Greenfield High School - Bulletin Yearbook (Greenfield, MO)

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The Ascentm of ' Bud. CHAP I. UD, Whose Real Name, as recorded in the old family Bible, was William Ashburton Brown, was the Pride of the whole Oak Dale District. At school he was the recog- nized Leader in the 'Rithmatic class, and during the farming season could turn off as much of the Commodity called Manual Labor as Abe Lincoln ever dared to. In truth Bud was in a high way to develop into a Useful Citizen ' Q4 h'9,9?fl'14-Q1.-',','n, 5 ff 1, 95.54M?ry,o,v,mi,'th65qfQ':,L,?2Q'vLgQ X' 'Q I7 n,727,r2f'ijf2'L:-W ylinypqg , 4 Q nf ,' h Xgglgf if ' .ffiffimfiaiae 1- . .. X , ,af a. .- ,X 5. 1 ' . ' 6:-N541 .M fy yff ff,-f li M ' Wi, Q '-QM .,f. R 5 f sf A fx 3232- , - 47165. A af 'A f 5 7 A ' + A rf A' 'WW T ix fi i .rf W V 9,.,.,,.,, . Q 1 ,. ., if . '- Kx f' if '-'- .Il A X.-E 'FQ' 'gi ff Jr 'f X ata f dyf . 1,-'99 U . F 3... V U' Ama? ri... , X 1 9 ' vb.-, im. .ff 4 - H fm: - JZ? NX? U'-5' ' iz 7...-3 f 4. fir Vw , - ,qw a fV p' Iiiixi .1 Ft- '--I it ' . 4 f b' .' ,- . ' h f MRML ' ,W is B ag' f' . iveef f iifif . X l .5-.3,s,,.,.i-.al . . N 'Q u. i iov,a,ae'iwi . ' 3' i 2 W 'i i Qfffiiwt f i fxaif Ivfl21'i1'.l'. ' ,'.' in-' f M- P . 'f J OH, 5515 ' -f....fzff4!1fie5, if BUD WAS ALWAYS Do1N' soMErH1N7. CHAP II. Bud was an Energetic Youth- always doin' somethin', as his Ma was wont to say when Drawn into a Conversation in which Her Son was the Topic. Up to his sixteenth year this Energy of his didn't bother him any, but now he began to be Harrassed by that Scourge of Youth politely called Am- bition. Somehow things on the Placewbe- gan to lose their attraction for him, and- worse be the Pity--a Candidate for State Representative made a Campaign Speech at the school house on one Saturday night which Bud heard-yea, he drank in the same. Ah, it was an Inspiration. His un- satisfied Yearning was now defined for Him, for did not the speaker in Glowing Lan- guage show that all the Fruit was ripe, that the Same was just waiting for the Gentle Touch of any Ambitious Youth who would devour a Curriculum and approach the Said fruit? That night, till long after the crow- ing of the Poultry at the mid-night hour, Bud lay sleepless, for he was building Air-castles, yea, in his Mind's Eye he saw Hon Win. A. Brown, L. L. D. in Guilt letters on a sign down the Swellest street of that great city which his delirious brain had fashioned. All that He was to Do was to go down and Occupy the Oilice. ' A GHAP 111. Bud was a Changed Bud. Repulsive now 'Wm X I 'jx .', fIfQ. r: :-'-131'?'-i 3 ,,, as, M ,f , EH-Jw tuffv the work in which he formerly delighted to B f:g..iis.i-3,3.i5'yZ7 il EBAY to surpass. WF Off to School. At the very V5 Sight of the big, cold. building on the Camp- 'ORS ,frail Wu I us Bud's Enthusiasm described a Movement similar to that of a column of Mercury at the approach of ablizzard, but safely housed LZ ' I' in his Boom and regularly Entered, he began K yi, to Recuperate. In a month he Resumed the .ggwy , fi'z,fg1Z7Zy?h old Habit of letting his Imagination run I vi. gR'7fiZ35i f', 'H Q' Rampant from the time he Retired till the f f -2'-QI? s. KU wee Small Hours, but now his Pictures all if focussed around the Old Place. His pris- lf f y tine Energy was brought into play and in gTi'3 pff.' adj' spite df the Prosiness of the School Work, ,, ,V 1 A-2-'Em so far from the Poetic Loveliness the same 'fri ibm ' fff rt ,,,a..-.-seeeefaes- : had Worn at longer range, Bud became an Earnest, Conscientious Student, but after playing this role for some seven years he HE WAS AN AVERAGE LAWYER.

