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\ Em 5e Ach • i if lifiib--wlh o Published in the Interest of the McHenry Community High School, McHenry, Illinois, Thursday, April 30, 1925 % iFF .'. • !. .Richard Stenger I... Alvin Anderson [....William Green . .1 .Violet Vycital ... .Harold Bacon .Catherine Walsh ......James Fay ..... .Joseph Draper ,..;,. Paul Patzke [ • •.. .Agnes Weingart ........ Frances May .William Beth .. .Marjorie Whiting Elizabeth Vogt Ernest Barbian j Bcrteel Spencer. ^la Petesch, Mamie Keg .... fMarie Baer ....John Wilson .Kathleen Given* & ANIMALS ^imals as clams, oysters, and called mollusks because of bodies. The mollusks live in The mussel is found at of the water slowly plowing1 through mud or sand shell made of two similar valves. These valves are her at the top by a hinge. is on the inside of the a soft muscular structure, 's food comes to him in in through the lower sigets its air for breathle manner. are animals aa the r, crabs, etc. They are lame because of their hard lis covering is to protect ins on the inside. The powerful jaws in which use of them for tearing inside of his stomach is -like structure for crushie blood is circulated by a eats vigorously. The heart one chamber and it is [receiving space. ind spiders have the same ructure as the crawfish but in many ways. The word &ns "cut into parts" and also animals are made up in house fly goes thru four an adult age is reached: , produce white crawling g--A worm-like structure 3--After about a week larvae grows a shell. 4 about the fourth week the shell luces an adult fly. •p. difference between fish and anisuch as mollusks is that the fish %n interior bony frame work to |upport its body. The fish moves its by the powerful strokes of his The fish has a heart containing Chambers. The blood of a fish is ^cause of the red corpuscles, jhibians is a word meaning 1 refers to animals living in and water. The frog and kong to this class of animals, [nimafo are very cold blooded, fts are animals that creep or the snake, crocodile and lixlong bodies with a distinct move slowly because of rering of horny material. Harold Phalin. other than Mr. Duker. The "Four Horsemen" received back their red ties and oncfe mofe peace reigns over the school. JUNIOR CLASS NOTES : We have some.real artists in Spanish I class. The other students wer? certainly amazed at the singing that came from the auditorium last Thursday mornig. The "Hymno Nacional do Cuba" was the cause of all the excitement. Miss Stockebrand is beginning to believe that Lisle and Torchy are having a gum chewing contest. Why was everyone so frightened the other day? Merely because Dick Overton was putting on his "bogey man" act. Clara and Floribel evidently would like to join the boys glee club. The cross word puzzle craze is quite prevalent around high school. Maybe it's a case of hafto! The girls glee club is practising very hard, and who knows, they may have to put on the soft pedal, in order not to drownd out the boys when they sing with them in Woodstock. We all agree that Albin should be a bishop. Doesn't he look well in that garb and Tilly--well we always knew he'd do well in that part. Amelia wants to know who a T. L. is. Come to Staff room about it. In the meantime tell the world that you are showered with them Mel. SENIOR NOTES ior class has decided to pre- "Fifty-Fifty" for their as "play. The temporary date &,M*y 26. "Fifty-Fifty" brous three act play and the public immensely, it there are quite a few t|£ senior session hall. t;sin are probably the Suiors surely enjoyed Mr. speech last Tuesday mornnvocation period. He reprepublic Service company and fence with that company ent » enlighten the school on are done in the big busi riars had a group picture [ Tuesday. No casualties have since the class was shot, was on the absent list ijng. Lucky for the camera u4feided on the class il, as yet, but are try- Frhe junior class to go fiftyjus in buying a trophy case to the school. There are >1 athletic trophies in the fPf the school and we feel ti> provide a suitable tro- -,r% h TIE LEAGUE AT THE 'HIGH SCHOOL of boys of the high school Lmselves to ban the red tie l,j worn to school. "The first none other than the frsemen," or as commonly reas the "Four .Mules." These , to their mothers as Elmer, a0nd and Herman, always |red ties to school. But on day they were suddenly 1 by members of the Anti lgue and their beautiful The warriors who capwore the,ties on their arms Jng to others who wear ties colr,r.