La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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IO LAPORTE HIGH SCHOOL REVIEW in purchasing an “O. K.” slip machine, as stated in the last foregoing bequest. Item 17th. To the beloved Juniors we give the right to fly their flag during the last week of school of the school year 1890-190®. Item 18th. We nominate and appoint John A. Wood and the Hoard of Education as executors of this our Last Will and Testament. Item 19th. All articles, junk, etc., etc., not mentioned heretofore, we bequeath to the school at large, to he taken indiscriminately by any and all persons enrolled in the High School during the year 1907 and 1908. OUR TEACHERS—HOW AND WHERE THEY EX- PECT TO SPEND THEIR VACATION. Ottvell:—Extended trip to the islands of the Southern Pa- cific including stops at Borneo, Java, New Guinea and Mallacca. MacLennan :—Coach White Sox ball team. Deamer•:—Stay at home and tend baby. Xoe:—Break in a few more broncoes. Hunter:—Spend summer at Grassy Creek. Illinois. Kohn:—Visit White City. Simons:—Go to tanneries ( ?) at Milwaukee. Wood:—Go to Europe for seven days and visit 54 schools. Hailiman:—Stay at home and feed the chickens, and chew “square deal.” Luce:—Make hav near Bluff ton. Poole:—Travel with Conreid Co. Mary had a little lamb. She fed it very well, She gave it a stick of dynamite And blew it all to------- Little pieces about as big as this ().—Ex. “Chick” Martin was considerably troubled at the track meet—he tried his best to find out what time was made in the shot put, but could not do so.

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LAPORTE HIGH SCHOOL REVIEW. 9 same to he used by him to obtain information for his speech- es at the opening exercises on Wednesdays. Item 9th. To Miss Lydia E. Kohn we give, devise and bequeath two hundred yards of pink ribbon, to he used for her own benefit in making pink bows. Item iotli. We bequeath to C. M. Luce, in trust how- ever, the sum of $500.00, to be used to purchase each and every new love story in publication. Said money and said stories to he used for the sole benefit of Miss Anna Sophia Hunter. We hope she will profit thereby. Item nth. To II. C. Noe we bequeath two safety razors and $10.00, to he used to buy new blades for the same. Item 12th. To Arthur Deamer we give, devise and be- queath forty-three (43) feet of one and one-half inch rub- ber hose, to be used solely and alone for spanking Fresh- men. et al. Item 13th. To the II011. Frank Bohland the class does hereby give, devise and bequeath $10.00, to be used by him for no other purpose than for obtaining High School tab- lets. We hope hereby to benefit the many friends of the class who have suffered through his misdemeanors. Item 14th. To A. M. Otwell we also bestow $5.00. which shall be used bv him to purchase the Kimona Monthly Gazette (a Borneo paper), for the betterment of the said person’s science. Item 15th. As a special gift we give, devise and, be- queath-to A. M. Otwell 12 tons of ruled Lenox Bond paper. This paper is to be used solely for writing out “A. M. O. O. K.” slips, which is said to be Otwell’s favorite sport. To facilitate the carrying out of this sport, we bequeath to said ()twell 4 gross of “penny pencils” and two knives, the blades of which are not to be more than 8 inches in length. If. however, at anv time the Board of Education shall consider that said Otwell is taking too much time for writing out “O. K.” slips we bequeath an automatic “O. K.” slip machine, capable of manufacturing 450 slips per minute under ordi- nary circumstances. This machine shall be purchased out of the sum hereafter set aside in Item 16. Item 16th. We hereby have the sum of $100.00 set aside, and placed under the custody of J. Burns, to be used

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LA PORT Ii HIGH SCHOOL REVIEW. 11 The High Mogul HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. (Unearthed by Review Correspondent in London.) Act I. Scene: Private office of High Mogul. II is Highness, secretary, retainers and a youth dis- covered as the curtain rises. Sir Boisterous:—Your pleasure for a moment, sir, all hail. High Mogul:—What now is this? Sir Boisterous:—If to my home you’ll let me phone— High Mogul:—How now; must every smiling youth in man’s attire—must every vain and unthrashed child wax handy with our telephone? Sir Boisterous:—But sir. a moment’s grace I pray, ’til I explain. But scarce an hour ago, I was sore threatened with a whipping, and by no less a man than our own Prince— . High Mogul:—And had he carried out his threat—I d praise the deed. Sir Boisterous:—’Sturb me not ‘till I have done, for in this just and worthy cause must I proceed to plead my case. This prince of all that which he see's—for on that which passes behind his face lie’s no control, and if a wily Fresh- man outwits “Boston Mac” and so escape detection, and ’tis never known, why then it s plain that over this is no con- trol. This prince then sir made threats most violent upon my precious person, and stated as his reason High Mogul:—Various crimes, or I’m mistaken. Sir Boisterous:—Nay, sir, but from my home he claim- ed permission—my mother, sir. had expressly ordered him to lay it on, he said. He close pursues, and now I beg that