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Page Four THE POINTER Wednesday, April 24, 19 Carson Hill—Work, work! No thing but work from morning till night. Chigger Moffitt—How long has this been going on? Carson—I start tomorrow. Harvey Stout (whispering an grily to Beverly Braclner) You re the biggest book in this town. Miss Henderson (rapping on desk)—Here, here, you forget that I’m here. Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie sat at the table and gazed into each other’s eyes, at which time he mechanically consumed the food which was set before him. “Oh,” she said, “I am so glad you like it. Mother says there are only two things I can make prop erly—potato salad and marmalade tart.” “Indeed,” he said, and which is this?” Despearado—Hands upl If you move, you’re dead! Mr. Owens—But sir, your Eng lish is abominable. If I_ were to move it would be a sure sign I was alive. BIRD'S FEATHERS AND SHEEP SKINS I finally arrive at the conclusion that the calendar and the weather had got mixed up on dates a little. Judging from all the joolry I saw around here last week. Everybody I came in conflict with seemed to be wearing joolry so I decided it must be near Christmas and Mr. Max Rones had put on another you-better-uy-whlle-you-can-get-it cheap sale. So I thought if me and the calendar and the weather had got mixed up on the time of year then I’d better be finding it out so’s I could be buying Christmas presents. But the funny part of it was that all that ;oolry was just alike. Tlrny was all little gold pins withl a feather across ’em. I really felt like laughing the situation got so funny I thought, now probably every last one of them had gone up to Mr. Max Rones and get ’em a pin and probably didn’t any of them know that somebody else had one just like theirs. But, as I once stated, I thought I’d better be finding out what the season was, so I walked up to one of the poor fishes with a little gold pin a-shln- ing in his lapel, and, not wanting to show my igonrance about the time of year so much, I went about the problem indirectly. I says to him, “Say, where’d you get your badge of valor and what you wear ing it around here for?” And he looked at me kinder queer and says back at me, Insulatingly like, “Why everybody you see wearing one of these is a member of an organiza tion for the feeble-minded. Don’t you think you’d do well to join?” But I flung back at him that I might be feebleminded but I’d be darned if I was so bad off that I didn’t have sense enough not to broadcast it everywheres. And so we two parted, only not in “silence and in tears.” In fact I was glad to get away, on account of he’d made me feel like I might be a little weak I haven’t known till now who my friends are: notice the seniors are to give for their play, “Oh, Kay.” Sounds like me! Money talks and the “hens” got my tongue! in my mentality. But seeing as you waln’t getting nothing out of this except my per sonal opinion on deficient matters. I’ll proceed to tell you of a discov ery I made the other day. It was several things. First, that it ain’t Christmas yet. Second, that that feller was trying to kid me. Third, that I’ve noticed that all the members of that organization for the mentally unsound hang out down at the “Pointer” office, wherefore they must be members of the board that directs Pointer matters. And I’ve decided that it ain’t such a bad organization after all (seeing as how I’ve hung around down there all the year hoping somebody would gimme a chance to show my ability as a writer) so I’m gonna try to persuade Mr. Andrews to flunk me on geometry so’s I can stay over here next year and be editor of chief importance in that institution for the weak- minded. I think I’d make a good one, do you? There’s one thing sure and certain, though. If I do con descend to run that thing next year I ain’t gonna wear one of them badges because I think they’re kinder silly with a quill and scroll on ’em. I thought quills were things you took medicine through and scrolls were things the prophets wrote on, and then two I don’t know, as I want everybody in formed that I’m a little weak in the upper story. o ALBEMARLE GIRL WINS IN SPANISH CONTEST contest was held throughout the state on March 29, and the win ning paper was selected as the best of 207 papers entered. Winners of the Spanish contest in the past have been Statesville high school, 1926 and 1927, and Reidsville high school, 1928. The students whose papers were sent to represent High Point were Mary Holley, Mildred Boswell and J. T. McGhee. “LIFE OF A TREE" IS SUBJECT OF ARTICLE BY FRESHMAN STUDENT Billy Minis, Pupil of Miss Greenwood, writes Original Theme on Plant Life. The following essay, “The Life of a Tree,” was written by a freshman science student, Billy Minis. He is a pupil of Miss Eloise Greenwood. His theme is entirely original, even the subject having been decided upon by