Jay High School - Breezes Yearbook (Jay, ME)

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THE CIA VIS struggled for exxstence IH thls barren country unt1l at last they had come to Cherry Gulch and prospered She sald that they had advertlsed IH the paper to find h1m but had glven hum up for dead At length the tramp raised hls head and hls face was radlant with Joy God bless you my dear chlldren he crled Boys these are those who are dearer to me than my llfe One ot the mlners sprang up and called out Three cheers for the old man and they were glven wlth a vu Another mlner who bore the name of the roughest IU the camp sprang up grabbed off h1s hat deposlted therem a handful of gold colns and went the rounds of h1s comrades unt1l he came to where the tramp was slttlng and placmg the hat now overdowmg wlth gold before hlm called for three more cheers and they were repeated agam and aga n Whlle thls had been takmg place the ram had been steadily comlng dovwn and now a far off roar was heard md ln an lnstant eve ryone scrambled for the hlgher ground The dam had burst and the water was stc rdlly rlsmg Whcn at length It fame to the first cabln It suddenly ceased and began to receed as swlftly as It had come All men novs ln a state of surprxse and thankfulness and the Tramp kneel mg down Whlle all bared thelr heads returned thanks for thelr safe dellver ance and for hls new found chlldren And xt d1d not end here for he was taken m and cared for unt1l hrs death by hls everfalthtul daughter Nell The Drama Me an Otxs was presented at the Illgh School HUIICIIIIQ at East Dlxheld and at No Iay havlng flnc houses on all OCCHSIODS COMMENCEMENT BACCALAUREATE Sermon at Bapt1st Church June 11 at 2 20 0 clock by Rev J D Tlllmghast of Livermore Falls Junlor Nmght Monday June 12 at 8 P M Exerclses of Senlor Class Wednes day June 14 at 8 o clock fat: Churchj Receptlon to Senlors K of P Hall No Jay Thursday evemng May 15 at 8 o clock SALUTATORY SUCCESS IN LIFE CITIZENS of the town of Jay It glves us great pleasure to welcome you thls evenlng We are pleased to note the mterest whlch you take IH the success of our school Members of the School Board and Superlntendent We welcome you also It IS you who have glven us the means wherewlth to obtam an educatlon You have also chosen for us good teachers and we hope you wlll furnlsh as good teachers to the classes who follow us Teachers Whlle welcomlng you we wlsh to thank you for the benefit you have been to us If we have ever falled ln our work or ln any of our school blamed our teachers If we have I am sure that we saw soon afterward our m1stake Alumm of lay Hlgh School We wlsh to tell you that we have trled to follow ln your footsteps ln domg our best ln everything We are glad to see you here and hope you have as much lnterest IH the school as ever Schoolmates Thrs IS the last nlght we can say that wc are stlll members of thls school We hope that you as well as evervone else may enjoy thls evenmg We trust when you graduate a pomt whlch we hope you all may attain that you may have success Follow us only m domg your best as W . 1 . IJ . , , I U , , . .1 , , Y , , y , , an - rv I . , , , . y , - U . . 7 - vs I . ' ' 7 , , ' 1 I 1 Q F , 7. AL . l , I ,k H - - , , - A . z x I 1 . , . . . , . , . . , , f . . . I ' 1 I ! . . . , , I 1 1 . ' . 1 ' I 7 , r , . .1 ' . 1 - 3 ' 2 ' . , , I . .. X 1 . undertakmgs, we should never have . . . . . , U I x I y . . I - , . x X N . . e . cf . ', , , v - x I w . , . ' , .I H K 7 ' . . . v , I ' 'YY - - . V , ' 1 ' . ' ' . , A4 yy . , , , It.. R. L. 1,,. , ,' , ,,.k-,- X , 1 , - n . , . . . 1 H' 1 ' ' Y' V , v , , 1 ' 1 'Y 7 rx- , 1 ' S . ' ' y ' , ' , . . 1 ' , ' . I 1 - 1 ' v v 1 I I 1 . , . . e. ,

