Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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the orchestra (except one) had finally arrived at the house. The missing member came rather late and in the confusion it was discovered that one of the instruments was missing entirely. The rest were forced to fill their part on the program, how- ever, which they did with their usual success, and responded to several encores. But it is to be hop- ed that the next time they meet the drums will not be missing. George Stuart was calling on friends in Athens Monday evening. Miss Campbell spent Saturday and Sunday In Columbus the guest of relatives. Saturday evening. February 10, five couples from N. H S. spent the evening with Ethel Carter. It was a leap year treat. The girls treated the boys to an oyster stew and the boys, like the heroes that they are, fought mightily with those oysters. Tuesday Baby Lama opened him home and the N. H. S. students rushed in and devoured an elegant bean supper prepared by Mr. Lama and his mascu- line friends. The girls owned up to it that there were good cooks in the High School besides them- selves. Floyd Hutch'ns, Mr. Lama and Leland Kreig also had a bean supper. The merchants are doing a fine bean business since the students developed the appetite. Gene Harrold and Windle Kelly are learning to be graceful. They are taking dancing lessons. A PAGE OF GRINS. Octa—(As they encountered a vicious bull dog) “Go on Bernard, you knowr you said you would face death for me!” Bernard—“But he isn’t dead.” Julius Caesar wrote a book. After that, his life wras took And this world his soul forsook But this book remains today And’s being murdered in every way. Poetic license. We understand that L. Aumiller was seriously injured last week by being thrown from a horse, causinb a fracture in the Latinus Translationi- phram. Question not, oh gentle reader Why we have no jokes on you, Each one here has writ his own joke, Go thou, then and likewise do. A professor wanting to tell his pupils to stop the use of slang, gave a lecture ending this way: T tell you pupils CUT IT OUT!” Freshmen—Emerald. Sophomore—Blarney Stone. Juniors—Grindstone. Seniors—Tombstone. You can ride a horse to water But you can’t make him drink; You can ride your little pony, But yon cannot make him think. Wanted—Some one to take Kate Umphrey, Lucy Moore, Vivian Clark and Lillian Teny’s places at eating cakes. If Clermont Howell was in a hurry would Lillian TERRY? If Claire Fisher needed a hair cut would Flossie BARBER? If Oscar Jenkins cut his finger w’ould Clermont HOWELL? If Frances Bennett wanted a sweetheart would Edward LOVE? If many wore Della’s hat what would DELA- WARE? If Hazle Hartman wanted to fight a duel wrould Clarence PERRY? When the trees begin to bare their limbs no w’onder the corn gets shocked! If Blondes wre;gh less than Brunettes is it be- cause they are lighter? A little Freshman boy wfas asked by his fond parent if he was first in anything at school. ‘ Why yes ’ he replied, “I am first out of the door w'hen the bell rings!” Husband—“I am ruined, and my son’s musical career cannot continue. Go to the barber, my son, and have your hair cut.” 'Are you Hungary?” ‘‘Yes, Siam.” “Well Russia along and I’ll Fiji!” “Why did you quarrel with the school teacher?’ ‘‘Oh, if I didn’t appear right on the minute she would ask for a written excuse signed by my mother.” Mary’8 grandmother had no teeth and one day as Mary sat looking at her she said, “Oh.,mamma, grandma’s teeth ain’t through the shell yet, are they?” Mrs. Binks—“What are all those men running for?” Mrs Jinks—“The school house is on fire.” Mrs. Blinks— Oh, you don’t say so! I wonder if the children got out. Why dont the use the fire escapes?” Mrs. Jinks—“I guess the children came out that way.” Mrs. Binks—‘‘Yes, but they don’t put the fire out with them? Don’t the fools know how to use them?” When Christine Nillson made her concert tour in the United States in 1884 Signor Bugnoli sang

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THE ESCARLET AND GRAY.............................. Lester Webb.........................Editorvin-Chief EDITORIAL STAFF Helen Gooaspeed, '12 Austin Doan, '14 Ethel Bagley, 13 Frances Leach, '14 Noble lax 16 Clara Pr.tchard, '15 Irving Koch, '13................. Athletic Editor Business Manager..... ...........Leland Kreig, 12 Assistant Business Manager. .Gilbert Pritchard, T2 Published Monthly by the N. H. S. Student Body Price Ten Cents per Copy Printed by Buckeye News Company Because they did it cheaper EDITORIALS I,ook our! Here it comes! What? Why the Scarlet and Gray, our new High School paper Written and edited by N. H. S. pupils, full of good things, going along smoothly and with very bright prospects before it. This paper is a feature now to teachers and pupils alike and nothing like it has ever been tried here before, but that is just one reason why we should and are going to make it a success. Nothing can be accomplished, nothing can be bu It up unless somebody starts the ball