Erie Community High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Erie, IL)

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THE CARDINAL As He Understood It Audrey B.:- Did you pass in Algebra? Robert F. :- Best in the class. Audrey:-- How do you know? Robert:- Miss Bach told me I didn't need to come back any more. Arden R.:- The dentist tells me I have a large cavity that needs filling. Vivian L.:- Did he recommend any special course of study? What time is it, Ardath? boomed her father from the top of the stairs. Everett's watch isn't going. What about Everett? Ruby T.:- 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' wasn't at all like the book. Robert P.:- That's nothing. 'Humoresque' wasn't a bit like the music. Lyle Y. to Robert F. :- Lace your shoe, your tongue's out. Mr. Robertson, while fixing the roof of his house, fell off and lit on his back porch. Lucille K.:- Get off my feet. Harold P.:- Aren't feet made to walk on? Lucille K.:- Yes, but I want to reserve that right for myself. Mr. Robertson:- How did you come to fall in the lake? Marcia:- I didn't come to fall ing I came to skate. Dr. LaRue:- Take a dose at 9 o'clock and if you are not better at 10, take another dose. Take just what will lie on a dime. Howard B.-tNext dayjz- Well I took the medicine as you said, except that I didn't have a dime, so I used two nickels. Audrey B.:- Where do you live? Thelma A.:- On the river. Whenever you go by, drop in. Bill J .:- Do you like girls with blue eyes? Howard R.:- No, I like them with green-backs. Miss Lewis:- Name the seasons, John. John Grau:-QWho had been gazing out of the windowj.- Salt and Pepper. Russell S.:-'Tm like a book-I always get turned down on the corners. Sign in Bares' window: Kiss the girl you love, and thirty others. Mr. Di Vall:- Can any person in this class tell me what steel wool is? Harold P.:- Sure Steel wool is shearings from hydraulic rams. Stuart B.:- Do you like potato balls? Lilah T4- How should I know, I never went to one. 91

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THE CARDINAL Chester B.:- What's your dog's name? William H. :-- Ginger, Chester:- Does he bite? William:- No, he snaps. Father:- Grace, that young man of yours should be in a museum for living curiositiesf' Grace M .:- Why father! What do you mean? Father.'- Well I noticed when I passed through the hall late last night, that he had two heads upon his shoulders. The Coach Knows Di Vall:- Foul!,' Bill J ames:- Where are the feathers? DiVall:- This is a picked team. Hard On Mary H. Teacher:-We will now name some of the lower species of animals starting with Mary Hudson. He Knows Now Professor:- Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. Hugh P.:- I wondered why I flunked in that history exam. Ruth Stoudt:- Don't blow your soup that way, Paul! What do you suppose mother bought those little electric fans for? Cop:- Say! You were speeding. What's yer story, hey? Howard Barkman:- Well, officer, would you mind looking at the girl that said 'Step on it'? ' Suspicious Nettie Dobers, at the ticket office in a distant railway station, asked when the next train left for Erie. The answer she received was, Twenty minutes to eleven. She looked doubtfully at the man, and went to one of the seats. In a few minutes there was an exchange of clerks. She promptly went to the window and repeated her question. This time she was told the train left at 10:40. ' There, she said in triumph, I was sure that other man didn't know. Twenty Years From Now 1. Harland Bleitz A. B., A. M., B. A., M. A., B. S., Ph. D., etc., invents a perpetual motion machine which he absolutely guarantees to run until it stops. 2. It is reported that Pauline Lawrence hurt her back recently when she attempted to lift a pan of her own biscuits from the oven. Gwermie Kellogg, in Physics Class: Say, Mr. DiVall, what keeps us from falling off the earth when we are upside down? Mr. DiVall:-Why, the law of gravity, of course. Gfwennie:- Well, how did folks stay on before the law was passed? 90

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