Greenville High School - Chief Yearbook (Greenville, OH)

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agin. Once in a wile a feller that don't wanna fite he ketches the ball Wen they throw it away and he runs off with it, and all the people who ain't playin they jump up and down and holler as loud as they kin. The players all run after him and when they ketch him they sure run his nose in the ground. Once one of our boys he cot the ball and run away with it and wen he got to the sticks he was so tired he set down and so they started all over again. When they have beet a feller up so bad he can't hardly walk they take him away and put in another one so each will have someone else to fite with. Well its a mity excitin game and after it was all over they sed we had beet. I guess I'll have to get some of my Inglesh lessen for tomorro. We will git our grade cards next weak and I asked my teacher wot I was a goin to get and she sed if I studied reel hard and 1'evewed my old grammar and spellin book a lot. she mite give me a But I don't know what that means either cause we never had d's in country school and I was afraid to ask her. Well goodbye From your lovin dotter Anne P. S. You kin send me a little more money if you have any to spair. It costed me 25C to go to that football game. Clara Deubner '27 Q Q? 1 a, if 25 ' Q ,, , ,QW A ' all ' 'rl lr , -, me-- . 1' --- ........ .g if .... ZEf1bZ7Q2,,t ' f l5ff-'1f5- -- WHEN!! Rduerhhrment - BAHIWAW' TI-LIE Pugv one lzzuzdrcd two

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A l:1'eshman,s ldea of Football Anne, who lived in the country. was set on getting an education. After her graduation from the eighth grade, she had no rest until her folks consented to her going to the High School, at Greenville. But it's ten miles off, argued her father. Well, couldn't I stay in town with Aunt Jane ? Wall, I reckon as how you maybe could, he finally answered, and thus granted his consent. So the second Monday in September found her in town and entering the large school building for the first time, nervous and excited as all Freshmen are. Days passed, and Anne was beginning to learn most of the funny ways of the school. At least, she didn't jump anymore when the electric bells rang so suddenly, and was able to walk more comfortably in the crowded halls without being scared to death that she would get lost or be tramped on. About two weeks later, Anne noticed a general excitement in the school, and she heard everyone talking Football . Upon inquiring, she found that football was a game that some of the boys played on a big field. She learned that there was to be a big game the next day. Anne had never seen a game of football so she decided to go with some of the other Fresh- man girls. After the game, she said she was going right down to Aunt Jane's and write a letter home to Ma and Pa. This is what she wrote: Dear Ma 81 Pa: I reckon you'll be a wonderin just what is a happenin down here. Well thers a plenty. One of the girls was a watchin me rite the other day and she says as how I should make my i's capitol and not dot them. So I sez I'm never to old to learn and I perseeds to make em capitol. Ma you'd oughter see the game we play down hear called football. My goodness but it is rough. The hole thing starts wen the band marches out. They is a fella that marches first, and he shur looks funny. He has a big cain wot he carrys for show cause their aint no one that cud use a cain and walk like he duz. Aunt Jane said he was the dum majer er somphin like that, and he shur looks swell, but l gotter laff wen he walks like he duz. And the team is all bulgy in places and show wot looks like an old korest onley they Ware it different. There is I think about 26 of em but onley 11 goes out at once. They always try to get hurt then someone else kin play. Some game huh? Well after the band plays the game starts and they is a ball that aint round, in the middle of a big field with posts at both ends and white lines in between. They all try to kick the ball at each other but cause there is onley one ball and a hole bunch of players they jist kick and Wressel with each other as best they kin. Wen they gets neer to each other they allus pick a fite. It seems as how they are all in a meen temper and hate everyone. A man in a white pare of funy pants-he has a tin horn-makes em quit fitin once in a while and line up on each side of the ball. Then one fellcr grabs it and throws it away and they all begin to fite Page one lz1n1d1'c'd mic

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Cn Going to School To go to school is my delight each day, Though duty is not always strewn with flowers, And learning does not come with laugh and play' So take advantage of the passing hours And striving try to make your school a bower Of loving memories. and knowledge great Which now to me seems as a mighty towerg And looking back I can commemorate The longing that I had to graduate. The time is growing shorter and to me It seems a punishment, and looks like fate Will get some prisoner, but we will flee, And never will it capture learning folks Who live for more than merriment and jokes. 1 Carolyn H. Huber '28 Those Pedagogues Did you ever stop to think What queer persons teachers are? What eccentricities their minds contain Though each one's an intellectual star? Each teacher has his own device To make loud students act So Nice. They're stern, good natured, grumpy. grand, Or what the situation may demand. By notebooks, tests, and plans galore They try to make us study more. For fear of grades, or life, or shame I dare to give no teacher's name For some I know this will suffice To set upon my head a price. E'en if they are so stern and cold. Funny, angry, or even bold At least we must at last agree That we are worse than they can be. Harold Baker '27 Page one lzznzdred three