Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

Text from Pages 1 - 114 of the 1917 volume:

- VOX DISCIPULI Volume VI Published by the Classes of 1916 and 1917 GRAFTON HIciH SCHOOL 1 o Miss Amanda Abbott A teacher in the primary grades of the Grafton City Schools, we the classes of litlti and IfMT most respectfully dedicate this volume. Miss Amanda Abbott graduated from the Fairmont State Normal School in the year 18711. Two years after her graduation she was employed as a teacher in the schools of Newburg and taught there for a peridd of two years. In 1877 she was secured sis a teacher of the primary grade in the schools of this city. Since this time she has served successfully fora period of thirty-eight years in the primary grade of the Central School. Miss Abbott has held three number one county certificates, a state professional certificate good for six years, which has been renewed for two consecutive periods of twelve years each, and she now holds the much coveted life certificate recently legalized by the State Legislature. Miss Abbott has been engaged in the school work for a long time, yet unlike many of our older teachers she has at all times manifested a progressive attitude towards her school work. The truth of this statement has been recognized by the State Board of Education in granting her the life certificate. Again, it is verified by the fact that she has been a frequent visitor to the more recent summer schools at Fairmont and Morgantown, and has attended fifteen State Educational Associations. Miss Abbott has taught thousands of children in Grafton and has won the respect of them all. In many cases she has taught the second generation. In acknowledgment to her sincere interest in the boys and girls of Grafton and to her sterling worth as a moral factor in this community wc dedicate this volume of the VOX IHSCII’l LI. History of the New High School The need of a new High School Building has been felt in this community for some time past. Only after a great many years of persistent trial, however, has a building become a realization, and not merely a plan in the minds of some of our citizens or on the architect's paper. An election held in nineteen hundred and nine for the purpose of providing bonds for a new High School Building was defeated bv the voters. During the campaign in nineteen hundred and nine the school system of the whole city was attacked by many citizens As a result of these attacks, the Board of Kdu cation appointed a committee, composed of some of the best school men in the State, to make a survey of the Grafton Schools and advise what was needed to make the school system more efficient. The survey was made in nineteen hundred and thirteen. The report, given the Board of Education, stated that the most urgent need of the city was a new High School Building. The matter was dropped, however, until December of the same year, when a move was set on foot by the Grafton Alumni Association, in which they adopted a resolution requesting the Board of Education to call a High School Bond Election, and pledged their hearty support. On February nineteenth, nineteen hundred ami fourteen, the Board called for a bond election providing for ninety-live thousand dollars to be used in the construction of ,i new building. This election was to he he HI on March seventeenth. On March twelfth the Board decided to give the matter more consideration and postponed the election until the ninth of June. On April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Frank I.. Packard, of Columbus. Ohio, was en gaged as the architect for the building. On the ninth of June the election was held. In the meantime the Board called for fifteen thousand dollars more, making a total of $110,000. The election resulted favorably for the issuing of Bonds. Almost immediately after the election, bids were opened for the sale of the bonds. When the bids had all been received and the bonds sold, the purchaser refused to accept them for certain legal technicalities A friendly -nit w.i- held and the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia authorized the sale of the bonds anew. Bids were then again received and the bonds immediately sold. In two weeks the money was in the hands of the Sheriff. I he work of the building began immediately. In a comparatively short time the building was finished The new High School is one of the latest types of -chools and is one of the best equipped in the Stat« The students should be and are very proud of the privilege of attending school in such a building. The Alumni Association and many other citizen-who helped them are to be congratulated on haring given their support and assistance in bringing such a line structure into existence. They can rest assured that the best possible care will be taken of it by the grateful students. PAUL MALONE. FACULTY BERTHA MILLS MRS. EMMA NIELSEN BERTHA NUTTING MAR PELLEY Music German Domestic Science Art h. r. Dunbar John nuzum h r. bonkkk a. j. gibson vaun Mcminn General Science Science Principal Biological Science English LENA PARK HI LI. ENOLA WAGNER G. MINKTTK WATKINS LESTER JET KR Stenographer and Librarian English Mathematics Commercial Page Eight CLASS OFFICERS POKSKY J. CURRY. President PAUL WILLIAMSON’. Vice-President MOTTO: Live to the world the best ou have and the best will come back to you. COLORS: -Blue and White. PAUL MALONE. Secretary HELEN IR I.NE,‘Treasurer MARY ELLERS Mary Sunshine” A lovely girl is Mary. Very expressive is she. Her ambitions do not van In the fashion she wishes to be. HELEN IRVINE Hon Helen is cunning, dear, cute and true. She never was known to make anyone blue. For her mirth she cannot restrain Til, we fear, Miss Wagner will Helen detain. Page Eleven VIOLA HICKMAN Trixy Viola is very modest. Anil never makes any noise. She seems to like ladies only, And cares not a whit for I he bovs. HELEN JACKSON Ginger” When it comes t � singing or playing a cute little song, Helen is there, with all the crowd along; Butj when it comes to historv with all its bra ■ deeds. Helen, sadly, Not guilty Page Twelve DOROTHY KIMMEL Smiler” A maid whose smile is ever bright. Whose fashion, ever late. Who studies diligently every night, And is interested in Frederick the (Ireat. ADA LOUISE KUNST Tilly” Ada Louise is sweet And pretty as a rose. And just how well she likes t«- meet With Cream” every one knows. LAURA KITZMILLER “Sister” Here a young lady wc pro Alw i s on her lessons sin 's Good, serious and sincere. That 'he won’t succeed we PAUL MALONE “Blondic Our honorable editor-in-chief is Paul, And he is mighty, tho' he is Out with iIn girls he likes to walk. ELWIN MOHAN Grouch Flwin i our cynical owl. . ltho hc’ inatu a favorite. He .scares the girls with his scowl. But. with the boys. hc s quite a pal. PHRONA MUSGROVE Musy Phrona is a girl very pretty. Books are her chief delight. But when it comes to a his Phrona sighs, Good-night . Page Thirteen ALFRED MORGAN “Fatty Alfred, our business manager, On account of much avoir- Ju football dors not major. But in wit keeps up with EARL PAULEY “Ick Page Fourteen HAZEL PERINE Hazilus Hazel is so sweet and kind, Tho' ve don't know the reason why, Never a duty does she mind. Ami does unto others as she would be done by MARGARET POWELL Mose 1 am not a Socialist. Mar- Nor in Democratic ways am 1 sot. Of all the parties by w hich to he led. With the VVeddinp party I cast my lot. DOROTHY PRIM Dot Dorothy i a stylish and a loyabh airi, Tis. plain she's cut out for the social whirl; True she studies when alone. Bui surely Pleasure's marked CRLEN PETERS Fat Orlen came from Webster one tlay, And said he and his Ford had come to stay; Well, every since he’s had his say, And most of the time pets his way. AUGUSTA REMLINGER “Doc” Doc is a starry-eyed lass. An I a credit to her class; With a voice of gold and heart as well, ()vcf many casts a spell, 1 must confess, more or •Levs’. Page Fifteen VIVIAN REYNOLDS “Biby '1 his maid's record is above par. In our class she's the shining star; Once a Freshman from BIuc-ville. She led us then, she leads u still. HOWARD SMITH Deacon Deacon is a bashful tad. But this no matter be, I or he’s not had at explain- That is. when he isn't Page Sixteen KLAYDE SPAUR Galvana” every class; l-pon ti' all doth her criti- AGNES VAN ZANDT “Topsy Agnes lias the gift of a poet, For she's pensive all the time. In her quietness she doesn't show it. But she's always making a rhyme. RUTH UTTERBACK Ruty” Ruth is ;i musician and W hose mode and manner Who has interests in West Virginia cole”. ORAN WARDER •‘Sammy” In our baseball ranks Oran's name is filed; When we get beat he give no thanks. Aud surely does get riled. Li ra likes to laugh and talk Most any time of day. Tin.' work is not distasteful. She’d rather read or play. GEORGE WHITE. JR. Generator” (it-orv:i is a peculiar genius. In lift- he’ll make his mark; That is. if in the meantime He doesn’t change to an electric spark. Page Seventeen CARL WHITE “Sleepy” A second Paderewski he. And charms us with his melody; Sometime' he stays up in a cloud. But descends when Mr. Burns calls loud. PAUL WILLIAMSON “Creany” All .vuk hr works on Latin And � n sk. tches both sad and sill . But when Sunday comes at Hr goes out and talk' to Page Eighteen In jUrmoriiim In Memory of Our Classmate WILLIE UTTERBACK Born March 16, 1898 Died March 20, 1916 We loved her, yes, we loved her, But angels loved her more; And so they gently called her To yonder shining shore. The golden gates were open, A gentle voice said, “Come! And with farewells unspoken She calmly entered home. Page Nineteen Senior Class History It is hard for a Senior to recall things that hap pene I in that Paleolithic age, the Freshman year of High School. Hut as Freshman classes go, ours was not below the highest, notwithstanding a generous supply of greenness ami timidity, hut with great intellects -in embryo. How our fondest ideals and air castles were shat-.ered! For in High School we were referred to as only Freshmen. Xml only those who have experienced the slights that are so freely accorded to those unfortunates can appreciate the trials of our first year. An Sophomores, things were different. YVe thoroughly enjoyed handing to the incoming Freshman class the taunts and -tings we had learned the precious year. Our studies were more to our taste, not o rudimentary, and many of us had recitations not only with the Juniors but even with the Seniors! That was also the year in which we were first permitted to enjoy to any extent social pleasures and to participate in various activities at school. It is necessary only to mention the Juniors of nineteen hundred ami fifteen to any member of the Faculty to get our complete biography. We were justly admitted to lx- the Seniors' close rival, even in the teachers' estimation. c set the standard of future zoological classes. Mounted hoptoads, bumble- This gcniiiN worked on other lines as well, for we in variably won a certain susceptible member of the Faculty on any question relating to chemistry or study periods. The final year of our High School career found us joyfully anticipating it. Quite naturally, it has been the best year of our life. Wc have enjoyed having a History teacher who has but one class in High School, and to his oft repeated continue. we have added paragraph after paragraph. Through its discussion, with the aid of the Literary Digest, we have learned many things of the European War. in addition to other topics of general interest. Best of all. we are the first class to graduate from the new High School Building, a privilege which has been coveted by all former classes. Our career is nov at a close and we feel very dignified ami wise but— “O wad some Power the gittie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! Rl’TH UTTERBA ’K. VOCATIONAL ANALYSIS Page Twenty Name Ruth Davis........ Alfred Morgan..... Orion Peters...... Iva Rosier........ Carl White........ Ruth Utterback.... Paul Williamson... I.era Waters...... Robert Bennett Hazel Gather...... George Bailey..... Augusta Rem linger Fred Bush......... Helen Jackson..... Paul Malone....... Viola Hickman F.arl Pauley...... Helen Irvine...... Oran Warder_____ . Ada Lane Kunst. . . Klayde Spaur...... Howard Smith...... Hazel Perine...... Dorsey Gurry...... Mary Filers....... Dorothy Kimmcl... Agnes an Zandt. Margaret Powell.. Vivian Reynolds. . Margaret Cassell... Laura Kitzmiller. . Dorothy Prim...... Irene Custer..... George White .... Phrona Musgrove. Elwin Moran...... Physical Qualifications Musical giggle........... Elephantine grace........ Conversational prowess.. Love for animals......... Apathetic ............... Timid ................... Loud voice............... Talking f� � r pastime..... Soldier-like gait........ Witty.................... Chinese manicure......... Her observing glance-.... Sporty................... t jetting fat............ Self admiration.......... Owl-like gaze............ His hair................. Winking.................. His physique............. Dramatic ability......... Talking capacity......... Fast goer (?)............ Her way.................. I arge feet.............. Her hats................. . Bahv blue eyes......... Being good............... Short and sweet.......... . Fast talker............ Little................... Her goodness............. Strolling................ . Talking to June........ His length............... . I ittle and cute....... . t irouchv ............. Present Occupation Making eyes............ Hunting garden insects. . Bluffing his boss...... Taming a “Wolf”........ Beating the box........ Digging after “Cole Roaring................ Worrying Mr. Xuzum Playing baseball....... Thinking up jokes...... Growling............... Writing dippy dope..... Marshall ........... Kidding the boys....... Ladies' man............ Looking wise........ Amusing the girls...... Composing love letters. (jetting speed......... Studying for the stage Finding out things. . . t hicken fancier.... Consoling Hunkers . . . Going out to practice. Trips to Cincinnati.. . Admiring the style-. . Learning to cook.... Thinking of admirers Squelching the boys.. Taking history...... Absorbing knowledge Taking a walk....... Motoring with June Tinkering with batteries cquirtng a wardrobe Being grouchy....... Page Twenty-One Dominent Interest Good time............. V egetable troubles .... His Ford.............. nimal music.......... How to fiddle......... Minerals ............. Bad little boys....... How to ask questions. Fastidious hats....... Dates and Yates....... How to get even....... Less” and Leslie..... iirls............... Parties............... Anything feminine. ... nything cute......... Heart interest........ Sporting column....... Her career............ Your faults........... Eggs ................. Passing moment........ Football ............. Style books........... Something to wear.... Doughnut ............ Primping.............. Man haters............ How to bluff Mr. Burn Little ones........... Where to walk......... June ................. Live wire............. Shinny noses......... Anything grouchx...... A LA BONNER Favorite Expression . Oh! Baby! .............. . That’s easy”............ . Listen here, kid”....... . Ain’t it awful?”........ , Oh ! Goodness!”........ The idea!”............... . “Oh ! please do!”....... W ish it were Friday”.... 1 don’t know”............ Listen. girL”............ Get that?”............... 'I'm in a hurry”.......... Watch me tonight”........ Ye Gods!”............ That's all ‘they’ are to it”.. W eil, sir!!”! .!!.!!!.! That’s peachy!”.......... , That’s some”............ Oh! because”............. “That will do”........ That’s a fowl!”.......... Oh ! iood ness”........ I’m in art awful fix”.... Gee! he's good looking”... W ell, Pm surprised”..... Too good to be true”..... 1 just hate him”......... Wait for me!”............ “Well, now”............... Well. 1 should say not . ... Juney ................... Great Heavens!”.......... Is mv hat on straight?”.... Well!”.................... Advised Vocation . Mary Pickford’s successor. . Cabbage doctor. .Candy drummer. Circus lady. Musial nut. Making a Cole” house. Policeman. . Teaching babies to converse. .College man. . Comedy dramatist. . Jailer. Editor of Puck. Floorwalker in store. . Society butterfly. . )Id bachelor. Something great. Circus clown. Dime novel writer. Jess Willard’s opponent. Marry an actor. School teacher. 1 ietting a hen. War nurse. V ale coach. Modist. Fashion critic. Somebody’s wife. Saleslady. Suffragette stump speaker. Kindergarten teacher. Marathon trainer. Mrs. June. Mr. ptdison No. 2. Beauty doctor. Bulldog fancier. SSissr Kly 4 S noviNc. Page Twenty-Three OK PAH HAYMOND. President HELEN HEFNER, Secretary FRANK TUCKER. Vice-President ALTA WAli.NER. Treasurer MOTTO: Labor omnia vincit. COLORS: Yellow and Purple, Page Twenty-Four WILLIAM ADAIR “Turtle Cheerful al morn, he wakes from short repose. Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes. WALTER BALL “Bull Non Imt himself can be his parallel. VICTOR BLANEY “Pedro “Sec what grace was seated on his brow; Hyperion curls; the front of Jove himself; an e c like Mars to threaten and command. LUCILLE ANDERSON Blonde Her modest looks a cottage wight adorn. HAZEL BENNETT Benny Is she not more than paint ing can express. Or youthful poets fancy when they love?” VASCO BONNETT Buster Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. SAM BORD Wooden” “Once across the Alps ht WCIl i. I was to him a great evert. Unequalized until driven by tale. He tried to teach his girl to skate ” RAY COLE ‘•Chief” “His tair large front and eye sublime, declared abso lute rule.” Page Twenty-Five MILDRED BROWN Brownie” Kim! hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than N’or-man blood.” ROBERT CLAYTON Dago” Good thing come in small packages.” Page Twenty-Six DAVIS ELLIS Winbigglcr To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires. My tot unequal to my vast desires.” GRACE GILLESPIE “Gille” Here is one who is so demure and sweet. And who is always so.” MARGUERITE GASSER Geet “Hannon) with every grace Plays in the tair proportion' of her face. CHAS. GOUGH Boggy “Only the brave deserve the fair.” JOHN GRIMES “Reverend ‘By this face.— This -rcniing brow of justice did he win.” RUTH HADDIX Snookuins” EDITH HOLLIS Page Twenty-Seven ORPAH HAYMOND Sunbeam” “A rosebud set with little wil ful thorns. And swc« i as American air could make Iter. ROBERT HEFLIN Bob “His pensivi cheek upon his hand reclined. And mxious thoughts revolving in his mind. EDNA HUNT Giggles” “Never sigh when you can sing, But laugh like me at everything.” Page Twenty-Eight HAZEL KUHN Nig” Oh! your sweet eyes, low replies. FRANCIS JACO Jake” she wa . and I thought her cold. RUTH LOVE Rufus Bm then her face— So lovely, yet so arch, so full The overflowing of an innocent heart.” ALBERT KEEFER Abe ARLIE LEONARD Pidgc” A man that Mushes is not quite a brute.” MERLE MADERA “Puss” i oo late I staved- Forgive thi crime.” BESSIE MATHEW Bess” The noblest n ind th best contentment has.” Page Twenty-Nine FLORENCE McFARLING Fluff” Mindful not of herself—” Page Thirty lue McWilliams ‘■Peggy I know lurr; the worst thought she has Is whiter than her pretty hand; She must prove true.” LORENA PERINE J. W.” What men dare, i dare. MARY PRIM '‘Irish” Leautiest Mary shines among the rest; Tall, slender, straight with all the graces best.” BERTHA NEWCOME Red” “Ro� is tHe Wist, Ros;. is the South, Ros - .ire her checks And a rose her mouth MARION ROGERS “Buddy” Blinded greatness ever in turmoil, Still seeking happy life, Makes life a toil. RUBY POE Topsy” “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed:: Shi's a woman, therefore to be won. EVA SKAGGS KATHRYN THAYER “Katy “Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumer! the mirinight oil? FRANK TUCKER “Tuck “And when a lady's in the You know all other things give place.” Page Thirty-One OWEN SOLOMAN •Sol “All grant him prudent, prudence inti rest weigh , And interest bids him -eek your love and praise ” IRENE THORNBURG Thorny “One praised her ankles, one Iter eves, fine her dark hair and love-some mein. ADA ALTA WAGNER Twins” “Look here upon this picture, and on ibis Tin counters it presentments of two sisters,” Page Thirty-Two ESTHER WELLS • Wcllsy As the great eye of Heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in tin shady i-lari'. ETHEL WILLIAMS Skinny It will discourse most excellent music. ELIZABETH YASTE Beth” Kaithful, gentle, good, Wearing the rose of woman hood. PRUDY WILHIDE Pru” “Her face was veilid; yet to my fancy sight I ovc, sweetness, goodness in her person shined. JUANITA WILMOTH Neat “Oh! she is fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thou sand stars. ELFA WOLFE Elf To her vocation we can not say . But we think it will lie edn . k ration Page Thirty-Three Junior Class History On the morning of the 27th day of May, 1913, the present Junior Class of Grafton High School assembled on the stage of the Brinkman Theatre for the Grammar School graduation exercises. As is always the case at exercises of this kind, many of our best citizens passed predictions among themselves, and to us, that we really had a great clas ; in fact, they said it was the b t class they had ever seen together. We thought very little of this, as we always heard the same words at other entertainments. One morning in the following September, one by one, or a few together, we ascended the hill to the Old Red High School. Our first weeks at school were none too pleasant, as is alwa the experience of a Freshman Class. But after a while the upper classes recognized our greatness and affairs went on -moothly for some time. Our class wa- organized early in the school year, ami this resulted in us having many pleasant parties and entertainments. Stunt Might took place during the school year, and this served to display the abilities of the '17 class. The following year we were Sophomores and received more attention. Almost half of our number had dropped out, but we still considered ourselves the best class in school, and the other classes thought the same of themselves. Now we are Juniors, or, as I might express it, on the third rung of the ladder, with much strength left for the last step. We are now beginning to realize what High School spirit means to us. We have just moved into the new' building and are better able to how our abilities than before, (much to the disgust of the poor Seniors). The opening exercises were especially marked by the ability I have mentioned before. If I were a prophet, 1 could tell you a great many things of interest to come in our Senior year; but. instead, let me end by asking every member of our class, whether he •. in Kurope amid the bursting bombs of war. or under the peaceful skies of California. or, as many will he in the green hills of West irginia, that he open this book to the Junior Class and think of the good times he enjoyed as a member of the Class of '17. HISTORIAN. Page Thirty-Four Junior Acrostic Juniors, the pride of G. H. S. Understanding, held by few, coveted by many. Neglect, our Freshmen memories. Inspiration, given to the Annual Board. Our organizing abilities, unsurpassed by previous classes. Realization of our dreams. Confidence our mainstay. Latin our daily dread. Advanced algebra, and a faint memory of Mr. Dunbar. Sociability, a marked characteristic of 17. Success, our highest ambition. W. B. Page Thirty-Seven MOTTO: Strive and Succeed. COLORS: Old Gld and Red. FLOWER: Rose. SOPHOMORE .CLASS OFFICERS Page Thirty-Eight SOPHOMORE CLASS Page Thirty-Nine Sophomore Class Roll, 1915-16 Abel. Pansy Huffman. Cora Ahrendts, Richard Isner, Nina A1 lender. Marv King. Foss Armstrong, Virginia Knotts. Mary Louise Raker. Lenore Kuhn. Lloyd Bartlett. Blanche La Rue. Esther Bebout, Charles Love, Virginia Rlayney, Edwin Lucas, Percy Bonner. Claude Marple, Charles Brcnard, Marie Martin. Lucille Brown. Sidney May. Mary Cassell, Earl Miller, Charles Church, Dorothy Moore. Margaret Clayton, Ellen Myers. Ira Collins. William McCafferty. Lora Coole, Frank McFarling. Reginald Davis, Stanley McPhail, Laura Dawson, Clarence Osborne. Lola Deck, Lucille Preiss, Adelaide Devers, Bessie Rank, iertrude Evans, EUa Reese, Russell Fletcher, Hcnr Riley, irginia Call. Brooks Roe, Hobson (jerkin, Edward Rogers. Florence Glenn. Lena Schroeder, Mary «ro . Cody Scott. Lawrence lladdox. N eva Shroyer. Elizabeth Harris. Willa Haymond. Guy Swisher. Kenneth Hetlin. Genevieve Tregalilts. Harold Hefner, Ruth Walker, Lewis Jay Warder, Elizabeth Hoffman. Theresa W illhide, Carrie Hollis. Frank Wilmoth. V ernon Sophomore Class History On September the twelfth, nineteen hundred fourteen. our illustrious class made its first appearance in High School. W e entered with the determination to become the best class ever enrolled in Grafton High School. In many ways we have been represented on the honor roll, ami our musicians, artists and cooks are among the very best in High School; and. let us add modestly, if prizes were awarded for good looks, our class would get most of them. Our class was not organized until late in May. nineteen hundred fifteen ; so we did not have much time for class activity during our Freshman year, but we gave a party to the members of the eighth grade before school closed, and all seemed to enjoy cither themselves or someone else. In the fall of nineteen hundred fifteen we returned to school, no longer lonely and persecuted Freshmen, but progressive Sophomores. Later in the year we elected officers. This spring we were overjoyed to enter the new High School Building, and though we. like all other classes, longed to be Seniors, yet we were glad to think we could enjoy two more years in this substantial ami well equipped new home prepared for us. 01d r people tell us that gains ami losses always come together in the world, so, as we were made glad in having the new school home, we were made sad because we must say goodbye to one of our best teachers, who has been so painstaking ami kind. Now we are almost Juniors. We have walked along Hlyrican shores with Viola; we have been through the House of Seven Gables, and know it from garret to cellar; we have prepared dishes that our mothers never heard of; we have helped Caesar build his puzzling bridge across the Rhine; we have cleared up many tangled problems in x and y ; w have learned all about how plants behave, ami hope we have learned good behavior ourselves. Now we are ready to engage in mightier deeds of valor. So let our motto be Onward, ever Onward.” as we strive to reach our goal. HISTORi Page Forty-One How Barclay Won His Letter Barclay had been taken from the team! The news came to the Ridgeway students as a stunning blow. The hero of many a hard-fought game on the gridiron, he whose name was breather! with reverence It was almost unbelievable; and the final game with Oakvalc only four days distant. But it was true, nevertheless. Barclay had been t found in a |hk I room by the coach. Although he was not playing, his presence there was sufficient for his dismissal. The coach did not want to do it. but it was the rule and could not be violated. To Barclay it seemed a disgrace. He had been thinking of this the entire season. It was the '•anic as a diploma to him He had even dreamed of it. He had been in the pool room it was true, but he had gone there with Merrill, his rival, who was trying to get his position at fullback on the team. Merrill had asked Barclay to accompany him. as he was going out to get a paper. But on the way they passed a pool room and Merrill stopped there on pretext of seeing a friend. Barclay went in also, as the crisp Xovcm -ber air was very chilly. During thi- time the coach entered. Baclay asked Merrill to explain their presence there, hut he only laughed and passed out. Barclay then understood why he had been enticed there by Merrill. The coach did not see Merrill in the pool room and Barclay thought that Merrill would now play his position at fullback. When the day of the great game arrived, every one wore his favorite school colors. On the field the stands were crowded. Colors were flying and the pennants waving. When the Ridgeway team ran out on the field, a cry of disappointment went up from the people, when Barclay did not appear. Finally' the referee's whistle sounded and the teams lined up for the kick-off. The teams settled down for a hard battle. It was the deciding game of the year and every one knew it. The coach put Merrill in at fullback. During the last of the first half, with only three minutes left to play. Merrill decided to try a new trick never tried before. The score stood even and Ridgeway was on the offensive fighting fiercely for every gain. The trick worked: hut when the two teams arose. Merrill lay still. He lay in a heap, white and bleeding. The coach now decided to put Barclay in. When told to dress. Barclay was delighted. Now he would get his letter. When he ran out on the field, a great roar of welcome came to his ears. The score stood even. The two teams battled up and down the field, neither gaining a point. Finally, with only two minutes left to play, the quarter-back called for a pass to Barclay. The pass was perfect ami Barclay was soon speeding down the field. On he ran. the lines flashed by. His breath was now coming in gasps. The goal posts seemed miles apart; hut he clutched the precious hall closer and stumbled on. A terrible pain 'hot through his limbs and he fell in a mass between the goal posts. When he awoke, the first thing that met his eyes was a blue Wcater, but on the sweater was a beautiful gold R. Barclav had won his letter. BROOKS GALL. Page Forty-Two The Sophomore Class The Sophomore Classes certainly do shine. They are the smartest in the line. W ith colors flying of red and gold. You can be sure they’ll reach the goal. The class flower, too. the rose of May. Represents that they will graduate some day. And then the faculty will be very glad That they have taught such lassies and lads: And you may be sure that they will say The Sophomore Class was the star of the day. HAROLD TRKGALLAS. Sophomore. 1916. Reveries herevcr Ilu ITeshies move around, I hey do indeed make a curious sound. And how the oft get lost in the hall. And long before they are found they bawl ’ And then the Sophomores begin, Where on earth is Miss McMinn?” nd then about this time comes Herr Burns, Then, oh, how they do scami er in their turns. The Juniors then come next in line. And, oh, how they with all their hearts do pine For the time when they can Seniors be. And then from examinations exempt will Ik . And then those dignified Seniors behold, Who think that they the place of honor hold. But Juniors you’re coming. And next year you’ll in that place belong. ADA LOUISE KUXST. Page Forty-Three LAVING THh CORNER STONE OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING . MASONIC PARADIS—MA 5. 