Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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We head this department witn a pitcure ot the Y. M C. A. because when we think of Athletics our minds turn toward it It s the seat of all our ath- letic endeavors and is intimately connected with the High School. Here is where our basket ball team has been defeating all opposing teams. Mr. Fisher, the general secretary, has generously de- voted much of his time to training our teams and has helped them on to victory. VICTORY No. 6. The N. H. S. Basket Ball Team defeated the Ix)gan High School Team at the Y M. C. A., Friday night, by the decisive score of 77 to 17. The Logan team, though a good team, was no match for the local champions. They were always at the mercy of the home boys, except in the first m.nute of play when they made 3 points to Nelsonvilles none, but this was overtaken with interest in the next min- ute. Aumiller led in the scor'ng, getting 15 field bas- kets and one foul. Capt. Hoodlet made two beau- tiful shots from the middle of the floor. Love was out of the game on account of injuries but his place was ably filled by Lowden and Knight, Knight play- ing the last ten minutes. The N. H. S. Team plays at Logan, Friday the 16th and although we almost certain to beat them it will probably be by a smaller score. The lineup was as followrs: N. H S. L. H. S. Musser ..............RF................ Sparnon Trout ...............LF................ Beabout Hoodlet .............C................. Shannon Lowden-Knight .......RF ............... Yontz Aumiller ............LG.................. Jones FIELD GOALS:—Aumiller 15, Hoodlet 8, Low- den 6. Muser 5, Trout 1. Knight 1, Sparnon 4, Bea- bout 2. FOUL GOALS:—Hoodlet 4, Aumiller 1, Beabout 3, Sparnon 2. OFFICIALS:—DTcher and Warner. Capt. Hoodlets work on the defense must be especially praised. “Three baskets being all that opposing centers have been able to make on him this season. Two of those were in the Y. M. C. A. game in October, wThen he wras not yet in shape. As a result of the championship season which the team has had this year, they have been invited to attend the Ohio Championship Series at Dela- ware. March 1 and 2. which is given by Ohio Wes- leyan University. They have deeded to accept, and although they do not know much about the strength of the teams in the northern part of the state, it is thought they will have a very good chance for the championship; at least we hope 60 If they do not win the championship, it will be a big boost for Nelsonville, as only the best teams of the state are invited. Only six teams attending this series last year. Although we have had a championship team this year the attendance has been very poor. Last year we had a losing team; and with about $39 extra expense for hall rent, we cleared $13. This year we have cleared about 13 cents. We heartilly thank those who have attended the games this season, but there should have been a much better attendance. To show what the team has done this season, below will be February 16th N. H. S N. H. S found the results o i e oea oii October 24, 11 November 24, 11 54 Y. M n M up to 14 N. H. S December 30, N. H. S January 5, 12 S.. 3 N. H. S January 12., 12 51 Athens II. S... N. H. S Feburary 9, 12 N. H. S February 16, 12 2 Logan H.S.... N. H. S February 16, 12 G... ....23 N. H. S Totals ....98 Field Foul Games. Goals. Goals. Aumiller .... n 57 6 Love 6 49 3 Hoodlet G 22 30 Trout 7 7 4 Musser 7 17 1 Lowden 2 6 0 Knight 2 1 1 Pretty good records, are they not? GREAT INDOOR CIRCUS. N. H S. and the Y. M. C. A. jointly will give an indoor circus at the Y. M. C. A. gym, Tuesday, Feb. 27. Everybody come. N H. S. receives half of the receipts. It is going to be the greatest affair of its kind ever given in th s city. They gave one last year which was enjoyed by. all. There will be many great acrobats and funny clowns. In addition they are going to give an exhibition of Nelsonvilles finest poultry. From basket ball our thoughts will turn to running, and we have many good runners in the High School we have bright prospects for a good relay team. ATHLETICS. What do you know about this? The final basket ball game of the season resulted ,n two victories for N. H. S. Logan High saw the r finish when our team arrived Remembering their former defeat (or annihilation) by N. H. S. they attempted to strengthen their team by playing an outsider. Their ‘ringer, however, was discovered and rather than be fairly defeated they allowed the ♦fame to be forfeited. Score, N. H. S., 2, L. H. 3. 0. But to save them the gate receipts N. H S. kindly consented to play a much stronger and heavier team, the Logan O. N. G. In spite of “dirty playing” by some of the O. N. G., the one- sidedness of the Logan referee and a row of pillars through the center of the hall, the result wras a victory for N. H. S. Score N. H. S. 24, O. N. G. 23. And our team outplayed O. N. G. in every way except “dirty.”

