Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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O IC. The cliemi try class has plenty of room in the laboratory this year. In¬ stead of 25 scholars and 24 desks as last year, there are two desks for every scholar. Program of the last class meeting of ’86 “.Jim,” . . . . S. .1. Blunt “Popping Corn,” . Lilia F. Hayward “The First Fan,” . Willard L. Fales Music, Lottie A. Jones and S. E. Reed “An Inquisitive and Unpleasant Customer,” Maude Dickinson “Farmer Stebbins on Rollers,” M. L. Godfrey “Taking the Census,” Abbie Madden and Win. Luby “Mark Twain Visits Niagara,” W. J. Cook Music, .... W. G. Clifford Hoc Aenigma Fundamento Sex Aeneidis Librorum Nititur. 25, 37, 49, 70, cognomen Vergili. 11, 19, 41, 20, 14,45, .52, praenomen Ver¬ gili. 26, 33, 92, 32, 22, locus quo Vergilius geni- tilXS GSt 77, 98, 96, 20, 9, 24, 16, 4, musa invocata. 6, 53, 40, 55, genus poematis. 84, 102, 65, 107, dea inimicissima Teucris. 55, 12, 97. 48, 8, 27, 15, una ex Harpyiis. 63, 54. 20, 97, 48, 89, orta ex capite Jovis perfecte armata. 69, 48, 96, 82, 31, origo doloris. 74,26,67, 88, 101, disceptator inter tres deas. 36, 28, 20, 66, 33, 75, pulcberrima femisa et mulier multarum nuptiarum. 77, 71, 90, 2, 108, 75, nurus Ancbisae. 98, 95, 27, 30, 37, 57, lacriniosus vir. 61, 2, 20, 102, 81, quondam notos vultus lull induit. 36, 104, 86, 87, 21, 13, exanimum cujus corpus auro Priamo venditum. 103, 3, 56, 54, 10, redemptus pel Ilesionam H TTptpiiIp 36, 93, 86, 59, 106, 98, regina Trojae. 73, 26, 105, 22, pater Romuli et populi Romani auctor. 29, 38, 27, 100, 96, 54, 19, 108, maritus vio- latus. 75, 5, 48, 62, 51, 73, 27, 04, 46, firmus imperator Mycenae. 58, 102, 42, 44, 61, 33, .59, 57, nomen Rom¬ uli cum in deorum numero collocatus est. 1, 60, 27, 43, 92, 17, 52, notissima fama in¬ sula. 61 , .54, 23, 106, 26, 108, despectus amator. 42, 92, 37, nions Pbrygiae. 88, 99, 40, 81, dea caelestis arcus. 94, 98, 77, 86, 36, li), 22, pater Lyaeus. 55, 48, 79, 47, 36, 54, 5, 35, bic Tyria dolos callidos nexuit. 36, 78, 7, 86, 102, 97, 80, 89, deus vis et al- bae populi. 48, 77, 36, 54, .50, 85, 89, fidus amicus. 75, 68, 91, 27, .54, sepulcrum Enceladi. 18, i)6, 59, 39, 64, paene siinul vidit dilex- itque rapuitque Proserpinam. 76, 35, 31, 72, aemula imperii Carthagini- ensis. 92, 9, 92. 21, “et dux.” 86, 36, 48, 76, 70, 65, portitor Stygis. 89, 61, 33, 15, 46, mendacium dicere potest. .55, 26, 108, 22, 37, 65, 92, 105, 75, non fal¬ sa vates fuit. 8;3, 64, 76, 68, 48, 57, quidam de ventis. 40, 20, 56, 102, 73, alium nomen Trojae. 37, 77, 60, 108, 34, 6, 22, adjutor Entelli. Totum octo et centum lite.ris.constat atqne praedictio rerUm futurarum in Aeneide est. N. 15. We are authorized to state that an e.xtra credit will be given to the first two of each Latin class who present to their teacher correct answers of this enigma.