Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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26 THE MISSILE. Mr. Booth, of IVA, stated that he was proud of Virginia because he lived there. Mr. A. of IIIB wants to know if you can do four things, six at a time. All information concerning same will be appreciated. Miss R: “Why do you all write in the holes in the board, when here is the whole board ?” Mr. Booth of IVA class, seems not quite so bashful as a ministrel performer as when he says quotations in as- sembly. Perhaps his ministrel companions hides his blushes. We are glad to announce that Judge Robert C. Jack- son of Roanoke, a gifted speaker and a distinguished member of the Virginia Bench, will make the literary address at our commencement, at the Academy of Music, on the night of June loth. The High School was closed on Friday, April i8th, so that the faculty could attend the session of the Southern Educational Conference in Richmond. May many such conventions come to Richmond! It gives us pleasure to announce that Miss Jean Trigg will have charge of the musical programme for our com- mencement. The High School pupils are all delighted. THE FIRE-DRILL. One ! two I three ! four I five I six ! seven ! High School children think that’s heaven; Some leave Latin, some leave French. My! Our fire drill’s such a cinch! Did you hear that sudden clamore? Did I ! Yes, it came in grammar; Ain’t it grand to miss them phrases. Just to run from would-be blazes?

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Mr. Me: “Where did Alexander’s expedition begin ?” Miss M: “On page 149.” Mr. Smithey thinks the IIIB class is the most generous class in school; for the other day, during a ten-minute recess, he visited them and received a piece of cake and a current event. Miss M: “Give me a sentence illustrating a condition assumed to be a fact.” Miss R: “If I were in your place I would go.” Mr. Me. on becoming excited the other day said : “He had gotten almost to the toe of the heel.” Miss D: “What do you think of a man who thinks he knows it all ? ' ’ Mr. B: “I think he is broad-minded,” A member of the IVA Civics class recently stated tha ' - an alien may be made a citizen of the United States by the process of “neutralization.” Can anyone explain this process? In giving giving reasons for being proud of Virginia,

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Greatest Want and Lost and Found medium in Virginia, and one of the best in America. [Want Ad. Rates: Monthly, one cent per word when paid for in advance. No ad. taken for less than 20 cents. No ad. taken for less than 25 cents when ’phoned in or charged at the counter. ’Phone orders not guaranteed. Classifications not guaranteed after Missile goes to press. For business contracts, send for the Want Ad. Boy. ’Phone 159]. Wanted: A little animation. — Mr. Bowman. Wanted: By the IVA class, one copy of Skeat’s edi- tion of Chaucer’s Prologue. Wanted: The twenty minutes willed to her by the February class which Mr. Smithey has taken for assem- bly. — Miss Rives. Wanted: A high chair for the baby of IIIA class, — “Microbe.” Wanted: A special dinner for Mr. S. of IIIB at 1:50 o’clock daily. Wanted: By the IVA class, a memory machine for Mr. B’s especial benefit. Wanted; A dictaphone for IIIB to be used at dicta- tion times, when everybody gets excited. Wanted: A mosquito-net to keep the “Skeeter” from the “Peach” of the IIIA class. Wanted: An advance copy of the IVB examinations.