( Altho only about [>st their ties it was noticed wore that kind of a tie However Thursday the suddenly disbanded by no April 19,1928 Dear Nicky: Our Basket Ball Banquet was a howling success even if there weren't many people there. It was a very congenial crowd and I think everybody had a good time. You know--at a banquet they always have a lot of afterdinner stories. Well we had 'em too, and some people got hit hard and heavy. o Everybody danced, then, to the tune of Happy Showers. The cooking girls made the cakes. They were devine--I mean the cakes were. Say every now and then some teacher accuses us of leaving everything to the last moment. Well I guess we are not the only ones to do it cuz the person who arranged the senior program sure left everything to the last. The temperature today is wonderful but Gee! Whiz! I wish they would let a little of that climate into the building. It's so clammy and sticky in here that it might be taken for a glue factory. Our Four Horsemen are nearly ruined, poor dears. Everybody's pickin" on 'em and takin' away their purty red ties. They's been running around here collarless and tieless like roadmen. . No news from the old study hall. Your, a fellow worker, --^ Sasbox. V April 22, 1925 Dear Nickodemus: You certainly missed a lot of fun by not seeing the junior class play. I really had a good laugh over it. You must make up for last time by seeing "Fifty-Fifty" which will be presented soon by the seniors. Pagey was certainly a wonder at telling the unadulterated truth, much to the delight and sorrow of the rest. My Gosh! I wonder where Mary found the freakish hat. It was a scream. She must have thought it was kinda funny too. In spite of the heroic efforts to conceal the laughter, she burst forth with much blowing and puffing. I visited the kids behind the scenes for a little while Tuesday just before the performance. They were just putting on the finishing touches. Tallmadge, the artistic gentleman, was running around with the cosmetics from one to another. Everybody was nervous and excited. Catherine was very much worried about her attire, while Lill Bauer was piling on the paint for the part of a tough girl. Mis^ Miller rushed around with her hair and arms waving wildly, giving the last minute orders that never take effect. In fact the whole place was a thing of confusion. However, it was run, run, well done. Ta! ta, Sasbox. April 23,1925 Dear Nickodemus: A man from the Public Service company at Crystal Lake came and spoke to us the other day in convocation. It is no less than the s'teenth time we've been told about cheating in school. It seems to me it ought to sink in by this time. Nevertheless, we enjoyed Mr. Leonard's talk immensely and I hope profited by it Oh Boy! We had our pictures taken this week. The proofs are supposed to come today. Gee! I'll bet theyll be funny, cux the wind was so windy. Say really n<rw, I thought Betty was getting something today. She acted so funny; vyou know, kinda restless like, and there's a patch of freckles on her neck. Besides the other day she thought she was getting the mumps. Maybe that was only a wisdom tooth, though. I hope it was for her sake. She needs one so badly. You know what? Mr. Sears forgot to come again today. He's had quit* a vacation lately. 'Sabout time he came, cut I won't hf ihlftJf' ****** right arm if I don't get practice at ieast once a week. I'm all alone this period just watching the dust blow around the floor. It's more fun. V - More in my^next. ~" V-';? Love, • ! ' • " Sasbox. ;3*i>ril 24, 1925 Dear, Funny Nickodemus: Our Spanish class had a\rand little jubilee Thursday. There were some Spanish songs in their book and they insisted on singing, to pass the time away mainly I think. Well, anway, Coach Stringer took those kids down to the auditorium. There was the question of what they were going to do for music. First they asked Ernie to pilay his fiddle but John Smith thought he'd better not since Ernie can't read Spanish notes yet. Ida played for them at last and the war was on. Such noises as ensued from the stage. If that's Spanish music, I'd hate to live in Spain. Honest to goodness I couldn't even study because of all the weird noises. They said they liked the National Hymn of Cuba best, but I couldn't notice any special difference. Isn't it heart-breaking, I only have five more weeks to write to you. What will I do all summer? Boo! Hoo! Feelin' blue,; Sasbox. OUR COMMERCIAL CLASSES « CREDIT SYSTEM Our stenography students, both the first year and second year students must have earned their credits in shorthand and typing before the end of the school if they wish to receive the major credit of shorthand. To receive a minor credit in