Coplay High School - Coplayite Yearbook (Coplay, PA)

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Jox Unselfish Plea. The sweet young thing was saying her prayers. “Dear Lord,” she said, “I want nothing for myself, but give Mother a son-in-law. Brother's lost a button on his $14 shirt, Mother’s sewing fasteners on her $40 skirt, Sister's nice and comfy in her $90 fur, And Pa works like sixty for his $30 per. Woman to clerk in Drug Store.— Give me a quarter's worth of salted peanuts. Clerk, understanding saltpetre You'll need an explosive license, ma’am. She exploded at once! ! ! A Bright Congregation.—A minister addressing his flock, began— While I gaze about me, 1 see a great many bright and shiny faces. Just then about 100 powder puffs were brought into action. Two Irishmen, one accompanied by his wife, met each other on the street. Said Pat to Mike— Let me present my wife to you. Mike— No thanks, I have one of my own. Vice Versa. Have you any alarm clocks, inquired a customer, What I want is one that will awaken the girl without arousing the whole aaily. I ha 'e heard of no clock as that, answered the clerk, but I have some that will arouse the whole family without disturbing the girl. 'Tis now settled—Mrs.Cawshus (handing her hubby a saucer full of white powder)— Ed, taste this and tell me what it is. Mr. Cawshus.— It tastes like soda. Mrs. Cawshus.— That's what I told the cook. She declares it's rat poison. Taste it again to make sure. Another on the Professor Then there is the sad case of the absent minded professor who dictated to his dog; then tried to give his stenographer a bath. —Judge

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Jox 3? Pa.— “Johnnie what are you going to be when you grow up?” Johnnie.—“A fireman. Pa.— And why do you want to be a fireman? Johnnie—(Who was not too good a boy) Well you see I want to come prepared if I have to go to a warm place. Teacher— John, use exalted in a sentence. John— Are the eggs salted? (exalted) Prof in Math.— We ll stay at these same problems if it takes all year to learn them. G. Z. “30— Come on gang let’s be dumb. She— What are you stopping for? He— I’ve lost my bearings. She— That's refreshing, anyway. Most of them say they’re run out of gas. A Cow Slip— Where are you going, my pretty maid?’ I m going a milking sir, she said, In that dress, my pretty maid? No, you dumbell, in this bucket! A lovely girl was Mary Jane, She got all wet out in the rain, Her dress so thin Clung to her skin, There is no loss without a gain. C. J. '28 Ma was wrong.—Jimmy— Mother, didn't you say it would make baby sick if I gave him all his medicine at once? Mother. I certainly did. Jimmy But, mother dear, it hasn’t.

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711 Linden Street AUpntft Rmna Jacob S. S. Ringer Oldsmobile MILK AND CREAM Asks no Favors—Fears no Road Tubercular Tested Pasteurized Cheese and Butter QUEEN CITY MOTOR CORP COFLAY, PENNA. 710 N. 7th St. Allentown, Pa. Coplay Cement Manufacturing Company Manufacturers Of Saylor’s Portland Cement Established 1866 FIRST PORTLAND CEMENT IN AMERICA