Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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THE LIVE WIRE WILL ROGERS MAN Whom the whole world wlll always remember IS Wlll Rogers Rogers was born on November 4 1879 IH Ologah Indlan Territory I-Ils mother was Mary Schrlmpshere Rogers and hls father was Clem Van Rogers Rogers was well known as The Cherokee Indlan cow hand from Ologah As he was equlpped wlth only a mlnor grade school educatlon he was unable to spell and lacked the ablllty to turn outa paragaaph that would pass the Engllsh teachers And yet he was one of Amerlca s hlghest pald authors He falrly grew up on a horse At fourteen he won a rldlng contest IH a home talent Wlld west show And at seventeen he was earnmg hls own llv 1ng He declded to settle down at twenty three So he returned to Ologah Here he met Betty Blake who later became Mrs Wlll Rogers Not long afterwards he entered the movles In hls early best days asa cow puncher he made about twenty five dollars a month Wlth a volce utterly untralned and untramed Eng llsh he was a star who recelved as much as one thousand dollars a mlnute for a twelve mlnute talk Hls average mcome for the last three or four years was more than one thousand five hun dred dollars a day Mrs Rogers was always a great help to Wlll bhe always traveled Wlth hlm when pOSSlble They had three chlldren W1llJr Mary and Jxmmy Rogers first b1g hlt was called They Had to See Parls After that he made So Thls IS London Llghtmn A Connectlcut Yankee Young as You Feel Buslness and Pleasure Ambassador Blll Down to Earth Too Busy to Work D Bu state Falr Mr Skltch Davld Harum Handy Andy Judge Prlest The County Chalr man and In Old Kentucky whlch was hls last one Rogers always llked to fly He flew many tlmes wlth Wlley Post And one day there came that last fatal fllght In speaklng of his plans to fly wlth Wlley Post who was golng to Alaska and on to Slberla Wlll Rogers grlnned IH the way mllllons loved and sald Alaska w1ll be the end of the Journey for me And then a few davs later on August 15 1935 the news flashed all over the world that Wlll Rogers and Wlley Post had crashed and were both kllled at Polnt Barrows Some people have trled to take hlS place but there w1ll never be another Will Rogers Ida Dwelley 69 WANDERLUST AOMEWHERE ln my not too 1 dlstant ancestry runs the tang of gypsy blood Tne strum of gultars across a waverlng campfire never falls to thrlll me as I sway wlth the tempo of the muslc Always lt has been so and always It wlll remaln the same I am a tramp a vagrant a professlonal hobo lf you w1sh I have been endowed Wlth all of these epl thets from tlme to tlme -r L 14 1 1- ii ' ' C6 ' 1 U 79 as ' 9 77 ' 77 55 9 Y ' ' ' lb ll 4 , , r. 117, 45 '57 if ' 77 ' Y I ' Y ' ' 66 ' if 1 .9 7 1 Y ' ' ll ' Q7 CL ' . , ' - ' n li 77 , ' Y U ' ' . , . l Y Y ' 5 ' 7 - ' 77 o 9 I 9 . - u 0 , . . . - , . . . , . . , . ., v , ' 7 U , . . . . . ' 9 Y 65 ' ,Y ' '

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NEVS PORT HIGH SCHOOL The campfires warmed a very happy group that mght oompany 149 had succeeded IH holdlng the mob off untll Company 152 took charge Phxllps was feellng badly about shootmg the man whom hls comrades had taken to the hospxtal Joe who had also shot sald course we dldn t k1ll hlm It was too dark to see of course but I know I shot low Come on let s go up near er the fire and Slhg The a1r was rlngmg wlth the vol umes of song A rookle plowed hls way through the rows of boys and finally stopped 1n the center Hey keep stxll he yelled After about five mlnutes he suc ceeded ln quletmg them The boys especlally one were stunned by the followlng announcement The man shot at the mxll thls mormng dled an hour ago at the Saint Joseph s hospltal Hls son IS wanted there rlght away Who IS the son? Asked Tom and Joe ln unlson The rookle hesltated a moment and sald Tom Phlllps P Adams 36 INTOXICATION N a rough road leadlng well ln 4 to the woods a small unkept farmhouse sat The blmds hung by thelr hlnges and the shed leaned uncertalnly to one slde Joe Brown llved here a rough large ne er do well who made hls l1v1ng by mak lng wlnes and beers whlch were well known for thelr good quahty A small flock of hens and a cow were all that he and h1S wlfe had to llve on durmg the wlnter Joe got qulte a lot of money ln the summer when the roads were good