Paris District High School - Yearbook (Paris, Ontario Canada)

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PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, 1943 17 During the lambing season there is enough to keep three men busy. The herder, of course, is busy look- ing after the main flock during the day and also Lhelps out at night by getting up a couple of times to put the new-bc-rn lambs and niothers iii- to the shedi During the day at least one, better' two, are kept busy mo- thering up the lambs and turning them out 'to feed, looking after those ,kept in the shed. and later bringing in the diiferent bunches. ' ll x. l. Haying is started in the West about the first Eof July and lasts pos- sibly until harvest. So you can see there is no definite haying season. The hay consists chiefly bffcrested wheat, 'sweet clover and prairie'hay. The hay is stacked in the fields due to the unlikelihood of frequent heavy rains. The haying lasts for quite a winter. Sheep will graze pretty Well if the snow is not too deep andif there is not too much crust. ' ' Shearing is done sometime in the latter part of May. As a rule it takes three days for a flock of 1200. It is done by a gang of six or eight men who go from ranch to ranch. A good shearer can shear from 70 to 100 sheep a day. The fleeces are tied individually and are packed in- to large sacksf Later these sacks are shipped to Ontario where the wool is graded and processed. A In the fall of the year the wether lambs and old ewes are shipped to Moose Jaw for sale or to buyers in Ontario or Alberta. They are therii fed during the Winter, and gradually? put on the market. ' I hope that this short article has yvhile, for a large flock will get out-- given a general idea of a ' western' side of a lot of feed if it: is a' hard u sheep ranch. ' X ' tj' I ' ' L L: . . .l. I ' 'Q KEY 'ro GRADE XI Front Row Cleft to rightjg E. Rowe, L. Lofgren, M. Cotton, N. Charman, F. - Steinhoff, ML McKinnon,--E. Wilkin, M. Morrison, B. Horrocks, E. Phil- lipo. '- f -' Second Row: E. Watts, B. Morrison, J. Burrill, J. Hastings, B. Parsons, E. X Sibbick, J. Sutor, B. Perley, J. Brown, G. Nuttall. Third Row:'J. Pottruff, I. Edgar, J. Howell, J. Walker, J. Mogan, W. Paley, A. Hutty, W. Jones, A. Coxall, L. Granton, W. Edgington. Back Row: J. Nunan, D. Lander, R. Stickland, W. Turner, H. Foote, A. ' Whitbread, N. Cruickshank. ' - 1 - KEY T0 GRADE XII Front Row Cleft to rightjg M. O'Neai1, J. Stewart, M. Brown, M. Charlton, - A. Frosch, N.' Cousland, M. McEwing, D. James, J. Etwart, ' 1 Second Row: B. Folsetter, M. Sovereign, M. Maus, B. Holder, J. Hutton, M. - ' Holder, B. Hough, J. McPherson, R. Geiger. - Third Row: R. Emerson, A. Palmer, D. Munn, L. Wise, J. Otto, J. Cameron, - I. Robinson,-C. Pott-ruff. - ' ll .. .u.

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ISS PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, I943 Zfzana ifion PARIS HIGH SCHOOL IN 1925 J 12 gifted with Supermarfs mar- vellous X-ray eyes, you were m peer intently into the comer-stone of Paris High School, you would make an interesting discovery. What you would see there is revealed in the following news-item: from The Star-Transcript of Wednesday, Au- gust 29. 1923. It reads as follows: There was a good attendance last Saturday afternoon of members of the Board of Education, Town Coun- cil, and others, at the function in connection with the laying of the cor- ner of the new 580,000 high school. Mr. Ernest Apps, chairman of the Board, presided on the occasion, and after welcoming all present, briefly referred to the object of the gather- ing, He then called upon Rev. J. C. Nicolson who offered the dedicatory prayer. To Miss I-L. McCosh, the first and only lady member of the' Board of Education, was accorded the honor of laying the corner-stone, during which Miss McCosh aptly spoke of the necessity of high schools and of the great benefit education was, not only to the boys and girlsg but to the community at large. En- closed in an iron box were copies of the Toronto Globe and the Mall: and Empire , The Paris Star-Tran- script , the Voters' list of 1922, and the Financial Statement of the town, a silver coin of each denomination, of the vintage of 1923, and a Union Jack. On a scroll were also the names of the members of the Board of Education and Town Council. The box containing above was placed in a cavity in the corner stone, the cap put and duly sealed. The proceed- ings closed with the singing of the Naiional Anthem. After the stowing away of these