Oakfield High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Oakfield, WI)

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THE DECLAMATORY CONTEST. The annual local contest was held at Worthing’s Hall on March 29. The following contestants competed, as they supposed, for a place in the league contest to te held at Markesan, Clifford Schoonover, Jennie Pratt, Edward Cragoe, Grant Wells, Hugh Worthing, and Eva Paynter. Third place was awarded to “The New South” given by Edward Cragoe, second place to “The Execution of Sidney Carton” given by Jennie Pratt, and to “The South and Her Problems” delivered by Grant Wells, was given first place. The judges were Miss Josephine Henderson of Oshkosh, L. A. Williams of Fond du Lac, and Rev. Frank Miller of Horicon. The announcement was now made that Markesan had withdrawn from the season’s contest. As Brandon had withdrawn some time before, the winner of the local contest was also the winner of the league contest and would represent it at the district contest to be held at Oshkosh, April 26. The Oshkosh district contest was attended by a delegation of about a dozen students from Oakfield. The contest was held in the auditorium of the Oshkosh Normal School. The following contestants represented their respective leagues: Edgar Culnan, Marinette; Olga Rosenbaum, Appleton; Geo. Karopp, Almond; Haro’d Grove, Menasha; Harriet Mills, Berlin; Gladys Foote, New London; Grant Wells, Oakfield. Third place was given to “The Death of Bill Sykes” spoken by Harold Grove of Menasha, second place to “The Death of Paul Dombay” given by Gladys Foote of New London. First place was awarded to “The Spanish Gypsy” given by Olga Rosenbaum of Appleton. The judges were Prof. W. H. Cheever of Milwaukee, Prof. R. D. Lyman of Madison and Miss Belle Anthony of Oshkosh. THE FOOT BALL TEAM. .......................Left Half Back. .........................Full Back. .........................Right Half Back. .........................Quarter Back. .........................Left End. .........................Left Tackle. .........................Left Guard. .........................Center. .........................Right Guard. ....................-....Right Tackle. .........................Right End. THE BASKET BALL TEAMS. Girls. .......Right Forward..............................Flora Morgan .......Left Forward..............................Clarya Gordon ...........Center.......................Flora Worthing ..Right Guard............................... Lola Pratt ...Left Guard....................................Lilian Pratt .......................................Myrtle Reynolds Boys. Edward Cragoe....... Fred Gordon........ Edwin Hitt (Captain Allen Sampson...... Claude Cragoe....... Grant Wells......... Hugh Worthing. Edwin Hitt (Captain). . Lee Underwood ........ Fred Gordon .......... Hugh Worthin.......... Charles Underwcod .... Walter Bums .......... Allen Sampson......... Clifford Schoonover .... Marshall Moses........ Edward Cragoe......... Grant Wells (Manager).

