Franklin High School - Voice Yearbook (Franklin, ME)

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14 THE VOICE ever, this year we hope to do better, and Hardison hopes to make a throw of 44 feet. We also had a girls' track team. In the Achievement tests, Kenneth Weatherbee, who is now attending Ogle- thorpe University in Georgia, won first place in American Government. Gerald Wilbur, of Eastbrook, won fourth place in THE FRANKLIN HIGH THE Franklin High School Glee Club was organized October 26, 1937, the first meet- ing being held with Miss Gillings at the home of Edith Bradbury. There it was voted that the club meet once a, week and the following officers were elected: Presi- dent, E. Hardisong vice-president, D. Col- lar, secretary and treasurer, M. Jordang master of ceremonies, Celand Hopkins. At the second meeting the club decided on the name, The Franklin Harmony Songsters . Before the next meeting Miss Gillings, with the help of three other members, drew up a constitution, one of the rules of the constitution being that those not at- tending the first meeting who wished to join the club must be voted into the club and undergo an initiation. By means of a penny collection at each geometry. Donald Piper won third place in general science. This year we hope to do better in ea.ch division, with the help of our principal, Mr. Jones, and of the assistant, Miss Gill- ings, and with the co-operation of the students. -Verncn Dalzell, '39. SCHOOL GLEE CLUB meeting, the club obtained money to buy music. The organization has received many in- vitations to sing at school functions, con- tests, churches, and organizations, and were pleasantly entertained at the home of Mrs. Minnie Wilbur of Eastbrook. The club wishes to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. James Bunker for her faithfulness and helpfulness as club pianist. The members of the club are as follows: Edward Hardison, Celand Hopkins, Charles Bradbury, Paul Bradbury, Donald Collar- Gerald Wilbur, Stetson White, Erland Coombs, Bradley Bunker, Harold Bunker, James Bunker, Harriet Edmunds, Barbara Edmunds, Martha Jordan, Erma Joy, Betty Donnell, Margaret Eldridge, Evelyn Googins. -Martha Jordan. THE HARE'S ADVENTURE Cwith apologies to Scottl The hare at dawn had ta'en his rest And faced the daylight at his best. With utmost bravery he did start, With quick farewell did he depart. The hunter with his shootin' 'arn Commenced his hunt from Bradbury's barn. The hare loped to a. grassy spot, Knowing not of the hunter's plot. He had not nearly reached his fill When thunder broke the morning still. A swish of lead like wind tl1a.t pushes Went o'er his head into the bushes. Quick from the clover he did dart With speed of light right from the start. His skin the hunter did not get: For aught I know he's running yet. -Bradley Bunker, '39.

