Hammond Central School - Spotlight Yearbook (Hammond, NY)

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS Can you see this picture plain- ly? A mathematician, no doubt, At least what Floyd Hunter doesn’t know, He’s not afraid to ask about. Peanut shucks upon the floor, A smell of perfume too, Oh, that’s where Roscoe Pilger sits, Decked out in raiment new. The first bell’s rung, they’ll sure be late, I wonder where they are? Oh, now I see them coming, A couple in each car. Upstairs they rush-, all out of breath, This is a pretty state, For Cy and Isabelle make it, But Ruth and Gander are late. ' A thud, a roar, a rumble, My ! how the building shakes, An earthquake? No, that’s Albert, Perhaps he needs new brakes. The teachers, too, are pic- tured, In poses known too well, I shall never forget Mr. North- rup With finger on the bell. In the classroom sits Miss Charter, Her red pencil never rests, And worse yet, in the labora- tory Miss McClelland is making tests. These snapshots and many others We’re taking day by day. Did you ever stop and won- der Just what your memory book will say? By Madame Queen. DO YOU KNOW THAT New York is fifteenth among the states as a producer of zinc, with an output from her mines in 1927, of 2,980 tons. St. Lawrence county is the chief source of this metal. New York state has nearly three million foreign born in- habitants. Italians form the largest group, followed by Russians, Germans, Irish, Poles and Austrians in the order named. One hundred years ago New York city had a population of about 75,000. There were in the metropolis three stage lines five ferries, one theatre, one library. Hickory wood was

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS Dan Cupid has been active in our school during the past year. He sent a fatal shaft from his bow into the heart of Geraldine Merritt Moore and later a deadly arrow found lodging in the heart of one of our teachers, Lois Daniels Pad- dock. It is reported that an- other teacher and possibly a few pupils have been mortally wounded. The basket ball team, accom- panied by Mr. Campbell and Mr. Northrop, was entertain- ed at the home of Donald Dun- ham where they greatly enjoy- ed sugar and snow. The boys proved to be more efficient sugar eaters than ball players. —Doris Foote SNAPSHOTS OF H. H. S. The eye’s a camera, so we’re told, The fact we know is true; And images of H. H. S. Each day it takes for me and you. When glancing over memory’s book In years to come, I w’en, That certain pictures taken now Will even then be seen. This one’s been snapped so often, We’ve seen it o’er and o’er, It’s Howard Allen on parade, He’s walked five hundred miles or more. And here is William Massey, A question mark, you see, When next they take the cen- sus, A job for him there’ll be. No, that’s not Touchdown, it’s Donald Mac, A jester and a clown, How many times in history class He’s failed to win renown. Here are our faithful guard- ians Of the bulletin board in, th'e hall, As soon as a notice is placed there Virginia and Doris will read it all. A cloud of smoke, a fire I fear, Oh, now ’tis quickly out, For Marshall’s fire extinguish- er Has put the flames to rout. The committee on decorations May remain tonight after school, Jean, Dorothy and Doris May profit from this rule.

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS the chief fuel and Dutch was largely spoken. Ninety years ago the first passenger liner was com- pleted at New York, when in 1838 the Great Western reach- ed New York harbor from Bristol, England, after a six- teen day voyage. New York State is using nearly one-fourth of all the miles of gas mains and more than one-fourth of all the miles of electric transmission lines in the United States. There are in New York city alone 75 agencies and institu- tions given over entirely to the care of the aged poor. The only New York State del- egate to sign the Constitution of the United States on Sept. 17, 1787, was Alexander Ham- ilton, and without him the Con- stitution would not have been ratified by New York. The largest carpet factory, elevator factory and sugar re- finery in the world are all in Yonkers, N. Y., the sixth larg- est city in the state. The earliest game conserva- tion law in New York state was passed in 1732, when the use of nets was forbidden in the Collect, a lake on the low- er Manhattan where the Tombs prison now stands. The first clergyman to settle in New York state was the Rev. Jonas Michaelius, who came from Holland in 1628 and or- ganized the Dutch Reformed Church. Peter Minuit, who bought the island from the In- dians for $24, was the first elder of the little church and services were held in a stone horse-mill. Thirty-four kinds of game are killed in New York state. In 1927 the total weight of the game killed was more than 2,- 000 tons. The largest item was deer, weighing 700 tons, followed by rabbits, weighing 600 tons. At an early geological per- iod the state of New York was part of the Atlantic ocean, in which the Adirondacks ap- peared as an island. In 1853 the Saratoga potato chip was invented at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. It was discov- ered when the chef of Moon’s Lake House cut his potatoes too thin. The Empire State leads all others in the value of its paper mill products, for which about one million cords of wood a year arc required. Of this