Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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THE LIGHT 29 VICTORY CLOTHING DRIVE Scene I-Four girls in a theater talking about a news reel that they were seeing. Dellie: Look at those women and children, no home, no food, no place to go. Elsie: It makes me ashamed to think of all the things I have and not appreciating it a bit. Jean: Look at the money we spend each week on movies, games, dances, candy and ice cream, and still we are always crying around that we haven't been anywhere since last night and we want to go again tonight. Galley SIXTEEN-Milbridge Evelyn: And those children haven't even got a mother and father, let alone a nickel to buy an ice cream. Elsie: Why, those children are so thin and sickly looking. Dellie: Oh, look at all those people dying. Jean: See that woman and her two small chil- dren and all they have is what they have there and that is just the clothing they stand in. fThc girls wipe away heir tears as the reel ends and a funny comedy is shown, but to the girls it isnit very funny., Scene II--At the corner drug store eating a dish of ice cream. The girls are all talking at once about the news reel that they have just seen. Jean: I've got an idea. All: What? -lean: Wlhen we moved a few years ago we left all kinds of winter and summer clothing there in the attic and they have never been given to any- body, and they are not doing us any good. CShe stops a few moments and at this point she has the girls all worked up.J You know we ought to clean that attic out. Evelyn: The drive is over day after tomorrow. So that only gives us two days to do it in. Dellie: And we have to go to school tomorrow. jean: But we can work after school and if We don'l gel them picked up before dinner we can go hack after dinner. Elsie: Letls go down now and sec -how much there is. All: 'I'hat's a good suggestion. C They leave the drug store all excited. They had even forgotten to pay for their ice cream.J Scene III-Going up the walk of the Mitchell house. Elsie: When Mr. Stinchfield was talking about that in school it didn't even sink in. Evelyn: If more people took this to their hearts instead of letting it in one ear and out the other one. Dellie: Yes, the people over there wouldn't have to worry about going cold this winter. fAt this time they had reached the attic. The girls all were exhausted from hurrying so they sat on the top steps to rest a minute.J Evelyn: What are in all those trunks? Elsie: There are two, four, Eve, six, seven. Why, there are ten of theml Dellie: Where are all the clothes? Jean: In those trunks, Girls: What, you have got all those full and have never given them to anybody before? Jean I going over and opening up trunks, one by one, so that the girls could see inf: Well, girls, I had never thought much about it until tonight. I had almost forgotten they were here. Dellie: It will take us a mont'h to get all those picked over. jean: It said in that news reel that we could write our name on a piece of paper and pin it on the garment. Elsie: Why couldn't we get some paper and pencils and write our names on the tags now. Girls: Swell. Jean: Wait a minute and I will go downstairs and get some paper and pencils. lWhen returning, Jean found the girls all ex- c-ited.J Elsie: jean, do you know what we have done? jean: No. Elsie and Evelyn lboth trying to talk at oncejz We dicln't pay David for the ice cream. Jean: Oh! Oh! What are we going to do? Dellie: We will have to go in first thing in the mor-ni-ig on our way to school and pay him. lThc girls get busy writing their names and addresses on the paper. Suddenly they hear a 1-oise. The girls are so frightened they don't know what to do.J Jean Csomeowe coming up attic stairsjz Dellie, ask them what they want and who they are. Dellie: No, you. Iean: No. Dellie: Elsie, you ask them.

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28 THE HUNTING Hunting is a sport enjoyed hy many, hoth young and old. They like to travel in the woods, not just to kill but to survey the beauty ol' tht- woods and fields and get some exercise in tht- good open air. They like to look at tht- trot-s, rviltl flowers, birds and streams. Some people like to see the different hir-det nntl animals and learn their habits and ways ol' living. Many of the anmials live in dens the year ronntlg some only part of the year. Some are active all tht- timeg some hibernate all winter, some just during the colder weather. Some live in water nm-1 ul' the time while some never go very lar from the water. Others travel many miles ovcrla-nl Iron: one body of water to another. -Leighton Roberts, '47. .-li 'l l I'WI NVQ-UTE FOOTPRINTS l -1 -zntall, placid town, called Haleyville, there ' 's .r certain grocer whose name was -lim Ii .edden. This particular grocer was an ect-cnlric, inventive character. ln fact, he was more ol' an inventor than he was a businessman. One afternoon as jim Snedden was sitting ho. side the stove in his grocery store, he tried to think of a new way of advertising his groccrit-s because he hadn't been getting much trade lately. Suddenly he had an idea. That night he went out and painted n great many white footprints on the sidewalk. They were about three feet long and they were all pointing toward his store. It took 'him only a few minutes because he used a stencil-plate. During the next few days those white feel were tht- talk of the town. Everybody in llaley- villc tried to guess where those footprints came from. As thev were all pointing toward Snedl dcn's grocery store, naturally most of the people we -t to trade because of their curiosity. About a week later Mr. Snedden put in his window a placard which read: Those footprints show the way to Snedden's grocery. That samc day Mr. Snedden received a letter from an advertising company saying that they would like for him to sell them any more new ideas which he had for advertising. -Joyce Fickett, '47. LIGHT ' THE OLD PROSPECTOR Klondike was getting old. He had traveled thousands of miles in search of gold in California. lle, like