Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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C. J. FREW, The Florist, State St. Lr.cal Phone 281 ID The folowing players received football “C’s” this year: Buss, Buchanan, Good, Hall, Roberts, Blanchard, Smith, Green, Leach, Belding (c), Keidel, Stone, Davis. C. H. S. TRACK ATHLETES RECEIVE MEDALS. Conneaut High athletes who took places in the different events at the county field day meet received their medals Friday, January 19th. The medals were bronze, silver and gold, according to which place was taken by the athlete. The medals are very classy and the boys were well pleased with them. Those receiving medals were: Webb, Good, Leach, Keidel, H. Marcy, L. Buchanan, Blanchard, R. Smith. On the 13th of January the executive committee of the County High School Athletic association iheld a meeting in Ashtabula to take up the matter of awarding a football championship for the past season. Conneaut high school was represented at the meeting by Prof. Helman,

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12 THE TATTLER There was “music in the air” the whole way, and with the assistance of Prof. Davis and Clayton Webb, the time passed quickly. Upon arriving at their destination, the girls set about preparing a very appetizing meal, and as the attendance was less than expected, everyone had plenty of “potatoes.” Some members of the class had a remarkable capacity for pickles and popcorn balls. Music and dancing were enjoyed by the participants and spectators and amid hearty thanks for the hospitality shown they started homeward. Mr. and Mrs. Davis again displayed their ability to chaperone the Juniors and help along with the fun. The party was pronounced a decided success. SENIOR PARTY. On Friday night, February 9th, the Senior class and most of the faculty were entertained at the Andrews home, west of the city, by the Misses Andrews and Irvin. The affair was a Valentine party and the house was beautifully decorated with red hearts, a combination of the class colors and the spirit of St. Valentine. Several members of the party gave vocal and instrumental selections. Those present were then given a mismatched list of famous lovers and were required to match them properly. Hazel Rawdon won the prize and Roy Blanchard was consoled. The guests were then paired off and given ten minutes to talk together. At the end of this time the wrote a description of the person with whom they had been talking. A delicious four-course luncheon was served after which the descriptions which had been written earlier in the evening were read. SENIORS JOURNEY TO MONROE. About twenty members of the Senior class, accompanied by Miss Ford and Miss Bain, journeyed in a sleigh to Monroe Center. Everyone was prepared to meet Arctic conditions and did meet them, too. On the way out one of the members was overcome by the cold and was carried into a farm house to be picked up on the return trip. One of the pleasant features of the trip was the ocean wave effect, secured by driving over the drifted roads. On one occasion we seemed to strike the bottom, at any rate all hands had to get out and lift the sleigh out of the trough of the wave in w'hich it was stuck. We found the Grange hall warm and bright when w'e arrived. After v'e had thawed out we played several old-fashioned games and danced. A hot country supper was the next thing on the program, then after making a few repairs to the sleigh, we started home. Our return trip was also fraught with excitement. We drove quietly along for a wdiile and then turning out to avoid a drift, we were gently precipitated into a drift of soft snow. We picked up our disabled member and gave him a very warm reception, ror soon after his arrival we capsized. Those present were the Misses Barnum, Abbott, Eagles, Franklin, Andrew's, Irvin, Pearce, Kepple, Lapham, Hunt and Rawdon, and the Messrs. Stone, Mason, Bonnell, Green, Hall, Blanchard and Smith.

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14 THE TATTLER a member of the committee, and by Prof. Smith, who helped coach the football team. From all reports the meeting was a very stormy one. The principal topic up for discussion was the awarding of the football championship. After much wrangling, pro and con, it was decided that no football championship would be awarded, inasmuch as Conneaut did not play Geneva at that place. The question of patching up the athletic differences existing between C. H. S. and Geneva high, which terminated after the football game here, by C. H. S. severing all athletic connections with G. H. S. was taken up. All the squabbles were gone over and talked upon. And it is reported that the local team, although having almost the entire committee against it, was well represented by its executive. But although (no doubt) the committee acted wisely, it can hardly be believed that the local school was fairly treated. It was denied a fairly won football championship. But if Conneaut had not acquiesced to a patching up of relations with Geneva, there is not much doubt that a move would have been made to put C. H. S. out of the association. C. H. S. VICTORIES. On Friday, Dec. 22, the C. H.‘ S. quintet succeeded in taking the fast Memorial Gym team into carhp. The game was fast and interesting from start to finish and the boys showed flashes of team work that fairly took the Gym boys off their feet. Both sides played a clean snappy game but owing to .the Gym boys’ inability to cage the ball and the C. H. S. boys’ ability to cage it the score when the-whistle blew stood C. H. S. 34 and Memorial 9. C. H. S. DEFEATED. Although the H. S. team was not up to its usual form, having had no practice for a week on account a! the holiday vacation, the management decided to take a long chance and play the Gibbs-Hawes Seconds on New Year’s night. The game was as fast and snappy as could be expected on the Armory floor. Pearce and Childs were the bright and shining lights of the game, Pearce’s passing being perfect. Childs, beginning to feel hilarious and thinking he was a basketball player, caged six beauties, much to the dismay of the G.-H’s aggregation,—'but all for naught, for when the trumpet sounded at the end of the fray the score stood C. H. S.' 24, G.-H’s Seconds 26. But 6uch is life. C. H. S. VS. MEMORIAL GYM. On the night of Dec. 30, a bunch of rubes that toss the B. B. around so as to hold up the honors for old C. H. S. in athletics, played a return game with the Memorial team, but owing to the smallness of the floor, it came very near costing them a defeat. Although rough, the game was fairly fast, both teams playing as clean a game as was possible on so small a floor. When the gong sounded at the close of the second round the score stood C. H. S. 16—Memorial Gym, 15.