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

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ATHLETICS. Considerable interest was taken in the High School athletics this year, altho the material for the different teams was much less available than in former years. A football team was not organized until the latter part of September, as at first it was thot impossible to find enough boys for the team. Considering the weight of the team and the amount of practice it had, the record made is one of which the school may be proud. The team played its first game at Fond du Lac, September 29, against the High School second team of that city. The ccore was 0 to 0. On November 3, they played the Horicon High School team at Oakfield, with a score of 64 to 0 in our favor. The Horicon team was heavier than ours but the boys overcame this disadvantage by their swift playing. The team played its next game at Fond du Lac, November 10, against the Fond du Lac High School first team. This was by far the hardest game of the season. The Fond du Lac team averaged ten pounds to a man more than the Cakfield team, and it was expected that the score would be about 40 to 0 in favor of Fond du Lac, but on account of the stubborn and untiring defense put up by Oakfield, the score was held down to 27 to 0. The line up of the Oakfe’d team for this game was as given above with exceptions of center and right end, where Earle Henningsen and Arthur Bristol respectively played. The football season was closed with a game on Thanksgiving Day at Waupun. As some members of the team thot that they could not afford to mics their Thanksgiving dinners, substitutes were found, and the load of seventeen started from Oakfield about 10 o’clock. On account of the muddy roads, they did not arrive at Waupun until after 1 o’clock. A good Thanksgiving dinner was served a little before 2 P. M. The boys could not resist the temptation to do justice to the meal, and without considering what the results might be, participated freely of the turkey and goose. However, this would probably have done no harm, had the dinner been served earlier, but as it was, the boys had about thirty minutes in which to dress for the game, walk down to the grounds, and get five minutes of practice. As in the previous games, the opposing team was the heavier. It cou’d be seen at the end of the first half that Waupun easily had the game. At the beginning of the second half, however, Waupun was very much surprised. When Oakfield secured the ball, it seemed as if no amount of Waupun’s opposition could check the progress of the ball down the field. People began to think differently of the Oakfield team and some wondered if possibly they had not secured a little “stimulus” between halves, but their dinners had “settled,” that was all. The opponent’s score was already so great, however, that it could not possibly be overcome. As it v as, Waupun secured thirty-one points and Oakfield nine. The basket ball team was organized in the latter part of November, but the practice games were not begun until the latter part of December. The team played its first regular game at Worthing's Hall, March 1st, with the Rosendale High School team. The teams were well matched, and as a result the final score was very close, Rosendale securing nineteen points and Oakfield twenty. Immediately preceeding this game, the High School Girls’ basket ball team, which had been organized in October, played the H. D. Club basket

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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.

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ball team and were defeated by the score of 11 to 10. The basket ball season was closed with a doble game at Worthing’s Hall, March 22. The first garr e v.as between the High School Girls’ team and the H. D. Club team. The former were again defeated by a score of 16 to 18. The second game, tetween the High School Boys’ team and the city team, immediately followed. Considering the amount of practice which the city team had secured, they did excellent work, hut were defeated by a score of 19 to 23. Who threw the eraser? What color is Lilian’s hair? Where did Phcebe get so many waists? Why does Marshall sit in the front seat? Dees anybody know what the senior class colors are? Why didn’t the Juniors give a party? What makes Lucille and Walter quarrel sc? What makes Elsie blush so? Where did Marshall purchase that triple strength perfume? What makes Fred so sad? Why doesn’t Nora come to school? Why do George and Allen have to climb the hill so eften? Who said, “I am your sire?” Who said anything about ‘‘deer hunting?” When did Grant and Lee sign their peace treaty? What makes the boys tease Jessie so? Why do the girls like to be librarians? Why doesn’t Edward like the class pins? Is land transferable? Why does Mr. Curtis look at his watch so eften? Why do the boys like to go to play rehearsal? Why does Miss H— want to be treated like a gentleman? Why dees Royal have pains in Ancient History class? Was thirty cents cheap enough, E. W.? • Lucile, ‘‘1st es ein Hund Oder ein Esel?” Who is afraid of the dark? Mayme, if one letter carries cne cream separator, how many letters will one freight car carry. Why doesn’t Fred use patent fasteners? QUERIES.