the preacher’s hands and gone down stream under the ice. The preacher looked up at the crowd on the bank with perfect coolness and said: “Brethren, this sisfter hath departed—hand me down another.”

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SOPHOMORE CLASS COLORS: PURPLE AND GOLD CLASS OFFFICERS President—Elva Van Blaricom. Sec. and Treas.—George Kennetz. Vice President—Lila Shern. Class Adviser—Miss B. De Langis. CLASS ROLL Myrtle Black George Kenrletz Leland Burrill Lillian Markuson Ruth Black Ronald Nash Ada Buckner Mildred Paulson Edwin Dahl Mildred Nelson Wayne Grimes Harry Paulson Stella Hanson Raymond Peirson Bertha Goldsmith Edna Swanson Grace Haima Ruth Spaulding Ruth Hoard Iona Spaulding Elsie Jackson Lila Shern Olive Johnson Maurice Sadler Odelia Johnson Crystal Thomas David Jones Harvey Titel Ethel Johnson Elva Van Blaricom