Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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the kaiser and it Yfkis reported that he was killed in hattle. VVe have worn eiepe ever since. Nothing startling happened the rest of that year. hut at the be- leginning of this. we had many new pupils. Brother iil'.lkVll did not have enough room in his house. so he sent Edna to us. Morkert 4-anne here ti give Glee the henetits of our fine school but sne pines for her ef,mforter so much that she is never well. Mrs. Viies knew Pheolie would have plenty of elianees at Oakville. rnzl now the ehild is Very happy, altho pzor Herbert is not. The biggest lemon in the Lemmon erop deeirled to increase his gray matter. so he eame to sit hy Edna. NVe are a Very happy family with Papa Stewait to 1-are fir us, and our only worry is the Fresh- man lass. Finis. JL FRESH From left to right. Shannon White, Willis Shull. Bottom- Sarah Bain, Dorathy Thomas, Stella Williams, Mona Smith, Marry Harris. Uohn Austin-not shownj CLASS HISTORY. On a sunshiny day in September seven freshmen straggled into the schoolhouse. They went in very sheepishiy, with great fear and trembling. for they had heard that the teachers all had Very' bad tempers, regardless of their looks Cwhieh did not allay their fear-sl. Before the first week was over one of the large boys dropped out. The seeond week an girl who had heard very mueh of our

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,av OPHOMORE Left to right. Top-l'aul Provoe, VVillard Merry, Raymond Jor- grenson, Lloyd Lemmon. Bottom-Dorothy Paul. Hulda Gibson, Jessie Bain, Mildred Sweitzer, Edna Brown. Glee Morkert. Pheohe Viles. CLASS HISTORY. Once upon a. time there was a Hlllll puddle. But the sun was very hot and finally it dried llp the puddle. There. rolling around on the ground where the puddle had been, was a small ball which the bugs ealled the world. Very soon it floated graeef11lly away into the sky. Then a hole in the world opened up and Ollt marched our ancestors. CSee Darwin for full partieulaisj 'l'he population increased an increased Plllil renters of learning were established all over the country, ehiefly among them Oakville. Ambitions students from all parts of the globe flocked to this famous seat of learning until 1915, at Whieh time several members of the illustrious class of nineteen were assembled. They were Mil- dred Sweitzer, Neda Nusgrove, Dorothy Paul, Willard Merry, Paul Provoe, Herbert Fry and Henry Liessner. Soon afterward Jessie Bain shook the n111d from her feet forever and joined Olll' class. Then about Christmas time that hold pioneer Raymond joined our class. Ile had been living in the wilds of North America and was perfectly satisfied with life until a newspaper 1-haneed to fall i11to his hands. Un the first page was a large Dli'tlll'G of the beautiful and charming fso it saidl Mildred Sweitzer. of Oakville. The foolish lad imme- diately fell in love with the girl in the picture, and determined to tind and wed her. 'With that en in view he entered our school and has become a brilliant student despite his love making. And new to spoil all of o11r happiness, llnteh Heinrich went away to fight .,

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school came from Elma to join our class. In about two months another boy dropped out, having become fully educated. About the same time another boy joined, who had been working on his 't'ather's farm during the first two months of school. At Christmas time a girl joined our class, thus making it greater in number than it was in the beginning. At tl1e present time we are a elass of eight. O is for Orvin, our athlete so grand, who can do the pole Vault the best in the land. A is for Austin, a freshman so proud, who believes in hard study, but plays when allowed. K is for K0ochy, known also as Alys, whose heart is like stone, unbreakable and callous. V is for Van Walker, captain of o11r team, to be a great actor is his constant dream. I is for Isabel, our champion sneezer, whom the boys get nothing over, when they try to tease 'er. . L is for Lemmon, o11r basket ball star, who to the rest of us shines from afar. L is for Loie, who's working to get thru, but we know the reason, do you '? is for Edna. a new little friend, who is always willing her note hooks to lend. . E H is for Helen, a se11ior so tall, who tho tl1e biggest, is not quite all. I is for lkey -we call him Raymond sometimes. who got his nickname by repeating some rhymes. G is for Gladys, who's chunky and fat, but she is all right for all o' that. H is for Herbert, a small sophomore boy, who to tl1e girls is quite a Joy. S is for Sweitzer, our funny little Hsophf' who is always there when a stunt is pulled oft. C is for Charles Deane, who never did smoke, and always is there to spring some big joke. H is for Hulda., who seoffs at tlltx boys, but who is not left behind at making a noise. 0 is tor CBD ob, but here we are WI'011g. Well what do we care. it is a part of the song. O is for ornery, which all of us are, bllf we are liked for our pep. both near and far. L is for Ludella., who has gone away, she always was jolly, tho rainy tl1e day.