Northern Oklahoma College - Roundup Yearbook (Tonkawa, OK)

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HILBI you were going to basketball games, parties and ether school functions, having what you thought to be the time of your life, the Boomer was in the making. The Staff was A working day and night in order that you might receive 3, your bookg yet so silently and systematically was this done, that a portion of the student body did not know that such a volume was coming into existence. Others scoffed and said with a smile, Poor souls, they will never be able to sell such a book if they get it out. Yet in spite of all such slurs the Boomer has gone steadily forward. It has been the aim of the Editor and his Staff to make this book represent the entire school. To this end we have all worked diligently. If you have not received honorablemention in this volume, you may know that the fault lies with yourselfkandnot with us. If you were hit hard by some little item, smile and bear, it. 'Say to yourself, I will conduct myself hereafter in such a Way that it will be impossible for anyone to overlook me. I will be a credit to myself and to all who associate with me. Even with all the obstacles the staff has met with, they have won and the Boomer is ready for the criticism of a cold, cruel public. We realize that our task was a hard one, especially for inexperienced men, and that we made many mistakes, but that you deal with us fairly is our only request-

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5 , , , H . - Q2 sv ffv' 1'. i:1,:m . .Y . soil was of a white chalky color, very light and powder-like. The entire valley was C0l'91'ed with 10059 TOURS- The CNY moisture was from the snow and a few rains in the summer. But. the land shark kept his slick tongue at them. At last he exclaimed, 'That Country will grow twenty tons o' sugar beets to the acref The old gentleman, who had 'become some what disgusted and doubtful of these statements, looked across the table at me, and I knew my time had come. I expressed myself freely. I told him I run cattle over tha.t very valley for ten years. He then ask me to express my opine ion of the country. Glad of a chance to put a hole in this windbag of a Bowman. UWGU, b1'0th91', I said, that valley is good for a man Who wants to go into the goat business: I will not say that it is good for cattle, for Cattle cannot live on sage brush. But if you wa-nt to start a goat ranch, here's your chance. 'W-hat about that twenty tons of beetsf Harry asked. I have been in a sugar beet country for a long time, and I have never seen but two twenty ton fields. They were under irrigation. Now as to raising that crop of beets without irrigation, that is out of the question. This country won't' grow beets, Grow beets' in that dust and brush? Well! I guess not. 'What keeps up the town, out there? the old man asked. The silver mines in the mountain, and innocent homeseekers just like you fellows, I replized. - 'What is this matter to you?' the shark shouted boisterously. 'It is none of your business to be shooting off your head about the country? It is' enough for me or any other man who is not willing to see an honest man, fleeced. I answered. 'You don't know a damn thing about the valleyg you never punched cattle out there,' the real estate grafter roared. This was too much for me to be called a liar by such a thief as I knew Bowman to be. You don't call me a liar and get off with it, I replied. 'That is just what you a.re,' the grafter replied. As he spoke I swallowed the last of my coffee, and let drive my heavy cup at his head. He ducked, and the cup went through'a window into the yard. I-Ie made for me swinging his chair over his head. I arose from the table and stepped to the Center of the room where there was plenty of space, for I thought I had matched a real one with the booster. He never got more than a step from the table, for the old man col- iared him and pushed him back in the corner. I told him how the land lay, and if he was not satisfied I would accommodate him. He soon cooled off. The old gentleman stepped up to me with an extended hand, and said warmly, 'Young fellow, I believe you are made of the right stuff, you said just what I have been thinking about it all day.' 'Skin'ner, you pay the expense of this trip, n-ow, and I'll fix you yet, you've blowed up 'ai 'deal for me.' The land man said. I pay nothing for a grafter like you, I replied. 'Here is a ten dollar bill I want to give to an honest manf broke in the old gentle- 'Y h ve saved me about five thousand dollars, and all the boys have, for they man. ou a . f intended to put what they have in land out here. Had they bought land out here they would have gone broke, and their wizves and babies would have come to want. 205

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oUR ADVERTISERS , ? -.-l .. .l-ll ll-. J 1 T- Tl..- PATRONIZE THEM G Nz 6 A This Boomer Was Printed and Bound by Students in ,the,St,ate Schools-Plant, Tonkawa