rolling; that has been done and now it is just starting over the incline. Watcli it roll! This paper is the student’s paper and all students are invited and expected to con- tribute to its pages. Maybe you can write a short story or can report some locals or have a new joke, if so just hand it to your editor (there Is at least one in each room) and it will be gratefully re- ceived. Many high schools and almost all of the colleges print a paper and now old N. H. S. has fallen into line. Let’s show them what we can do. We have plenty of talent for the work and we can. and (moreover we will, make it equal and go beyond any paper of a high school of similar size. Every- body push! A great event to be pulled off in the near future is our debate w th Athens The subject decided up- on is, “Resolved, That the Commission Form of Government Should be Established in All American Cities.” This is a very good subject because it s one which is coming up before the people today and because it is comparatively new. Therefore the debates will have to be original. There will be two teams from each school, one affirmative and one negative—each team to consist of three people. A debate will be held in each city on the same night, the affirmative team remaining at home and the negative going to the other city. After the de- bate each person will be given five minutes for re- buttal. Athens has a new principal this year who comes from Newark. He is interested in this kind of work and has been instrumental in bringing about the debate N. H. S. has some very good debaters and can put up a strong team. We have brains enough to beat those Athens students even ?f thev are from a college town, if we work. Now that our basket ball team has done such excellent work this season, (see Athletic Department) we must win this debate and show the .people that we have brains as well as muscle. Let everybody get busy and help Even if you are not a member of one of the higher classes that is no reason why you should not make the team. Once before a fresh- man made the H. S. team and two years ago a So- phomore made one of the literary teams Even »f yau stand no chance of beine a dehatpr look nn the subject anyhow. It will do you good and perhaps ou may find a point of which no one else ever thought. Let s all work and beat Athens. Now when everybody is compelled to be vacci- nated, why doesn t some one invent a process sim- ilar to vacinnation, to prevent a person from tak- ing the sprang fever?’ Or one to prevent the disease commonly known as “stage fright would be particularly welcomed by the seniors as an epi- demic comes around about the last of May. Just wrait until wre win that championship and that debate; then we can face any other student throw back our shoulders and raise our head and say: ‘Look at us.” Many new features are being planned for us next issue. One of these is the Alumni depart- ment. The co-operation of the members of the al- umni is asked in making this a success. What- ever is cleared on this paper will be used in mak- ing the other issues larger and better. It will be noticed that most of the stories in this paper come from the Senior class. These were written some time ago for class work and since we were in a hurry to get this paper out we used them It it is not their intention to monopo- lize the affair but we want to make it a paper of the High School, by the High School and for the High School and for everybody. To Our Readers—If perchance one of those news bums, those who buy no paper but look over the shoulder of someone else, come around you. just imagine that you are Everett True for about five minutes. Tell them that there no more left; just call at the office first door, left of the main stairs in the main hall. SOCIETY Misses Garnet and Ethel Dunkle entertained a number of friends at the r home in Floodwood Sun- day evening. February seventh wa3 the centennial of Char- les Dickena birth. The Seniors observed the day by a apecial study of his life and works. Miss Lowden made the lesson extremely interesting by reading selections from his favorite works. A number of High School pupils attended a tafTv pull at the home of Floyd Hutchins. Among the numerous games was a mus cal contest in which Logan Mooney won first prize. Arthur Love was playing with a tin soldier in school and Miss Johnson threatened to take it from him, whereupon Leland Kreig remarked; “That was oneof 57 different ways to catch a man.’ At the home of Prof, and Mrs. Jackson, last Thursday evening, the Senior orchestra delighted ladies of the W. C. T. U. with several selections. After quite series of m’shaps all the members of