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GINSENG. Ginseng, a member of the family of plants classified as Araliaceae, is a native of Asia, as well as of our own continent. Its demand is created in the Chinese Empire, the people of this country regarding it as possessing the magical power of dispelling all diseases. The demand for this drug is so great, that the native supply has to be supplemented by importation from North America. In 1905 this amounted to one hundred forty six thousand, five hundred two pounds, which was only a small part of the entire amount consumed by the common people. The nobility is supplied with the much • prized pink variety, grown, with the exception of one province to which it is native, in the royal gardens only. The American ginseng is a plant annually sending forth its stalk to a height of ten or twelve inches. A single stalk grows from the root until the plant is from eight to ten years old, when it acquires another stalk, or possibly two more, there being no fixed numberthat may be developed. It is a plant of very slow growth. If the seed be planted in the fall, it will not appear above ground until one year from the spring after planting. The first stalk has only one leaf of three leaflets upon it. When the plant is three years old, the stalk is crowned by two leaves of five leaflets and produces two or three berries. In its fourth year, the stalk has reached its maturity. The plant is then of a light or dark green color, according to its surroundings. The main or proper stalk reaches a height of six inches, from the top of which, three or five leaf-bearing stems shoot upward and outward. These leaves are composed of five leaflets, three of these leaflets which all spring from the same source, are large and point away from the center, while the two smaller leaflets point toward the center. The most important part of the plant, the root, is of a very peculiar shape, for it seems to grow without any definite plan, depending upon the soil for its curbing. It will very rarely penetrate into the clay subsoil, preferring to spread out above it. The root is correctly divided into two parts, the root proper and the stem. The stem is the connecting link between the stalk and the root proper, fulfilling its function by producing the stalk buds and supporting the stalk. The stalk, upon which the task of reproduction falls, begins preparations during the latter part of June, by sending up a small shoot from the junction of the leaf stems and the main stalk. The buds which this shoot bears at its top, develop into very small white flowers during the early part of July. In the early part of August, these develop into green berries which gradually redden. When they have become bright red, they drop off, to be disposed of, as nature thinks best. After disposing of its seeds, the plant begins to make preparations for the winter. With the first frost the color of the stalk fades, until in October it is of a pale yellow color, remaining thus until after all other plants of the forest are dead. This is the time for which the “seng” hunter eagerly waits, for the plant now being easily distinguished, it is the time for the harvest. MARSHALL MOSES.

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HOMOLOGOUS HOMONYMS. Won day in the spring, the little village quir with its buoys and girls, bachelors and old mades sat out for a picnic in the woulds. It was the most beautiful thyme of the year. The hole earth was rapped in green. Every breeze that arose from the viels and planes below was laden with the feint cent of newly overturned earth. The beaches by the gait now thru deep shadows around the place and the drooping bows of the fur trees scented the heir with there fragrance. Won young youthful pear a loan went down the shady lain. She was won of the fairest of the fare sex, and wore a very pretty read waste which sum people mite call vein, but she would not have minded that for she seamed to care for naught but hym who walked at her write sighed. He was a blithe young fellow and struck won as being a handsome mann. He had merry gray I s, brown hare, and a strait knows. His figure was robed in a suit of blew close and his hole appearance and princely mean denoted noble berth. On and on they strolled into a deep wood, halting at length by a creak which babbled at their feat. “Shall we weighed thru?” he cried. “No,” she replied, “It is'sew deep, it will come up to our wastes. Please dew knot attempt it.” At this he plucked a little flour and a dainty lief from among the reads by the creak and presented them to her with these words, “Love, you are the embodiment of my sole. You are my life, my awl. Flea knot away from me. Eye knead thee every hour. It panes me two sea you sew pale. Pray why are you sow sad? Sum day I mien to bare you a weigh from hear. Will you keep this wring till we to shall meat again?” She blushed a deep read, gilt shone in her face, as he stooped to steel the kiss dew him by the write of betrothal. “My Deer,” he cried, “I have knot preyed in vane. Know won nose the pane I should bare, should yew refuse me, it wood brake my heart. I wood feel like dyeing.” The sound of approaching feet, warned them that sum won was coming upon the seen, and they made haste up the steep assent. They herd behind them a loud hoop and turned around just in thyme two sea a horrid bare on all fores emerge from the current and bury bushes near where they had been seated. Then know sooner had they again turned about, when a frightened little dear rushed past them with a half grown dough at its heals. Buy this thyme the made had become quite frightened. She was too week to stand, and as a startled read hair fled across the weigh, she grasped his arm, crying out, “I’m afraid a bare will sees me and take me for his pray.” He looked into a pare of I’s filled with tiers. “Then we will altar our coarse and go down on the beech for a while.” There they met an old sailor who had just returned from a sale on the seize. He took them in his skull and with his ores, rode them across the inlet toward a lovely aisle. But ere they reached there destination, a squall arose. It reigned, the wind blue, the hale came down in sheets. Three lives were at steak. After the wurst was over, the son again shown on a quiet see, but the bark was knot in site. Awl had perished. None can tell the story but a frightened little fish and thereby hangs the tail. NIB” M.