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THE Vorca 1-f THE SENIOR PLAY AFTER weeks of rehearsal the Senior play, The Folks Next Door, was pre- sented at Sprague's Hall, December 16. On February 5, it was repeated at Eastbrook. A social followed both performances. The cast was as follows: Willard Stiver-Editor of the Independent, Celand Hopkins Dr. Samuel Hcvbsln-next door neighbor, Donald' Piper Sarah Stiver-Stiver's wife ..... Martha Hardison Roy Stiver-Stiver's son ........ Weyman Billings Ellen Hobson-I-Iobson's wife ........ Hazel Wilbur Zelda Hobson-I-Iobson's daughter ...... Erma Joy Cleva Stiver-Stlver's daughter ...... Bette Hewitt Donald Hobson-Hc-bson's son .... Harold Bunker Elwood Granger-young man from Indianapolis, Edward Hardison Lola Ellington-a local belle ....... Bette Donnell Almira Gudgeon-president of ladies' aid, Evelyn Googins Byron Longly-principal of grammar school, Gerald Wilbur The outstanding and most humorous scene of the play was the iight between Erma Joy iZelda Hobsonl and Weyman Billings tRoy Stiverl, who staged a tooth- and-nail fight to start a feud between their families in order that their fathers might not have to portray brotherly love in the ladies' aid tableafux, dressed in pink tights. Some of the memorable speeches were: Hazel Wilbur, in a whining voice to her son, Harold Bunker, who has just been married to Bette Hewitt and is going to Chicago: I'll never have a minutes peace while you're in Chic--a-g-y! Donald Piper, in his sarcastic way to his wife fHazel Wilburl: Go on home 'n git supper. Piper and Hopkins in their furious rage. Piper saying to Hopkins that he will set his dog on him, to which Hazel QPiper's wife! draggingly replies: But, Sam, we haven't a d-o-r-g. Both plays were a financial success. -Harriet Edmunds, '39, BESTOCCA y , RESTOCCA stands for the following: B for baseball, E for expression, S for spelling, T for track, O for orchestra, one C for commercial, the other C for chorus, and A for achievement. Bestocca takes place in the spring at places which are chosen by the School- masters' Club of Hancock county. For the last two yea.rs it has been held at Castine. Last year, at baseball, we took .second place. Mt. Desert beat us by the score of 13-3. ' In Expression we had two contestants, Bette Hewitt and Harold Bunker. Bette gave A Voice From A Far Away Country, and Harold, Bill Magee's Weapon. In Track, we did fairly well, consider- ing it was the first year that we have ever had a track team. In track the events are: A 440-yard relay race, broa.d jumping and the shot put. Our line-up for the relay was Vernon Dalzell, Junior Hardison, Herbert Jordan and Perley Harriman. The broad jump line-up was the same, except tha.t Earland Coombs jumped instead of Herbert Jordan. Hardison cast the shot 38-feet, but because one boy did not ap- pear for the shot put, we failed. How-

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THE VOICE 15 LITERARY MURDER DEFERRED THE house stood dark and desolate against the background of a starlit sum- mer sky. Mr. Morrison, who lived there with his servants, was evidently away on some professional trip or at one of the numerous lodges to which he belonged. He was a doctor, who had no conscience a.bout letting a person die because he lacked money. It was rumored that his young wife had died of poisoning, but as she had been coniined to charitable work, her death was attributed to hard work. At this particular time, a man could be seen raising a window and entering the house. He crossed to a safe in the wall, but his flashlight gleamedi on something, and on closer observation he found it to be a partially iilled whiskey bottle, from which he took a few quick swallows. Sud- denly he heard the sound of a key in the lock, and he hid himself in a small closet from which he saw Dr. Morrison enter the room. The doctor seated himself by his desk and drank the remaining contents from the bottle. Then, taking a maga- zine, he began to read. He sat thus for half an hour, but the intruder noticed that he had assumed a queer position. The doct:ir's teeth were clenched, his arms seemed to be immovable, and he stared straight at the wall. A noise behind him, like something hard scraping on glass, failed to attract his attention, even though it made shrill squeaks and drove daggers of fear into the very heart of .the in- truder. ' The sound of breaking glass could now be heard, and a man crawled through a broken window into the room and 'took a position directly in front of the doctor. The latest visitor walked with a sort of -catlike grace, and his voice, when he finally spoke, was like the hissing of a confined rattlesnake. He turned to the doctor, who had become sickly pale, but had never moved from his rigid position, and began talking to him. So it is the mighty doctor, himself, whom I have here, he said. You who let my brother die because he could not pay your fee g you who poisoned your wife because she would not tolerate your evll deedsg you have been at liberty only be- cause you had money and power 'enough to live outside the clutch of the law. Now you are in my power because of a drug which was in that bottle and which you so obligingly drained. This drug has paralyzed you, but as it was a weak solu- tion, its effect will have worn away in about two hours. I have some here in this little tube which will last for a thousand years. It is even stronger than that which holds you now, for it will stop your heart from beating, but still your mind shall live. Tomorrow, when you are found, people will think that you are deadg they will plan your funeral - and you will be pow- erless to prevent them. You will go alive to your own funeral and will hear them bury you. For a. thousand years you will live in your grave and hear the world above you, and at the end of that time, your heart will begin to beat and your lungs will crave for air. But in your cell there will be no air and you will die from strangulation , He was preparing to inject the drug into