Mercer High School - Bison Yearbook (Mercer, ND)

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School Farnwal The fxrst outstandmg hxghllght of the school year was the carmval held at the school gymnasxum Thursday evemng October lZ 1950 The program was presented at 8 o clock wxth every room presentmg at least one number as follows Play It All Depends On How You Brxng Them Up Intermedxate Room Song Humpty Dumpty and Me Prxmary Room Slut lmpersonauons of famous people Upper Grades Song Ten I..1ttle Indlans Pnmary Room Play A Remarkable Baby Intermedxate Room Song Good mght Irene Mxxed Chorus H1gh School After the program the fOllOW1ng consessxons were opened for busxness Dart Throw Ball Throw Rlng the bottle Roulette Game F1sh Pond Noveltles Blngo Door Pnze Guessxng Bean Contest Kxng and Queen Contest At ll 30 0 clock the Carnxval Klng and Queen of 1950 were crowned They were Darvxn Fxscher and Alma Gessele wxth Dorls Jorgenson and M11bert Strobel Gene Slnger and Glorls Ketterhng as thexr attendants Last year s queen Luella Schell crowned both the students Daul Wanner carrmed the crown on a p1nk sat1n pxllow and Robert Sackman and Chr1st Helm Jr unrolled the carpet for the carmval royalty The Queen drew the lucky txckets for the radxo Mxxmaster and the door prxzes Earl Postel Mercer won the radxo Rexnhart Stradmger Mercer the M11-:master D1ck Doer1ng Goodrxch the men s door pr1ze Mrs Ralph Burke P1ckardsv1lle won the women s door prxze and Phyllxs Schell Mercer got a muslcal teddy bear for gUCSS1ng the number of beans ln the bean Jar contest The gross recexpts were S521 01 wxth total expendxtures of S198 Z3 leavmg a net pr0f1t of S322 78 31 U! O 1' - Il ' . ll - ' Z. - . ' 3. ' - ' 4. - ' ' . ' 5- - an D vw ' 6. - al - ' ' i ll 1 ' D ' Raffle on Radio and Mixmaster

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Inztza tzon Party An Imt1at1on party was held on Thursday October 5 wzth the follow1ng Freshmen partxcxpatlng Jamce Just Jamce Ketterlxng Sylvla Schlaht L.uVon Rust Eumce L.a1b I..o1s Skaley Verma Rust Tony Schell Frederxck Khne Leo Schlaht Percy Fxbelstad Thxs group came to school Thursday mornxng dressed 1n thexr 1n1t1at1on clothes Each glrl was dressed dxfferently xn the followxng clothes gunny sack skxrts men s bxbbed overalls men's wmter underwear and shorts men s shoes and socks and shuts on backwards The g1rls haxr was done up on the top of her head and t1ed wxth a rlbbon Each boy wore a d1fferent garb xncludmg women's high heeled shoes short dresses mghtgowns and women s overshoes Each carrxed a doll and a purse and wore make p Thursday night at exght o clock the party was held We played games after whmch lunch cons1st1ng of sandwxches jello cake pxckles and pop were served by the Sophomore Class Freshman Return Party On October 17 1950 the Freshmen gave a return party to the Sophomore Class The party began by playzng games The students and faculty partlcxpated 1n the games and the gxrls of the Freshman Class provxded refreshments at the close of the party Due to the fact that our gym was under repamr the games were played 1n the hxgh school assembly For lunch we had sandwxches pxckles cake and pop The party broke up about eleven o clock 33 l I I I I . . . . i . , ' I . . , I I I 1 . . , . . . . : - -, . , . I I ' I . . , -u . . I I I I I I ' I I I ' I