Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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THE HARBOR BEACON Why Mlss Mann you look better You have a llttle color ln your cheeks the alr IS what you need I ll see that she gets lt after th1s declared Frances She must keep me company For the next few days Vlfglnla spent long hours ln the garden Sometlmes Frances read to her afterwards she went on wlth her German and French whlle the lnvalxd lay qulet She galned but httle strength Frances saw that and It WOY'l'l6d her What would the poor gurl do lf she were not able to go on wlth her work? One mornlng Frances awoke wxth the solu tlon of that problem ln her mlnd She would go to Three Mountalns and take Vlrglnxa wlth her She would arrange the matter that very day and say that she was comlng and purchase the tlckets Then she would tell V lrglnla about It and mslst that she should go wlth her plan who seemed decldedly TQIICN ed I have been worrymg over lt Mlss Brown I saw no way of glvmg her the change she needs Three Mountams IS the very place for her MISS Brown thought xt very good of Frances and showed her appreclatlon by klSSlDg her forehead which was a most unusual act for the stately matron Late that aftemoon when Frances returned from the clty she went at once to Vlrglma ln the garden The latter greeted her more warmly than usual I have mlssed you so much today she sand Oh have you? Im glad now let me tell you some thmg and Frances told her about Three MOUDf31HS and her plans And you MUST go she ended V1rg1n1a looked at her a moment ln amaze ment then burst lnto tears How good you are to me she faltered And I thought you thought I was horrld fimshed Frances I was but ex ery thmg Wlll be dlfferent and better now Well learn to know each other Come' smlle and thlnk how strong and well you are golng to be Vlrgmla stood up I am better already she sald I m glad to go to the mountalns of course but much more glad that I have found ln you a frlend I do so need a real frlend and I have never seemed to know how to draw others to me Walt t1ll we get to the mountaxns dear answered Frances It IS golng to be a glorlous summer for us both you are not alone 1n needlng a frlend What may not the dear cool qulet mountalns do for us' E F B 17 Zllihe lbarbor JBeacon Editor in Chief GLADYS M ROLFE 1916 Assistant Editor Literary Editor ETHEL A HODGKINS 1915 Athletic Editor LEON M ORcU'r'r 1915 Local Editors H STANWOOD BoYNToN 1915 DORIS M LEIGHTON 1916 .alumni Editors BEss1E C CARLETON 1915 PAULINE S KINGSLEY 1917 Exchange Editor CHANDLER L NoYEs 1917 Business Manager WALTER S HANNA 1916 ORLANDO W Foss 1916 Personals FRED C LOUNDER 1915 The Harbor Beacon rs publrshed annually ln June by the students of Sulhvan Hugh School Terms 25 cents a copy Address all busmess commumcatxons to the Managers and all hterary contnbutxons to the Edltor 8 Ol ' ' ' ' KK n 1 r ' - y . . . . . ,, , . , . Y rr , ' 9 ll ! ' ' ,Y ' ' ' , . IK 71 . . . ,, , . - ' u - ' ' n ' 1 1 . ,, . . . , . - 3 S - , , . . . . ,, . . , . , , Frances went immediately to Miss Brown LEONARD F, FOSS, 1916 al 0 0 1 . , . . . . , , - ' n L , , , . Q . , ' I I V I , 7 . , , ll ' I, ' , . ll Y 7 ' 7 ' 77 ' I ll Y! . 1 ' ' I - , , ll . 77 , . u - n f y 7 Q H Y 7 . . ' - 7 7 . . ' 7 1 . I ' U . I . . . l .

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THE HARBOR BEACGN the plano but the sounds of her playmg reached Frances IH the garden where she often sat wlth her French and German tasks At the end of the second week Frances re celved a letter from her mother saymg that she had made arrangements for her to go to Three Mountalns A former mald had a pretty home there and she would be glad to have her for the summer She could take a frlend wlth her lf she wlshed But please yourself dear wrote her mother Go lf you w1sh or remaln at school Frances declded that she would not go It would be so lonely Here there were drlves and trlps to the Clty sometlmes but there there would be nothlng but mountams Now 1f I had known thls before Marguerlte went away I would have 1nv1ted her to go wlth me she mused to herself A few afternoons later Frances was slttlng ln her accustomed place when Mlss Brown came hurrledly mto the garden and approached her Mlss Hardlng she sald MISS Mann IS clty on lmportant buslness Everybody else IS out I don t llke to leave her alone Mlss Brown looked qulte worrled Frances looked qulte startled Slt wlth V1rg1n1a Mann? How could she? I did not know she was slck she stammered She has not been well for some tlme returned Mlss Brown But she perslsted ln contmulng her work at the plano Thls mornmg she was not able to get up There IS nothlng to do only stay ln the room Wlth her untll I return They found her lymg on the couch wlth her e yes closed She IS asleep I thmk whlspered MISS Brown If she IS not better thls evenmg I wul get a doctor Ill be back as soon aspossxble and at thls MISS Brown hurrled out of the room Frances seated herself by the wlndow and as she glanced around the room she thought what a contrast It was to her own She recalled that she had been told that V1rg1n1a had but httle money Now she felt sorry for her and was ashamed to thmk that she would be Jealous of a poor glrl Vlrgmla turned restlessly two or three tlmes If she notlced Frances presence she made no slgn She stlll seemed to be sleepmg when Mxss Brown returned two hours later The next mornlng when Frances lnquxred how Vlrgmla was Mlss Brown rephed She IS about the same The doctor says she IS sunply overworked and all she needs IS a change of a1r She ought to go