Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

Text from Pages 1 - 36 of the 1919 volume:

GREETINGS FROM THE FAIR ¥ Grand Junction’s Great shopping emporium where the apparel needs of every member of the family may be satisfactorily served 400 Per Cent Growth IN FOl'R YEARS SINCE MARCH 4. 1913. 15)15, $113,320.53 15)10, $175,417.28 15)17, 8230,933.13 15)18, $320,116.08 1919, $445,404.32 If you are a Fruit Grower, a Beet Grower, a Wool Grower, or a Stock Grower, or any other kind of a Grower, we want you to Grow and continue to Grow. The more you Grow, the more we Grow. May we help you to Grow? May we serve you some way? The Bank of Grand Junction “THE HOME BANK.” ••� •• ••••................ I ealer in DIAMONDS Pearls and Other Precious Stones, aud Watches of All Reliable Makes. Authorized Agent for Western Slope for EDISON PHONOGRAPHS. A. C. PARSONS Jeweler, Silversmith and Optometrist. FISHING TACKLE We carry the Celebrated Abbey Imbrie Line of “Fishing Tackle that’s fit for Pishing.” The most dependable made. H. W. VORBECK 512 Main Street. We Thank You for (In fine business you have extended us, and hope that the close of this school year finds you equipped to make a fine place for yourself in the world. Mr. cO Mr8. E. Frank Winfield. THE OUTING SHOP P. S.—Don't forget we are headquarters for everything in Music. GRADUATES Congratulations and Good Wishes. JUNIORS Your opportunity to “make good or fail is near. SOPHOMORES Men and Women in the Making. FRESHMEN The foundation of every structure determines its ultimate strength. Life Success hinges on High School Training—Make the best of it. MAJESTIC THEATRE The Comfort and Pleasure of our Patrons is our Every Thought. The New York Life Insurance Company LEGAL RESERVE, $990,000,000—THE LARGEST TRUST FUND IN HISTORY. Paid out during first quarter of 191!) to 4,617 policy holders who died, $12,426,447.90 Paid out during same period to 34,752 living policy holders, $18,679,453.67. Of death claims paid, 424 died in the first year of their insurance. Company will during 1919 pay over 832,500,000 in dividends. Out of every twenty, nineteen fail to provide either for their old age or for their families at death. The New York Life is a mutual company, dividing ALL of the profits with its policy holders. Accidental death pays double the face of the policy. In the event of total disability, the poliej- automatically becomes paid up and a pension of one-tenth is paid annually for life. C. H. DERRYBERRY, Special Agent Telephone Junction 887 .T. Home Address. 208 Grand. Society Brand Styleplus Clothes GRADUATING CLASS T9 Congratulations, Salutations, Good Luck.—Mike. THANK YOU! Students of G. J. H. S., permit me this opportunity to express my appreciation for the substantial support and good will with which you have crowned my efforts. T thank you again. M. H. LOEFFLER Meet me at the Fountain. Grand Junction, Colo. Baker’s the Place- Very Best Root Beer in Town --------------- 6c Orange Julep_______________________________ 6c , Sundaes __________________________________ 11c s ALL REFRESHING. 540 Main Street Grand Junction, Colo. COMMENCEMENT NUMBER OF THE ORANGE AND BLACK JUNE 6, 1919 GRAND JUNCTION HIGH SCHOOL To the members of the Class of 1919 who are responsible for the publication of the Orange and Black this issue is most respectfully dedicated by the pupils of the Senior and Junior High Schools who enthusiastically and unanimously supported the paper. By the Members of the Staff. WARD DERRYBBRRY. “Wardie. Class President. Virtue—Leader of men—and women. Demerit- Married. Favorite pastime Leins President. MILDRED NELSON. “Mip.” Class Secretary. Virtue She's Basket-Ball captain. Demerit—Reckless. Favorite pastime Cutting classes. Some Work for Parent-Teachers’ Association of H. S. By MRS. R. L. MAG1LL, President of the Parent-Teachers’ Association. The great war has revealed many deficiencies in the U. S., but none more appalling than those along educational lines. In a country where stable government depends upon an intelligent citizenship, the education of the masses becomes a necessity, for it is the bulwark of the nation. How strong that bulwark is may be judged when we know that there are states in the Union with 25 per cent or more of the adult population illiterate. The Parent-Teachers’ Association of the G. J. H. S. does not undertake to make itself responsible for the ignorance of the whole nation, but it should concern itself with the preventable ignorance of this community, and most cases of ignorance are preventable. It cannot attempt to say when a person is educated, but it can presume to say that he is certainly not wholly educated when he can only read and write and figure a little. The H. S. education was planned to raise the intellectual normal and make our youth self-reliant, dependable, thinking men and women, capable of citizenship in a great republic. How far we are reaching that ideal in this community may be judged by the fact that 50 per cent of our pupils are lost to the H. S. in transit from the seventh to the twelfth grades. The H. S. was not intended to meet the needs of the favored few, but for all the youth of our land. Something must be vitallv wrong somewhere when only half of our boys and girls are receiving the benefits of a full H. S. education. Either our curriculum does not fit the needs of the masses, or else public opinion is seriously lacking as to the real need of such education. And. in either case, it presents a problem worthy the greatest mentality of our community to solve. Perhaps our H. S. curriculum might be revised with some profit. We certainly do need to vitalize the work in the lives of our youth. Who would presume to say that work done for the world along classical lines is any more important or valuable than that done along other useful lines? We all know that public opinion does need a powerful stimulant to arouse it to the necessity and desirability of higher education. If our Parent-Teachers’ Association could study some of the causes that are now standing in the way of many boys and girls receiving a H. S. education and remove those causes, it would be accomplishing a great work for this community. The Parent-Teachers’ Association has a greater mission than merely that parents and teachers should become better acquainted and understand each others’ tribulations. Neither teachers nor parents need the sympathy of each other, but they do need intelligent study together of these problems that must be met if our H. S. becomes the power it can become. Grand Junction cannot afford to spend the thousands of dollars it does spend on equipment and teaching force when it could be getting greater results than a 50 per cent graduating class shows. It is up to the Parent-Teachers’ Association to help make our H. 8. a greater power in our community than it now is. Just how is the problem. GENEVIEVE HOUSE. “Jennie. Virtue—Affected. Demerit—Innocent physiognomy. Favorite pastime—Vamping Arthur. Education a Complex Process By R. E. TOPE. Superintendent of City Schools. Education is a natural process. The charm of child life is in its naturalness. Life is strained and uneasy when it becomes in any sense artificial. For a long time, the schools have been great offenders in restraing children by artificial surroundings and formal practices in the school room. To put education close to life is the one phrase that expresses the basic principle of the new education. When the school first receives the child, conditions should be as nearly as possible like the best type of home. From this on. an attempt must be made to respect the stages of development of the child as he passes through school, and allow him to unfold in Nature’s way. To the last three years, or the Senior High School, is left the intensive work of public school education. At the close of the course the pupil should be FRIEDA HOPPE. “Fritzie Rov.” Virtue—Wanting a solitaire. Demerit—Jealousy. Favorite pastime—Oh! Johnnie! GEORGE (’OOMRS. “Sister.” Virtue—He loves Golda. Demerit Laughs at his own jokes. Favorite pastime—Blowing in (’hem. prepared fundamentally for his future active life. He should be prepared to enter some good college or university, some business or commercial activity, some industrial or mechanical trade, some agricultural pursuit, or some other line of work to which he can devote his life and energy. With this kind of an organization; with plenty of publicity given to the functions ai d aims of school work: with hearty co-operation between the home and the school, looking to this ideal as the end of the whole school program: we can hardly see how any individual can drift through the school course without sooner or later waking up to a realization that he must train and study for a purpose. School work today is very complex. There is a five-fold program: physical, mental, social, moral, and vocational. It is impossible to build a good citizen and an industrious and painstaking worker unless we have a substantial physical basis or foundation on which to erect our rational superstructure. A high standard of intelligence cannot be realized unless the nervous system of man is logically and scientifically developed. Man needs a mind, an organized mass of gray matter, which should have deep convolutions that are brought about only by training and experience. Then the products of our schools must be trained socially and morally to take a place in the life of the state and the community where they are to live and do their work. Finally, they must be given a chance to select some vocation, and an opportunity to study the principles and underlying elements of tins vocation. in the physical and mental part of the program, the school will do very well, because definite standards are established and minimum essentials are fixed. The goal is in sight, and it is not impossible for the normal student to reach it. There are well established standards of muscular strength, of accuracy and speed, of endurance, of carriage and poise, and of general health, which every individual should train to meet. In the mental development, we have well planned and scientifically developed standards for measuring the efficiency of the school. By tests in spelling, silent reading tests in speed and comprehension, arithmetic tests in the fundamental operations and reasoning, writing tests, correct English and English composition tests, geography tests, history tests, and standardized tests in other subjects, we can examine the students of any grade and find out how they compare with thousands of other pupils in the same grade all over the country. Such standards are so definitely determined that we can tell just about what progress the school should make in grade after grade as they go through the school work. The pupils of a certain age and grade are capable of so much speed and accuracy, so much knowledge, so much rational thought, so much of an understanding and use of the fundamentals and essentials of an education. The school is aide to meet the requirements of society so far as the physical and mental requirements are concerned. The big problem before the school is the development of the social and moral powers in human live§. In this work the school can do little more than lay down a few general principles to guide the individual. Society has no specific standards by which it governs and controls conduct and attitudes, and in moral law, there is no such thing as “eternal right.” In our social life, we have a double social standard when we consider the sexes, neither of