Wenatchee High School - Wa Wa Yearbook (Wenatchee, WA)

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Page Eighteen The History of the Wenatchee Valley The history of the Wenatchee valley prior to the coming of the white man is very largely one of conjecture, field observation, and deduction. When or whence came the men who peopled it before the whites is an untold tale. The Indians found here by the first white visitors were a branch of the great Salishan race, known as Flatheads to the white people. About the year 1866, or sixty-nine years ago, two men came into this valley on horseback and established a trading post with the Indians, this trading post was the first building in the valley. Five years later Sam Miller and the Freer brothers entered the valley and bought the trading post from the two men, who immediately left the valley. Sam Miller and the Freer brothers may well be called the fathers of Wenatchee because they were the Hrst three permanent white residents of this valley. The earthquake of 1872 left its greatest scar at Ribbon Cliff. Here vast quantities of rock were torn from the lofty and perpendicular cliff and hurled across the Columbia River, com- pletely damming the stream for many hours Mr. Miller declared that to go to the Columbia for water as had been the custom and find it completely dry was a most paralyzing experience, and that he would have given every gray hair in his head to have been out of the country. Settlers did not arrive in this valley very fast because it was described as being almost unfit even for rattlesnakes and jackrabbits to live in. One pioneer, when asked what his first view of the valley was like, answered, My first view of the Wenatchee valley was not very enticing. All you could see was a few large rocks, sagebrush, sand, rattlesnakes, and rabbitsf' Another obstacle in the way of settlers was that the valley was next to impossible to reach by wagons, as it was surrounded by lofty mountains. All wagons that first came into the valley had to be let down the mountainside by means of a rope paid out from pine trees. Sam Miller planted a peach seed, and when the tree grew up and bore fruit, the fruit was the fairest and largest seen in the West. The story soon spread and soon apple orchards began to dot the landscape as settlers began pouring in. By 1888 there was quite a large group of settlers here and the townsite of Wenatchee was started on North Miller Street in the vicinity of Springwater Avenue. The town was named Wenatchee after the Wenatchee valley, which in the Indian tongue means great hole inthe mountains. ' After this things began to happen fast. After the town site was started, the railway was built through here and the townsite was moved to its present location. The postoffice was established in the Freer-Miller Trading Post on Miller Street in 1887, merchants began to build stores in the new town, and the Columbia and Wenatchee river bridges were built. From 1893 to 1936 Wenatchee has grown slowly but surely until it is as we see it today. Most of the pioneer families have continued to live here and more than half of the students of Wenatchee High School are the grandchildren of the pioneer settlers of the Wenatchee valley. Let us look upon the Wenatchee valley as our valley-as the valley our grandmothers and grandfathers changed from a desert waste to the thriving metropolis it is today, and with its deserved title- The Apple Capital of the World.', , A. L. PARKER. SONG OF MY HEART In simple things my heart delights: In songs of birds, And star-filled nights, In fragrant blossoms on the breeze, And winds that rock the tops of trees. I shall not notice noise and crowds, But watch some far-off feathered clouds, Or on a mountain crest I,ll stand To look out over sea and land! The wonders nature holds in store, For these I ask- And nothing more. -Betty Keim BIOLOGY FEVER I must trek up to the hills again, to the lovely hills and meadows It's an assignment and a teacher's call that dare not be neglected, And all she asked was fifty flowers and said that might get me by, But I failed that class- for the most I could find was ONE LITTLE BUTTERFLY. -Katherine Coull

