Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES XX I 5 Ill-11 ?u.r ff -' lx ' f ,L ,Q llllllllllngla faq L I TERA AUNT MARIA TALKS LoU1s Kocx-x 17 HEM adverhsements you see In the newspapers suttxnly d read nnce an hxfalutm an I reckonalot o people 13 G1 , ,A After Aunt Marla Hncks had del1vered herself of th1s I3 l C7 w1sdom she stopped expectantly and as Iknew she ' ' 4 X was eager to tell of some 1nc1dent I pohtely lnqunred what she meant Well she began Las winter S1 he come to me wnth a pxece cut out 0 a paper an sez e Thxs suttenly reads good tew me look at It Marlar It wuz an advertisement wxth the p1cture of a feller w1th long halr an furren lookm whxskers who called h1mself Perfessor Vanntelh or some s1ch sort o dago name In the prxntm he sez he wud teach anybody to play the cornet In three months for only twenty five dollars an rf the person failed after follerm dzreckshuns he wud g1ve two hunerd dollars fur forfelt That there sez S1 Is my 1dear uv a good bargam an I m a gonna take 1t After I gmt so s I km play Tur key zn the Siraw I km make good money at the Hawkms Corners dances Sez I tew hlm sez I Yew mus be gettm crazy why twenty years ago yew wore the skxn off n your hps try1n to play Annze Rooney but never cud g1t further than tum ta tum Then S1 begms spoutm poetry frum the dxckshunary I gmve hun las Chrxs mus QI d sent all the socks I hed on hand tew the heathensl the way he allus does when he wants to show how xgnerant women IS 4 xi ip, .tix x' xl 'dxf I - ,.,t x 4 ' . ,Ur ' 5 : Z I - ra 1 I ' I' , f Q I 'I I A uf, Q5 .1 m ' X I 'um ' ' I f .- ,e Y -4 - Ng 'sf .-.... 4 A 1 A K fin- cl Q'IL, Q 1 ' ' - 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 mi 1 . , - . ,, '-Q took mn by em every year, anyhow S1 was,once. QM. 1:32 ,T . . , . f.J. l 7 fs - M I n 1, n , ' . . . . I I V 1 0 1 1 I - , I 7 . , . I, . v . . . . , . , . . I .y . , l . . , , . . . , . I I , 1 A , . I . ' I I . , , . . , . ll - H ' ' , I All - I 1 ' 1 , ' . , . . , , N , ll ' 7 , . .. . . . , . . . I ' 1 I

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FALL MARGUFRITF DAVIS 16 HESE are the days of nusty purple h1lls On sturdy stalks of purple asters dear Of splendrd goldenrod to deck Earth s bxer Of meadows yellowmg to the rlpplmg r1lls Our old gnarled apple trees yleld up themr store To cxder mllls that dup so luscxous sweet In vmeyards gatherers wxth eager feet Brmg m the grapes upon the store house floor Kmd Nature gzves us Fall as her best pr1ze Her last and as the downy swan doth float Along mn sxlence as a tmy boat Untll hfe s end comes so 1n song she d1es se as e me I l I- ll Sm as

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES Sez he kinda puffed up like MUSIC hez charms tew soothe a sevage tew rend a rock or Spllf a kebbage an after I g1t so I k1n play youll dm1t that you re wrong bes1des even 1f I cant learn tew play I k1n earn tew hunerd dollars easy Of course after that nuth1n cud stop S1 He sent the money and bought a second hend cornet In the nex mail he got h1s fust struct1on books an a wr1tten greement Wh1Ch sez somethin about tew hunerd dollars up above an down below sez If after pract1c1n five hours a day fur three months an fa111n tew play The Star Spangled Banner the pupil w1ll TCCCIVC the han some forfe1t I d1dnt understand it nuther d1d S1 but we s posed that lt wuz all right S1 pract1ced hard the fust weeks He even shaved off h1s beard so s he cud pract1ce mov1n his l1ps at the lookin glass the way lt sed 1n the books After a while he got so he cud blow long mournful sounds l1ke the beller uv a sufferin cow an short loud grunts thet sounded l1ke a hippypotamus down a well Jest the same though he wuz glttln more discouraged all the Ilflle an after Jake Mosser down the road axed h1m how the s1ck calf he heard down here every CVCHID wuz gettin along he says MHTIHT I dont like a Cornet an I believe the two hunerd or bust I mus say thet fur downright st1ck to xtiveness S1 hez got every thin in the kentry beat He d commence at seven oclock after a hard days work an toot away on thet horn t1ll twelve oclock The rest uv us hed to keep cotton 1n our ears all the time an even then the h1red man qu1t cause he coundl t g1t enough sleep When the three months were over at last S1 looked as pale as a shadder from the late hours an overwork but on the last day he perked up consxd able He bought a new su1t an we went to the Clty tew colleck thet two hunerd The perfessors office wuz in a d1rty look1n old bu1ld1n After cl1mb1n two fhghts o sta1rs we cum tew the room wh1ch contained two cheers an a table piled full o musxc structxon books an greements all ready tew send out A l1ttle bald headed smooth shaved feller w1th a cast 1D one eye wuz s1tt1n at the table an sez S1 tew h1m sez he Is the perfessor in? Why sez the man I m h1m Hm m sponds S1 Well I cum fur my two hunerd dollars Here s the greement here s Mariar who k1n swear thet I tooted thet doggone horn fur five hours every day an I k1n soon show yew that I can t no more play Star Spangled Banner then fly cum on shell out 5 1 1 I n 1 1 1 . , . . , , . 1 I , I . . , . 1 1 I 7 ., . , . ' 1 , . . , . 1 ' 1 ' - 1 , 1 . . , 1 , . . , 14 ,, . . . , . , . , . ' 1 . . , . . , . li v 1 . , . . . . . , . I . 1 . ' - ' 1 1 I . ' ' Y Y . . , . . l , 1 1 . . . , . 1 . , . , . Y 1 1 strain uv playin' one wud bring on my rheumatiz, but I'm gonna git thet 1 .1 , . . . . . . , . , . ' 1 1 1 ' 1 , . . . , . 1 . , X , , 7 ' 1 l ' 1 , . . , . 11, , . . . , . . , . . , . , . . . l 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 I . - ' h . . . . , , . . 1 1 I 1 ' 1 u 5 1 4 1 ' 1 I 1 ' L1 1 , 1 - I ' 1 ' 1 - 1 I I ' ' I , . I 1 ' I , 1 1 1 '