—[Eds. •!|-PEkg0]V1711if5.i!- Charles Barnard, ’85, is employed by W. H. Gile Co. Alice I. Burrell, ’85, is working in Eastman’s box factory. Belle H. Ross, ’85, is employed in the temple shop at Hopedale, Mary F. Connolly, ’85, is at work in Jones Shippee’s boot shop. Supt. Leonard can now be found at his new office in Memorial Hall. Laura M. Ball (Lyman), ‘72, has our congratulations. Elbridge P. Jones, ’85 English, is emjdoyed over the hill in Hopedale. Ex-supt. Hatch, now of Haverhill, called on his Mdford friends recently. Maud L. Johnson, ’84, is a pupil of the Sauveur school of Languages, Boston. Mrs. Clara Howard Shelton, a for¬ mer po])ular assistant of the M. H. S., is in town. Herbert S. Eldredge, ’81, is indul¬ ging in a trip to Georgia and other parts of the south. This time it was Harry C. Tilden, ’86, who entertained his friends when surprised last week. Mary P. Cox, ’86, is taking an en¬ forced vacation, caused by poor health. We hope to quickly welcome her back. Thomas F. Conniff, ’82, has finished his commercial study at Comer’s and is now keeping books for J. F. Strat¬ ton. Addie C. Clark, ’84, recently re¬ ceived a five dollar prize for the best jienmanship at Prof. Becker’s writing school. Clarence Barbour, ’88, has left school, and as he Avas always among the first ten of the class, we can ill af¬ ford his loss. Harry P. Crosby, ’85, while prepar¬ ing for his spring examinations at Worcester, is shouting “hello” at the telephone office. Horace A. Brown, ’85, is president, and S. Ernest Fletcher, ’84, is secreta¬ ry of the Trinity church Guild for the ensuing year. News comes to us from North Platte, Nebraska, that Frank Richard¬ son, once of ’80 , is a very successful cashier in one of the local banks there. The class of ’86 is the first gr.adua- tinA class Avhich has for one of its members a child of a graduate of this school. Mabel L. Godfrey, is the daughter of Cora A. Chapin (God¬ frey), ’62, and Win. R. Luby, son of Joanna M. Coughlan (Luby), 65. -FOR FINE- BOOTS, SHOES, SLIPPERS In all the Leading Styles, go to R, Pv HADLEY’S 123 Main Street, Milford. Jgp Satisfaction Guaranteed. STAMPING OF ALL KINDS Neatly Executed. MRS. C. B. BARNES, At the MAMMOTH 5 10 CENT STORE, 80 MAIN STREET, MILFORD. DR. R. H. COCHRAN, Mechanics Block, Milford. JOHN MADDEN, Dealer in TEAS, COFFEES and CHOICE PROVISIONS. 29 EXCHANGE STREET. C. F. WIGHT, TUNER AND REPAIRER OF •5-PI N03 7IND Ope IN?, - Warerooms in Washington Block, Milford. {[ “Church Organ Tuning a Specialty. L, E. FALES, COUNSELOR at LAW, Alhambra Bloch, Milfcrd. FOUNDRY DEPARTMENT, HOPEDALE MACHINE COMPANY, HOPED.ILE, MASS. Manufacturers of I ine Iron, Brass, and Composi¬ tion Castsng.

