Harrison Hill Middle School - Beacon Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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page s THE BEACON June 1, 1937 A LOVE SICK SCARECROW Qne day as I was walking down the road I saw a scarecrow in a field, Ca thing all tattered and forlorn.l I went up to the scare- crow and ask him what the trouble was and he replied: WI once felt the invluence of spring and I fell in love with a crow, which I know was a very foolish thing for me to do. At night off in the dis tance I could hear her caw, the very song filled this heart of straw.Then one day I made love to her and I have never seen her since.W And he cried and cried. Poor scarecrow, I have often seen his lady love the crow since then,she has plucked out the scarecrow's heart of straw to line the nest of her new home. Gene Lou Harges,8B GHOST HOUSE It was just a house for a Ghost. The stairs were very old and made strange noisesg Many old broken windows let in the howling wind. Boards were hanging down like long arms ready to grab you. There were old pits that looked like drained shark holes,but they were only empty coal bins. Iron statues,that looked as if a ghost could hide in them,were there too Robert Qildea, 6B NOW YOU TELL ONE Have you ever heard of Dobbin, the horse who minded his master so well? No? Well here goes! One day Dobbin was walking a- long, with his master on his back when suddenly he started to fall. He had walked off the side of a cliff. When Dobbin was a few feet from the bottom, his master said, WWhoa!U The horse stopped and they both escaped uninjured. Arlene Snyder, BB r, .w A THE DESIRE TO FIGHT One day Skippy, the cat across the street,was having a hard time keeping a dog from chasing him. Teddy, my cat, was. sleeping in the sun, as usual, when he heard the commotion. He jumped up, ran across the street, jumped on the dog's back and sent him home yelp ing. A few days later a similar thing happened tc Amos, just an- other cat in the neighborhood. Teddy again was sleeping,but man- aged to get up and chase the dog home. Then we bought a dog. The dog was so playful that Teddy be- came afraid of him and all dogs. So now things are different. Now whenever he hears a dog bark you'll know just where to find him--under the bed. Marjorie Wigbel,8B PIONEER LIFE Pioneer life was not easy in pi oneer days. In one book my teach- er read to the class it told a- bout a family who moved to a new land and it took two months to go seven hundred miles in.a covered wagon. Some of you children might have read this bogk. The name of the book is WThe Treasure in the Little Trunk.H Evans Roth, BB SPRING As Spring approaches Nature awakens in glorious colors and sweet-scented perfumes. The sleepy flowers begin to nod their heads. Grass begins to take a look at the golden sun in a lake of blue while tiny white sail lazily along. The boats move water lilies on a mirror of green begin -to'unfold in their fragile Birds in their bril- loveliness. liant colors begin to trill sweet ly. Children at play under the apple tree shout merrily. All these things are true of Spring. Evelyn Talbot, 7A

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June 1, 1957 THE couposirrows Fact Tm: SB CLASS My little kitten is always get ting into mischief. One day when mother was gone my kitten got in- to the cupboard and spilled the flour, and sugar, and broke some dishes, When mother get home she caught him lapping up milk he had spilt. When he sees somebody com- ing down the street, he hides be- hind a tree. When they pass he runs out and makes queer sounds. Keith Batdorf My little kitten is always get ting into mischief. One day Betty and I were playing house. After a while we heard a bang. Guess what my little kitten was doing. He was on the table and had bro- ken mother's best vase. Rose Mary Walden The evening was lovely for a trip on the lake. The moon shone very brightly. The stars looked just like diamonds twinkling.When the moon shone on the lake it was like floating gold. As it grew darker, it looked like a world of gold and rippling silk. Elaine Fredrick Jim and Polly had ing a garden. Their gone. They found a were digging. Their UThat is your reward much fun mak dog dug up a dime as they mother said, for working so hard.W Jim and Polly knew that their flowers and vegetables would be rewards, too. Alvin Haley My dog did not believe in mind ing his own business. He had a habit of frightening every dog he met. One day he was playing out in the yard, when a little puppy came along. Buster did not see the mother dog behind him and be- fore he could touch the puppy the mother dog was on