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Jr ™ r v;*. ' . ' v „r v* :4* . '>;*l^ -/V A . •- '" • .„-, *, V reftT.Jfr*. AlS-^-V V ?. -#?v ^r'T€jxl- ' j - ] / • * > » - * s - > * r \ : „ ' - & ? } ? V \ : % v : : v r / ; ^ V :V ^ ' s i , " ' : . * ; < - \ V ' i . r-*w^fc ;•-$ ,#K;1 EM SE ACH ESS PUBLISHED IN THE INTBREST OF THE McHENRY* COMMUNITY HWH SCHOOL Vol. I McHenry, IHinote, February 21, J924 No. 12 .J STAFF ... /Editor to chief Angela Peteach ftxffotmnt editor William Nye •;, fiewing V.. .Elizabeth Vogt 'j / ^thletifli '•...„. Ti .. .William Green ^|cienoe~t7.... I . William Beth {'ommeireial .v. v. i . Aogwstine Freand ' „^lumni; ,.*• *.««. •' •*®ar°W ®*®®" Senior Helen Powers f junior ^..^i*;r^.Mikhred Zuelsdorf - J#oph6m<M« ; i^v...i Add® Pufahl freshman ..>M< «.. • • • • • „ rf^lusic ..,... -V.-. *'y». .Fioribel Basse* , Cirls' Athletics........,•Lillian Buss • \|lamor;... > .•«,*..;.. .Ilia Harrison f r':'iytersri^*^i.)...... .Stmam Whiting • V . . ATHLETICS . On Friday night of last week thtf 'McHenry high school light weights , -played the town light weigrkts and de- .'feated them by a score of 17 to 7. ^ ; ' The high school boys scored seven ; |)oints on free throws and also made r J live,, field goals/ The town boys made • three field goals and one free throw. Their boys were handicapped by lack of practice and shortage of wind. There were sixteen personal fouls called on the town team, which showed that they were not accustomed to the new rules. Newman made seven points for the high school and Green made five. Excellent guarding was exhibited by Thomas, Whiting and ^Hopper. Bonslett starised, - fw • the other team, making six out of seven ' points. ' McHenry 2nd FG. FT. PP. FTM Green, rf 2 1 0 6 Page, If ... > 0 0 0 0 • Thomal'•........ y.'.O .0 0 ' Hoppef, fi .......'.I 1 t 1"; Newman, rg .......2 8 ® ^ Whiting, lg .1 2 1' 1 Total * .6 7 3 18 Town Light Wts. FG. FT. PF. FTM. Bacon .0 1 1 1 . Bohr . . .0 " Hr * • . May ..» »TT.. .1 0 1 Bonsle~tt' ' 0 0 'Green . > Bonslett May ... '•fy . .0 »'«i .".0 1 0 Answer--Catherine Ashburner: Yes, vocational courses in this community should be open to freehmen and sophomores. There are enough ^quired courses to supply general background work for the average pupil. To the pupil who enjoys the vocational courses best, school is more attractive in the early years if sewing or typewriting can be taken. Then, too, for pupils who intend to enter a Whose art of teaching m*kes it be- vocation an early start Is a good preploved by sophs. | aration. A is for Ashburner, our glee club di- { Like aj] arguments, this one has its rector, j disadvantages. Many colleges will Our scales, notes, pitch and. grammar accept vocational courses as endetector. -•? ' ~7: «, trance credits. Often pupils decide C is for Superintendent C. lt. Duker iat€ tQ ?o to coUe^e and find they canby name, Who can talk on many subjects with light on same. not enter if any credits for entrance are required in vocational courses. But as only a minority in this commu- H is not found in Glenn nor in Wells n^y ^ to college the corriculum should be ordered in advance for the majof- »ty. Answer--Norma Whiting: Some persons go to school only to take up certain vocational courses, domestic science and commercial as you see, But only a poet can rhyme A and Z. E stands not for Prypr ot Stringer you find, But it is more than work to get all of them rhymed. R is for Ruth Stockebrand, our home ' ec's leader, , ' they leave school and many ,pf them For counting foiflsHiot ai|^ Can K0 to ,|n offices. The persons beat her. / iwho do not finish high school are not S is for students, a l t i i o t e a s e r s iRg. capaWe 0f doing The work as are you see, " , " [those who do finish. and didn't even show up at the ranch Buck began to be suspicious and'he started to walk toward the corral and sheds that lay a little distance from the ranch house. He reached them just as the'moon began to rise and then he sat down in the shadow of the corral fence to see if anything was going to happen. He had been sitting there about an hour and