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

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Kelsey Me Chain— “There's never a faster foot I trow But still he seems to tarry.” Lillian Meyers— “The voice was very soft and low, An excellent thing in a woman.” Will Orvis— “For even tho vanquished he could argue still.” Elsie Parratt— ‘She is not conscious of her worth, as a musician.” ()!ive Susan— “A snail and she could walk together and never fall out of step. Jessie Reynolds— “To say why gals act so or so. Or don’t ’twould he presumin’.” Lula Riple.v— “What a spendthrift she is of her tongue.” Chester Shortt ()n ‘ who with a Hash begins and ends in smoke.” Mariem Smith— But what care I for words.” Hazel Worthing-— Her fatal dart, sticks in his side and rankles in his heart.” FRESHMAN ROLL CALL Robbie McClain “A bright little boy with laughing face, Whose every motion is full of grace.” Eddie Me Knight— No, little Eddie, this is today; Tomorrow is always one night away.” Gertrude Jones— “Like dew on the gowan lying Is the fa’o’ her fairy feet.” Helen Hatch— “A lady of majestic mien. By stature and by beauty marked a queen. Clayton Tuppei— I know a sweet girl. With a bonnie gray eye.” Ward Large— “I'm hardy of form and feature For endurance framed aright.”

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JUNIOR JROLL CALL. Ralph Atkins “ Tis sweet to love, Init oh, how bitter To sue for a rii-l and then not get her.” Carl Cragoe— “Sometimes tlie best things on earth Are done up in small parcels.” Nora Locke— “I could range the world around for sake of somebody. HOW?” Allien Sampson “ ’Tis love that makes the world go round.” Ma.vme Shraven— “Gentle she is and of good intent.” Grant Shortt— “A girl, a girl, my kingdom for a girl.” Clifford Schoonover— “A stage! A stage! where one can act and express his feelings.” Jennie Norton— “Very few women choose women as their sole companions.” Ella Messnei— “Herself alone and none other she resembles.” SOPHOMORE ROLL CALL. Harry Atkins— “Thoughts are deeds.” Lida Best— “What sunny eyes and sunset hair.” Ethel Bristol— “Her looks were deep imprinted on his heart.” Ruth Brookins— “Led by simplicity divine, She pleased, and never tried to shine.” Bessie Burns— “None knew thee but to love thee. None named thee but to praise.” Lloyd Filbey— “What’s failure or success to me?” Nellie Hitchcock— “A wide-spreading hopeful disposition is your only true umbrella in this vale of tears.” Clyde Morgan— ‘‘Yet he chuckles, and crows, and nods, and winks As if his head were full of kinks.”

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Will Renolds— “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward thru life he goes.” Della Parduhn— “And from her earnest eyes, A serious soul is looking.” Joseph Best— “Smooth runs the water where the brook runs deep.” Bessie Cragoe— “Meekly, truthfully, and disinterestedly, she treaes the path of life.” Marie Hoppe— “Constant quite fills my peaceful breast With unmixed joy, uninterrupted rest.” Hazel Merrill— “Thy smile is a benediction and your words a delight. Howard Ripley— “() excellent young man! How much more elder art thou than thy looks! CHILD LABOR. The question of Child Labor is an old one but it is none the less important on that account. It is one upon which great writers of literature have written. Nearly all these writers are agreed that it is the urgent duty of each individual to do what he can to eliminate this great national evil To turn the searchlight on the enemy is the first maneuver of a modern battle; let us therefore look carefully into the conditions surrounding this evil before suggesting the manner of its elimination. A generation ago, this land was deluged in blood because two million negros were held in slavery, but to-day two million little, white children in this land are hurried to the factories, where their health is injured and they are deprived of the pleasures and happiness of this world. The people of the north looked upon slave trade as a great evil and lives were sacrificed, home ties broken for the purpose of freeing the negro slaves but what is being done for the million of child slaves? The negro problem was a sectional one while the child labor problem is not sectional but national. It is one in which all parts of the world are interested and one by which all are effected, for from all parts of the country, come these bitter cries from children, robbed of home and childhood. We may truly say that child labor is worse than pestilence. No doubt you have all read of the black plague and yellow fever which at times raged thru out the Orient, killing thousands of little children. They killed their