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THF CLA VIS well what ey er he has to do He w1ll The troublesome tlmes wlll brlng out support h1s school IU eyery loyal way glvmg to lt a full measure of dey otlon MTE THE TRAMP T was a dark hot stormy afternoon and Cherry Gulch was sleepmg peace fullv ln the shadow of a large cloud All the afternoon the clouds had been gathermg and threaternng a storm Cherry Gulch so named from the large gulch and the cherry trees whmch grew on xts banks was a llttle mmmg town of about one hundred mhabxtants mostly men A rlver had once run through the gulch but had been dammed at the upper end 'md lc t ID only as fast as the mmes used t The dam had been bullt for elght or ten ye xrs and had become qultt mfirm and the mme-rs knew It On thls afternoon IU partlcular they were more alarmed than usual Whlle they were talkmg about the danger a figure was seen aw ay down the tra1l a mere movlng speck IH the dlstance untll the people saw It was a man When at last he reachod them and re coy ered h1s breath he was able to mswer QUGSIIOUS When asked to tell hls story he began ind told as follows Away back ln the early 60s mv father and mother started out for the West then only a wllderness and cleared a spot for thelr cabm Two years after that I came 1nto thls world and from that txme on mv l1fe has been nothlng but hardshlps I have lam out ln the ram and sleet many a mght wlth no shelter but the tree under whlchl lay Well tlme passed on and I turned my footsteps toward the east Whlle In hls nature elther good or bad yust as the IYOH IS proved at the furnace 'kk RARY the clty of Salem I became acquamted wlth a charmmg voung woman whom m after years I made my wlfe We had one daughter and my frlends she was a true daughter to us She was the prlde of the vlllage and many a young man sought her hand but among them she dld not seem to show much favor But at length there came a young man from a nelghborlng vxllage and Nell seemed to fall directly ln love wlth hlm When at last they asked my consent to then marrlage I gave It In a short tlme they left Salem and came out th1s way We used to get letters from Nell frequently but they grew less frequent and then stopped altogether Years went by and we heard no more from them I advertlsed ln every paper I knew of for them but to no avall collapsed from a severe nervous stram and never rallled I stayed ln the vlllage '1 short tlme after her burml but tht spot seemed to h lunt me and 1 voice seemed to call to me to go West and here I am a wmderer on the flee of God s earth a tr imp Whlle he had been telllng hls tale a miner whom the boys called Salem loc and hxs Wlfe had listened attent lvely At the end they arose and w alked over to where he was slttmg Falllng upon hxs neck and weepmg the Woman sobbed out her story Whlle Joe overcome wlth emotlon sank down bCSldL them She told hlm how after she had left hum they hid eome out west how they 12 ' J .' Y 7 n . . . . . . Y Y . I - . . x e . e ., , , I . . . . y . . . 'k 'A' 'A' 'A' 'k i' i . - , , , I 9 v 1 'I ' . ' I ' til ' v y ' v ' . K 7 K I l - n I . Q . Y 'Y l 1 ' V , ' . v 1 ' Y , L . . . . y I . - . I ,L Q - , L 1 ' . L K ' K 1 . ' ' - , Q . i , . ' ' ' 1 1 1 .Nz ., ' 1' , I - 4 - . ' ' I . ' Y - .L 1 . . y 7 L 3 1 ' Y , , D T 7 I . . . v x v xv v ' y ' ' , Gradually, it came nearer and nearer, At length my W'fe1 God bless her, . I v . A X I K ' . I I Il 1 . . . - . 1 'L 1 , I I , 1 ., . , -1 , 2 K , 5. ' 2 . 1 2 ., . 2 , J - , ' 1 x 1 x L , . . . , . .. ,. 1 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 2 1 -f ' , . 1- 15, ' '. 1 , ' 2 . - ' 5 ll n , , 7 ' . . xi! ' ' ' - . . ' f ' 7 v ' ' ' 1 , ' ' v , 1 ' ' I 5 9 ,, ... ' , . . . V 7 . . 1 .. H . . . , , 1 ' yi ' 1 u I , I J ' e ' I nw I ' 1 . ' . : 1 1 . . ' 1 ' ' , 2 ' . , 1

