Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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 THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR place on the Roll of Honor; bnt of their numerous accomplishments, I can't begin to tell only that “Ken” is an adept at the rattle-bix, and ‘Keg’ tells and writes good stories. Sincerely, A JUNIOR. THE PHILOMATHEAN SOCIETY The Philomatheans met in room 12, January 3, 1910, and elected the fol- lowing officers: Pauline Pitney, Beth Smith, Georgia Strebeck, Louise Per- due and Pauline Koonse. Miss Pauline Pitney and Miss Lou- ise Perdue ent'ertained the members at the home of the latter, Saturday afternoon, January 8, 1910. The meet- ing was opened by roll call, which was answered by quotations from Poe, after which the following program was rendered: Song—Society. Reading. ‘‘New Year's Resolutions” A member. Reading, Essay Upon the Life of Poe”—Pauline Koonse. Piano Solo—Beth Smith. Recita Jon—Original Poem—Georgia Strebeck. Reading—“T? e Ta’e of a Pumpkin —Ruby Shelby. Song—Society. The election for a critic was then hell which resulted in the election of Georgia Strebeck. .Meeting adjourned. Secretary. WRITE WRITTEN RIGHT Write we know is written right, When we see it written w-rite; But when we see it written wright. We know it is not written right; For write, to have it written right. Must not be written right or w-right. Nor yet should it be written rite: But write, for so ‘tis written right. 7 CIVICS CLASS DEBATE. Resolved: That suffrage should be given to women. Aff.rrr.ative— I.ou Hammerlund, Verne Healy, Faye Sackett. Negative— Ruth Moffett, Elmer hlriekson. Charles Cunningham. The frequent discussions, which have lately taken place, in the Civics class, on Women’s Suffrage, led to a Debate on that subject. This occm- red Tuesday morning, Jan. 18. After the class had assembled, the chair- man, Miss Gourley, made a few intro- ductory remarks, afterwhich she in- troduced the first speaker. Miss Lou Hammerlund. I ou ably presented her argument and brought out several definite points, which were very ef- fective. The next speaker was Ruth Moffett; her speech was well prepar- ed and showed a careful study of the subject in detail. Then, Verne Healy appeared with his convincing style of delivery and brought forth a strong argument for his side. Elmer Erick- son, aroused by the discussions of his opponents, came with a determin- ation to convince the Judges that thejr arguments were, nevertheless, unsound. The last speaker of the Affirmative was Faye Sackett. After a lengthy discussion, she closed her argument, with a proposition, that the Fifteenth Amendment should be sup- plemented by a Sixteenth which should read, “No person shall be de- prived of voting on account of sex.” Charles Cunningham closed the de- bate with an exceptionally good argu- ment. It must be said that Charles is a debater of some ability, and will perhaps, some time in the near future become famous by this talent. Verne - Healy presented the rebuttal, after which the judges, Neil Kerr, Florence Swanson, and Iva Love, retired for ..heir decision. The result was two votes to one, in favor of the negative.

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6 THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR Sicilian’s plans before giving him up. The next morning the young spy was led out to the fortifications and placed with his back to the white- washed wall. He was smiling, his eye was bright and reflected the glory of the morning. A hush fell over the crowd. Only the sergeants’ voice could be heard: “Ready!” The six rifles were leveled. “Aim!” “Fire!” There was roar, and when the smoke lifted, the spy was still standing with a smile on his face. The guns had been loaded with blank cartridges. General Casco stepped up t o the young man. “Such a brave man as you should be spared,” he said, and at sundown you shall be exchanged for General Stampoff. The spy thanked him for his great kindness in sparing his life. So at sundown his father, with his staff, and under a flag of truce, came to give up Gen- eral Stampoff for the spy. At the Sicilian camp he was wel- comed by the soldiers and generals, and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant of the Scouts, where he performed many other brave deeds for his country. THE SOPHIES. Of the classes of Sophomores whom we have known, seen and closely ob- served in the various high schools of our state, surely the Sophies of 1909- 10 of Paxton High, are the very best bunch. Next to them we would rank the Sophies of 1908-09. It is, I believe only natural that we should do this. But the Sophomores of the present time. 1909-10 are the ones of whose attainments we wish to speak. We Juniors, as you may know, watch the Sophies very closely so as to note improvements over the pre- vious year. Thus we can judge very well with regard to the standing of rhe aforementioned Sophies. When the school year started with Caesar, Zoology, History and Rhetoric as the main Sophomore studies, some of the Juniors said, “Now you just wait and see! Those Sophies will never be able to read Caesar. It was all we could do.” At this time, nearly the close of a semester, the ignorance or rather poor judgment of a few has been revealed for the Sophomores are going through with flying colors. To be sure there was some friction at first with regard to the hats, pins or whatever it was—you see we are not supposed to be acquainted with the facts—but now the class as a united force is working for the best interests of Sophomoredom. Hail to the Sophies who are helping to uphold the honor of the school. Now there are Angie and Mack who could be more persevering and earn- est in their work for the P. H. S. Re- flector than they? No laggards! For how could Sophies be lazy and suc- ceed as they do? There is our friend, wee sma’ Lois. Can anything be done to tickle the Juniors, and Seniors too, more than to say “Yes an’ Lokie Richards is goin’ to speak a piece.” Florence Wesslund, Mabel Fiedler and Nora Ryan, as you know, sing in the chorus. Helen Nelson! Well, Hel- en can recite too and laugh! Why. its just catching—that laugh, and you never can tell when it will Caesar. There is Carlson of football fame, and Crow who does as his name implies. Donald Moffett! We must not forget him either. A good Caesarian is he and quite popular is his sunshine. And Currie! Goodness, the Sophies have a fine example of perseverance and stu- dent energy, as well as the Freshies If it wasn’t for little Mills, the world would take on a sober hue. But per- haps this is wearying. There ara many more Sophies who deserve a

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s THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL .’ELLEC I OK weeks for review. The class mates of Ruth Boomer are very sorry to learn of the death of her mother, and are glad that she has been permitted to resume her work at school. levering Jones spent a part cf his vacation in Champaign. Verne (in English History III.): — “King James issued a Declaration of Independence.” Three days of the Christmas vaca- tion were spent in having a jolly time at a house party af the homes of Neil Kerr and Melvin Froyd. Those pres- ent were, Ethel Sheldon. Nelle Car- son, Edith Mauer, Pete Karr, Mel- vin Frryd and Neil Kerr. All enjoyed themselves immensely. Miss Tobias (in English History III.) Ethel, What was the cause of the War of 1812?” Ethel: Taxation with- out representation.” By the way some of the Chemistry SENIOR NOTES The Senior Literature Class, having finished its «tudy of American auth- ors. is beginning Burke’s Speech on Conciliation of the American Colo- nies.” The Civics Class had a de- bate, Tuesday. Jan. 18, concerning Woman's Suffrage. Elmer Erickson, Charles Cunningham, an Ruth Mof- fett spoke on the negative, and Faye Sackett, Lou Hammerlund, and Verne Healy on the affirmative. May Ryan and Faye Lay bourn en- Eli..h Lamb, of Cham- paign, during holiday week. The class in German IV. has just finished reading ‘Storm’s Pole Pop- penspaler”, and has taken up B.uum- bach’s story, “Per Schwiegersohn”, as its ne::t work. The Chemistry class has now finish- ed all text-book work required for the first semester. It will now have a few