which is very definite. There are so many modifications that seem to affect any definite rule that we attempt to lay down in social and moral affairs, that the school finds it next to impossible to teach or to obtain fixed customs or habits on the part of the student body. Law and our system of punishment in civic affairs is unscientific. It is perhaps four centuries behind the progress man has made along other lines. We know psychologically that an individual cannot be punished unless he is amenable to punishment. He cannot be reformed unless he is reformable; yet these principles are not taken into consideration when punishment is considered. Now the school is making progress in the social and moral part of its program, just as it has made progress in the physical and mental. It is true that it is securing a higher type of conduct out of its student body than society is able to get out of the adult members of the large social unit which does not come under the control of the school. But we are nevertheless face to face with the fact LEILA SWIRE. “Child.” Virtue—Oh! pshaw! Demerit—Piety. Favorite pastime—Playing duets. RUTH MtKiKXEY. ‘Rufie.” Virtue—Hay fever. Demerit—Her recitations. Favorite pastime—Relating her love affairs. PORTIA RICH. •'Paddy.” Virtue—Putting it over the Faculty. Demerit—Combing her “tresses.” Favorite pastime—Playing diplomat. that our whole social and moral program is still ineffective, and we are more or less powerless in our efforts to work out a system of teaching and control that will make conduct what it should be and habits as safe and sane as human life and happiness require. This is the big educational and social problem of the future. Can it be worked out? The vocational program is being worked out also. It has been demonstrated that the school can teach occupations and trades, and give real, effective, practical vocational guidance. It can do this better than any other agency, and the public school system is willing to assume the very grave responsibility that this problem presents. But however, the classification of trades and occupations and specific- training is so varied that the sc hool equipment and machinery for meeting all the needs of the public will be impossible to get. We must meet the needs of the people according to groups, and work from the largest group clown toward the group that has few members who are vocationally interested in a certain kind of work. In this part of its program, the instruction can be no more nearly individualistic than it is in the other functions of the schools. The school is a social institution, and must work with people in the group. Individual instruction is largely a private matter. Finally the school must not be measured by too strict a rule or made to meet too accurate a standard in any of its five-fold functions. The school works with young people who are constantly passing through psychic or mental crises. These young people are characterized by strong yet shifting emotions. The adolescent period particularly is a time or unstable equilibrium, of purposes not understood. It is a psychological Tact that in certain stages, they become more or less cynically indifferent towards the best things taught and the highest standards and best ideals emphasized. A little later in life, when the individual has passed the period of economic- dependence, and is face to lace with the serious problem of self support, it is well known that those ideals and purposes which are most significant in the lives of men and women are more likely to assert themselves and be developed. We frequently see a wayward youth suddenly become transformed into a purposeful man. soon after he leaves school. This may be the result of early precept and teaching, or it may be purely a psychic change in his life, brought about by some powerful impulse or stimulus. This is the reason why evening or night schools often turn out products that are nothing less than miraculous. The sc hool must hew to the line, and never become impatient or give up. Whether the results come or not, it should make no difference in the energy or devotion to the task (lod has given those who stand at the desk and preside over the destinies of the young people in the schools of our country. The Course in Agriculture By T. E. LEI PER. Among various cjianges and additions of the scientific course of our High School perhaps none are as interesting and practical as those in Agriculture. Under the neu plan of the Smith Hughes Act the work will continue throughout the twelve months of the year and will be presented in the most practical manner possible. Summer work will be devoted to field projects worked out under the supervision of the Agricultural College and the local instructor. The class tsud.v will be supplemented with laboratory work and field demonstrations. The first year Agriculture will be devoted entirely to the study of soils and crops. A detailed study of types of soils and soils management under Colorado conditions will be offered. Under crops, special emphasis will be given to the production of alfalfa, corn, potatoes, oats, barley, beets and fruits. Although the program of the remaining three years has not been definitely worked out, some generalities can be stated here. The subject of plant propagation, orchard management, types and breeds, feeds and feeding, live-stock management and breeding, dairying and creamery practice, farm mechanics and motors, and general farm management will be covered. Means will be provided whereby the student can get some actual experience with soils, crops and live stock by the use of plots and frequent demonstration trips on the near-by farms. The organization of an Agricultural Club membership consisting of all who may wish to join, including the eighth grade is being contemplated. Interesting agricultural subjects of the surrounding community will be discussed. ARTHUR FIDEL. ‘‘Art Fiddle.” Virtue—Bashfulness. Demerit—His dancing. Favorite pastime—Using big words. ! The Orange and Black 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT This year the Senior (Mass of our High School decided to publish a school paper instead of an annual. The plan was decided upon at the suggestion of Mr. Hirons, our popular and capable principal. When Mr. Hirons returned from his visit to the leading High Schools of Colorado, he explained how a small paper, issued monthly, might be as interesting and of more value than an annual. When the cost of an annual, similar to those formerly published by our school, was estimated, the figure greatly exceeded our resources. To attempt it would have been foolish for the Senior (Mass of this year. And so a monthly publication was decided upon, tlie first we have succeeded in doing this, we are satisfied: where we have failed, we leave it to the staff of 1919-1920 to profit by our mistakes. To make our paper broad in its interests we must have material from all phases of school life, as: Athletic, Social and Literary. To make it constructive, we have tried to encourage school activities, as: in the procuring of pictures for our building: the athletic and declamatory contests held in Montrose, and all athletics in which the High School is interested. To make it democratic, we have had all classes in the Senior High represented on the staff. In fact, we ORANGE AND BLACK STAFF. Top Row, Left to Right—Leila Fay Swire, Society Editor: Richard Sydenham. Athletic Editor: Sarah McCarty, Literary Editor; Ru Williamson. Assistant Business Manager. Bottom Row—Evelyn Roberts, Freshman Reporter: Donald Hezlep, Editor in Chief; Harold Richardson. Business Manager: Marjorie Carstensen, Local Editor. issue of which appeared in December. Then let us consider the advertising, without which a school publication would be impossible. In the first place, the advertising in an annual is of very little value to the average business man, other than Keeping the good will of the student body; but, in a monthly paper, where the cost of advertising is so low, the business men feel they get full value received. A prominent citizen recently remarked that the most decisive factors in community development in the next decade will be the newspaper, the amusement center, the school and the church, and of these he considered the newspaper first. We feel that this may be true of the school paper. It can influence and reflect school sentiment, if it is broad, constructive and democratic in its material. Where have made it a paper published by the students of the High School and not by the Senior (Mass alone. To do all this, it is necessary to have the co-operation of a large per cent of the student body. In this, our last issue of the Orange and Black for 1918-1919, we wish to express our appreciation for the co-operation of the students and the faculty, the pleasure we have had in putting forth this paper and to extend to our successors our sincerest good wishes. So here’s a toast— “A better, bigger Orange and Black.” MONTHLY PUBLICATION BETTER THAN ANNUAL By WALTER WALKER, Editor Daily Sentinel. I have been a “constant reader” of the very excellent and exceedingly interesting little monthly paper the High School students have issued during the present school year. Not only have 1 found much that has been entertaining and interesting, but often have found considerable that has been inspiring. From the very start it seemed to me that a decided improvement had been made in the matter of High School publicity when the old plan of issuing a High School annual at the close of the school year gave way to the plan of putting out a bright, newsy, refreshingly edited monthly paper. My observation and information have been that the expensive, elaborate ANNUAL is giving way over the country to just such publications as the paper that has been issued each month during the present school year by the High School of Grand Junction. The advantages in the monthly publication are many. I believe the school spirit, the degree of school enthusi- asm, the ultivation of fraternaiism between or among students, school pride,—all are helped greatly by the means of a monthly publication, and are helped to an extent that can never be reached through the medium of the dignified and decorous school ANNUAL. Just as a daily newspaper has a far greater influence than a weekly newspaper, so, in my opinion, a monthly High School paper has far greater influence than an annual publication. I believe the monthly paper brings more real pleasure to the students than the annual, and I believe the splendid record made in the publication of this paper during the present year by the editors, managers and contributors should prove an inspiration to the classes of succeeding years and cause them to desire to keep up the plan of a breezy, clean, worth-while monthly instead of contemplating a return to the old-style ANNUAL. ATHLETICS BASKETBALL If we should judge our boys’ basketball team and season from the standpoint of games won and lost, we would do it a great injustice. It was the conditions it had to combat during the season that brought about the loss of the Western Slope championship, and not the opponents’ teams. At only two of the first games of the season did we play our first or regular team, as Jones was injured and Moore contrac ted Scarlet Fever. Many new fellows were out and most of them were new at the game; so they were not as good as they might have been. As to the games played, we lost only one on the local floor; but when we went on a trip we seemed to carry a jinx, for we won only one