Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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“Hallmark”—means Quality H. B. KURTZ Greeney’s story and looks that cat was the worst thing to hold that ever entered catdom. 8VF. Wireless Fiend. IF IT ALWAYS DID COME TRUE. “Well, I never did think girls were fit to drive cars. They are so easily excited and when it comes to driving a racer it takes a man with good strong muscles.” This was the speech or rather opinion of Dick Southerly, -Jr., (spoken for the sake of Kitty Sullivan who was within hearing distance). He was very much interested in racers since he and his father had designed a racer. The racer which they had designed was now finished and they thought they would he able to win the important race of the year. Kitty’s father and Dick’s father were very bitter enemies. Kitty and her father had also designed a racer though it was kept under cover. Mr. Southerly was so triumphant about his accomplishment that he couldn’t keep quiet about it and consequently Kitty found out the new devices of the Southerly racer without much trouble. The Southerly racer was plain turkey red and black but Kitty being just like all girls desiring everything of her own different from what the other girls had, persuaded her father to have their racer a beautiful delf blue, trimmed in gold. The little racer was secreted in the garage in back of the Sullivan home. Besides being locked carefully in the garage it was safely guarded by Pat, the bull terrier, (whom Kitty had persisted in keping although chow-chow s and Pekingese were more fashionable). Pat was a very vicious looking animal and though some people say dogs have no brains, Pat certainly did. lie fully understood the racer was neither to he seen nor touched by any one except the Sullivan’s themselves. The day of the race was drawing near when Mr. Sullivan was suddenly taken ill. Kitty declared the will of the gods was against them. Mr. Sullivan told Kitty to withdraw their racer as he would not he able to drive it and could not trust any one else to. Kitty having a will of her own did not withdraw tlie car but got her cousin Tom to go with her the day of the race and to promise to not tell her father. The day of the race arrived. Dick drove the Southerly car and Kitty the Sullivan one. When Dick reached the goal he thought he had won since there was not another car around anywhere, lie was almost dancing for joy when the manager of the racer informed him he was second in. He thought the joy ol his life was all gone but when he was informed that Kitty Sullivan with her cousin Tom and BRADLEY SWEATERS AND JERSEYSrPU(, G. M. Whitnev C (). for the red-blooded young man. —11—

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H. B. KURTZ Diamonds - Watches - Jewelry MORE WIRELESS DOPE. It happened just after the hour of ten as Arlington was going through her nightly role of weather reports and ship warnings. The weather was slightly damp and the temperature was about twenty degrees. A few liners upon the Atlantic were faintly heard taking directions as though they were lost or entering some foreign port with their cargoes. Things were dying down as though the day’s work of the world was completed and the people were settling down for one night’s rest. The shipping board orchestra had just got through for the night when suddenly through the still there came the signals of a low tone station calling 8ZL (Mrs. Candler of St. Mary’s, 0.) and it signed up 8ACA (Edward Green of Ashtabula, 0.). That sounded suspicious as he had not been heard fifty miles and 8ZL os two hundred. Furthermore, 8ACA has never been known to call up a girl on the telephone, let alone calling up a married woman by wireless, but it was now eleven P. M. and all sane people are supposed to be in bed. Robert Munsell and Gordon Burwell were both on the job and full of life as ever. Once more 8ACA called 8ZL but not one of us three would hear 8ZL answer, but our equipment was just as powerful as 8ACA who pretended that he could hear 8ZL. 8ACA went on talking with 8ZL but as we could not hear her we termed it as pulling the wool over our eyes and laughed at 8ACA but did not sign up so he did not know who it was. Evidently 8ACA was not asleep because he asked who are the boneheads that have just learned to laugh. I asked 8ACA if he knew it was illegal to court a married woman and while 8ACA was answering 8IIS (Munsell) gave me the sign of more fun brewing and when 8ACA stopped it surely started. 8IIS changed his tone and power to a perfect imitation of 8ZL and called 8ACA. Greeney thought that he really had got 8ZL on the line and asked if his signals were loud. 8IIS answered that he had amplifiers so that he could hear a ham sneeze on the Pacific coast. 8ACA thought that was pretty loud so he threw a switch which controlled his radio phone and grabbed the cat just as it crawled from under the table. He held the eat up to the phone and squeezed its tail until the ether was crammed with cat yowls. That stumped 8HS as he was unfamiliar with cats, to say nothing of a cat-fight by wireless. 8HS was stumped as he was unaware of 8ACA having a phone but Burwell had to start another joke so he put on a bird piece and set the victrola up to the radio phone. That started 8ACA’s eat in great shape for it let out some mournful yowls one hears under the back porch about two P. M. when two tomcats disagree. From The Sweetness of Low Price Never rr,Vm P. At 7Uj Equals the Bitterness of Low Quality. A '' —10— tnev Co

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“Hallmark”—means Quality. H. B. KURTZ Pat, tho dog, (seeing he refused to stay at home), had beaten him lie wished he could die. Dick hy this time was in a terrible mood (as most men are when they have let a girl or woman get ahead of them) when Kitty and her racer appeared on the scene. Kitty had been so excited because, she had won she had fainted. Kitty said, ‘‘I’m awfully sorry I have caused you so much trouble and hurt your feelings so but I’m glad I won because T think 1 have convinced you that girls can drive cars equally as well as men. 1 ’m willing to be friends if you apologize for saying they can’t. Dick apologized, though it hurt his pride a great deal to do so. The next year the Sullivan-Southerly racer won and Kitty and Dick wished it would for many years to come. As usual Kitty and Dick lived happily ever after. Pat became very lazy living on sweets and sleeping on silk pillows since lie had lost his position as Kitty’s guard. Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Southerly were at this time the best of friends. Each declared it was their own fault they had ever been enemies and say there’s no fool like an old fool. • Eulala Lewis. THE LAST GAME. Fred Burton sat in his dormitory room, deep in his studies for the following day. lie had nearly finished when some one rapped on the door. “Come in, he mumbled as be closed his book and turned around to greet his visitor. “ T came to see how you are feeling before the great game tomorrow, said Jim Danby, his neighbor, whose room was located across the hall. “You know it is just about up to you to win this game. The loss of Dave is going to make it very hard, but you can fill his place just as well as not.” Dave Granger was the “Euclids’ ” star fullback. He had received a broken collar-bone in a game a week before and Fred was going to take his position in the game with “Spencer,” the rival academy. This contest was expected to be the big game of the year as well as the last one. Both teams were, so far, undefeated. “Well, I hope I can take his place all right,” sighed Fred. “For if we lose this game we will never hear the last of it, for they beat us last year 14-7 and we cannot afford to lose again this year. How is Dave getting along?” “Well,” replied Jim, “his shoulder is in bad condition yet. The IF IT’S A SHIRT OR A TIE—YOU’LL r FIND THE NEW IDEAS HERE. Flic G. M. Whitney Co. — 12—