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Sir lsciolc Newton and an Apple Did you ever hear of Sir Isaac Newton? Just in case you haven't, he discovered the law of gravity--if you might call it a discovery-when an apple fell on his head as he was lying under the old apple tree.', And have you ever known anything more about apples than that they were a red or yellow or green species of fruit and that they grow on trees? They are also made use of in what is worse than hnding a worm in an apple-half a worm , and in An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Even if you know more about apples than what I have just mentioned, you probably never knew that if it weren't for Sir Isaac Newton and an apple we might not have the law of gravity today. fI.et me see, now, gravity is that invisible force which holds a balloon up in the air, isn't it?j just to show you how important the law of gravity is to us, try to imagine how the world would be without this law. Imagine this work-a-day world, going about its daily business without the law of gravity to hold it to its regular course. The houses would be Heating around in the air, and other articles such as toothbrushes, shoestrings, and nightcaps could be had for the grabbing. Or some night you might go to sleep with your bed on the ceiling, or you might even find yourself in Arabia. fThis is how the world would be if it weren't for the apple.j just think how disastrous it would be to the skyscrapers if they were tipped at all angles with no law of gravity to help them retain their dignityg or if we didn' t have this invisible force called gravity, it might literally rain cats and dogsf, And let us take a look at this: Mr Brown is exchanging a few words with Mr. Smith on the business of manufacturing weights to hold clown the toupes of unfortunates such as they who have not had success with the new hair-growing tonic Gromore that has just recently been floating around on the market. Mr Brown has just remarked that he thinks they are living in a very unfortunate age, when, without warning, he becomes elevated a few feet in the air so that he can no longer continue his conversation with Mr. Smith. Very unfortunate that we can't finish our little chatf' says Mr. Smith, but I'll see you the next time that you come down to earth, if I'm still here then. Sounds like Maunchausen, doesnlt it? But that is what the world would be like if we didn't have our good friend, the doctoris friend, and everybodyfv friend-the apple. VIRGINIA MEIXNER. lokes MYSTERY SOLVED Arriving at school on the very first day, I was astonished to see a great many queer green creatures wandering around the halls. I stopped and asked several people about them, but no one seemed to know who they were or where they came from. Ir was a mystery to everyone on those first few days of school. Ir was causing so much wonder, that Mr. Pegg called a meeting of all the scientists of the school to pronounce a name for them. Finally it was an- nounced in assembly that these green bits of humanity were to be known hereafter as Fresh- men. ar lk if 4: ak There is always that frosh in a school who thinks smelling salts are sailors with B. O. ar sf wk ik ik The Debate Banquet uncovered the fact that Howard Mann fYorgie Yorgisonj, could cat four pieces of Apple pie on top of a big dinner. This is .1 fact-and not some more of his magic. 14: :sf at ek Pk A person who should happen into Wenatchee High on a certain clay in April, might think he had made a mistake and had arrived in a kindergarten. It was Sucker Day, and every- one-yes, even the teachers, were sucking suckers. Who were the biggest suckers? King Sucker Moodhe, and even Queen Lollypop, Bertha Panger. pgs!

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Calendar Editor's Note: Imagine our surprise and delight upon finding a perfectly good diary of a sweet young thing-a Senior, too-so we put aside our humble attempt and substituted this for the 1936 March of Events in Wenatchee High School. September 3 Back to SCHOOL to find my NAME that I had so patiently etched on tables and desks completely OBLITERATED. 13 To OMAK-WENATCHEE football game with current FLAME. Despite brightness of those forty new, powerful LAMPS, nearly froze my FEET-fmy HANDS were all right THO!j 16-20 Constitution Week, History Classes gave ILLUMINATING assembly. 1 20 POPPED off to another of those FREEZING football games. This time we held WATERVILLE 0-0. Got pretty WARMED up cheering for OUR HEROES. 27 WEEKLY football games getting to be a HABIT. Even out-of-town games are BRIGHTENED by my presence. YES-we have an UP-and-COMING B Squad. Today they defeated ENTIAT-Smith four coming football HERO, lugging the PIGSKIN over the LIME-LINE and landing himself in the LIME-LIGHT. 28 CONGRATULATIONS to the HUBBELLSI So NOIW Mr. Hubbell can give us THAT FATHERLY advice? October 12 Well! Well! It seems the ROOTING at the Bellingham-Wenatchee GAME ALMOST pleased Mr. YELL KING O'Leary. QI SPRAINED a TONSILJ FRESHMAN program TODAY. Extraordinary for such YOUNG THINGS-but we SENIORS mustn't let them know we THINK sol 14 POOR DERBY INITIATES at last allowed to mow down the BEARDS-is BILL BIRD happy! 21-22 The TEACHERS had to go to SCHOOL and we DIDN,T. Tee hee! 25 Did we MOP UPN that WILBUR football TEAM! PEP CLUBS initiate today. A good TIME was had by ALL? --except the INITI- ATES. 26 30 Our representatives attended the SEATTLE Student-Leaders' Conference. - November 2 Mr. MOODHE is again seen buying SAFETY PINS. ll Took in the CASHMERE-W.H.S. game. The LEGION drilled--we CHEERED- Cashmere went home much SADDER and WISER. Our SENIOR program today was simply SPLENDIFICI Now we can again look the FRESHIES in the face and not BLUSH. 14 Into my best BIB-and-TUCKER and out to the KICK-OFF Banquet. I5 Attended the CHELAN-Wenatchee debate. I'm still in a VVHIRL, but I guess we won. 16 Watched ELLENSBURG take our TEAM FOR A RIDE to the tune of 26-0. 20 Had a good CHANCE to get out of CLASS-so did so by attending the LIQUID AIR DEMONSTRATION. 22 Tripped off to the Derby Club Student Dance. Always thought I was a GOOD dancer but changed my MIND when I saw those WATSONS get under way. 23 Coaxed the B. F. to take ME to the WEINZIRL-FISET Recital. fT. B. Benefit.j 26 Dropped in on the PUBLICATIONS Banquet. The EATS were GRAND and the TALKS GRANDER. 27 Such ACTIVITY! The HALLS lined with FOOD, everyone SCURRYING about getting the THANKSGIVING BASKETS under way. To add to the SPIRIT of the occasion the PEP CLUBS gave a Thanksgiving Assembly, and the football TEAM capped it all off by QUARRELING over the PIGSKIN with CHELAN. Page N