contest out of town. The surprise of the season came when we defeated Collbran by some 36 points on the local floor and when we defeated Olathe in the semi-final at Montrose. In the final contest at Montrose we lost the cup by only 8 points, which was very good for having played two games in one day. Every man played as he never played before. Fuite was a wonder at guarding; ('ox and Cherry made some unusually good plays, and Richardson and Derryberry played their usual excellent and consistent game. Those who will get letters or bars this year are Cox (captain), Cherry, Richardson, Fuite, Derryberry and Sydenham. Although we lose Richardson, Derryberry and Moore this year, the prospects for a championship team are better than they have been for many years. The girls’ basketball team fared better this year than the boys’; in fact, we could not wish for anything better. They did everything according to their usual style: that is, they were not defeated by a team during the year and they brought home the cup from Montrose. This is the third year that our girls have not been defeated, which speaks well for Grand Junction in general and G. J. H. S. in particular. Although they lose Nelson. Bailey, Carstensen and Crumm this year, with Ross, the Dill sisters, Johns and McDowell as a foundation, another undefeated team should result. Here’s hoping that they are undefeated for the next three years. Those getting bars or letter this year are Nelson (captain), Bailey, McDowell, Johns, Verna and Eula Dills, Ross, Carstensen and Crumm. All hail the champions, and good luck to the champions to be! BASEBALL G. J. H. S. has a baseball team this year again. This is the first for a number of years, and. although the boys started off with a little streak of bad luck, they are just as enthusiastic as ever, for they won in the last game they played. G. J. H. S. is fast recovering from the effects of the war and is going out for athletics as she has never gone out before. We hope that the enthusiasm will not slacken, especially for this truly American sport. With Cox as captain, we may be sure that the team will fight on through the season and come out as the victor if there is any possible chance. The team practices faithfully every night, and it should win and should have the undivided support of the whole school at the games. We hope to put up another pennant in the Assembly when this season is over. TRACK As soon as basketball came to an end. about twenty young stars or aspirants for track honors started practising under the able supervision of Coach Du Cray. Cherry, a new man who has come to our school, certainly gave us a boost in athletics. So far. Cherry and Littlejohn seem to be the stars from the Senior High. The Junior High has a number of promising track men who gave the Juniors a tussle in the inter-class meet. The results of the inter-class meet were far more satisfactory to the Juniors than to any other class in High School. The official results were: 57% points for the Juniors, 32 for the Junior High and 12% for the Sophomores. Cherry and Littlejohn won every event they entered, and, with Kane, Cox and Coles, the Juniors easily won the meet: Addleman, Sherman and Hyatt were the stars for the Junior High, while Knight, Wolfe and Martin were the Sophs’ strong men. With such stars as these working faithfully every night, we should not worry about the outcome of the meet at Montrose. Delta came down for a dual meet the 10th of May; but, owing to the inclement weather conditions, only two events could be staged, giving G. J. H. S. 12 points to Delta’s 6. This was no indication of what the outcome might have been, but it was very encouraging to our fellows. All indications of a very successful season are in evidence this year. and. as this is the first year wre have had a track team for a number of years, we all hope for a successful outcome in the track meet at Montrose. The results of the Montrose track meet appear elsewhere in this issue. Despite the fact that the Athletic Association re- ceived very little support from the pupils in a financial way, it has been very successful this year. This success is due largely to the untiring efforts of Prof. Hirons. the secretary-treasurer, to bring games to Grand Junction and to get games in other towns. We hope that more help comes from the students next year, as it is their duty to support such a beneficial institution of their High Sc hool. It has been suggested that we return to the season-ticket plan of getting money for athletics. This plan ranks of the S. A. T. f The prospects and hopes of a good team had been centered about these two. and for a day or two football was forgotten and we all wondered who else would go to war. (i. J. H. S. boys could not let interest in football die out, however: so, with renewed interest and zeal, they started over again. With the aid of fair weather and roach Du Cray, the boys assimilated the rudiments of tackling, guarding, half-backing and other like stunts. Sydenham was elected captain and everything seemed to CHAMPIONS OF THE WESTERN SLOPE. From left to right: Leila Ross, side center: Frances McDowell, guard; Mildred Nelson, center: Eula Dill, guard: Gladys Bailey, captain, forward. Merle Johns was the very able substitute. . The Girls’ Basketball Team is one of the many things for which the students of G. J. H. S. are proud. The team has not been defeated for three consecutive years. This vear the girls captured the cup given at the Basketball Tournament held in Montrose. met with a great deal of criticism in former years, as the pupils thought they didn’t get their money’s worth. However, with all the prospects of such good teams in every branch of athletics next year, there is no reason why one should not get his money’s worth. The plan is right if the management is right, and we do not question Prof. Hirons’ management of the association. We sincerely hope that every G. J. H. S. student will buy a season ticket if we revert to that plan next year. Make a mid-summer’s resolution to do or die to help put athletics ac ross next year—the first school year after the war. FOOTBALL As one looks back on the past football season, he, of a necessity, conies to the conclusion that it was not a season at all, but only five weeks of fair weather with two storms. That sounds queer, but it is a fact. The first storm came when Captain Derryberry. our old stand-by at tackle, and Stong. our renter, entered the be sailing along quite smoothly when the big storm hit us and not even the coach could withstand its onset. This storm seemed to be nation wide, if not universal, and. with the close of school, all hope of a football season was given up. The boys got just enough practice to want more, and next year we all hope that they get more. The prospects ior a football team next year have never been brighter. All the boys seem to have grown about a foot since last year, though they didn’t get enough practice to bring out what was really in them, and there are some stars in the making. With Jones, Coles and Sydenham, Littlejohn and Cherry, our new star, as a foundation. we will have a team able to hold its own with any. Miss Killheffer “How muni time did you spend on this lesson?” Art Fidel “About an hour, railroad time.” Miss K.—“What do you mean by railroad time?” Art—“Including stops and delays. MIR IA M H A R D E NBURG. “Anne.” Virtue—Writing “sweet” essays. Demerit—Freckles. Favorite pastime—Fussing Cherry in the coupe. ELEANOR CRUMM. “Crummie. Virtue—Little feet. Demerit Rougeing when fussed. Favorite pastime—Talking about Lawrence. SOCIAL “DOINS } LEILA 7 7 SWIRE Editor January 24th the Seniors and Juniors entertained the Sophomores at the High School for the purpose of giving the Sophs a chance to feel at home and not feel so humble when in the presence of their superiors. JUNIOR-SENIOR PARTY. March 28th the Juniors entertained the Seniors at the Margery hall. After a pleasing program, the evening was spent in dancing. SENIOR-JUNIOR PARTY. May 2nd the Seniors, eliminating the camouflage of the Juniors, entertained the Juniors at a kid party, which delighted them immensely because they had the pleasure of acting natural. OUR LITERARY SOCIETY. Our Literary Society, presided over by Mary Hornbaker, president, and John Cottrell, secretary, gave the school several delightful Friday afternoon programs, in which opportunity was given for the development or much original talent. The school is much indebted to this society for the enjoyable and profitable programs furnished. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. Commencement always has been and always will be a time of hurry and rush on the part of the Seniors and all who are concerned. Days of joy to some, of sadness on the part of others, and a time of much work and planning on the part of those who are getting all things in readiness. Joy on the part of the graduates who feel they have won their first battle, sadness on the part of the faculty at parting with those who have been their trials and their pride. Real labor for those who. by the sweat of the inside of their brow, prepare our Commencement addresses, and those who by the sweat of the outside of their brow prepare decorations for this momentous occasion. The Baccalaureate sermon was delivered by Dr. Charles Odell Thibodeau Sunday evening. June 1st, in the Armory. The Commencement address was delivered by Hon. Merle D. Vincent, and was a masterpiece of inspiriation. OUR CLASS PLAY. The Class play this year was entitled “Anne From Old Salem,” and was given in the Armory Tuesday, June 3rd. It was greatly appreciated by the crowded house that greeted it. Great credit is due our English teachers, Miss Killheffer and Miss Ela, for their untiring labor in preparing those who presented this pleasing, instructive and enjoyable play. GLADYS BURFORD. “B’r Ford.” Virtue—School ma’am. Demerit—Too chummy with “Pickles.” Favorite pastime—Going to Whitewater. CAST: Anne Ellinwell___________________ Good Wife Ellinwell_______________ Nathan Ellinwell_______________ Roger Hardman_____________________ Capt. Hardman_____________________ Mistress Hardman__________________ Philis (English maid)_____________ Rev. Cottonmather_________________ Ezekiel___________________________ Piety........................... Truth............................. Peace----------------------------- Miriam Hardenburg ------Freida Hoppe -Harold Richardson ----Mertin Burgner -----George Combs -----Sarah McCarty --------Portia Rich Richard McCormick ...Ward Derryberry ..Eleanor Crumm -------Alta Burket ---------Lois T amb OPERETTA. The Operetta this year, entitled “Love Pirates of Hawaii,” proved a great ADELAIDE WAITE. “Weight” Virtue—Clever. Demerit—“Quakerlike.” Favorite pastime Operating phones. HAROLD SHAW. “Slats.” Virtue—Accommodating to the ladies. Demerit—His “kinky” hair. Favorite pastime—Seeing Schaeffer’s pupils home. success. Three performances were given to accommodate all who wished to attend. Much credit is due the directors. Miss Moulton and Mrs. Ingersoll. The catchy songs, the quaint make-ups and puzzling intrigues set forth some real talent on the part of the pupils, and were well received by the full houses that greeted each performance. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA. Our High School Orchestra, composed of about 25 violin, mandolin and guitar players, furnished a great deal of entertainment for the “High” this year. The orchestra, with Mary Hornbaker at the piano, furnished the music for the operetta. It also played for the Parent-Teachers’ meeting and the evenings or the High School art exhibition. At the Class play the orchestra gave some of its best numbers. LITERARY OUR COLORADO (Prize Poem.) By M. HAROLD WOOLVERTON. Once when the golden rays of light Were spread upon the lawn. And all the birds were singing, for At last had come the dawn. In my own heart a song I found, And that song I give you; My picture of our own fair state, So you may see it, too. It lies out in the choicest spot Of this great land we love. With mighty mountains round it spread. And clear, blue sky above. The blue sky dome above it high. Where drift the fleecy clouds, And snow-crowned hills assembled are. Like mammoth jostling crowds. From peaks where sunlight lingers long, And vales in gathering night, The colors of the sky grow dim, Days die with fading night. Days rise and gleam in grandeur bold. Beneath the shining skies, The swaying trees and meadows seem Like waves that fall and rise. GLADYS SNIDER. “Shrimp.” Virtue—Angelic. Demerit—She's brainy. Favorite pastime—Ditching! ???). Away down in the valleys fair, The eye can see so clear, Where smiling fields and orchards lie. That to us all are dear; Because this land is where we live; It is your home and mine, With the crags and peaks above it, Our land of sun and shine. ’Way up on hills, spread far and wide, And on high mountain crests, The shadowed sylvan region is Where green forms lairs and nests For all our fur and feathered friends, From man, their last retreat; While sprites and elves so oft dance here, Where trees o’erhead do meet. With the green of woven meadows. The hills in golden chains, And the light of winding rivers, And gleam of wide, wide plains. These myriad beauties, day by day, We can see if we will, When darkness flees and day comes round To light up field and rill. From land below and sky above. Where gentle breezes blow, The stars like wondrous crowns of gems. Upon its peaks of snow. Days break again in splendor great, O’er our great land—the West; , For, of all lands on this old earth, Our Colorado’s best. SIBYL ATTEMPTS TO MAKE A SKIRT By LOIS LAMB. It was a sunny morning in April, and Sibyl sang as she washed the breakfast dishes. Out in the back yard Teddy was whistling a merry tune as he did his morning chores. Sibyl and Teddy were alone on the ranch. Their mother and father had gone to the city, leaving the children to care for the place. Sibyl, a very pretty, browneyed, rosy-cheeked girl of seventeen years, was a very good manager about the SARAH Me TARTY. “Sammie.” Virtue—Hasn't any. Demerit—She's Irish. Favorite pastime—Sket« hing Prof. Arms. VERXE JUDSON. “Farmer.” Virtue—Mimicking Harry Harris. Demerit—Style of hair-cut. Favorite pastime—Having his picture taken (?). V GMMDJlINCTOtf'V ? ? ' • place and made a splendid boss, or so at least fifteen-year-old Teddy thought. He and Sibyl were the best of chums and many were the pleasure jaunts they took on warm summer days. This particular day, however, was not to be spent on a pleasure trip, for Sibyl had other plans for the day. The work was well up and Teddy had no work to do which required Sibyl’s help; so she decided to make the blue skirt that her mother had promised to make when she returned. Sibyl really knew very little about sewing, but she decided to surprise her mother by showing her how well she could sew when she tried. She went up to the sewing room, found the material and laid it out on the cutting-out table; then she happened to remember that her mother was planning on getting a pattern in the city. For a moment Sibyl was much perplexed: then she spied the old pattern box. “Why couldn’t I use the pattern mother used the last time?” she cried. In her eager search Sibyl scattered the patterns all over the floor of the sewing room, and after a long time found the pattern she had been searching for. She worked diligently all morning: but she did not understand how to place the pattern on the material, and she was so absorbed in her work that she forgot, what time it was until, at noon, when Teddy came in, hungry as a bear. There was no time to prepare dinner, so they ate a cold lunch. Sibyl went to her sewing again soon after dinner, and at last she got the skirt cut out and basted. Then she happened to remember that her mother tried a new garment on her before stitching it. What was she to do? She could not try it on herself as no one was there to fit it for her. Suddenly she had an idea. Teddy was very slender for a boy, so she called him into the house. Teddy protested, but in. vain: Sibyl placed him up on a chair and after many struggles on Teddy’s part the skirt was put on him. “Humph,” said Teddy; “looks to me like a mighty funny skirt, sis. I don’t believe these pockets fit just right, do they?” “No. I don’t believe they do either,” said Sibyl, squinting critically at the skirt: “but I’m sure I cut it just like the pattern said.” Just then Teddy jumped down from the chair and, with a whoop, went running out to the gate, skirt and all. A car had stopped in front of the house and out stepped mother and father, who had come home earlier than they had expected to come. Mother took one glance at Teddy and gasped. “What on earth have you been doing, Teddy?” “Oh, mother!” cried Sibyl, “I’ve been trying to make my new skirt, and somehow it doesn’t look right. It doesn’t fit and the pockets act so queerly.” „ “Why, Sibyl dear,” said mother, “you have cut your skirt by your last summer’s coat pattern!” MARY HORNBAKER. “Honey-bunch.” Virtue—“Mark”-ing. Demerit -Speeding. Favorite pastime—Copying Pader-ewsky. FROM BEET TO SUGAR IN NINE HOURS [The following description of the manufacture of sugar from the sugar beet was written by Miriam Ilardenberg and was awarded first prize bv the Holly Sugar Co.I From the large sheds, in which the beets are stored as they come from the producers, hydraulic carriers are used to convey the beets to the factory, during which time mostmost of the dirt adhering to the beets is washed off. Near the factory is an apparatus used to remove weeds, straw, etc., from the beets. The beets then pass over a stone eliminator which takes out rocks, etc. They then enter the beet wheel and are elevated into a washer—a large vat in which is an agitator that keeps the beets in motion, washing off the dirt. The beets next enter an eleiator, which takes them to the top of the factory, dumping them into automatic scales which register the exact weight of all the beets. This is important, as the extraction of the sugar is computed from that figure. The beets are then dumped onto a conveyor, which in turn dumps them into the rotary drum slicers, on the circumference of which knives are placed. The slicers are turned on a horizontal axis and as the beets fall into them they are cut into long strips of about two millimeters in thickness and of about thirty millimeters in width. These strips are called cossettes. For the removal of foreign substances from the slicers there are doors on the side of the slicer’s jacket. From the slicers the cossettes pass down a chute into the diffusion battery, consisting of fourteen diffusers or cells through which hot water under pressure is circulated. The heat is regulated by means of steam injectors. 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We are bidding for your trade by offering you carefully selected wearables fresh from the best markets, up to the minute in style together with value for each dollar spent. The Red Trunk One Price Satisfaction Always Copyright 1919. A. B. Kirschbaum Co. JOHN GREER. Red.” Virtue—Teasing. Demerit—His kiddie playmates. Favorite pastime—Rushing Junior girls. NDJUMCnoSP RACHEL ROBBINS. “Robby.” Virtue—Her flirtations. Demerit—Her coiffure. Favorite pastime—Making Gertrude laugh. MOJlJNCTOtf as well. During the operation of diffusion there are two different processes taking place—the forcing of juice out of the cells of the beet which were broken during the process of slicing, and the dialysis of the soluble compounds in the unbroken cells. It is desirable to have as rapid dialysis as possible in order to prevent the dissolving of solid elements of the beets. A satisfactory diffusion effects good extraction from the cossettes and yields juice of the greatest possible concentration. After filling and diffusing a cell or diffuser, a sufficient amount of concentrated juice is drawn off to insure the exhaustion of sugar of the cossettes in the previously filled cells. The exhausted ossettes are then dumped from the bottom of the diffuser or cell, and pumped to a silo, to be used for cattle-feed. The raw juice—a dark, turbid liquid—after being drawn off is accurately measured in tanks and is pumped through beaters. It is then subjected to the action of calcium oxide, whereby it is purified or defacated. The calcium oxide is added to about three per cent of the volume of the juice. As a diversion, the calcium oxide is obtained from lime kilns, where limerock is mixed with eleven per cent of coke and burned at an intense heat, yielding calcium oxide (which is slacked in water) and calcium dioxide, which is drawn from the top of the kiln and forced to the carbonation tanks. The action of the lime on the raw juice acts as a precipitant of impurities, and suspended matter, such as fine particles of beets and fibres, is carried down with the precipitates. After thorough mixing, the defacated juices are pumped through heaters into the carbonation tanks, where the carbon dioxide is forced into it, precipitating the lime. The carbonation of defacated juices requires great attention, for the alkalinity diminishes rapidly, due to the action of the carbon dioxide. When the alkalinity reaches 0.07 to 0.10, the carbon dioxide is let off, for at this stage the juice is in its best condition of precipitation and is most easily filtered. From the carbonation tanks the juice is pumped to the filter presses, where the juice is forced through heavy canvas cloths mounted on frames, and is carried off a clear yellow fluid. The lime adheres to the outer surface of the cloth and forms a thick cake, which, when properly formed, is washed with clear hot water until it is exhausted of sugar. This sweet water, as it is called, is used to slack the lime. The cake is then dumped from the press and disposed of. The juice is then returned to the second carbonation, where carbon dioxide is forced through it again, reducing the alkalinity to about 0.03. It is then given a second and third filtration, resulting in a clear, transparent, light yellow juice, and passes into a storage tank. From here it is pumped into evaporators. The evaporators consist of four large cast-iron tanks, the bottom portion of which have many copper tubes, terminating in steam chests, which form the evaporating surfaces. The purpose of the evaporators is to concentrate the juice. The first tank, or effect, is heated with exhause steam of about 6 pounds pressure. The juice pumped into this effect boils rapidly, giving off vapor, which is conducted into the steam chest of the second effect. The pressure on the second effect being but one pound, the jui e forced from the first effe t boils rapidly and the vapor is carried into the steam chest of the third effect, the vapor of which effect heats the fourth. The third and fourth effects are carried under 10 and 21 inches of vacuum respectively, resulting in a decreased boiling temperature. As the juice passes from effect to effect, the boiling point is constantly lowered from 106 degrees Centigrade in the first effect to 65 degrees Centigrade in