Templeton High School - Class Book Yearbook (Baldwinville, MA)

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TEMPLETON TEIVIPTER 15 Literar Department p SALLY'S ADVENTURE It was the Christmas week of 1910. The children of Miss Randolph's first grade had been dismissed. Dismissed for a whole week. Just think! A week to plan for Santa's coming. Gleefully, they romped through the school door and slid down the icy sections of the concrete walkg proudly they displayed their Christmas cut-ups which they had made in the drawing class. A Some hurried to their warm homes: others lagged behind discussing the presents which they expected good Santa to bring. Sally Oglethorpe belonged to the lagging group, not that she was a laggard, but that she was simply bubbling over with plans and wished some of her special girl-friends to be in on some secrets. She had a great surprise for her twin- brother, Ranny. It was something Ranny had been asking Santa for a long, long time. But Santa always forgot it: so Sally had written to Santa herself and had asked him not to disappoint Ranny again because he was a good brother. And what do you think happened yester- day? she asked the other little girls. But not waiting for a reply she continued in a secretive whisper: The Expressman brought 'It' yesterday. Mother and I put it in the , H . 0 . . . . A shriek pierced the childish babble and the cry for Sally, Sally was heard and Sally contrary to all her mother's and teacher's warnings dashed across the street, without looking to the left or right to help the twin brother, who had slipped on the icy pavement. Sally never reached Ranny, for she was knocked down-then darkness. Sally Oglethorpe painfully opened her eyes. She had had a very strange dream, that ls, she had the feeling that she had dreamed. She couldn't remember anything about it, only that it had been strange. How dim her room was! Why there were people moving about her room! What could have happened? Oh! ' She remembered she had been struck down by the minister's automobile, for Min- ister Brown was the only one in the village who possessed such a. luxury. She had tried to 'check her flight but she had been too late. Sally sat up in bed-Who could these pe- culiarly' garbed people be? And this gentle white-haired lady who looked very familiar? Who could this smiling young man be? He looked like some one she should know very Well. Sally rubbed her eyes and looked about the room. Why, this was not her room! What had happened to her Jack and Jlll wallpaper? She must ask mother about this change. She was going to slip out of bed when she no- ticed the length of her legs! Why, what had happened to her? She felt like Alice in Won- derland whose story her mother had read to her the night before. But unlike Alice she had grown up. She must surely be as big as mother. Where were her curls? Possibly un- der the bandages. Sally looked at every one in bewilderment: Please may I see my mother? she asked in a childish voice. The gentle white-haired lady moved nearer the bed and enfolded Sally in her arms. This is mother, dear, she said. Sally was about to deny this statement, when the smiling young man stepped forward and said, and I'm Ranny? Impossible! Ranny was only a little fellow in the nrst grade! Just then one of the peculiarly garbed group stepped forward and said in a gruff and odd sounding voice: It is better that you ex- plain the situation to your daughter, Mrs. Oglethorpe. At the present moment the past years are perfectly blank. I fear it will be necessary for you and Ranny here to do some heavy explaining to this little girl. You must begin at the time of her accident twenty years ago. Twenty Years Ago!!! echoed Sally. Between Mrs. Oglethorpe and Ranny, Sally acquired a fair idea of what transpired during the past years. b She had learned of her father's unsuccess- ful search for a doctor who could restore his Sal1y's memory. Doctors all over the country had been baffled by her condition. Some doc- tors went so far as to say that there was noth- ing the matter with her, that she was per- fectly normal and healthy and that her mind was not affected in any Way. But Daddy Oglethorpe was not satisfied. He continued in his search but there wasn't a doctor in the United States or in Canafflit that

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14 TEMPLETON TE-MPTER Every time this particular horse thinks he can get loose and run away, he thinks he is doing something very clever, but his mistress thinks entirely just the opposite. There isn't any thing a horse likes better than to have his mistress run after him with the halter and a pail of beans trying to make him think they are oats, but you can't fool an old horse. You can always catch a horse if he hasn't broken his harness and put him out in the pasture, a horse after he has broken loose and run away thinks and knows he is at liberty and that is all there is to it. This particular horse that ran away April 13, 1931, was chased by' some smallerboys who thought they were doing something big. He ran down the Rabbit Track, the railroad that goes by the Templeton High School and ran across the trestle that goes over the famous Otter River, and there he found he was a bad, naughty horse. His four feet fell through but somehow he got himself out with three skinned legs and then limped around until some prominent men of Baldwinsville caught him. . His mistress-went and got the punished horse. He was glad to get back to his beloved stall where he docilely stands on three skinned legs, the other suffering from a wrench. The mistress wonders if he Will ever run away again after he gets over this first pun- ishment. Of course he won't run away at the present time but possibly in the near future. I hope he don't go in the same tracks. E. K. '33 A Green Lawn There is one thing which n rly everyone will agree would greatly improv the appear- isitors to the ance of the T. H. S. building. school building might easily get, a wrong idea of this school when they come up the front walk. To the left are trampled grass stubs, while to the right is a would-b gravel lawn. A green lawn extending the e tire length of the building to the sldewal would very greatly add to the appearance of the build- ing. To have such a lawn, the rst necessary step would be to grade the front grounds with loam. Next it would be seeded nd rolled. The third and probably the most difficult step, would be not to have the fron lawn used as a. playground and a short cut tg the sidewalk. These two faults could be e erminated by placing a low fence about the 1 wn and by the faculty ruling of both the gra mar and high school to KEEP OFF THE GR, S. There is plenty of playground space around this build- ing and across the street making it seem as though this small section inf front of the building could be reserved for la grass plot. It is hoped that by some means the finan- cial ability and the ambltiontto cultivate a lawn will be stirred by this sho t article. T. H. S. make your school b 'llding a beauty to the community. A. P. G. N A WINTER TRAGEDY Out in the woods where the snow is deepg In the summer when the crickets peep, All is quiet and serene, Snow covering all that was once so greeen ,Often at night when all is still, A fox comes walking up over the hill, With dainty tread from caution caused With foot in mid-air he suddenly paused. Scenting a meadow mouse gone astray, The sly old fellow creeps toward his prey, Again he pauses, for before him he sees, The small brown mouse on a fallen tree. Not soon enough aware of his foe, - The poor little mouse is compelled to let go, Never again will he hunger know, l Or the beauty of woods that are covered 5 with snow. E. N. '34 l

