Warren High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Warren, MA)

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12 THE HILLTOP moved away from them. We talked about schools a while and everybody wished we could have one fthat is except Georgej. As We were picking up the remains of our lunch Jane said to me, Nancy, you'll get us a school won't you ? Jane seems to think I can do any- thing. But still there ought to be a school for Jane, she's that kind I know she'd learn real fast. I've 'taught her some my- self. She's real pretty, too. Her hair goes in velvety brown curls. But with me it's different. My hair is in straight pig tails and I've got to take care of the younger children anyway. Pa says I don't need to go to school to do that. That evening I talked to Dad about schools again, but that wasn't very en- couraging. He said it cost a lot of money to buy books and hire a school teacher. About two days after that the gang of us went after butternuts. My, but there were loads. After all of us had picked up all we could carry there were literally tons left. It seemed a pity to let them all go to waste, but we had more than we could use as it was. It was the very next day that George and Henry, cousin James and I went down to Rockport for supplies. After every- thing was bought, as we didn't have to go right home we wandered down 'toward the wharves. A flat boat was anchored there and we heard the man say that he was go- ing down to New Orleans in a day or two. We often see flat boats going down the river and sometimes they stop at Rock- port. This man was talking quite loud to the people around him. He drew from his pocket a handful of butternuts. Fm go- ing to take these down and distribute them as souvenirs, they likes 'em down there, he said. All of a sudden I had an idea. I always have 'them suddenly. Mister, I says, if we get you barrels and barrels of those nuts couldn't you take them down and sell them and make some money ? Hold on! Hold on l he interrupted. Take some butternuts down to New Orleans and sell them. Is that it ? I assured him that it was. Well, what if I should take a whole load of them down and 'then couldn't sell them ? But you said the people down there liked 'those nuts. Maybe, but they might not buy them. Well, I tell you what. Mister, you take the nuts we'll get for you, and see if you can sell them. If you do, bring us our share of the money, and if you don't, why we won't charge you anything. Well, that's fair enough, but I've got to have them soon. Weill have them all here in two days, I promised. I went home all enthusiastic. Here was a way to earn money for our school. I got all the kids together and told them my great plan. They thought it was a good idea, too, so we collected all the bags, boxes and barrels we could find and we worked hard all the next day. Cousins Ed and Bill helped us a lot with lifting things, and Elsie and Dick got their team to haul our store of nuts down to Rockport. The nuts were all there, just as many as the man would take, that second day. Tired, but happy, we trooped home. Dad had been gone for the last day or two, but he was home now, and enthusiastically I told him all about it. He didn't pay you anything for the nuts ? father asked. I explained how he didn't know as he could sell them or not. He'll sell them all right, but you'll never see any of the money, father an- swered. He's got the nuts and hasn't had to pay a cent for them. You'll never see him again. By the way, what was his name?

