Dazey High School - Log Yearbook (Dazey, ND)

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--.AAAAA By the time that 1919 rolled around Gov. Frazier was ready to announce that B01Sl1evikiSm was a definite peril to the nationg Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were seen on the sileent screeng people were singing I'm Always Chas- ing Rainbows , and Japanese Sandman vertising their wares in the new waxed ti trial which caused so much stir over a candidate for governorg it told us in and the bakeries in Valley City were ad- wrapping. 1920 gave us the Saeeo-Venzet- the landg it gave us William Langer as big bold black letters that the County Commissioners were not to blame for the high taxes and it gave Dazey High School its first Barnes County Championship basketball team. At the time of this fs,-.-.-.-.NAA.A.-.-.-.-.-vvvxfe-.-.-vvx.-.-.+.-vvvxAAfvvsf tournament, the baskegbtall team did not have 'the following that the teams do to- day. The team journeyed to Valley City under the tutelage of Ncrdahl Peterson who coached the boys and fed them. Just who they Dlayfd is nC't Certain, except f0l' the fact 'that they played and defeated the highly favored Wim-b.edon sflllild 17 to Sl. 4The people of Dazey knew nothing about the results of the tourney until the next day when the boys returned on the train and then they refused t0 be- lieve the story of the victory until' the paper reported the results. At this point it might be worthwhile to report the New York Times Fashion Edit-or reported in 1920 that the American woman has lifted her skirts beyond modest limitation. -.,,.-,- .Afvsf-. - .... .-.-v-V .f.fy-.-.evvvv-.-.-.-.-.-. -.-.f.-.-.xNvvA-.Q-v-.v -,vs.-.-.-.-.-fvxAfvs,-v-v-.f.-

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1-,ex-Vx -,-,.,-.,-vv- J, - AAAA,-cA,xA,,,a.A.A,x which occured on October 12th. Perusal of the paper files revealed some 1I1f0l'- ll.8.liOl'l which might better be completely forgotten. On that day the school child- xen over the nation were paying tribute to the Father of our Democracy , FGD- ruary 22, 1909, the following item appeared in .the Valley City Times Record. For hours yesterday afternoon and last night the .streets of South Omaha were in the hands of a mob of 5.000 citizens engaged in beating and shooting Greek laborers in retaliation of a policeman by a Greek, and also fthe following item, In Ottumwa. Iowa, negroes are fleeing the city as a result of a race war. In the years that followed, America knew of its first lfansccnllllental flight, the Great Northern Railway came through this PHP! of the State., the Thurston Hotel burned on about December 15, 1911, the Titanic was wrecked on an ice- berg -and the average year that we alW9-YS heal' about. 1913, Came and DHSSS-ld to introduce the year of 1914 which turned out to be the Year of the great rust, great sleet storm, and a great war's beginning. While 19.15 was busy producing the biggest crop 'that this country has ever seen , Vienna, Austria was about to produce Hedy Lamar. In 1916, the ye-ar of the big rust, Thomas Mooney first came to trial for the Preparedness Day bombing, Leo Radcliff built the building which was to house the progressive Dazey Commercial and later 'to become Mosher's Grocery Store. Black Stem Rust took the wheat crop that year and the variety of wheat consisted mostly of the old Velvet.Shaft wheat. Along with 1917 came America's participation in the great war together with the bar1ey.bread.years , Red Cross Sewing and knitting activity sprung up all over the country. Governor L. J. Frazier signed the sufferage bill and Superin- tendant Penrose of Dazey took a basketball team- to Valley City to C01T1'D9te in the County. Tourney. The boys defeated Svea in the first round and lost to Ux- bridge in the .second game. 1 1918 was a year of mixed sorrow and blessings for Dazey as well as the rest of the nation. The tragic' news of the year was the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic. There were days when one scarcely knew who might next be fatally striken' with the illness. Dazey suffered its share and the memory of this period cannot but bring to mind the heroic efforts exercised by Dr. Kellog in the Rogers-Dazey area, I am told that the good Doctor worked days during the terrible months of October and November without rest. In the midst of this epidem- ic, progress took one more tremendous stride and the new lights :were turned on in Dazey November 3, 1918. The feeling of despondency was further Based, when on the morning of November 11, President Wilson penciled this message to the people of America. My Fellow Countrym-en: The armistice was signed this morning. Everything for which America fought has been accomplished. It will now 'be our fortunate duty to assist by example, by sober, friendly councel, and by material aid in the establishment of just democracy throughout the world. In addition we might add., 1918 produced the best crop that this country has ever seen. -,,---.,-.A.--- - - - - - .fvvvv-v-.A.f-.-.-.-.-.-.-,-vvve-.-.-.-.-.-N,-.-v-.-. .-v-.-.Ivy-.-.-,-ve-.-.-ef-.-.-sAfv-.-.QJVV .rv-.-.-.-.-.-..-.-,-.x-.-.-.- fvvvvvsfvs.

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Amv vNmwv f- . . ,vefeA,-vxAA,-.AA,v-s vmwA AAAA This meant that the skirts were flying of the scandalous height of nine inches above the ground. Ground, that is. The last item. in -the -above paragraph is indicative of what was going to hap- pen during the newly innauguated period of the Roaring Twentiesf' Yes indeed, it would be interesting to know what -the above mentioned writer would have had to say if he had known just how high those -skirts were destined to go dur- ing the next ten years. Although the bearing on DHS is difficult to imagine, a comment or two about this decade, which historians have come to call -the decade of bad manners , might be interesting. The lady of 1920 probably used some powder, but the beauty and cosmetic business had not yet 'come into its own- Rouge, lipstick were still some-thing of an unsavory character, By the end of the decade 'there were to be 2500 brands of perfume on the market and over 1500 br-ands of face cream. One historian states that if all the lipstck sold in the year 1927 were laid end to end, they would reach from New York to Reno, Nevada. That, to many of that era, seemed like a likely destination. In that era Lister- ine became known as being more -than a plain disinfectant. Do you remember the ad, Spring - tWi'Ch a Sigh? for 9VGI'Y0ne but her . In this same decade the total production of cigarettes in the United States more than doubled, In 1921 Dazey high school captured its second Barnes County Basketball championship. .Unquestionably the style of basketball has changed a great deal and the style of ball played in 1921 may be illdged by the heft Of Such men as Leo Sfowman, Ben Nelson and the Olson UOYS llllder 0021011 Ad-01DY1S0I1.' .M '- The years 'that f01l0w.ed were good years, the enrollment in the school was high and activities were on the uptake. It was still a difficult job to operate an athlelic teani, other than baseball, on a Paying baSiS- The C1'0WdS had H01 Yet made up their mind to support the game of basketball. In other ficlds, progress A,-vw-xA,-eA,.. vtA,veAAAAA,vvxAAAfv