Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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son, and Charles Sypulski, to help dig the root. In Chinese the name, ginseng, means man's healthn and so is greatly valued by them. Armed with strong hoes the little company will hunt through shady haunts, then dry the roots and send by post to the port of Philadelphia. Such a venture will no doubt mean a business that will branch out till our friend Warren becomes the village apothecary. SEPTEMBER 13 Oh Diary, but for the bravery of one of our lads, we might have had a sad tragedy at our cabin doors tonight. Little Eleanore Trabalski, tripping down the lane with that light little way of hers saw sud- denly near some rocks a flower that did much appeal to her. As she was just about to gather it, she was seized by strong arms and rudely thrown some distance away. Angry tears dimmed her eyes as she turned to Rudolph Olund, who had thus roughly handled her. He did not heed her teary eyes for he was busily hurling rocks at a snake, pale brown with reddish bands between his eyes and nostrils. It was the deadly copperhead which had lurched at her, and but for the timely arrival of our hero, poor little Eleanore would be no more. OCTOBER 3 By the little picket fence which surrounds the cabin of the Rice family grows the herb garden of Edna, the well favored daughter. Such a fragrance as the winds waft from the little herb patches! Sage, mint, rue, lavendar, catnip and anise all grow in profusion, and when she is not tending her garden, she hunts in the woods for poke root, peppermint and sassafras which she sells to Warren Scheid to send with his ginseng to far Eastern cities. NOVEMBER 8 As the geese fly South and the first hints of winter fill the air we gather for indoor sports, Diary. 'Tis today that Dame Klemm and her daughter Amelia will entertain at an apple cutting party. All of the guests will peel and quarter apples which will be placed in the sun to dry. Later, some of these will be strung about the fireplace. 'Tis a fair place to have a party, Diary. After the bountiful supper our fiddler, Ray Walker, who does play so melodiously, will play for the dancing. DECEMBER 20 School term is closing and Master Natale is going on to the next settlement for the winter term. Each seat is filled, Diary, as the first form scholars finish the year,s work. Some of them will go East to finish their education at a Ladies' select school or academy. Of such is Elenore Thomas. Oh Little Book, if you could but hear her recite Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. Not a dry eye was in that room, and for encore did she recite all of Goldsmithis Q'Deserted Village. I tell you truly, Diary. While Ruby Hester did add four col- ums at once, and did cube root and such problems as even the master had pause at giving, so difficult were they. They will not think us untutored when such as these we send from our wilds. V Well, it has been a pleasant year. What ho for the next one, I wonder! Page Eighteen

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There they come, sitting close beneath the buffalo robes. I must name them quickly, then tuck thee away, Book, until I return. Suzanne Rothenberg and Alfred Kovach, Martha Schoppel and Elmer Hjortsberg, Mary .Pilot and Ted Krygoski, Harriet Bonkowski and Edward Liss, Alice Fisher and Zolton Palkovich, and my own partner, Sam Parsons. How gay they sound! Oh 'tis fun to be a pioneer. Hear their merry calls! Into the drawer, Little Book. Mayhap some gay secrets I will tell tomorrow of this ride. ' MAY 1 V . . . . Gay halloos at the cabin door wakened me this morning but e'er we could get out, the gallop of horses' feet down the road proved to us that our early visitor had gone. Judge then our surprise at finding on the door a May -basket fashioned of birch bark and filled with trail- ing arbutus, apple blossoms and violets. , Tucked in the foliage was a wee card inscribed Clifford McNab, Esquire. The braw laddie is 'growing up, Little Book! JUNE 20 ' I A g , 'iThere is nothing in life that is half so sweet as love's young dream. So sang the poet and so say we. Such exciting, happy days with all the settlement agog for Benjamin Bochnowski, our village Hamilton, was married to Alice Johnson. For days, Diary, we scoured the woods for balsam boughs and trailing vines to transform the meeting house. Roses on the altars in great jars and tall field lilies banked the aisles. No city bride ever had fairer setting. g Far from Virginia by coach traveled aunt and uncle Nathaniel Johnson to be present at the ceremonies, bringing with them Otelia Simpson who had never before been in our cold northern country and much misery she endures from cool, night breezes which we do call indeed balmy. 'Tis cheerful though to hear her sing about the place and much will we miss her pleas- ing voice when the visit is done. ' Pastor Joseph Sheets did read the old service as never was read before, so impressive did it seem. Aye, 'tis a solemn moment that binds two souls forever. Sweeter than the birds who did rival him on the trees outside the window sang Joe Gauder, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes. Little Book, dost think that I, too, will ever stand thus? I tremble. JULY 4 Old Independence Day, Diary, and I must hurry for already half the village is assembled at the Court House. Squire Cavanaugh is to read the Declaration of Independence in his stirring tones, which will indeed be a treat, while mine host Frisbie of the Deerpath Inn will be roasting the animal for the great barbecue to follow. Dame Frisbie, too, is such a cook as would make the gods of high Olympus forsake their nectar. She that was so recently Mae Sullivan. Did I not tell thee, Little Book, of their elopement some time back? AUGUST 8 How many things of interest we pioneers do learn! Comes in today Warren Scheid with a proposal of his own to hunt ginseng. Far from Germany from his famous uncle came the information that this humble root which we can dig is worth much money, so Warren did enlist the aid of Harriet Herod, Ralph Graham, Helen Bielecky, Julius Nestor, Lester John- Page Sevenfeen

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