typing the seniors must type thirty-five words a minute for fifteen minutes having five or less errors. They must repeat this requirement three times. For a junior to receive a minor typing credit he must type twepty-five words a minute for ten minutes with five or less errors, and he must also repeat this requirement three times. In shorthand i and II a student must" transcribe a letter given at very rapid speed in ten or less minutes. He must repeat this requirement three times in order to receive his minor shorthand credit. If the student fulfills the above requirements given to his year, he has earned his major stenography credit. The following have credits: Senior typing--Bernard Freund 1, Augustine Freund 1. Senior shorthand--Mayme Keg 2, Augustine Freund 1, Bernard Freund 3, Lillian Buss 2, Florence Kinsala 1, Fern Bacon 1, Olive Vasey 1. Junior typing--Lillian Baur 3, Paulline Kennebeck 3, Marie Baer 3, Marie Brefeld 2, Mildred Gibbs 1, Mary Mc- Andrews 1, Albin Anderson 1. Junior shorthand--Marie Baer 1, Pauline Kennebeck 1, Marie Brefeld 2, Ida Reynolds 3, Marie Powers 2, Albin Anderson 3, Elisabeth Vogt 2, Marjorie Whiting 1. HUMOR Clam: Mfikl you taste any ot that pudding I made in cooking class?" Bernard: "Yes; 1 tasted it for six hours." . Mr. Koeraer: *| see the trees are leaving." Joe: "Yes. I noticed that the hackman came after their trunks this morning." Grace: "You don't mean to tell me that Howard is a pugilist." Anna: "Not at alL I said h« wm a light-weight boxer.- Grace: "Well?"- Anna: "Well, he's a packer of straw. berries." George: "These horseless carriages are great things." Harold: "Yes, indeed. I had one once." • George: "What did you do with it?" Harold: "Out-grew it." Dick Overton wants one of the arrows that the cupid shot. Elmer Freund wants a hat for the head of a nail. Sibre wants a key to fit the elephant's trunk. John Fay wants a stick to measure narrow escapes. Frances May wants a splinter from the sun beam. Ruth Whiting wants the wick from the lamp of life. Clarence Clemens wants a train of cars to run on the branch of a tree. Leo. Herbes wants a pie from the fruits of matrimony. Joe Barbian wants a pair of spectacles to suit the eyes of potatoes. Lorena Jepson wants the club with which an idea struck the poet. Bernard: "I hate to use a tqyel on my face." Dorothy: "Why?" Bernard: "It makes me so dry." James: "This is a dogwood tree" * Mr. Tallmadge: "How can you tell?" James: "By its bark." Frank: f'Do you mean to insinuate that I can't tell the truth?" Torchy: "By no means. It is impossible to say what a man can do until he tries." time. A goodly number of people go on the principle of Methusela. He never moved out of a waik. If he wanted to set down and rest, or gossip with his neighbors for a while, or quit work altogether and go fishing for a year or two he did it. There was always time to finish what he had been doing when he came back. That was alright for him but your case isn't exactly parallel. Methusela had a good many more years to be reckless with than you have---about nine hundred odd years or more, if I learned my Sunday school lesson aright. He could waste a couple of hundred years time then had about seven hundred years gr more to do his life'work in. You are no Methusela. If you waste a dAy or two every now and then you're going to run out of tim$. Youth won't last forever. Enthusiasm gets cold and a man walks on crutches in later life. You must make every day Count. The hours flash by as fast as they telegraph poles fade away behind a night express and often you like the sleepers in the coaches are dead to all realization of the speed with which you are traveling. Stop and think of the many, many things you do--just killing time. Some of you charge up the loss of a great deal of time to the fact that you are such good fellows. You meet a friend on the street who asks you to stand up and partake of a little liquid refreshment at his expense, you would call for the police if anyone stole your pocketbook, you would shoot the man who broke into your home and tried to steal your silver and you would risk a bullet to save your watch from a holdup man. But your time-^he most valuable thing you possess--the raw material out of which you can make, if used properly, a thousand watches or a row of houses with a big rent roll, you let any casual acquaintance steal from you in any quantity, at any time and you throw in a good cheerful smile to show him there's no hard feeling. Your time costs you nothing to get and everything to lose. The spendthrift of time is a sure candidate for failure. Boring crawfishes