Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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LA UR SENIOR WILL K •» K We, the Senior Class of 1917, of the Coquille High School, City of Co-quille, County of Coos, State of Oregon, being sound of mind and memory and not acting under menace, fraud, duress or undue influence, make, publish and declare this, our last will and testament, to-wit: First—We hereby nominate and appoint Marvel Skeels and Barbara Treichler, of said Coquille High School, the executrices of this, our last will and testament. Second—We direct our executrices hereinbefore named, as soon as they have the legacies hereinafter named, to deliver the same with proper haste. Third—To the Preps we bequeath our extreme demureness and quietness while in the sacred halls of the Coquille High School. Fourth—To the assuming, green Frosh we leave our own extreme modesty of our own good merits. Fifth—To the sophisticated Sophomores we bequeath our ability to win first honors in all events open to us. Sixth—To the Juniors we hand down our privilege of talking during study periods. Seventh—I, “Patty” Downs, do bequeath to Janitor Peart the privilege of dusting the Declamatory cup and to keep it by force, if necessary, from the contaminating touch of all underclassmen. Eighth—I, “Shrock” Schroeder, do bequeath to Bill Oerding my ability to eat candy in school without getting caught. Ninth—I, “Katherine” Strang, do solemnly bequeath to Gladys Nosier my ability to refrain from the use of powder. Tenth—I, “Philip” Hooton, will to Almond Martin the honor of taking the hero part in H. S. play. Eleventh—I, “Mr. Bob” Curry, will to my loving sister Alice my poetical inclination. Twelfth—I, Alex. Lowe, hand down to Fred Lorenz my ability to keep quiet when someone else is talking. Thirteenth—I, Clara Heller, do bequeath my extreme forwardness to Sylvia Neely. Fourteenth—I, Myrtle Cunningham, leave to Rosa Fredenburg my matrimonial desires. Fifteenth—I, Paul Kirshman, bequeath to John Stanley my talent as a German student.

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“Mr. Bob,” a comedy, was given as the class play. There was a large audience and their enthusiasm proved it a success. With our usual readiness, we came forth and again gave Coquille her representatives in the Declamatory and Oratorical Contests. In the Declamatory Contest our speaker won the Coos County Cup, the first time this school has been in possession of it. We shall have representatives in the medal contests and look forward with the expectation of seeing a member of our class receiving the High School medal. Leanna Curry s Arthur Hooton, you horrid thing, I’m really sure and certain You’ll never even have one wing And from the heat you’ll be hurtin’. S MARY’S GOAT. R R R Mary had a William goat, And he was black as jet. And everywhere that Mary went That goat went too, you bet. He followed her to school one day, Which was against the rule. It made the children laugh and shout To see a goat at school. And so old Whackem turned him out, But still he lingered near, And waited just outside the door Till Whackem should appear. Then he ran to meet him; He ran his level best. He met him just behind, you know, Just down below the vest.

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LAUR es|£ Sixteenth—I, Edna Robison, bequeath to Katie Price my knowledge of flirting and men Seventeenth—I, Marion Schroeder, do will my love of dancing to Mildred Neely. Eighteenth—I, Will Philpott, bequeath my extreme modesty to Charles Willey. Nineteenth—I, Welman Ball, bequeath to Alice Curry my power to grow shorter. Twentieth—I Euel Philpott, will to Bessie Johnson my exhuberant spirits. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the seal of the Senior Class in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventeen. “Katherine Rogers” “Patty Capulet” SOMETHING NEW r m If the children come home exhausted from their examinations, it is no wonder. Fancy the mental strain they have undergone to evolve such answers as these, which were selected from those given by New York State pupils in a regents’ examination: The chamois is valuable for its feathers; the whale for its kerosene oil. Climate is caused by the emotions of the sun around the earth. The purpose of the skeleton: something to hitch meat to. A blizzard is the inside of a hen. George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the father of his country. The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana. The qualifications of a voter at a school meeting are that he must be the father of a child for eight weeks. Gender shows whether a man is feminine, masculine or neuter. Four animals belonging to the cat family are the father cat, the mother cat, and the two little kittens. “The government of England is a limited mockery,” wrote one school child after patient thought.