Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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THE OCKSHEPERIDA 5 From the Business Manager (By Charles Halley) This is the first time this year I have attempted to write an article for the Ockshcpcrida dealing with the business end of the paper, which, as you all know, is the most difficult part to be handled. Being business manager, it involves the general care of the paper but more especially it deals with the advertising, and the business manager must see the merchants of Sheridar and endeavor to secure their patronage This is necessary for the simple reason that we could not publish a magazine were it not for the income derived from advertising; or a magazine like the Ockxlicpcrida might be published by charging from three to five dollars for each year’s subscription. Thus it is plainly seen that it is the advertising alone which enables the students of Sheridan High School to publish a magazine, and it is about this advertising which I wish to talk to the high school students. Hose many of you ever took aver the advertisements in the Ockshcpcrida and consider what they are offering you? How many of you who, when purchasing some articles at one of the local stores, thank the owners for their advertising in the Ockshcpcrida, or if they do not advertise, remind them that the high school students arc supporting their advertisers? It is probable that, during the six months the Ockshcpcrida has been published. not over a dozen students have ever done either of these things. It is a lack of interest on your part, and on the part of the other students. The majority pay their subscription, receive their paper every month and enjoiy it, they never help to get out an issue eithe by boosting among the merchants or by handing in material. The Ockshcpcrida is supposed to be published by the students of Sheridan High School, but it is not—it is published by the fourteen members of the staff. If the students would do the small thing mentioned above (thanking the advertisers for patronizing the Ock sheperida, and patronizing them), it would be easy to obtain seventy-five dollars a month from advertising, whereas now it is very difficult to secure fortv to forty-five dollars a month. The merchants of Sheridan would be very anxious tQ advertise since thev would lie getting some returns for their money while now it is very difficult to secure advertising since all regard it. and justly, as being a contribution to the paper; finallv. for seventy-five dollars a month Sheridan High School could have the best high school paper published in the United States, while now we have only an ordinary magazine. When you consider, it is not very much trouble on vour part to do those things which we have mentioned. Whenever you purchase some art.!.;' -•

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4 THE OCKSHEPERIDA terest to travelers. One noticeable feature is the absence of bread, finely cut dried fish being used instead. A meal for two, including a Ixrttle of “Saki (their native drink), will cost alxmt thirty Sen (fifteen cents in United States money). In the event of a tourist Incoming lost a little policeman wearing a red coat and carrying a short sword will be glad to tell “Honorable American’’ where he can get a ricksha to take him back to the ship. From the Mountains (By Roy Hildebrand) The morning was clear and cold as I picked my way to a high i eak above Rapid Creek canon. The snow seemed a great heavy blanket hiding and protecting the seeds and grass below mv feet. As I looked down into the canon the l eauty of nature’s work amazed me. The sparkling water falling over icy pedestrals and threshing itself into foam among the rocks, the tall pine trees with their cloaks of snow, and the hump-backed range cattle feeding along the bank, made a picture an artist would have found hard to reproduce. Looking to the east and far down the valley the cone-shaped bills appeared to be a huge Titan camp where but recently the soldiers had pitched their large, white tents. The tractless shimmering plain, over which the wolf and jackrabbit hold domain, was spotless in the morning sun, while above me, rising to a great height, loomed the silent mountains. Here and there the forest of pines was broken bv patches of ground pine hich lay white in the untrodden snow. The high rocks and precipices, over which the shaggy mountain goat climbs at will. l«x ked grim and aweinspiring in the gray white color they had assumed. The clear blue sky, together with the blueish-purple haze surrounding the snow-clad mountain peaks, seemed a fitting background to this paradise of ice and snow. When finally I looked again into the canon lx low and toward the cabin where a thin spiral of smoke was slowly mounting into the atmosphere, the thought came to me that no mere human being can fully understand or comprehend the beauty over which nature rules. When great Titian lived, the old lad Made golden haired girls all the fad. If Mis Johnson had been On the green earth just then She’d have made a good model, bedad! John “Celery” Hawkes in his time Has been praised both in pro e and in rhyme, But this secret we’ll tell. And we know very well he'll never In-classed as sublime.

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6 THE OCKSHEPER1DA from a firm which is advertising in the Ockshcpcrida, thank them for patronizing your magazine and the high school’s magazine: if they do not advertise, remind them that the high school students are patronizing and boosting Ockshcpcrida advertisers. This would l)e of immense help to the staff with very little trouble on your part. I would love to talk to every student individually about boosting for the Ockshcpcrida. and I did talk with a few, but I am not able to see every one in school, so an article is the only means of reaching all of you. The Ockshcpcrida just made expenses of the printing on this issue, because it was extremely difficult to obtain advertising, and if you wish to see the Ockshcpcrcrida out of debt at the end of the year it is up to you to •help. You can boost, and easily. Here are our advertisers for this issue: J. Krank Heald. Sheridan County Savings Bank. Bentley! Petrie. P. C. Duncan. Citizens State Bank. Mills Printing Co. Cocks-Clark Engraving Co. New Star Theatre. Fred Reineke. Peret. Luce Ports. H. C. Taylor. New York Store. The Brunswick. E. E. Clancy. Edleman Drug Co. Jackson-Tarbox Co. Pioneer Lumber Co. The Fuller Studio. Chas. A. Champion. Brown Drug Co. Stewart Dve Works. Sheridan lion Work Scotch Woolen Mills. H. Henschke. Sheridan County Electric Co. Cox Art Shop. Herbert Coffeen. Rovcroft Studio. High School Calendar (Fern Abel) December 8 What makes Minnie Miller look around so much in Arithmetic class T Why. the new boy who sits behind her. of course. December g Mary Aber looks lonesome. December io We know why Mary is lonesome Charles is sick. December 12 Alma (Explaining in Hamlet) — “Good Lord, be quiet.” December 15 Miss Kocken has a very mysterious telephone call. It surely can’t be Pete Heck, the usual excuse. December 16 Mr. Miller wires the shields to the typewriting machines. Why?