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THE HILLTOP 11 Skipped and went swimin' with the fel- lers. Ma'd be mad if she nu it, but pa woodn't care. Pretty near got cot. Good thing I can swim under water. Sis's bow came to see her tonite I hid under the sofa the dust got in my eyes and I snezed and it spoiled everything. Almost got a trimin. August 2. Ma made me erand for that old bazar her old club is havin. this after- noon I got in a fite with Billy Jones got a black eye and the buttons tore off my blouse. Ma's hoppin mad and wouldn't let me out all afternoon. I'll get even next week and maybe before. Pa said twas only natural fer kids to fite and told me all about the fite he had with Bills father. August 3. Went swimin with the fel- lers agin ta day down in the mud hole. Sis said she's squeel if I went fraid I'd get drownded Pa almost gave me a wallopin. August 4. Today I cot it pa licked me. sheared the fur off Buster the dog and painted ma's angora cat black with white stripes. August 5. We're planin for a circus in Red Brown's barn sis said shed help ain't so worser after all. we borrowed Mrs. Jones Persian Cat for a wild cat, gee she's wild alright we got old man Williams speckled hen and chickens for birds of Paradize. Borroed all the beasts birds and fishes in the naborhood. We have a circus Sataday. August 6. Got every thin redy for our circus if it rains were ruined. Got back at Bill today for giving me the black eye he's sore cuze we woodn't let him be any thin in the circus but a clown, Ha, Ha. August 7. Today was grate we had our circus. Took in '78 pins and 10c some went home cuz they was mad. Mrs. Jones cat ate the Old maids gold fish say we ain't none of us set down fer hours it seems. But we had a good time Myra Wilkinsons cat eat 4 of Williams first class chickens. They nearly had a fist fite. myra lost her false teeth and her glasses fell off. her har fell down and williams got a few scratches on his noze gee it was funny. Well good nite old scout. DOROTHY MCCRILLIS, '27, NUTS AND THE SCHOOL Well, in the beginning we were all born in Austin, Pennsylvania fthat is, we kidsj , and we lived there until three years ago. Then we packed up all our things, put them on a flat boat with us six children and mother and father and we came out here to Indiana to this place that they call Jackson's Landing. It's not called that after us though, even if we are named Jackson, but after Uncle Elias Jackson, who came here a long time ago with Aunt Nancy that I'm named after, and his three boys, Bill and Ed, who are quite old, and James, who is twelve. Uncle Elias wrote so many letters about what a nice place it was that finally we came here, too. I'm glad we did. Well, anyway, we're here. We, which is me, Nancy, aged fourteen, George, aged eleven, Henry, ten, Jane, aged eight and the twins, Susan and Stephen, who are only six years old. J ackson's Landing is about a mile from Rockport, which is quite a big place. It has a store and about six hundred people. We go there to buy things quite often. One day Elsie and Dick Stone had stopped at our place. Elsie is about my age and we have loads of fun together. The Stones are our only neighbors! be- sides Uncle Eliasj , they live about a half a mile away. We were having a picnic down on the bank of the river fthe Ohio River, you knowJ , and Elsie said she hadn't never been to school at all, so I began to tell them about the real school, with long benches, slates, and everything that I'd been to in Pennsylvania. George don't like schools and said he was glad we'd

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THE HILLTOP 13 And I had to admit that I didn't know that. Well, my bubble of enthusiasm burst just like that, but I didn't have the heart to tell the others what Dad had said. Winter came and I'd finally forgotten our affair with the nuts, although I never wanted to see another butternut in my life. Spring came and the others began to ask when would our flat boat man come? One May morning I was churning but- ter out on the back porch when the very same boatman came up. You're the head of those kids that sold me the nuts last fall, aren't you ? Well, I didn't know as I was the head, but I was one of them. Did you sell the nuts, mister? I asked. I sure did, Miss, they sold something great and here's your share, twenty-five dollars, see! I couldn't hardly believe it. That seemed to me enough money to buy a school entire, school teacher thrown in. I just took the money and rushed to show the others. I actually left the man standing there, and when I came back he was gone. I couldn't even thank him. Well, when Dad saw the money he was some surprised, too, but he said that he had another surprise, and that he would tell me right then. You see, he'd been talking with some other men in the vicinity and in Rockport. and he'd told how much we children wanted a school, so they had arranged to build a school in Rockport, hire a teacher and everything. They had needed a school for some time. Well, I was fool enough to be disap- pointed at first. I had dreamed of a school at Jackson's Landing, and I. was afraid they wouldn't need our money now. But father said they would need all the money they could get, and then some, to buy books, etc., and he explained that when there were so many more children at Rock- port we couldn't very well have the school up here for only nine pupils fBill and Ed are too old to go to school they sayl and we could easily walk the mile to school. It was a great day when the school was opened. After the exercises, as Jane and I were walking home, she looked up at me and said, I knew you'd get us a school, Nancy. KING TUT IN 1926 King Tut sat in his easy chair smoking Camel cigarettes and listening to his radio. He soon tired of this and wondered what he would do next. At last he called his wife, whose French maid had just given her a facial massage, a manicure, and a marcel. She entered the room in a tight fitting sport dress about seventeen inches from the floor with a cigarette in her hand. Where shall we go ? said King Tut. Let's go to the country club. Soon they were on the way to the coun- try club in their Rolls Royce. There they met their old friends, President Coolidge and Henry Ford. They enjoyed a lively game of golf and soon they sauntered into the club house where they chatted with Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. Dinner hour came, and they drove to the Ritz where they dined on oysters on the half shell and turkey. That evening they went to the Copley Theater, where they saw the comedy, The Sport of Kings. They were particularly amused to hear the orchestra play, Thanks for the Buggy Ride, Roll 'Em Girlies, Roll 'Em, and That Certain Party. After the theater, they went to a dance and danced the Charleston until two- thirty in the morning. When they reached home they had a light lunch of steak, and retired at three o'clock in the morning to sleep three thou- sand years longer. MARION HODGSON, '27.