Gas City High School - Epoch Yearbook (Gas City, IN)

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T H E 13th.-Friday, the 13th, and Oh! What a team the Tigers are to meet tonight. Those strange farm- ers from Windfall. We are not su- perstitious, though. 17th.-Mr. Marshall gave two interesting readings about Christ- mas. 18th.-Gee-what a blizzard! 20th.-Well, here is Friday again and another basket ball game with Spiceland. The band entertained the inmates of the County Farm this afternoon. No more school until Dec. 30. We wish everyone a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. January 2nd.-Everyone made New Year resolutions. I wonder if anyone made this one: I will study my lesson very hard and try to make A in all my subjects and even A in citizenship. 6th.-Everyone was happy Fri- day night until the very last min- ute. Then Fairmount woke up and gave us the small end of the score. Sth.-Wonder what the big joke was in English VI class this morn- ing? Ruth Bothwell discovered she had put her dress on wrong side out. 10th.-The Tigers will meet Frankton tonight and the Giants tomorrow night. 14th.-Rev. Powell, from Mar- ion, gave a very interesting talk this afternoon. 15th.-Final exams. Everybody is nervous. 17th.-Report cards were given out today. Such happy and such sad faces! 20th.-We greatly miss those pupils who graduated Friday. They are Walter Pratt, Pauline Stevens, Ruth Baker, Helen Morris, Willard Oliver and Dorothy Davis. Zlst.-The hour periods, which we had last semester, are changed to forty minutes, and everyone is pleased. E P O C H 1 22nd.-The business managers are out selling advertisements for our Annual. It shows what good workers they are. 23rd.-Big Joke: Gail Atkinson and Kenneth Brown fell out of their seats. Wonder what causes that? 27th.-Summitville beat us in the tourney. Ralph Atkinson was hurt in the game. 29th.-We journey to Windfall tonight to seek revenge. 30th.-We almost did. Windfall downed the Tigers 20-19. 31st.-The Highlanders are to be our guests tonight, and we are going to visit Summitville tomor- row. The Boosters' Club knows how to make pep sessions peppy. Good Work, Boosters-keep it up. February Srd.-One more victory and one more defeat added to our record. We can't tell you yet whether or not revenge is sweet. 4th.-Everybody is busy in the Senior class working on the An- nual. 5th.-The Juniors are still quar- reling about which one is going to give a play first, Seniors or Jun- iors. 10th.-Mr. Greet gave a few in- teresting sketches from Shake- speare this afternoon. 11th.-Boosters' Club had a tag day Saturday, for the purpose of buying suits for the yell leaders. From all appearances, they made a success of it. 12th.-Linc0ln's birthday. Supt. Reifel gave a very interesting talk on the life of Lincoln. 14th.-North Manchester comes to see us tonight. I hope we give them a nice reception. 20th.-The last basket ball game of the season. Had a big parade. 24th.-Boy, that was some game with Pendleton Friday night! First overtime game of the season. lVe had a new teacher in Miss Ooley's M 1 9 3 0

