White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08

name commencing with w, then
Wright. Wright read this, written
inside of thirty seconds:
Il wish 10 thank my red-haired
friend
For his unasked for recommend.
I hope my lot 1t soon will be
To read his great biography"
The tumult that followed could
not have been surpassed when Ella
Wheeler Wilcox did a like feat once
in %canonizing General Phil Sheridan
at a big army encampment at Mad
ison, Wis. Wormley went wild. He
followed Wright down to the cot
tages and tore into him.
You're too personal" he scream
ed.
That poetical feat made Wright in
time local editor of the Aurora, the
college paper. After he graduated
he worked in the newspaper bust
ness for a short time, then tied James
Whitcomb Riley up in a contract and
Travelled as advance agent all over
the country, but l have not heard of
him since.
College boys always have their
gags and st~ereotyped smart sayings.
One of ours when ANOTHER came into
our room to visit for a while was to
shout at the visitor in commanding
tones, shut the do%or--from the out
side" Many a time l have told this
confidential adviser of President
Harding, in the gruffest tones l could
assume. to shut my door-from the
ortside-and I guess he has told me
the same quite as often.
Once my brother nearly got him
and all our neighbors bumped off.
The freshmen had the fourth or top
floor. The juniors and seniors had
the third and the girls and teachers
had the second. For a few nights
Frank Andrews, drum major of the
college band, the most stately Young
fellow in school and a junior masher,
had been sparkling n of the deni-
zens of floor No. 2 after the 10
o'clock retiring bell had rung and
the lights were out. OF course all
the freshies at the windows on the
top floor didn't listen in. Finally
one night Johnny threw a pitcher of
icy water right down on a white OBJ
jects supposed to mark the spot
whence extended the head and shout
ders of the coed. supposed to be in
her retiring gown of that color, and
then we heard something sounding
like a band of mules coming up the
back stairway fifty feet away. Frank
kicked in the door of the room next
east of ours, saw at nee he had
made a mistake and then went after
several others but missing us. What
saved Harry Wallace from his fury
was the fact that his room was Oh
the court and ours on the more arts.
tocratic outside of the building. |
think the occupants of the room
broken into were Roxy Bennett and
j. A. Worse, but am not sure. Roxy
died a month after he graduated.
Harry Wallace was a sort OF
goody-goody boy but he would do a
little mischief il he was sure of moi
getting caught. | cannot swear to
this but my memor tells me he was
one of the bunch of us who drowned
out ground squirrels. shared them as
they came put of their holes and
turned them loose in the college
building. The squirrels would run
like lightning through the halls. sit
up on their launches, whistle. then
run again. How we did scare those
girls and women teachers nigh unto
death, Mice wouldn't have been
circumstance 10 these. ] know | was
in on 1t and if Harry was 1t may
have been with the idea of demon
strating TO the whole college tho
economic ills accruing from rodents
and predatory animals abroad in the
land, and his government depart
ment is at tin a way, but 1t does
not weigh a great deal at that-tC
this day.
don't remember a great dea
more about Harry that year and thu
next one l was able to get in on thu
$21 deposit layout by lining up F;
room in one of the boarding
cottages and we did net see mucl
of each other. Tho only incident
recall was in tas class of physica
culture and elocu.ion-did you &c
that last wordl Yes, elocutien, bu
| have never been invited to deliset
a Fourth of July Grafton since. Any
way, the teacher was Miss Mar.
Blood. She had auburn hair AM
that circumstance gained rne som
college fame, ior | started the NAM
Bloody Mary or her, much tn
same as a local guy recently starte'
the name Mad Anthony on Ton,
Zurich. Bloody Mary went like fir
and stuck To her. | suspect oh
heard about it and blamed me. Any
way one day when she had me on m,
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