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*fOr.UMBJ 49 MoHENRY. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY. APRIL 17. 1924 3" *?? : & X i": EM SE ACH ESS PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OP THE McHENRY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Vol. 1 McHanry. Illinois, April 17, IftM No. 2t £t- 4». STAFF Editor in Chief Kathleen Power* Assistant Editor ,,, .Gladys Rietesel -Sewing: ......... .*.. Eleanor Science *-.,.»('«•**» Leo Theien Commercial •»........ Emily Stoffel Alumni ...... .*. Florence Rothennel Senior . . Helen Powers Sophomore .. .Leone Givens Freshman .. . . ... .Lyle Hopper Mtssic .Pauline Pufahl Giris' Athletic*' ....Pamela Rietesel Humor ............... .Ellen Frisby Editorial*;*^ ^• Norma Whiting Story . .4*%.Carolyn Steffea f: PLEASE NOTICE m. JON ACCOUNT OF AN UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE THE JUNIOR CLASS PLAY, ENTITLED "THE CHARM SCHOOL," HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1. KINDLY KEEP THIS DATE IN MIND AND COME AND SPEND AN ENJOYABLE EVENING WITH Uft. U<: ATHLETICS ? So far there are very few girls |«tt for spring athletics. There are dilly three from the senior class and one from the freshman. The sophs "land juniors have a little better showing. Last Tuesday evening, the girls and boys together had a game of ball in the gym. Because of lack of space the home runs were few and far between. The girls were not slow about keeping up with the boys. In fact, it is hard to decide whether the boys A girls did the best. * Here's a chance for the senior detective agency. The second period geometry class would like a. little Walsh information. Who cop* , our string and compasses? We were entertained! Friday morning by the Girls' Glee club, John Wilson and the boys' octette. The boys in the octette are first tenor, Paul Patske and Earl Conway; second tenor, Ernest Barbian, Bernard Newman and Richard Stenger; first bass, Frank Page and Bill Beth; second bass, Albert Stilling and William Green. Under Miss Ashbomer's instruction they have became first rate warblers. ; Our chief ambitions: ; Fat Carr, to ftnd an effective method for reducing. Bill Beth, to grow a mustache. Linny Newman, to slip something over on Miss Ashburner. Dick Overton, to become MI expert jack player. Jesse, to charm snakes. Adrian, to be a minister. Red Bassett, to pass geom. ; Angela, to rehearse thfe second act with Zeke. Bussie, to write fifty words per minute. Milly, to learn the French part in the play. % SENIOR SCHOOL NOTB8 E H Miss Kisch visited school Monday. More fuzzy wuzzies. What is it, a lie sale? The state inspector of schools from <the University of Illinois visited our Itool recently. The physics class ii contemplating ting a trip to Ye rices' observatory lome time in the near future. - They say girls can't keep secrets, ~)mt we know two little boys who can't Wither. Why be so hard on the **6men? -v The high school enjoyed the program given in the gym during convocation last Friday. We are hoping |§r more. The high school held an election Tuesday morning for the purpose of fleeting city officials. The civics class .^jjid charge of this election. r-The civics class voted at the prifitairy election for Coolidge for president, Small for governor, Reid and Hart a tie for congressman and fjtbuse for state's attorney. ^ i f W e w o n d e r -- ; Why Norma doesn't bo»%®f hair? ,„|%Why Carrie and Pim have to sit in ' tte front seats so often 11 If Leo uses a curling iron? 11 If Miss Ashburner will ever stop jpving 09 source themes? '| Why Ellen always grab* her head j|| the slightest noise? JUNIOR CLASS NOTBS ^ ^||Views on many topics. • ^ To bob or not to bob. ^ j^Romo Bobb visited shool Wednesday Horning. v; Miss Pryor notes that girls dress J^emselves after they reach school ? Extra! Extra! Willie's got the Jlumps. Oh, well, they all flop sooner If Inter# ' t Mr. Wells Is in the watch repair Misiness. Louis Bile donated the ttramer. , . JiThe date of the "Charm School" lis been changed from April 28 to pay 1. Please take notice. •' | The chief attraction at school « Spring (?) days is the baseball games fit noon. Reserved seats, 50 cents. J Bernard: "What was the name of • //lie main character of Oliver Twist?" s#e don't know, but we think it was ^ *«en Turpin. [ Gus has returned at last after be- *ig out two weeks with the mumps. We thought you were old enough to J - |now better, Gus. •f ; These little half hour sessions with > jlfiss Ashburner after school are very ' - popular. Milly and Je$se were the ' l. ^itest to succumb. Fat Carr makes an ideal wash r 1 ..\.,\j|roman. The only thing wrong with " . ' »>m is that he wears out the heels of •y *-Willie's best dancing socks. j We have been trying to find Miss _ 1 ^shburner's pet hobby. We have - ~ 4jome to the conclusion that it must be V '*""** ..-v Chucking Jesse out of class. ; 'T Miss Ashburner, Eng. III.: "You %ere looking at it from a pedagogical ftandpoint, Lillian?" - Lil nods dumbly: "Uh-hah." IV - \ The freshmen have every reason to 44 proud of their songster c,a8smate ! i^ohn Wilson- W« h°P* you wU1 eB" . A * pertain us again very soon, John. *• • v.* Benny, looking around in chemistry "" -iesk. Mr. Wells: "What are you , ;#o'ng» Ben ny ? " • ?' - J Benny? *1 am looking for gold.