1916 R ( . ENGINE TYGARTS VALLEY GLASS FACTORY OLD BRIDGE AT GRAFTON (Now Replaced by Cement Arch Bridge) w 90 f 1 •1 Page Forty-Flv MOTTO: Strive for the Best. COLORS: Old Rose and Gray. FRESH MAX CLASS OFFICERS Eugenia bvmgartner willfrkd hfkdrickson richard barti.ett nettik smith President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Freshman Class Roll, Anderson, Myrtle Arnett. Claudic Baker, Hugh Bartlett, Richard Barlow, John Bay ley, (Jordon Bennett, Laudie Bollinger. Robert Bradford, Thomas Bumgartner. Eugenia Brecdove, Luther Bunner, Carl Cain, (ieorge Campbell. Ottie C assell, (ieorge Cat her. Ruth Chadduck. Donah] C'olborn. Charles Colebank, William Compton. Lillie Creel. Mildred Davis, William Dawson. Edward DeMoss, Agnes Delaney. Lawson Elliott. Roy Farnsworth. Donzell Faust, Beamen Frieze. Mabel (iillispie. Ray (ilenn, Elizabeth Glenn, Robert Grimes, Frank Groves, Iva Hamilton, Junior Hamilton. Margaret Hedrick. Man Hendrickson. Willtred llilkey, Hayward Hinkle, Dana Holt. Neal Horner, Edwin Hostler, Ruth Huhn. Alvin Huhn, Ruth Hyson. Charles Huff. Herbert Jolliffe, (ieorge Jones, Foster Kemple, Iola Kinter. Nina Kitzmiller, Beryl l.arew, Bernice Leachman. Robert Lilly. Kathrync Locke. Glenn Locke. Mary Long. Harry Don Love. Frances Madera. Joseph Mays, Paul Messenger. Jessie Miller, Briscoe Moore, Durbin Moore. Eva Monroe. Ray McFarland. Lovie McIntosh, Dorsey McWilliams, Eugene Nutter, Irene Patton, Eileen Pauley, Chester Phillips. Helen Pitzer. Atwell Poe, Allen Powell. Douglass Page Forty-Seven 1915-16 Proudfoot. Guy Reese, Nellie Kilev, Viola Ringler, Harold Rogers, Etta Pearl Rogers, Roy Rosier, Osacr Shuttles worth, Clyde Siftsel, John Sinclair. Robert Smith. Howard Smith, Nettie Smith. Ruth Stark, Merle Stavcly, Frances Steel, Ruth Swisher, Flossie Stone, (ieorge Thayer, Marguerite Thomas. anda Utterback, Emma Vincent, Clay Vincent, Irene Weekly IManche White, Edward Williamson. Odas Witt man, Florence Wolf, (iu Yates, Helen SPECIAL STUDENTS Dilworth. Caroline Knotts. Robert Nicola, Edna Schroeder, Frederick Weekly. Paul Page Forty-Eight History of the Freshman Class Our first acquaintance with High School was on September thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at two-thirty o’clock. We met in the study hall of the old building. Mr. Bonner, our principal, told us where each room was. gave us the number, and the teacher’s name. We had a hard time finding the rooms, not being used to the arrangement of the building. My first study was “English”, and we had to go over the river for that. In English we traveled to “Treasure Island with Jim Hawkins, and to Belmont with Bassanio to win “Portia . We also went before the “Judge with Antonio and “Shylock”. We traveled with “Mr. Dunbar” by Electricity, with an especially good “Motor . W e had some very good times with Mr. Jeter in Commercial Arithmetic. In History we fought the Romans and Greeks with Miss McMinn. In music, Miss Mills taught us some very beautiful songs. In “VocationI Guidance we learned how to be business men and women. But now. since we are in the new building, we have dropped that and we all join together in chapel every Wednesday morning. Here, we have some music and singing. We like to hear Miss Pelley and M iss Mills sing. We moved into the new High School Building April twelfth, nineteen hundred sixteen. We liked every part of the building but the study hall We liked it. too, but did not like to go there to study every vacant period. We were very glad to get into the new High School Building, but we were sorry to hear that the man that helped us to get into it is going to leave us. JESSIE MESSENGER. Page Forty-Nine History of the Guineas Some distance oouth of Grafton, on the Tygart’s Valley River, lives a strange people called the Guineas. Over a hundred years ago a family, consisting of a man, his wife and several children, were caught in Guinea, then brought to Norfolk and sold as slave' to a wealthy planter near Richmond. They were different in looks from the common negro, being so light as to look a muddy yellow, with high cheek bones, thin lips and straight, coarse black hair like an Indian’s. One day the planter beat the ol l man cruelly, which made the Guinea so angry that he pronounced a curse on the planter and his family. He told him that within three weeks his eldest son would be dead. The planter did not believe him and paid no attention to the old Guinea, who had been a Voodoo priest in his own country. Three weeks were nearly gone, and the planter had forgotten the incident, when one day word was brought to him that his eldest son had been drowned while swimming in the river near his home. Weeks later the planter again beat the old Guinea, who in revenge prophesied that the planter’s only remaining son would die within ten days. Again the prophecy came true, for the second son was carried home dead, his neck being broken by a fall from his horse. Now the planter was so scared that he told the Guineas he would give them their freedom and a certain tract of land in what is now West Virginia if they would go away forever. The Guineas gladly accepted the deed for 1,000 acres of timber land in what is now Barbour and Taylor county, and moved to their new home. They live mostly by hunting and fishing, leading quiet lives, neither mixing with the whites nor the negroes, but only with their own people. They till practice a kind of voodooism. There are always a few old women among them who tell fortunes and profess to read the future. One well known incident is that one day an old woman laid her hand against an immense boulder and told her companions that before many years the iron horse would divide the rock through its center. A few years later the G. B. Railroad, which at that time had not been thought of. blasted its way through this very rock. These people have so increased in number that there are now nearly two hundred of them. MARGUERITE THAYER. The Grand Transfer Page Fifty The faculty and the pupils of the Grafton High School all became a great transfer company on April the twelfth, nineteen hundred sixteen. There was an unusual parade. following the faculty on their way from the Central Building to the New High School Building. Mr. Gibson led the procession by driving a team which consisted of a Tiger Beetle and an Ant Lion hitched to a jinrikisha made in the manual train ing department of this school. Then came Mr. Dunbar carrying a basketball in one hand and a baseball in the other, and wearing hi'' green eye-shade to shield his eyes from the intense rays of the sun. Mr. Nu um came third in this procession carrying a quart of alcohol in each hand. It did not look well for a man of his standing to be carrying this through a dry town, yet his desire to move overcame his modesty. Mrs. Neil son was mistaken tor a farmer’s wife who had entered the New High School Building instead of the grocery store. Miss Pelley and Miss Mills followed in the procession with their musical voices, which attracted the attention of the people even to Fettcrman. Mr. Burns carried under one arm a map of the United States and under the other an American History in a dignified manner. Mr. Jeter put his hands to a stupendous task of carrying a pencil sharpener. He also had entire charge of selecting boy - to carry the typewriters and was much pleased with his selections, hut. owing to the fact that Mr. Jeter judged Solomon to be a strong lad. he was much surprised at his weakness when he dropped the typewriter and stop| cd the parade. Miss Nutting was not present at the beginning of the parade, but proceeded with a box of toothpicks and a spool of thread to Main street and thence to Latrobe. This load became so heavy that she ad (Vance)d to the M. M. Bank to secure help and later joined the procession on Washington street. Miss Wagner secured two boys to carry her library, which consisted of two books, a Primer of English Literature and a Primer of American Literature. Miss Watkins and Miss Parkhil! were so completely overcome with the joy of leaving the old building that the became helpless and an auto came to their rescue. M iss McMinn was an exception to this j ial parade. She walked along with tearful eyes. When asked what was wrong, she replied in a melancholy way. “I have lost a composition which consisted of ten words.' Mr. Bonner, with four selected honorable pupils, kept a close eye on all streets to rescue the hoys from “hooky-land.” The pupils carried such things as tables, chair-, clocks, desk-, books, erasers and chalk. The people were aroused along the streets by the unusual excite ment. had gathered in huge crowds, viewed the parade and enjoyed it more than they did the parade of Sparks’ Circus. CLAUDE BONNER. Page Fifty-One J PHILOMATHEAK literary society Page Fifty-Thrt, History of Philomathean Literary Society Soon after school opened in th fall of 1915, Mr. Burns proposed to the Vmerican History C lass that they organize a literary society which should meet every two weeks on Friday afternoon at the one o'clock period. This idea pleased the Seniors very much, so they immediately took it up. held a meeting and elected officers whose terms of office should expire with the semester. The first program given was a very crude one compared with some since that one, hut each person who was asked to perform seemed willing to do hi part to make the society a “go . Every one was interested in the welfare of the society an l there has hcen only one case of nonperformance during the whole year. The second semester brought many good ami encouraging things for the society, new officers, the name—Philomathean — a constitution and by-laws. During May a public program was given to '•how the public just what it had accomplished in such a short time. The following program was rendered in a very successful manner: Song—Hail Grafton High School Essay—Then ami Now.............Paul Williamson Reading—Kentucky Philosophy.......Mary Eller Vocal Duet—Amarosa... Helen Jackson. Ruth Davis Oration—Success.................Dorsey Curry Short Story—How the Whale Got Hi Throat. . Helen Irvine Piano Solo—The Palms................Irene Custer Debate— Resolved. That further immigration t« the United States should be restricted. Negative: Affirmative: Margaret Powell Hazel Perine Paul Malone Karl Pauley Vocal Solo In the Garden of my Heart. Hazel Gather Prophesy of the Philomathean Literary Society.. Ada Louise Kunst Song—Old Lang Syne The Philomathean Literary Society has been a great help and benefit to all Seniors. While no second Brutus. Caesar. Paderewski, or Caruso has been dis covered in the society, it can not be said that the Clas of 16 does not have some promising material which may develop into lawyers, lecturers, readers, and musicians Much of the success of the society is due to the untiring effort of Mr. Burns and Miss Wagner. Seniors of next year and for years to come, keep up the good work begun by the Class of ’16 and Grafton High School will have a society that any school might be proud of. H. M. I. _ Page Fifty-Four % (i (r W 0 ® 0 (Jr? d t-, Page Fifty-Five MUSIC Page Fifty-Seven Page Fifty-Eight HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The prospects for successful athletic'- in the Grafton High School is growing brighter. Success will consist not so much in defeating our opponent a in getting every one connected with the school to take an active part in some healthful exercise. During the past years we have been handicapped in this department. due to the lack of an athletic field and a gymnasium. We now have the Mackin field leased. This provides a suitable place for our baseball ami football practice. A tennis court has also been laid out adjoining the athletic field, and thus it is possible for the girls as well as the boys to enjoy beneficial outdoor exercise. Last year our baseball team was very successful. winning a majority of the games played. This year we were unfortunate in losing a number of our best players, but the boys are steadily getting into Page Fifty-Nine ) shape and, with a few more days of practice, the team will be working together as the) should. Last year we had no basketball team. The rea son? No floor was available. This year, thanks to the kindness of Mr. Bonner, our worthy principal, and the co-operation of Secretary Brewer, we were permitted to use the V. M. C. A. floor for our games. Now that we are in the new High School Building, we have an excellent gymnasium, warranted to satisfy the most critical. W ithout doubt we will have a winning basketball team next season, for material is abundant. Kven in the past we have had teams to be proud ot. placed at a disadvantage, as they were, by not having a suitable gymnasium to practice in. RAY COLE. Football Line-up H. R. Dunbar..... Charles (rough . . . Kay Cole......... Vasco Bonnctt... Joe Medera....... Davis Ellis...... Robert Knotts . .. Dorsey Curry.... Clair Bee. Captain Dana Hinkle...... Glenn Locke....... Victor Blaney..... Manager, Coach Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Center (Quarter-Back Full-Back Right Half-Back Left Half-Back Left Guard Left Tack’le Left End Substitutes Oran Warder, Lawrence IVciss. Raul Weekly. Alfred Morgan, Wheeler McFadden. Robert Leachman. Foot-Ball Football was again chosen ,t� one of the school sports by the boys of the High School in the season of 1914. This line of sport had been dropped from the list the year before. This year the material was very promising. Under the coaching of Mr. Dunbar, the boys who came out for ilie team were taught the rudiment- of the game. The team gave promise of being very strong. Vs with many good things, the team was too good to last. Early in the season a number of the largest and strongest men of the -quad left school and the coach was put to the necessity of forming a new line up. In the opening game of the season, played against the Shinnston team at Shinnston, our fullback and main-stay of the team was disabled. He was compelled to remain on the side line most of the season. The team did not always win the games played, but they did succeed in getting sundry hard knocks, and very soon realized that football is not child’s play. Though we suffered some very painful defeats, we learned how to bear them, as sportsmen should, and were thereby repaid. Football Games Played 1915 Grafton High School 0 Shinnston High School 26 ft •� • 7 Fairmont 14 •• tt tt 0 Buckhannon ” 111 tt 1 Shinnston ” 0 tt � � tt 0 Terra Alta 7 tt 0 Morgantown ” 27 tt � � 6 Clarksburg ” 6 tt � � 0 Manning ton ” 64 Grafton scored one touchdown on Shinnston. The Shinnston team left the field. Referee forfeited the game to Grafton, 1 to 0. RAY COLE. Basketball this year was played under difficulties. The teanvhad to use an inferior floor and were allowed to practice only twice a week. The floor was too small to allow much team work and this condition put the team to a disadvantage when on larger floors. However. there was plenty of material out. and. under the efficient coaching of Sir. Dunbar, the team has proved its worth. We won some good games with outside teams and tied with the . M. C. A. for first place in the City League. H. R. Dunbar. ..... Charles Gough... .... . .. R. F. William Collins |oe Madera C lair Bee .. . R. G. Vernon Wilmoth ... L. G. Substitutes: Gordon Kay ley. Robert Sinclair tor Blancy, Robert Bennett, Wheeler MeFadden. Games played as follows: Grafton High School 24 Buckhannon H. S.... 67 Grafton High School 17 Grafton High School 27 Grafton High School 2( iration High School 27 Grafton High School 28 Grafton High School 11 Grafton High School 12 Buckhannon H. S.... 34 Fairmont H. S..... 40 Morgantown H. S.... 24 Weston High School 11 Shinnston H. S.... 50 Morgantown H. S.... 32 Weston High School 39 Base-Ball Our baseball team was fortunate in having five players from last year’s team, and the other positions have been filled satisfactorily. We have succeeded in getting a good schedule. Although the weather ha been unfavorable, the team has been practicing regularly and we believe we will have a successful season. Line-up Anthony Harlow.........................Third Base Robert Bennett.........................Short Stop Claude Bonner...........................Left Field I orsey Curry.........................First Base Oran W arder...............................Catcher Victor Blaney.........................Second Base Davis Ellis................................Pitcher Wheeler McFadden.......................Right Field Edward Gerkin.........................Center Field 11. R. Dunbar................................Coach Subs.