Milo High School - Breeze Yearbook (Milo, ME)

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THE BREEZE 13 come to Moosehead Lake, the largest in Maine. Greenville is situated at the very southern tip of this lake. At the lower end of Farm Island, the largest in the lake, Mount Kineo, a beautiful and scenic peak, is located. If we had the right equipment, we could travel far to the north of Moosehead and make the famous canoe trip down the Allagash Stream. People from far and near travel deep into the woods, just to make this beautiful and adventurous trip over Maine waters. If we traveled to the northeast of Milo, we could climb Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest peak. At the summit of this peak, the famous Appalachian Trail starts its winding course down the Alpine Range to Georgia. Around the base of this moun- tain the state has built Baxter Park, where we could stay for as long as we wanted, for a very small fee. These are a few of Piscataquis County's wonders of nature. If we traveled through the vast miles of woods we would find many more interesting and scenic things. This shows a person does not have to spend a lot of money and time traveling to see beautiful and interesting things. All he has to do is go traveling in his own back yard. Damon Carter SEASONAL DIFFERENCES We have springtime which is my favorite season. The whole world looks so fresh and clean. Worries just seem to banish. The trees blossom with buds and then with leaves of green. We have the summer, which is a child's time for fun and laughter. It is a time for swimming and for running about in the cool grass. It is a time for vacations at some quiet resort where the lakes seem so blue and the mountains so tall. We have the fall. The leaves turn such lovely colors as they surround the branch- es on the tree tops. The leaves loc-k so pitiful as they turn to brown and 'then die as the first cold wind of winter nears. Finally we have the winter. The snow falls so quietly and lightly in the night. The frost makes majestic patterns on the window-panes. Mother Nature is indeed wonderfull Glenda Cowing AN INTERESTING HIKE THROUGH THE WOODS It was a hot sunny day in june when daddy, my two brothers, my sister and her husband and I started on our way to a small mountain named Barren. Bar- ren Mountain is approximately six miles over a very rc-ugh back road from our home on Borestone Mountain. We went as far as we could by car and from there we walked. We had to go a short way through the woods from the road and cross al small stream at the foot of the mountain. We jumped from rock to rock, at times nearly missing and falling into the rushing waters. Our journey up to the top of Barren and back was very enjoyable. At one place the face of the mountain was so steep that in order to climb it we had to zig-zag back and forth. This particular place was about a quarter of a mile in height and when we reached the top and looked down it made us a little dizzy. We sat there and rested a few moments taking the liberty to gaze out at the beauty be- low and around us. The valley was bathed in gc-lden sunshine that made the tiny stream glisten and sparkle with all the glory that Nature had bestowed upon it. After a few minutes rest we continued our ascent up the mountain. At one place