have ruined more dykes than sudden tempests. It is the little things that count. The individual who lets the habit of killing PAPER NUMBER 28 are pushing, pushing, pushing, ever growing heavenward. Even tfej^flag staffs and the telephone poles are pointing towards the sky. Oh it is wonderful to be alive. To live today is to anticipate the gentle hum of the June-bugs and the rythmic throbbing of a cold in the head. It is to such a lan^'of anticipation that the dragon fly and the moth will soon be coming. On April 2fi the mosquitoes »left Red Oak, Iowa, to begin' their annual trip north. They plarintv! on being here today but owing to the intensity of the electrical storfn they were detained at Omaha. Let us leave the land of beauty and notice the scientific side of the lives of j the mosquito. Many people in McHenry have already seen mosquitoes in l&nd about the community. It is an interesting fact, however, that no one has been bitten as yet. The explanation of this is that the mosquitoes in their join ney northward frequently en- j countered heavy losses due to strong wind and high pressure. In the recent • trip north, the band of mosquitoes j which have already arrived lost their entire research staff. Both Anaphole* j and Culex were incapacitated. It is only too well known in the mosquito j world that an indiscrete mosquito is' often a dead one and too much care j cannot be used in choosing the diet As soon as the above mentioned individuals arrive and begin inspecting the j meat we may expect to find that they | present altogether to many bills. | If you have a skin they love to touch we advise that you move t« Woodstock as there are no mosquitoes in their community. The • people being too j hard-boiled to support them. 4 j The polat bears have all gone nfcrth-1 ward again. We will have to rely upon our motorists to supply us with chickens and other suitable meats and J entertainment for Sundays. | All winter we have enjoyed watch- j ing t|ie polar bears catch fish through; the ice in the "Mill Pond." We hope: that we will derive some pleasure from watching tourists catch our ducks,: chickens and turkeys in the streets and j alleys. After all, the summer is a wonderful time of the year. We are reminded of the time when two chickens got to S. J. FOWLER, D. C. PALMER GRADUATE CHIROPRACTOR Monday, Wednesday and Friday Hrs., 2:30 to 8:00 p. m. Phone 158 Brefeld BMg. W. McHENRY. ILL. WW f»?tCLA Fluff and ftag Rugs made to order NRS. B. rorr PHONt 162 WEST McHENRY. ILL time fasten on him is assassinating fighting. One of them being a very his own chances for success. Be an j ^ood chicken and the other one a very accomplished fact not a mere tendency. You can never do o until you learn the value of time. "Dost thou love life?" says Franklin. "Then do not squander time. For that is the thing life is made of." Are you a waster of time--a spend-thrift of mornings, a squanderer of afternoons, a dissipator of golden hours and diamond minutes? Do you start to your task late? Do you dwaddle away Saturday because it's the last day of the week? Do you fiddle away an hour or so getting down to work? Do you waste an hour dreading a task that can be done in five minutes? Are you making every minute of your time count? Are you getting things done in the time life allots you ? Are you paving your way in the world with achievements accomplished or are you riding as a passenger looking out of »the Window at other men's achievements? Don't feel hurt at these questions. If the coat doesn't fit don't put it on. If the coat fits put it on, wear it and •you will soon be accomplishing the big, splendid things you have always wanted to do. * A few thoughts from a successful salesman. SEND 'ER IN If you have a bit of newa Send it in, Or a joke that will amuse, Send it in, A story that is true An incident that's new, We want to hear from you-- Something serious or a jest, Just whatever you like best, The "Editor" will do the rest-- Send it in. Xnota Riginal. . ....... . .