Tomah High School - Hamot Yearbook (Tomah, WI)

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'TOMAH HIGH 31 HAMOT '20 Sophomore Class ALDERINIAN, LA VAUGHN ANDRES, RUTH BAKER, LETHA BARTELS, HELEN BAUMGARTEN, LYLE BEANE, GEORGIA BETTHAUSER, OSCAR BRAHMER, MILES CHAPMAN, BERNICE CHAPMAN, ETHEL CHAPMAN, JEAN CROSSET, MARION DASHNER, IVER DICKINSON, BERNARD DICKENSON, LAUREL DRESHER, ROBERT ERDMAN, INEZ FIETING, WILL FISHER, HERBERT FOX, FLORENCE GAARTZ, LAWRENCE GORDON, FLORENCE GILNER, IRENE GRIAHAM, GERTRUDE HACKNEY, PHYLLIS HOFFLIAN, BESSIE HANOVER, HELEN HANCOCK, NAVARRE HANCOCK, LYLE HONEL, LU ELLA President ...... Vice President .......... Secretary and Treasurer. . . Class Advisor ...,....... HOPP, HENRY JERDEE, ELLA JAMES, KENNETH JOHNSON, ORTIS JORDON, LEROY KELLEY, LEO KELPE, ROLAND KRUEGER, OTTO LAMBERT, ROBIN LANKE, CARL LARSEN, LULU LENZ, MILTON LENZ, RUTH LUEBCHOW, EMMA MADDEN, LEONARD MARSHALL, HENRIETTA MARTIN, ARNOLD MARTIN, VIOLET MARQUART, RALPH MAUM, LELAND MCCOLLOUGH, THELMA MEYERS, VERA MOORE, MAE MURPHY, VICTOR MURRAY, VERE NOTH, ORIN O,BOYLE, MILTON PINGLE, WALTER PINGLE, RUTH REARDON, IRENE OFFICERS oll REHBERG, RAYMOND REHBERG, HAROLD REICH, NORMA REICH, VERA REINHOLD, RUTH RICE, CECELIA RIESING, EARL ROGGE, AGNES ROSE, LESTE SEVERSON, IVJARCILLA SENOGLES, BERYL SMITH, RAYMOND SPINK, EARL STEIMETZ, ANNA STEIMETZ, HELEN SULLIVAN, JAMES SWEET, ALVA SWEET, GRACE THOM, EVA TAYLOR, JESSE TUCKER, AUDREY VANDERVORT, MILDRED WALTMAN, FREDERICK WARREN, GLEN ZIEGLER, EDWARD ZEMAN, KATHERINE ZEMAN, HENRIETTA ZIMMERMAN, GEORGE . . . ROBERT DRESCHER . . . . .LE ROY JORDON . . . . .VIOLET MARTIN . . MISS O'LAUGHLIN

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HAMOT '20 ' 30 TOMAH HIGH Sophomore Class

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HAMOT '20 32 TOMAH HIGH The following story received Hrst place in the Sophomore Story Contest. The Young Patriots Forward, March l shouted John, take this prisoner to the guard house. Private Jones, you guard him, Private Smith return at once! John was always captain when the children of the neighborhood played soldier for the simple reason that his father was captain in Uncle Sam's army, and he had told the other children that none of them knew as much as he did about war, because there were no soldiers in any of their families. Little William Roberts had a brother in the army, but he was only a private and besides, William was a newcomer in that neighborhood and of course a newcomer couldn't be captain. Captain, said Private Dick Sanders, we are in need of two more flags, a French and an American. Do you know where we can get them? Just a minute, I'll go and see. Please take charge of the company until I come back, and John strutted off in true military style. He went over the fence, crawled underneath it and started for the street. In front of the drug store he saw a huge car, and on the front of it were three large flags, the French, British and United States. Just the thing,', thought John, and calmly walked up and took them off the car. Just as he was starting away the owner of the car came out of the store. Hey, you young scamp, bring those back here,', he called angrily, shaking his caneg but as John paid no attention to him he started running after him. John got to the fence scarcely three seconds before the man did and barely had time to crawl under. The space in the fence was too small for the man, known in the city as Judge Wells, so all he could do was to stand on the outside of the fence, peek thru and shake his fist at John. When John got back to his playmates he did not stop to tell them of his narrow es- cape, but relieved Private Sanders of his duty and went on playing. Just as he was order- ing his men to start digging a trench, a man walked up to one of their flags, which was stuck in the ground, and kicked it over. Now at home John had been taught, above all things, that the American flag should never touch the ground, and when he saw the man do this he yelled with all the might in his little body, Company-Charge! The boys saw where he was pointing and made a rush at the man and soon had him rolling on the ground. The man started to yell and call the boys names but they kept on hitting him and jumping on him. Mr. Wells had started to go away but came back to take a second look at John, so that if he ever saw him again he would know him, and was just in time to witness the man kick the flag and the boys' charge . He stood and watched them and soon his anger gave way to enjoyment. After the boys had had the enemy down for about live minutes, John called, CompanyKcease firing! and as quickly as lightning the boys stood up. The man was only too glad to escape. As soon as he had gone, Mr. Wells went to a near-by store, purchased enough flags for a whole company and also soldier suits, but for John he got a real captain's suit, and instead of a flag, a small sword and a toy pistol. He sent them back by a boy and told the boy to bring John to his house next day. The boy did as he was told and carried the suits and the flags to the children, all of whom were spell-bound when they saw the things and each one strutted around the neighborhood all of the afternoon displaying their pos- sessions. The next morning the boy came to take John to the Judge's house. John went many times afterward, for the first day he went, Mrs. Wells was greatly moved by his likeness to the small boy she had lost barely a year before, and the sound of the childish voice in the large house cheered her and made her forget her own sorrows. GERTRUDE GRAHAM, H22.