The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-25

year. Although the Sophomore usual
~ doesn't amount to much, he thinks
that he is the whole thing.
The second year was rather more
eventful than the first. Some OF the
men tried out for the teams and were
successful In that line. We all made
records for ourselves as students that
year and did our best to help Dr. Reid
get settled in his new quarters
Soon after the two upper classes
had elected officers hostilities be-
tween them began and after watching
a few futile weakened attempts on
the part Of the juniors and Seniors to
keep their colors before the eyes of
the school, the Sophomores became
Disguised and decided to show their
elders how to do things. Such a terri-
bic curse had been laid upon the per-
son who used the school for pennant
raising purposes that the church next
door was decided upon to serve as a
flag pole for the banner of tie Class
of Nineteen Ten. Through ignorance
am here forced to let the details
slip, until, behold! on coming to
school one morning, the astonished
students of X. H. S. beheld a huge tin
pennant with "Sophomores,' TO- up.
on 1t, attached to the outside of the
church steeple, seemingly In man
ner in which nothing less than a bird
could have done it. When sufficient
number of Freshmen had arrived on
the scene of action, they went in a
body to the rear of the church and in
4 some unknown manner effected an en-
trance to the building. Although the
attempts of the Freshmen to reach
the pennant were fruitless, yet tsey
did manage to find the bell rope and
! soon the sound of the old bell was
1 waited on the morning air. Waited,
alas, too far. fo- it reached the ears
/ of the trustees OF the church. and
i but. this is getting too strained, SO let
IL suffice to say that before the affair
was over, several and D class boys
s"w the inside of certain office on
Lucas avenue and came out little
sadder, wiser, poorer and somehow a
little happier than they had been be-
fore. AS | read, l notice a reminis
cent, if not worried look On the faces
of two or three of the graduates; but
don't worry, am not mentioning
names.
! The class was very quiet after that
and the rest of the year passed off I'M
eventually.
Early the next year TIE class organ
lied, Chas. King was elected presi-
dent; Van Hayden, vice president;
Madeline Marley, secretary and Eva
HUDSON, treasurer. Miss HUDSON, think
ing she was not able to perform the
duties OF the office, resigned and Har-
ry Duncan was elected in her place
/ On October 30, the class enjoyed a
Halloween, party at the home of Ruth
zimmerman. We gathered at the
school at about p. M and from there
started for Miss Zimmerman's home
in hayrack without any hay on it.
tee roads were muddy at the time
and the driver informed us that we
would have to divide up into squads
and everyone had his share Of the
road except Will Haggott, who com
planned of pains in his feet 1t was
nothing serious, however, for it turned
out afterwards that the pains were
/ only in his head After spending a
very pleasant two hours at Miss Zim-
merman's, everyone felt amply repaid
for his walk, and when we again
reached town about a. m. we all
agreed that our first party had been
a success.
The next venture of the class in a
social way was not so successful We
had decided to to have party and
had even gone SO far as to make some
of the preliminary arrangements
With the party only one day off, the
boys got together and discovered tina,
only one boy had girl, also that
every one had asked from one to Ave
and had been usceremoniously stung
1t seems that the boys had waited so
long that the girls had decided to
show tseir disapproval by refusing 10
/ be accompanied. Hence, originated
the famous class motto, "He Who
Hesitates is Stung.' 1t also caused
: the boys to adopt the song for the
masculine portion of the class, Gee
Wish Had Girl" might state
: here that tie boy who did ask a girl
! in time was Bernard Merriam.
During the Christmas holidays, the
girls, wishing to show the boys how te
do things up right, gave a Leap Year
party at the home of Adelaide
Schroeder. Be it said to the credit Of
the girls that they did do things ur