Morrison High School - Morrisonian Yearbook (Morrison, IL)

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Deer bruther regards, didyu receve my last leter which was sent sum time ago in which i told yu about r tripp to lions. wel that was sum' tripp. ther isnt much doing around here ecept a bazar which was pulled off last frid. and sat. nite and that was shure sum galla- bazzoo thae had everthing imaginabul ther. as yu get into the outside hall yu go up to a little window and lay down 2 bits 8a the guy hands yu out a peace of cardbord and ten sents wel then yu open the dor and follow the crowd, at the dor anuther guy takes all the pastebords away from you. Just as yu get inside about 16 millyon pretty girls run up to yu and say take a chanct, take a chanct but durnded if i no whether i would or not ther most al of them pretty but thae may be wild, who noes. then thae sas, can i put your name down, and i sas i dont care so thae did and took 10c from me. wel i went thru that ordeel O. K. and just to my left was a guy on a table yellin his head off and turnin a wheel around. Another guy came up to me and give me a stick and took a dime and the guy stopped the wheel and yells 48, 48 whose got 48, som fella back of me yells i hav and he stepped all over myl feet trying to get to the guy on the table- wel just then som one grabbed my paddle and give me a shove and i was pushed along with the crowd to a large open space in the flor and then all young and old grabbed partners and began to dance. Gosh it was sum mixup and crowded oh louie, thae was just like sardeens and thae kept bumping in to each other, wel every time ther was an open space thae all wuld run for it and everyone got ther at once so ther was no use thae just kept struggling along. That remindes me ther is CD one guy in r skool which dont like danc- ing, he is called Izac vandermide, he is a big hevysetter which takes long steppes. he is bitterly aposed to the afor said which he sas is only a for a fella to hug and love a girl, he ought to try that once, maybe he wud get a black i and then again he might not, it all depends' on how kuick yu doge. he also isa hearty Republican, he has sed, Republican men have been shot by assassins but has a demo- crat ?, he asks, No sas he quicklike thae aint worth shooting. He shure is a funy guy but thae say it takes all kinds of people to make this world go round. the last peece thae plaed was homie sweat home and then the crowd run for ther clothes, that is theii coat and hat and CU one great big guy that was in the rush stepped all over my foot anti then looked down to me and sas HAR? HAR, HAR? did i step on yur foot, , i speaks up quick like and sas HAR, HAR, HAR, no yu big fish yu just smashed QU one leg, then the crowed once again took possession of me and at last i got my hat and coat and got out. i also was out about 4 bones and was aful lame wher that guy stepped on me hopping yu r the same i remane as ever yur bruther. This room is as noisy as a skeleton having a fit on a hardwood floor.

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Where is Mr. Weaver ? Clark S: Down stairs counting coal. Alda Ritchie: Did Franklin write his autobiography for the benefit of his ancestory ? Mr. Weaver: flnstructing the girls where to leave their wraps on the night of the receptionj Leave all your clothes at the rest room. Wear as little as possible to get across the street. Maybe you had better wear your rubbers. Ha, Hal from the Assembly. Miss Grandon: Where was the Constitution signed ? Bright Student At the bottom. Miss Brown: When is a thing transparent? Freshie: When you can see through it. Miss B: Give an example. Freshie: A ladder. Lorimer, you may trace the course of Magellan. Lorimer: f'He got as far as the Philippines when he died. Then he sailed south. You can't drive a nail with a sponge no matter how you soak it. Senior: You would be taller, Stub, if you would stand on your head. Stub: How's that '? Senior: Because you'd have a block to stand on. Violets are blue, Roses are red, So is the hair On Dwight Harrington's head. Miss Grandon goes to the bank to cash a check. Cashier: Pm very sorry little girl, but you'll have to take this home and have your mamma sign it. Mr. Weaver, returning from Rockford: 'Tm sorry to see so many absent faces I used to shake hands with. Did you ever stop to consider how absence makes the mark grow rounder? He asked a Miss, What is a kiss Grammatically defined ? I think it a conjunction And cannot be declined. And the Watch on the Rhine has lost its Hans- Knowing that the freezing point is 32 degrees below zero, our own Mr. Torrence of his own clever mood would say the squeezing point must be two in the shade.

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A good handy liar is preferable to the gink who tells you the truth about yourself all the time. Yes, said the shopkeeper, I want a good bright boy to be partly indoors and partly out doors. That's all right, said the applicant, but what becomes of me when the door slams ? The height of precaution for the library student to ask that the library be fumigated again because he found flu in the dic- tionary. if Sk JF Sk lk POPULAR SCIENCE If a pin had a hole in one end instead of a head it would be a needle. The easiest way to extract the wet part of water from an or- dinary goblet is to drink it. While a pound of feathers do not weigh any more than a pound of lead, they are not as painful when bounced off your head. Stains on table linen from blueberry pie are easily removed with a pair of scissors. When books were written on bricks all the hod carriers were literary men. PII wk ek if if Torrence: What weeds grow in cultivated fields. Francis H: Mustard, Class: Noi Francis: Well, anyway, I've seen it grow in cultivated hay fields. Miss Tuller: What was Beowulf? Grace J: A writer. A freshman gave a report of a young lady who was an ac- complished aviatrix- Asmond N: 4 Huh! Women can go up in the air easy enough without an airshipf' Freshie to Senior: I don't want the Seniors to publish an Annual this year because I just know they'll roast me something awful. Jean V: Is Miss Barnes an impressive person ? Glenn Gsell: I don't know, she has pretty eyes. Clark S: ion reading abovel That's not much of a joke. That's true. Ruth Dykema: fat Court Housej The noise up here gets on my nerves like an egg graterf' Before the war Germany had a great many water melons, now all she has is the Rhine.