Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 23 • - f 1 H. Mugrdichion When in Brockton try Milk Dealer Home Plate Lunch North Franklin St. Tel. Randolph 0491 -W Jack Brady, Proprietor B. B. CAIN McGaughy’s Filling Station Real Estate and Insurance Socony is Standard ” 137 Plymouth Street Tel. Connection Holbrook Vining’s Filling Station Frank W. Holbrook Ice Crean Tonic Candy Tobacco and Light Groceries Justice of the Peace and General Insurance 92 North Franklin St., corner Linfield St. 203 Weymouth Street Telephone io 7 -M Johnson’s Lunch Open 8 a. m till 12 p. m. All Home Cooking Jewelers Opticians FOR GRADUATION Pendants Rings Pens and Pencils Fine Leather Goods Gurney Bros. Company 1 23 Main Street Brockton, Mass. In Business 89 Years” Holbrook Cash Market First Clas s Meats, Fruits, Fish, Vegetables J. Francis Megley Telephone 0519 £ 3 r £ j£ PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS

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22 THE ECHO THAT DEBT You knew you owed it, and you just couldn’t remember to pay it. You had at various times the necessary money to pay the debt, but there was something else that you had seen and, of course, wanted. So you let the other debt wait and bought what you had just seen. Or perhaps you hadn’t the money and had forgotten the money and had forgotten to ask for it. Then someone reminded you of that debt, and you felt a queer pang in the vicinity of your stomach, and then began worrying. You soon stopped, however, when something else came along. Then again when you were thinking about something or perhaps nothing in particular, That Debt suddenly came to mind. You did forget it again, but if you have to kick your- self every time you forget it, remember to pay your Class Dues. When you have, you will be sure not to get gray hair from worry, and you’ll know that it is helping others besides yourself. Don’t forget. Remember your Class Dues will count later on. Ruth Bettencourt, ’33. OUR MOVING PICTURES The motion picture machine which our school owns has been used many times this year for educational and entertaining pur poses. The school has seen during this year one movie every two weeks. These pictures were put on every other Wednesday in the assembly hall of the school. The cost of admission was five cents, and, in this way, the school was able to hire bigger and bet- ter pictures. The pictures presented at these times were mostly educational with a comic strip once in a while. Some of the pictures presented were the Romance of Rubber, The Volcano, Paper, Insects, Views of Yosemite Park, Coal, Iron, Salt, and a Mack Sennett Comedy. Three moving pictures have been put on for the purpose of raising funds for differ- ent departments of the school. The first one was put on by the “Echo”. It was rather an experiment to find out how the people would support such an entertainment. When this movie proved to be a success, two more were put on at different intervals for the benefit of the Athletic Department. The latest pic- ture to be put on this year was presented on May 22 under the supervision of the Senior Class in French, and Miss Bartlett, head of the French and Latin departments. The proceeds of this picture were added to the Students’ Association Fund. Wallace Hancock, Allan MacKinlay, Ruth Dyer, and Penelope Hutchinson, under the supervision of Mr. Neal, were the operators of the machines during the entire year. Everett Hayden, ’31. FINANCIAL NEWS The school paper, the “Echo” is issued twice a year, the first issue in December and the second issue in June. There are between thirty six to forty four pages, each page costing three dollars and twenty c.nts to print. The cuts which are put in the paper, cost from four to eight dollars each. The Echo surely needs its advertisers to help support the paper. The advertisers, about sixty or seventy, for a full page pay ten dollars; for half page, five dollars; one quarter of page two dollars and a half; one fifth of a page two dollars, and one tenth of a page one dol- lar. This amounts to about one hundred and fifty dollars. The Echo if it depended upon its sub- scribers would not be able to pay for it- self, for the cost of printing the paper amounts to one hundred and twenty five to one hundred and fifty dollars. The Echo staff not only appreciates its advertisers, but also its subscribers, and takes this opportunity of thanking both in helping to make both issues financially suc- cessful. Miss Megley: “Mann, give an example of a preposition.” Mann: “To.” Miss Megley: “MacPherson, give another.” MacPherson: “Three.” Seen on a test page: “Four lines of poetry make up a quadrille.” Brookvillite: “Brookville is a beautiful village; look how well it’s laid out.” Holbrookite: “Yeah, it ought to be well laid out; it’s been dead long enough.”