the fourth, causing it to boil rapidly, the concentration increasing steadily, resulting in a liquid of about 30 degrees Baume in the fourth. The vacuum in the evaporators is maintained by drawing off the vapor of the fourth effect and condensing it by means of water. From the evaporators it goes to the melters, where brown sugar and high wash syrup are added. The resulting juice is then pumped into the sulphur station, where the gasses of burning sulphur are injected into it, resulting in a clarification of the juice and reducing the alkalinity to about .01 to .03. It is then filtered and pumped to storage tanks on the pan floor and is drawn into the vacuum pan as needed. The vacuum pan is a large cast-iron apparatus, conical at both ends, and in which are many copper coils, through which steam is forced. From the upper end of this apparatus the vapors generated during the boiling are drawn off and condensed to obtain the desired vacuum. This apparatus serves both for the evaporation LOIS LAMB. Kid. Virtue— Missouri whang.” Demerit—She has gone Stark” mad. Favorite pastime—dancing at Glade Park. HELEN TOME. “To be.” Virtue—Her dancing. Demerit—Her voice. Favorite pastime Impersonating Miss Primer. MARJORIE CARSTEXSEX. Marge.” Virtue- -Vamping. Demerit—Salutatorian. Pavorite pastime—Vaudeville ditties. of the syrup and the crystallization of the sugar. Juice being introduced into this pan is concentrated by evaporation and becomes a super-saturated solution. A solution containing sugar is saturated when it can neither dissolve more sugar nor form sugar crystals. As a degree of super-saturation increases, sugar crystals begin to separate, the crystallization becoming greater as the degree of supersaturation increases. The amount of crystals is a most important item, as the quality of the resulting refined sugar depends upon this nucleus. W hen the proper amount of crystals is obtained, a sufficient amount ol svrup is introduced to prevent further crystallization. Further boiling is conducted in such a way that only these crystals grow. To do this it is necessary to keep the surrounding syrup but slightly saturated. During the boiling the new juices introduced are deposited on the original crystals, which constantly grow, the purity of the juice of the mother syrup becoming less. When the crystals have reached the proper size, the resulting mass, called massecuite, which is very dense, is discharged from the bottom of the pan into a large vat called a mixer. From this mixer it is drawn off into the centrifugals. The centrifugals are large suspended drums with closed bottoms, and on whose sides are line screens. The massecuite is introduced into the centrifugals, which are driven at approximately 1,200 revolutions per minute. The impure syrup around the crystals and which is called green syrup, passes through the screen and moves all the syrup from the c rystals. This runs into a storage tank. The sugar is then washed with pure warm water, which rewash syrup, as it is called, being very high in sugar content, is mixed with the beet juice at the melters. The white sugar, being wet, drops into a scroll and is elevated into storage bins. As a diversion, the green syrups spun off front the centrifugals are heated and pumped back to the pan floor, where it is drawn into another vacuum pan and is grained similarlv to the white sugar. Being impure and very viscous, the resulting massecuite is put into crystallizers which are large tanks in which are agitators. Here it is continually stirred and allowed to cool for about four days, during which time the grain absorbs all possible sugar in the mother liquor. It is then dropped into a mixer to be drawn off into centrifugals. The syrup spun off from these centrifugals is called molasses. It is a thick impure syrup and is used largely as cattle feed. The resulting sugar, being impure, is brown. It is conveyed to the melters, where it is dissolved in the beet juice. The wash syrup from the brown sugar is again introduced into the brown vacuum pan. To return to the white sugar: From the storage bin it is fed through a long sheet-iron drum, called a granulator, in which is a steam drum and on one end of which there are large steam radiators. The granulator, which is inclined, is revolved, keeping the sugar in constant motion. A large fan draws superheated air from the radiators through it. and the result is a dry sparkling crystal. From the granulators it is again elevated and passes over a sifting apparatus which separ- HAROLD RICHARDSON. “Skinny.” Virtue—Always tardy. Demerit—A devoted love for ebony curls. Favorite pastime—Horseback riding. ates the coarse crystals from the fine, which then pass into their respective bins. From these bins the sugar is drawn into sacks and are automatically weighed, after which the sacks are sewed by a machine and put in the warehouse. Last, but not least, in order to keep definite account of all chemical control of the factory, there is a very efficient laboratory which works in co-operation with the factory. The chemists constantly determine all the chemical properties of the juices, such as alkalinities. impurities, etc., and correct the same. As a result of the care taken by the chemists, a grade of sugar is produced which is unexcelled in its purity and quality. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SUGAR BEET [The following story was written by Sarah McCarty, and was awarded second prize by the Holly Sugar Co.] Myself and all my sugar-beet friends and relatives were crowding each other in our attempt to grow larger, when, one summer day, we heard the footsteps of men coming our way. Next we heard the voices of Mexicans drawing nearer, and they pulled out some of my neighbors so that I had a comfortable space in which to expand. I rested happily, until I was drawn from my peaceful home, and my next experience was that of being “topped.” During this process my beautiful ALTA BURKET. “Bucket.” Virtue—Neatness. Demerit—“W hint ns. ’' Favorite pastime—Flirting with mot or men. MERTON BERGNER. Mertie. Virtue—Espanol. Demerit—Gri n n i ng. Favorite pastime -Fussing Gertie Geiger. leaves were cut off. This took a large quantity of my nep, and I heard the boss' say it was taking my “alkaline salts. I was hauled to a beet “dump” with my pals, and then we were crowded into a large railway car. I noliced my old friends had been topped also. We rode for several miles and were finally emptied out of the sides of the big car into beet sheds. I saw what was to be my doom, because 1 could see men pushing my “buddies” into a flume filled with warm water, leading to a building of great size, on the side of which was a large green and white sign. “Holly Sugar Corporation.” Such a ponderous bulk of building frightened my pals and myself; but nevertheless we soon found ourselves floating along. I was severely injured when a rough-looking laborer stabbed me with a pointed weapon with which he was pushing us on our way. We floated down a flume and entered this immense building in the part which I heard the men call the beet end of the factory. We were sorted out and sent on to the beet washer, where we were whirled about in a big washer. There was plenty of water and most of our coat of mud was washed off. Nevertheless, we were washed thoroughly, next, until we were positively polished! We were very refreshed by our fine baths and were enjoying life when we were roughly dumped into a hobble, which took us to our doom! Before us was a cutter think of it! a machine to cut up innocent sugar beets. After great agony, we passed through the cutter, and 1 could scarcely recognized myself because I was cut into long shreds. I had scarcely time to find myself after passing through this wicked place, till we were dashed down at a high rate of speed into a hot, hot place, which I thought must be the “hereafter,” though I learned it was a diffusion battery. We were positively melted in this process, and all our good humor, sweetness, sugar in fact, left us, leaving our bodies in the form of pulp and our souls in the shape of a dark liquid called “diffusion juice” went on to be purified. . A big fat man measured us out and put with us. for a companion in our impurities, some lime. Then we passed on to carbonation tanks, where all of us in the form of juices were partially purified. Next came a filter where our friend, lime, left us, along with several of our impurities. A second filter took away more of our bad habits and impurities, and we were left pure. After being so thoroughly purified, we were sent to evaporators where we were purified further and condensed. Next on our journey were melters, where there was more heat. We also stopped over at a sulphur station where we were again reminded of the hereafter. 0 boy! such a speedy ride! I never rode so fast in all my experiences. Was spun around in a whirling machine called the “centrifugal by one of the conductors. I heard him telling some visiting students that we made twelve hundred revolutions per minute, but I’ll wager we made fifty thousand! Maybe I wasn’t dizzy! All my companions turned pale, too, I notice and we were then in the form of white sugar, as all our bad qualities left us. because they could not keep up with our rate of speed! Now white sugar; so we passed to rotary dryers, where we certainly dried! After being thoroughly dried, we were emptied into sacks and accurately weighed. Then a man. running a great sewing machine, sewed up the tops of out new sack homes and we were stored in a dreary cold-storage room with innumerable other sacks just like ours. The new question in our minds is “Where do we go from here, boys,” and we have fun guessing and suggesting our final destination. ENID HARRIS. “Kinky.” Virtue—She’s serious. Demerit—Primness. Favorite pastime—Chatting with Erma. we were white sugar, but not dry THE LITERARY DIGEST—REVIEW OF REVIEWS By a Member of the Class of ’19. A Dream of Fair Women________________________________________ ..Leila Swire The Country Gentleman____________________________________ Merton Burgner Everybody s-----------------------------------------------------------Mabelle Sampliner Woman’s Home Companion.___________________________________ Ward Derryberry The House of Mirth.................................. Miss Shimek’s Classes ( all ol the W ild.. .