Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-25
Ashland High
School Notes
(By Leith Abbott.)
Second Semester Starts.

Second semester otdTISs
The second semester was uncere-
moniously ushered into the minds OF
Ashland high students Monday
Aside from the rearanging Of the
seating system in the assembly room,
the only excitement was the appear
ance of the nursery set which are to
be called freshmen. Other classes of
crooks" have been bad, some worse,
but this class is uneXplainable. Forty
eight of them, the boys in knicker-
bockers, the girls not yet in their
teens excepting severaD. A few
statistics will prove their lack of fit
ness to be on earth. The youngest
member of the class is nine years of
age, weight ninety pounds, and men
tally a "whiz." The oldest twenty
one-er is ten years and two months
of age, weighs POI pounds and is a
champion top spinner. Fifteen of
them can't look over the top of a
yard stick. One of them is a recog-
nized crook by his fellow students
because he once smoked a cubeb ci-
garette. Ten of them ride in their
own baby carriages. Six of them have
their nurses and bottle carriers at
their side continually. One of them
has produced a new dictionary. One
of them has proven her ability to do
the new dance, "cradle crawl" and
the rest of them are fit occupants for
the primary department of any up-to-
date grammar school.
Team Takes Trip.
The boys basketball team leave
Thursday for few days trip to
northern California. After playing
Cottage Grove Wednesday the prom
ise of three straight games gives forth
visions of tired bunch of basket
tossers which will return Sunday
evening. The local quintet will play
Fort Jones Thursday night, Etna Mills
high school Friday night and the
Etna Mills towr team Saturday.
Games with klamath Falls and sew
eral northern cities are also in line
80 that with a good many games at
home this years basketball season
will be strenuous one. Coach Held
enreich also wishes to start a cross
county team in the near future in
anticipation of long, hard track
season which will Immediately follow
basketball.
SO ST.! SO. ISL!
Great commotion was caused in the
halls Tuesday when the patter of baby
feet resounded down the corridors,
and amid choking sobs one of the
lately acquired infants told Patrol
man Ruch that some cruel man had
put his coat in his locker. Investiga-
ti0ns followed and the child was
coaxed back into dimpled smiles and
he was praised as being big strong
man. = &LR
Medford Wins.
In a fast, hard-fought game the
Medford quintet defeated the strong
Phoenix team by a score of IA to 13
on the Medford Natatorium floor
Monday night. Both teams missed
many baskets, but the Phoenix tossers
made many points by converting
fouls. The Phoenix contingent show
ed much more condition and team
work, while the Medford team won
by the individual brilliancy of Mutt"
Williamson, Brandon and Young
Coach Heidenreich took the locals
down to witness the contest.
New Glasses a Success.
Elementary electricity has caused
twelve students to seek the mystery
of the great power. A well-equipped
room has been added for this course
and 1t promises to become one of the
schools most treasured courses. Two
classes, one of twenty-one and one Of
thirty-two members, have signed up
for Spanish, while public speaking is
causing many students to choose an
oratory period. Two new classes of