began to dose when he was aware of a funny feeling as if somebody was moving around. Buck looked straight ahead of him, but saw nothing except the ranch house and the valley to the north of the ranch. Some dry straw snapped behind and on the other side of the fence from him and Buck was aware that someone was coming toward him. He sat as still ar possible and a figure crept up the fence and jumped down on the ground as a cat, not more than two feet from Buck. As the figure rose Buck got a glimpse of the stranger's face. He had a livid white scar running from the left lip, he was dressed in torn and tattered clothes and a slouch hat. He moved to the door of Yet someday, by hard work, we'll get there--maybe. ; After taking these courses the barn, quietly unlatched it and went inside. Buck immediately went to a broken window on the north sidl and peered within. The stranger had taken down Buck's saddle and was examining the lariet which was strapped to the side of it. He then hung the saddle up and muttered, "It's old rope, upper!they haven't started to round up yet." many;The figure then went out as quietly All persons need four years of work in high school. By having the voca tional courses open to the JUNIOR CLASS NOTES classes, juniors and seniors, Milly .Zuelsdorf was absent from ™rf persons finish high school thanks it had entered and disappeared beschool Monday. otherwise would. Even if the desire^ j hind the corral and soon the soft, dull Jesse says he thinks that potato sljjjject is taken in the junior year, j thud of hoofs sounded on the still air plants are very ornamental if you1* -- • " "" ' " keep the bugs off. Lyle Hopper, Jesse Adrian Thomas were absent school Monday of this week. many finish any how. They have I gone far enough in school to want to Answer--Mildred AKrens: • I think that vocationaj courses Don't forget to attend the operetta !'should be open to the freshmen and given by the McHenry community ! homores In all Chicago high high school the 26th of this month. We notice that a number of the and in another fifteen minutes Buck saw the lone rider disappear over the ridge where he saw him at first. Buck moved toward the ranch house thinking hard and wondering why the marander said, "It's old dope." #He reached the rr nch house and went inschools these courses are open to them.! side, lit his pipe and sat down on the Sewing is open now to the sophomores, i edge of his bunk to think out the girls are busily engrged in writing but ftot to the freshmen. It should be j mystery. Suddenly with a start he their leap year letters. Wonder who open to the freshmen because it is not!sat up, eyes glistening and lips drawn too difficult for them. Most students j in a straight line. He happened tb" are now carrying subjects which in think of how John Buckley would buy' the results of the two games of last after years wii] be of no use to them, all the ranch hands new lariats at the Friday night *and we think our boys Bookkeeping and stenography are not j time of the round up. Buckley had ieserve a lot of credit. toQ difficuit for them if they spend 40 ] always done this and when he would They say that the junior class is the minutes of KOO<1 hard study on them. | come to town to buy lariats people worst class i^ school, but some of the gome students want a business edu- would say that John was getting ready juniors happen to know that a certain i cati<m and do not care to take four senior class is just as bad. . ' years in higK achooi and therefore vo- The English III class wrote themes course8 should be open to on How to Spend Leisure Time and we fre*shmen and sophomores if they care wonder if everyone really absorbed ^ take them „ Answer--Frank Page: : ~:A two year vocational course rs enough for a pupil and if it Was open to freshmen and sophomores they j thinking hard for the last hour and Why were all the boys called into, ^ forRet most it or a part Qf ;t j f0Und himself wfet with sweat. He got -- o at lgast by the time they got thru!into bed as soon as possible and fell high school Freshmen and sopho- j asleep, but