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

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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

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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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g THE ARcoNAUrMcMxV11 g Acknowledgment AS a testimonial of the splendid worh of Mr. A. J. Valashe, Instructor in Printing, and the sophomore printing class, the 1917 Argonaut is sufficient without further consideration. However, the seniors and the superintendent of schools wish to tahe this opportunity of expressing their great appreciation of the indefatigable eHorts' of the teacher and his boys. If theyhad not labored early and late the publication of the Argonaut would not have been possible. For the assistance of the high school English teachers and all others we are also very grateful. The names ofthe members of the 1916-17 sophomore printing class are as follows: - Clarence Johnson Ardiz Johnson Bennie Rushy Carmine Izzo Speedy Borla Lambert Rahm Evo De Concini Dominick Flaminio Albert Mitchell Samuel Khoury Isaac Khoury , - Ln--e - --- 11.