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plans to get something which the mother does not want .t to have. Next, coming to the boy at about the age of seven. He has started to school. He has learned from the time he was two years old to walk, to talk, to read, to spell, to write and numerous other things which are probably more than he will learn in all the rest of his life. But it is at this age that something besides the nursing bottle, the rattle box and baby’s toes is resorted to. It is here that the drug store comes into play. The boy runs around, cuts his foot on a piece of glass, and a little dab of some kind of salve or afew dropsof turpen- tine will do more good than all the nursing bottles and rattle boxes in the world. Also here is where the shoe shop comes in handy, for the sole of a ladies’ slipper, spread on abundantly is often a better salve than any of the drug store remedies. But the baby now has become a good sized boy. He goes out with the rest of the “kids,” they induce him to smoke and to do many other things which he knows perfectly well mother does not allow. She finds it out, and goes to the orchard and brings back a good ipeach limb or down to the brook where once he had innocently dabbled in the water; she th'nks of the baby then and the boy now. But she brings back a nice willow switch from the bush where the baby once played and the boy smokes in the next few minutes more than he has smoked in any other two days of his life. Now the boys aspires to better things; he is nx w a young man. He goes through school with due honor, and enters college. Here he proves to be an energetic student, he is a star on the football field, a favorite among his classmates and he grad- uates from college, an honorable man He now starts on his great career of l fe which is no easy task. He brings up a family in a way which would make any father proud. But with all of his pleas- ures there are numerous drawbacks, and the salve that is now used, is an hour of hard study and deep thinking, to bring him clear of some difficulty. This method is used in his thirty, forty, fifty years and on upward to old manhood, and he again Tke the infant, must be humored in his old age. His children are now scattered over the country and he is not contented, but goes back and forth, visiting his babies (comparatively speaking) who are always glad to have him come. But now he is growing too old to go round much, and he is compelled to settle down with the one he loves most, probably the youngest of his flock. He grows weaker and weaker and at last becomes ill, he lingers on, but ah—now the last has come, the baby of a short seventy or eighty years is now upon his death bed. The messages are all sent to the children and what anxious waiting until they all come; all but one, who has already passed into that great beyond. They gather around the bed to catch the last gleam of those kindly eyes, and with the last words, ‘T will meet you in heaven,” he closes the door of this darkened and gloomy room and passes into the brilliant lighted hall. His fingers have lost their tension, the gleam from his eyes has faded and he has passed into oblivion. The children turn away to nrourn their loss. In the course of a few days the church bell tolls, and as it were in the olden times the ringing of those beautiful chimes, an- nouncing that another soul has passed into that great beyond, where there is no ointment nor salve to save the soul except his former life. So live that when thy summons comes, To jo.n that innumerable caravan; Which moves to that mysterious realm; Where each shall take his chamber In the silent halls of death, Go not like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, But sustained and soothed by an unfalterbrg trust; Approach thy grave, like one Who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, And lies down to pleasant dreams LAULMO, 12. FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Dear Earth People:— How are you? I would like to know how you can do with it so dry up there. I know I couldn : stand it. I am a deep sea fish, and need plenty of water I have a nice little home under a small rock here, that you earth people would say weighed about twenty tons. It's all right but I wish I had a little better neighborhood. Right to the right is a nasty old crab with a sponge on his back. Then there is a big fish, that always tries to eat me up, on the other s'de. He lives in the cabin of an old wreck of a pirate ship. The other day I was over there and saw an old rent in the ship. I looked in and san all sorts of shining staves that the crab said were valuable up where you are, but there are tons and tons of them going to waste here. I also saw some coral, which the crab said were large pieces for the earth,, but I have a whole tree of it here. Then there are ever so many kinds of barnacles down here. Just yesterday, I almost ate up one in the shape of a fish, but I caught myself in time They have too hard shells to digest easily. Yesterday 1 saw a crab get caught in the shell of an oyster but in trying to get loose, he knocked out a piece of shiny shell, perfectly round and about half the size of the ordinary shr11 The crab says it must be a pearl, though whAt that is, I don't know. Say, he must be pretty old. As long as I can remembei he was as big as he is now. He says that my great- great- grandfather was born after he was, and that he is by no means old. He says that he expects to live several hundred years more. WelL, I must stop because here comes that pesky old fish. Yours, truly, A. FISH. C. C. F., 15. ATHLETICS ......Y. M. C. A. NELSONVILLE, OHIO.....

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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