-- -TiaSaid" Hebron recently had a debate with Lake Geneva on the following question: "Should United States enter the World Court under the Harding- Hughes policy?" Hebron* lost the negative at Hebron and won the affirmative at Lake Geneva. Mr. Beatty was the principal judge of those deciding the contest. We hope to form a debating club next year and if we do we will furnish some keen competition to our neighboring schools. Debating clubs promote the ability to do public speaking, a thing anyone can be proud of if he possesses it. wicked chicken. The battle was going unevenly and so the good chicken waved one foot in the air as a sign of truce and said "My good friend, I have no desire to injure you, but believe me if ever the time comes when the Ruler of Destiny desires to call yoii home 1 will do all I can to help him." And so, as long as summer is coming anyway, we are likely to have it. . Gotta Pain. -SPRING" . Nine Rahs, a Tiger, and a Mosquito The wonder season of the year has come. It's Spring! The world is now young again and with all the confla child it turns towards a sky mer blue, and a sun of summer The world of nature is alive with a new hope and a new courage. THE VALUE OF TIME 1 Already the marigolds are blooming Qgg of the things a person has to I and lilies lift their infant blossoms to learn before he can achieve any large! the sky. The taees, the bushes my-r* in this world is the value oil grasses and MUD AND IGNORANCE The people of Illinois have evidently concluded that building roads is a state function. They have learned that people cross township and county lines when they travel and that nothing less than a state system of roads will assure a continuous trip on good roads. A mile or two of unpaved road between Alton and Springfield may get travelers from Cairo or Chicago into the mud and cause them much trouble, delay and expense. ' A succession of clay hills iff a poverty-stricken country between two inconspicuous villages ; may be a barrier between wealthy communities that want and need good transportation facilities from one to the other. Therefore, the rich parts of the state are building excellent hard roads thru poor parts of the state that never could afford to build them. This is not philanthropy, it is just plain horse sense-- a desire to keep out of the mud. • But if a stretch of mud road thru a poor community is a drawback or a loss or a danger to the whole state and must be impioved by state funds, how about the little, old rusty, cheap and crowded school house that stands by the side of the road in a district that is unable to improve it ? There is probably as much difference between the poorest schools and some of the excellent schools in wealthy communities as there is between the clay hills o? southern Illinois and the asphalt boulevards of Chicago. Are not these poor schools a drawback and a loss and a danger to the whole state? • „ Mud is inconvenient for tourists. But teachers dare to -suggest that it is really less dangerous than ignorance and the resentment .of grown people who feel that they were not given a fair chance as children. Mud in any part of the state may^ be a loss to the whole state. Bu^s^is th»» ignorance, poor citizenship and lack of ability,resulting from lack of education. Muddy roads stay where they are. But muddy minds travel over and settle in all parts of the state, and the improved roads accelerate this diffusion of ignorance. If the need of good roads is state wide, certainly the need of an educated citizenship is equally universal. I. S. T. A. News Service. East Side Service and Transfer Station Herman Schaefer t Do You Live to Eat It doesn't mattter. The point is, no matter why you eat you want the best. We sell the best teas and coffees, purest of lards, highest patent flour, best ennned goods, fruits, vegetables in season and the best general line of groceries to be found in this town. M. M. Niesen McHenry Phone 4# Pickle Contrdcts It has been demonstrated for years that there is big money in raising pickles for pickle factories. We pay cash, every load, for pickles delivered to our factory at West McHenry. We furnish seed free to all our contracting growers. Our representative here is Mr. Wm. Sayler. For contracts and seed see Mr. Sayler or either of the following: West McHenry State Bank, Louis Erickson, Smith Bros. L. Woodard Pickle Co. Main Office, Marengo, III. Let M.'M. Niesen supply yoa with your early seed potatoes. Telephone No. 108-R. Stoffel & Reihan&perger Insurance agent for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, :: ILLINOIS Insure-In Sore--Insurance WITH W m. G. Schreiner .Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE ' Phone W-R McHEN RY.ILL McHenry Upholstering Shop P. J. LANDT Furniture repairing and made to order Refinishing and Antique Wortt a Specialty. Phone McHenry 57-J DRS. M'CHESNEY & BROWN .1>.LUSF0HA1 Kj DENTISTS Hi J. W. Brown. Dr. R. M. Wilkw KstablUhed over 45 years tad Mill doing Bvaanesa at old stand Pioneers in First-Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices Ask Your Neighbors and' Friends About Us ' S. E. Cor. Clark & Randolph 145 N. Clark St.. 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