many others, had gone gold crazy. It seems as if he had searched every inch of ground in California for this shiny metal. Thousands had fought and died for gold but some just preyed on others who had found it. One day Klondike was dragging his mule, loaded with provisions along a stream not knowing what was in store for him in this strange land. Suddenly his pack mule stepped in a hole and broke his leg. The only thing to do was to shoot the animal because he was useless wit-h a broken leg. So Klondike shot the mule 1tn.l proceetletl on loot. At dusk he made Cilmll where the stream was very narrow. He ate and retired early because of the long ioumey ahead cf' him the next day. When he arose at day- bregx' nun-lr to his surprise he found that prac- tically all his provisions had been carried off hy some kit. 7 'ml' animal during the night. After about an hour of lnvelizrg he managed to kill a bird for his breakfast. X' noon, as he approached a tiny stream, a shini 5: vlfe:-t caught his eye. He inves- tigated and forp ' that the stream contained a large gold deposit th- put up a sign and started for the nearest land claim office to stake his claim. Klondike secured millif-'fs of dollars worth of gold from that tiny stream. X half year later he died, but he died happy because he had discovered gold. -Earl Dow, '47. OUR DAILY HISTORY CLASS The Iunior class of 1945 and l946 have U. S. History asone of their subjects. Often we draw a heavy sigh as Mr. Stinchficld gives us an extra long assignment and says in such an amusing tone, And you may get a quizf' Of course, we know for certain we will, so we study, study and study some more. But, Ohl dear, it seems that some of us will never get all the wars straightened out. By the looks of the world now, we'll always read or hear about wars or disagreements of some kind. When Mr. Stinchfield gives us an assignment, we all know without him saying it, Study, class, or it's failure for you. He means it, class, so come on, let's get back to work. -Donna Burke, '47.

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30 THE LIGHT Elsie: No, Evelyn you. Evelyn: Oh, you scared cats, if you don't dare to I will. tEvelyn, just as scared as the rest of them, calls with an unsteady voicel: Weh-o a-r-e y-o-n and w-h-a-t d-o y-o-u w-a-n-t? CAt this time four heads popped around the corner. It was our mothers., Mothers: What are you doing? Do you know what time it is? Girls: We are picking up clothes for the Vic- tory Clothing Drive. Mothers: Victory Clothing Drive nothing. You girls are going home. It is one o'clock in the morning and you have to get up in the morning and go to school. Girls: One o'clockl fThey all left and the girls were telling them about t'he news reel they had seen.J Scene IV-After school at the Mitchell house umzain the four girls and their mothers are the characters. jean: We've got someone to help us now. Dellic: I got Mom so excited about it that she forgot she was even cross because we didn't come home right after the show last night. Girls: We all agree that our mothers haven't mentioned again about not coming home. Jean: I went in and paid David for the ice cream last night, so you don't have to worry about that again. Elsie: How do you suppose they found out where we were last night? Dellie's Mother: If you girls don't stop talking and get busy, you will be here until one o'clock this morning. CEverybody forgot about her supper and at 1-ight o'clock they had put the last tag on the last garment and had packed them into the last box. Dellie's father was waiting outside with a truck.l Dellie's Father: Well, it is just about time you were coming out. I have been waiting since seven o'clock. Evelyn: This is the last boxful. CS'he puts the box in the truck.l Together: I am going home and I can sleep tonight knowing that I have done my share to- wards 'helping those children over there. Why don't you give all you can, when you can? THE END -jean Mitchell, '47. THE FIGHT A large, yellow cat of about thirty-five pounds, whose name was Tom, was lounging comfortably in a rocking chair on the Brown's front porch. About three feet away, perched on the railing, was jackson, jack for short, a grey cat. Anyone could see something was troubling him because his face was wrinkled with an angry frown. All of a sudden it happened! jack jumped and landed on top of Tom. They rolled off the chair and down the steps. Tom ran around a corner, but jack was after him and caught him under the kitchen window. They clinched. One hits with a right to the stomach. Both are fighting with strong hind paws. The fur was flying. They break, one had a badly scratched nose, the other's ears were bleeding. They clinched again, growling, spitting, clawing and kicking. Tom was on top, no jack was. Then they back off for another attack. There they went. Wham, splash!! A bucket of ice cold water was thrown over them. The cook had heard all and decided to stop same. jack sneaked around the corner. He had spots of blood where there was no fur and blood was running down his nose. He was ready to fight again but decided against it. Toni we-nt back to his chair to doctor the tender spots. All was forgotten, for the time, anyway. -Donna Burke, '47. THE IOKE IS RETURNED Mr. Teller, the town's richest man, had given a house of eleven rooms to the younger set to start 11 teen club. As yet no one had tried to clean it out and get it ready for the first meeting which was two weeks away, but they had set a date to visit it. One afternoon, seven girls had gathered into linrbii-is Monfs kitchen. Also, Bob and six other boys had gathered in the rumpus room down- stairs. Barbie and the girls were reading their N4-vvs lit-view assignment, so Bob didn't know they wr-rc anywhere around, therefore they talked of tht-ir ghost venture they were planning to stage when llncy visited the house. The boys were going to visit the house half an honr before the girls arrived and dress as ghosts to scare the girls. Unfortunately, the girls heard what they were talking about, so they had an idea of their own.