Harmony High School - The Ferguson Yearbook (Harmony, ME)

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What a dang fool name. Now Tex was a wiry, taciturn in- dividual who thought that a ranch was a place to raise cows, not fanci- fied dudes. But since his employer was Percival's uncle and since the old man said Percival was coming for an indefinite visit, Tex expected that was just what would happen. He didn't expect, however, that Perci- val would be his chargeg that came as a blow. This wasn't going to work. Tex knew that when he met Percival at the station. He could see that in the dude's quick, nervous movements, in his affected manner. This opinion was intensified still more the next morning after breakfast. Tex was trying to teach Percival to ride, and the dude went consistf ently to the right side in spite of Tex's reiterated objections. When Percival asked if it wasn't the same distance up either side, Tex groaned aloud. But he was persistent, Tex was. He made Percival keep trygig. Yes, he was persistent and patient, but only human, so when the dude finally got up on one side of the horse and fell olf the other, Tex gave up in disgust. Go ahead and look the place over, he offered, but don't get lost! As the dude disappeared around one corner of the barn, Tex muttered, Great! Great! This is great! And things continued to be great In less than ten minutes Percival was back excitedly waving a string of rattle-snake rattles big enough to choke a cow. Tex blanch- ed and his lower jaw dropped' Where - - - Where did you get those '? he whispered hoarsely. Off the biggest worm I ever saw! was his answer. t'Tell me. did - - did it bite you? Tex gasped. No, Perciva.l replied nonchalent- ly, but the malevolent little beastie certainly tried. As Tex confided to his employer later, It was kinda unnerv1n'. After that Tex kept an eye on the dude as though Percival wasn't right in his head. The grand climax came, however, when Tex sent him out to milk a cow. Coming into the barn a few minutes later Tex found the dude sitting on a stool regarding the cow with a perplexed expression. Say, he inquired of the Texan, How do you work this thing? Tex gave him a brief demonstration and then left. Just as he cleared the door, Percival came flying out and caught Tex amidships, bearing them both to the ground. As he strug- gled to his feet, he looked back at the barn and quavered, I don't think that animal likes me. This was the last straw. The straw that broke the Texan's back, so to speak. Out of sight of the dude Tex took from his pocket a telegram. It was a cherished souvenir of his trip to Dallas. It read: Dear Tex, Please come home- Your employer. Much as he valued it he would have to sacrifice it, he figured. Sit- ting down on a log he produced a pencil. With this he changed the heading of the telegram to read Dear Percival and the signature to read Your mother. Then saunt- ering around the corner he drawled, t'Hey, Perce, telegram for you. And that was why the next day- but let's quote Tex. East is East and West is West and I never was so glad to see a twain in my life as the one that took back that durn dude. Luella Gardner '53 THE MOST UNFORGETABLE CHARACTER I KNOW Just four short sweet years ago I met the most wonderful person I have ever known. She lives in a small town located about sixteen miles

