St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-06-02

Know all men by these present:
We, the senior class Of Sl1dell High
School, fully assured that the day
Of our departure has arrived, and
after many years OF close application
to Algebra, Geometry and Cicero,
ever mindful Of the irreparable loss
the aforesaid school shall sustain in
the said departure, at the same time
in the full possession of our faculties,
we do make and publish this, our
last will and testament:
Article l. Item Ito the High
School department we give and be-
queath our charming manners and
dignity, and the secret of success to
all High Arts. Item 2-To the
tenth grade we give all our old and
unfinished experiments. Item 8
Realizing the great need of the
knowledge of the dead languages we
give and bequeath to Chas. Fritchie
our complete set of Jacks" Treat
them we'll and you will be amply re-
paid. Item 4-To August Tabary
the senior class wishes to donate
Lewis Browns marvellous ability of
love making, so that he may win the
fair maiden that he dreams of day
and night.
Article 2 Item Ito the eighth
and ninth grades we give and be-
Queath the basketball court, and a
perpetuation of our glorious VIC
tories over our rivals. Item 2-To
the eighth grade we give and be-
queath our most perfect baseball
diamond. Item 3-To the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades We give and
bequeath the care of the young trees
on the campus, together with the
tender and green grass.
Article 3. Item Ito Mr.. Lyon
we give and bequeath the numerous
bills that have accumulated during
the year. Item 2-To Mr.. Taylor
we donate the key to some fair maid
ems heart. Item 3-To Misses Tay-
lor and Towns we give and bequeath
the guarding of the lions; stipulating
that they will not permit a murmur
to escape from future pupils while
marching.
Article 4. Item I've give and
bequeath to our parents our most
perfect reports, the marks on which
have never reached above 100 per
cent or below zero.
Article s. Item Ito wouldbe
graduates we give and beaueath the
following advice, accepting which
will lead them to glory: Copy
your predecessors, the class of IT,.
We hereby constitute and appoint
Mr. Baker sole executor OF this our
last will and testament.
In witness whereof we the class Of
IT have to this our will set our
hand and seal this 25uh day of May,
1917.
Valedictory, by Eva Hartley.
Kind Audience:
We, as the high school class, have
reached in our course Of study what
comes to all through patient perse-
verence-the end. There is always
pleasure in accomplishment, in
reaching a result and there is graft
fcation in the thought that we have,
by conscientious work, reached the
close of our school course, and are
now ready to take step beyond.
The splendid result that we expect
from our study are not to be con-
sidered wholly made up of acquired
knowledge A wise and thoughtful
writer says: ''The education receiv-
ed at school and college is but be-
ginning, and is mainly valuable so
far as it trains us in the habit of
continuous application, and enables
us to educate ourselves after def
mite plan and system"
If our school life has given US true
ideals, and a start toward a method
Of Independent thought, it has done
we'll and fulfilled its proper purpose.
These we truly hope have been the
results, and. feeling that we have
thus been benefited, our thoughts
turn to you, kind friends and pat
rons, in heartfelt gratitude for the
educational advantages with which
you have favored us.
We address you as friends, friends
who have watched our progress year
by year, and whose word OF en-
couragement has often spurred us on
to higher endeavor and stronger eft
fort. The class of 1861 sincerely
thank you for your interect in the
WOTA VI Uuc past, as We'll dS lAht
shown on this occasion, and we aim
and hope to become mem bers Of So
ciety worthy of the school so well e.
tablished and maintained by this
community.
As we look back upon our record
and think of all intercourse of the
school room, as classmates together,
thoughts of regret rise and steal
away something of the pleasure of
the evening. Year after year we
have learned the same lessons, over
come similar trials, and shared the
same school triumphs and pleasures.
Our thoughts and interests have
been one; but the event of gradua-
ton marks the first great change in
our lives. The course of each of
our classmates in the future will be
different Whatever rests in store
for each in the future it must surely