Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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THE MISSILE. 25 Miss D. (III. B English): “Give me the dates for Pope.” Miss P: “1688 to 1644.” Franklin makes the statement that the sale of five Poor Richard ' s Almanacs procured for him a sufficient amount to supply him with some solid pudding. Mr. T. of II. B raised the query as to what became of the pudding. He was evidently thinking of lunch time. Tommy. “Pop, can a sewing bee sting ?” Tommy’s Pop: “No, my son, but it can do a lot of buzzing.” A bachelor, upon reading that “two lovers will sit up all night with one chair in the room” said that it could not be done unless one of them sat on the floor. Such ignorance is painful.. We take this opportunity when The Missile goes to press for the last time this year, to extend our thanks to Miss Theresa Bain of III. B, who has so accommodatingly played for us at our many assemblies. We wish also to thank the Daughters of the Con- federacy for the subscription for another year to The Literary Digest, which they kindly gave to our school library. On Tuesday, April 21, quite interesting exercises were held in the 7 B Class, when three beautiful pictures, “Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson,” “Signing of De- claration of Independence,” and “A Prairie Fire,” were presented to that class. The girls gave the pictures, while the boys made the frames and furnished the glass for them. Duncan Pleasants presented them, and Supt. R. R. Jones accepted them for the school. Then the Rev. Mr. Hassell, of the Third Presbyterian church, made a short address, after which the school sang Virginia, Stanewall Jackson ' s Way, and America. Mr. Sharp pre- sided.

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24 THE MISSILE. torical expeditions as there are several places of historic interest in Petersburg to which many of us have never been. During the past month we were favored with a visit by Mrs. Faith Parratt, of Martinsville, a member of the W. C. T. U. She spoke to us about temperance, treat- ing the subject scientifically. Much interest was aroused. Miss Beard (III.B. French) : “Can any one tell me how frost opens chestnuts ? One of you chemistry pupils ought to be able to tell me.” Upon receiving no answer, she said, “It bites them.” Miss R. (LA Latin) : “For to-morrow write a sent- ence on the head of a King.” Miss R. “What is a crime?” Miss D. (IV.B) : “A big misdemeanor.” HEARD IN THE PHYSICS CLASS. “The speed of light was determined by watching the rotation of the sun about the planets with alargemagni- fying glass.” Miss D. “If men cannot make certain laws in regard to the American colonies, who can ?” Mr. C. (earnestly) : “Women.” Miss D. (III. B Eng.): “Name some of Fielding’s works.” Miss S: Pamela and Joseph Anderson! ' Miss X. has been trying the starving method to make her pnpils think.

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Ifi «|V Vil IH BASEBALL LETTER MEN. BOOTH, COLLIER, NUFER. GILL, R. S. JONES, WALTHALL, YOUNG, SHEFFIELD, ROPER, ELLIOTT, Capt. ' JORDAN, HEATH, Manager. A review of the baseball season shows eleven games played, eight defeats and three victories. At a glance it would be pronounced a disastrous season, but we do not consider it as such. The discouraging showing made by the team may be attributed to three facts: the failure of the High School to turn out a base-ball team last year the element of hard luck which the team played in, and the failure of the student body to support the team. The High School had no team last year, and the team this year had only two letter men on it, — Elliott and Young. All other members of the team were new men; this, of course, was a very great drawback. Our team played in hard luck; only one game was played during the entire season in which every regular man was on the field. The continuous change in line-up hurt the team to probably a