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and I buried him- They looked for tracks and the sheriff almost fainted when he could- n't find any but the ones made by himself, Bill, and the dead half- breed. Gerald Stadig '53 FALSE ALARM Today is February 2, 1951. We, the students of Harmony High School, thought we were about to have a day out of school. At 6:45 a great many of our radios were on in our homes. Johnny Rise and Shine gave a broadcast that all of the schools in Union 63 would be closed for the day on account of the ex- tremely slippery roads. All of those who heard this were very excited. Off came our school clothes and we jumped into our baggy dungarees and shirts with the hope that we would be able to hang around the house for the day and be able to do whatever we pleased. One certain individual left her breakfast dishes and now she will have the task of doing them when she returns home tonight. She usual- ly does them before she comes to school. Every time anyone walked into the schoolhouse someone would walk up to him and inform him that there wasn't any school. Those who had- n't heard the broadcast were Very much astonished. Of course, this called for an explanation. Well, at 8:30 the school day began. At the present moment no one has any idea who sent this information in to WABI. Anyway, the day began and when the attendance was taken there appeared to be seventeen stu- dents who were not in their seats. About 9:30 one of the faculty came trudging upstairs after deciding she would report to school- During re- cess other students could be seen traveling up the road with broken- hearted expressions to the school. One reason that encouraged us to come to school is the satisfaction of knowing that the school lunch pro- gram Will serve apple pie for dessert. Virginia Moran '51 THE LET-DOWN It was a nice sun-shiny day and the corridors were filled with excited voices because of the coming basket- ball game. The cheerleaders Were all prac- ticed up and with high spirits were waiting for the deciding game. The teams were all ready for a tough game but had high hopes for a vic- tory. It was a game deciding wheth- er we were to be third or fourth place in the league. All week long it had been the talk of the town. The people had great hopes for a victory and would al- most bet 6-1 that we would win the game-that is, if they were the bet- ting kind. There was a big write-up in the Bangor Daily News which foretold the score of the important game. Our pictures were in the paper with a write-up about each player and the team in general. Everything went off fine in the forenoon until about 11 o'clock and then came the let-down. We were to leave at one o'clock- in the after- noon because there was a long trip ahead of us. At twelve, the phones were buzzing and the words aston- ished everyone. There was this mes- sage, No game! The reason? It had rained and turned into ice. Iva Knight '52 EAST IS EAST AND WEST IS WEST It has been said that East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. I need not enum- erate how many times this has been proven, but I should like to cite one example. The case of Percival Van Lester- Percival Thadius Van Les- ter to be exact. As Tex would put it,

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from Bangor. It seems that no matter how wrong things may go for her in her busi- ness life and in her home life, she can always manage to give everyone one of her million dollar smiles. Some of my friends have seen and met her and theyall say the same thing of how nice she appears to be. Let me tell you this, no one knows how nice she really is and how under- standing she is until that person be- comes a friend of hers. She has done so many different things for me to help me through senior high that I will never live long enough to express my thanks to her. One more of her assets is that I think she is as near a truelChristian as I have ever seen or met. And, be- lieve me, by her leading a Christian life it has influenced me to do things that I never would have done before. Virginia Moran '51 HE CARES FOR US How beautiful are the woods in winter! Everything is so quiet and tranquilly glorious' That's the beau- ty of it. The peace that is found there, with God and nothing else ex- cept the trees and even the squirrels on warm days. Just try going out on Snowshoes some beautiful winter day. After getting into the woods there is the most wonderful feeling of being away from everything and trans- ported into another world with only God for a companion. At this time the woods hardly seem real, they are so glorious, all dressed in their finest clothes of lacey frost and snow that God has provided for them. Therefore take no thought say- ing-'Wherewithal shall ye be cloth- ed?' Matt. 6:31. If God gives the trees their clothes, won't He give humans their clothes? Why is it that more people can7t trust in Him? Do all the trees die in the winter? No., Then what keeps them alive? God feeds them by moisture that their deeply embedded roots absorb. Therefore .... 'What shall we eat? ' Matt. 6:31. God feeds the trees so why worry about food? God will give us that too, if we pray to Him sincerely enough. Matthew 6:34 - . . Therefore take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of, itself .... Iris Downs '53 GRADUATIN G As I sit thinking many times when there is nothing to do, I dream of graduating next year. My, how the three years of high school have gone in H. H. S., and my junior year seems to be going even faster! 'It won't be long before I am a Senior, either. Be- fore I know it graduation will be here. Many of the gang say, Just think one more year and I will be out of here, or, I will be glad when I graduate. I don't look at it that way, for I'm in no hurry to graduate. Thinking about it gives me a feeling of loneliness. You see, I think that a person has all his fun during his high school years. I surely will miss basketball and going on the trips. How excited we got when our teams won the game! Even if we didn't win, it was fun- I will also miss my friends, and es- pecially the ones who were closest to me. Also I'll miss the teachers, even though they did ilecture our group once in awhile. Just think, after we graduate we will all be going separate ways, eith- er on to college or somewhere else. We will be out in the world by our- selves then and it will be so different. Of course we will be meeting new people all the time, but who are truer than your school friends? Instead of being a Senior next Year, I wish I were going to be back as a Freshman. I don't think even a high school as small as H. H. S. should be underestimated. We will