Mount Sidney High School - Sidney Hi Yearbook (Mount Sidney, VA)

Page 46 text:

n Funny Bone Ticklers 11 Harold Furr: “When I get to heaven I’m going to ask Shakespeare if he wrote all those plays.” Toe Driver: “Maybe he won’t be there.” Harold : “Then you ask him.” Rudolph Leach : “What steps would you take if you saw a dangerous lion on the school ground ?” Everette McAllister: “Long ones.” Candidate (making campaign speech) : “I am a practical farmer, and in sympathy with farmers. I can plow, reap, milk cows, shoe a horse—in fact, 1 doubt whether any of my hearers can name one thing about a farm I cannot do.” Voice from Back: “Can you lay an egg?” Virginia Bailey: “The absence of light is darkness.” Kathryn Weaver: “No, the absence of light is romance.” Mr. Cox : “Janet, what caused the division of the parties in 1912. Janet: “Don’t know. I wasn’t old enough to remember.” V Father (to son departing for college) : “Now, don’t let me hear any bad reports about you.” Kenneth: “I’ll try hard, Dad; but you know how those things leak out.” Ruby McAllister: “Why do you suppose Adam was made before Eve?” Wilson Depoy: “Oh, I suppose it was to give him a chance to say a little something- first.” Miss Jones: “Use ‘cauterize’ in a sentence.” Johnny: “I knew she was mine the minute I caught her eyes.” She (in telegram) : “In four months I have reduced my weight by half. How long shall I stay?” He (wiring back) : “Another four months.” Russell McAllister: “I’m doing my best to get ahead.” Harold Furr: “You certainly need one.” Motorist: “How far is it to Staunton?” Edward Furr: “Oh, I don’t know; it seems furthern it ’tis, but it tain ' t.” Lillian Flesher : “I went to see the doctor today. He merely looked at my tongue and prescribed a tonic.” Hugh Sutton: “For heaven’s sake, not for your tongue?” Paul Cleveland (rushing to the Clerk’s desk) : “Give me a license, quick! Clerk: “Marriage or hunting license?” Paul : “Marriage. I’ve hunted long enough now; I am going to get married.” Hugh : “1 asked Avis if I could see her home.” Kathryn: “And what did she say?” Hugh : “She said she would send me a picture of it.” Mr. Cox: “What is the formula for water?” Merlin Hulvey: “H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O.” Air. Cox: “Why all that?” Merlin: “Well, you said it was H-O.” Virginia Bailey: “Late hours are not good for one.” Kenneth Cleveland : “But they are fine for two.” Alodern girls are fond of nice clothes, but they are not entirely wrapped up in them.

Page 48 text:

HOGE-BERKELEY o-o STUDIO OF Photography Twenty-two East Beverley Street Telephone 170 Staunton : : : : : : Virginia :o: WHEN Better Food Can Be Served CHRIS Will Serve It Quality and Service First CHRIS’ RESTAURANT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE Katherine Weaver and Nathele Ocha- tree trade weights. Merlin Hulvey study chemistry. Henry Coffman go courting. Johnnie Austin serious. Hugh Sutton make love to a honey bee. Pete Eakle leave Gertrude Bailey fire minutes. Russell Ryan be quiet for an hour. Mr. Cox stay from Staunton a week. Tracy Wine with a white face. Eunice Huffman get cross. Miss Reeves play baseball. Granville Craun have a date with Vir¬ ginia Bailey. A Freshman stood on the burning deck As far as I could learn He stood in perfect safety He was too green to burn. DEEP STUFF W here was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought ? When was the war of 1812? W hat two men were in the Tilden Kayes contest? Who was the leader of Theodore Roosevelt ' s Rough Riders? Was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act for or against trusts? WILLIAM S. BRYAN Wall Paper Paints and Varnishes 114-126 South Lewis Street STAUNTON, VA. Building Material 114 W ayne Avenue WAYNESBORO, VA. mmmmm