to the mountams or sea but that IS lmposslble of course The poor g1rl has not the means to go Mlss Brown dld not tell Frances that lt was her own generoslty whlch made xt posslble for Vlfglnla to remaln at school Can I do anythlng for her? asked Frances There IS nothmg now returned Mxss Brown I thmk she w1ll be able to come down to the garden thls afternoon She must be kept absolutely qulet for some days and she must not do any more work on the plano afternoon she found Vlrglnxa there ensconced xn a wlllow chair She looked very Whlte and t1red I am sorry that you are not well sand Frances gently but you w1ll feel better ln the alr How would you llke me to read to you? A falnt flush crept mto Vlrgmlas cheeks She looked surprlsed I I don t llke to trouble you she murmured 1n a low tone Oh lt would be a pleasure sald Frances I am so lonely We wxll enjoy thls magazlne together Frances selected a story whlch proved to be a humorous one She herself was soon laughlng heartlly and glanclng up she saw that V1rg1n1a was SII1ll1I1g She had just finlshed the story when MISS Brown came mto the garden 7 I . . . . , i o . at ,, u 1 c u o al 7 I ! I ' ,, . . . . . - , . n ' - . . . - . ,, it 0 a . 1 4 n a I ' ll ll ' Y! , . . . . . ,, . . ,, . I . . ,, . . ll- ' ' Y! ' ll 'N ' ' if 7 7 ' illg would you mind sitting? I must go to the When Frances went down to the garden that l , a 0 ,, Q 1 o 0 Q a . l a 44 I ,, I ' I . . . ,, . ,, . . . . , . ,, . . , . . ll ' ll Y? , . . ,, . . . . . . . , . ' ' ll Y ' . If - 7 yy ' ll ' . Y! ' ' 7 7 ! ' K u ' u ' ' ' ' ' !! ' ' ll ' Y! , . . 7 ' 17 ' l , .

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THE HARBOR BEACON 9 ftlnturual Our school work thls year has been very successful The teachers have been worklng hard to lmprove the school All have displayed a great amount of school Splflt and are ln hopes to make the school better ln every way thls year than It has been ln the precedlng years We now have three teachers The Engllsh and muslc has been comblned thls year and lS taught by Mlss Presson We have obtalned a travellng library contalnlng fifty books from the state llbrary at Augusta Thls takes up subjects on hlstory geography muslc clvll government and some flctlon We are to keep these books for slx months Mr Webber has had many 9Xhlbll',S sent to hlm for the educatlon of the scholars Among these the most lmportant are Cocoa and Chocolate Educatlonal Exhlblt from Walter Baker Kz Co Dorchester Mass Cotton and also Woolen Exhlblt from the Paclfic Mllls Lawrence Mass the cotton exhlblt shows every step ln the development from the seed to the cloth the cereal exhlblt of Grape-Nuts Post Toastles Postum and Post Tavern Porrldge from the Postum Cereal Co Battle Creek Mlch The Dlamond Salt Exhlblt from the rock salt as mlned to the refined table salt also salt as evaporated from brlne from the Diamond Crystal Salt Co St Clalr Mlch School Exhlblt of Corn Products-thls shows all the products obtalned from corn from the Amerlcan Assoclatlon of Corn Products Chl cago Ill Carborundum Exhibit whlch shows the carborundum crystals as taken from the furnace and also the HI11Sh9d sample stones used as abraslve from the Carborundum Co Nlagara Falls N Y Asbestos Exhlblt thls shows the crude asbestos and the finished pro ducts obtained from lt from the Asbestos Co Amber Penna Standard Oll Exhlblt from the Standard Oll Co thls shows the crude oll refined oll floor wax parafine wax cylinder oll and coke One of the most lnterestlng phases of our school work this year has been the debatlng These debates occur the last part of Frlday afternoon once ln two weeks During the fall term the debatlng assoclatlon was reorganlzed and lS conducted by the stu dents ln a buslness llke manner The students have taken more lnterest ln the work thlS year than before as IS shown at the meetlngs slnce many students speak from the floor The sub Jects for the debates have been both mterestlng and lI1StI'l1CtlV6 many of them requlrlng much outslde study and research Many Freshmen have taken great lnterest ln thls work All th1S goes to show that debating 15 not looked forward to with dread by the students as lt was when first lntroduced lnto It lS a new and strange feellng that puplls experlence when they enter a hlgh school for the first tlme as freshmen It IS a usual custom that all freshmen should take front seats and here they slt the first two or three days llke statues hardly darlng to move After a few days thls feellng beglns to leave them and they shyly glance about them to see what their older nelghbors are dolng Perhaps they may see some of the upper classmen whlsperlng together across the alsle or throwing notes or somethlng else to create a dlsturbance Before they hardly reallze lt they wlll be dolng the same thlng What made them do lt? It was the lnfluence that the older puplls had upon them that made them do It The first year ln hlgh school the freshmen are sublect to more or less annoyance by the upper classmen and when the next year begins . . , ' , n I -1 1 1 . . i... - . . . 1 1 1 1 ' l . , .-.. ' I I . . . . . . . . . , . . , 9 I - . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . I - . . . . . . . . . . I 1 1 . . . 1 - ' . . . . . . ' 1 . . . . . . . 1 1 1 1 . . . . - . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . - . : thlsschool. . . . , .-1... . . . . -1 1 '1 . . . . . . 1 1 . . . 1 1 1 - . . . . . 1 1 1 . . . . 7 7 I 1 1 ' . l . . . -1 1 . . . . W U , . . . . . . . . -1 1 1 11 1 . . . , . . . . . . . . . 1 1 ' . . . . . . 1 '1 1 ' . 1 -1 . . . . . . 1 ' '1 -' 1 1 ' , .