Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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At length the second printed edition of the C. H. S. Spectator is completed and with it another year of school wdth all its duties and pleasures. A feeling of satisfaction is always ex¬ perienced when a difficult task has been accomplished. We have found this true in editing the Spectator which has required hard work for all because we are so few in number. We feel, however, that a school should endeavor to publish a paper even though it be small. The benefits thus derived by the institution as a whole and the pupils individually are many. In the first place the school may thus be made known to places that may never have heard of its existence before. This ac¬ quaintance usually results in exchange of papers and the smaller school may receive many suggestions from the paper of the larger one, which it will find helpful not only in editing its next paper, but in many other student activi¬ ties. The benefits derived by the pupils from such an under¬ taking can not be over-estimated. It gives them experience in practical work and brings self confidence to them. They add to their knowledge something which is not given by the regular lessons of school. The editor wishes to express her gratitude to the students who have aided in making the publication of the Spectator possible and also to the business men who have assisted us financially by advertising in our paper. 7

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C. H. S. Spectator Staff HAZEL BROWNE . CECIL GO WAN ... DAN SINK . WILL McCABE .. . FLORENCE LYLE EMMA SEDGLEY . FRANK BELFORD WILL McCABE ... ETHEL GRAHAM NETTIE BEASLEY .Editor .Manager .Assistant Editor ,. Literary Editor ..Alumni Editor .Josh Editor . 0. V. L. Editor ,. Boys’ Athletics ..Girls’ Athletics Exchange Editor ISABELLE GRANT Staff Artist

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The Treason of Marjory Carew Herbert Belford, T1 It was the close of a hot June day in 1864. The last rays of the descending sun fell upon a large opening in the woods a few miles north and west of the spot where a little more than a month before the terrific battle of the wilderness had been fought. The opening was that of a large plantation which before the war had produced great quantities of tobacco. The fields were now overgrown with weeds and the fences and out-buildings had a neglected look. The plantation was the property of John Carew who with his only son was now with Lee ' s army defending Petersburg, fibs wife and daughter, Marjory, were left in charge of the plantation. When the union army had advanced that spring the slaves had deserted in a body, leaving Mrs. Carew and her daughter alone, save for one old negress who had been Marjory ' s nurse. On the evening in question, we find Marjory near the south¬ ern end of the clearing, where she had wandered in search of wild flowers. She was tall and slender with an abundance of wavy brown hair and blue eyes ordinarily dancing with fun but capable of becoming soft and tender when she was moved by pity or love. Just now, however, they expressed sadness and concern as did her whole manner, for she was thinking of her father and brother away there at Petersburg facing death for the cause so many brave men had died for, namely, the cause of the Con¬ federacy. Even now one of them might be lying dead or burn¬ ing with the fever of wounds on some battle fields. At the thought her blood turned cold and her heart almost stopped beating. “Oh! why could not those terrible Yankees havt 8