------------------------------------------Verne Judson anity Fair----------------------------------------------Marjorie Carstensen The Egoist---------------------------------------------------George E. Coombs A Child’s Garden of Verses------------------------------ ..Gladys Snider BETHEL MAGERS. “Betty.” Virtue—She’s beautifully blonde. Demerit—Too industrious. Favorite pastime—Bike-riding. HAROLD WOOLVERTON. “Poet.” Virtue—Spanish. Demerit—A good sport. Favorite pastime—Writing poems. The Silent Mystery_____ The Old-Fashioned Girl Seventeen______________ Alice of Old Vincennes. The Man of the Hour— The Delineator_________ _______Arthur Fidel ---------Lois Lamb _ Harold Richardson Miriam Hardenburg ------Prof. Hirons -----Sarah McCarty HISTORY OF THE BEST CLASS EVER Xoan . I ll just tell you the way we “got by” these four years and have now reached this high pinnacle, the climax of our intellectual career. Of course, we started as Fresh, of the most brilliant shade of green yet known. We were so brilliant, in fact, that the Franklin building would no longer harmonize with us and we were removed to the new High School for the remainder of the term. During the year we improved our ability as talkers and had a wonderful debate in which the participants were Leland Scheu, Mabelle Terrill, Howard McMulUn, Marjorie Carstensen, Vivian Smith and Mary Hornbaker. Edwin Splka was our able leader and (’lass president. Our Soph year was bur losing year. We lost several of our most noble youths through their enlistment in the army and navy. We also lost some of bur studious qualities and became more sophisticated. We were a very favored class, as all the Senior boys “beat up” on our fair boys and “fell for” our sweet girls. The great dramatic success of the year was the production of Hans Von Smash.” in which Fred Williamson and Joey Johns were stars. We closed the year with the Sophomore “Bonne Fete.” Xow I'm approaching the year in which our fame was established as entertainers. Our record as students was gradually decreasing: however, we worked all the more—in bluffing. Our girls were very interested in the “housewives” this year and they may change many of their futures. Our boys were more than excited in their military training. Mildred Nelson and Gladys Bailey were our idols as basketball players. Harold Shaw coached us as president and was a splendid money-getter.” Again we were robbed of some of our few boys, who went to the S. A. T. C.. but most of them returned. Herbert Hezlep was our president until he left for Annapolis: then Ward Derryberry returned just in time to fill the place very ably, as he had done in our Soph year. Not many of us were behind the times when the “flu season was on. but all did our share of the entertaining. We were treated royally by the Juniors during the year and banqueted on June 6th. Much to our regret, we cannot hold this place of honor forever; so we pass it one with pleasure to the Class of '20. JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY By J. V., ’20. In the fall of 1916 over one hundred very green Freshmen were started, in the old Franklin building, on the straight and narrow way along the road to High School Education. Like all Freshmen classes, we thought we were as wise as an old owl; for. did we not possess ALL the knowledge that is acquirable thicugh the grades? But, when our first report cards transferred some of us to second-class passengers, this brain pressure was somewhat relieved. A happy year followed, however, capped by a picnic to the Book Cliffs on a bright, sun-shinev (Well, 1 should say not!) day. In September of 1917 we assumed the dignity of Sophomores—a dignity which had just been bequeathed to us by the Class of ’19. And WE were Sophomores worthy of mention! We had a memorable banquet in Margery hall in spite of our fellow schoolmates, the Juniors and Seniors, who retreated from the field, taking with them many scratches and leaving a number of their scalping locks hanging to the belts of the feminine portion of the defending forces. Although our number has dwindled down, we, as Juniors, are still the class that is always “right there,” not only in athletics but in the every-day school life as well. Thanks to our leaders, Walter Littlejohn in ’17, John Cottrell in ’18 and Burton Coles in ’19. we have been safely guided along the rough and rocky road, and, as the ( lass of ’20 nears the end of the road to High School Education, we can all say: Although we haven’t finished yet, We can tell you all, you bet. That, when we have parted our several ways, That the work and the fun And the times that are gone We’ll recall to the end of our days. SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY By LENORE WOHLFORT. It is with the sublime confidence of one who has a memorial of worth to record that your Class historian writes concerning the mighty achievements of the Sophomore (’lass. In striking contrast to the turmoil abroad has been the peace and quiet of LULA PEUGH. “Grandma. Virtue—Too fat. Demerit—History. Favorite pastime—Peeping over her specks. ERMA EDDIXS. “Ed.” Virtue—Stenographer. Demerit—Pretty hair. Favorite pastime—Chatting with Enid. our days, during which even our worthy instructors have learned to smile, quite forgetting in the benignity of our presence the trials and worries which are to come next year when our radiance shall no longer shine upon them. Still, we were Freshmen once and have managed to live it down; so why should our teachers not have a few hopes when the Class of 22 enters the assembly as Sophomores. Having a strict regard for truth, I shall not state that the present Sophomore Class has attained the highest place in grades; still, we have fought bravely with Caesar in the siege of Alesia and struggled mightily with the angles and polygons of the most perverse theorems. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum is a phrase we should have ever before us, or we would unguardedly tell our various opinions of one who would compile his memoirs for the undoing of generations to come, or of one who would compel an innocent Sophomore to construct geometrically internal and external tangents to a circle, or else be graded “n.” Yet, despite these difficulties, we have managed to relate in fairly good English that which Caesar wrote badly in a language now unused, and have proved and re-proved why a circle is round until the table of “9s“ is no longer with us. Still we have conquered, and practically all are ready to enter the Junior Class. A few, because of their liking for the Sophomore teachers (and because of various other reasons), will remain in this class and will strive to put at ease the poor, frightened Freshmen when they timidly take their places among the members of the Senior High. The Golden Age, as it were, has come again by reason of the Class of ’21, and this in itself is honor enough. AN ODE TO THE FRESHMEN CLASS [As attempted by a member of the Class of '22. Please appreciate the effort.] This a great class so green and young— Who can expect it to make good use of its tongue? We can’t write much about our history, Because things like that seem such a mystery. Now, first about songs—they try to holler About how green we are when they ask for a dollar— Then about meetings in that big sanctum so grand When speeches by Seniors are made on that stand— And then about class yells and all that bunk— But, when they tell us, how it is to flunk!!! And, oh! our great society “DEBUTS” Take their places in mighty histories’ pews— As for our picnic—separated—we got there. And the Juniors—why, they still stare. For off they ran with our hired truck— But, luckily, we still kept our luck. Well, so it went on for the rest of the year. And now we are Sophs—Oh, dear! oh, dear! THERE IS THAT SENIOR AGAIN In the big High School assembly The fluffed up Senior stands. This guy. a smart old man is he. With brains like rubber bands. He knows his Spanish and his French; He knows his History, too: And he looks down on the Sophomores From a face all black and blue. His brow is knit with thoughtfulness, His face is lined with care. But, nevertheless, when a Soph’s arcund, The room is full of air. (hot) The Sophomore trudges his weary way, And he's very hard to see. And lie’s not got that mighty look. But lie’s the best for me. So, be kind, I pray, O Seniors, And don’t pull that old-time stuff— The Sophs all go about their biz, AND THEY SURE DON’T TRY TO BLUFF. Baseball Captain Cox lining up his baseball team)—“What would you like I play on the team?” Freshman (hesitatningly)—“I’d kind o’ like to be a batter.” x-rr' r .£7 iRAUDJINBUOT . j q i a RICHARD McCORMICK. ••Bugs.” Virtue—His tox-trot gait. Demerit—Very deceiving. Favorite pastime Herding cows. IDA SCRIVEN. “Idy.” Virtue—Old-maidish. Demerit—She’s conscientious. Favorite pastime—Home. James! YAPPS CROSSING GAZETTE The Family Paper.—Founded 1919. -Weather: Warm and Warmer. Vol. XXCLVI. Yapps Crossing, Friday Eve, June 13. 1950. No. S9899001. EDITORIAL. Senator Verne Judson. who has always been an ardent advocate for modern economies, has been revising his new bill. He expects to put it before the House December the twenty-fifth in the year of Our lx rd nineteen hundred and fifty. In this famous bill he has provided for the- standardizing of hair-cuts. It is expected that this bill will save the nation much money and labor, besides beautifying the general scenery. This bill will surpass in fame that great bill providing for the saving of daylight. You will recall that the latter measure was passed at the time of the Great War. LOCALS. Grandpa Fidel slipped and fell on the ice last night and broke his leg. He was visiting Deacon Ryan. It gives us great pleasure to await his early recovery. Dick McCormick, one of our modern cowmen, left today for his ranch with a year’s supply of cut plug. No doubt as soon as it is used up we will see him again, ladies. Auntie Burford is selling some pickles she canned years ago. She is donating the proceeds to the Anti-Chewing-Gum League. This is a worthy cause and we expect to buy some pickles to further this noble scheme. Parson Derryberry and wife have accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Central Church of Whitewater, Colo. Parson Derryberry is an eloquent orator and has a beautiful wife. Everybody turn out Monday to help clean up the Parsonage. The Sunshine Chapter of the church, led by their teacher. Miss Peugh, have volunteered to clean the parlor. Bring your scrub brushes. It will be a hard job, fellows: but wo will have a good time. Our returned missionaries. Misses Ruth McKinney and Ida Scriven, will give interesting lectures at the church Tuesday nite. They have been to Africa, and sav the only white man they saw while gone was Arthur Green, who, being disappointed in love, is living the life of a recluse. They also had several narrow escapes from cannibals. Johnnie Greer, known in New York as “Broadway Greer.” was brought home by a pretty nurse to recuperate from a serious attack of gout in the left small toe. Johnnie has been using Doctor Eddins’ freckle remover and we hardly knew him. Miss Bethel Magers, a trained nurse, is bringing him around to his usual health. The dean of the Yapps Crossing Girls’ Seminary, Merton Bergner, is attending a tea at the Retired Ladies’ Club this afternoon. In spite of his intellectual pewers. he is still popular with the young ladies. A new and very attractive school-marm, Miss McCarty, has arrived in our midst. Miss McCarty is for the present boarding at the home of Mrs. Roger Knight, who was formerly Miss Portia Rich and an old schoolmate of Miss McCarty’s. She has taught drawing in the De Beque schools for the past fifteen years Her private classes begin next Friday evening. Try your luck. One lesson may determine your future. In spite of the fact that this is Mr. Hezlep’s first year in our town as county coroner, he reports that his business is steadily increasing. Mr. Hezlep was reel ntly married to a young nurse. We wish the young couple success and happiness. Mrs. Mark Knight, who has recently purchased Mrs. Perkins’ well known driving mare. Bettsy, was forced to call the county vetinary, Doc G. E. Coombs, specialist in the eye, ear and nose. The mare being blind in one eye, accidently swallowed a few spikes dropped by mistake on a cake of rock salt in front of Sampliner’s General Store, owned by J. R. Sampliner and daughter. This happened the day of the big sock sale. r TOMORROW NITE. BIG VAUDAVILE AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Miss Marjorie Carstensen and Miss Helen McHugh. Come early and avoid the rush. Seats reserved at Bailey’s New Feed Store. PROFESSIONALS. HEZLEP AND WIFE—UNDERTAKERS. Drop in on us any time. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. Will sell at a sacrifice, one parrot, one black cat and a poodle. Miss I eila Swire. HOUSE AND BURKET. Manicuring Parlors. Ask about our Bachelors’ club rates. “IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS.’’ Mr. Richardson, who has quite recently been promoted to first constable of GLADYS DAILEY. “Gladdie.” Virtue—Basket-shooter. Demerit—Valedictory. Favorite pastime—Crying. MARJORIE ALKIRE. “Sis.” Virtue—Seamstress. Demerit—Pigeon-toes. Favorite pastime—Giggling. our police force, on arriving home last evening found that the good Lord had added to his worldly possessions three bouncing baby girls. AT THE MAJESTIC TO-NITE. Miriam Hardenburg starring in “Fussing Cherry.” The action climaxes in the third act, where the heroine saves the heroine by leaping from a Ford coupe, vaulting over a stone wall and gently lighting in Mother Robbins' duck pond. LITERARY. There was a preacher had two sons. And these two sons were brothers; Donald was the name of one, Herbie was the other's. [These immortal lines were penned by Harold Wolverton. We paid a dollar a word for the privilege of printing them and we hope our dear readers will appreciate our magnonious spirit.] SOCIETY. Miss Adelaide Waite won the booby prize yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Cottrell. Miss Waite is sure a card shark. Other notables present were Miss Leila Green, president of our Suffragette Society which is doing a great work in our little community; Miss Lois Lamb, treasurer of the Ladies’ Aid; Marjorie Alkire, secretary of the Local Board on Foreign Missions, and Miss Anna Lane, chief stenno. for the Fruita Dog Cat Sanitorium. CLASSIFIED ADS. Wanted—A job. I specialize in everything. Harold Shaw. Wealthy widower wants a lovable and affectionate companion. All candidates must apply in person. Lamar Moore. Dressmaking. Work guaranteed. Call Miss Nelson. Misses Tobie Snider are desirous to train pupils in the art of dancing as modernized by Mme. Geiger. Call Castle 123. Wanted—Dirty clothes to wTash. Send all piece work to Mrs. Esther Mathews. 693 West Ute. “THE LOVE PIRATES OF HAWAII:' This year's High School operetta, “The Love Pirates of Hawaii,” was a great success. As a result of Miss Moulton’s tireless efforts, the choruses were especially good. Having a well chosen play to begin with, she brought out the characters in a way that would do credit to any musical director. The doors opened at 7:30 and the 25-piece orchestra furnished music for the very expectant audience while the leading lady was donning her $10,000 gown and the pirates were clothing themselves in short overalls, bread knives and red paint. The selections chosen by the orchestra, being very appropriate for the occasion, were much enjoyed by the large audience. The play was given to three packed houses, the first performance being shown on Friday afternoon. May 9th; the other two were given on Friday and Saturday evenings. The cast of the play was as follows: Dorothy Dear______________________________ .Marjorie Carstensen Billy Woods_____________________________________Ward Derry berry Miss Primer------------------------------------------------Helen Tobie Pirate Chief______________________________________________Burton Coles Scary (a pirate)-------------------------------- Burton Dillon A chorus of twenty-five girls and fifteen boys. The action of the play was due largely to Mrs. Ingersoll’s kind assistance. She helped the speaking parts very materially and was instrumental in working the chorus into its perfection. The leading lady played her part especially well, although she became rather fussed when her lover left his print on her lower lip the first evening. The leading man took the love scenes with ease and it seemed that he had had previous experience in that line. Miss Primer seemed right at home in her role, making an ideal old maid. The pirate chief and his lieutenant were bold enough until it came to the school teacher, when they showed man’s natural fear for anything feminine. The three full houses were due to the fact that anyone who has once attended one of Miss Moulton’s operettas knows how enjoyablel they are, and they learn to expect them each year. If all the succeeding operettas are given with the pep and vim that this one was, they will continue to draw the big crowds. A jolly young chemistry lad, While mixing some chemistry stuff. Dropped a match in the vial, and, after a while, They found his front teeth and a cuff. I eola Bliss—“What have you there in your hand?” Margaret Moore—“Fly paper.” Leola Bliss—“Aw, now; I know they can’t read.” LAMAR MOORE. “Cow-poke.” Virtue—Short curly locks. Demerit—Pug nose. Favorite pastime Strolling with Florence. MABELLE SAMPLINER. •Vutie.” Virtue She loves the ladies(? . Demerit—Fiddling. Favorite pastime—Attending dances with M. Harold Woolver-ton. SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS ABOUT THE GRAND JUNCTION SCHOOLS TABLE SHOWING THE YEARS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN GRAND JUNCTION. Years. Beginners 1 year 2 years 3 years Number of Teachers. ...... 12 ______ S 2 ______ C Years. Number of Teachers. 5 to 10 years------------------------ 12 11 to 15 years---------------------- 6 16 to 20 years---------------------- 4 21 to 25 years---------------------- 4 4 years __________________________ 3 COST OF BOOKS. 1914- 15 ..................$2,578.57 1917-18 .................. — $1,607.1,4 1915- 16 ________________ 2,211.26 1918-19 .................—- 1,548.65 1916- 17 .................. 1,010.57 HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT. Class— Freshmen. Boys. Girls. Sophomore. Boys. Girls. Boys. Junior. Girls. Boys. Senior. Girls. 1914 33 77 26 43 23 36 17 28 1915 50 64 19 67 25 33 17 34 1916 38 54 38 55 17 50 19 29 1917 48 78 34 53 31 46 14 48 1 91 8__ 45 78 40 66 22 43 19 43 1919 62 81 38 69 29 50 16 37 On a basis of 150 pupils who probably entered tne first grade in Grand Junction twelve years ago and 41 pupils who are now graduating from the High School, we estimate that 27.3 per cent of our pupils who enter school finish or graduate from High School. We know that about 30 per cent of our High School graduates go to higher institutions of learning. The following shows the approximate percentage of alL pupils entering the public schools who complete the High School in seven representative cities: Denver, 21.3 per cent; Kansas City, 19.8 per cent; Seattle, 25.9 per cent; Toledo, 9.3 per cent; Omaha, 14.7 per cent: Chicago, 14.3 per cent; Baltimore, 9.3 per cent. This year 267 pupils entered the first grade. This means that there are 267 possible graduates who will finish school in eleven more years, barring deaths, loss of mental or physical powers, failure in studies, economic distress or other difficulty. About three-fifths of those who enter the first grade complete the eighth grade, and about one-third finish the High School. High School teachers-should constantly make an earnest and painstaking effort to remove all causes of elimination and to hold High School students in school until they graduate. The school that has a good record in High School attendance is the one that is rendering the largest measure of service to the people and to the children. The class this year was reduced considerably on account of the war. Several boys enlisted in the service of their country. ENUMERATION AND ENROLLMENT. ('lasg_ Enumeration. Enrollment. Average Attendance. 1914 - 2,105 2,019 1,590 1915 2,099 1,985 1,585 1916.. ____________________________ 2,007 1,611 1,527 1917 _______________________________ 1,933 1,810 1,309 1918 ______________________________ 2,210 1,953 1,440 1919 ................................ 2,373 2,113 Not ready Purposes— Police Oepartment----- Fire Department-- .— Health and Sanitation _ Street Department----- Charities ------------ Libraries ---------- - Parks and Playgrounds Schools -------------- All other purposes---- PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE. Distribution of City Expenditures. Grand Junction. .......................... $ .50 ........................... .85 ............................ .65 ........................ 1.75 .26 .50 6.53 1.60 Average of 213 Cities. $2.10 1.65 1.90 1.91 1.34 .24 .67 5.77 3.11 A TRIP TO MONTROSE By RICHARD SYDENHAM. [Being a highly exciting story of a trip taken to Montrose by the leading speechers and athleters of G. J. H. S. ] The things which may follow, dear reader, are all true facts; nothing whatever is an invention of the brain. It (our brain) has been stunned by that which it was forced to realize while at Montrose, so deviations from the beaten path of truth would be highly impossible. With thoughts of bribery, cold deals and bed-bugs still in mind, one should be happy that this is a story that is printable. For convenience, we will relate the incidents in a kind of log. Thursday at 1 o’clock, the first car, piloted by John Cottrell, started for Montrose. Other inhabitants of said car were T. B. and M. H. Woolverton. Frank ARTHUR GREEN: P. G. “Dub.” Virtue—Flirting. Demerit Joy-riding. Favorite pastime Student. ANNA LANE. “Lucy.” Virtue Her eyes. Demerit—Too quiet. Favorite pastime—Training to become a nurse. Watson. It. Sydenham and suitcases of various sizes. We sailed along at a great rate. In due time, as we approached Delta we ran into and through a rain storm. When the rain falls for only a short time up there, the roads undergo a sudden change and become paths of grease, by the aid of which we were able to inscribe G. J. H. S. all over those roads until we put on the chains. As the storm happened to be a local one, we soon passed beyond its seasickening effects. In due time we arrived at Montrose and went to the Belvidere Hotel, headquarters of the M. C. H. S. Boosting Club, where we were registered and sent out for rooms. They let all five rooms at the same place, the reason for which we have decided was mutual consolation. After we had washed off most of the Delta County mud, John made a motion that we eat. There was a general rush for a cafe, where Bernhard had a light! ?) supper according to previous instructions. Then we went back to our rooms, and Bernhard made a last resolution to do or die, whereupon we went down to the Armory to hear the argumentative debate. M. C. H. S. was sure there with the applause for THEIR man, but regarded the others with suspicious silen e. Bern-hard was fourth on the program and we waited impatiently at limes for him to do. And he did do, for we all know that he got second. We were proud that G. .1. 