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LITERARY THE LADY AND THE DOG As I stepped off the train I was aston- ished to hear such a racket as I had never before encountered, coming from farther on up the station platform. As I hurried to join the throng of curious excitement seekers which had already started to gather, I noticed the cause of the rumpus. There on the platform laid an elderly lady in her late sixties, I should say, and planted very firmly on her middle sat a large Great Dane. The dog looked gentle enough but every time the lady would try to move, the dog would only plant him- self more firmly than ever and quietly con- tinue to watch the curious crowd. Many of the onlookers tried time and time again, but in vain. to move the stubborn beast. Finally after two and a half hours of effortless schemes to remove the animal, which, by the way, must have weighed at least three hundred pounds, the old lady fainted from exhaustion. At last a police squad came to the res- cue with a long pole, and hanging at one end of it was a loop of rope which they carefully slipped over the dog's neck and then tightened. Then after much coaxing and tugging they removed the dog from its captive. Upon taking the lady to the waiting ambulance, they found on the platform where the strange pair had laid their little episode, a very small field mouse. It was a very messy sight indeed, for the mouse had been squashed to death. But no one knows who had been more scared of the innocent creature. The old lady or the dog. And none know how the dog got the upper berth. It just goes to show that a little crea- ture is sometimes more feared than a large one. Carl Hoskins THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL Oh, boy! I was starting school now. lust what I had been waiting for. Now I would be a big bc-y like all the rest. The first day was great with every girl and boy dressed up in nice clean clothes. I remember one little boy in particular, who had a new bright green shirt and very light green pants, pressed just right. He was clean and his hair parted perfectly in the middle. The teacher had a pretty red dress with a nice flower in her hair. The teacher got us all together and gave us seats. We liked her very much. She read to us from a story book. Then we went out to recess. Out on the play- ground everybody had a good time run- ning and playing, Then all of a sudden everybody began to run over to one cor- ner of the yard. The teacher seemed to have changed. She was not nice as be- fore, and the smile on her face had dis- appeared. She was dragging two boys over to the school house. One was the boy I described before. He now was all dirty, and his clothes were ripped and mussed up. The other boy look-ed all right. The teacher wasn't fair about it at all. She made them both stay after school. I thought it was mean and told her so. Then of all things she made me stay after school too. Arthur Hamlin PISCATAQUIS COUNTY I live in the southern part of Piscata- quis County, in the small town of Milo. We are neighbored by a number of small towns, of which, Dover, Dexter, Guilford, Brownville and Greenville are the largest and most important. All of these are crowded in the southern part of the county. If we ventured farther north, we would

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14 THE, BREEZE was the remains of an old log sluice where woodsmen had stripped the proud moun- tain of its birch and spruce and sent it hurtling down to the valley below to be taken to the mills. At the top of Barren was evidence of a long ago rock slide. For a half-mile down the mountain we could see rock piled upon rock with no trees or grass around. In our imaginations we saw the great rocks as they plunged down the mountain taking vegetation and animal life with it to destruction. Here we also found a large dark crevice in a cliff and, on dropping a rock down to find the depth, we could hardly hear it as it hit the bottom many seconds later. We stood for a while and admired the beautiful countryside, the lakes, ponds, streams, farms and all other things God has given us. We then began our descent. On the way down my sister and I counted the different kinds of moss that we saw. We counted about twenty-four different kinds, some light, some dark, some soft and some stiff and dry and wiry. I never realized before how inter- esting a piece of moss could be, but after comparing each new kind we found we were fascinated by the many different structures and formations. A hike in the woods with nothing but wild things growing can be very inter- esting and educational. Flora Brown WOMEN SHOPPERS I don't believe I'll ever understand the way a woman does her shopping. She will read in the paper about a bargain sale and then rush downtown to be half slaughtered by a wild bunch of women. She will spoil a good dress, a hat, and a pair of nylons just to save a dollar on a new hand bag. Is it worth it? She seems to think so but does her husband? I should say not. Tomorrow she will want a new outfit to match the bag she got at the bargain sale. What does she do? She hits her husband for the money early in the morning, while he is half asleep. to buy the clothes with. She leaves early in the morning so that she will be home in time for dinner. The first store has almost the exact outfit she had in mind but she thought it might be cheaper some- where else. So she goes to all the other stores and, then, about supper time, de- cides the first place was as good as any. Another case is the woman who does the shopping for her husband. He asks her to get him some socks but what does she come home with? A nice, new pair of shoes that she got at a big bargain. She says A'You really don't need socks, I can darn your old ones. I guess men just weren't made to under- stand a woman and her ways, especially of shopping. Morton Hamlin ARE GOOD MANNERS IMPORTANT? In the course of everyone's life there is a period when he is constantly prac- ticing goc-d manners, whether he knows it or not. I think this time is around the high school age. This is one of the best times to prac- tice: before you go out alone in the world and start meeting people of all degrees. Some people think of manners as only table manners. They are so wrong. Man- ners consists of your everyday doings. Almost everything that you do, you are using manners in one way or another. When you start out alone you want to know the correct way to meet people and the correct way to introduce people with- out the feeling of embarrassment. You also want to know the correct manners when eating with strangers so