Dazey High School - Log Yearbook (Dazey, ND)

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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

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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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ww was marked, Radio station WDAY first started commercial broadcasting on May 22, 1922 and here in Dazey the first radio sets began to appear- Althfillgh there is a difference of opinion as to just who had the first set in town, I'll toss the bouquet to Leonard Larson, who got his first set in 1922. Those sets were cumber- some things. As soon as there were a few Sets in town people would gather 'at various spots about town to spend an evellillg trying to get something 011 the radio. The earphones, the queer looking speakers, and the Piercing Sfll13WlS that came from the instrument from' time to time must have Dfovided an adventurous evening. In, 1923 the newspapei-5'br0ke the news of the frightful murder of little Bobby Frank and the subsequent' trial of the youthful killers, Leopold and Loeb. America rocked to the tune of YeS, we have T10 1321112111215- At this time the State Bank in Dazey closed its doors and a Y0ll11g high school girl by the name of Kate Smith was dogng a little Singing down east, She prob. ably featured such a song as It had to be You . 1924 gave us a big crop and the Tim.eswReco1'd for February 25, 1924 featured a headline which read, General Ludendorf will be tried for treason with Adolph Hitler . The issue of the -twenty l'liIl't11 reverted the t0I'1'id final game of the Barnes County basketball tournament ill which Daley defeated the Baldwin team 6-4. At half time the Baldwin team led 2-1. The girls also participated in the county tourney. All-tournament select- ions named Art Nelson 'and Laurence Olson to the boys all-county team and Ger- aldine Torguson was named 'to the all-county girls basketball team of that year.