him. Since then he has never tried to frighten a dog. Dick Paul, SB My dog does not believe in- safety first. He has very good ears, but he never uses them. My dog chases motor-cycles. He runs across the street. I think he should come to hear a safety talk He runs under parked ears, and sometimes the cars start up. LaVon Hayner, 5B My little black kitten is al- ways getting into mischief. One day when we went away, Tuffy plan ned to do some mischief while we were gone. So when we went out the door she jumped on the ea- binet. We had forgotten to close the cabinet doors. She jumped up on the flour can and it came down on her pell-mell.When we got home she was white instead of black. She was punished by getting a bath. Nigel Brown, 5B I WONDER One night as I lay in bed a fui ny little man climbed through mye window. He told me not to be a- friad. He put a pair of wings on my back'andfto my surprise I flew out the window. The earth got far ther and farther away. At last as it was almost out of sight I saw something ahead. I discovered it was the moon.When we landed I was surrounded by a group of tiny people. Although they were small, some of them were over eighty years old. I wondered where they lived. Soon I was led into a house which was just a hole in the ground. To my surprise it was very modern. I picked up a maga- zine, the Moon Journal. It said- the tallest man on record was five feet eleven inches tall. After a meal of air I wanted to go home. Soon I was flying out in to space. My wings came off and I landed with a bang. When I came to I was lying on the floor be- side my bed. Was it a dream? I think so. John Gumpper,8B

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June l, l9.'57 THE BEACON Page 9 BLUEBELLS One day while walking in the woods I found many small fern- like plants,, with pretty blue flowers, called bluebells. p I thought it would be nice to have one in my own garden. I took a plant up carefully by the roots, brought it home, and planted it in a shady spot. It grew and spread. Now I have many plants. they The flowens last a long time and even the are I like bluebells because need very little attention. after they quit blooming, leaves are still pretty and nice to put in a bouquet of other flowers. Dorothy Heslip, 7A THE FAIRY AND THE BROWNIE Once upon a time there was a fairy and a brownie. One day the brownie was chasing the fairy.The fairy's home was a flower. This flower was picked by a little- girl. The fairy ran to her home but it was gone! The brownie caught her but she get away. 'She ran to find a new home. She was very glad to find a cave. But it was the brownie's home. Fairy ran down the road. She saw a flower. It looked like her home. The lit tle girl had planted the flower again. She lived happily ever after. Mary Lou Metz, 2A MY DOG One day in the spring a little to live with us. It was dog came a Boston Terrier,seven weeks old. At first we could not think of a name,but ey. finally decided on Mick- Mickey proved to be a very good and smart little dog.He does many tricks, some of which are,he sits up, rolls over, speaks, gets the paper in the morning, jumps over your hand, plays dead, and hide- and-go-seek.When I come home from scheol,he is always waiting for me, because I love to play with him. He is a real watch dog. Maxine Fisher,8B ST. AUGUSTINE St. Augustine, Florida, is a very historic city. When I was there during spring vacation I saw the nFountain of Youthn which was discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1515. There is a cross there which has fifteen stones one way and thirteen the other to tell the year. I also saw the oldest house in the U. S. and the museum in connection with it. There was an old Indian burial ground which was just discovered a few years ago when a man found it while setting out orange trees. There are eighty two bodies which a man from Smithson- ian Institute said denoted either a famine or a great tragedy. Dorothy Jaggcrs, 7A A TRIP TO A GOLD MINE We were jogging along a steep mountain pass when we saw below use group of small buildings with a stream running beside them. The guide informed us that this was The Stillwell Gold Mine. We were so near our destination that we wanted to hurry on, but the guide said it was not safe. If your horse slipped you would fall down a hundred feet of almost perpendi cular cliff to be crushedto death on the rocks below. So we went a long as usual. When we reached the mine we saw a man oiling a machine that pumped the water to the not that held the rocks, some of which were gold nuggets. When he saw'usihe turned off the mach- ine and to d us about his mine. John Virts, 7A