Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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TIIE TATTLER The loss of Eades, Curwood, Zack, (’ox and Cameron will he keen, hut it will by no means demoralize the team. Smith, Rubenstein, Whitney, Cowden, Splan and Beasley will be able to competently fib the places of those who have graduated. There are many others, also, who have shown up well, and who will make good substituiea Hurrah! The basket ball season is with us again. It has been the usual custom for some time for the boys to receive most of the enthusiasm of the students of C. H. S. The girls are doing their utmost to turn out a team of which the High School may be proud. Now come out! For we need your support. H. C.’ 20. Hurrah! (Louder please) the Basket Ball season is with us again. How do 1 know it is? Wasn’t the girls’ first practice held a few weeks ago? Haven’t the boys started to practice? I hat s how I know. The outlook for the season is that we are going to have two fine teams. Girls! Girls!! If you have any ability come out to practice and show it. II you haven’t any come out and develop some. Now’s your chance. H. M. C. “20. CALENDAR. Sept. 10—Conneaut High opens her gates. October 30—Tests continue—also the smoke of midnight oil. ()ct. 31—Monthly reports fill the air (and are filled with air.) Nov. 2—Wallace Weaver seen with a girl walking on Main street. Nov. 4—Lorell Hoskins puts out bad fire in basement of own home. Nov. 6—Raymond Conner smiled at a girl other than Kate Blick. Nov. 30—Ralph Fenton appears with a new- set of whiskers. Dec. 1—Kate Blick in a hurried exit from typewriting room, falls into the arms of an “unknown”—romance pending. Dec. 2—Hazel Coughlan appears with a pink “kerchief. One her brother captured while calling one evening. Dec. 3—Alma Dusenbury walks home alone. Dec. 4—Seniors held secret party in halls of Hi. Sh! Keep it quiet. Dec. 6.—Track meet held in gym. Standing broad grin w'on by Lawrence Clark. Dec. 7—Cy. Cowden quits smoking. Dec. 8.—First meeting of the “Nobody Dome club held at the home of “Pruzel Prugh.” Dec. 9.—C. H. S. boys lose money gambling. No flowers for the dance girls. Page Twenty-one

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THE TATTLER Our athletics will suffer because of the absence of Hall Kurtz from school. He was a coming star in Basketball and had proven his worth in track. He goes to Culver Military Academy. Monday, December 9, the football players had a photographed copy of their noble physiques shot by Mr. Work. The Captain and Manager were sorry that either thru a misunderstanding or absence all were not present at the time. Those absent included, Dickey, Puffer, and Smith. There have been a number of disappointed youths in C. II. S. for the past three months. They are disappointed in the fact that their last game of football this past season, or perhaps in C. IT. S., was played October 11, seven weeks before the season should have ended. The closing of schools during the influenza epidemic played havoc not only with studies, but also with athletics. But, accustomed as we have been to war conditions, we have borne the burden as best we could. Now that basketball is here, let us devote our attention to that, and let the football situation, now ancient history, drop from our minds. A special meeting of the Athletic Association was held December 6 to determine the date and place of the banquet for the football squad. The matter of season basketball tickets was also taken up. A committee, consisting of Wilbur Whitney, chairman, Hugh Coughlan and Francis Sweet was appointed to arrange for the place and date of the banquet. The first real basketball practice was held in the gymnasium Thursday evening, December 5. Four complete teams were out. The girls, also, had a practice that afternon after school. It’s all the ex-kaiser’s fault. If there hadn’t been any kaiser there wouldn’t have been any war. If there hadn’t been any war, there wouldn’t have been so many soldiers in cantonments. If there hadn’t been so many soldiers in cantonments, the influenza wouldn’t have reached such a serious stage. If the influenza hadn’t reached such a serious stage, there wouldn’t have been any closing of the schools. If there hadn’t been any closing of school, we could have played out our football schedule. If we could have played out our football schedule, we would have won the championship! Its all the ex-kaiser’s fault. Great things are to be expected of our basketball team this year, if they are to equal or surpass the record made by last winter’s team. Page Twenty

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THE TATTLER Volume Eight. Season Subscription 75c Number Two. Single Copy 20c STAFF. BUSINESS MANAGER.......................Hugh M. Coughlan ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER.............Hazel M. Coughlan ADVERTISING MANAGER....................Walter V. Shearer DEPARTMENTS. ........George P. Smith ........P. Lorell Hoskins Catherine M. Blickensderfer ...........Ruth F. Long ........Alice M. Morton ........Wilbur P. Stanley ..........Hazel E. Miller FACULTY MEMBERS GHIEF-OF-STAFF.......................Miss Elfrieda Merz CENSOR...............................Miss Louise E. Kahler Entered into the Post office as Second Class Mail. ATHLETICS.... EXCHANGES.... SOCIETY...... JOKES........ LITERARY..... ART.......... ART ASSISTANT THE LIBRARY. Prom a biological standpoint we are taught that only “the fittest” can and do survive. Further investigation lias shown that only those organs and characters have survived which have been beneficial to the development of the human race. A similar assertion might be made with reference to those customs and institutions which have aided the human race in its progress toward the highest civilization. Probably one of the oldest and likewise one of the fittest of these institutions is the public library. Surely, no other has made a larger contribution than the library. Books are both friends and tools. Records prove that libraries have existed since a very early date. Ruins of one ancient Babylonian library of 2700 B. C. show thirty thousand tablets all neatly arranged. As we trace its growth through the centuries, we find even greater care in the selection of books and in their classification. Ancient kings prided themselves on keeping their collections open to the public. Scribes were constantly engaged in copying and arranging ancient texts. Page Twenty-two