—James Proud foot and Harold Ringler. Page Sixty-Three tfEKMurr 1 CAMP FIRE f wturwr feLfe girls, v p totei CAMPFIRE CALENDAR Alaho Circle Feb. 13. Dr. Shafer gave a talk on bandaging. Apr. 30. Entertainment given by the three circles. July 28. W ent Camping at Grafton Park. Sept. 4. Spent the day at Valley Falls. Oct. 23. A hike from Philippi. Dec. 31. Our Guardian entertained us at her home. Mar. 11. Met at West Side School and sewed for Bel gians. May ( . We held our first ceremonial meeting in the new High School Building. Feathoki Circle Oct. 20. Reorganized. Ceremonial meetings held first week in every • month. Business meeting every week. Oct. 27. Hike to and from Knottsville. Feb. 22. Martha Washington tea party. Feb. 28. Grand Council Meeting. Petruki Circle Several candy sales were held and the money received was used for paying dues and buying ceremonial dresses. Nov. 3. Election of officers was held. Dec. 3. Ceremonial meeting at Lucille Martin's Feb. 3. Ceremonial meeting was held at Esther La Hue’s home. Business meeting held each Wednesday. Camp Fire Girls Page Sixty-Four G. MIN ETTA WATKINS BERTHA NUTTING... J A UN IT A SHINGLETON Alaho Circle Gazelle Monroe Margaret Powell Ada Louise Kunst Alta Wagner Orpah Haymond Hazel Bennett Ruth Love Klayde Spaur da Wagner Helen Jackson Frances J aco Dorothy K i mmel jaunita Wilmoth Helen Hefner Ruth Hefner ROLL OF MEMBERS Feathoki Circle Eva Skagg Florence McFarling Alma Hickman Eilean Patton Bertha Xcwcomc Viola Hickman Ruth Hostler Elizabeth Glenn Eugenia Bumgartner Margaret Gasser Cora IIutTman Irene Vincent Genevieve Heflin Guardian Alaho Circle Guardian Feathoki Circle Guardian Petruki Circle Pctruki Circle Lsther La Rue-Virgin ia Love Dorothy Church Mary Schrocder W'illa Harris Mar) A1 lender Lucille Martin Page Sixty-Five CAMP FIRE CIRCLES Page Sixty-Six ru.J e .jf'iHhide Page Sixty-Seven ✓ OI K GERMAN CIA B The German Club Page Sixty-Eight The German Club The German Club was organized sometime in the fall of nineteen hundred and fifteen. Meeting an held semi-monthly during the school year, and se -eral entertainments were also given. The aim is to promote German Conversation. Public Speaking, and a knowledge of German Songs and Games. DEUTSCHER VEREIN Pans Abel Ada Louise Kunst Lucille Anderson Esther l.a Rue Blanche Bartlett Jane Middleton Marie Brcnnard Gertrude Rank Dorothy Church ivian Reynolds Lucille Deck Iva Rosier Brooks Gall Mary Schroedef V’eva Haddox Elizabeth Shroyer Ruth Hefner Lewis W alker Mary Louise Knotts Hlfa Wolfe Beamten Presidentin. Ada Louise Kunst Zweitc Presidentin, Vivian Reynolds Schriftwartin, Mary Schroeder Schatzmeister, Brooks Gall Page Sixty-Nine Page Seventy Si Perkins’ Opinion of the G. H. S. “Howdy, Mister Bonner. I’ve came to see this yer new buildin’ you call a ‘high school. but it 'pears more like a post office, or a hotel, or a hospital, so tar as I kin sec. “My gal that is goin on seventeen this ycr summer. has been axin’ me to send her here, so I calker-lated that 1 had best come and look it over first fore I • .lid ’yes’. “So thi yer is the cookin’ ’partment, huh! None of that fur my gal; her mammy kin show her just how to cook and sew. too. fur that matter, right in her own kitchen. “Wat, wal, I don’t calkerlate what yer want with hot •water or hot air in a school buildin’ fur; we ustcr wash in cold water and have a coal stove to sit by, when we went to school, and we was glad to git that. I kin tell you. mister; and as fur pumpin’ cold air into rooms, that is all tomfoolery, why don’t ycr just hist them there big winders, and be done with it? “Wal! what’s all those big black boxes fur anyhow? Hello! some one's agittin’ somethin’ out of one of ’em ; must be some sort of a place to keep bad ’uns, huh? Wal. 1 declare. I niver thought of people keepin’ their wraps in them things. Page Seventy-One “Then this yer is where the boys throw a ball, an’ kick each other and say they air playin’ basket ball, huh? Wal, I ain’t calcerlatin’ my gall will be in this yer ’partment that yer call the ‘gym’ so we’ll mosy along. “Have a chew of tobaccy, will yer. Mister Bonner? Wal! wal! I niver seen sieh people in town as you ’pear to be, to refuse a good chew of tobaccy. Mighty good place to spit ’round here. “All these yer rooms looks awful large. One room looks like our whole school, where everybody was in the saint? room. “What’s the use of this yer big room fur? Just fur the kids to study in. huh! Wal. I say my gal shall study right at home, where she kin git more sense out of her books and not be alookin’ ’round everywhere. “Where yer have chapel! Wal. wal, I niver seen nor heerd sich things before. When we was kids we’d go right to school and study our books from the begin-nin’ to the end, and not have sich tomfoolery. “So this is where yer study farmin’. What’s on them there walls? They ’pear like they was good enough to make brooms with. “Art room, huh? Wal, let me put on my spec’s, and look them there things over. Wal. they air pretty good lookin’ so far as I know about sich things. “Goodness sakes! We”ve been just an hour goin’ over this yer buildin’! Wal, I suppose my gal kin come soon if 1 sell enough ’taters to help pay her way. “Goodbye. Mister Bonner, and thank ye for seein’ me through.” GAZELLE MONROE. Junior Class. To. page Seventy-Two “Setting Their Caps’’ At the weekly meetin of the Ladies’ Aid Society of Rockville all was excitement. Sharp looks were bein’ exchanged and every spinster was scrutinizing her sister spinster. There you ha e it. an unmarried man had come to town : at least, he was thought to be unmarried. He had engaged room of the widder Townsend and had taken up the management of Lem Baker’s hardware store. You know Lem—old Sam s boy, that used to live over on the old Bronson place. Well, Doc sent Lem to California fer his health, but to my way of thinkin’ one place of air jest the same as t’other. Well, anyway, how them women did perk up. Miranda Hawkins went right away to Redville and got a new bonnet and a Hickville style-book and came home with makins, enough to keep our modist busy for a year. nd widder Sykes, whose house our hero pa ed on his way to work, was seen shamelessly ‘tendin’ her flowers right by the fence, when every one knew she never went near them any other time. Well, the race was on. Miranda and the widder, amongst all others, seemed to be runnin’ ahead now. Miranda would invite him home from church to Sunday dinner, while widder, not to be outdone by her rival, extended an invitation to tea. Both invitations were promptly accepted. At the meeting of the Society dark looks were exchanged between the two. Miss Miranda went on about her ‘My Der Mr. Smith praized my chiny,” and the widder promptly came back with something like this. “Yes. he said as how he hadn’t seen such table linen and tasted such tea muffins senee he was to Hicksville.” From these remarks you might judge that poor Mr. Smith was a sly-tongued rascal, who was an adept at these pretty speeches that tickle a woman’s sense of humor so much. But far from it. Mr. Smith was a blue-eyed little man who weighed at the most a hundred pounds and was about five feet four inches tall. He never spoke only when addressed and seemed ready to obey your very looks. So much for Mr. Smith. You will say. why would they want him? Hump' Remember, he’s a man. and men are scarce in Rockville. Things went on this way for a while. First one would score a bit, then another gain a yard, but no touchdown was made. No goal was reached. Finally, Miss Miranda and the widder decided that by competition they were ruining their chances Each sai i the dear Mr. Smith was too kind hearted to disappoint the other by showing preference (tho’eacn knew he preferred her and was just waiting for a chance to declare himself without hurting the other’s feelings). At last. Mis- Miranda and widder declared on a scheme. Each was to bake a pumpkin pie for the fair the next week and the one taking first prize was to have Mr. Smith, or. anyway, have a good try for him. And the other—woe be unto the one who lost! was to retire from the race. Each decided in her heart, of course, she could make the best pie. Well, her pic must be the best this time. She would bake such a pie that every man at the fair would wish to be a judge just to taste it. Oh. yes, her’s would be the best! On the day the fair opened both Miranda and the widder might have been seen going down the shady street, each with a basket covered with a snowy napkin. And whoever -aw such pies! They were enough Page Seventy-Three to tempt the strongest to crime. Light, flaky crust, just brown enough And when they were displayed by their proud owners—such a chorus of Ohs and Ah . Now I do wonder,” “Hain’t seen such pies since I was a boy,” etc. Hut this state of perfection had not been reached without a struggle. The shelves of Miss Miranda ' and the widder’s pantry would testify to this. They were covered with pies. Pies a little sunk in the cen ter. pies a little brown, light pies, dark pies, pies of all descriptions. All had been rejected; but now, at last, two perfect pies. May the Lord help the judges! At two thirty Miss Miranda and the widder, each leaving guards, sallied out to meet the train. Xot that they expected any one, but hadn’t Miranda’s great aunt once written that she might come to see her some time, and mightn’t the widder’s relations in Hachsville take a notion to pay her visit. But the greatest rea-son- Mr. Smith had lately been meeting the train! The train pulled in—five small children jumped ofl' and dived for Mr. Smith, and one young gentleman shouted. Daddy! Miss Miranda and the widder with a gasp of dismay fell into each other’s arms and both ejaculated: “A widderer! Five children!” IRKXK THORNBURG. Page Seventy-Four How the Sponge was First Discovered If you will listen attentively, dearest beloved. I will tell you how the sponge was first discovered. There lived in the very heart of the jungles of Africa a small boy with his black mummy. Now this small boy, with his black mummy’s leave, dearest beloved, would go down to the river on hot days to trail his tries in the water. But for many days ((how many 1 cannot remember, dearest beloved) the small boy had not been able to do this, because there had been no rain and the river had run dry. The heat almost drove the small boy frantic. He would run this way and that way. yet, dearest beloved; the more he ran the hotter he became, and still there was no water to trail his toes in. He said, Mummy. I am going down to the river and turn up some of the stones in its bed and perhaps under one of them 1 can find enough water to trail my toes in.” He went, dearest beloved (with his black mummy’s leave) and had turned up many stones (how many 1 cannot remember) without finding a drop of water. He sat down on a stone in the middle of the river bed and began to cry. He cried for hours and hours', and his tears, dearest beloved, trickled down on the stones at his feet. At last he grew tired of crying and decided to go back home to his black mummy. At his first step, dearest beloved, his heart almost jumped up into his throat, because the stone he stepped on sent water streaming over his toes. The small boy picked up the stone, but. to his surprise, instead of finding, as he had expected, a firm stone, he found a light red porous elastic substance, which, when he squeezed it together, would send forth many streams (how many I can not remember, dearest beloved) of water. It was the funniest stone that the small boy had ever seen in his short life, and, of course, lie wanted to know the name of it. (It was only natural, dearest beloved, that a small boy should be inquisitive.) He took it to his only advisor, his black mummy. She had never seen anything like it before, and, of course, knew no name for it. But she said, “Anything that can be made as useful as this should have a name, so I’ll call it sponge.” There was no one else living in the heart of the jungles of Africa to give it a better name, so it remained undisputed—sponge. Now. dearest beloved, you know how sponges were first discovered and named, and. if you doubt the truthfulness of this story, go to the very heart of the jungles of Africa and there you will find the very same small bov living with his black mummy. If you will stay there until there is no rain and the river runs dry you’ll find the small boy sitting under a shade tree crying. Observe closely, dearest beloved, and you will sec that his tears drop on a sponge at his feet. After he has cried for a long time he’ll stop because the sponge will contain enough water to moisten his toes, (io closer, dearest beloved, and ask him to tell you the story of the sponge, and the small boy will tell you exactly as I have done. HKLEIN IRVINE. A Josephine was a very popular girl, she was always gla l to do what she could for anyone. Her marked characteristic, however, was that she did anything and everything without ever giving it a second thought. A mere suggestion was enough for her. ami immedi ately she would act. One evening she went walking with some girls. They came to a park, and the noise and lights caused them to want to go in. But not one of them had any money, ami it was ten cents admission into the park, alone. Around this park was a high iron fence, put there, no doubt, to keep out just such people as these girls. ''Josephine ' said one of the girls. 1 dare you to climb that fence and go over.” You know I never take a dare.” said Josephine. “Here, you take my coat and go around by the entrance and I will come around in about fifteen minutes.’ With these words, she climbed over. Now, what was she to do. She was quite sure the ticket-seller to the “merry-go-round” had seen her. Suppose he should report her ami she would be arrested. hat would she do? She took off her girdle, which was a very bright Page Seventy-Five Dare color, thinking possibly this would make them think she was not the girl who had climbed the fence. Then she tried to mingle with the crowd ami be hidden. But no! that crowd just would not hide her. An old lady and a little boy came along. She loitered beside them, until the old lady said, John, what is that girl tagging along after us for. what doe she want?” At this she was compelled to leave them and seek other shelter. Why did that man watch her so. why didn’t hr watch his own work? Would the crowd never reach the entrance? At last she was there and quickly she walked out. “Lady!” called the gate-keeper. She turned around almost too stunned to move. Had they caught her. when she was so near safety. Yes, sir. said Josephine. “They are going to have some very fine fire work in a little while, you had better stay.” Was that all he wanted? “Thank you, but I must go immediately,” said Josephine, and at last she was outside with the girls. (iirls, never take a dare, it is the most fun to have such funny experiences.” said Josephine. But to herself she said. “Never again.” DOROTHY KIM MEL. page Seventy-Six Jimmie’s Circus It was an ideal day tor the circus. The sun was out in full splendor, and it was warm, but not too warm to be comfortable. Little Jimmie had been reading the bill boards with the circus advertisements on them lor weeks. He was undecided whether to be real happy or awful unhappy. He didn’t know whether his lather was going to take him to the circus or not Hut he decided to be a real good boy all da long and get to go to the circus. The parade was about noon. It didn’t appeal to Jimmie. It was over and gone too soon. When people asked him how he liked the parade he answered. i. ail right.' At noon he asked his father if he would take him. His father said perhaps he would take him in the evening. So Jimmie stayed at home all afternoon and was a good boy. He worked for his mother diligently, in the hope that she also would tayor taking him to the evening performance. Several times during the evening Jimmie heard the steam calliope, and imagined he heard the cowboys shooting. Cowboys were Jimmie’s ideals. When Jimmie’s father came home to supper the first question the boy asked him was, “How soon must we start for the circus, father'” His father was unusually good natured and remembered when he was a boy. t first he told Jimmie that he had decided not to go, then he said he would take him, and Jimmie was so excited and happy that he couldn't be quiet. I hev started about seven o’clock for the circus grounds. It was not a long walk, and Jimmie would have broken some speed records getting there had his father been willing. Hut his father told him there was plenty of time to see everything. t last they came to the circus grounds. How pretty it looked to the boy. The tents were all lighted with electric lights and most of the side-shows were giving their outside performances. Jimmie wanted to see everything at once. He wanted peanuts, candy, popcorn, lemonade, cracker- jackS' and everything else that came within his sight. Ilis lather bought him a glass of lemonade and some peanuts. Then they entered the big show. The animal tent had many wonderful things for the boy. He asked more questions than three men could answer. His father could hardly get him to go into the performance tent. He wanted to stay and look longer at his ancestors, the monkeys. I hey entered the tent and took a reserved seat in the second row. Jimmie said he would rather sit where he was nearer the performers. Kvery different act had a lot of new questions for Jimmie’s father to answer. Of course, he liked the trained ponies and the clowns best. Hut Jimmie took everything in and could tell you afterwards everything that happened just as it happened. After the show he told his father he didn’t know which he liked best. ( hristmas or Show Day. ROBERT BEXNETT WITH APOLOGIES TO UNCLE ABE On the 14th day of September, 1916, the Bo d ot Education cast upon the shoulders of the Senior Class the welcome subject of American History conceived for learning anti dedicated to the proposition that wo shall learn. Now we are debating in a serious manner whether we will pass or Hunk, on such a subject so conceived and so dedicated to such a proposition. Now wc have Come to the end of the term. e have come to the conclusion that if wc do not pass it is our own fault and not the fault of our teacher. It is altogether fitting ami proper that we should do this. Hut in a real sense we can dunk, or wc can pass. The brave pupils of the past, either graduates or dunks, have done this, far above- our poor pc wer to add or detract. Our teacher will little note or longer remember what they have done, but he never will forget what the class of 1916 has done ami shall do. GEORGE HA I LEV. A Farewell O Seniors! Dear Seniors! Our work is almost done; And we have done our very best, the prize we sought is won, Commeccment i- near, the cheers 1 hear, the people all applauding. While on the stage the Seniors stand, with president, brave and daring; But only think' think! think! 0 how painful ’ti to think! 1 hat now our high school day arc o’er, Xc’er more will we our teachers bore. O Junior ! Dear Juniors! You cannot but bt glad. Come on—we give our place to you, for there’s much yet left to do. To you we give our physics book, to you ’our note books, too. For we will never need them more, in this our own high school. Here, teachers! Dear teachers! We’ve kept the praise for you! For you have always done for us. the things we could not do. Page Seventy-Seven Soliloquy of a Pupil in Study Hall To study or not to study—that the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The black and frowning looks of our teachers. Because we are having a good time. Or. rising in our seats against them. And by opposing all—to study or be driven from the room. Then more: to be taken to the office, There to endure a silence and a thousand natural Shocks that come from segregation. 'I o go to the office—ay, there’s the rub! For in that office no one knows what things may come. To study causes us to grunt anti sweat Under the ceiling of our clas- rooms. But the office! That makes us rather bear The ills we have in our class rooms and study hall Than to fl to others that we know not of. KLAYDE SPAUR. Page Seventy-Eight TAKEN FROM THE BULLETIN BOARD Listen, my children, and I will tell Of the dear school you love so well: The plans were drawn about ’sixty-five. And from year to year have been kept alive. Now you will see, upon the hill. Results of hard work and determined will. To move was the next thing on the slate. And January set as a positive date. Something happened, we know not what. And February came. “Johnny on the spot”. February fell through, flat as a flounder. And there she lay until March found her: March came and went, clear, calm and cool. And now we get an APRIL FOOL. HOPEFUL HARRY. STUDY PERIOD In study periods in the afternoon, Ye always hear the same old tune: “Have you not some work to do? Then get your books and pencil too. And get to work. Please don’t get up, For other folks you'll interrupt.” So we sit there and look around And watch the boys and girls all frown. They gaze around and then they say, I'd rather be in a “Movie” today.” Then they look at the teacher cruel, And think each day a new-made rule. There’s number nine hundred and eight, Report to the office when you’r’e late ; And rule one thousand twenty-four, ( O two by two out each side door; Then in the hall don't promenade. So now we’re always quite afraid. A SOLEMN STUDY PERIOD There is a little study period about ten-fiftv-five. It’s engineered by Miss McMinn, who keeps us all alive. The first day we felt kind of blue In the auditorium till the seats came new. She scattered us out all around and about Till very lonely it did seem. For she left two empty seats in between. Now we are glad the seats have come. For between us empty seats there are none. RUTH SMITH. THE FACULTY All day long, from morning till eve. W ith wise looks their pupils to deceive; Eyes all open some mischief to see, Sits the faculty with their . B. Degree. The faculty meets just once a week Some time to spend and pleasure to seek. They always consider the time well spent If they censure the pupils to their heart’ content. THE CHANT OF THE GRIND Mr. Bonner is my teacher ; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in deep study; he leadeth me through the fourteenth chapter. He rcstoreth my mind; he leadeth me in the paths of Caesar for his name’s sake. Yea, though 1 walk through the valley of the shadow of learning. 1 will fear no evil; for my pony is with me; its grammar and translation, they comfort me. He preparest the lesson before me in the presence of classmates; he annointeth my head with understanding; my brain runneth over. Surely wisdom and learning shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the classroom forever. W ALTER BALL. Page Seventy-Nine THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES By a beautiful cottage, of great renown. Somewhat back from the billow wave. Its roof all decayed by a century’s age. Lies a Maule in an unquiet grave. I studied hard for many a night Upon these melancholy fables; My brain did ache, my frame did shake Thinking of The House of Seven (tables. I’ve studied many and many a book Which told of great fables. But did not impress upon my mind As The House of The Seven Gables. The ghosts appeared just in’one scene Which gave us quite a token. One lad appeared from a foreign land Which made the family broken. Old Hawthorne did his utmost To write this lovely story. Excelled by Holgrave, who in turn Wrote from The House of Seven Gables. Page Eighty High School Calendar September 14—School starts with enrollment. September 20—Call for football candidates. An in creased sale of liniment is noticed, in the next few days. September 24—Wanted: More pacifiers for Fresh- men, as they are getting fretful. September 29—(Suffragette Meeting) Junior girls elect Junior class officers. (Boys either at football practice or with their friends at V. M. C. A.) October 2—Grafton 0; Shinnston 2f� . “Get them next time” is the cry October 5—Great commotion. Seniors are elect- ing officers. October 9 (irafton 7; Fairmont 13. October 12—Football squad doomed to rough work. October 23—Grafton 000; Buckhannon 111. New forward pass uncorked by Fats Morgan. Ask a player the score, and see what he tells you. October 29—Seniors’ Masquerade Party. Who were the two unknown girls??? October 30—Grafton 1: Shinnston 0. November 1—Sophomores decide to elect officers for the year. November 6—Grafton 6; Clarksburg 0. November 10—Big frost; time to put on large heavy ones. November 13—Grafton 0: Morgantown 27. November 20—Grafton 0; Mannington M. A few take swimming lessons upon the field. November 27—All quiet along Tygart’s Valley. November 30— Everybody hard at work. December 1—Sam Bord fined by the city for wearing a path to Beth’s house. December 9— queer feeling is noticeable about the knees. (Quarterly exams, draw near.) December 17—German Club Party, reported a success. Ks gab guten essen und zu tri nked. December 22—Be good babies. Freshmen, and may be Santa will put a rattler in your stocking. January 3—Basket-ball practice starts. You wouldn’t know the old place. January 8—Grafton 24; Buckhannon ( 7. January 14—Grafton 11; Morgantown 32. January 19—W e could be arrested for the things we say about the coming exams. January 22—Grafton 17; Buckhannon 34. Katsy and Doc had their dander up. January 24—Finals not far off. Midnight oil burns brightly. January 29—Grafton 12; W eston 39. Too much Sunny Italy on the Weston team. January 31—Fats Morgan exceeds usual average (101%). February February February February February February February February February March March March March April April April April April 4— Teachers arc popular. Grade . Flun ko. Hunkerc. faile, suspendus. 5— Grafton 27: Fairmont 40. 9—Freshmen elect officers: it’s a wonder. 12—Grafton 27: W eston 17. 17— Lost: One Cod} Grow. Please return to Miss Vincent. 18— Grafton 28: Shinnston 50. 24—Warder, the only man who can put an American History on a pool table and get it every time. 26— (irafton 26: Morgantown 24. 29—Mid-semester exams, are here. 1—Comes in like a lamb, and goes out like a tish. 8—Reports from the front, General Irvine defeats Malone at the Battle of Hearts’ Desire. 23—General Malone brought home with a broken heart. 27— Baseball candidates report for practice. 1—Someone said Sleepy Smith had awakened. (April Fool.) 8—Baseball team journeyed to Morgantown. Rather play snowball than baseball. 10—Katsy has packed his green eyeshade. We are going to move for sure now. 12—Grafton 6; Clarksburg.6. 15—Teachers are getting dizzy, because pupils 'hake their heads so much in . answer to questions. Page Eighty-One May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May June 1—Please return to Mr. Loar pieces of broken camera. (Football and bast ball teams had pictures taken.) 3—Woman’s Club sang in Chapel. 5—Holiday. Circus in town. Vasco 'laid away from school to help the elephant unpack his trunk. 10—Tom Barn house has put in application to direct the High School Orchestra. Madrigal Club sang in Chapel. 13—Grafton 10; Fairmont 11. 17—Everybody ha- suddenly gotten over Spring Fever. Final exams, almost here. 19— Stunt Night. “Some Stunts. 20— (irafton 1; Mannington 11. 22— Increase in size of hats sold; Senior-exempt from exams. 23— Seniors. wish you a happy journey upon the highway of life. 24— Junior-Senior Reception. Biggest success of year. 25— Nothing. 26— Musical. Garden of Japan by Girls' Glee Club. 28— Annual sermon for Senior Class. They sure need it. 29— C lass Play. 30— Decoration Day. Holiday. 31— Class Day Exert i-cs. 1 -Commencement. DAVIS W. ELLIS. 17. Page Eighty-Two PICTURE OF CAST OF PLAY Page Eighty-Three Engaged by Wednesday A Farce in Three Acts By GRACH ARLINGTON OWEN Time: Present. Place: College Town in Middle West. CHARACTERS Martin Henry, the laziest man in the country.. Dorsey Curry Arthur Watson.........................Karl Pauley Friends of Arthur— Jack.............................George Bailey l ed........................Paul Williamson Dick............... ...............Paul Malone Miss Abigail Persons, a woman of letters. Mary Ellers Mrs. Watson, a gentle person....Agnes Van Zandt Lucille Persons................ Ada Louise Kunst Friends of Luciie— Jane...........................Margaret Powell Mabel..............................Ruth Davis Marie.............................Helen Irvine Mary, Martin Henry’s Aunt: cook at the Persons ...............................Klayde Spaur First iirl.......................Margaret C assell Second Girl...........................Lera Waters First Gypsy. ...............................Dorothy Kimmel Second Gypsy..................................Helen Jackson ACT 1 Scene—The lawn between the Persons’ and the Watson’s homes. ACT II Scene The same. ACT III Scene The ame place, the same evening, two hours later, about 9 P. M. SYNOPSIS Two young people, namcl}. Luciie Persons and Arthur Watson, are betrothed from childhood. The young people have not seen one another for seven years. So when the plan is definitely arranged (by the aunt and mother) that they are to become engaged by the Wednesday after Lucile’s return from school, neither likes the idea. Unknown to each other, each persuades three friends to masquerade under his name for a day. In the end Luciie and Arthur like the arrangement for the engagement and the result is quite unexpected. Page Eighty-Four FROM THE STUDY HALL Page Eighty-Five Mr. Kendall (speaking in chapel)—“Whenever we study History we are looking backward instead of forward. Margaret P. (to a friend) “I always look forward in my book to see how many pages I have to read.” Alfred Morgan—-“Why is it that you can never forget a love affair?” Paul MalonV- “Because you learn it by heart.” Dorsev- “You have too much powder on vour face.” Laura K.