and people could come and buy hls drlnks It was late fall and Joe had Just pressed a new supply of grape WIDE and set lt away to age and mellow un tll summer Usually he gave the pulp to the plg but thls year there was no plg so he thoughtlessly dumped the fermented pulp mto the back yard and gave It no further thought of the hens When evenlng came she went to feed them and was very upset to find them lymg scattered all over the farm Joe Brown declded It to be an epldemlc He and hls Wlfe gathered them and plcked all the feathers from them to be used for pll ows I ll bury them tomorrow Joe sald as he dumped them lnto the yard The next mornlng Miranda came ID screamlng Oh the hens have come to l1fe' and sure enough all the hens were huddled lnto one plle trylng to keep warm wlthout a feather on them Joe had lntoxlcated hls own hens That wlnter the henhouse was well equlpped wlth a stove and the unfort unate hens had to be kept warm all wlnter J LSWIS 38 -+ I 13 1 1- . , - - fy I . .,. 4 ! , , ' , Of ' . , . . , , . . i 7 - . ' 1 ' Y! . if ' Q, . , . 9 Y ' , ' - ' Miranda, his wife, had all the care I y ' I 7 44 ' - , I . I Q ' 1 o 1 ' 77 ' ' if ' 77 . - as - ' 77 ' 1 ' . N . . . . ' li ' ,y ! I I , - . . . ,

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NEW PORT HIGH SCHOOL Tonight my pulse throbs to the Wlld Spanish muslc of Juan s mandolin The R10 fiovls IU the near dlstance and beyond It lles that romantlc land of dreams Mexico Overhead the stars of the Lone Star State gleam Ill thelr WhlC8 splendor and ln the mldst of all thlS natural magnificence my fray ed clothlng seems not to matter nor does the fact that IH my pocket reposes one lonely peso A fellow herdsman makes a sleepv lnqulry ln low mellow tones a good natured dlg of the dreamy eyed young Texan beslde hlm Chlqulta she Walt across rlver no? You llke Chlqulta much Hah' You no fool Jose The herded cattle are qulet save for occaslonal lowlng or cllcklng of horns Juan S mandolln falls from hls hand the danclng flames Softly across the cool pralrle drltts the com boy s long low whlstle and the DldlIIt1V8 lay of the rangelands And some day I ll be called to that roundup Where that wonderful plcture I ll see But each nlght as I Walt by the camp re The range IS heaven to me The cool breeze sweeps ln from the plaln and filckers the campfire now dylng to a bed of glovxlng embers Juan startlng from hls drou sy con templatlons yawns p1CkS up his man dolln and strldes off IHtO the darkness leavlng me alone From afar comes the Wall of a coyote lonely and welrd It IS answered by another howl from a nelghborlng hIllOCk The splrlt of the western nlght IS embodied ln the wall of the coyote It has a strange uncanny fasclnatlon about lt and wnoex er has once heard lt vslll return agaln md agaln How true thls half remembered statement IS As I recall the he lt of the Sahara the cold emptlness of the Yukon the It'StfLllUQSS of sunny Italy or the dashing romance ot Spaln for I have known all tnese I gaze around me at the sleepy RIO the boundless plaln ever dlpplng to meet the horlzon and at the whlte stars overhead Truly thIS IS the ansvser to a Wanderers ldeals At last I am content Lena Cookson 36 SPORTSMANSHIP IU you ever stop to thlnk that school IS lust a game to better the thlnklm, power ot the aln' Well that IS all t l r you a good sport ln pl ly H12 th1S game? Are you worklng as hard as you would ln a game of basketball for instance? Let us take for an example just one school day and see what the game IS llke We come lnto the bU1ld1IlgII1 the mornlng and get acqualnted Wlth the atmosphere that we are to play our game IH Soon the game starts and we should be ready for anythlng that comes our wax Say we have a chance to study the first thlng ln the mornlng We should use that chance to better ourselves ln one of the games we wlll have to play later on ln the day If we do thls as we should we vxlll come out VICKOYIOUS ln the end If you get beaten IH the first game -L I 15 1 1- .Q . , . I . I '. . ' ' 9 . . . . I '. ,, . H C . . I n . , , . L . . . ' . . A 1 1 . k -.I ' , ' ' V y . s s , - ' I - . I ' y . . . , Y M- u . S x D . - n . .L ' Y I , V ' Y 71 Y , . Y . I K. as he gazes into the fire, fascinated by , . 1 A- . ' 9- . D T . Y .. br '. , ' ' ' i 's. A e so 1 I ' L 21 I ' 7 . 2 7 ' , . 7 D . ' , . , . 1 1 ' , t . . 1 ' I , u , , Y ' ,