him. He tells about the life of a tree from the time it is chopped down in the forest until it is used to build a house. The following is his theme: ^‘The Life of a Tree" One day while I was standing in a large forest with my tree mates, and the pines, I looked at my feet and there I saw two men with axes under me. A few minutes later, I realized that they were chopping me down. In about five minutes more, I fell on my back, and oh! how that hurt! Then they cut off all my branches, and you should have seen how I looked then. After this they rolled me over and over for a long time. I fell finally in a large body of water which I realized was a river. I went over many rocks and falls, every one of which hurt very much. After about an hour I found my self in a large saw mill. Here I was cut into many sizes and shapes. Then they put the pieces of me in a very hot room to dry. After I was dry, the workmen put me on a truck, and hauled me to a vacant lot. There I was nailed to a wall. Fnnthali^^cer - Basketball - Hockey I then realized that I was being used to build a house. I stayed in the ram and in the snow for a long time. Finally, one day a man came up to me, and put some paint on my face. Since that day I have never seen daylight. —Billy Millis. We Lead In Sporting Goods BEESON HARDWARE CO. Phones 317 & 318, High Point, N. C. Tennis Baseball HIGH POINT CREAMERY CO. Pasteurized Products “^‘Milk for Health" “Clover" Brand Ice Cream Gertrude McLain of Albemarle was the winner of the fourth annual Spanish contest for North Caro lina high school students. The HIGH POINT CANDY CO. Home Made Candies Ice Cream Luncheonette 120 N. Main St. Phone 2689 GLOBE INDUSTRIAL BANK We Pay 5 Per Cent on Savings Good Food Good Service Pleasant Atmosphere The Three Essentials of a Good Restaurant Are All Featured at THE FRIENDLY CAFETERIA 132 South Main Street 5s;2;SSS;S*7;SSSS2SSSS;SSSSSSSS2S2SSSSSSSSS2SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS2SSSSSSSSSSSSS7SSSSSSS2SS;2S2SSSSSSS2SSS2SS S2 :2 SNOW LUMBER CO. Manufacturers and Dealers in S2 LUMBER MILLWORK BUILDING MATERIALS BUILDERS' HARDWARE 2S L. »o»o*c Telephones 396-397 HIGH POINT, N. C. 2S Track Golf Prescriptions - Soda - Candy PHONE 369 CECIL’S DRUG STORE “ONLY THE BEST” Opposite Wachovia Bank First In Style f Last to Wear Out! • • • Younger Set Suits In “Cravenette" Woolens • • • N. H. SILVER CO. Have Tou Tried Sunshine's Genuine Dry Cleaning Yet? For All Things of Silk or Wool—it Has No Equal Phone 393 SEWING GIRLS TEST WASHING MATERIALS Miss Morgan's Classes Also Make Pajamas and Spring Dresses; To Work With Silk Soon. The sewing girls of the home economics department are getting ready to make their spring dresses. Materials for these will be of wash materials such as cotton and linen. At present, the classes, under the direction of Miss Penelope Morgan, are testing different materials for washing. The pupils wash one piece of goods every day for seven days, hanging it in the sun to dry. At the end of the week they compare the samples with the original piece. The girls have been making pajamas. Miss Morgan urged them to use some original way for the decoration of them, and as a result The Ritz Theatre Watch For Announcement of Formal Opening Efird's Department Store School Keds Clothing Ready to Wear Silks and Hosiery a great many very attractive pat terns have been created. Girls who finished their pajamas earlier than the others are given extra credit for additional work. Several have made dresses for younger sisters. The advanced classes are going to make silk sport dresses soon. Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. You Surely Must Hear the Screen’s Most Beautiful Woman Talk CORINNE GRIFFITH in “Saturday’s Children’’ Her First Vitaphone Talking Picture Watch Announcements Regarding the BIG 10, Starting Next Monday, April 19th HIGH POINT HIGH’S S HOE TORE MERIT SHOE CO.. Inc. 134 So. Main High Point, N. C. CANNON-FETZER School Clothiers Meet Your Friends At HART DRUG CO. Next to Post Office Fountain Pens Whitman’s Candy Phone 321 and 322 Prescriptions Soda Magazines CECIL-SIMPSON DRUG CO. 1546 English St. Phone 2376 “ONLY THE BEST" Hollingsworth Candy COLEMAN'S LUNCH A GOOD PLACE TO EAT AND SMILE 1317 North Main St. High Point, N. C. DR. NAT WALKER OPTOMETRIST Over Hart Drug Co., Next to Post Office High Point, N. C. N. E. RUSSELL SHOE REPAIR SHOP AND SHINE PARLOR 104 South Main Street The Commercial National Bank Capital and Surplus $2,000,000.00 J. Elwood Cox, President C M. Hauser, Vice President V. A. J. Idol, Vice Pres. & Trust Officer C. H. Marriner, Cashier J. W. Hiatt, Assistant Cashier E. B Steed, Assistant Cashier W T. Saunders, Assistant Cashier BEAVAN’S The Ladies’ Store Where You Are Always Welcome “Work Called For and Delivered” W. C. BROWN Shoe Shop Phone 4313 128 N. Wrenn St. J 2-0 10.010. o 3 7
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