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’rfIEv07JK,vIimY|IYY. JANUARY, 1886. Published Monthly During the School Year, BY The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GEHER.4.L EDITORS. GRACE P. FIELD and W. J. CuOK. PERSOXAL EDITORS. ABBIE I. MADDEN and I. H. FAIRBANKS. LOCAL EDITORS. LILLA F. HAYWARD and W. G. CLIFFORD. BUSINESS EDITORS. CORA L. SNELL and N. E. TOUGAS. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ten Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents | Single Copies, . 5 cents This paper is for sale at the well-known drug store of J. Allen Rice, where subscriptions for the year will also be received, and back numbers can be obtained. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Box 871. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-Office, as second class matter. Record for the Fall Term. First ten in scholarship and deport¬ ment :— First class: Fales, Field, Godfrey, Snell, Craige, Norcross, Leonard, Jones, Dickinson, Reed. Second class: Hancock, Barns, Hill, Eldridge, Whitney, Williams, Harris, Gould, Eastman, Gifford. Third class : Coburn, Dewing, Han¬ cock, Hale, INliller, Tirrell, Thayer, Thompson, Barbour, Arnold. h’ourth class: Leonard, Goldsmith, Cooke, Nichols, Andrews, Blake, May- hew, Wilcox, Toomey, Waterman and Conroy. Once more we ask for information of former principals. Are Grove P. Jenks,-Reed, J. R. Draper and D. B. Sanborn in the land of the living and if so lohere? We also wish to know the full name of Mr. Reed. Of the former assistants we know nothing of M. J. Dyer, Caroline M. Baker, Mrs. Page, Sarah E. Cole, and Mary B. Smith. Since our last issue we have receiv¬ ed a friendly letter from Ruel B. Clark, the ninth principal of our school, in which he expressed his ap¬ preciation of our efforts and also in¬ closed selections of a long, original poem based on “The Legend of Falken- burg”, as related by Mrs. Clement Waters in her “Legends of Place.” If our space were not so limited, we would ask the privilege of ])rinting it; for it must be of considerable merit, judging by the selections sent. Found in the laboratory, probably the result of personal experience at a cost of G7 cents:— Little mites of chlorate, Little grains of sulphur, Make a mighty racket And a busted mortar. The first volume of Grant’s Autobi¬ ography, bought with the exhibition fund, has been received. In spite of that chronic grumbler of the Sunday Globe who Avrites from New Y oi k, Ave have found it a very Avelcome book, and as far as English is con¬ cerned, far ahead of his slangy letters. Persons outside of the school may have some idea of the difficulties un¬ der Avhich we labor, when they learn that there are scholars in this school and in the first class even, who have not subscribed for the paper and are too indifferent to buy single copies as they are issued. William George DeAving, Born in Richmond, Nova Scotia, June 10, 1869, Died in Hopedale, Mass., January 16, 1886. Aged 16 years, 7 months, 6 days. Master DeAving was a member of ’88, and thus far this year had stood sec¬ ond in his class. He attended school Thursday and died on the following Saturday. He Avas a faithful, honest, studious and gentlemanly young man, Avho had the respect and confidence of all his teachers, and his death Avill be a great loss to the school. On Thurs¬ day, he handed in his written exercise in rhetoric; on Friday, Miss Park- hurst read it to the class as one of the best presented, not having the least idea, of course, that it was his last work. May it be our good fortune so to leave this Avorld that, Avhatever may be our last work on earth, it may re¬ ceive like commendation. A laro ' e number of scholars attended his funeral, and his classmates contrib¬ uted a mound of flowers Avith the in¬ scription : “Class of ’88.” We have been very fortunate this AAGiiter in the comfortable condition of our rooms. Even on the coldest days the average temperature has been about 65°. A visitor could not judge the tem])erature, hoAvever, by the ap¬ pearance of the scholars; for some Avould wear Avraps, rubbers and even leggins Avhen the thermometer reads. 70°, if not personally spoken to. We have come to the conclusion that the imagination has a great deal to do with our sensations of heat and cold. An investigating senior has made the discovery that a fly has horns. Teacher.—Tell some of the ways in Avhich government provides for the security of travellers. Y oung lady.— They compel railway corporations to have belles on their locomotives. Value of air that must remain in the lungs after exjiiration : “If anybody Avas pretty near drown, it Avould be of surface to him.”—[Phys. 4. Evils of eating : “We should not eat at intervals.”—[Phys. 4. As the teacher Avearily adds, divides and ranks the class, only to find that the same scholar is driver again, there slips from the lips: “A tAvice told tale” (tail). Our teachers seem to be in great de¬ mand outside of their school duties. We generally see the name of at least one connected Avith nearly every en¬ tertainment of the different religious and secular societies in town. H. B. Spaulding, ’88, has made for the philosophy class a model of an overshot water-wheel Avith trough and pulley attached. Thus far, it surpas¬ ses all other pieces of apparatus hand¬ ed in. This must be a year of awful mor¬ tality for cats—judging by the boys’ coat collars and cuffs. Feline, but un- feelin(g). The air-pump and its numerous ex¬ periments are now an unfailing cause of wonder to our philosophers. Scholars are good examples of re¬ flex action. On the slightest provoca¬ tion they reflex and then repent; but their teachers take exceptions to their reflexions. Latin I. is reading Cicero’s opinion of Avdiat a liberally educated man should be, as set forth in his defence of Archias. “Ne prennez pas ce livre, s’il vous plait. Si A ' ous le prennez je vous siiankerai.” Such Avas the menacing threat written on the cover of the French book of one of the seniors. However, as the street urchin says, “he ain’t the size.” On the occasion of our last big snoAV storm, one indignant boy of the fourth class Avas heard to complain that he thought ’tAvas too mean for it to snoAV on Saturdays; he didn’t see Avhy it couldn’t snow ( 11 some school day, and then there would be a vaca¬ tion. Of how many sons can this be said? “Ex quo nihil imquam doluit pater, nisi quum is non fuit.”