* SOPHOMORE NOTBS Miss Kisch visited school Monday morning. John Wilson sang two very good songs during convocation Friday. The fuzzy wuzzy club is growing faster than the Ku Klux Klan. Bernard and Sebre joined. Mr. Stringer is in favor of having Saturday forenoon school so that we could sleep until noon Monday. Bernard in the library looking at the book "Oliver Twist" "Who is the main character in this book?" The botany classes are planning a field trip for next Wednesday. We're all hoping for fair weather. The high school had a vote on the city election during convocation period Tuesday. Hear ye! Hear ye! The polls are now open. Mike: "Say, John and Jim almost came -to blows yesterday." Pat: "They did? I saw Jim pull out his handkerchief." Everyone enjoyed the boys' octette selection "The Bulldog on the Bank and the Bullfrog in the Pool,"- which they sang Friday morning, - studied art in well known schools. One of the artists employed at Terra Cotta is a graduate from an art school in Leipseig, Germany. From the original models plaster paris casts NO. 45 The members of the commercial law class are planning on having a trial soon. s The civics and commercial law classes expect to attend a trial, at FRESHMAN NOTBS Miss Kisch was a visitor In school Monday. Some elass to l(r. Wells' new sweater. Elisabeth Boger is the champion candy eater in the freshman class. We wonder who put Gladys Rietesel's hat in the waste paper basket. We were drawing worms in school Thursday. What next ? Maybe bull frogs. We wan delighted with a teat ta science Friday and one in English Monday: We pity Jimmie Fay, seeing he has the mumps. It must be hard for him to keep his mouth shut. Mr. Wells in science elass: "When the central station goes out of order the next station is Elgin." The civics class are going to hold an election in the gym Tuesday. We freshies are allowed to vote too. (Dont we think we're big?) ' Can you imagine Mr. Duker with a beard? ,, Mr. Wells teaching sewing? Mr. Tallmadge smoking a pipit Mr. Stringer riding to school on a kiddy kar ? Miss Ashburne» with her hair shingled? Miss Pryor not giving us a raking over the coals the last period ? Leo Theien not sleeping in school? Carl Thorsell wrestling "strangler" Abner Carr of Ringwood? Bernard Newman not running up to the assignment book ovary ten min utes ? are made. The plaster paris casts are made in sections so that they can be taken apart. The clay is pressed into these plaster paris molds both by hand and by machine. In pressing by machine a device is used whereby by j THE the use of gasoline explosions passages of hot air are sent down on the works with force thru tubes. After tiie clay comes out of the molds it is dried so that all the moisture come out. The room in which it is dried is heated to a very hot temperature by hot air. When the clay comes from the drying room it is a pure white color. If it is to be colored the cakes are placed on a rotating ihachine. The color is put on by the use of sprays. The spray was invented by Major Gates, one of the men who founded the Terra Cotta factory. The color dries as soon as it gets on the blocks. In making the molds for the terra cotta five-eighths inches per foot is allowed for shrinkage. After the color has been put on the blocks, they are ready for the baking process. They are baked in very large kilns. The kilns are made out of bricks, around which bands of iron are placed. These bands are put around the bricks so that when they are heated to excessive heat they will not expand and crack. The kilns are heated by coal fires. The coal is fed by automatic feeds, which were also invented by Major Gates. There are eight stokers on each kiln wherein the coal is put. Six and four-tenths pounds of coal are used per minuto by the eight stokers. A perometer on the stokers regulate the heat of the kilns. The Mocks that are ready for the baking are placed in the kiln. The door of the kiln is closed very tight with three layers of cement. In this way no heat is allowed to escape, The cakes are left in the kiln from one hundred to one hundred and fifty hours so that they may bake thoroly. After they are done they are gradually cooled so that they will not crack. The doors of the kilns are taken off one by one so that the cooling will be gradual. The cooling process takes approximately three days. They are then taken out of the kilns and removed to the fittery room. Here they are laid out as they will appear wherever they will be sent to. All rough edges are then taken off with a large grindstone. After the rough edges have- been taken off of the terra cotta they are numbered. They are numbered corresponding to the numbers of the blue prints. This is done so that if any piece is broken the makers only have to refer to the numbers on the blue print in order to have a new piece made. When all the aforesaid has bi'**n done to the clay it is ready for the shipping. It is carefully packed with hay so that none of the little edges will chip off. It is then ready to be shipped to its respective owners. Carolyn Steffes. Woodstock. Several of the high school students will be entered in the contest to be held at Woodstock May 29. TRIAL OF CARR, BETH, WHITING AND THOMAS (Mrs. Bell takes the oath). ' St. Atty. Mrs. Bell will you tell us what sort of a man your son is? A. Oh, don't call him a man. He isnt a man, he's only a boy. He has always been a real good hoy; there never was a better boy. Now all the money that he gets he saves it until I tell him he can spend it. The other day he only had 10 cents to spend. Well 5 cents of this I gave him for scrubbing the kitchert floor for me Saturday afternoon. Saturday night Mrs. Noble from Ringwood came over and &aid can my Harold come over and mind her children for her while she went to a card party. Well, he stayed with the children for three hours and he only got 8 cents. 