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I T 16 TEMPLETON 'rEMP'rEa could help Sally. It was impossible to search Europe, as at that time-the year 1914, Europe Was plunging into what later turned out to be the World War. Soon 'all the country and the countries of Europe were at War with Germany and her allies. Later in the year 1917 the United States de- clared War against Germany and Austria. Americans were asked to volunteer and Daddy Oglethorpe was one of the first to do so. It was during the Americans' first encounter with the Germans at the Marne that Daddy Oglethorpe had been killed. Months later, on the eleventh of November, 1918, the Armistice was signed and the world was at peace again. Mother, being of a naturally timid nature, was afraid to continue with Daddy's search in a foreign land.' She decided to wait until Ranny was through with his schooling before she would leave for Europe. Meantime, Ranny, very much interested in his twin sister's case, had taken up the medi- cal profession. ' During his- senior year at medical school Ranny heard of a great Doctor in France, who specialized in cases of annesia. ' Soon the three Oglethorpes were on their way to France to interview the great Doctor . THE A storm was coming! That was the news the people along the coast heard. Some shrugged and thought it couldn't be any worse than others they had had. While others sharing scorn from some and Words of en- couragement from others of their companions, shivered and feared it. The storm had come and was there in all its fury, bringing destruction to all things along the beach. A In a small cottage not far from the jagged rocks which held the swelling sea from sweep- ing over the beach, two boys about twenty years of age were discussing the storm. Jack turned' to his companion who was 'sitting in a chair by the iire and said Art, what do you think of this storm, do you think it will hit the coast here ,as badly as it did the coast above us yesterday? Oh, why worry about the storm. It can't be any worse than the one ,we had three weeks ago. , Boy! that was some storm, wasn't it? replied Art. Yeah! but I Wish this storm would let up., I don't like all this rain andwind we're hav- ing. The waves are even now crashing up over. the rocks below us. It won't be long before it will .be up to the house, if it keeps On, was his answer as he moved to the door Duport. Doctor Duport was more tha pleased to ex- amine Sally as this, even to m, was a very unusual case. The fact that 0 many years had elapsed and that so many Doctors were ballled, was enough to entice him. But, first, Sally must go back to America, back to the scenes of her childhood, before the Doctor consented to operate. The opera- tion was too delicate to be performed in an unfamiliar environment. In accordance with the Doctor's wishes, the Oglethorpes traveled back to America. . Did she remember the ride in Ranny's air- plane from New York to Oglestown? Air- plane? Sally didn't even know what it was. Ranny enthusiastically explained the new mode of traveling and promised to take her out riding again as soon as Doctor Duport al- lowed. Doctor Duport had performed the opera- tion and soon Sally would become acquainted with all the things that she had known. Be- fore many days she would be Well enough to feel that nothing had ever happened. The only thing that marred the Oglethorpe's happiness, was, fthe thoughtl that Daddy Oglethorpe should have been there to help them celebrate. R- F- '32 STORM and opened it to look out. Art crded Jack as the door was torn from his grasp and slammed against the house, letting the storm sweep into the warm room. Look at the sea! It's never been that high before. I think we ought to be getting out of here. Oh! don't be a baby Art replied, as he joined Jack and helped him shut the door which the wind and rain were trying to keep open. 'Tm not! but . . . his sentence was interrup- ted by the ringing of the telephone and he crossed the room and lifted the receiver. Hello! What's that? We ought to leave? The walls have given out? All right! We'll leave, and We'll stop and tell Old Man Nelson on our way down the beach. Yes. Goodbye! Well, as I said before, 'I'm no baby' but we've got to leave now. The walk up the beach has been washed out by the storm and the water is rushing up on the beach and even now some of the houses nearest the water are being flooded. Come! Take what you want and let's get going. We've got to stop on our way down and tell that miser, 'fOld Man to leave. The operator said the storm might be serious before long and we had better leave now and get to higher ground before it reaches its climax and we're washed