Mechanic Falls High School - Pilot Yearbook (Mechanic Falls, ME)

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16 M.F.H.S September 8, 1932. Went the English Class this mornin' and Mis Aron ast if we takun enny literthure. Some raised there hand an said yes Caesar and Shakepere. Well Mrs. Aron sed, 'Ceasar! I seized the nearest one to me and soneone said it was Helen Strot see! and for a minit i had my handsful. I couldn't, shake my spear cause I hand't brout it with me but i tookx it this noon and got all outer breath shaking if. I September 10, 1932. A lot a senyers comed in late and one wus sayin somthin abut gittin passes i wasn't gonner let 'em beat me so I gut a corkin pass. Threw a base ball pass at Mr, Pottle, he didn't ketch it but i did. in science i was talkin bout sunthin and i threw a spit ball. Mistor Tomas says, 'dont yer no that's a serious charge. An i up's to him and says. Oh that's alrite, my credits good. Mrs. Mains ast me if i'd like to wash her boards caus they wus awful dirty. I says shoure. I shuld think they wus dirty. So i goos and gits a cloth ans scrubbs and scrubbs but it don' do no good. I gut bout 35 cints in mv poket and so i goes down stret and gits some whit wash, an fore i gits threw that boards the cleanest thing you ever see. Gues that's all fer now i gut ter go and lug sum wood few mum. SONNY SAYINGS Freshman Cin Science Classl: Has a hen a very big brain ? Pupil: A Political Platform is what the candidates stand on when they take their oath of office. PILOT A discerning young pupil: Congress is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives. One house to make a Bill and the other to back it up. A pupil asked of Mrs. Aaron: Was it a hysterical Chistoricalj book report that you wanted? Wlien asked to give the name of one of Lamb's Essays the pupil re- plied: The Dissipation fDisserta- tionj of a Roast Pig. Lola Frost remarked: The farmer then went to town and purchased the seeds for his potato planting. Freshmen discussing the coming ex- aminationst First Freshie: Are we going to have Oliver Twist in our English Ex- amination P Second: I don't know. But I do know that I'm 'Oliver Twist' about all my examinations. Miss Nelson: What is a comma used for? Frenchie King: To separate one thing from another. BRAINY BREAKS Emily Bridgham in Junior Short- hand Class: And Dantes threw his eves out the window. Viola Raymond translating in French: Loulou, the horse, was climbing the rose bush. Correst translation: T.oulou, the horse. was eating the rose bush. I-Ierschel Bryant translating in Shorthand: Emerson was the son of a box. Correct translation: Emerson was the son of a Boston. Mr. Thomas: What are the scale wings of a butterfly like?