1 thought he should have got more, so I told him if he kept his hands clean all day I would give him 2 cents. Next day I examined his hands real often and he kept them so nice and clean that I gave him the 2 cents and that made 10 cents that he had. Monday I started out to do the baking and I made a devil's food cake and you know the little angel never eats devil's food so all he had for lunch was a sandwich, a dill pickle and a weenie. So he asked me could he spend his 10 cents and I said yes So I told him the last thing he was going out the door, I told him to be a good boy and mind the teachers and out he went and I never knew nothing about it until I was subpoenaed to come to court, but I know he is a very good boy. (Continued on next page) 4* m- John J. Vycital McHenry, Illinois THE MANUFACTURE OF TERRA COTTA The clay which is used for the manufacture of terra cotta is shipped from Indiana. When it reaches the manufacturing plant at Terra Cotta. Illinois, it is thrown into a grinding machine with other pieces of old, broken terra cotta. In this machine it is ground very fine. It then passes into another machine, where it is mixed to the thickness of paste After it has been sufficiently mixed it comes down a narrow passage like a chute. As it comes out. of the chute it is cut off into about one foot squares. It is of a very pasty appearance and has a grayish color. When it is cut off it is placed on wheelbarrows, which carry it to the molding room. The original patterns or models are mada Jqr renowned artists, who have TO BOB OR NOT TO BOB I have nothing against bobbed hair for young girls. In fact most girls' looks are improved after their hair is bobbed. But why must older women have their hair bobbed, too? Young girls have never tried any style which the women have not tried to imitate and they always go to the extreme. Now mothers with gray hair and even grandmothers with white hair have it not merely bobbed, but in many cases shingled. Bobbed hair is a very be» coming style for young people, but is disgraced by some persons having theirs bobbed when it is not becoming to them. Norma Whiting. The fad which has so extensively swept the country for the past few years has without a question many advantages. Doesn't it seem wonderful not to spend hours in shampooing your hair, girls? Dont you like the thought of getting up in the morning perhaps at the last minute without troubling with long hair? We all admit that the combing of bobbed hair is frequent, but isn't it easy ? Considering the comfort and rather than being termed a "horse and buggy" the majority of girls have taken the vital step. Cornelia Freund. - • A r . ! 0 G R i : t ' R L Y • : m - . r . ' / > p f ' . , ' / / v - / i r r i t f O p t i c i a n 1 \ P A i j i i N A S T . • • v ,- i . . i . *•. L . N CO i s AVE. ^fy spectacles and eye glasses are cnown 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. 3407 N. Paulina St. Phone 167 Phone Graceland 9540. FARMERS ATTENTION * * : IPIMOTHY SOY BEANS Thirty million pounds of clover seed will be imported into the United Slates this year. It will be sold to the farmer for approximately $5,000,000.00. All that seed will be worthless; all the money used in buying it will be thrown away. • Investigations conducted by the experiment stations of Indiana, Iowa and Michigan, together with less extensive tests elsewhere, show conclusively the worthlessness of imported seed. It will germinate, it will grow for a time, but it will not produce a profitable crop. In most cases it will not produce a crop at all. ^ We will carry our usual line of high grade domestic grown seeds consisting of bAKOTA ALFALFA WHITE BLOSSOM - . SWEET CLOVER MEDIUM RED CLOVER ' FIELD PEAS , ALSYKE CLOVER WHITE CLOVER MAMMOUTH CLOVER • LAWN GRASS ' • - ' • • • . ' ; The seed corn situation is really alarming^ However we have been fortunate in securing a limited supply of MurdocK, Early Yellow and Improved Learning Corn of unusual quality. , We also have a full line of chicken feeds, including Schumacker Scratch Grains, Schumacker Baby Chick Feed, Full O' Pep Growing Mash and Piatt's Gaby Chick Food. 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Genevieve Carey, Alice Miller, Leo Winkel, Earl Walsh and John Vycital,: all alumni members of the McHenry community high school, who are attending the University of Illinois this year, are spending a few days at their respective homes here. COMMERCIAL NOTES We are very glad to have Augustine with us in bookkeeping again. The stenography II class are making cover designs on typewriter.. iJ- i 3.Wri*Z&r: '*» V" <*. '* . \s-\_ pni tern ' 1 • vv! :*r .r- In Spring Suits WE WJLL SURPRISE YOU IN QUALITY- . f< STAND LOW PRICE "" •* ^ W. FR West McHenry, lit. -*L W A ^ Sh .. \ll4