it was a restless sleep that mores generally have all they can do j Buck had "that night. Student: "The guy Babe Ruth made famous." "I thought you said young Blanchard was a good man. t don't see him around your . office." "I didn't say that. I said he was fired .with energy and seal." ^ • Worth a Whistle - "Hear the north wind whistling?" "Why shouldn't it? It's on its way south, where the weather is nice and warm." v ~ That's That Longfellow could take a sheet of paper worth one-terth of a cent, write a poem on it and make it worth $5000. That's genius. Rockefeller could take a similar sheet of paper, write a few wprds on it and make i$ Worth $10,006,00. Itat'a capital. . L A merchant &n take an article that costs him ten cents and sell it Jfor $1.00. That's business. ^ A woipan can buy a good spring hat for $10, but prefers one tiiat costs $100. That's foolishness. Mesdames F. E. Covalt, C. W. Stenger and Wm. Spencer were in Chicago on Wednesday of last week, where they witnessed "Abie's Irish Rose" at the Studebaker theatre, DR. A. I. FROEHLICH Physician and Surgeon Special attention given to X-ray, diagnosis, treatments and d^lltal radiograph. Office hours: 9:30 to 10:30 a. m?™;;., 1:30 to 3:30 p. m. ' 7:00 to 8:00 p. life v Telephones, Res., 128-W; Office, 128-K WEST McHENRY, ILL. Office Hour* 9-12 a. m, 2-5 p. m. 7-8 'jp. m., the ideas given tjy some of the star, dents. We have our doubts. SOPHO: M^k: E NOTES to round up the cattle and he was buying lariats for the boys. Buck knew then that some band of rustlers were watching the ranch to see when the round up was going to take place so that they could get a few hundred cattle into their possession before the ranch co\ild interfere. He had been to get their four subjects without de-| The next morning all the ranch T o t a l . > 2 e 3 1 6 , 1 The McHenry first team defeated Woodstock by a score of 36 to 3. The Woodstock boys could not seem to get j room 9 go suddenly Monday morning going, while our boys were going bet-1 Miss Ashburner says in the olden ter than they have been for the P&SH times people voted according to their few weeksf Whiting did the high I scoring for McHenry, while Moriarity ^ English n class are reading-- -- at ,eftst two periods to a voca-1hands were back, full of fun and makof Woodstock made their only field Julius Cae8ai. and as yet they find itL.^, cQurse If a vocationalIfcurs^ing a lot of noise, telling one another goal. This is the first time McHfenry|dry reading. !was open to fre8hmen and sophomores how much money he lost at cards or A certain petition which has been jth€y wou,d al, want teke it and how much he had spent for drinks the going around school is no* very^-|would not ^ork on their other studies, | night before. Buck joined in with the draggled looking. [thinking that they will need the voca- j boys at the breakfast table. Some Never tell Miss Richmond that yon more in business life remarked that he must have slept on have your lesson perfect for the day. than ^ other studies, gucTi as alge- the floor last night, because Buck, She has plenty of work for you. jbra geometry and history. _ „ , tired, worn from thinking out plans The negative side won the debate in Answer--Earl Conway has defeated Woodstock for the past few years. FG. FT. PF. FTM ..,2 3 •yA 2 4 0 0 ...8 a . . . 2 2 ...fr 0 ...0 0 McHenry 1st Overton, rf . Whiting,"If ^ Conway ^ Freund, c ... Bacon, rg .. Barbian, lg -Nye 2 "i-i Jl_ 1 i 0 I English II class, but why shouldn't they?" (Bribed the judges, I'm told.) v^l Woodstock Jenson . ~. .Coon ...... Foote .IS 8 5 FG. FT, PF ...0 0 to foil the rustlers when they started the attack on the ranchman's cattle, was not as jolly as the rest were. But he kept all he knew a secret from all Moriartty Lamphere DeWoif . Anderson ...... H FTM. Total. .1 1 11 1 Wm. M. Green. "THM^ GYPSY ROVER" On Tuesday evening, Feb. 26, "The Gypsy Rover," an operetta, will be given at the Empire theatre by the students of the McHenry community high school. A house to house canvass is now being made by the students in order that every one will have a