Roanoke Benson High School - Ro Vic Yearbook (Roanoke, IL)

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ECHO Confidence in Advertising TRUTH begets Confidence and it is Confidence that has built this store's esteem. We have been speaking to the people through the press, telling them of our store, its SERVICE and its QUALITY merchandise. Every ad that We write is a statement of facts concerning mer- chandise that We know Will meet the requirements of men and young men. We talk to you through our ads and we are just as careful to Write the TRUTH as we would be to speak the TRUTH to you in person. We are proud of the prestige of our ads as is shown in our in- creased business. Back of Our Advertising is Quality Merchandise R I L E Y B R O S. HTHE sromz FOR MEN Roanoke Electric Barber Shop P. J. HUSSEMAN, Prop. For Ladies, Gentlemen and Children Ladies Hair Bobbed Any Style Electric Messages and Shampoos Electric Hair Dryer Phone 46' Jacob Sand --- Billiard Hall ICE CREAM - CIGARS - CANDY Roanoke, Illinois SS E

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R. V. H. S. 83 I want to be tough I want to smoke and chew. I want to run around at night Like other fella 's do.-K. C. Carl S. was asked to translate, Haec in Galliam est importatusf' Carl S.: Hike into Gaul it 's important. F Conductor: Your fare miss. Henrietta S.: Oh, do you think so? One day the Seniors were giving a quotation in English that begins, Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Some of the Seniors believe in free translations and stated it thus: Fame is no plant that grows on American soil. CL. CJ Fame is no plant that grows on fertile soil. CG. HJ She: There is something dovelike about youf' He: What is it? She: You are pigeon-toed. Customer Cin storejz I want two tuna fish. Grocer: You had better stick to pianos. Prayer to be Said Before Exams: Now I lay me down to sleep, In my little bunk. I hope to die before I wake ' And thus escape a flunk. Miss Moore: IVhat is the past tense of burst? Martha P.: Busted Found in a Zoology note-book: The fish belongs to the class Pisces and is most nearly always found in Water. That young man of yours, said the father, as Juanita came down to breakfast, should be in a museum for living curiositiesf' Why father! exclaimed the young lady in tones of indignation, what do you mean? - I noticed when I passed through the hall last night, answered the parent, that he had two heads upon his shoulder. Gee, that 's soft, said Carl Sand as he scratched his head.

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R. V. H. S. 85 Melvin: I'm not going to study anymore, you gave me a zero and I even explained one problem. Miss Kneale: How do you know I gave you a zero? Melvin: By the way you looked. tMust have looked pretty blankj Teacher: Jimmie, correct this sentence, 'Our teacher am in sight.' Jimmie: Our teacher am a sight. The world will end when:- Freda fails to say something in class. Charles K. has a date. Eddie VVyeneth grows. Thelma Oyer weighs fifty. Henrietta S. becomes a blond. Andy stops growing. Lloyd Studer loses his sonorous voice. Emrich isn't popular. Thompson has a grouch. We lose a baseball game. Carl Sand stops arguing. We have a football game. We don't get a laugh out of English. Marie G. can read. Juanita doesn't say something brilliant. Lois McCauley has straight hair. Elsie Cgiving a report in Home Ec. IV on leather and glovesj : A cheap -grade of gloves, when washed, come apart and run. Mauretta Cworking a cross-word puzzlej : What are tailless monkeys? Fannie Beer: ' ' People. VVhen do the leaves begin to turn? Dumbell: The night before exams. Mr. Emrich: What is a scrub Cmeaning a pigl? Eugene: It's a game like playing ball. Policeman: Did you steal that rug? Hobo: No a lady gave it to me and told me to beat it. The last time that I was in camp, said Private Jimson, the temper- ature on three successive nights dropped to zero. That's nothing, said an old soldier, that's nothing. What's nothing? asked Jimson, indignantly. Zero! replied the old soldier, as he made for the door.: