Sabattus High School - Yearbook (Sabattus, ME)

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Maud but all the same your way of farming is old fashioned. You farm the way your grandfather farmed, but I'm going to make you change your mind about it some day.H The next morning Jake came stomping into the kitchen where Martha was at work HMartha, Marthaln he shouted, HWhere is Tom? He said he would finish plowing the meadow for me today. ll Martha looked up from her baking with a twinkle in her eye and said, nTom went down to Joe's for somethingn. nThat means he won't finish plowing that meadow,n thundered Jake HI tell you, Martha, if Uncle Jim hadn't gone and left Tom all that money he'd be go, so they say College, in not from traipsing off 'Hark, Jake' What's that Jak listened then said, the meadow let's go look better off today Easy come easy boshl I got my education from work to college noise? cried Martha 'It sounds like it's out back Maybe it's one of thos devil con raptions that they call airplanes is down bo they went ard when hey looked over the hill into the meadow what did they see but Tom and Joe going around and around that meadow turning the sod over Jake Just stood there staring and hardly believing his own eyes Tom was turning over were sod in half an hour then Jake had in half a day and that nding busted iron hor e nadn' rested once HLet's go over neale ,H he said NIt isn t going to run a way , so over they started When Tom saw them, he came over, stopped the tractor and said 'Happy birthday, Dad' I thought I'd break this new orse to plow Hov am I doingq' a e look d the tractor and the ground over then said, It does good work, Son, and quirk, but it never will whinny and snuggle its nose again t me like old Jerry and Maud when they under tood me After they had watched Tom for a while they walked back to the house, they were ilcnt for a moment then Jake spoke to Martha nGuess ve better get someone to help me on the farm and let Tom finish college We started to make a fool of him and we might as well do a good job of it You know some of is idea are pretty good after all I Joan sauntered toward the pay station Th re was Just time to telephone to Jim that she was leavirg for New fork Ihe telephone directory was in use but surely she could remember his number ev n if she had nat called it all these months Sh fumbl d for her n cktl, took dovn the receiver, and said s ovly, NGreenston 451 Xu She heard the op rator ring the number Then a voice said HH llc' It was J1m's voice, she knew it uJlm9 she said 'This is Joan I've Just called to tell you 'm leaving for New fork H 'New fork? nYfs, I've decided this whole thing is too much o can't stand it any lorge I'm going to my rich aunt York She ha writ n to me s veral times wan ing me her I didn't find time un il now I'm sorry lt had New v sit turn ou like this but 1t's the best way ll 1 Joan, if you ll only l t m explain, pleaded 1m 'There's nothing to explain replied Joan coldly 'Good 15 o I ' J . .. ' H o 5 ' - ll ' O l Q A 1 . . C, . J ln .1 . ' g l S ... ' t ' ' YI I U 1 4- . A U X . -. . I 5 - I . . ,T ' l - I . . , ld I s u s 4. - S u . g w 1 ' Y fy- 'v I' 0 4 A H -- C . I ' g Q 4 h 'v ' ' O U If J k 9 u LJ I 3 . , . . J I . U . S A . 3 a H S Q 1 Y . 1 . . 3 B Y C Y - gl .L L LJ A a Q L 1 'v ' . . , L .1 . G , . ' 0 Q l h s D - ' . E. J, 49 . . . V Q ' ' O kJ .1 ' . , X V7 A ' .L L Q ' n J y w . . 0 . J. Nd L K. . . -. f- 1 . 9 S I ' w 'J , . vl Y 6 4 ' Q L 9 . I . . G , 1 F . . . . . - 0 I . gg . y . . . o J. Q ' w I I LT 2' . I ' - 11 . O O 5 - e I J f r me. I 1 N ,H . M . . - 1. 4. 1 . I ln , ,, 4- . . . A fs te e - e f c g I to 1 . ,. . ,, . . Q tl 3 Lf 5 ' to - - n t u T o . . yy . ' e e J . I .' ' If Y I' , t A . Bye . .. ..- .

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But Joan- and that was all she heard because she had hung up the receiver and turned with tears in her eyes. Her train was leaving in ten minutes, but to her it would seem like ten seconds, because she loved Maine and hated to leave. She loved Jim too. But ever since 5 months ago when she had seen him with another girl she had moved into a new apartment and had not told him where. Une night there was a murder committ- ed in the next apartment to hers, bhe had just come in and had been accused of killing the man She was nearly sentenced to life imprisonment but when a thorough s arch of the v1ctim's apartment was mad they found finger prints on an umbrella handle that pmoved Joan was not guilty of the crim , because the desk clerk had s en a young man come in to the apartment house with that same umbrella Th clerk said wh n he went out h was running and did not have it with him She said she had rem mber d the umb lla particularly because of its w ll bl nded color She d crib ed he boy as tall with black hair and a pimply complexion He was lat r fomnd in a b er parlor, wh he confessed Joan was given a full pardon and was freed Now Joan stood outsid the station waiting for a train that would carry her away from Jim forever Sued nly there was a sore ch of tires on the concr to road Joan swung around in time to see Jim get off with th vw l she had seen him with 5 months a o Sh tried to duck but Jim saw her and said Meet my s ster, Phylli ' Joan Just tood and stared at er then like r cov ring from a shock h ran to Jim and apolo gized for b ing such a fool Jim forgafe her and the n xt week they wer walking down th aisle, arm in arm with the organ playinv Joan wa dz ss d in whit from head to foot and Jim wa a proud husband to be I The Neighborhood P+st Our n ighborhood would be periect if only one thing were not in the state Ev rybody minds his own business, no on 's cats howl on back fences, no one's dogs balk at th moon, every body's children stay at home, and no one gossips. H8l4hbOPhOOd but about v ry oth r neighborhood in th state Before I go any further, let m d scrib this nest to you is a large animal, has hug horns and is a hlacki h gray, he is v ry strong and will fight if he is corn red The r ason h is the p st in th neighborhood is becau h will walk through hc gaid ns, fight with th livestock and tear down barbed wi fences Ie is also a v ry nosey animal he will come up and look in th scnoolhous windows, sm ll the mailboxes, at from haystack in back of th rouses, ear down radio aerials, pick up plant pots and tear down clothes lines, carrying them away with his horns, and dropping them lat r H is about th siz of a horse, in fact I one though he was a ne1ghbor's horse and start d to get out of the ca and driv him, but wnen I saw what he was I got back into th car and milhty quicklv He came ue and m ll d of the h d lights, then slowly walk d away This an m l also at on tin used a ca as a rubbing post We have follow d thi of thes pest for ov r a mile down the 16 O 1 ,. ' 9 x . G r A E L 1 5 .3 1 .5 K 5 .J ' ' ' , , - e 1 , e A .A 'A . J 'A . . . -1? f G Q G - . . - A , 'A l 1 I X A 'CJ N . . e . e ' T G C3 S 0 K3 S ' , .... Lf - 0 ' . e 1 c' ere A . . A ' s , L I . A 3 . . . . U D . ' J- Y ' Y A O ' 1 ,X ' , , 1 u 8 .J I . 3 ' ' ' fu ' vu ' ef O C .. J. 4 3 . . F. ? g L U ' .- I ' 1 A s. s e h . . 3 6 :J .. S- :B . - ' e , . ' if . a e . . . . 3 T3 X nr 4 V3 ' y . I' UI 1 'X 'N . . .3 lx e Q 0 O D C1 4. V S . D. D. 49 'A 'I' 'N e , . e. - a . . . a. e ' e I ' a Q f' e - - . X . r J. r. . . This pest that I'm going to write about not only pesters our . ,. . g e e e e J . e . . . 1 1 2 e e e - . He T . 3 '1 l ' ' Q 0 S, . , LQ L : .J 7 . . c Ha- . . a . e 1 . - . V h o u 1 o 4 r X e-' e 3 - e D t, - e se e . + y . . A , . e 'I e ' G . .. I .I G 'x ' 1 ' fn u T fx 1 0 ' .. I' C3 ' Q A .1 Q . A , . , . , e e e of . . 3 C . - S I f' Q J. t 1 . , . . 3 K . A - .L , 1. N , . . - ' x u l 1 . , e . e e e - ' f e - . ' . e '- fr ' e ', ' ' a 'r e ' T ' :Q ca x 1- fn rs 'J .. U Q A -J D L4 I U J. -N - e e ,. ' I .-1 an ' . ix , Yr ' J. CA L gf Ak! - ' 4 Q e' e see e A s e ' 1 e C