Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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A I)V K KT ISEM E N TS. ©m IRew ©cobs for Christmas will flblease Hll BOTH OLD AND YOUNG. We have a large assortment to select from as we have made a specialty of WATCHES, CHAINS, RINGS, PINS and JEWELRY of all kinds, FANCY SETS, TOILET SETS and Odd Pieces of Different Qualities at Extra Low Prices. Call and Examine before buying elsewhere, and you will always be a customer, as satisfaction is guaranteed. Expert Watch, Clock and Je velry Repairs. A. A. L1NSG0TT-, -Jeweler 0pp. Post Office, 154 Hancack St. Optical work of all kinds. Eyes tested and fitted by an experienced optician. Branch at Wollaston, Cor. Beale Street- and Old Colony Avenue. E. 33- BKOWIST, (brown, the printer.) OB IDrizstting PHOTOGRAPHS! For fine Photos and work of all kinds in Crayon and water colors at reasonable prices go to IKIellie’s Elite Stu.d.io, 1C Chestnut Street. Quinsy. Mass. in all its branches. 9 GRANITE STREET. QUINCY. MASS. Head-Ease Positively the best Head-Ache remedy on the market. 25 CENTS A BOX. CM A3» C» HEARN, Pharmacist, 170 Hancock St., Quincy. T. L. WILLIAMS, REFRACTING OPTICIAN. Iajuscs ground to order at short notice. All the latest Scientific Instruments for testing sight. 104 HANCOCK ST.. QUINCY. HASS'. c. H. BROOKS. S. E. AMES. BROOKS AMES, PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. HANCOCK MARKET. Corner of Hancock and Saville Streets QUIUSrCY, MASS. WOLLASTON REAL ESTATE For Sale or Kent. FIRE INSURANCE IN GOOD COMPANIES. 3L. ' 7vr. Office in Shoe Store, Newport Avc., Opp. Depot w. c HARTWELL, Newspapers, Periedcals, StatiGnery Blanks Books, Confectionery, Cigars, Tobacco. NO. 1 GRANITE STREET. COR. HANCOCK.' O. -A.. MINOT, Fashionable Hairdresser, wishes to iufonu his patrons that he has removed his barber shop (tormcrly located on the comer of Newport avenue and Brook St.) five doors from the corner on BROOK STREET, where he will continue to do first- class work. Children’s hair cutting a specialty. Ra- zors honed and concaved. Thanking you for past fa- vors and hoping to receive a continuance in the future, I remain, 0. A. MINOT. FRANK F CRANE, Auctioneer and Real Estate Agent. Office 4 Chestnut St.. Quinsy. Also Second Hand Furniture Bought, Sold and Appraised. (pHE (tJeLDEN f 0D IS PRINTED BY Cine. W. PRL3C0TT 30N. Artistic Printing Solicited. Cfoe At Hartuell’s Is for Sale Quincy. 3olt cn At 5i)onh’s Regularly Wollaston. And at School.

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ADVERTISEMENTS. 2 r. Bamforfc, jfine Custom Cailor. Foreign and Domestic Goods ALWAYS ON HAND. Good Pit and Workmanship Guaranteed. Also Repairing. LADIES' COATS RENOVATED. No. 11 TEMPLE SX. Near Stone Church. ©r. RalpR (}). P©gej, I ©eftfist- Teeth Extracted Absolutely .Without Pain by the Use of the “Boston Vegetable Vapor.” The new amethetic produces absolute insensibility to pain, is safe and has no ill effects.—Christian Advocate. It controls the patient longer than gas and is much safer.—Portland (Me.) Globe. It is claimed that while it has the required properties of ether, chloroform nitrous oxide gas, it lacks the disagreeable and dangerous qualities of these drugs. It is certainly a boon to suffering humanity to be relieved of the nausea too often following the administering of sedatives of the old school.—Boston Transcript. Dentistry in All It» Branches. Office in FRENCH’S BUILDING, five doors south of Post Office, Quincy, Wednesdays. Hours, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. COAL. COAL. The Largest Assortment of Fresh-mined Coal In the Yards of J. F. SHEPPARD SONS. ESTABLISHED 1SS9. D. E. WADS WORTH CO., Honest Goods! Honest Prices! That is what has made our business a success. JOHNSON BROS.. ...DEALERS IX... SWIFT’S BEST BEEF. Brighton Dressed Lambs. Native Chickens and Fowl, Fruit, Vegetables, and everything carried in stock by a first-class market. 139 Hancock Street, - - Quincy. GEO. W. .TONES, ...Dealer in... Soots, i'hocs and 2dubbcx s. Hats and Caps, Gentlemen’s Furnishings. ADAMS BUILDING, QUINCY, MASS

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Vol. IX. Whole No. 72 Quincy, Mass., Dec., 1899. Holiday Extra. No. 2. Estab. 189 1. Zbc (5olbcn=1Rob WILL BE PUBLISHED MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR IN THE INTEREST OF THE QUINGY HIQH SCHOOL . SUBSCRIPTION RATES : jfor tbc year, 50 Cents. » Simile Copies, 10 Cents. For Sale at V. C. Hartwell’s, Quincy, and John Shunk’s, Wollaston. EDITORS: Annie Pinkiiam, ’00; Lucy Luard, ’01. ASSISTANTS: Ruth Hayden, 00: Franklin Nichols, '01- and Julia Roche, ’02. BUSINESS MANAGERS: John Idk, ’00; Charles McGilvary, ’01, and Walter Whittemore. ’02. REPORTERS: John B. Keyes, ’00; Sadie Adams, ’01; Eleanor Nelson, ’02; Mollik Brown, ’03. Entered at the Quincy (Mass.) Post Office as Second Class Matter. EDITORIALS. As the Christmas season passes with its jollity and mirth and our thoughts turn to the New Year, let us include in our reso- lutions, at this fresh start of time, one in the interest of the school. Perhaps the best one will be a strengthened determina- tion to make the school year the most successful.possible. This will require the interest and assistance of everyone in the various phases of the work. The Golden- Rod, the symbol of the school work, should also be included, since its prosperity and success are dependent upon the hearty support of the school. : v v Perfection is the goal of all mankind. It is a mount whose summit no human person has yet reached. The constant elimination of faults and blemishes in the struggle inspires renewed efforts for its attainment. There is an adage, “ Habit is a cable, everyday we weave a thread and soon cannot break it.” If each new thread forms a good habit and the bad ones are gradually severed, a series of cables may soon be made strong enough when fastened to the summit of perfection to sustain us when we slip and to aid us when we climb. Habits are contagious and a time may come when through co- operation and mutual sympathy, cables shall be wrought so strong that mankind shall attain to the Great Goal. .jt .jt A Haunted House. In one of his stories Kipling says: “ Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop-windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people, and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But lie will insist upon treating his ghosts—he has published half a workshopful of them—with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and,