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H, Z XjIT. (Continued.) Down the Connecticut in a Canoe. Monday, August 24. Items : Signs of a rainy day at G a. m.; along tramp for milk; two de¬ serted farmhouses within a mile of camp; success at the third after an urgent request; a hee line to camp; no breakfast, not even a fire started — because the matches were with him who went for the milk; discourage¬ ment; remorse. We quickly made nj) our lost time, however, and pushed out of the brook into the main stream at 9.30, just as the rain began to fall. After a hasty council, we decided that it was just as loet to remain as to go on, and so, with our rubber suits, rubber canoe covering and a sponge to absorb the little pools that constantly collect¬ ed in the hollows of the coverings. We pushed on (trying to convince ourselves that it was only a s iower) nntil 4 o’clock, when we reached the Hanover, (N. H.) log-boom, 20 miles below. Tlie boom reached from bank to baidv, with a narrow place near the centre, where a partially sunken log was supjiosed to allow boats to glide over. Ours could have done so had it been flat-bottomed; but the Avater Avas so shalloAv that the keel Avould have struck and the strong current turned us OA er. On the New Ilain])- shire side, Ave found that the end log Avas fastened by a chain to a tree on the bank, but with just enough slack to alloAV the canoe to slip under, be¬ tween the log and the shore. W e then dropped doAvn tAvo miles further to Hanover falls, the goal of our morning’s desires. There Avas one house in sight on the left bank, but no acc.omrnodations for us, and Hanover village (Dartmouth college) Avas tAvo miles back by a rough road. Seven hours’ exposure in the rain had made even rubber useless, and Ave felt a little discouraged as Avell as chilled, as Ave once more embarked, paddled up stream again, in order to avoid the current, and crossed over to the Ver¬ mont side to Hartford. No house was in sight ; but, a mile distant, a good natured man Avas found, Avho boarded the Avorkmen engaged in building the huge pul] and jiaper mills Avhich Avere to use the very val¬ uable Avater poAver situated here. He immediately went to our aid Avith horse and Avagon, and soon the canoe was sheltered in his barn, and Ave in a pleasant room Avith a Avelcome fire. This time, Ave Avere so fortunate as. to keep our extra clothing dry, and Avith the loan of slippers, our spirits began to rise, and Ave Avere exceeding¬ ly ])rompt Avhen the bell for supper rang at G o’clock. As Ave had not stojjped for dinner on account of the rain, Ave have our doulits Avhether our host made any profit from his excel¬ lent supper; for we think that Ave, lik e the “big fish” of sacred Avrit, had SAvalloAved the profit as well as the supper. We spent a quiet evening in our room reading, Avriting, and drying our clothing. Tuesday, August 25. We sle])t long and soundly and aAvoke to And every prospect of anoth¬ er rainy day. The roaring of the falls gi’eeted our ears and reminded us that there Avas Avork ahead. There are tAvo sets, the u])per and the lower; the dam at the u])])er is so high that it sets the Avater back for 13 miles, Ave were told, and furinshes tremendous poAver for gritiding the Avood to pulp for the pa])er niill. At the upper falls, quite a pretty village is growing up, and it promises to be a busy place as soon as the mills are comjdeted. The main line of rail¬ road runs through it and Avill give it good facilities for transportation. A half-mile down stream are the loAver falls, and below these our host carried us and the canoe. The water looked threatening, and rocks, logs and a fierce current seemed eager to Avreck us. We ventured in, hoAvever, and aimed for the further shore, and by gradually moving