Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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CLASS OF ’10. OFFICERS. President—Claud Dumont. Vice President—Grace Beattie. Secretary—Nettie Markham. Treasurer—Kenneth McBain. John Bailey Earl Hanigan Ira Benedict Eva Klingenberg Tone Bowen Edith Lane Mathew Bradley Ethel Metz Stuart Brock Jessie Meyers Benedict Canfield Chas. Moore Ernest Chase Bernard Ober Ethel Conner Harrison Sherwood Harry Cobb Marion Spencer Lilian Cook Ruth Stevenson James Elliott George Taft Sadie Fortune Scott Teachout Glen Gould Edna Warren Louis Hall Colors—Red and White.

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16 THE EM A X()X. AN ADVENTURE. While in the northern woods, a friend of mine and I hau a rather novel experience which proved how easily a person can be deceived. It was a fine, clear day, quite warm, without a breath of wind, and as there was not much to do my friend and I took our guns and started into the woods to look over a tract of tim- ber three or four miles back. We walked slowly, stopping here and there to pick a few berries, or examine a tree, not hurrying a bit; we wandered along so slowly that it was about three o’clock when we reached the trail that led ofi to the place. As I had been there before I had no thought of the possi- bility of being lost, so we hurried along, paying little or no atten- tion to the appearance of the woods we wrere going through. We soon came to a belt of hardw'ood. and after some hunt ing found the old blazes made by the government surveyor years before. Following these blazes we soon made out the corner of the lot, the direction in which it ran, and located sev- eral witness trees, upon which were stamped the date and num- ber of the lot. We then started out to look over the timber, walking here and there and noting approximately the majority of the large trees, and their condition in regard to soundness. While doing this we became so interested in the different things w'e saw that we paid no attention to the direction we were going. However, it suddenly occurred to us that it was about time to start for home, and, turning around I started off in the direc- tion 51 the path, as I thought. We walked for quite a while, when my friend suddenly said. I know' we are not going in the right direction, for I have noticed several things that we passed not long ago. But 1 was sure I was right, so we kept on ; however, we had not gone over three hundred feet when we w alked into the exact place where we had been before we started for home! We sat down and had a good laugh at first, but gradually began to think more seriously of it, as it was growing dark. We knew we were a long way from home and that we w'ould certainly lose our way if we tried it again in the l$irk, so 1 built a fire.