Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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Fosdick : “Upper rooms to rent he has, without furniture ijut with gas.’’ “Who is this Maggie Nolen?’’ OJ WHAT BOSTON MUSICIANS SAY ABOUT THE H ICH-GRADE McPHAIL PIANOS. Mr. LOUIS C ELSON, Musical Editor and Critic, of Boston: “Your Upright IMano has stood eveiw test excellently. My own opinion of its merits has been echoed by many jirominent pianists who have used it at my residence. Its tone is very rich, and it stands well in tune.’’ OF ALL KINDS OF IN- STRUMENTS. Mr. CARL YLE PETERSILEA, Typewriters apd Sewiqg maeiiipes FOR SALE AND TO RENT. Composer and Author of Petersilea ' s Method for the Piano-Forte : “Having long known the McPhail Pianos as among the finest in the United States, and also having tested them m3 self, I pronounce them in all res- pects equal to the best that have ever come under mv observation, either in America or Europe. In a word, the McPhail embodies all ehe possi- bilities of the Upright Piano.” Piano and Organ Tuning By C. A. Reed, who has had 25 years’ experience. All Work Guaranteed Perfect. OHN GILLESPIE, 104 Main Street Fitchburg;, Mass We have a Fisher in our elass ; but alas, how few are the fish she lands. Things you ought to know: .Apply to Mr. Bingham. Puzzle: Who does Miss Young’s picture look like?

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CHRONOLOGY. SKPTHMHKK. G. School begins. S. I ' ootball resumes. 13. Team goes under. 16. Fred Moore elected jjresideut. 22. Miss Cushing and Miss Hawley attend the Westminster cattle show at Irish’s expense. 25. Turner changes French classes. OCTOHER. 5. Clegg, ' 99, gets his hair cut. 13. Prof. Hartwell goes out walking with the botain ' classes. 14-. 1900 hold a class party. 15. Dillon is sent to the office. 21. Prof. Hartwell loses his compound eyes and finds them in a Hayesw place. 2-1. Leominster- Murdock football game. Ethel Hawle ' and Am} ' Cushing com- pose audience. 30. Miss Donnelly pulls Taft for a carriage drive. 31. Class ’98 makes a presentation to the school. NOVEMBER. 2. Hard lesson in literature. Cummings stays away as usual. T. Senior class party at Wallace hall. 5. Searle tells Moore what he thinks of him. 7. Kirby forgets to read the Sun in school. 14-. H. H. C. Bingham comes to school with his collar on wrong. 28. School does not keep on account of the weather. 30. Prof. Hartwell spends the afternoon with Miss Wile ' . 30. Senior girls hold a secret meeting; result mum. DECEMBER. 7. Searle, ’99, buys his semi-annual shave. 7. Preparation for minstrel show. 16. Senior class reception given by the teachers. 16. Kirby creates a sensation with his bowie knife. 21. Miss Brown falls down the ste])s. 28. Our football captain attends a 10, 20, and 30 cent performance at the ojjera house, and is moved to tears. JANU. RY. -f. Whitney, ’99, whispers in school. 6. Ridings, ’99, spends five cents at the lunch counter. 10. Prof. Hitchcock objects to minstrel shows. 12. Kirby gets to school on time. 12. . nd 3 ' shows his authority to the boys of 26. 23. Hartwell and Miss Sleeper have the grip. FEBRU.ARY. 3. Du lister proposes to form a glee club. 3. Ballantine elected chairman picture com- mittee. 3. Board of Education visit school. MARCH. 10. Rena introduces herself to Hayes. 15. No notice read in assembly hall. 23. Miles reception. APRIL. 3. Morrill, ’99, goes to work. T. O’Keefe, ’99, brings his excuse lor absence in on time. 7. Senior class party. 7. O’Keefe attends a class party in Leo min- ster. 19. Perry secures his first knock-down fare. 19. Miss Purtill takes part in a pla} ' and does not get kissed. 28. Lecture on free beer and cigarettes. 29. Lunch counters robbed. MAY. 1 . Male impersonators make their debut. 3. Turner graduates. 25. Visiting day. 30. A “memorial” da} ' indeed. JUNE. 1. Class songs all in. 6. Walsh, 1900, walks to the park and tries to ride to Whalom for three cents.

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7. Junk — Cotichulcd. JewetL signs Ills middle name. What 14. 15. After-dinner session in Room 26. Miss Symonds has her eorrespondenee S. eonld Du Hois do? Hingham absent. 10. diseovered. We don’t go to eourt. 14-. lUliel MeMullcn walks home from Leom- 28. Graduati(in. inster. (11.15 u. m.) 30. Promenade. WHIMSICALITIES. Longfellow — “ Kitty ” Turner. Will someone suggest where Searle, ’99, ean get a girl without robbing the cradle? “Where I reign queen.” — Miss Ful- ler at the junior class parties. “A Growing Empire.” — College section. “How to cut ice.” — Apply to Greene Sheddon. “If she wishes to forget you, you will please let her alone.” — Aliss Healey and Hayes, ’99. “A dressingcase.” — Dunning, 1900. Hackett likes vegetables, especially dandy-Lyons. Too studious to be happy. — Lus- combe sisters. Where peace and rest can never dwell. — Miss Allard’s classes. Taft is doing his best to captivate Helen. He knows her father is Rich. Miss Darling would not object to changing her vocation from elocution to that of a Piper. An everyday occurrence. — Cum- mings’ nap in civil government. “I am not of many words.” — Miss Dole. AIa 3 orof Lunenburg.— Mr. Brown, 1900. “I am too handsome for a man; I should have been born a woman.” — Batchelder. The persons ’At- wood give the secrets of the class book away must have more Grace before the ' will be above such Lowe tricks. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” — Harris, ’99. “My punishment is more than I can bear.” — Ha 3 esgets three demerits. “Was that 3 ou sitting in the window with my sister Ida?” — Perry. Fred Moore sa 3 s he didn’t mean to carry off that fly-paper from the store, but somehow he got stuck on it. Miss Lowe said she wanted to go to a college where there were some fellows. Aliss Ma 3 — “ What is psychology?” Miss Fisher — “Something about ants and insects.” Miss Smith — “ What kind of a man was Gen. Fox?” Aliss Donnelly — “Foxy.” Card. — For fear that Woodward, 1900, would cry, we did not put much about him in this book. Class Book Committee.