Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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18 The Scarlet and Gray 100 New Spring Suits “Singleton” and “Doubleton” They are Entirely Different from Anything Ever Shown. Every Line is New. Every Detail Different. STYLEPLUS for spring sell at $21 and $25. Maintaining the guaranteed perfect satisfaction policy as usual. Made in new models. Now showing new spring styles in Hats and Capa. We are always glad to show you the new styles, whether buying or not—look ’em over. Are in and Ready for Your Selection The features are the From Michael Stern and the From Stein Block

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The Scarlet and Gray 17 i Miss Blaine (in General Science)— “Wilbur, where does the food unite vjth the Oxygen?” Wilbur McKee—“In the lungs.” —o— Bernice Cope (to Ada Dille)—“Your initials are A. D„ aren’t they?” Ada—“Huh, that’s nothing, yours ar B. C.” —o— Bill Guy (in Chemistry)—“Miss Herrold, if K is potassium, I is iodine and S is sulphur, what would KIT2S equal?” Miss Herrold started to work it. FAVORITE SAYINGS OF THE SENIORS. Lucile Spray “Hey teacher” Neil Preston “I’ll betcha” Mildred Vorhes ”Oh, gee” Robert Kinney “Oh th’ »rter'’ Gretchen Kasler —“Exceed the speed limit, never!” Earl Walters “Some mg madame? Mary Lane----“Ouci now you quit” Wilbur Hutchins “A-a-ah h Elizabeth Zellars “Hello sweet” Elton Smith !X!XX (Censored) Margaret Spencer “Oh, my soul” Dewey Schuler “Howdy do” Dorothy Allen “Gosh, darn it” Walter Wilson “Believe me” Ruth Powell “Oh, gravy” Gretchen Hardy “I'll say so” Ellen Riley-------------------“Oh, Browney” Anna Bateman “Oh, y-y-e-ess” Helen Largent “Now you quit Dewey” —o— Oakley Silcott (in English)—“Teach- er it’s too hot back here.” Miss Wolf—“Unwrap your head and :t will be cooler.” —o— Mr. .Tones is getting to be quite a card player. Did you ever notice him playing solitaire with grade cards? A SMILE. “Can you tell me what a smile is?” asked a gentleman of a little girl. “Yes, sir, it’s the whisper of a laugh.” —o— After Miss Wolf had assigned differ- ent characters of “Hamlet” to mem- bers of the class, Neil Preston came back to life, raised up and said, “Who am I?” Boy—“Helen, do you believe in pre- paredness?” Girl—“Yes indeed, every Wednesday night I send my little brother to the movies.” o— E. Z. (in English class—“May I go down in my coat pocket and get my glasses?” —0— Miss Wolf—“Have any of you read Gray’s ‘Elegy in a country school- yard ?’ ” —o— INTELLIGENT SENIORS. L. Spray—“Gimme a pencil.” M. Spencer—“Hain’t got none.” (Joke is, that there isn’t any joke.) —o— N. Y.—“It must be about time tor the bell.” A. B—“Why?” N. Y.—“There’s the warning.” (Roy Davis coming in at the door ) Mr. Meant-to has a comrade, His name is Didn’t-do. Did you ever chance to meet them; Did they ever call on you?

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 9 The Scarlet and Gray These two fellows live together In the house of Never-win, And they say it's haunted— daunted by (he ghost of Might-have- been.” —o—■ Coach—“What that squad needs is life.” Fresh—“Oh, no, thirty days is enough.” Dewey S. wants to know the dia- meter cf the Red Cross sewing circle. —o----------------- “If youse ain’t a coon, wat is you?” “I’se an American—unbleached.” —o— Customer—“Is this a second-hand store?” Clerk—“Yes.” Customer—“Well, I want one for my watch.” —o— Father reading the paper—“Ignorant people ask more questions than wise men can answer.” Bill Smith—“No wonder so many of us flunked in our exams.” —o— Wilbur Martin—“Trousers will be worn longer i.i March than in Febru- ary—yes, three days longer.” —o— Eva C.—“Oh! Look at the funny man, mother; lie's sitting on the side- vallc talk-lug to a banana peel.” —o— Geo. Haynes—“Say, old chap, -end me a quarter and I’ll be everlastingly Irdebted to you.” Martin L.—“That’s just what I'm afraid of, old fellow.” —o— So h—“I know a horse that can run like the wind.” Fre.-h—“That must be a draft horse.” —o— ELo — “Say, Earl, I want to ask you a question.” Earl—“What is it?” Elton If a lad has a step-far her. 'R the lab a step-ladder?” Raymond Cook (reading an adver- tisement on ice cream in English)— “Eat our ice cream once and you will eat no other.” Absolute knowledge-have I none, But my aunt’s wash woman’s sister’s son Heard a policeman on his beat Say to a laborer on the street That he had a letter last week Written in the finest Greek From a Chinese coolie in Limbuctu, Who said the niggers in Cuba knew Of a colored man in a Texas town Who got it straight from a circus clown That a man in Klondike heard the news. From a bunch of South American Jews About somebody in Borneo Who heard a man who claims to know Of a swell society female rake. Whose mother-in-law will undertake To prove that her husband’s sister’s niece Had stated in a printed piece That she had a son who has a friend Who knowrs when the -war is going to end. —Exchange. Mr. Ferree—“Where are all the large farms?” Bess Ailes—“In the country.” --------4------- BRIGHT LIGHTS AND NICKNAMES. Mildred Vorhes “Mil” Mary Pensyle “Prissy” Elton Smith ------------“Schmidty” Margaret Spencer “Peg” Eva Cotton -----------“Evangeline” Gretchen Kasler-“Gretchaniambo” Elizabeth Zeller “Libby” Neil Precton • “Cornelius Dix” Lueile Spray “Midge” Agnes Creighton “Babe” Walter Wilson “Punk” Mary Lane “Polly” Ruth Vorhes “Rufus” Louise Hyde “Hydo” Vesper Shafer “Shrimp” Esther Vorhes “Shady” George Haynes “Stiffy” Lawrence McBride “Micky”