chance to buy a ticket. The cost of these tickets is 50 cents and they may b£ reserved at Petesch's starting Saturday of this week. In my estimation I believe that vo- , „ , , . A c a tional courses might be open to Who says our boys cant play basket fre8hmen and sophomorea. Because, ball ? They won both games "day , ^rst ^wo year8 Df your high school j of them except a pall of his named night and gave^the opponents a lively ^ are easier .than the last two. | Ben, who was good natured and al- When you are a freshman you start i ways ready to offer assistance to anywitii four subjects, that means you J one who could use it. Buck told all have four study periods and four reci- j he had seen the night before to Ben, tation periods. During those four j who listened with great interest and study periods pupils are not always j had a serious expression on his face busy. Therefore if a freshman or!when Buck told him about the adven- Wauconda this Friday and we hope we|gophomore cou,d uge at ^ one of :ture> when Ben happened to see a man will meet with the same^success jf»;tho8e study periods every day to de- riding horse back toward the ranch, when they played on our floor. vote ^ typewriting, cooking, sewing:The rider approached and wanted to What does Miss Richmond mean or any of the othes> j think it would know where the boss was. He said h* when she says that Linny has a ' prin- be at v^iue to the pUpil. In the was ouV»of work and wanted to know c'Pal part." Lmny takes it that hehas last two yeara of your 8Chool life a i if they needed any help ji^st then, a "principal part in life. (Hell .j usua|ly has take five or more Ben told him to go to the house and never be given a medal- for studying ) *ubjects and if he took one r two vo. e ^hn. The stranger went as he ,^,r' Tallmadge says he^is going to cati0nal courses it would-be"a great directed and as he turned the left side I time chasing them We never knew that the glee club I girls were so nymph like until they began dancing. It is now necessary to |brace the gym floor.' Our basket ball boys are to play at J cPhone 1& Chiropractor. F L. MINICK, D. <X Palmer Graduate' Brefeld Building West McHenry, 111. OSTEND Shoes for all the family at Erfckson's store. Mrs. Nina Sherman and family ate Sunday dinner with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hobart. C. B. Durkee is still at the old place settling up with people as fast as they come for goods purchased at the sale. Mr. Iloppe is still in Chicago and bad news came from there Monday. He was very mnch worse and called the family. They all went in Monday morning. Rural mail carrier No. 5 from Woodstock has not made the whole route since Monday, Feb. '4. A little strip of, road leading to the Wallis farm has considerable snow and no track thru since the last snow storm. Gilbert ^Harris and family expect to move; from their fine little famn here to one .of more acres in the early v. KiWrlo. f/pforit o/risf itTi / Optica 3407 N. PAULINA ST. COR.flOSCCE AND LINCOLN AVE My spectacles and eye glasses are Ijcnown all over America. Thirty years Experience testing eyes and grinding glasses to order only. We make all Repairs. Absolutely guaranteed. Dr. C. KELLER, Optometrist and Optician Chicago Address McHenry, 111. $407 N. Paulina St Phone 157 Phone Graceland 9540. spring. We hope they will not regret* the move. We dislike to lose the family and the scholars will miss tho boys. j.' N. Sayler, rural carrier on N«|, 1 from West McHenry, has had some fearfully hard trips since the heavy snow fall, but has made his regular trip every day but one and then he could not drive his car nor could he find a team that day, but the next.he delivered the mail. • <r. oJ J v Did Vou Ever Know This About itavernrtrent tiperd measured the gas used in cooking a meal, :ind found that it was just one lorty-fourtb of iba whole ooeb of he meal. ; -Jy . - - . ' •- They also said that the cost of all the gas that cooks the meals ind lights the homes in this country is just one-half the cost of the daily "smokes." . certainly won't object to a reasonable gas. bill