Jefferson Junior High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Monday. June 7, 1926 The Jeffersonian Page 9 The coming summer will be a very interesting one for many of the students of 9A-8. Some will travel, some study, and some will work. Wallace Webster will take Chemistry and Physics at West or Central this summer, to help him toward his goal in his chosen life work. Howard Wilcox, who intends to follow in the footsteps of his father and be an optician, will work for the Twin City Optical Co., until two weeks before the Fall term opens, when he will go on a trip for pleasure, alone. Carroll Far-ber leaves for Montana to work on a ranch. We know the wheat will be of finer qua’ity because Car-oil helps to stack it. Evelyn Go’dstein, after a visit at White Bear Lake and a short stay at the Girl Reserves Camp, will keep house so her mother may have n vacation as well. Evelyn Prie’eman will go to a summer camp at “Lake Minnewaskta,” while Katharine Hall will go to l ake Charlotte with the Girl Scouts for a recreation period. Toris Freemantel leaves the 'ast r f May to visit her aunt in Philadelphia and from there will take j trips to many points of interest in the East. Jerome Salinges will visit in De3 Moines a s'.ort time and Robert Carey expects to visit in both Milwaukee and New York the last oart of the summer, but f.rst he will have a “job,” in order to pay for the good time. Leslie Sylvester will work too, except for two weeks’ touring. Francis Gregory travels to Dakota but to the south one rather than to the north. The 9A-6 girls have pi nne romc delightful vacations. Mar-c'a Rice will span 1 her vaca io in ort i ranees, Canada, with her mother. Later she intends to go to California to make .icr new home. Gwendolyn Redd w.h tour the east with her parents TRAVELOGUE and will spend some time in the Adirondacks. Evelyn Louis will also spend her summer touring some of the large cities in the east, while Vesta Davidson will visit her aunt in Los Angeles, California, and later some friends at Granite Falls, Minnesota. Florence MacPherson will spend the summer at Duluth, Minnesota, and at the Dalles of St. Croix, Wisconsin. Doesn’t that sound interesting? Jane Schwantes will spend part of her vacation at Camp Tanadoona, and also at Lake Sylvia. She will motor through the north w'oods in late August. In the meantime Susan Mary Shuman will be enjoying herself at her summer home at St. Albans Bay, Lake Minnetonka, where she has spent many previous summers. Fay Hurteau will spend her summer with her grandmother in Rock Island, Illinois, while Jean Gifford will find pleasure on her grandmother’s farm in Corning, Iowa. Vivian Helland is going north and Marie Fritzell will spend the summer at Lake Elizabeth, Fergus Fa’ls Other girls who are going to Northern Minnesota are Carroll Freeman, De Vona Sleeper and Marion Opfer. Novel vacations have been planned by the 9A-3’s of Room 320. Regina Pothkopf will visit an aunt in Eveleth and see the “Range Country.” Jean Steele will accompany her folks on a tour of Northern Minnesota and Wisconrin. Algot Lindstrom i planning a trip to the state of Washington. Keith Jones anticipates renewing acquaintancej in Cresco, Iowa, w’here he attended school six years, before motor-ng to M nnesota. Bill Mathison will have a “sweet” vacation running a candy manufacturing machine at Pendergast Candy Co. Jess Waughtel’s vacation is de- pendent on his report card. Charles Graham and a chum are going to catch all the fish in Long Lake, Barrett, Minnesota. If you get sun-burned this summer, buy your lotion from David Ellis, who will be with the Public Drug Co. Madge Jones and seven other girls have been engaged by the M. R. Railroad to work in Yellowstone National Park this summer. Arna Rip-stein is visiting Duluth, and Winona. Jack Barnum of Room 209 will go to the South Carolina “Y” boys’ camp in the Blue Ridge mountains. He will climb to the highest peak east of the Rockies on one of their hikes. Robert Beecher will go to Burlington and West Pawlet, Vermont. Warren Bugbee will spend his vacation at Chautauqua Lake, New York, where they have a summer home. This lake is interesting as it is tw’enty-two miles long and no wider than three-fourths of a mile at any place. Janet Ferguson, of Room 305, will spend the summer touring New' York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Muriel Branham will be at Camp Tanadoona of the Camp Fire Girls. Robert Hoover of Room 304 is going to Escanaba, Michigan, and Gladys Peterson will spend her vacation on the farm in South Dakota. Helen Hostetter of Room 310, is going to Montana on her grandfather’s Big Star Ranch on w'hich are raised a thousand or more head of cattle. She will have the experience of being a cow girl for two months. Dorothy Holzbach is planning to • ake a camping trip to Ohio. As soon as school closes, Emily-belle Craige, with her parents, will drive to Devils Lake, North Dakota, and then she will go through Yellowstone National Park with some of her friends. Opal Bagne will spend a week at Lake Sarah.