11. S., without any teacher of elocution, could compete so successfully against schools which do employ such teachers. G. J. H. S. can well afford such a teacher, NEEDS one and SHOULD HAVE one next year. Thus ended our first day in Montrose. Friday morning was a bright and sunny day, and the day was in keeping with our spirits, for this was the day that John was to deliver his oration on the “Challenge of Peace.” John got third place, which is another indication of what we could do if we only had the chance. At this time another G. J. H. S. car arrived, piloted by Mary Hornbaker, accompanied by Miss Killheffer. Georgia Seeley, I ois Hopkirk and Roger Knight. Then there was much gnashing of teeth, for it was thought that G. J. H. S. would attempt to bring more than their allotted ten to the track meet. The wires grew hot between Montrose and G. J., to find that G. J. H. S. would be represented by only nine men. When this was related, all was peace and quiet again. In repairing a puncture, we found that, when Montrose citizens have no further use for their phonograph needles, they throw them out in the street. In the afternoon we went sightseeing, and in doing so the top of the car received many strains, for it constantly brought to a sudden stop the more sudden ascent or the occupants when they hit the innumerable bumps on the Montrose BOI LEVARDS. A top sure comes in handy at Montrose. When we saw a car speeding along with a certain blue smoke trailing behind, we wondered if that was from the exhaust or occupants thereof. A storm arose in the afternoon, and, as we attempted to approat h the M. C. H. S., we were nearly struck with lightning, so we retreated in good order. The Busy Bee drug store was then invaded. For further particulars see J. C. or R. S. Henceforth this place became VERY popular with G. J. H. S. boys. Friday evening we went to hear Georgia Seeley. As she did not get a place, we went home dejected. The athletes arrived that evening after combatting mud for much of the way. They were hurried off to bed, only to find that their rooms were already occupied by a ferocious foe too peaceful to sleep. They spent much of the night combatting this foe, but gave up in despair. Saturday was an ideal day for a track meet, and the preliminaries were run without delay. We succeeded in placing at least one man in every event except the javelin. After the preliminaries, it was clearly evident that the track meet would be a battle between Delta and Grand Junction. is the program: 100-yard ...............................— Delta Shot put______________________ S80-vard _____________________ Pole vault_________________________ Cherry 120-yard high hurdles______________ Delta Discus ............................ neita 440-vard -......................... Delta High jump.......................... cherry 220-yard -------------------------- Delta’ Javelin ____________________ Mlle -------------------------- — Delta 220-yard hurdles___________________ Delta Broad jump_________________________ Cherry 2 o'clock sharp. and, under the able manage- y event went off in fine shape. The following First. Second. Third. -- Delta Cherry Delta -- Cherry Olathe Montrose Montrose Delta Gunnison Paonia -- Delta Delta Delta -- Delta Cherrv Delta Littlejoh n Adleman Delta Montrose - Delta Delta Hiatt -- Delta Paonia Montrose Kane Littlejohn Cherry Montrose Gunnison Delta Delta won the cup, Wilcox, their strong man, getting five individual medals. Grand Junction took second place, Cherry getting four individual medals and making more individual points than anyone else at the meet. He also broke the state High School record in pole vaulting: his record was 10 feet 7 k inches. Littlejohn also won an individual medal by easily winning the 880 run. One of the best instances of sportsmanship ever witnessed by any G. J. spectator was at this track meet. In fact, every one of our boys showed up the best ever in sportsmanship. We are proud to say that such a boy goes to G. J. H. S. We are looking for great things from Addleman, Hiatt and Kane, l'or they showed up fine for their first year at track. Cox, Knight and Martin did good work in I he preliminaries. Saturday night Lois Hopkirk delivered her humorous declamation, and the cups and medals were awarded. G. J. H. S. took second in athletics and third in the declamatory contest. This last shows what we could do if we had the right help and opportunities for development along those lines. The Alumni dance ended the festivities. Many G. J. hoys and girls were there and spent an enjoyable evening, even though the floor was crowded at times. Sunday morning dawned a little too early for those who had gone to the dance; but, as life is one thing after another, after one last glimpse of the Busy Bee and on-' last ride over the wonderful streets of Montrose, we started for home, arriving at G. J. at various hours during the afternoon. Thus ended the greatest event of the year 1919 for G. J. H. S. And, as the saying goes, “It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. we got more benefit out of our trip to Montrose than any other one thing during the year, for we realize that G. J. H. S. needs and must have a teacher of elocution. CLASS OF 1919 A little study of the Class of 1919 shows the following interesting statistics: Out of the class of forty graduates, the following list of occupations are stated as those which the students have selected for their life work: Commercial work, seven: teaching, five; farming, four; public playground work, three; music, three: art. two; nursing, two; physician, engineering, public welfare and the navy, one each; undecided, ten. It is also interesting to note the states from which the forty graduates have come: Nineteen were born in Colorado; three in Kansas; two each in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nebraska; and one each in Wyoming, Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Vermont and Kentucky. The average age of the class is 19 years. LEILA GREEN: P. G. “Shorty. Virtue—Obeying mama. Demerit Loves School. Favorite pastime Tatting. ROBERTA CALLOW. Si.” Virtue—Silence. Demerit—Sighing. Favorite pastime—Writing to Si HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION If you can possibly afford it, give your boy and girl four years of High School training. The financial advantages of a High School education are tremendous. United States statistics, comparing the wages of thousands of men of twenty-five, show the wages of the boy who left school at eighteen, after he had finished his High School education, were more than double those of the boy who left school at fourteen, after he had finished the grades. Statistics from High School Placement Bureaus in Chicago show that firms pay larger salaries to boys who have finished the four years’ course than to those who have completed only two years of High School work, and that the demand for the graduates from the four-year High School courses is much greater than the demand for one-, two- or even three-year students. Army life in this country in the last year has shown more clearly than ever before the enormous advantages to the man with the higher education over his less trained and educated companions. In all walks of life, in all business, in all professions, a High School education is a paying investment. LOCALS MARJORIE CARSTENSEX, Editor. While Congressman Taylor was in the city, he visited the High School and told us of his life in Washington, explaining parts of the government, and also told us of his visit to the Panama (’anal. We always enjoy Mr. Taylor’s talks. May S.—Mr. Roth from Ft. Collins gave us an interesting talk on the barberry. May 9. Mr. Peterson gave us a most interesting talk on “Business Life. May 10.—Delta track meet at fair grounds. Rained all day. May 13.- -Mrs. Baylis gave several delightful readings, which we enjoyed very much. Many of the Senior girls cannot be satisfied in their home town; so have found it necessary to get most of their graduating clothes in the city of Palisade. May 16.—Program at the Y. M. C. A.— String Quintet.....—....................... —.....--------------------- Mabelle Sampliner, Helen Tobie, Portia Rich. Leila Swire. Bernadine Hagan Reading— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”----------------- Lois Hopkirk Reading—“The Brave Fireman ---------------------------------Lola Cook Rending—“The Last Lesson -------------------------- ..Georgia Seeley Vocal Solo............................................. Betty Meserve Oration—“The Challenge of Peace ......................... John Cottrell Springboard High Jump—7 feet----------------------------- Max Cherry The Juniors and Seniors will give a splendid prograip at school on the last day. J. C. GREEN Dentist L J10 Grand Valley Hank I building. Phone Junction 805J. Hen it Tup per Silmon I.. Smith Tupper Smith Attornevs-atLaw Grand Junction 'olorado ! ESTHER MATTHEWS. “Pete. Virtue—Daintiness. Demerit—She's timid. Favorite pastime—Hiking. LOCALS May 26.- The Domestic Science girls celebrated Mr. Armstrong’s birthday by making some delicious ice cream for him. May 26.—A meeting of the entire High School was held. Those who went to Montrose for the track meet and rhetorical contests told of their experiences there. Those who spoke were: Miss Killheffer, Lois Hopkirk, Richard Sydenham. John Cottrell. Roger Knight, Max Cherry, Wilmer Kane, Frank Watson and Bernard Woolvertou. Sarah McCarty talked about the last issue of the Orange and Black. Mrs. E. Wadsworth said that the School Board was willing to help us in every way they could. Rev. Thibodeau talked on School Spirit. A sergeant in the territorials, being doubtful whether he had distributed rifles to all the men, called out: “All of you that are without arms hold up your hands. Miss Killheffer- “You don’t see many of the old-fashioned girls nowadays, do you? Prof. Arms—“No: now the girl, who used to say ‘Ask papa,’ has a daughter who cries, ‘Give her more gas, George, father’s gaining on us’.’’ Miss Killheffer (in English)—“I will say that Carlyle is difficult to understand. It will be necessary for you to reach high to grasp the meaning. Mip Nelson—“How are you going to do it. if you’re not tall enough? Frieda H.—“If you girls don’t quit twisting my name around so, I’m going to change it.’’ (Wee small voice)—“Wonder when he asked her?” Miss Brooks—“Dorothy, run up the window.” Dorothy R.—“It’s rather risky: but, if you say so, all right. Doctor—“Tell your wife not to worry about her deafness, as it is merely an indication of advancing years.” Mr. Ilirons—“Er—would you find telling her yourself, doctor?” I C.W. YOUNG • ' 1 Merle D. Vincent 1 Osteopathic Physician Attorney at Law ‘4? 1 • I i Suite 501-2-3 411 Grand Valley Bank Building i i Grand Valley National Hank Huildinjr ► ! The A. W. Hammer Drug Co. I The REXALL Store I • • Eastman Kodaks and Supplies Parker Fountain Pens | Johnston’s Chocolates Palmer's Perfumes J CLASS STONES. Freshman—Emerald. Sophomore—Soapstone. Junior—Grindstone. Senior—Tombstone. Once there was a big molice pan, Who saw a bittle lum Sitting on a sturb cone Chewing gubber rum. Said the big molice pan, “.Won’t you simme gum?” “Tixxie on your nin type,” Said the bittle lum. “Where are you going, John?” “To raise the wind.” “What for?” “To meet a draft.” Harold H.—“Paw, what is the breath of suspicion?’ paw—“The one that has cloves on it, my son.” “Why do you object to cremation?” “Because it’s such a warm finish.” H. H.—“Will you have a little shrimp?” Cornelia—“Oh, Harold, this is so sudden!” Mystery—Where are Sister Coombs’ glasses? Mabell S.—“What are you taking for your cold?” Marjorie A.—“Make me an offer.” Leon H.—“What is a ground hog?” Tom R.—“It’s a sausage.” Helen McH.—“Who is your favorite author?” Trigger Sampliner—“Father.” Helen—“What does he write?” Trigger—“Checks.” “That young man stayed very late again, Ruth.” “Yes, papa: I was showing him my picture postcards.” “Well, the next time he wants to stay late, you show him some of my electric-light bills.” Miriam H.—“Would you leave your home for me?” Max C.—“I’d leave a baseball game in the ninth inning with the score a tie.” Mrs. Jones—“What does your husband call your dog?” Mrs. Jack—“When he’s calling him in the house, do you mean, or chasing him out?” The person who is riding sixty miles per hour in a big machine is no happier than the person who is riding twenty miles per hour in a fliver, because the person in the fliver thinks he is going sixty.-Ask Bernadine. 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