forward diagonally, avoided all obstructions. During INfon- day’s trip the dam had so retarded the current that it Avas of little assistance ; today, hoAvever, it SAvept us on and kept us busy Avatching for the smooth¬ est Avater. It Avas only two miles to White RIa ' - er Junction, Avhere Ave bought meat and home-made bread, and obtained infor¬ mation about the river doAvn to Clare¬ mont Junction, the end of our river trip. From Junction to Junction by rail it is 23 miles, and by Avater very little more, as this part of the river is nearly straight. We had lost two hours in the morning trying to decide upon the Aveather, and it Avas then just 11 o’clock, so Ave thought Ave Avould run doAvn to West Hartland, Vt., falls (6 1-2 miles) for dinner, and there dry our blankets, tent and boat. We found the bed of the falls to be of rough, sharp edged ledges, calhal ra¬ zor edged, and a powerful current of Avater rushing over them; but by let¬ ting the canoe down Avith lines to the worst ])art, Ave had a short carry, and then a hot steak dinner made us “men again.” (To be continued ) The Golden Age. It is someAvhat difticult iioaa ' , Avhen civilization has made such strides, and the Avorld is all alive Avith bustling, energetic men, to imagine the contli- tion of the earth, as it is supposed to have been in the golden age of Roman mythology. In those golden days, there Avere no Avorrying cares nor Avearying duties. No farmers tilled the soil, for the most abundant crops greAV spontaneously, year after year. Then, no fatlier Avas throAvn out of employjnent in mid-Avinter ; there Avere no Avretched homes Avhere chil¬ dren cried Avith hunger and cold; ev¬ erybody Avas contented and happy. Men Avere not obliged to build even the rudest shelter, for there Avas no change of seasons. No poet then could say : — “What is so rar as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days,” for indeed, all Avere perfect, and the eye Avas everyAvhere pleased Avith Avaving green fields, and bright, blooming floAA ' ers. Men had neither separate homes nor lands, but every¬ thing was in common, and they lived as one great family. There Avere no Vanderbilts nor Goulds, no beggars nor outcasts. There were no books, nor matters pertaining to them ; no Shakespeare to sing of “the Avhining schoolboy Avith his satchel and shin¬ ing morning face, creeping like a snail uuAvillingly to school.” No busi¬ ness, no laAvs, no government existed ; it Avns an animal life, tor Avhen hunger and thirst had been satisfied, the goal Avas reached, the highest aim accom¬ plished. It AV ' ould seem, at first thought, that, as men had no limitation to their rights and no one to exercise authority over them, there Avould have been no restraint from crime ; but as they had no vexations nor trials to ex¬ cite envy or malice, there Avere no fierce contentions, and hence none of the aAvful engines of Avar none of the dreadful losses of life, by Avhich so many homes have been made desolate. What an Elysium this age Avould have been for some of the hard-Avork- ing farmers of the present day, Avhose rocky ground yields them only a mea¬ gre living, and for the many unhapj)y operatives Avho have been cum})elled to look upon life only as a struggle for existence, Avho have no goal to strive for, no chance to enjoy the beauties of Nature, and no hope reaching beyond their daily routine of toil ! But the golden age Avith all its de¬ lightful features passed aAvay, and the silver and the brazen age came on. Then, struggles for existence, fierce contentions, and even cruel wars arose, sure indications of Avhat Avas to folloAv in the last of those fabulous ages of Avhich Dvid sings. The iron age Avell deserved its name, and seemed a forerunner of our oAvn unquiet time ; for men Avere treacher.