and stove equipment for so essential a part of the home -- especially after seeing these official figures. Western and Electric Company C. E. COLLINS. District Manager Chicago & North Western System _,C. & N. W. Ry.. p- M- & O. Ry., Tlie Transportation Act ftoes Not CmnmtBe the Railroads Any Retnrn 'X'HE Interstate Commerce Commission in 1921 (64 I. C. C. Rep., 95) and again in 1922 (68*1. C. C, Rep., 681) iid: • ; .v •' "DeteroHnatloii of ^ie paroentage implies or carries with it no guar- , anty. Read in connection with the . provision for recapture of one-haHi._. ol the excess above six per cent it is, instead, a limitation." - PRESIDENT COOLlDdt, in his mes. sage to Congress on December 6th, [tell bedtime stories on Monday and Wednesday in his botany class here- | after. The next one will be "Simple plants for simple children." (How | appropriate.) ----7-7^ ------ ^ Editor's notes Fr«shmen are invitied to attend. • * ~ ; help to him later. | of his face fell under the searching gaze of Buck, who had been eyeing- the 7' THE LONE RIDER man as if he had seen him before, he The Buckley ranch was known to be j gave a short gasp as the livid white scar again came into view. And he said to Ben in a whisper, "That's the SENIOR SCHOOL NOTBT Why was Lyle so generous with his j (?) paper Thursday afternoon? We| wonder. , Whether children should be spanked or not is the great question in the civics class. We were defeated in basket ball last week by the Sophs. Well, somebody must lose. --FRESHMAN NOTB8 "It aint gonna rain no more,' Bernard Newman. sings one of the best that were in northern Texas. This ranch wras built when Indians and buffaloes roamed freely ilH the mountains and valleys around the ranch. The large ranch house was built of logs that had been brought man." Earl Peterson. •fJlo he continued) Everyone is busy practicing for the operetta, which will be given 'next Tuesday, Feb. 26. We were all very glad td see our former classmate, Floyd Hopper, vis-J Smith's face? iting the high school Friday. The civics class is being taught by the members of the class this week. We have some fine schoolmarms The debate, in civics was postponed TRUE PATRIOTISM from forests far to the north of Texas] common fault of human nature it George^Reynolds is keeping house;,wj^ much labor and danger of Indian:that most people look for the easy some job he claims. 1 attacks that happened frequently at, things of life, ignoring the harder Elmer Zuelsdorf has finally succeed- this time. The barns, sheds and tasks. Many people think of patriot-^ ed in getting the mumps. ^ corrals were built of the same ma-1 ism as getting up before an audience English I students are going to stari terial that the house was and showed,and making a long speech. Of course on their oral book reports soon. age, but were as solid as the day that: everyone will admit that it is not an We hope everybody is going to the'they were huilt.v easy matter to make a speech, but school operetta, "The Gypsy Rover." j John Buckley, owner of the ranch, I even if it isn't, it is one way of show- Congratulations to the first and sec- (was about sixty years of age, fuli of jing patriotism. There are other ways ond teams for winning Friday night. ;fun and always cheerful to. his men j that are equally as good. Did you notice the smile on Edward, who rode the ranch for him. One of | This presidential year needs more He got a white card1 the ranch men was a man who was not' patriots than ever to help the country in ancient history. j quite as jolly as ranchmen usually j and it is the time to show the love of M iss Pryor, in ancilnt his^ry name was Buck Hale. He | one's country. If the country "Tti:o ohAAfo iar« 11 nn Ans\i 1 rrVi ---- * ' 1 11 - -v 1 --*•" 1 ' A-- "R hit Men erroneously assumed ( that tbe Act undertakes to 'guarantee railway earnings." , ' rpHE railroads admit that failure to earn a fair return is their loss and that the United States is in no sense liable to reimburse them therefor. HE Interstate Coih meree Commission shows that the net returb of Class 1 railroads on the value of their property used in transportation service was as follows: For the 12 months ended August 31,1921 2.88% August 31, 1922... 