Loveland High School - Lohian Yearbook (Loveland, OH)

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26 DAL LE VON 5555555555555 LITERARY 55555555555555 55555 THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES 111 one of our old New England towns 011 a once prominent street' called Pyncheon street. stands a rusty wooden house with seven gables; commonly known as the House of Seven Gables, Colonel Pyncheon, a respected citizen who lived in this little town, trled to seize the two acres of land which belong to Matthew Maule. Mr. Maule was stubborn in the defense of his property, but at last he was' executed for witchcraft. comdcmned to this cruel fate by the majesterial harshness of Colonel Pyncheon. After Colonel Pyncheon had secured the. 131111 by his wicked deed he erected a beautiful house with seven gables. The house completed, the Colonel invited all the people of the town to a feast, At this feast he was V found dead. but the cause of his death was never known. Alter two centuries had passed 211111 the beautiful house was all tattered and torn with the curse of Mathew Maulc upon it a descendant of Colonel Pyncheonis was murdered. Clifford Pyncheon. the dead manls nephew, was ' sent to prison for the crime. Besides Clifford the only remaining descendants were Judge Pyncheon, Hepzibah Pyncheou and a cousin who lived 111 the country. Hcpzihah lived in the house of seven gables; she loved the ancient placie 1-1 and 11111 not want to bring disgrace upon it, but her need of money forced 3 her to open a pennyshop in her front room. She also rented one of the seven gables to Mr. Holgrave, an artist, a descendant of Matthew Maule. Phebe, the daughter of Hepzihahls cousin in the country, came. to live : with her, although Hepzibah did not like the idea very well, she finally de- cided to keep her. Phebe and Mr. Holgrave became quite friendly after their many chats in the garden. Cl'ffortl was released from prison and had returned home partly insane to spend his remaining days with Hepzihah 111 the house of seven gables. Jmlge Pyncheon. who was always looking for money, thought he would take advantage of CllffOYtlJS weakness and force him to give up his claims, lmt Clifford s hatred for the judge who had been the cause of sending him to prison was as 111ig11t as the day it was kindled. Before Judge Pyncheon icon 1d lay his 111111: before Cli ffortl he was 11111rde1e11 at the hands of the insane man. Alter the 1er1111 of the :0- call e11 p'romin nt Judge Joffrey Pyncheon the 11 ographv of his life was studied aml it was discovered that he himself was the real 111111'tle1e1 ol the descendant for which CliFFortll 1:111 been sent to jail. He had murdered for money, money being his chief hobby and fearing he would he suepecterl. he blamed Clifford.

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x DAL LE VON 25 THE F RESHMAN CLASS HISTORY XVe 11rst took our places as Freshmen of Loveland High early in Sep- 1e11111e1'. 1921. 1Ye then numbered twenty-one pupils, but since then our 1:153 has been increased by one. We began the school year happy with he thought that at ast we were Freshmen of Loveland High. Near the last of September the Freshmen were invited to 21 party given 111' the upper c1assmen. NVewere obliged to wear green, the emblem of ignorance. 21nd to go through funny perfornmnees. In October we. gave a return party. which the guests pronounced :1 Verv charming affair. The enjoyment which this party afforded proves that Freshmen know how to plan good times. '1' 011 Halloween the whole High School united in giving :1 masquerade 11:111. 10 it came witches e011 bovs Indians and many other eon1ica1 char- acters. Fo1tune telling, dancing and games formed the: evenings enter- tainment. 1 .-, 11 The parties which we have given this year have been very enjoyable 0.1111 we hope the ones that 117,111 be given in the future willebe the same. .111 during the year the Freshmen did not leek class spirit or enthu- siasm and when the Class was organized. the fo110wing class ofheers were elected: Helen Drake, president: Lois VVaIker, viee-president; 13111121 Ne1- son. secretary; and C11z11111er Barr, treasurer. , . '1 1 111 athletics the Freshmen class was not eliminated entirelyj in girls, basketbuH it was represented by Fern Spaulding, Helen Drake and Elma Ne1son: in boysi basketball by Ralph Clemons 21nd Chalmer Barr; in 506- cer 100111311 by Chester P11111111i11 and Elbert Luti, Ralph Clemons 21nd C11z11111e1- Barr New t11:1t1 1:1se11z111 is beino organized we hope that it wfll 11121t with the Ha111e success as the basketball team has. ,. 1 Now our Freshman year, the first of four, is drawing to :1 close. To :111 it has been :1 pheasant 211111 most happy year, and in closing this short histm'V we express the hope that we shall all meet againias Sophomtjtes i11 rlenr 0111 Loveland High. 1 Class Reporter, Chalmer Barr. '14. . Assisted by Alina Nelson and Evalyn Hibner.- ' MSW

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CS '11 lr. as 211 WW mm .-.,.., mm . Ki, DAL LE VON 27 Phebe and Mr. HOIngC were married and moved to the country so he might have beautlful scenery for his Work. Clifford, although he never attained full control of his mind, became l stronger day by day. He lived with Hepzibah in the house of seven gables until his death. This story was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Lenox, Berkshire County. Massachusetts, to ShOW the injustice of execution for Witchcraft, which was common in the seventeenth century, more Particularly to Clear his own conscience, because his great grandfather, John Hawthorne, took part in the trials of witchcraft. W'ritten by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851. Hilda Bail, ,22. owxo A DAYtS WORK The title, UK Dayls Worth is the name given to one of Rudyard Kip- ling's hooks. made up Of short stories. Among these, the one most interest- ing and etlucat'onal is the one called the hBridge Builders.H This is a story of the buildingr of a bridge across an unspanned stream in Egypt or India. This was a very large undertaking which had been at- tempted many times before, but never successfully This special enterprise was put under the control of one of Englands most energetic young men, who was a resident of London. This particular man craved success and fame above all else, and being backed by the English Government, he set to work all by himself to figure out the amount of material, laborers, etc., that would be necessary for the construction of the bridge, He made the plans of construction by himself and did the laying out of the site by him- self. It might be said he furnished the mentality for the whole construction. 011 the arrival of the material for the bridge no man ever went into any thing- heart and soul as this man did. With an unsurpassed amount of success in getting things done the. bridge was speedily put into form, and the work lacked only a few days necessary work to complete it, when a telegram was received of an immediate flood that was the greatest ever known. as there had been successive rains for many days. The men, working like tigers, cleared the river bed and did what they could toward securing the bridge and retired to their bunks in time to escape a mighty onrush of water. But our hero stationed himself by the large stone boats on which the safety of the bridge depended if the water got high, that were above the bridge. If they had become loose they would have knocked the bridge off its piers. and while aboard one of these, which were all fastened together, the cable broke and in its mighty rebound struck our hero and knocked him unconscious upon the deck of one of the boats. Drifting out from their moorings they went with the current straight away toward the bridge, but happily for our champion he was unconscious and the boats,.clearing the bridge. drifted down stream about three miles and lodged on an island. Here he seemed to gain semi-consciousness and in his dreams he imagined the hrir'ge is destroyed and a total 1055. Thus his one aim in life was destroyeltl :mrl imaginary spirits seemed to hoot at him and torment him over his iailure to accomplish what he set out to do, and after many hours of this suffering which can be understood better by reading Kiplinls own descrip- tion than that of anyone else, he was rescued and told that the bridge was