Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The SOMKKVILLB Hion School Raoiatok is published by the High School on the third Thursday ol every month «luring the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the 5th of the month. .Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial stair or mailed to the editor at the High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only, and sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should 1m mailed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. o. Single Copies, 10 Cents Vol. XXIV. Somerville, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 1914. No. 1 SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT tutorial Staff Editor insCbiet JOHN H. CHI PM AN, ’lo-B associate Editor OLIVE F. FOSTER, To-B Exchange Editor CAR IT A B. HUNTER, To-B Spotting Editor ERNEST F. STOCKWELL. '16-A alumni Editors ALVA G. MAYNARD, lo-B MARGARET WILEY. ’lo-B business Manager MERRILL G. WALLACE, 'lo-B assistant Business fcanafler ROSCOE O. ELLIOTT, '16-A Second assistant Business idaiiatier BRIAN GOWEN, ’lo-B. Creasurer GEORGE M. IIOSMER (Faculty) Statt artist DORIS B. CRESTO, To-B Class Editors MYRTON F. EVANS. To-A ELMER K. PILSBURY, ’lo-B GEORGE W. GARDINER. TC-A ARNOLD H. MURRAY, T6-B JOHN II. BREWER. ’17-A CHARLES Y. BAKER, T7-B WILLIAM BENNETT, T8-A

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Somerville Dtgb School jfacultv U KA DM ASTER. John A. Avery, 22 Dartmouth Street. VICE-HEAD MASTER. Everett W. Tuttle, 62 Highland Avenue. MASTERS. Frank M. Hawes, 257 School Street. Harry K. Sears, -14 Orris Street. Melrose High- lands. Harry i.. Jones, 137 Powder House Boulevard. Frank II. Wilkins, 1! Heath Street. Roy W. Hatch. 21 Grove Street. West Medford. John L. Hayward, 242 School Street. SUB-MASTERS. Howard Poor, 27 Mt. Vernon Street, Reading. George M. Hosmer, 13 Arlington Street. William W. Obear, 86 Belmont Street. Laurance A. Sprague, IT Perkins Street, West Newton., John M. Jaynes, 29 Putnam Street. Guy C. Blodgett, 92 Belmont Street. Walter I. Chapman. IS Central Street. John M. Nichols, 41-A Brent Street, Dorchester. Albert W. Hopson, G5 Hudson Street. JUNIOR SUB-MASTERS. Augustus B. Tripp, 57 Wallace Street. S. Thomas Hall, 62 Highland Avenue. Clarance I.. Foster, 25 Gibbens Street. Stephen 11. Mahoney, 16 Parker Street. Edward N. White, 11 Chestnut Street, Wellesley Hills. Lester W. Dearborn. ASSISTANTS. A. Marion Merrill, 24 Central Road. Frances W. Kaan, 133 Central Street. Helen L. Follansbce, 40 Vinal Avenue. Lena Gilbert. 51 Elmwood Street. Harriet E. Tucll. 10 Harvard Place. Elizabeth Campbell. 15 Pleasant Avenue. A. Laura Batt. 21 Central Road. M. Helen Teele. 11 Jason Street, Arlington. Anna Pushec, 10 Harvard Place. Clara A. Johnson, 177 Central Street. Elizabeth II. Hunt, 121 St. Stephen Street, Bos- ton. Mabel G. Curtis. 49-A Trowbridge Street. Cam- bridge. Lucy I. Toplift. 57 Cypress Street, Brookline. •On leave of absence. Eudora Morey, 26 Batavia Street, Boston. Ella D. Gray, 147 Walnut Street. Ruth Touscy, 106 Professors Row. Bessie L. Forbes, 92 Orchard Street. Bertha A. Raymond, 146 Highland Avenue. Blanche S. Bradford, 157 Summer Street. F. Gertrude Perkins, 67 Thurston Street. Mabel Butman, 49 Boston Street. Grace Gatchell. 19 Vinal Avenue. Grace E. W. Sprague, 888 Massachusetts Avenue,. Cambridge. A. Marguerite Browne, 27 Everett Street, Cam- bridge. Esther Parmentcr, 17 Magnolia Street, Arling- ton. Annie C. Woodward, 150 School Street. Edith L. Hurd, 125 Central Street. Nancy B. Kimball, 76 Bartlett Street, Malden. Julia T. Connor, ‘59 Church Street. Alice A. Todd, 82 Munroe Street. Florence L. McAllister, 23 Wallace Street. Hattie M. Baker, 70 Pearson Avenue. Louise B. Hoyle, 124 Summer Street. Mary F. Osborne, 67 Boston Street. Ella W. Bowkcr, 2 Hillside Avenue. Edith R. Macurdy, 28 Chestnut Street, Water- town. Gladys S. Jcnnison, 28 Vinal Avenue. Marion F. Ornc, 43 Fairmount Avenue. Ruth E. Low, 122 Summer Avenue, Reading. Ellen S. Patten, 40 Massachusetts Avenue, Cam- bridge. Charlotte A. Norton, 5 Gorham Street. Helen J. Coffin, 10 Rosedale Street, Dorchester. Laura R. Cunningham, 62 Highland Avenue. Ruth A. Davis, 11 Dartmouth Street. M. Belle Preston, 84 Packard Avenue. Lillian I . Treadwell. 68 Ossipee Road. Marjorie L. Henry, 62 Clark Road, Brookline. Mary L. Johnson, 5 Oakland Avenue. Julia A. ilalev, 88 Prospect Street. Ilene C. Richie, 15 Willoughby Street. Helen F. Lvon, 392 Broadway. Mabel Williams. 9 Aldersey Street. Mabell M. Ham, 11 Boston Street. JANITORS. Lewis G. Keene, 54 Prescott Street. Charles Hovt, 18 Trull Street. W. H. Kelley, 25 Aldrich Street.

