McKinley Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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18 McKINLEY MIRROR LITTLE MISS MUFFET The eighth grade girls have just :finished nn interesting problem in nrt. They drew 21. pillow-cover design, transferred it to unbleaehed niusliu and after coloring it in crayon, pressed it between papers. They then sewed up the seams and stuffed it. These pillows will wash. If anyone should happen in room 419, his glance would full on the series of screens and murals which Miss Ku1'tzn1:l,nl1:1sjust finished forthe cooking room. They are done in wzirin, bright colors, one depicting the queen who has just finished her tarts, with the knuve looking ut theni hungrily. Another is the k11Zl.V0 pleacliaxg for mercy in front of the king. A third screen is one of Simple Simon buying enkes und pies from rt jolly nnd robust pie man, and still another, pictures Jack Spratt and his wife having that famous meal. There is anotlier series of murals also that has just been completed. This consists of Little .Tack Horner, Miss Mulfet and and the king who has just out It piece of the blaekbird pie. The out is playing n,w:1y on his Ildclle and the dish is running away with the spoon. -Congor Metcalf, 8-B. In the seventh grade, the girls are making Zlllilllfti borders to be applied in cross-stitch to towels and clothes-pin bags. The boys nre udzmpting their ulplnlbets to Better Speech Posters. Several classes have made tied und dyed lnmdkereliiefs for Easter or Mother's Dny. Pencil drawings of boxes, floor plans, and elevations of buildings are being nmde. Cushions or books for poems, are being made in the eighth grade. -Vllillie Krutzelimnr, SAA.

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MUKINLEY M .IQRROR 17 scare em. Finally dey gets up dere courage, opens de door, an after a big fight, kills de Werba.. Dey say dat de Werbafs in Siam-is iiereer den dey are here, but I don believe it, say little N61-son. Dey is still kinda seairt an is considerable startled by a bough Swa,-in in de breeze. Den dey follows de tracks to its den. It was a Hay-den, which was kinda strange, as a Werba usually uses leaves. Well, dey slings it ou a stick, an starts to town. Dey meets a tramp. He's kinda half-witted, an tells em to call in Robovsky. Dey finds when dey gets to town, dat everybody's at de town meetin. Jus as dey get dere, de ehairinan raps his Mally, an says, The Pros-il- Den de little boys come in wid de Werba, an say, We want de reward. De chairinau, he say dat de reward is Moore dan it was before, as a man hed put up a private reward. ML Curt-is treasurer, an he'll pay you in de morning, he say. 'fl Deamerf' say Mr. Curt. I Hess de money right now, and I might as well pay it. Den he pays de boys de reward. You stay at my house tonight, he say. Jen-is-ta home, an she'll take care of you. Be uareful on de way, because de path leads by Sut Qsj Cliffe, an if you stray, you-e liable to .go over it. If you see two big Feier- eis-eu de dark, its only phosphorus stuck in a. tree. Oh! I forgot Jon-es here. Tell de boy in de lower Hall to take you home. Mr. Curt finally adopted de two little boys. Dey called Nei-son, Thom-as, de little boy had never had any real name. Written for Grandfather Rushek, this third day of May, in the year of our Lord 1927, by Phil Sargent, 9-A. MCKINLEY M stands for inasterpieee, Which surely this poelu will be CD He is for campus, ' Ours is as nice as any you'll see. li represents kalendar, QI wish it were .lunelj 1 means intelligenue, Gaily out of tune. N is for lllll1'll.lSlilllll, Which 501116 of us are. L stands for lazy, Which means below par. E is for exeelleney, Of which little is seen. YH represents yell, For which most of us are keen. -John Getty, 9-A. APRIL 27, GENERAL U. S. GRAN T'S BIRTHDAY In Galena, Ill., in Miss C0illSXV01'tll,S father's jewelry store, General U. S. Grant and his father used to sell harnesses, saddles, and leather goods. Miss Coatswortlvs grsmdfatlier leased part of this store to the Grants, and here the General used to smoke his old eigars. April 27 was General Gl'1l1llL,S birthday, and, no doubt, on that day, the aroma of his strong cigar crept up above the old counter, in the old store, in that historie town.

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