Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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THE l-SENIOR ANNUAL . 0. G. SOICE Treas. Board of Education A. M. CLEVELAND Secy. Board of Education. f

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Tim SENIOR ANNUAL R. A. RANDALL Supt. Plymouth Schools. GEO. H. THAYER Pres. Board of Education

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL 0ver mountain trails in Ibt Zour D'HIenes Travellers and sight-seers, in touring the United States invar- iably visit the Falls of Niagarag they sail upon the silvery Hudson or tramp through the Green mountainsg they see the Natural Bridge and the Mammoth Cave, or gaze in awe from the summit of l ike,s Peak, they are astonished at the immensity of the Grand Canyon, and with their eyes they seek the top of the Royal Gorge from its rugged depths, they wonder why they have stayed away so long from the Yellowstone or the Yosemite Parks, but when tired with all the rush and hurry of seeing sights, they make a pil- grimage to the Coeur d'Alene to find the clean out-of-door life in the mountains. It is then they cannot conceive why such a beau- tiful locality is not better known Prom the French, Coeur d'Alene is translated Heart of the Mountains, and, lying as it does in that part of the Inland Empire called The Switzerland of America, it is truly named. The Coeur d'Alene District derives its name from a range of mountains in northern Idaho ,varying in height from 3000 to 7000 feet, and covering the larger part of Shoshone county. Nowhere will one find a more delightful summer climate with the bluest skies imaginable, bright sunny days, and cool nights. Here one will en- joy to the utmost the exhilarating influence of the pure, invigorat- ing niountain air with the smell of the pines and hemlocks on every breeze, and in no locality can be found so many sparkling moun- tain streams Where trout are as plentiful. XVallaco is the commercial center of the district, and from this point, the start over the mountain trail of our story was made. One beautiful morning in early August we climbed astride our cayuses bound for the north fork of the Shadowy St. Jo River about twenty miles distant. There were four in our party, Lee VV. Park- er, a ,most enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Vtialtou, Fred Kelly Jr., com- monly known as Kell, a healthy out-door lad, John Berg of Ger- iu ,ny, a thorough woodsman who had consented to be our guide. and myself, a neophyte, uninitiated to the ways of the wily trout. Uur saddles were securely packed with blankets, provisions, rods and guns, and as we left the city in the early morning, we present- ed the appearance of a pack train bound for unexplored wilds. The sun was just peeping over the tops of the mountains as We rode up the Placer Creek road, and the cool air made every fibre in our heal- thy bodies tingle with the joy of living. About two miles out of town the road passes the dam where the water supply for the city of Vv'allace is impounded, and as I was riding in the lead, I first discovered four ducks in the stream above the dam. John and Kell saw them almost as quickly, for the ducks fiew up the creek a short distance and again settled to the surface of the water. XVe stopped just at the dam and John, Kell