Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-10-13
ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Various Notes That Tell of Activi-
ties in the Realm of the
Three RS.

Principal Moore thinks that the
Pacific coast had about the noisiest
six minutes in its career Friday.
Professor Briscoe announces that
there will be school Thursday and
Friday following the teachers insti-
tute.
The football examinations were
successfully passed by most of the
aspirants, although the grades have
not as yet been published.
Neal Shinn was kept out of the
football game Saturday by serious
injury which, however, was not sus-
tanned while at football practice.
The West Side grades boast of a
football team averaging 12O pounds
which has been actively at work un-
der the leadership of Captain Delbert
Halfhill.
The following is product of one
of our student-poets;
There was young chemistry bluff
Who was mixing some confounded
stuff,
Dropped match in the vial,
And after a while
They picked up a tooth and a cuff"
The real football season will open
next Saturday when the local high
school boys meet the Grants Pass
youths in what promises to be a fast
and interesting game. The valley
team is an unknown quantity as yet,
but the Ashland fellows have been
working hard and with the experience
sustained from Saturdays game
ought to show Grants Pass a lively
time.
One of the most interesting parts
of school life this week was the yell
leader try-out on Thursday and Fri
day. Since only one student an
nounced himself as being willing to
try out, Professor Moore called upon
different ones who were required to
lead the school in yelling. Those
called upon were Walter Carpenter,
Leroy Ashcraft, William Rebec, Ar
thur Wallace, Leithe Abbott, Walter
Phillips and Harvey Dalzelln o After
an exciting succession of riffraffs and
jif-jafs were given, Leroy Ashcraft
rose up to lead his people in the
well-known locomotive On Fri
day at 1885 the most successful can
didates were given another chance to
show their skill Professor Moore
started things by leading the yell for
Panama and then the candidates be-
gan their duties. If all the classes
combined at game would yell any
where near in proportion to the
racket sent up when each class indi-
vidually were tried out, the teams
would have absolutely no grounds
for complaining of not enough noise.
The judges, Miss Hassinger, Miss Nc
Knight and Mr. Mann, selected Leroy
Ashcraft as the man for the position
to the evident satisfaction of every
class.
The first literary society meetings
of the year were held Friday and
the following programs were rem
dered: Seniors: Essay, Lucille Bar
ber; Biography, Minnie Beaver; Cur
rent Events, Everett Aackln; Reci-
tation, Oneita Barnard; and a story
read by Billie Briggs. In the next
assembly program the senior male
quartet will take part. Juniors:
Recitation, Katherine Coder; Essay,
Ruth Porter; Piano solo, Hortense
Winter; Recitation, Nellie Brady;
Book Review, Hazel Bruner Violin
solo, Alene Bomar; Current Events,
Glenn Simpson; Essay, Sidney San
derson; Piano duet, Alberta Blodgett
and Edna Dahuff. Upper sophomore
Current Events, Richard Ware; es-
say, Lois Morthland; Humorous reci-
tation, John Anderson; Glass paper,
Maye Glover; recitation, Troy
PhippS; Personal deScrintion of Ken
meth Lilly, Ray Morgan, Lower
sophomore; Reading, Gladys Ed
mundston; Composition, Marguerite
Ames; Recitation, Harvey Gumaer;
Early Stories of Oregon, Elbert Far
low; Reading, Aileen Walker; Cur
rent Evens, Lynn Slack, Upper
freshman: Recitation, May Mat
thews; Debate, affirmative, Harold
Frohbach and Violet Hershey; mega
tive, Charlotte Chappell and Gerald