4.19% August 31, 1923 J 4.90% HTHE Commidn has decided that a fair return is 5% %. TTHE difference between the foregoing returns and a fair return is tbe loss of the railroads. rjpHERE is no guaranty. if has Two sheets will be enough to stftrt on worked o*h the ranch and when he re- patriots, then the school will have and then you may get more." iceived his month's wages kept a little them, or visa versa. Washington s Some of the pupils in Mr. Wells';for himself and sent the rest home to [birthday, a patriotic holiday, needs until Friday. The subject was misun-]general science class are going to make his wife and two children who lived!SOme attention. Taking the day off derstood by the two sides debating. The senior girls' basket ball team wish to congratulate our three senior boy B for yetting for them last Tuesday. We wonder if the polywogs in the lab. were pleased with the valentine they received last week. They didn't act like it. Some of «br prospective • teachers are having preliminary practice teaching the third grade during Miss Phalin's absence. §v: a crystal radio receiving sit. " Can you imagine Mr. Stringer in knee pants? M iss Pryor with bobbed hair? Earl Conway weighing under 120 pounds ? A sophomore talked on the stairway, Till he reached the very last land ing, Then he was, cruelly jerked aside, And told to sit there standing. Favorite pastimes with the freshies: , Bill Martin getting his Latin. Bernard Newman getting sent out What happened to the blue birds |0f English I class. that decbrated the cupboard in rooml Skeezix buying ice cream for the six ? Possibly the English IV class J girts. could throw some light on the subject. TJs for Tallmadge so stately and tall, I INQUIRING REPORTER Who's as cross as a bear when Ur| Question donated by Miss Pryor charge of the hall. I Question: Should vocational courses H Is for Esther Richmond, our geom-|be offered to freshflMB. awl sophoabout fifty miles from the ranch. He would often think of ways that would Burprise his children when he came home. . On a certain * occasion the ranch hands had received their monthly pay and had gone to Nesburg a town that lay about fifteen miles northeast of the Buckley ranch, to celebrate the oc- j speech, but the other things that can casion as they usually did. Buck, who j be done are worth a try. If the school never went to spend his wages in) body of M. C. H. S. acts in a body drinks or by gambling, had been sit-jas a patriot it will be a good start as ting on the bench that was beside the j patriots for the country would not be taking an easy way of life, because it would bring to mind the reason of the vacation. One would think of the good that Washington had dope for his country. Patriotism is "virtues and actions of a patriot." In a school no one has time to think of a long political etry prof, I mores? ranch house thinking of the next po»«~ sible chance to see his wife and chilr dren when he noticed off to the north a lone rider appear above a ridge in the valley. As it Was a quiet sum' mer evening and just about dark he couldn't see what the horse looked like, but he thought that it was some man that wanted to stay at the ranch over night. But as the rider disappeared Marjory Whit»n*- • " "^iOKES Two In Ons .+ We had a fine canary; t We also own a cat; We have no more canary, " But puss is now quite fat. , How About Ulyaea^ rVofessor: "Who was Homer?'* THE UNIVERSAL CAR Buy Your Ford Now XT J llH spring almost here thousands of families, antici-, W paling the demand that is certain to exist for Ford Cars and Trucks are placing their orders for imnediate delivery. - Sales now are far ahead of sales at this time last year. Advance orders calling for delivery under the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan have already reached a Dotal of 255*758 Cars and Trucks. The prospect ol securing prompt delivery is daily becoming more uncertain. 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