Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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35 i Laugh and the class laughs with you - but you take detention alone. Teacher: If I laid four eggs here and three how many would I have? Bam: Well, personally, sir I don ' t.t you could. Teacher: When ¥ as the revival of 1 Pupil: The day before an exam. Big Sister: V,hat ' s the idea of wearing my raincoat? Little Sister: You wouldn ' t want me to get your new dress wet, would you? ! The modern girl is just as fond of spin¬ ning wheels as grandma - but she wants four of them and a spare. SNOW How I love to watch the fall of it (It ' s Mother Nature ' s lace) But how I,hate a ball of it That hits me in the face. While an old man was fishing in a large cree ' a stranger inquired: How are the fish today, old chap? Well, he drawled, I don ' t know; I dropped ' em a line, but got no reply. Tommy came home proudly fnquc his first day at school. ..yy Lhat did you earnWihW ' hoo 1? nalrriri Vino ' J Chemistry Teacher: ' .hat doe, lOg signify? 15 Pupil: - ell - ah - or - it ' • r Lght tongue, sir. ' Chem. Teacher: ’Tell . ' ?r spi it out . : acid is poisphpusV ' A guv who li vos on spiv and needles. Dopt. Store Detect:. ' .. 0cantor spy A Dead Language: On:, spoken by spirit; ' •-Disc Jockey asked hi§.jTjdtjrteir:. ' c NO-thJ i hnswerod Tommy, but I JAj rr:J£ r 35 tq S- ' a lot during recess. ' t.-Jjf-’-d-vV ' M M ww! A l far ! + A iTJ M ' ' V .L r.ehr M h., ' .-- . W Three years ago when I had rheumatism. Doc, you told me to avoid all moisture and dampness. Yes? Do you think, Dec, it would harm me if I took a bath NOW?

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34 H.J.M. SWING CLUB After Christmas our Swing Club was organized by Mrs. Graham, Mr. Mutchra and Mr. Butterworth. The Grade 7 ' s came at noon on Tuesdays and the Grades 8 and 9, dressed in their best, came at noon on Thursdays. With the help of the record Oh Johnny the general shyness between the girls and boys soon disappeared. This mixer was Mr. Butterworth ' s idea. We learned a lot of new dances and had so much fun we were all sorry (teachers included) to close down for Easter exams. TO THE EDITOR CF THE SEARCHLIGHT By Robert Odger 7-17 I would like to say a word about the Hugh John Macdonald School. First our principal, Mr. Patterson, a swell guy - understanding and consi at all times; his secretary Mrs. Davie, who works so hard to try to help us; th nurse and doctor who help us come to school; and last, but not least, the teach who try so hard to teach us the right and wrong of different subjects. We, the pupils, are the hardest problem, we ' admit, but with the help of all the staff o Hugh John Macdonald School, we shall get a ' sound education. I know we can ' t mi this wonderful chance of getting an education. A TOUR THROUGH A GOLD MINE By George Jones 9-13 ■ While ' down at Red Lake, Ontario, some friends and I went on a tour of Mac gold nine. Here we were shown the complete mine in operation. The shaft is b] the most important part of any mine. Extending for one mile in the ground, the shaft has many levels where men are constantly working. When the rubber-clad miners, working in shifts, desire to reach their level of operation, they entei small elevator called a cage and are lowered to their level. The cage is operated by a person who has a cool head and steady nerves, capable of handlih any situation. He is constantly watching two great clock-like dials which tel him at which level the.cage is. I The gold bearing ore is brought to the mill by a conveyor belt via the si house. What a maze of machinery confronts us! In the mill the ore is graded a ' crushed in two cylinder-shaped tanks. Among a great maze of wood and metal cal walks, we were shown one of eight great tanks, each ten feet wide by forty fed deep. In these tanks, each containing a powerful mixture of acids, the gold iy washed for forty hours. It was then that we realized that the sign Do not df mill water was fully justified. After two or three other similar washings, t! gold bearing water is hand sifted and the gold removed. The mine produces two bars a week, each bar valued at twenty thousand dollars. My opinion of a gold mine was that it would be surrounded by armed guari barbed wire, but this was not the case. The reason for this was that there ws one road out of the nine, and any car could easily be stopped by a Provincial Police car. I also considered taking home a few samples, but on learning of the three year jail penalty, I politely declined to do so. r ’

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36 First Undergraduate: ’That shall we do tonight? Second Undergraduate: Lot ' s toss for it. If it ' s heads, we ' ll go to the shoi if it ' s tails, we ' ll call on the girls; and if it stands on edge, we ’ll study. ★ Judge: Gentelmen of the Jury, have you come to a decision? Foreman: Ue have, your honor. The jury are all of the same mind — tanporari insane. HE FOLLOWED ORDERS Fever state as a fact anything you are not oertain about, the great odi warned the new reporter, or you’will get us into libel suits. In such oases the words ’alleged, ' ' claimed, ' reputed, ' ’rumored,’ and so on. And then this paragraph appeared in the society notes of the paper: It is rumored that a card party was given yesterday by a number of ' reput ladies. Mrs. S ith, gossip says, was hostess. It is alleged that the guest with the exception of Mrs. Bellinger, who says she hails from Leavitt ' s Juncti wero all from here. Mrs. Smith claims to be ' the wife of Archibald Smith the so-called ' Honest Man ' trading on Ninth Ave. They wore arguing as to whether it was correct to say of a hen she is sitting or she is setting. The question, said the farmer, Ain ' t interest me at all. Uhat I want to know when I hear a hen cackle is whether she is laying or lying. £ A boy was about to purchase a seat for a movie in the afternoon. The t ( office man asked: ‘Thy aren ' t you at school? Oh, it ' s all right, sir, said the youngster earnestly, I ' ve got measles. The pupil was asked to paraphrase the sentence: He was bent on seeing to He wrote: The sight of her doubled him up. Teacher: Uhat is an alibi? Tommy: It ' s when you were not there when you did it. ' 0, Doctor, I ' m so siok. If only I could die. ' There now, quiet down. I ' ll do the verv best I can for you. Sister: Did you get any bad marks ' at sohool today? Brother: Yes, but they are where they don ' t show. Uas your friend in the habit of talking to himself when he was alone? To tell the truth, judge, I never was with him when he was alone.