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if T H E E P O C H 'WEE i3f'fEfi.'f?2fe, glfil had useful. We always dread to start in school after having such a wonderful vacation. 23rd.-Mr. Phares announced that there would be an inter-class tournament. Juniors and Seniors get to plav in the final game. 24th.-Well, anyway, the inter- class champions are the Seniors, and did we girls support our team? I'll say we did! 29th.-Had a wonderful exper- ience this morning. Mr. Phares showed the Biology I class and the Health class the divisions of a real heart. The heart was taken from a horse. Mr. Phares left part of the heart in the lab. After so long a time he stuck his head around the door at Miss Ooley and asked, May I have the rest of my heart? 30th.-We had a speaker this afternoon, the state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and Hi-Y. 31st,-Had a good pep session. Alyce Groves tried out. Not so bad! November 1st.-This is the day that marks the beginning of a wonderful bas- ket ball season. 4th.-Yea! Rah! Tigers! They brought home the bacon Friday evening. The Civics class held city elections in school today. 6th.-Convocation in charge of the Sophomores. Maude Willis gave a very interesting reading. We enjoyed it even if we did have to pay a dime. 8th.-The Tigers journeyed to Swayzee to play with the Speed Kings. 11th.-Well, well, 'twas a sad story. Tigers brought home the small end of the score 42-16. That doesn't dampen our spirit the least. 13th.-Scoop Dailey in English class was asked this question: Do you think Sydney Carton intended to ask Lucy to marry him when he went to see her ? Scoop's answer: I don't think he went down there all together. 14th.-State Attendance Officer Mrs. Marion, gave a very interest- ing talk on the reason we should attend school regularly. 15th.-First game at home to- night. We are to entertain Roll for a few minutes. Let's make this count. 16th.-Tigers made it count all right. We kept the victory brick at home with the score 32-28. The high school received a severe shock when it was announced that Miss Whitehead passed away after a week's illness. 22nd.-Everyone is trying to find a way to go to North Manches- ter. 25th.-Another victory added to our list. Crosby sure was hot on the basket. Yea! Rah! Crosby! 26th.-Everyone working hard to get ready for the Carnival. We are expecting a big crowd. 27th.-Carnival went over big the first night. Don't eat too much turkey Thanksgiving. December 2nd.-We have another victory to add to our list. We beat Gas- ton fBob Leach's home townj 18 to 16. 3rd.-We got a new Domestic Science teacher today, Miss Busby. Good luck to her. 6th.-We had a good pep session today. Mr. Phares led the yells. He sure knows how, too. 9th.-Gee! Clay Township gave us a scare in the last half of the game Friday night, but the Tigers held their own and came out with a two point victory. 10th.-Everybody is working hard. Wonder why? Oh, yes! They are trying to make the last minute count. This is the last six weeks of this semester. 11th.-Mr. Hengstler asked in Civics class How can a judge be removed from oflice ? Mary Lewis. very eager to answer, He can't be removed unless he is dead. i 'itiff A A-T ,. ' 7 Y Q 1, -'L l. ' f' :if-if rfgirii 7- . 1i'A7mi I ' 7Z. 4 QSILQEEQ. ml Jfisfi biilvr. 1 9 3 0 LE, 111-'1LffQ3Lg.:f2Qga.ffQ5111H-. E

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T H E place today, and all the girls arc trying to make a hit. 25th.-Tournament tickets ar- rived. Everybody wants to go but don't know where to get the dough. 26th.-Miss Busby and the girls are busy making Maroon overalls for the yell leaders. 28th.-Today is the big day. Had a peppy pep session and the yell leaders looked happy in their new suits. Yea! Rah! Tigers- bcat Matthews! March 3rd.-We are very proud of our Tiger team, although Marion did beat them. They showed Marion and the rest of the county fans that they knew how to play basket ball. 4th.-In U. S. History, Mr. Hengstler asked: Why did John Brown say that this was a beauti- ful country as he was getting ready for his execution ? Don M.: Well, I guess he did think it was beautiful the last few minutes. 14th.-The radio has been busy all day today broadcasting the state tournament. We all heard the Gas City vs. Franklin game- in our imagination. 17th.-Wonder why everybody is wearing green today? Oh, yes, it is St. Patrick's day. 18th.-We started play practice today. 19th.-We ordered invitations today. 20th.-Mr. Kenworth, a well known traveler and lecturer, spoke on the subject of Some Racial Contributions to America. 21st.-Did you know we had champion checker players in the Senior class? Ask Ralph Atkinson and Ruth Bothwell for further in- formation. 24th.-Everybody practicing to put the play Aunt Lucia over the top. 25th.-The Seniors went on a E P O C H Effie ticket campaign. 26th.-Senior girls had a meet- ing to decide on commencement dresses. Isn't it a shame that girls can never decide what kind of dresses they want? 27th.-Nothing happened today. We had our regular classes. You know they are always interesting. 28th.-The play Aunt Lucia went over with a bang. Lots of money. April lst.-April fool! We thought we wouldn't write anything today, but we did. 2nd.-We hear so many talking about a spring vacation. 3rd,-Juniors are planning to give a market. Let's all go down and buy something good to eat. 4th.-Inter-class track meet. Who won? Why the Juniors, of course. 7th and 8th,-Spring vacation. 9th.-The band is getting in some extra practice. Here's hop- ing they get first place at Muncie. We Seniors are behind them. 10th.-Wake up, Julia, class is over. 11th.-We had a track and field meet with Jonesboro, Alexandria, and Fairmount, at Fairmount to- day. 12th.-The typing team com- posed of Ruth Bothwell, Virginia Dancer and Kenneth Brown, en- tered the typing contest at Peru and won first team place in the Novice A group. Ruth also won first individual honor and Virginia won third. This will entitle the team to participate in the state commercial contest at Muncie, April 26. 17th.-Good for Hazel Dawalt! She received a medal for winning first place in the Grant County Constitutional 'Essay contest. 18th.-Don't be surprised, folks. if you see all of us in Hollywood, for we are having movies made of 1 9 3 0