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' Q . I ,.,f, eil? S. g,X ! j,-k,l4,:i -I - A V Avvl f - :if !laf5 iff ' .Fl ll ,, . A l, avi lk Liu' Is wx t A i 1 x 1 QM ' 1 . gf . 1' I 'ff lls ax N2 .. HE CAPTURETH COUNTLESS HONORS. l IV. Within the town that once rang with his name, And sang his praise- ' Where high above all others rose his fame- The farmer lad abideth all his days. ' For there within a kinsman's grocer store, Where swarm the iiies the syrup jars about. He selleth prunes, at seven bucks Knot morej And trades it out. R. B. G. III. Behold him now, no more th' unlettered swain In baggy pants and lone suspender clad- His swallow-tails and kids afford not e'en A faint suggestion of the farmer lad. The elocution teacher, with an eye, For diamonds in the rough, hath corner'd him And smeared all over him a polish high, And rubbed it in 3 So that there is no way to head him off From anything, And envious youths who long at him did scoff Now follow in his train, his praise to sing. His medals are as sands upon the shore- His honors higher than the mountain peaksg The world is his. and he doth lack no more Wll3U6761' 'he seeks. And when his four allotted years are past, There are grave fears, Lest now the school, without him, can but last . A few more years. FARMERS seas? ggqs A MMA! W ' 1 ' A i - ' an . I ,ff 4 5,-5 s - J X illiwmlynv J' . ' - fr' n ' : - ' i nz: ' ,.' 0 ' :kia JJ Q 0 o ' sin' IIN a 0 0 U ' ' lit 0 0 0 G ' ii' C c -- o ' :.iif7L'f'5Qi5:5-riivi.-.fseil . as-I.: , Jag A u. AF .- ff-9 ng: September. A G Zd. Greenfield inundated with wisdom seekers. 4th, The doors thrown open. 5th.r 'Eighth graders 'tardy already. First special lecture by Melcher. ' llth. A lot of new arrivals, including Homer Hayward, who makes a hit with the girls. 14th. The absent minded beggar. Melcher walks a half-mile in the sun without his hat. 15th. Art Scroggs seen slopping the pigs at noon. 18th. Joe Johnston disguises himself in long pants. 19th. Miss1Johnson puts visitors to work by mistake. 20th-22d. Holidays. Teachers' association. 27th. Invasion of chapel by ministers of Greenfield.

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finally Escaped from the Institution with the coveted Label,engaged an Oiiice and occupied the same for months Unmolested Cby Clientsb. CHAP I V. Years later he, William Ashburton Brown, was Recognized as an Average among the Legal Profession in a middle-sized City. MORAL: When listening to a. Speech by aCandidate, take Everthing into Consideration. - Z CLYDE MCLEMORE. -3-1-gg.. A Letter Home. ' - ' Greenfield, Mo., Sept. 15th, 1905. Dear Pa and Ma: . I have been in school one week and have seen and learned lots already. A Things' here in the Greenfield High School are so different from what I thought they'd be. , I am just chuck full of things to tell you but I can't find a good place to start in. I guess I'll tell you about the teachers-the faculty as they was labelled in the cat- alog I got last summer. Well, about Prof. Melcher, I don't know much about him for he don't associate with me very much except I see him every morning when all 'of we students assemble up-stairs to hear his daily lecture as the juniors call it. The very second morn- ing another fellow in my class, a freshman-for that's what they call us that's just starting in well this boy was whispering to the boy that was sitting with him and pretty soon he look- ed up and Prof. Melcher had stopped his lecture and was just standing there a-looking right at him and it wasn't a minute till everybody in the house had turned on his seat and was looking at this boy. Gee! but his face got red as fire and he said afterwards that he felt like a fool. But they say itis a way that Prof. Melcher has. l The other teachers are mostly women and I don't know much about them, but I'm sure they are good teachers for don't you remember it said in the catalog they was all grad- uates from some big college or other? But nobody could tell it by looking at 'em, though in the classes they seem to know what they're talking about. They board at the Washington. I hear some of the students say they're taking music and some that they are taking elecution. I have located the room where the seniors take physics and the library where everybody takes naps, but I can't locate the departments of Art, Elocution and Music. They must be around somewhere 'cause they was all in the catalog, but so far I haven't run across 'em. They have two literary societies just as the catalog said, but I guess- I'll have enough to keep me busy getting my lessons without joining any literarysocieties, and anyhow they've not asked me to join yet. - I .Well, I will close for this time and get to studying my lesson for we have to sign a paper that we'll studytwo hours every night. Pm just now beginning on my Latin lesson, It's the funniest stuff. Good-bye for this time, . ' Your Loving Son, I TOBIASB P. S. I will tell you about some of the students next time. Some of them don't study hard- ly any and then put idownlon paper that they've studied two or three hours. Windy Martin, I got acquainted with him the first-day. And some of the girls I know are: Madge Harrison, Helen Carr, Beulah and Zetta White and a whole lot more. They say there are more of the feminine gender in school than there are boys anyhow, but I must study some. ' I wish you folks could hear me read some of this Latin. It's the funniest stuff. L' As Above, ' CCLARENCE MCLEMOREJ TQBE' '