Iron Mountain High School - Argonaut Yearbook (Iron Mountain, MI)

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.THE ARGONAUT MCMXVII g Humorous I'Ieard in the girls cloakroom: Ch let me try on your hat, dear. You ought to see her dress, it's a perfect dream. Did you get a bid? ' Oh, I can? t, I have a' date tonight. GG if it I got up about three minutes of eight this morning. Hulda goes buying a pair of shoes at Fugere's. Hulda: I'd like a pair of walk-over shoes no. 6. Clerk: We haven't a pair of walk-over shoes no. 6.' ' Hulda: '-'Alright then, kindly give me two pairs of no. 3. 29 Wanted . H. Larson cA girl to love me longer than a week. ' M. James'rSome one to keep a record of allmy men. R. Peterson :Some one to tell me everything. Y. Gingrass:-Spare time. L. Van Laanen-Dates. Mr. Butler: Is this your father's signature? Freshman unconsciously: As near as I could get it. '- H Lost. lr I M. Johnson---a hairpin. I Juniors--sense. D. Gibson--High marks. D. Spencer--Her ability to ask questions. Mother writes to a principal of a high school: ' - Dear Sirz- ' ' A 1 My son writes me that he has to study too hard. He says he has to translate fifty hexameters of Latin a day. I looked hexameter up in the dictionary and find it is a poetical verse of six feet. Now that makes three hundred feet or one 'hundred yards of poetry for my dear son to translate each day. I think about half a hexameter or thirty six inches of this Latin is plenty for a boy of his age. 4 - A .1 .I - j

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THE ARGON AUT MCMXVII Humorous Miss M. Ronan: Can anyone tell me what sins of omission are?' ' Freshie: Yes ma' am, they are the sins we might have committed and did not. Shakespe-are's idea of a high school course: Frehman Year: Comedy of Errors. Sophomore Year: Much Ado About Nothing. Junior Year: As You Like It. Senior Year: All's Well That Ends Well. C an you imagine: . Sophie K. sliding down the banister? Mildred A. with a voice like Mildred J A certain senior Ed J., a Latin shark? Judith J. looking sober? Marion B. not late? Emil E. with a zero? Lillian V. with an orderly desk? Miss Talbot: What is geometry? Ruth P.: A puzzle. l l.L. giving M.M. a magazine said: Do you want to take my Life for a little while?' ' Heard in the girl's cloakroom! ' Is my hair all right? Your dress is darling. Let me use your comb, will you please? Has anyone an extra hair pin?

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TI-IE ARGON AUT MCMXVII Humorous Look over but don't overlpok. Freshman to senior the first day:- What shall we do in the assembly? Will they laugh at us? Seniorz- i No, but they will make fun of you. Freshmanz- ' 'I'hat's all right, as long as they don't laugh. Mabel Helson talking very loudly:- Oh Ora, I' ve lost my German . Ora:- Oh Mabel, you don't mean the fellow from Norway that took you home, do you? I thot he was a Swedef ' - Mr. Potter in class:- Arno, how is it that rootbeer tastes so flat after ' the bottle has been left open? Arno:- ' 'Oh, I don' t know. I never left one open long enough to' find out. ' Irene Antoniolz- Oh girls, I know something. Mabel Helsonz- Never mind, you can't fool us. Mr. Hogg in English:- Wl1at are the four things we do in life? Junior:- We live, love, marry and be merry. If we measured feet by our feet as the ancient people did, every one wouldgo to Ed J ones, to be sure to get good measure. ---W --- -- -rf f --A