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Page 8 The Jeffersonian Monday, June 7, 1926 The Championship Basket Ball Team for 1926. They represent room 304 and are, from left to rifcht: Top row—Carl Sodren, Cecil Saunders, George Shama. Bottom row—Edward Hoye, Leonard Nelson, and Kenneth McLaren. Rah!! JEFFERSON R. H. B. Jefferson Junior High School has its own song and own yell. We are indebted to Mr. C. L. Allen for the song which is one of his own compositions. Our yell, for which we give thanks to Miss Carey, makes anyone feel peppy and we hope, when singing the song or saying the yell the true Jefferson spirit will be there. Here’s your chance to learn them: Ricker-racker, fire-cracker, Jefferson is a cracker-jacker. Cracker-jacker, ricker-racker, Jefferson is a fire-cracker. Bang! We’re for you Jefferson; You are the best of them all, In defeat or victory; We will be true to thee 'Til the battle is done. So here’s to Jefferson; We’re here to answer thy call. Strong is our love for thee; True may we ever be; Fairly we’ll fight For in right there is might. For our own dear Jefferson. LIBRARY FACTS “Books are keys to wisdom’s treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure ; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends, come, let us read.” The architect who planned and gave the library its place in our school should be banqueted some day for his good foresight and for his generosity of sunlight. The location of the library is the prize spot of the building because of its good light, roominess. and general accessibility. The library was first opened on t e sixteenth of March, 1925. During its little over twelve movths of helpful and delightful existence, 19,377 books have been circulated. The library has thirty magazines for current topics, eight different volumes of encyclopedias for reference, a growing clipping collection, and about twelve hundred books for study and pleasure reading. It is a branch of the splendid Minneapolis Public Library system, and is interested not only in supplying helps for school studies, but in forming reading habits that will last a lifetime. The students come to find out everything from the attitude of the Greeks toward beggars to a couple of good stories to read after dinner in case they are so fortunate as not to have to wipe dishes or sprinkle the lawn or shovel snow as the case may be. During a canvass for cards it was found that members of the school are about one hundred per cent library borrowers. It is the aim of the librarians to keep up with the events of the day, both in school and out. on the bulletin boards. With the a d of the drawing classes, Miss Lyman’s artistic work, and plen- ty of good ideas from Miss Wightman, the library bulletin boards have been a constant source of interest to the users of the library. Special days or anniversary weeks are emphasized. When there is none of these to illustrate, the librarians fall back on their own ideas, and an instructive and interesting display is sure to be the result. Records show that on the average 464 passes are issued per week for students to go to the library for study. This shows that t‘ e work of the librarians has a large, appreciative audience. By previous arrangements with teachers, the library gathers together all available m Aerial on the subject under consideration, and the c’ass comes to the library to use it. In one month thirty such classes were served. This is especially good as an introduction of the library’s resources to strange pupils. Many special collection's are made when material from the main library supp’ements that of the school's. T'lere is a building loan arrangement whereby collections of books may be sent to the various rooms for one period use. There is still room for some improvement in library attitude, but the fine Jefferson spirit in triumphing and each student will eventually realize his own best benefit is in a quiet room. The library slogan of Minneapolis is “Consideration for others demands silence.” “I always think the cover of A book is like a door W’hich opens into some one’s house Where I’ve not been before. pirate or a fairy queen May lift the latch for me I always wonder when I knock What welcome there will be.”

