Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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JANUARY 2. Teachers tell us we must be getting down to work as our brains have had a long time to rest. 3. Who seeks success must falter not, nor shirk, the only road that leads to it is Work. Edgar A. Guest. Go to it. 4. No Chapel. S. H. Lyttle fooled us. 5. If we miss one day we make it up the next. Had spelling today because we missed it yesterday. 6. Don't stand over the Register. That's supposed to heat the hall. 9. I am afraid that the High School Stenographers trespass in the hall too often for their own good-eespecially when somebody is coming down the stairs by means of superior force at his shirt collar. 10. Mr. Horst: Mr, Benfer, why don't We get any spark from this machine? Donald B.: Why, er, it ain't good sparking weather. 11. Now what do you think happened todayeWhy it tried to snow. 14. I was mistaken in that lad, Remarked one girlie with a smile. We once a slight flirtation had And went together for a while. I thought a diamond pin would be His smallest token of regard. And so it flabbergasted me To get a ten-cent postal card. 15. Sweet voice over phone: Helloeehello. Why, isn't this Mr. Lyttle's ofa? Mr. Lyttle, just waking up: Oh hello, dear fI'll be home for dinner in just a few moments. Voice eesomewhat agitated: Why -ite this is Mabelle Clowgill and I wanted to speak to Zena Dockgfn Mr. Lyttle, sharply Oh -. 16. Miss Buck knocked two nuts together this morning but cracked neither one. 17. Miss Pett, poor teacher, has only one trial eher Second year German Class, but that's enough! 18. Let's see, there will only be Flossie and I and Lois and me. 21. Single Session. Everyone keeps saying. Oh, I am so hun- gryl 22. Katherine Reed in Eng.: The French have captured some shell holes. 23. Oh joy! No school the rest of the week. 28. The Second Ward School Building burned down today. Everyone got out safely. l104j

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22. Mrs. Odell gave us a very instructive talk on Red Cross work. 23. More turkey,egive us a slice. So said Freda between bites. 26. The girls are doing as Mrs. Odell instructed and the boys want to enlist. Shame on the rest of us, where is our Patriotism? 27. At last! The screeching came to a climax at the Gpera House. qHiawatha.J 28. Hurrah! School started at 8 o'clock and let out at noon. Vacation the rest of the week. DECEMBER 3. O, I came to a river fSchool Housep And I couldn't get across fthroughl, An' I jumped upon a nigger's back Cponeyl An' thought he was a hoss. fgot caughth. 4. Laura Petre must have swallowed a portion of Webster's Primary Dictionary because she has been very expressive as well as impressive lately. 5. Can any one be blamed for listening to Margaret Scidmore, especially when her ears speak exciting things and her eyes hear amazing statements which her mouth gazes at in perplexity. 6. A few snowflakes signify Santa is on his way. Hurrah! 7. Chapel. 10. Liberty Bonds! Liberty Bonds! Now's your chance to help your country. 11. The High School Instructors are calling for Orato1's. 12. Everybody out of the Assembly Room. Seniors want to practice. 13. What Arthur Luck says when Mae Lucas is not around: She is a maiden fair with curly eyes and laughing hair. 14. Vacation days are drawing nigh. And I shall be so glad. Illl eat so much I'll nearly die, And that would hurt my Dad. CDoctor Bill.l 17. Marie Spooner is tatting her lessons into a nice blue bag to give her mother for Christmas. 18. Seniors gave their play, Cricket on the Hearth. 19. Helen Difenderfer is knitting a brown sweater. I wonder who for? 20. Another case started! Helen Van Scoter has made up with Ellis Shellhous. 21. Good thing the teachers are lenient because pupils' minds are wandering. Vacation starts tomorrow, Hurrah! Hurrah! We had five classes this morning. H1031

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29. Sixth and Seventh grade kids from Second Ward are making things lively here today. 30. Miss McCain in English to Orville M.: That's righti Honeysuckle-read on. 31. Gladys McJury in English: The lady rose in the middle and began to speak. Some acrobat! FEBRUARY 1. Observed Michigan Day and received Service Flag. 2. Mr. Ringle: Open your books and we will run through these cases. 5. Poor Commercial Building is frozen upewe commercial Kids took our seats in the Main House of Knowledge. 6. Almost warm weather today. 7. One of the Rhinies the other day was heard to exclaim, That's nothing, my father's got a job as engineer on a Peanut Roaster. S. February 8 we played the Vicksburg tribe, Hardly a one is now alive To tell. We boys beat 40 to 5. The Girls played too just like Jews. And beat those poor girls out of their shoes By score of 30 to 22. 11. Another forlorn miserable soul is wandering back and forth in the halls. Accidentally we heard him murmur, Gone, but not forgotten. -fRoy Shellhousb. 12. Mr. Horst was at the show last night but we couldn't tell who the girl was. It was either M. Doolittle, or P. Joy or P. Franklin, or the other one. 13. I believe Mr. Crawford must have been home alone last night with the baby, he seems so exhausted. 14. Ethel Pierce is showing a beautiful heart Valentine to her best friends. One of them said she saw the words With Love, Forest. 15. I believe Spring is ccnnirg. Miss Eldridge in English Class: Bring to class ten written sentences. Burr Drumm, sleepily: Must we write them? 18. Sh! 'Twas rumored that Glenn Eberhart recited in English today. 19. The water being so high and dangerous, Mr. Johnson walks across the foot bridge with Miss Mensch every morning. O, we are so afraid the bridge will break under the heavy strain. 20. Florence Kensil and Harry Baker met with a terrible disaster just outside Miss McCain's room. f105l