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24 THE ECHO A TREASURE HUNT It was midnight! A lonely road curled through a lonely stretch of woods. In the moonlight two boys could be seen trudging down the road. One, a short red-hcaded fellow, was carrying a shovel and a lantern. The other, who was tall and lanky, was car- rying a pick and rope. He was whispering, “It ain’t far now, Bill. We can take a short cut here.” Here they crossed the road and went up a hill. The woods enclosed around them, and again they crept along in silence. At last they arrived at their destination. It was a rotten, broken-down old house. Bill said, “Well, here we are. Now, what do we do, Jackie?” “Well,” replied Jack “Here are the di- rections. Read them yourself. I got it all marked out. All we have to do is dig it up.” Bill read the note. It was torn and crumbled with age. It read, “We had it in the closet for a long time. It was a great relief to get it out of the house. It is hid- den twenty feet from the shed on a direct- line with the big maple tree.” “Well,” said Bill, “maybe we have some treasure after all.” “Guess we better be getting busy. Here’s the place.” And so they lit the lantern and started digging. When they were about two feet down, they struck a large rock. They pulled this up, and there lay a large iron-bound box. Out they pulled it and gazed with awe on it. At last Jack picked up a shovel and broke the lock. In there lay their treasure. Bill stooped down and lifted the lid. They raised the lantern and looked upon their treasure. There curled up lay the skeleton of a cat. Two boys trudged home by the light of a paling moon. Neither one spoke to the ether. W ' hat was the use in talking? They had many miles to go and a lot of explain- ing to do when they got home. William Taylor, ’33. THE CALL OF THE WILD “Let’s just make it a little picnic in the woods, this week,” said Bill. “All right, just to be different, but next week I want to go to that new beach I spoke to you about two weeks ago,” answered Gertrude. “Don’t you ever get tired of beaches and crowds? I’d like to go where it’s quiet once in awhile.” “Why? Because it makes such a hole in your pocket-book?” “You know that isn’t it! When we’re there, we’re in on every thing. Aren’t we?” “Don’t get cross, dear. You know I didn’t mean it, but I like the crowd and the ex- citement.” So it was decided that they would get a little lunch and have a picnic in the woods. They found a side street off the main road and followed it until they came to a small pine grove. “Here’s just the place!” exclaimed Bill. “Here’s a natural driveway for the car and a swell little clearing over there.” “Look, there’s a brook way over to the right,” chirped the now gleeful Gertrude. Bill put his car in the natural driveway and took out the lunch-basket and a couple of blankets to sit on. “I’ve got some dandy sandwiches that I made myself,” said Gertrude. “Well, I m going to have a fire and fry some bacon and eggs, right here in the open- ing. Do you want some?” “I’d rather have the sandwiches and gin- ger-ale,” said Gertrude. “I’ll bet you’ll want some bacon and eggs before you ' re through!” prophesied Bill, a flicker of amusement crossing his face. Bill found some stones near-by, and with these he built a fireplace. In it he built a fire of dead pine-wood. Down near the brook he found an old piece of tin which he put over the fire and made the fire-place just like a stove. On this he cooked his dinner. Gertrude sat watching him, interested in the creation of a stove and how he was go- ing to cook his bacon and eggs. Soon the odor of the bacon and eggs began to make itself known. With amusement, Bill watched Gertrude as the odor made her mouth water. When the dinner was all cooked, he got a couple of paper plates and a couple of knives and forks and took up the dinner. “Want some now?” he queried, his eyes sparkling enjoyment. “Don’t be like that! How could I resist it?” came the reply. So they both sat down and ate heartily. Bill cooked two eggs apiece and then called it a day. Then he got some water at the brook and heated it on the fire to wash the spiders and the silverware. “Let’s lock around for flowers and birds,” suggested Bill. “Let’s That’ll be great fun,” chimed Gertrude, who had now entered into the spirit of the occasion. So after extinguishing the fire, and put- ting away the lunch basket, which still con- tained the sandwiches, they started out to look at nature. “Look! What are those little white flow- ers over there?” asked Gertrude. “Anemone,” said Bill. “See, some are pink, and the others are plain white.” “The pink ones are the prettiest, don’t you think?” “Yes,” said Bill, “they have prettier leaves, too. See, they are darker than the ethers.” “What are those stately white ones?” asked Gertrude a few minutes later. “Those are trilliums. I haven’t seen any of them for a long time. I don’t think there are many of them..” So they traveled on through the woods, finding many flowers and seeing a few birds. Returning to the car, they were both tired and happy from their walk. Gertrude had a huge bouquet of flowers of all sorts, which she had collected during the walk.