—“Well, I believe in preparedness.” In cooking class The girls were drawing a cow. and Virginia, who had been getting discouraged with her drawing, said to Miss Nutting: “This will be a peach.” Miss Nutting—“We don’t want a peach, we want cows.” Fred Bush (telling a story in English)—“Mrs. ‘A’ had a fifty-doflar pocketbook worth fiftj dollars. Elizabeth S.—“Do you have an extra pencil?” Miss Nutting I have one, but it is not extra. Tage Eighty-Six A couple of Freshmen were coming up the stairs and saw the bulletin containing the Board of Editors of the Annual. At the bottom of the page was written, “Wake up. Juniors and Seniors, and help. ’ One Freshman, after looking carefully at the paper for a while, turned and said to his classmate, “Wonder where the Freshmen names are.” Miss Wagner— Explain the difference in sit and set. Paul.” Paul Malone—“Well, when you sit down there you set.” Mr. Gibson—“Vernon, what makes a cow give you milk?” Vernon W.—“Put a rock on her back.” Miss Wagner said to the Seniors: A ou have had experience in writing compositions, and are not like the Freshies.” (Hard on the Freshmen.) Klayde— Oh! Miss Wagner. I have lost my primer” (meaning Primer of English Literature). Fred Bush —“Dred Scott married a negro woman of his own race.” Mr. Burns (coming in History room)—“Dorsey, what have you there?” Dorsey Currv (playing with a piece of copper wire)—“A watch spring, sir. I am going to make an Ingersoll watch.” Mi ss Wagner—“How many of you would like to go to Kansas?” George Bailey—“I wouldn’t mind going there if I were single.” Mr. Nuzum—“With what policy did Walpole start in office?” Gough (hesitating)—“Insurance policy, I guess.” Behold! Behold! Miss McMinn, Who chose a man instead of a pin; But to our remorse She got a divorce, But another will drift along, Of course! If Irene Custer would Ruth Utterback? If Prudie Will-hide can Kdna Hunt her.” If Lera went boating on the water could Hobson Roe ? If Ada fell into the water would Henry Fletcher out ? If Orpah hit him would Walter Ball. If Elizabeth Yastc would keep boarders would Sammy Board? If Elta died would Edwin Moran (mourn)? Merle got mad at his best girl, ami she tried to make up by calling him Ma-dera (my dearie). A Senior girl in Mr. Burns’ history class was asked where her history was. She replied, “I put it right up there on your desk and it’s not there now.” Her teacher studied for a minute and then said, “You go down and look on the desk in the room below this one. She came back later bringing her lost history. The other day Mr. Burns in visiting the boiler rooms met three Freshmen girls, and when asked where they were going the girls said: “We are hunting Miss Watkins’ room.” Mr. Burns said. “Go up on the first floor. Who do you think she is, the Boiler Room Chief?” Mrs. Xiclsen, assigning a lesson to a German class. “Now, children, study vour lesson well, so when you come to class, you will not have to spend any time thinking. FLOWERS Mr.Gibson—Corn Flower. Miss Mills—Snap Dragon. Mr. Nuzum W all Flower. Miss Pel Icy -Tulip. Mr. Jeter Prim Rose. Miss agner—Black-eyed Susan. Mr. Dunbar—Bachelor Buttons. Miss McMinn Old Maid’s Tears. Mr. Bonner—Trailing Arbutus. Miss Watkins—Forget-me-not. Miss Parkhill—Lily. Mr. Burns Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Miss Nutting—Spring-wheat Flower. My Gum I had a piece of chewing gum. 1 chewed it long and slow. Everywhere I went The gum was sure to go. It followed me to school one day. Which was against the rule; Miss Watkins took it from me And chewed it after school. As the season (ad)Vance(d) Tom went hunting. As time goes on he expects To catch Nutting”. Wat-kin you do in Algebra?” he said. Nothing. she replied; I’d rather wed. “Wat-kin the matter be?” said he. Why. dear, it’s leap year, don't you sec In English neither Wag-ner-lag. But on your teacher be sure to brag. Page Eighty-Seven Elizabeth Yates was asked what kind of a house she preferred. She said, “Oh, a Bord. Grafton High School has the wisdom of Solomon, piety of Ruth, and innocence of Esther. The High School is practicing economy, as it has a whole Colebank ami plenty of Gas(ser). Mr. Dunbar was asked if hr uzum (knew some) remedy forbad Burns. He replied. 1 expect you can get some soda for a few Mills, which will help. ’ If George is White is Mildred Brown? Miss Pelley is a Marville (Marvel) at Arts. It is said that George Bailey is fond of the U. S. and especially of “Virginia . If Mr. Xuzum had some bottles of that liquid so wisely prohibited by a certain law of W est irginia. and he carefully locked them in a closet, of which he only had the key, why were they not there when he came back? Scene: The domestic science room, when th faculty have been invited to eat ‘’Easter pudding.” Mr. Xuzum takes his pudding to a distant table. Mrs. Neilsen—“Mr. Xuzum. don’t go over there. Can’t we sit closer together?” Fifth Grade Boy—“Have you hoard the latest about Miss Xutting?” Friend— No; what is it?” F. G. B. “She made a salad and put violets in it. Then she ate it! Page Eighty-Eight Our Mathematicians Mary Prim (to a Freshman in Study Period)— •‘What is nine fives?” Innocence Gertrude Rank— What is paregoric, Mrs. Xeil-sen? Is it an adjective?” Charles Hyson (who has been properly brought up) “Who doesn’t know what paregoric is? Why, you take it.” Mr. Jeter (in Commercial Arithmetic) to Robert Glenn (who was talking and not paying attention) Have you all your problems?” Robert (who was rather dazed) Mam?” Sir?” Oh. yes, ma’am. When we first came on this campus. Freshmen we as green as grass; Now, as stuck-up stately Seniors, Snarl we at the Freshman class. First Student It's all off.” Second Student— What’s off?” First Student—“The hair on Mr. Dunbar’s head.” Me thought I heard a weird voice say That work of art. Dunbar's green shade To his beauty lends much aid; For when to Jackson county he goes That green shade still strides his nose. During Algebra period Helen Yates was going to tell Miss Watkins she did not unerstand an example, but instead -he said, Miss Watkins I can’t stand under that problem.” Mr. Gibson - Take home your botany notebook. Virginia Love— Oh. Mr. Gibson, I can:t do that without you.” Merle Stark 'Nina, I have been in the new building three times.'’ Nina Kintcr You have onl been in twice.'' Merle ‘Well. 1 went through twice while I was in once ’ Edward Dawson was carrying chairs, ami when he reached the second door of the building he imagined that he had dropped an ink-well. Turning round, he thought he saw it on the floor When he reached over, he discovered it was a door check. Mrs. Xeilsen—“What does E S stand for?” Frances Stavelev -“Something Mr. Gibson—“If a cow dies of the blackleg, what would you do with her?’ Harry Don—“Vaccinate her.” George White reciting on a great astronomer: His wife became strickened and died and he had no more time to experiment until he got married again. We ‘■’an go hunting, because we can hunt “Wolfs’ and “Kuhns”. W e can't get hungry, because we can have a Baker”. We’ll not get wet. because we have a McIntosh”. e can mine, because we have a “Colebank”. 1 he horse can't get dirty while the “Hostler” ca Curry”. No one can get in the schoolhouse. because we have a “Locke . e can be religious, because we have a “Church”. Prudie, telling a story to the English class, said: 1 he boy went to town to get a coat and vest, because thi was all he would need.” Page Eighty-Nine Editorial Staff Business Editor ALFRED MORGAN, Sr. Business Editor WALTER BALL. Jr. Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief PAUL MALONE. Sr. DAVIS W. ELLIS, Jr. Joke Editors RUTH DAVIS, Sr. CHARLES GOUGH. Jr. Literary Editors VIVIAN REYNOLDS. Sr. ADA WAGNER. Jr. Statistical Editors ROBERT BENNETT, Sr. RAY COLE. Jr. Cartoon Editors PAUL WILLIAMSON. Sr. WHEELER McFADDIN. Jr. Personality Editors GUSSIE REM LINGER, Sr. MERLE MADERA, lr. D. W. E. Page Ninety-One Grafton High School Alumni Officers GUY ALLENDEK.................................President BLANCHE GUARD...........................Vice-President RUBY BON AFIELD..............Secretary and Treasurer CLASS OF 18 0 CLASS OF 191 0 Laura Miller . Clarence C'atlicr.. Willi Lewcllen... ! aac Kill........ ....Mr'. V. S. Jackson................Grafton, W. Va. ____Railroad Official............... an hram.i o. Cat ....Treasurer 1 � avi Trust Co...........Elkin . VV. Va. CLASS OF 188? Eva Hull................Mr Harry Jones.................Itelington. W. V a. OUie Hanaway............Clerk........................... Graf IOC. W. Va. Hattie Martin..........Mr . Snow..............................;Cbicaao. III. Mary Smallwoo.1 .......Mr . T J. Humphrey.................Wheeling. VV. Va. Emma fcm. Mr. J. Morgan................. Parkersburg. W. Va. Ethel Roach.............At Home....................... t.rafton. W. V a. CLASS OF 1898 Blanche Guard.........Bookkeeper...........................(.rgfton. VV. Va. Mammie McGee........ George Schaeffe.......Examiner I. S. Fidelity Guaranty to......... Baltimore. M.i Myra Barron.,.........Mr . N. I'roudfoot.................Weston. W. Va. I. il 1 a n Shahan..Mr . C. V. lllachart.............. Chaplin. S.C. r«hur Thayer.........Postal Jerk...................Parkersburg. VV . Va. Mary Straub............Mrs_ 1 . Simmon ...............Mannmgton. V. Va. Harry Chadduck........JhutkWT ..........................Grafton. VV Va Sadie Good...... .....Mrs. Guy Raymond..................Grafton. VV. Va. Winnie Warlhen.........Mr . C. W. Meyer..............Clarksburg. W. Va. Lizzie Brown...........Stenographer...................Wheeling. W. Va. Elfie Turner..........Mrs 11. II. W aglcy...............Cumberland, Md Grace Slane...........Mr . E VV. Steven .................... York. Pa Bev Rowland...........Mrs ,1 R. Timm ...............Mannington. W. Va. I . B. Kinkaid.......Lawyer .................................1 en ver. Colo. CLASS OF I8� i Fred Blue...... ... State Tax Collccton..... Oscar Cole........... Nell llaslup..........Insurance Agent. ......... CLASS OF I hPV Helen Clayton..........Mrs J. C. Keck........... Nettie Preis ..........Mrs, C Pilson............ Cecil Peters..........Mr . R. T. Cunningham... Dove Herr..............Mrs. Richard White....... Marie Mugler...........Mrs C. K. Kevrie ..... Clara Turnei...........Mrs. J. VV, Hughe .. Byron Blue ('lav Miller...........Merchant...... John Deck.............Cashier, Vrmour ft Co.... George Rowland. ... •• !’a or......... Charleston. W. Va. .....Norfolk. Va. ...Grafton, W . Va. ..Fairmont. VV. Va Fairmont, W, Va. . .. . Pensacola. Fla. ...Keyser. W. V . ..........Erie, Pa. ..t.rafton. W. V . .Grafton. VV. Va. .... Steubenville, O. Franees Best.. M ary I-ced ...... Madge Armstrong Lizzie Jarvi ...... lxtuis Hull........ Sam Jenkins........ Ross Jones......... CLASS OF I8 y ..At Home.................. .. Pianist................. . . Mrs. J. B. Bradford.. . ..Manuscript Reader...... ..Principal Ward School., .. Florist.................. .. Professor. VV. V I’..... ...Lo Angeles. CaL .....Grafton, VV. Va. .....Grafton. VV. Va. ....Philadelphia. P� ......Pittsburgh. Pa .....Grafton, VV. V'a Morgantown. VV. V«. Fell Ifsstaf.... Susan Magill.. Gallic Jenkins.. Carrie Kent Ed Compton.... Floyd Patton... Lloyd Fast...... CLASS OF 1804 ....Mrs. I. Sleet.,.. ....Mr' Frank Jordon... .. .Stenographer............ . ..Mrs. VV. Jenkins.... . .. Pastor................ .. . thief Clerk. B. ft O... .... Pastor......... ........ ....Norfolk. Va ............ Imperial, Pa .......King wood, VV'. Va. ............Portland. Ore. .......East Orange. X. J. ...... .Grafton. VV. V t ......Ronceverte. VV Va Page Ninety-Two CLASS OF I mi:. Florence Kimmrl.........Mrs O. J. Fleming..............Ciraftnn, W. j. Mattie Jaco.............Teacher..............................Grafton. W. Va. K-.tr Keotx.. ...Bookkeeper ................................Grafton. W. Va. Ktta Luca ........... Mrs. T. R. Henderson..., Fairmont YV. Va t arrir Sincel.......... Mr . Frank Seller ........... ComtrlUvillc, I'a. Grace Blue.............Mr . 1 B Brydon.................Grafton. V. Va. May Davidson...........Mrs. C A. Sin el................Grafton. W. .i. Laura Jennings.........Mrs. W Adair.... ...............Grafton, W. Va. Mite Mallonee..........Mrs. Allie Chamberlain.... .Salt Lake City. Utah Marian Herr............Mrs. Goodloe Jackson..........Charleston. W. Va Bertie Vnderson........Mrs. F. N. Iladdix...............Grafton. W. Va. Nettie Nnaum.......... t Home. ................ .Sunnyside. Wash. Bessie I'oe..........Mrs C V. Miller................Grafton. W. Va. Dorsey Herr Oscar Slane...........Manager Mirror Factory..............Statesville. N. C, CLASS OF imm: Nettie Watkins........Teacher.............. , slfred A. Holt........Druggist............. .epna Furhce.........Mrs. Harry Wyckoff... Lillie Madera.........Trained Nurse........ Bessie Compton........Mrs. J M. Carskaddon Wayne Blue.............. Mine Inspector....... , Hugh Warder ..........Lawyer.................. Alice Jennings.........Mrs- C. Rogers. ..... , Ylan; Friedman.........Mrs. K. Rothschild.... YLdlie Rendle..........Mrs. t Broom......... Lillie Martin.........Mrs. It. Holverstott. ...Grafton, W. Va. ...Grafton. W. Va. ...Grafton. W. Va Clarksburg. V Va. .... Seward. Alaska ...Grafton, W. Va. Clarksburg. W, Va. .....Richmond, :. .. Keyser. W. Va ..Fairmont. W. Va. CLASS OF IM� ; William Cassell.......Commercial Salesman.............Bellingham. Wa b William Holt...........Banker.......................... Callwell Okla. Stella Stuhbin .......Mrs. S. B. Jenkin .................Giafton. W. Va. I'tbel Newton.........Stenographer......................Fairmont. W. Va. Nettie BendcF.........Mrs. J K McClay................. Huckhannon. W. Va. nna Kenny............Stenographer............... ......Fairmont. W. v‘a. Mary Lruthke..,.......Mrs. G. llechmer..................Grafton. W. Va. CLASS OF 18� 8 Merle Watkins. .......faiwyrr........................ Grafton, W. Va. Delbert Robinson......Clerk Supreme Court..............Charleston. W. Vi. t'arl Holy............Assistant Bank Cashier................Sutton. W a. Mabel White,..........At Home.............................Grafton. W. Va. CLASS OF Im� u da Rose...............Mrs, . Gall ......... Lom Rogers............Mrs. H H. Sawyer......... Marie Holy.............Mr . Johnson. ....... Lulu Keith.............Mrs. Frank Clark........ Daisy Kcsser . Grafton. W. Va. .Grafton. W. Va. Wilkin ihurg. I’a. .....Reaver. Pa. Ethel Anjfir...........Mrs. Robert Studehaker..............Greensboro. N « Vloltie Ncwlon........ Stenographer................... .Calmer. Nebraska Carrie Brown.......... Trainer! Xurw.........................Baltimore. Mil. Nettie Maxwell I’hila England..........Mr . F. Stansberry....................Spencer. S' (. Hannah Dewomly.........Mr . C. I'roudfoot............................Porblo. Colo. led V. Robin on ......Lawyer..............................Grafton. Va. Henry Kcolx............Boilermaker.............. ... Mobile, IllinoC rt-orge Nutum James Haistip..........Electrical Engineer...............Rosemont. W. Va. � I.ASS OK I t� On Edward Dudley...........Mechanical Engineer William Broun......... Marian (‘olerider Walter Blue.............Electrical Engineer.. Maud Miller..............Mrs E. K. Goodman Virginia K Reed.........Cleric.. . Klirabcth Kenny ........Trained Nurse..... Carrie Row..............Mrs. H. T. (,’ole.... Hattie Patton...........Mrs. J. I„ Monroe.. eat tic. Wa h. .. Kansas City. Mo. Clarksburg. W. V . .Grafton. W. Va. ....New York City Grifton. W. Va. . .Haitwnod. Va. CLASS OF IP01 la N’uum Vivian Turner.........Mr . Edmond Sawyer.. Kate I'llfton.........Mr II. C Owen.... IVessie Gough.........Music Teacher....... Elizabeth Knott ......At Home......... Karl Byers............Civil Engineer............. Giace Tregcllas........ .Mr«. ?. Wolf...... Mice Cassell..........Mr Homer Johnson...... •allic Davidson...... t Home... ............... Minnie Luca ..........Mrs. George Coppage......... Grace Mugler..........Mr . C. Rector.............. Harry Friedman........Lawyer... Morgan Knotts.........Stenographer................ . Grafton, V. Va .-Grafton, V. Vi ..Grafton, W Va '• 0„ Cuafton. VV. Va ........Evansville. |... i ...... Ithaca. V. Y. ... Bluevillc. W. Va . • Memmgton. W. 'a. • -Grafton. . V, .. Cameron. V Va ... .Grafton, VV Va.’ • •Washington. I). ( CLASS OF loo Grace Cassell____ ____Mrs. George II. Colebank.. . ...Fairmont. VV Va. Grace White..............Teacher.. Grafton. VV. V a. Wilheltnta Knott- ...Teacher................ . R. F. D., Grafton, Y. Va. Myrtle Knotts...........Stenographer.................... .Grafton. W. a. Mabel Watkins. .........Vt Home...........................Grafton. W. Va. « !eo Morgan...........Teacher............................Graftetl, W. u, Ella Riley............ Vlr«. C. Kirhy........... ........Cumberland. Md Edna Burke........... Mrs Robert Fur bee... . ...Grafton. W V a. Harry Abbott. Bank Clerk.........................Grafton. W. Va. Nell Fahev ____ t Home.............................Grafton, VV Va. Ruby Bnnafield........ Fire Insurance Agent.... CLASS OF IvuS I iliiun Holt.. .. • Mr L Rigbtmirc,-. . Lillian I .rutlike.....Mr . Warder Tatt.... I I a .cl War then.....Mr . Marion Luca ..-- Frederica Kcolx........( anhier....... Carrie Burke...........Mr . Carrie Glenn.. War ilt i Till I ( lrrk. II. t ---- .... I.ouinr Byer ........... Teacher.. Kul y Brown............ -Mr Cligrie Flanagan Eva Shaffemmann........Mr Clarence Bloom.. |c � ie Fawcett........... Mr Chirk Shaw... Nina (iadiint..........Teacher........ Montgomery. Morgantown. . .Grafton, ... .Grafton. ....Grafton. ___ Or ft. n. Morgantown . ...Grafton. W. Va. W Va. W. Va. N Va. W Va. W. Va. w w W Va. W Va. W. Va. CLASS OF 1W� 4 Robert Cbemmeth.......Clerk. Artnuui A Co.............Parkersburg. ' Krneftt Keoli.........Machinist................... Thomas Vance...........Bank Cashier................... Grafton. V. Roy Hall...........•..Lawyer......................... Morgantown. W. v Lillian lllaney.........Mr Harry Style .................Parson . W. A|a. Rosaline Kenney........Teacher ...� .................. ...(irafton. W Va Blanche Walkin' ......Teacher. ... (irafton. W. Va. CLASS OK 1905 Jo ( lar«- Hendrickson...Student... Bcry I T utt Rhea Hildebrand...... Mr . Holme Wyckoff. Lottie Pil on.........Mr . II Shafferman--- Georgia Lowther.......Mr . E. V., Kennedy....... Marie ('ole..........Teacher... Lena Ford Florence Hamilton. .. .Teacher. . Holme Wyckoff........Cashier Freight Office.... Edgar Doll...........B. A O. Inspector....... .........lone. Xrvada .. . Monot.gah, W. Vi. ......Grafton. V. V’a. ......Grafton, W. V . ..........nay. W. V,. ... Motion k-.ili. W, Va ....Grafton. W. VA CLASS OF low Mary Cook............. t Home.. Hattie Forman.........Teacher.. l.r lie Roger ........( lrrk. Armour A Co...... F.tcanoi l regrllu ...Mr . N. I Boothe......... Frank Blancy............. Stenographer.. Pearl Frieae..........Mr . Joe Stover.. Emma Kennedy..........Ilookkec|«cr.. Guy Means.............Surveyor.................... nnic Kenney..........Stenographer.. ... Grafton. ‘, a ... . . t irafton. V. - ; ... Uniontown, W. V i ...Clarksburg, W. V. ....Washington, |.i, ( ' ......Grafton. W. Va ......Grafton. W. v, i. .Williamson, W. a ......(irafton, V . Va ......Grafton, W. vj Page Ninety-Three CLASS OP 1007 Nellie White..........Stenographer... Evelyn Tapp...........Stenographer....... Knola Wagner..........Teaeher............... Emm. i Coffman........ Mr . Karl J� ckMO.. Rhea Warden...........Teacher.......... hollie hividton......... t Home.. Jeuie Cochran...........At Home ............. ' Georgia loflfman.....Mrs. Mavidson........ Seva Kimmel...........Mr . Edgar Doll....... Itorenc - White.........Teacher..... Susan Shirer.......... t Home.......... Myrtle White..........Mr , G. I . Hamilton. Bertir Shackelford..... Mr . Neil Heflin.. Maliel Dunmngton... Mr . I IJ. Outright Mamie Phillips........Mr ) W Law.. Ward l aiihnm ........l’rinei|ial H. S... Harrison Cassrl.. . .... .Teacher........... . (irafton, W. ..Point Marion. ... Kairmont. W; Fairmont. W . Flemington. W ___.(irafton. W. -...Grafton. W. (•rafton, W. ..Fairmont. W. ...-----Oakland. . . .Connelkvtlle. ... (Irafton, W. .,. Fairmont. W. Ruckltannon, W, Huntington. W. V . Md. Pa. Va. CLASS OF I00« Luwrrncc Sinscl........Contractor.. Rhea 11 etronimtta.....Mrs. Fisher. ......... larslie Poe............ .Foreman, I). T. S. Co, gne� Stuck............ .Clerk ........... Edna Grinnan............Mrs Newell Cochran.. Earl Phillip ... ....... Hank Clerk..... .... Unlierta I ackson ...... Teacher..... •• • Helen Thompson..........Mrs Robert Madera.. Pauline Gaskin..........Mr Glen Ford....... luancta Shtngletnn ...Teacher................ Clyde Kimnu-I..........P O. Cleik..... ‘iuy Leonard...........Stenographer.... .— Ross Johnson...........Reporter . .... Grace Brown............Mr I). I . Frve...... Ralph Brown............Student .............. (ieorge Itlaney.........Painter ........... Juaneta Bartlett.......Mrs. Ralph Thayer... .eota Griffith.........Stenographer.......... F. stella Eckle .. .. Clark-htirg W. Va. ..Grafton. W. Va. ...Montreal. • anada ..... Grafton, W. Va. ..Jane Lew. W, 'a. .. 1'niontOMii. Pa. ....(irafton, W. Va ___.We ton. Va. . . Wheeling. V Va ....Grafton. W, Va. ....(irafton. W. Va. . Hnlcoltn. VV Va. .. . .Grafton. W. Va. Iluckhannon. W’. Va. .... Grafton. W Va ...... Pitulioig. Pa. • , .fiiafton. V. v CLASS OF l� m� Bertha Newlon.........Mr� , Allen IWgr . ................ Grafton W. Va. Leonidas Knotts.......Weather Observer................. Wilmington. N. ( Lila Clare Rector.....Teacher............................Grafton. W. Va. F.dith Bolinger.........Mr . A. Madera...................Graft . W. Va. Nina McDade... .......Vfr? Edwin Powell. .. ...Clarksburg. W Va. I rank Rectot ....... Telegraph Operator............... ...Elmhurst. Jnd. Page Ninety-Four CLASS OF ioio Minnie Byers........ Helen Carroll.. Mary Cole........... Sallic Evan ........ Katherine Holt.. Grace Miller....... Juanita Miller...... Edwin Powell........ t'tail Roger . .. .... Harriet Shrocder., Arthur Yale ........ Ifarel Zinn......... .. Salesman.......... .. Teacher........... .. Teacher,,. ... ..Mrs. Okie HulTnian ..Student........... ..At Home........... ..Teacher ........... ..Student. .. ...... ..Insurance Agent. ..Clerk.............. . .Teacher........... . .Teacher........... . . Hank Clerk... ..Teacher........... .Portland. Ore. Grafton. W. Ya. Grafton, W .1 «irafton, w . a West Virginia University . ... Montgomery. V. Ya. ............K Ik in . W. Va. . ... ..Columbus. Ohio, .......Clarksburg. W. Ya. ............New Vork City ..........Grafton, W. Va ......... irafton. W Ya. ........Grafton. W. Ya. ......Clarksburg. W. Ya. CLASS OK 1011 Ruth Jackson..........At Home.. ............. Glenn Hoard...........Insurance Agt.......... Grace M. Luar..........Teacher. ............. Lila Sinsel...........Mrs. D. 1- Gather------ Grace Nunmi .......... t Home................... Kdna Collins...... T... Mr . O. I arrish..... Charles Sinsel.. .....H. Sc (). Clerk........ Ruby Rutherford.........Mrs. Carl Hatton---- Edn.-t Shuck.............Mrs Wm. Morgan.... Lila Painter............Mrs. Zencu« Dean.... Kitty Cole. ............Mrs. A. C. Stewart... Carrie Wilkinson........Mr . Carrie Guthrie... (.awrence Miller......It. O. Clerk......... Grace lawcett......... At Home............ Area Phillips.........Hank Clerk............. Nellie 1 einoss........ I nikkeeper......... {essie Hush...........Teacher................. .tits Miller..........Teacher................ ...Grafton. W. Ya. ..(irafton, W. Va. Terra Alta. W. Va Flemington. W, Vjl ...Grafton, W, Vk ...(irafton, W, 'a ...Grafton, W. Va. ........Chicago. III. . Philadelphia pj, .Washington, D. C. ...... Trenton. N. 1. . Huntington, W Va. .....Grafton. W. Va. Morgantown. . Ya ...Point Marion. Pk .Clarksburg, W. Va ..Elkin . W. Va. .....Grafton. W. 'a CLASS OF lout {cssic Heaver ........ t Home.........................Grafton. W. V . Iditli Hush...........Student. W. V. U..................Grafton. W Va. . Mabel Kennedy......... t Home.........................«.rattan. W. Va IScviir Kennedy.......At Home...'.....................Grafton. W. Vt Dorothy Morgan........Mr . Gcotgr Kinsey...........Mom.ngahela City. Pa Ada Thayer.............Mr . Walter Cook.......................Grafton, W. Va. Arlene Bailey.........Domestic tience................ Washington. D. C Onlyle Kimmel......... t Home....................... «. .Grafton. W. V Reha Lake.......... .Clerk ..........................Grafton. W. 'a Esther Poe...............Teacher................ Marccline Bender...... Mr . Fred KeU.lehaw .. Uiu While..............Mr Juim Procter......... Harriet Evan . ..........Teacher................ Mabel Doll.............Mr l.c lir Gaskins...... Vera Shaa................At Home................ l or-ey Brannon........Student. W. V . U.. 1-ester Prer .........Dentist.............. Paul Warden............Student. W. V IT......... Sidney Iturdette.......lawyer................... Frank Yale ............Itank Clerk.......... ....... I.ulu Thoma-.............Teacher................ Grace Painter..........Mr . C Whiteman.......... Margaret llyers.........Teacher.... ............ Fred White..,.. .......Index Car Recorder.. .. Ruth Tregella ........... t Home................ Ella May New Ion.......Mr E McDankl. . .. Rentier Foley.........Teacher...................... ......Grafton. W. Va. ........Gypt). W. Va. . ...Wa-hington. D. ......Grafton. W. Va. ...... Grafton. W . a ,.. Flemington, W. Va. ..Morgantown, W. Va ........Pitttb'utf, Pa. ..Morgantown, W. Va. ......Grafton. W. Va. ......Grafton, W. a. .... Fairmont, NV . Va. ....Shinnston. W. Va. ......Grafton. W. Va. ......Grafton, W. Va. ......Grafton. W, Va ......Grafton. W. Va. ......Grafton. W. Va. Cl. ss of iota Itewey Corbin..........Stenographer ........................Norfolk.. Mar ton Gough..........Training School......................New York Charlotte Marple.......llerk..............................Grafton. W. Joseph Pugh............Clerk.............................Grafton. I.ulu Evans............Teacher.........................Fairview. I a� Shaw .... ........Stenographer......................Grafton. Virginia Breedlove. ..Mr- Ridenour... ...................Grafton. Ella Prim..............Clerk.............................Grafton. Pascall Elliott........Clerk................................ kron. Ohio. OHn Ford........... .. .Salesman......................... Grafton. W. Vr C lark Reese...........It. O. Clerk................... Grafton. W. Va. Harry lurry............Student. W. . U................Morgantown. W. w. w. w. w. w. w. .l. City Va. Va Va. Roy Leonard.............Car Distributor- Other .............Grafton. Vda 7.inn............... t Home........................ . .Grafton. John Cole...............Rank Clerk......................... Grafton Nl .bcl Grafton. pha Cole.............Stenographer......................Ren wood Va W. Va. W. Va W. Va K.Mph Reding. .Stenographer ......... ..”.Phorima. ! Winifred W arder. .... Stenographer.......................... kron. Ohio Lillian Water .........Teacher............................. Salem W Vi. C orbin Payne..........Stenogra| her................’.’’.’.’Grafton. W Va Herman Wilson..........Student. W. V. C..................Morgantown. W. , Ethel Gough............At Home..............................Grafton. W. Va L ’! ,i°n,r...........................Grafton. W Va Ruth mckrl.............Teacher........................... Simi on W Va I rancia Klein..,......Student. W. V. I-.................. Grafton. W. a ......................Caretaker............................ Giimm. Okla Harold Wilmoth.........llerk............................... Deumar. W Va. CLASS OS 1014 Mabel Love.............fiudent, YV. V. V...... Bertie May Luca . ..Student, F. S. N. S... Nellie Copp............Mrfc C. K. Kyle........ Sylvia Lee Codie.......Teacher.............. Lena Parkhill. Stenographer................ Samuel Crowley.........Billing t lerk......... Nellie McGrady.........Student. YV. V. L. Gladys Pauline Bolton tudent, W. Y. I ... Louise Schroeder.......Student. I Crow ford Compton. ...I' tudent. W. V. I’.... Carl Kcdinger. . ......Clerk. Armour Ac Co.. Vlma Evan .............tudent. W. 1. Anna Marion Hollis... lerk..... Florence Wagner.... • tudent. K S. N. S. Isabel Kinunel......... « Home............ Irl Humphreys..........Billing Clerk.... Hazel Dilworth.........Student. F. S. N. S... Ielia Ware.............Clerk.......... joe Van Zandt..........t lerk............. tiexter Knotts.........Clerk................ Helen Smith............Music Teacher.......... Helen Colborn. .Stenographer................ Marguerite Brown .. .Clerk............ Anna Marie Ca- II. .At Home................. Ruby Bennett...........M Home............. Dorsey Fast............ B O. Clerk.... Matthew Archdeacon, . tudent. N. L:.. I r� � ie Brown..........At Home... Herman Stillwell Hazel lladdox........Clerk.......... Mildred V Wilmoth. . .Stenographer............ Roy Davis..............Machinist.. Paul Revere Wyckofl .Student, V . V L.. Rena Elizabeth Stone..Student,, F Blair Mugler...........B. Ac O. Clerk..... Pearl Beatrice Lake. ..Teacher.. M ar v lllaney.... ,.... At 1 lotnc....... Lewis Kitzmillr- . Machinist.............. lames Godfrey Brown . Machinist.............. R..-, Brown............Stenographer.. Gordon Rosier.......... B � 0. Caller.. Blanche Zinn..........At Home ...... .. Ynna jone .......... .Mrs. Fred White... . Morgantown. W. Y’a. ....Fairmont, Y. Va .. ..tirafton. W Va. ....Webster, W. Yw. .....tirafton. YV Va .....Grafton. YV. Y’a. ... tirafton, YV. Y’a. . Bui-khannon. YV Va. ..Fairmont. W fc . Morgantown, W. Y'a. .....tirafton. YV. Va .. Pruntytown. YV. a. .... tirafton. YY Y'a. ..Fairmont. YV. V a. ..tirafton. W. Y’a. ......Grafton. YV. Va. .....tirafton, W Va. Independence. YY'. Y'a ..Clarksburg. YV. Y’a. .....tirafton. W. Y’a. .... .Grafton. NY’. Va. ......tirafton. YV. Y’a. .... tirafton, YV. Va .....tirafton. W. Y’a. ..Grafton, YV. Va. . Slorgantnwn, W. V]a. .....tirafton. WT. Va. ......tirafton. W. Va. ........Trenton. N. j. ..tirafton. W. Va Morgantown. YV Y[a .......tirafton. YV’. Y’a. ........Grafton. YY’. Y’a. .....Century. YY'. Y’a. .......Grafton, YV . Y’a. ....Akron. Ohio .......Grafton. W. Y’a. ........Pittsburgh. Pa. .......Grafton. YY’. Va. ........Grafton. V Va. .......Grafton. YV. Y’a. Page Ninety-Five CLASS OF 101 Edith I � ve...........Student, t'� mc|w Tech.. Mane Martin........... Icrk.................... Naomi l-ee Murphy... .Student Com. School... M ary McClung.........At Home.. ‘............... Elate Mae Newlon......Student. F. S. X. S....... Marian France Pugh..Student, W. V. L ...... Evelyn Kau............Teacher............ Claud Heed............Student, W. V. L’......... Claude Wm. Keger.. .It. O. Clerk.............. Clarence F. Schroedrr I! fit O. Clerk........... Hayward Shriver.......Teacher............ Charles Skaggs........Cletk... l.orna Solomon........ t Home............ Elizabeth Stuck....... t Home............ Edgar Sturm........ It. O. t aller............ William Lee Towle- .. It O. Clerk ... Albert Paul Weekly.. - O. Clerk........... I.elia Wither ........Student, F. S. X. S------- Ethel Woody ard... . Student. Salem College.. Ilazel Woodyard.. ....Student, Salem College., Clara Yates...........Mr . O. C. Shaffer.... Gladys AUender........M Home., rchie Itartlett......Teacher... Margaret Bebout......Student. F. S X. S----- Helen Dolorea Bolin..-At Home................... William Boyd...... Rubber Inspector............. John Brannon...........Student, V. Olive Brown ............Student. W. V. U...... Fred Cole.............« O. Clerk......... Mary I lean........•••'� Home................ Caroline I)ilworth..... S� e� ogra|.her... Carr r Kath Fleming--Student. W. V. L . Kffic Marie Ford.. -.Student Salem College.. George Griffith. .,.� ••• • • O. Clerk.... Corinne Harter.,..............Clerk...... YVginia Hcironitmn Belle Hoffman........••At Home........... Charles Hoffman ...... Machinist. .. Flora faroht...........At Home............... Mildred C. Krefet ... Student. W. V l Iris Knott ........• ■ r‘u nV F- - N ' Robert Knott ......... 1. rk. II. O. ..........Pittsburgh. Pa. ...... Pittsburgh. Pa. .... . Baltimore, Md. ..........( 31100, W. Va ......Clarksburg. W. Va. .........Grafton. W. Va. ....Morgantown. W. Va. ___... Grafton, W. V� . ...Morgantown. W. Va. .........Grafton. W. Va. ..... Pruntytown, W, Va. ........Grafton. W. Va. ..........Grafton. V. Va. ..........Grafton. W. Va .........Grafton. W . a. .........(irafton. W. Va. ..........Fairmont. W. Va. ...........Salem. W. Va. ...........Salem. W Va ..... Grafton. W. a. .........Grafton. W Va. .... Pruntytown. W, a. ........Fairmont. W, Va ..........Grafton. W. Va ...... ...... kron. Ohio. ____ . Morgantown, W. V i. .....Morgantown. W. Va. ..........(irafton. W. V - .........Grafton, W. Va. Grafton, W. a. ..... Morgantown. . Va .. Salem. W Va .........Grafton. W. Va .............(Chicago, ill. .........Grafton, W. Va ......... Grafton. W. Va. .........(irafton. W. Va ........ .Grafton. W. Va .... Morgantown. W. Va ... ... Fairmont. W, Vs. ........(irafton. . Va. Page Ninety-Six COOD NIGHT Page Ninety-Seven Of all sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are. “I’m flunked again''. Katsv Did you get all of the four problems for today ?” emon— Yes. sir. AH but three and part of the other one. Sam— 1 smell wood burning ' i lassmate—ou got vour head too near the heater. There was a young fellow named Curry, Who each evening got in a hurry. Puts on his good clothes And up street he goes To see his Dolores, be-gorry. Senior -‘‘Are you waiting for enrollment?” Freshman— 1 dunno; where does he teach? Mr. Yuzum (searching on his head)- “1 shall now extract nitrogen from hair. 1 guess I can’t find any. Can one of you girls lend me your 'rat'? Bonnett Sam. what is an ideal? Bord— My opinion of Elizabeth.” For basketball noted is (lough. To guard him one has to be rough; He i quick as a cat. nd before you can bat His speed will make you feel tough . “ True ” History Professor- Why are the middle ages known as the Dark Ages? Wise Freshie — Because there were so many (k)nights. Page Ninety-Eight Preparation Public School instruction, and especially that of the High School, is intended to be a practical preparation for the responsibilities, duties and pleasures of actual life in a great Republic where liberty, opportunity and service arc the common heritage. The fullest development of the young man or woman can only be realized when each takes his own affairs in charge and with a stern self-discipline conforms to those rules of right living which universal experience has shown to be essential to success. The intelligent and systematic management of financial matters, not as an end in itself but as a means, is the root of material well being, and this in turn is essential to real moral and spiritual development. Believing this to be good philosophy, it is the privilege of this institution to offer to our young citizens the opportunity to make the right start financially and invite each of you to become one of our already large number of depositors. Either a checking or savings account or both with us will meet your every requirement, and it will give us pleasure to make your better acquaintance. The First National Bank of Grafton RESOURCES $2,000,000.00 Broaddus Institute PHILIPPI. W. VA. Prepares young men and women tor the best universities, and offers first-class general education. The courses arc. CLASSICAL SCIENTIFIC NORMAL MUSIC EXPRESSION PHYSICAL CULTURE High Grade Instruction and Reasonable Charges. Catalogue, terms and other information from President ELKANAH HULLEY, Philippi. W.Va. Bring in your Suit and we will press it before you go out Bell Phone 444-J Theo. H. Gerkin CLEANING. PRESSING, REPAIRING AGENT FOR DYE WORKS SUITS MADE TO ORDER A SPECIALTY 116 Latrobe Street GRAFTON. W. VA. A. W. J. S. Burdett Lawyers GRAFTON BANKING TRUST BUILDING Page Ninety-Nine For Governor of West Virginia Judge Ira E. Robinson of Taylor County To the People of West Virginia: As is generally known. I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of West Virginia, at the primary on June 6th. I respectfully solicit the vote of every citizen who believes in those sound policies of statesmanship for which the Republican party is pre-eminent. As a candidate for the nomination, my platform is the simple code of truth and honor which I learned in a plain farm-house among our hills years ago: as the nominee of the Republican party, my platform will be that made by the party in convention assembled; as Governor of West Virginia, my platform will be the Constitution of the State and the laws made by the people in pursuance thereof. Requesting the thoughtful consideration of every voter, I am. Grafton, West Virginia. Respectfully, IRA E. ROBINSON. Page One Hundred W. Merle Watkins Lawyer Merchants and Mechanics Bank Building G. H. S. 1898 Grafton Feed and Storage Co. Everything to Eat for Man and Beast Both Phones Eat A Plate of Ice Cream Every Day Begin right now. Drop into your favorite store and ask for a plate of Ice Cream. Make it a part of your daily diet. Its ingredients are so nourishing and wholesome. But for your own sake be sure it's Imperial “The Cream of all Ice Creams. Imperial Ice Cream Company Clarksburg, West Virginia Page Hundred One The Taylor County Bank Grafton, W. Va. HONEST ABE LINCOLN said:— “Teach Economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.” There are Books and Books, and one of your very Best Friends is your Bank Book. The one friend you can absolutely depend upon in time of need is Your Money. If you have nothing ahead it is just about the same as being dead broke. We pay 4'. interest. We solicit all or a part of your Banking business. Safety First and Fair Treatment is our motto. Have you investigated our .Money Savers’ Club? Myrtle E. Lewellen Stationer and Boofydealer No. 44 West Main Street GRAFTON. W. VA. “ The College that Equips for Worthy Leadership ” West Virginia Wesleyan College BUCKHANNON. W. VA. Highest standards of scholarship. Most wholesome religious influence. Happiest student life. Most attractive athletics. Normal courses for high school graduates, with full credit toward college graduation. College of Liberal Arts, Academy, Normal School, School of Music, School of Expression. School of Fine Arts. Summer School from June J3rd to August 17th. College year begins September 13th. Expenses very moderate. For catalog address WALLACE B. FLEMING. DD.. Ph D., President. Page One Hundred Two Fairmont State Harry Friedman Normal School Attorney-at-Law A standard Normal School offering a two-year Normal course for full high school graduates; a short course, and advanced work for college credit. A competent well trained faculty, and a fine student hotly. For full information ami a catalogue, write the President, JOSEPH ROSIER. GRAFTON. W. VA. Dr. F. S. Smith Fairmont, W. Va. Dentist The Photographs in this book were made by Rooms 3 and 4 M. and M. Bank Building W. R. Loar GRAFTON. W. VA. Co. Grafton Co-operative Store GROCERIES MAKERS OF BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS Bell Phone 314; Con. Phone 10R. 36 Latrobe Street GRAFTON, W. VA. Page One Hundred Three THE DIFFERENCE Between Shoe Cobbling and Shoe Repairing is shown at Lilly’s Electric Shoe Hospital We are now prepared to re-sole shoes with rubber bottoms. J. A. Sincell Concrete For Eternity Hugh Warder, '96 Jed. W. Robinson, ’99 Warder Robinson ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Grafton, W. Va. Matt Preiss CLEANING. PRESSING AND DYEING Compton Building Grafton, W. Va. Bell Phone 431-R. Why is Our Enrollment Increasing So Rapidly? There’s A Reason M EST VIRGINIA VV BUSINESS COLLEGE H CLARKSBURG, W. VA. Athletics Athletics BENT IN STATE Page One Hundred Four XF we buy out of town And you buy out of town And all our neighbors buy out of town What in the thunder is going to become of our town? Ever think about it? Grafton Printing Co. Printing That Is Different Grafton, W. Va. rieties Ruling and Book binding It's not the price that determines the better grade of printing—superior w orkmanship and skill are the factors that determine whether your printing will have that distinctive individuality, or look like everyone else’s. Decide now by giving your order to the Fairmont Printing and Publishing Co. Fairmont, W. Va. Page One Hundr Five Jenkins Company Florists Beil Phone 33-J GRAFTON. W. VA. Friedman Bros. JEWELERS Watch Repairing and Engraving a Specialty All Work Done on Short Notice and Guaranteed GRAFTON. W. VA. The Popular Billiard Parlor, Cigar and Confectionery Store ROY BONNETT. Prop. Dewoody Has It Anything you want in the GAS OR PLUMBING LINE DOES ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING 132 W. Main Street Drop In J. Guy Allender Attorney-at-Law GRAFTON. W. VA. Crystal Ice Company Ice Manufacturers and Distributors Builders' Supplies Hauling Both Phones Page One Hundred Six VERYTHING is possible. amortf a people who cradle Presidents in mud-chinked cabins.” lime Va s wken a coal-of arms meant alol. TSo V its tke arms in tke coal tkat count. Your name in Burke’s Peerage ma Jive us an idea of tke soA of ancedorr you kad kul Dun’s Peeraje is more likely to skow wkat kind of ancedor y ure apt. to proVe.; THE GRAFTOH BANKING Grafton 6TRUSTC0. w:ra. — Mill! Hill HemertKiufitian Start v BA IS K-Account Smith’s Hen House Breeder of Von Gluck Buff Leghorn Chickens and Lice. All t hicks Guaranteed to Sleep HOWARD SMITH, Prop. Fred J. Bolliger, Sr. POOL AND LUNCH ROOM CIGARS AND TOBACCO No. 6 Latrobe Street Page One Hundred Seven The Need of A Business Education Never in the history of civilization has there been a greater premium on well trained minds than at the present time. Never were business enterprises conducted on a greater scale or has more skillful management been required. The young man or woman seeking employment must be able to do the work required by this exacting age or give way to those who can. Business men have neither the time nor the inclination to instruct their employees in duties which a good business education would qualify them to discharge. They seek and appreciate the help that come to them thoroughly prepared to do the work required of them. Wc know the requirements of the business world. We have the facilities for supplying what the business world demands. Our course of study is modern; our teachers arc earnest, zealous and practical, and our facilities for placing our graduates in positions are unexcelled. Prepare yourself for big- things. Resolve to get out of the rut of the ordinary untrained man. Write us today for full information. Mountain State Business College ALBERT GRANT SINE. President PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA Dorothy Prim TAILORESS OLD STYLES STRICTLY ADHERED TO 3rd Floor No. 314 Ruby C. Bonafield FIRE INSURANCE Bell Phone 95-R 225 Walnut Street Dorsey J. Curry LAWYER AND NOTARY PUBLIC SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CASES INVOLVING ARGUMENT Office—Thayer Street Hours—8:00 to 10:00 P.M. Established 1877 City Cigar Store GEO. Y. WHITE, Prop. 24-26 Latrobe Street Grafton. W. Va. Page One Hundred Eight Home Furniture Co. Complete Home Outfitters YOU MARRY THE GIRL AND WE’LL FURNISH THE HOME LOST. STRAYED OR STOLEN: ONE GOOD BOY Answers to the name of “Crcany.” Reward if returned to Ada Louise. Helen Jackson, Suspected L. Lake Music Co. PIANOS AND PHONOGRAPHS EVERYTHING IN MUSIC For Anything in the Line of IRON WORK See Patrick Moran Parrish Reality Co. Latrobe Street Blacksmith FIRE INSURANCE Grafton Granite Marble Works HOMES ON EASY TERMS S. J. WILLHIDE SONS Monuments. Headstones. Tablets and Slate Grave First National Bank Building Vaults Established 1866 Bell Phone 115-J 201-203 Latrobe Street GRAFTON. W. VA. Page One Hundred Nine Tobias Music Co. Compton Block f J If it's a Becker Bros. X Ur eQ Piano it’s all O. K. Look ’em over Buy Early! Cabbage Plants. Tomato Plants. Watermelon Plants. Sweet Potato Plants. New Hot-bed just installed. Also Fresh Garden Vegetables June 1st. A. J. Gibson, Horticulturist Mrs. Florence Poe Donohue (; K A ETON’S K X C L USIX K M11. LIN F. R V STORE Grafton, W. Va. New Restaurant High School Building Meals served at all hours either in the Domestic Science Rooms or in the Corridors. PATRONIZE YOUR HIGH SCHOOL Bertha Nutting. Proprietress Try Us—We Can Please You Home Laundry T. W. HEIRONIMUS. Proprietor If It is Quality You Want We Can Give It to You “ WE DO IT BETTER ’ Corner Boyd and Luzadder Sts. Bell Phone 76-R GRAFTON. W. VA. Page One Hundred Ten W anted POSITION AS FARM HAND. PLEASE STATE WAGES AND HOURS OF WORK. GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS TO OFFER. EARL PAULEY. R. F. D. No. 4. Look for T. Murphy’s THE BEST BARBER SHOP IN GRAFTON 51 Main Street Summerville Summerville Attorncys-at-Lau) 0. E. Wyckoff Attorney-at-Law Taylor County Bank Bldg., GRAFTON. W. VA. Starcher Co. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Merchants and Mechanics Bank Building Brinkman’s Dry Goods Store GRAFTON. W. VA. See H. M. FAULEY. District Agent. INTER-OCEAN CASUALTY CO. Grafton. W. Va. FOR HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Bell Phone 136-R Page One Hundred Elever Want Ads WANTED—One good man; anyone will do. Apply to MISS McMINN. STOLEN — One perfectly good heart. Helen Irvine suspected. Reward it returned to PAUL MALONE. LOST—A good disposition. Return to Elwin Moran. No reward offered. WANTED—A baseball victory. Loberal reward offered by CATSY DUNBAR. LOST—A perfectly good generator; no reward offered. GEO. WHITE. W ANTED—One mo’ cup of coffee. HELEN JACKSON. Safety, Service, Square Dealing We Incite Your Account Merchants Mechanics Savings Bank A Bank Account is Essential to Success % jt Let your Catalogues and Believe us when we tell you they will,if you will but use Terry photos.desi pS. drawing, retouched photoS, ztnc etching and halftones in one or more colors in the making of them. THE TERRY ENGRAVING GO. ■in6 RA 212-218 Oak St. Artists Emfrv Illustrators Columbus. Ohio. Commercial Photographers avers r. o H ♦. V 1 It i '