Petaluma High School - Trojans Yearbook (Petaluma, CA)

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LUMBER IS AWAY UP In quality and way down in price if it’s procured here, so you are certain of getting a good bargain here. Worth your while trying if you don ' t know us and our lum¬ ber—you will save money. CAMM HEDGES. MODEL BAKERY, Chas. HarGENS, Prop. bread, Pies and Cakes made daily of Purest and choicest materials. II Street, next to Nauerts. MONEY SAVED by dealing with C. R. Winfield, the Real Estate and Insurance Broker, 812 Washington street. All kinds of houses and lands. Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. Agent for the largest Bond com¬ pany in the United States. Would like a share of your business. j F j WEBB’S DRUG j ' J J STORE. PETALUMA WOOD AND COAL YARD OTHERS DO, Why not you ? Go to R. Woods, Prop. WILSON for your Wood and Coal delivered on short notice. HARNESS—-— 906 Washington St., near Bridge. Lower Main Street. PETALUMA STEAM LAUNDRY DR. A. L. TIBBETTS, Is the Place for Fine Work. DENTIST Tel. 34. 936 Washington street Office—877 Main Street. S. J. HOPKINS, J. HALL LEWIS. Mill Work and Mouldings. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Cor. Third and B streets, Petaluma. Office—861 Main Street.

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■ 1 € Vi • » A •©• w • • % If t 13 FAVORITE OCCUPATION AMBITION FIT FOR FUTURE Playing “ 11 Trovatore” To Beat the Band Coachman Grafter Writing Notes To Grow Tall Reform School Giantess Misinforming Political Boss Advance Agent for Side Shows Wearie Willie Studying Spanish To Live in Solitude Taking Long Walks Visit Hiawaii Studying Physics • To be Physics Teacher Physics Lab Physics Text Author Teasing To be an English Instructor Nothing Orpheum Star Going to Latin Recitations To Shirk Study Kindergarten Stump Speaker Everything To be a Preacher “ Force” Ad Mathematics Juggler “Skinning” Virgil To Live in Petaluma ' all Her Life Old Maid School Marm Happy Life on a Farm Chewing Rosebuds Church Mouse A Chaperone A Rosebud

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3 MST WORD. in the practical world. Pisistratus, the old Athenian tyrant, still lives to encourage the industrious and Members of the Ceass of ’03: punish the idle. The well earned diploma represents The most widely read book in the Christian world an attainment which enables the possessor to engage says: “ He that eudureth to the end shall be saved.” in greater effort, and demands it of him ; and the I believe I may properly quote this passage and apply higher ilie diploma the greater the amount of industry it to you 011 this occasion. You have endured to the and effort demanded. end and you merit the reward, ‘‘Well done.” You There is a sense in which your diploma should not have shown yourselves to possess the first element be underestimated. It would have been easy for your necessary to success—constancy. This element, coupled teachers to swell your ranks and graduate many who with a fair degree of ability and intelligence, will make have been less faithful than you. But this would have € ’(9 any man succeed. It is easy to strike out on new been unjust to you, unjust to the High .School, and paths, especially when they promise to lead to ease unjust to the pupils who were satisfied with a lower and comfort; it is not so easy to press onward towards standard than yours. You are the chosen few. The the highest mark which ambition has set as the goal to Petaluma High School places its stamp of approval be readied. Only the strong endure to the end. upon your work of the past four years. r You are not in the danger which is experienced by Your diploma means more. The lay sermons which 1 many graduates of overestimating the value of the you from time to time have heard from your teachers diploma which you receive. You have shown this by have been inspired by a desire to help you attain to the t your expression of higher ambitious. Every member highest manhood and womanhood. In the class room, of this graduating class has expressed a determination on the athletic field, and in your social relations you 1 f to complete a course of instruction in a higher institu¬ have shown the character which you each possess. I11 tion of learning. Upon this you are to be congratu¬ this larger and deeper sense also the Pelaluma High lated, and so is the High School in which you have .School puts its stamp of approval upon you. You will received your four years of preparation. Often a soon go forth as its representatives. After you leave diploma is taken as a sure passport to a life of ease and its halls and enter into the larger life before you, let comfort, exempting the holder from any further effort, its associations and ideals go with you as a guardian intellectual or physical. On the contrary, it is a pass¬ angel to help you should you falter, to remind you port to the realm where laggards die young. And this should you forget. I 4 realm you may consider as either the University or the As graduates of the Petaluma High School, I wish intellectual sphere which an educated man is to occupy you God speed. James Ferguson.