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with her. He caused much merriment when he came forward in a Missouri town to apologize for Nillson’s indisposition. Madame Nillson ees a leetle horse, he said Not.cing a riipple of laughter he repeated the state- ment that Nillson was “a leetle horse,” “a leetle horse “a leetle colt! Whereupon a facetious occupant of the gallery brought down the house by remarKing: “Well, then, why don't you trot her out?” One morning at breakfast Oscar announced that he had fallen out of bed that night. His sister said: ‘‘You slept too near where you got in.” “Pooh ’ he said, “that wasn’t it, it was because I slept too near where I fell out WITH THE BUSINESS MANAGER. Our business men all seem to think that it pays to advertise. At least it seems that they all do advertise, so we are not going to explicate the ad- vantages of advertising but we are going to explain the advantage of advertising in this paper. We are not engrossed in politics and other such wrrangies and g ' e our attention to d fferent and perhaps bet- ter affairs. We hope that after reading this first issue the business men will feel that they are helping theni- se.ves by a.d.ng us. All of our ads. have been given more in the spirit of donation for this issue. We hope that the next time we come around they will be glad to give us an ad. for the benefit which they derive from the first. Then they will want a whole page instead of a twenty-five cent ad. We realize that our ads in this first paper are not arranged as well as they might be. But remember this is our first attempt and we will sure- ly profit by our mistakes and with experience we hope to be able to give better rates to advertisers for the March issue. This paper has a circulation of about two hundred and fifty for the trial issue. One hundred and seventy copies are already spoken for by High School pupils. We expect to sell the rest to the Alumni and other townspeople. Besides this about twenty-five copies will be sent to other schools as exchanges. Our paper contains only articles written by pu- piis in the school (except the jokes, part of which are selected from other papers and magazines) ShouldrVt this interest the whole family? Don’t you suppose they will read it to see if their child has his name signed to an article? We dont think that it will be carelessly laid aside or thrown into the waste basket because it is about the only means of communication between the school and the parent. This is what it is published for» to show the par- ents and people just what is go ng on in the schools. Don’t you admire our purpose? Don’t you think it will help to stop the quarrels of the past and raise the standard of our schools? Th:s is what we hope to do. It is what wTe are going to do and to do it we ask the assistance of all. If our paper does not suit you drop us a card and tell how we can better it. We will be only too glad to receive sug- bestion but we do not solicit any anonymous communications. If you do not wish your name to appear in the paper with your criticism mark it confidential. Now to return to our subject, if you want us to continue this paper as is done in most of the other First Class High Schools, will you help us by send- ng in an ad? No matter how large or how small, it will be equally apprec’ated. Help us boost you. Address, Business Manager, care Principal, Nelson- ville High School. CURRENT EVENTS. The recent improvements in wireless have been so great that one of the leading newspapers of New York City now receives all its foreign news in this manner. Through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie the Amer can Indians are to have a costly memorial in Washington. Mr. Kelsey, the architect win spend two years in the study of their habits an.l customs before the real construction begins. It is planned to have this memorial contain many Indian relics in order that the traits of th's vanishing race may be preserved. “Smile awhile, and when you smile Another smiles, and soon there are mile and miles of smiles And life's worth while Because you smile.” Tramp—“Lady, could you spare me something to eat? I have lived on water for six months!” I ady—“How was that?” Tramp—‘ I was a sailor.” J. P. Morgan is br'nging his art collection val- ued at 60 millions to this country. It will probably be placed on exhibition. Key West may now be reached by rail, since the railroad has been opened recently. It was very difficult to build, as well as expensive, and much of the way is constructed of concrete arches. It is planned to make Key West a shipping port to South America and Mexico. The “Anitra’ Orchestra played to a large and appreciative audience in H. S. Auditorium in Mon- day evening. Their program was well-chosen and consisted of musical numbers and readings. One number espec ally beautiful was the “Dreams of Love.” Another was the reading “Tender and True, and You.” The next number on the course will be a lecture by Hon Alden. “Baby I ama’’ is the author of a new propos't.on to prove that happiness is the prime object of ex- istence. He surely is a living example. The doctors have been having very humorous experiences while vaccinating pupils. One little fellow wanted to be “blaeksnaked!’” Reece Trout show's decided ability to entertain an audience by distorting his features to a most unusual extent Perhaps Reece will be the star performer of the Indoor Circus which is coming soon.