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6 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Cbe Sailor-Dermit of tbe Hslanb J8x TRoscoe Elliott, 16 36 ILL BRYCE and myself, were unde- cided where to go when the Acad- emy closed for the summer. We had always gone up on Lake Winni- pesaukce. camping, but we were tired of going to the same place every summer, and thought that an island off the coast of Maine would suit us exactly. Accordingly, one bright day in the middle of July. Bill and I sailed out of Boston Harbor, in my uncle’s big sixty-foot cruiser, for our island. The name of the island was llarachan. 'Hie fishermen of the vicinity have always been afraid to go on it. because one of their number. Jeremiah Higgins, by name, was almost frightened to death by the skeletons and ghosts which he had seen on it. We were warned to take heed and keep out of danger, but Bill and I thought that there wasn’t a ghost in the country that could scare us. and speaking of skeletons, that made us laugh, be- cause we had handled one in school to such an extent that we had to settle with the principal, so ghosts and skeletons didn’t bother us. We had a tent big enough to keep both of 11s under cover, an abundance of supplies, an automatic Colt revolver apiece, and plenty of fishing tackle, so we had enough for excitement. Moreover Bar Harbor was not very far distant, and if we wanted a change, we could spend a few days in that resort. After we had been on llarachan Island for a week. Bill and I thought we would explore. We knew that the place was uninhabited except for the ghosts and skeletons, so we were safe from trespassing. There are three large hills on the island and we decided to climb the largest one first. We were half-way up the hill, when we sat down to rest at the edge of a clearing. While we were resting. Bill remarked that a certain stump in the open- ing didn't look quite natural and he hardly got the words out of his mouth when we saw the stump sink down into the ground. If we hadn’t had on our caps. I think our hair would have stood on end. Bill’s teeth were chattering and my knees were knocking. There was no doubt about it. Bill and T were scared blue, but we soon lay down on the ground and gazed at the end of the stump. Just then the stump disappeared and we saw a death’s head take its place. It glistened in the sunlight and grinned like an ape. Believe me! Bill and I thought that the fish- ermen were right, and I guess we had a good rea- son to think so. The head stayed there just a minute and went down into the hole again and the stump came back up. This seemed ages to us and it must have been five minutes before we dared to look around again, but it took us just about five min- utes more to reach camp. That night. Bill thought for our welfare that we should sleep in the snug little cabin of our cruiser, which was anchored in the cove, just a little off-shore. Bill and 1 couldn’t sleep that night. We could still see that glistening death’s- head as it grinned at us. In the morning Bill said to me. “Henry, you and I have just got to stop this. I've just been thinking this thing over and I’ve come to the con- clusion that we re big scared babies. Now I’m going to get at the bottom of this thing. What do you say?” I had said hardly a word since the night be- fore. but I agreed with Bill and asked him what was his plan. He said that we had better go back there in the morning and see if the same thing would hap- pen again. Therefore, in the morning we jogged up the hill, took oud old positions and. as before, saw exactly the same sights. Only this time Bill took out his Colt automatic and pumped three shots into the death’s head. It stayed there just a minute, then disappeared, but the stump didn't go back into place again. Bill knows a lot more than I do. and whatever he says goes, and now he suggested that we go back to camp and come back the next day to see if matters had changed any. Again we decided to sleep on board the cruiser, but as we were not very sleepy that night, we brought out some chairs on deck and talked. We could barely see the outline of the shore, it being a rather cloudy night. As I looked to- ward shore. I thought I saw some light near our camp, and I called Bill’s attention to it: he saw it too. Very soon the light came a little nearer and n a second or two, we saw the whole figure of a-