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It's sweet! All that you could wish - Smiling Through starring Angie Mains. You'll love it, can't help it. It's Hat Check Girl with Bernice Thurs- ton. A sequel to Gold Diggers of Broad- way , it's Hyllis Davis in She Want- ed a Millionaire . Shuffle! Shuffle! Shuffle! Doris Crooker in Forty-Second Street . It's hot! You'll simply burn. They'll need an asbestos curtain when Bill Stone appears in Fireman, Save My Child! EXTRAKS FRUM FRESHMUN'S DIRY September 6, 1932. I'm rightin' this standin' up cause I can't sit down. First day of hih schol an I ast Miss Aron if she liked bananas and she said yes, I give her one but i left th' peelin' near her chair. An now I karnt stand up. They been tellin' to keep wake down there. The early bird ketches the worm. Well I don't mind that, so I went lishin' this mornin' about seven. I might's well get the worm as anyone. I didn't stay long thou. Cause the bel rang, i went into the school house and was just goin' round the corna when I saw sothin red, Gosh! i grabed that thing they calls the fire extin- guisher and I let's her go. All I heard was a yell and when I stopt I saw Her- tha Ridley come round the corner. sokin' wet. All the time I'd thot the schol house was on fire and twas' onli Hertha's head, Gosh, I beat it up the stairs and ast where the water fountin was. I wanted to git a drink. They told me to go round the corna and take S. PILOT 15 the elvator. I went and bumped head just into it. VVhen I looked fer the door I see twas only Julian Goss and Donald Cole. Well I holled's loud's I could and ast 'em where I could git a drink. They said round the next corna and don 2 pare of stairs. I went and came into a room with a lot of suits hanging on the wall. I diden think it was just rite to take off yer clothes 'an hang em on the wall, but evidentially sume did, case there they was. They was numbered to. VVell for a minute I didn't see the water, and then I saw it behind a white certun. I went over and puled the thing there, I heard someone cal it a shour. After l'd drunk my full i found thet the darn' thing wouldn't turn of. Well i tried but, twan't no use. The suits wer a floting round me and pretty soon my feet came out from under me. I knew sumpin awfull had, hapened and then when I looked aroun' i see I was Hoting. The room was ful of water. I'd herd 'em tel of tidal waves an i guess this musta been one. i holered and that one they calls Bill was just a little way ahead of me holding out a broom. I thout that was bout the dumest thing I'd ever 'sud yit. Savin' a broom when ther was so many other things to save. Finlly i herd 'em hollor and then i see he was holden it there for me. Well I grabbed an' i grabed so hard it puled him off his perch. Gosh! i was scared that he might be drowneded. But he wasn't. he floated out a window i knew some on'd find im. After that i grabed aholt of a rim pipe and pulled my way out. Gosh they out not to have such foucets down there. A

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M. F. H. S. PILOT 17 Esther Millett: Like roofs on shingles. Kenneth Mitchell was translating in the junior Shorthand Class. The copy read: Dear Miss Tem- ple. Kenneth read: Dear Miss Dimplef' Heard in English Class: Plural of benefactor is benefaterice. Richard Steele, who helped Addison edit the Spectator , was born in 1719 and died in 1726. Mr. Thomas: If anyone drank Java, Miss Una Marshall, what would they be drinking? Miss Marshall: An island. In English Class: Shortly after that he died and then there was noth- ing to worry about. Found on julian Goss' History paper: The conservative men were startled in the early nightiesf' Cnine- tiesj Mr. Thomas: Name some flavor- ing extracts. King: Listerine. ' Frank Allard: Cartier then ex- plored America and founded the river which bears his name. COMMENTARY COLUMN Madeline Berry is liable to suffer from fallen arches if she continues to rise each time she recites in Mr. Thomas' Class. Dorothy Grant: W'ell, Elwood, there is just one more year of this kind of life, and I am extremely glad. Elwood Goss: So am I, Dot, and I know you will enjoy life much more on the farm.' Miss Woodsum to Harold Morrell Cwho had both feet on the Typewrit- ing tablej: Mr, Morrell, I wish you would refrain from hanging yourself up when you're in Shorthand Class. There was a loud bang and the whole school building shook from the jar made when the door slammed downstairs. Miss Nelson remarking to the pupils in the Senior room: I believe Mr. Thomas has blown up. The Seniors are planning a patent gum detector and remover to present to the teachers, to be used next Fall' in Mechanic Falls High School. This invention will detect the law- breakers, automatically reach out like an arm, grasp the victim's jaws and snatch out the gum. Each cud thus acquired is carried to a receptacle on the Teacher's desk, marking enroute the name of the'owner for further ref- erence for teachers. After the students have served their alloted sentence they may retrieve their cud, if so desired. Soph: Will you give some money to help the Old Soldier's Home? Freshman: VVhat! Are they out again? Miss VVoodsum to Frank Allard in Bookkeeping Class: Wliat entry do you make when you sell a car? Frank: Going, Going. Gone. Doris Stanton in Shorthand Dicta- tion: I didn't get two or three words of that dictation, Miss Woodsum, and the rest I didn't do. Max: Wl1at part of an automobile kills the most people P john: The nut behind the wheel. Miss VVoodsum: Have you read this shorthand Bob ? Taker: Yes You didn't get much out of it, did you ? No, I read between the lines. LOIS MILLETT, '33.