Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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THE TOWN CRIER Second Prlze STory Clouds were rolllng over The lagged mounTauns and seTTllng down In The valley where a small baTTered Town nesTled The sTorm engulTed TT luke a monsTer Trapping :Ts prey The dun oT The hghTnlng The slappung oT unhoolced shuTTers and The roar oT The Thunder made a weird TanTasT1c scene Down The mann sTreeT wallced a man l-le was sTooped wuTh age and hrs hands were bony and seemingly l1Teless In one slmnny hand he carried a lanTern In The oTher a croolced sTaclc used as a cane ln splTe oT The sTorm and nonse one could hear hum chanT1ng E1ghT Bells EughT Bells over and over agann Thus wrunlcled old creaTure was The Town Cruer supposedly BuT Thus llTTle vnllage oT The Crlers had no lnhablTanTs IT was a deserTed clTy evacuaTed an The gold rush days AT one Tlme CenTer ClTy was a Thruvnng communuTy oT almosT Two Thou sand beings ThaT had made Their sTal4e here BuT gold had been devoured as soon as discovered and IT wasnT long unTll IT had all vanushed There Tollowed a sTrnlce To The NorTh and There had been a rush Tor new sTalces and more riches In Thelr hasTe The ClTy Council had neglecTed To Tnre Caleb WeaTher bee and accordung To The Crier he was sT1ll drawung wages Trom CenTer CuTy s Chamber oT Commerce To The clTy shclrers ThaT oTTen vnsuTed The Town on sporTnng Tr ps The old man was Insane Whenever one oT The hunTung parT1es would arrlve aT CenTer ClTy They were gnven a cordial welcome by Qld Caleb and received The besT rooms oT The Grand CenTral l-ToTel Trom The careTalcer who was none oTher Than The Crner hnmselT T-Te always explanned To has guesTs ThaT The owner was ouT oT Town buT would arrive shorTly To relueve hum oT has du T AT This sTaTemenT The guesTs would loolc aT one anoTher In bewnldermenT already lcnowung ThaT The Town had been deserTed Tor over Twelve years lT never Tauled Tor The Crler To be up brughT and early In The morn ng malcnng hns rounds w1Th hns vonce echoung baclc and TorTh and un a d ou oT The empTy bulldmngs ReTurnung To The hoTel he would commenT To nas guesTs on The dlsposuTuons oTvaruous Tamul1esThaT had recenTly erecTed res clenc s un The near neughborhood IT was durung one oT These lulls on buslness as Caleb would say ThaT Three Tough loolung men arrnved aT CenTer CnTy ATTer has cordial welcome and 1llusTruous speeches The Crner was Talcen prusoner by The Three des 22 , . .I . . H . . H 1 1 1 . . . 7 s . ' - ll ll . . , . . . I . . . , I - - rv lu - . l . . . +.eS. . . . . . - A E . . . . . . . R . . . ,, . . . . .. I C

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TRANSFIGURED FORESTS llzirsl Prize Poeml Falling sollly and silenlly Spreading ils lrosly glow, lransliguring lhe loresl, Came lhe guiel snow. Belore, il was green and lriendly, Wilh moss, and leaves and slrearnsg Now il is while and haughlyg l-low splendorous il seems. Bul lhough il seems unlriendly, Wrlh als lcnngly crowns ol snow l love :ls icy branches Which now are bending low This cold lransliguralion Which has lalcen place al nighl Makes a scene ol brealhless beauly Shrouding lhe loresl in while RICHARD TUTTLE 43 F A 2 I l Jones l-ligh School I I I I , . I l ' '-2' sc, Meafc' LEO L Ssw5,, 43 ' S' X 4' Sisci

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perados and Thrown ID 'rhe sloreroom al The holel where he was guven lullle food or wafer The men who la'rer lurned oul To be convucls slayed for nune days When lhey were ready lo leave Caleb receuved a mercnless beallng Caleb Wealherbee was a man ol slrong consllluluon despsle hls age l-le slaggered and crawled for eughl males +o a farm house where he relaled his slory 'rhen complelely collapsed The old man hung onfo lrle for nearly lhree days Now slandnng above has grave lhal us marlced by a large and beauhlul slone as Jrhe Grand Cenlral l-lolel ll looms as a vanguard lor Jrhe loyally and memories of Caleb Cn rhe lombslone as carved These sample words In a radlanl blue Lies our Crler Farlhful and lrue l-le has mel has Snre ll as sand lhal on a darlc and ranny nlghl one can see Jrhe ghosl of fhe Crier Jrhreadung hns way along Jrhe wundung avenues of lhe ghosl 'rown swung :ng has eerue lanlern whsle Jrhe rusly and swnngnng shuHers seem lo reverber are has ghoslly cry Elghr Bells E1qh+ Bells GEORGE BATES 4l MT Shasra l-hgh School 23 - A x A 3 4 r 9 .Z I ., jf I Q. fr 3 C x fp'