Piedmont High School - Tris Yearbook (Piedmont, WV)

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,ff ' lvl ml George Washington married Mary Curtis and in due time became the father of his country. Sixty gallons makes one hedgehog. Georgia was founded by people who had been executed. A mountain range is a large cook stove. Achilles was dipped in the river Styx to make him normal. Pompeii was destroyed from an eruption of saliva from the Vatican. Typhoid fever is prevented by fascination. ' Mr. Knode in Chemistry: Under what combination is gold most quickly released? Norman Hoffa: Marriage. Here is the Latest in Comparisons: 1. Wild as a temper in a telephone booth. 2. About as funny as sleeping with a roet dog in a swamp. 3. She looked like a garden after an early frost. 4. Domestic as a plate. 5. A voice like a soprano hyenaf' 6. A laugh like a squadron of cavalry crossing a tin bridge. 7. About as much chance as a blind man following a green line. 8. Young as the waves. 9. She seemed to be swathed in a soft radianor, the same as you detect in the middle bulb of a radio set. 10. About as apparent as a microbe's eyebrow. 11. Knocked him so flat you could play him on a Victrola. 12. Doesn't dominate any more than a wart on a pickle. 13. As idle as a horse doctor in Detroit. Passenger: Conductor, the fellow opposite is a lunatic. He's scaring my wife. Seems to think he's Napoleon. - Conductor: I'll attend to him. Shouts: Next Station Waterloo. Waiter: Everything cooked to please you, sir ? Patron: Yes, all but the bill. Just take it back and tell them to boil it down a little. What you doing now, Bill ? 'Tm plant manager for old Skidrox. Plant manager! Vlfhat do you have to do ? Water the geraniumsf' Page ninety-six

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If lf-rl as Nervous musician: I-er-I just called around, madam, to tell you that your cat-er-kept us awake last night with its serenade. I am a musician myself and a humane man, and I-er-don't wish to have it destroyed, but I thought if you could have it-er-tuned ? Was your brother cool when the burglar broke in the other night ? asked Mrs. Featherbyf' Cool ? replied Jonnie. Why, he shivered all over. Traffic Rule No. 2 in Tokio, Japan, is as follows: When a passenger of the foor heave in sight tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your passage, tootle with angry vigor and express by words of mouth the warning: 'Hil Hi I' Fair Visitor: Is there some place aboard Where I can get a drink of water ? The Gob: Certainly, Miss. At the scuttlebutt, on the starboard side of the gun deck, 'midships, just for'rud of the dynamo hatch. Waiter, said a customer after Waiting fifteen minutes for his soup, have you ever been to the zoo ? No, sir. Well, you ought to go. You would enjoy seeing the turtles Whiz past. He: Do I need a hair cut? The Barber: No-but We don't braid hair here. From the Finals Poise is the Way a Dutchman says boys. Equinox is a wild animal that lives in the Arctic. King Arthur's Round Table was written by the author of Ten Knights in a Bar Room. Copernicus invented the cornucopia. Etiquette teaches us how to be polite Without trying to remember to be. In the stone age all the men were ossified. The climax to a story is where it says it is to be continued. A gulf is a dent in a continent. Buttress is a butler's wife. Conservation means doing without things We need. If Ponce de Leon hadn't died before he found the fountain of youth, he Wouldn't have died. A blizzard is the inside of a hen. A circle is a round, straight line with a hole in the middle. Page ninety-ffvc ' in

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fel rl We editors may tug and toil Until our finger tips are sore, Yet some poor fish is sure to say, I've heard that joke before. John Crist to Horace Richards at Petersburg: What'l1 I do ? Sue Fredlock: They tell me you love music. Clyde Marker: Yes, but keep on playing. Did Morris Holland and John Crist take Debby Ord and Garlic Ours to a party at Davis ? 'Z ? Wife fReading newspaperh : It says here that men grow bald be- cause of the intense activity of their brain. Hubby: Exactly, and women have no whiskers because of the in- tense activity of their chins. . An Irishman journeying along a lonely road was stopped by a high- wayman Who, displaying a revolver, demanded: Your money-or your life. The Irishman, trembling from head to foot, exclaimed: Take me life, take me lifeg I'm saving me money for me old age. , .1 y . - How is it young man, that I find you kissing my daughter? How is it, I ask you ? Young Man: Oh, it's great, it's great. The Garden of '25 : Norman Hoffa-The Sunflower. Norman J enkins-The Climbing Morning Glory. Mary Powers-The Drooping Pansy. Marguerite J ohnson-The Blushing Rose. Enid Ours-The Resolute Hollyhock. Debby Ord and John Crist-Fragile Violets. Sarah Crist--The Firm Dahlia. Ruth Turner and Dessie Fox-The Hardy Asters. Pauline Tucci-The Beautiful Lily. Ethel White-The Marigold. Clyde Marker--The Fragrant Sweet William. Eugene Paxton-The Daisy. Russell DeVore-The Handsome Rhododendron. Morris Holland-The Sturdy Magnolia. Page ninety-:wen