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IHF CIAVIS we have trled to do and let our faults be vxarnlngs that you may not meet wlth the same experlences Classmates Let us always remember our school and never say a word agalnst t Let all try to practlce the good lessons taught us here and when we leave the world may those ln It have the opportunlty to say that lf we have not done very much good for lt, We never harmed anyone ln the world but had good characters, belng lovlng and klnd to all human creatures The deflnltlon of success IS galnlng the object deslred We Wlll dlscuss what success ln llfe means to the dlfferent klnds of people The first klnd we Vlflll look to IS those to whom success conveys the ldea of acqulrlng money An example of thls klnd 19 John D Rockefeller He was born ln New York ln 1839 He galned hlS wealth ln the Standard Oll Trust M Rockefeller s benefactlons are numerous and large the most extenslve belng to Chlcago UHlV8TSlty To the numerous other rlch people the acqulsl tlon of wealth seems the only success In thelr eyes anyone who IS poor IS of no consequence Another class of people to whom success means the possesslon of wealth IQ the ones who do not have money but are contlnually wlshlng for It They llve ID small towns and country places as much as ln the large or small C1tl9b They may be elther ambltlous and hard worklng people or shlftless ones who vx lll not work To other people success denotes the ficqulrlng of honor or fame As an example take Napoleon After estab llSh1Ug peace ln hlS country he thought It would be a good ldea to conquer Italy and to enrlch France wlth the spolls thus galned He was fortunate ln hls undertaklng and he then set out to conquer more AUStF18 bwltzerland Egypt all came wlthln hls povxer Whlle trylng t conquer the world he was badly defeated and placed on the lsland of St Helena a lonely rock ln the Southern Atlantlc 1000 mlles from the coast of Afrlca He revealed hlmself as an oppressor of natlons a ruthless cynlcal belleverln government whose end was mllltarv glory and whose basls was mllltary force Stlll another class IS composed of those who thlnk not of themselves but of the welfare of thelr country or of thelr frlends An example of thls class IS George Washlngton He thought not of h1S fame and honor but of the safety of hlS beloved country Abraham Llncoln was of the same nature Were they as successful ID llfe as Napoleon or the other great generals? OPIDIOHS may dlffer on thls questlon but I thmk that most people Wlll agree wlth me that they were Authors are not usually very success ful IH galnlng money Robert Burns the Scotch poet dld not have success ln YVTIILIHQ' although some of hls poems are excellent He dled leavlng large debts behlnd hlm and on hlS death bed he wrote to a frlend asklng to borrow money to keep hlm from prlson Let us look to Thomas Carlyle as an example of a llterary genlus Hls parents were poor people of bcot land He graduated from Edlnburgh UUIYCFSICY havlng a reasonably good tr llnlng IH Latln and French For two years after hls graduatlon he taught school lnstead of becomlng a mlnlster 'ls h1S father WlSh6d When he Hrst began to wrlte he dld not tlnd success He had a great many very har h and unsympa thetlc crltlcs Hls greatest work IS hls Essay on Burns He was extrava gant and eccentrlc ln hls language as ln hls thought 1,5 ' ' 1 ' I l ' . I . , . 9 ' v v I 9 1 Y . Y . . . Y i . . 0 : ' . , . . . , l . , , . 3 1 V .. V , . , K x Y . . ' Y Y , . I ' ! I YI I ' X . I I r. ' ' ' ' ' 1 Y y h I 1' J I I ' . L I A ' Vanderbilts Goulds Carne ries and ' ' U l A - 1 1 , , l A ' 7 ' '- 1 N r ' Q , 9 , I I I I I I . . , S K I Q x . I ' ' 1 ' f in v ' JY ' lk- 5 1 D Y - v . l - 1 ' I . I I b- I . l .x C r ' ' ' . Y . 7 Q . ' ' ' 1 s . - . CK 1 1 77 -