Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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28 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Eunice Nichols Fannie Hannon Lucie Biggart Marvtha Jones 1st Soprano 2nd Soprano 1st Alto 2nd Alto HEN you behold this picture here, and try to make it out, And wonder what, and who are they, and what they are about. I ’spose you’ll guess some wondrous tilings, I bet you will, no doubt. But say, don’t they look lovely though, all standing in a row, With that K. H. S. banner, that we admire so? Yes, and they’re .just as jolly as they seem to be, 1 know. Now if you want to be cheered up, or want some singin’ done, Apply to these here kiddos, and believe me, you’ll have some fun, For just the other mornin’ up in the High School room, These girls was goin’ to sing for us; ’twas silent as a tomb! Then such a tuneful harmony, such music as they sung! It filled the air with symphony, and measured accents rung About some little pickaninny, I tell you it was grand, But I can’t never sing like that, why it just beat the band. Then that ain’t all what they can do, you ought to hear ’em play, Just make that ole pianner talk! an’ I feel so young and gay Whene’er they start to singin’, and a-playin’ as they do, It most makes me feel like savin: “I’m just awful fond of vou.” LEVI E. STIBBE. ’ll.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 27 Nothing was heard in the room but the smothered sigh of the High School, As they folded their hands and said, “ ’Tis the sin and tilt swift retri- bution. ’ ’ Next year we hope to be in the place of the illustrious Seniors, Upon whom we look with great awe and admiration. VERA KRUELL, ’12. FAMILIAR BOOKS. “The Old Curiosity Shop,” “The Deserted Village,” “The Simple Life,” “The Lost Cause,” “A Time of Trouble,” “A Friend in Need,” “The Mountain of Fears,” “To Have and to Hold,” “The Slavers,” “Sherlock Holmes’ Detective Storii ...............................Pn The Laboratory Baum’s bridge in winter season That of a Junior Credit in Geometry Examination days A Friend in Geometry class Our educational ascent Our credits The teachers s,” ... - f. AVright looking for absent ones GRACE GAY, ’ll.

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HIGH SCHOOL AHNUAL 29 HISTORY OF THE SOPHOMORE CLASS. THE autumn of 1 909 twenty-seven boys and girls, Eva Noland, Mamie Wolbrandt, Lenora Kosanke, May Handley, Frank Welsh, Rachel Covert, Fred Welsh, Rosa Welsh, Lee Ryan, Ella Johnston, Martha Arnold, Harry Hayes, Anna Leser, Harry Kruell, Roxie Anderson, Ethel Baker, Raymond Benkie, Russell, LaCoimt, Leslie LaCount, Emil Hoflferth, Oscar Max- well, Wilbur Ely, Marie Ryan, Mabelle Paul, Frank Cincoski, Katherine Drazer and Pearle Trinkle, came from far and near to the K. II. S. They were brought into the mysteries of botany and algebra bv Mr. Wright, and into Herman and English by Miss Tofte. Notwith- standing all their hard work and studying, “examinations made them pale.” How they trembled at the very mention of orations! They need- ed not have troubled their minds about them however, for Miss Tofte did not compel them to write any. Book reviews were written and hand- ed in, sometimes on time and then again days afterward. Towards the latter part of May they had their final tests and school closed with most of the Freshmen looking forward to the day when they would again come to the familiar building in Kouts. In the autumn of 1910 they returned as Sophomores instead of Freshmen. Some had left their ranks entirely to go to other callings, some had even gone to the western extremity of our beautiful country and during the year one launched her ship into the Sea ot Matrimony. Though they were fewer in number they studied on with renewed energy and greater ambition. They continued their studies in German and English under Miss Tofte and dropped Botany and took up Ancient History and Algebra under Mr. Wright. Near the middle of the year they took their Algebra examinations, made their credits and began what they had been dreading for so long, Geometry. Under Mr. Wright’s careful instruction they most all began it with eager ex- pectations of what was to come next. Much must now remain unwritten about this class, because the historian cannot foretell what is to happen. However, the members of the class have firmly resolved to stay with each other to form the most brilliant graduating class in 1913 that Kouts has ever beheld. MABELLE PAUL, ’13.