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Page 10 The Jeffersonian Monday, June 7, 1926 THE ORIGIN OF THE PITCHER PLANT Margaret Holmboe A long time age there lived near the headwaters of the Mississippi an individual named Camouflage who, through his pleasing exterior, masked his truly cunning and grasping nature. In spite of his selfish character he prospered, by taking advantage of those who trusted in his supposed goodness. The gods being displeased with his mean disposition decided to punish him. One day while sitting in his cottage brooding over a new evil plan. Camouflage heard a knock at the door. Assuming his usual benevolent smile he opened the door and beheld a stranger whom he bade enter. The stranger told him that he had hidden a valuable treasure in a tamarack swamp not far away. He informed him where the bog was and requested Camouflage to guard it until his return. After warning him not to seek the treasure the stranger bade his host good-day. The temptation was too great and so following his natural inclinations Camouflage gleefully set out to possess the treasure. He went where the stranger had directed and arriving at the bog, he eagerly plunged in. His avaricious desire led him deeper and deeper in until he suddenly realized he was lost. In his terror he turned, only to find himself sinking into the bottomless quagmire. After a futile struggle he disappeared and in his place a brilliant plant sprang u.). This flower marking the grave of Camouflage was our first pitcher plant. The gods ordained that this plant should retain the characteristics of the being it sprung from. SYMPHONY AND JAZZ Laura Hughes Once upon a time there were two lovers, Jazz and Symphony. There was a feud between the two families, and Dirge, Symphony’s father, was bound to kill Jazz. The feud also made it hard for the lovers to meet often. Jazz decided that things could not go on as they were. He and Symphony would run away and be married. They agreed upon a grove outside the town gates for a meeting place. At the appointed time. Symphony slipped out of the town, and into the dark, silent grove. The wind wh stled mournfully in the tree tops, and Symphony was frightened. Ther. Jazz appeared in the d'stance running breathlessly. Behind him were heard the shouts and cries of Dirge and his friends. Suddenly a shot rang out, and Jazz staggered and fell dead to the ground. Dirge was v'ctori-ous. With a stifled cry Symphony turned and ran. She fled into the country, running blind-y, where, she did not know. It seemed that she had run for hours and miles, when throwing herself on the ground, she wept bitterly. The wind, seeing her anguish, and pitying her, took her up, and carried her into the sky. She became a beautiful skylark, ever flying almo-t up to the very heavens, and singing to her lover. Just as Camouflage attracted the people by his affable appearance and afterwards took advantage of them, so the pitcher plants attract the insects by their beautiful coloring and consume them in their pitcher like leaves. Thus this be iutiful but carnivorous plant was originated o be mtify our Minnesota swamps and bogs. DIARIES AND THE FAMILY Katherine Osburne A diary is a book in which your private feelings and affair i may be recorded. Almost every girl keeps one. It is wise to keep your diary locked up in some drawer; especially if your family is inquisitive. If you have a brother or a sister, write something in your diary about them so they will see it when they read it. It is also a good idea to read their diaries, so that you are avenged beforehand. When a family is of an exceptionally curious nature, the diary should be written in a code. If this i» done, be careful not to leave the eynote on the first page. Most girls write on their diaries “Burn this when I die.” However, they usually burn them of the;r own a?cord before they die. This is a good illustration of the trust we have in our relatives. It ’8 a customary thing to write certain threats and inscriptions on the front cover. “Not open to the public view'.” “Read at your own risk,” “Leave your name and address,” and others are equally appropriate. If necessary write a personal letter to the family on the first ) ge. It may serve as a warning, a threat, a welcome, or a wartime address. Some girls keep two diaries. One is for the family to read, and the other is strictly confidential. If managed properly, it works. However, it is not easy to deceive a family. If you have brothers or sisters, you cannot deceive them as they are doing the same thing. If there are more than eight members in the family, it is not wise to keep a diary. Too much handling is injurious to the book, and your relatives become too well acquainted with you.