Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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THE MILESTONE. 2T the foundry. I have 1 father and 1 mother, 2 grandfathers and no grandmothers living. I have 5 uncles living, 3 aunts, about 50 cousins and other minor relations. I also have 3 sisters, 1 brother. My whole name is Byron Lloyd Cobb. My first name came from Lord Byron the poet, the second from William Lloyd Garrison. So you see I am named after great num I don’t just think of anything more at present, but if you will ask me I will be pleased to answer all questions concerning myself or my relations. Hoping this will satisfy you, I remain, Your obedient servant, B. Lloyd Cobb.”

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24 THE MILESTONE. thing—he began to cry. A man who was going by the place, attracted by the wail of the urchin, stopped. He asked what was the matter and whose little hoy he was. To this the boy replied between his sobs, “I am grandpa’s good little boy.” The man took him into his wagon and he was soon restored to his anxious grandfather. When he was four years old he used to run away from home and go to school. He was punished several times for this. Finally the teacher told his mother that she might as well let him go as he sat still and did not annoy anyone. So he was allowed to go to school and the result was that when only four years old he could repeat the multiplication table from beginning to end without making a mistake. He earned his first money when very young. He was paid fifteen cents per week to drive an old lady’s cow to the pasture in the morning and back at night. Imagine how big he felt when he received his first week’s pay. He wentto school regularly in Coleta, at least we are unable to obtain an account of the time he played “Hookey.” He came here on the 5th day of March, 1886. He entered school soon after and has ever since been a noble, manly and intelligent pupil. We are fortunate enough to have in our possession a very interesting description of him written by himself under very peculiar circumstances. Some of the girls of the Freshman class showed great interest in the color of his eyes and so forth. This came to his knowledge, hence the following: “If you girls are anxious to know something about me please accept the following: lam 16 yrs., 8 mos., 14 hrs. and 25 min. old at the present writing, though by the time you get this I will be one hour older. I am 5 ft. 64 in. in height and weigh 1374 lbs. I wear a No. 144 collar, pants, coat and vest the regulation size. The size of my shoes are 6, gloves 8, hat 6$. The color of my eyes is what you might call brown and hair black. I have lived here 5 yrs., 10 mos. and 26 ds. When I came here Norfolk was very small. I have moved but once since coming here. I have been going to school since I came except about 2 mos. last fall. During that time I worked in

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 Our r |ation’ 5 h'jeroe . Alfred Gekeckk. At South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a shop where the steel plates are to be prepared for the ships of our navy. The foundation of the ha miner-room is laid on the bed of the Lehigh river, which was turned from its course that the ponderous anvil might rest on a sure and lasting rock. A firm masonry base is capped with iron and steel, fourteen hundred tons of solid metal in a frame, the foundations of which are clamped deep in the earth. Over this hangs the huge steel-faced hammer and during endless years with such foundations must remain unchanged, a resistless energy. So in the history of our nation the principles brought over in the May Flower are the firm foundation. The deeds of the Revolutionary heroes, the metal capped anvil, and the spirit of liberty and progress is the mighty hammer coming down through scores of years, forging future destinies with the same resistless energy by which we are acted upon to-day. Day by day this mighty force is shaping the characters of those who will take the prominent part in our nation’s history that great men passed away have taken in time gone by. It is slowly working out the great mind, calm, self-possessed, just and brave, that can lay hold of advantages and make the most of circumstances. It is steadily forming the thought that the morning of each day furnishes them with a blank leaf which they must