1907 Klamath County High School Yearbook in Klamath Falls, Oregon

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Boomer '07

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Klamath Falls, Oregon (Klamath County)

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and the celebrated Douglas Shoe
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Me 453
HPHE approved Reclamation
System will leave the tule
marsh lands of the Lower
Klamath (approximately about
50,000 acres in area) about ten
feet above the water levels of
the main drainage canals, and
will also supply irrigation
water from raised ditches, high
enough to permit the flooding
of each and every section of
these lands sufficiently for the
propagation of cranberries.
Their possible yield in grasses,
grains, onions, asparagus and
celery is beyond general con-
ception.
Nature and the ingenuity of
man can not provide more
ideal conditions for cranberry
culture than these lands will
present when reclaimed. But
few persons are capable of ap-
preciating the future values of
these lands that are mostly
owned by individual holdings.
For more definite informa-
tion concerning these lands
address
ABEL ADY,
Klamath Falls, Oregon.
You Need Drugs
" WERYONE uses drugs to a certain
j extent. They must be fresh and
possess all of their medicinal prop-
erties, or the prescription will not be
correctly compounded. We use only
fresh drugs and therefore we fill pre-
scriptions accurately.
We also have a large line of drug-
gists sundries, cameras, phonographs
and perfumery.
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T. PARKER, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Klamath Falls, Oregon.
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lawn and orchard grass
seed, also garden seeds in
bulk, at the Feed Store.
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HORNING & CASEY
when you invest
in Real Estate.
The Cash
Meal Market
SOLICITS
A SHARE
OF YOUR
TRADE
?££> o£r Bacon and Lard?
The Lakeside Inn
The only first-class
Hotel in Klamath
Falls
RATES $2 PER DAY
Special rates by the
week and month.
Also special rates to
K 1 a m a t h County
people : : : : :
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The
Klamath County High School
Boomer
Commencement Number
Edited By
THE CLASS OF 1907
And
Published by the Students of the Klamath County High School

JOHN G. SWAN, PRINCIPAL

Dedication Ode.
[J. G. SWAN.]
O Future, oft we look to thee
Behind the clouds of mystery,
Clouds oft so black,
We start aback,
Again all bright,
The hopeful light,
Shines from thy clouds of mystery.
As priests of old would view the cloud,
The incense burning sacrificial shroud
To learn the fate,
Of nations great,
So hopefully,
Now study we,
O Future, thy auspicious cloud.
Methinks I see in letters gleam
Words that naught, no naught can mean
Than that in here,
From year to year
Shall grow success,
And nothing else,
Those gleaming words to me can mean.
0 walls within which now we stand,
Thou noblest pile of Klamath land,
May purpose pure,
In here endure,
Nor meanness vile,
Thee e’er defile,
Thou noblest thought of Klamath land.
May powers be tutored in these halls
Foi* manly work, for womanly calls,
May wisdom’s light,
These halls make bright,
May learning bloom
Within each room,
Its fragrance perfume all these halls.
May many friends full warm with zeal
With wills to do, with hearts to feel,
Arise to heed
Thy every need,
That those who’ve planned
Thy mission grand
May see its worth each year reveal.
When years have passed in rapid flight
These bricks grown brown, our heads grown white,
May memory twine,
Like ivy vine,
Of kindly deed,
Of friends who heed,
As the bricks grow brown and the heads grow white.
And now these halls we dedicate,
That learning may them consecrate,
That youthful bands
From Klamath lands
May learn to climb
To heights sublime
For this, these walls, these halls, we dedicate.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
The Coming of the Prince.
[R. E. A., ’08.]
Helena laid aside the book very softly and sat very still for a
minute that she might not break the delightful spell thrown over
her by the ending of the story. It had been a story after her own
heart, rich in the glamour of medieval romance. The unfortunate
princess had suffered sorrows beyond the lot of women, but, at
last, the prince had come—and all the dull gloom of her life had
blossomed into rosy joy. “Unreal? Yes, in a way, it is unreal,’’
mused the girl, “and yet in spirit it is true. Perhaps, sometime,
MY prince will come down that long road between the fields and
then » * * This endless, sordid, round of daily duties
— this sweeping and dusting and cooking and sewing —all will be
different then and” —Helena stretched herself comfortably in the
hammock and fell to dreaming. Gradually consciousness merged
into oblivion. She was a princess, fair and tall, and she dwelt in
a gloomy gray castle beside a bitter sea. Her soul was filled with
sadness and wrought with ineffable longing. Once, leaning
through the casement, she saw a knight, her prince, come riding
through the stern gate of the castle like a ray of sunshine enter-
ing a dark room, and joy was born in her heart.
She rode with him to a land of blossom and springtime where a
pure white castle rose beside a fair blue lake — blue as the smiling
sky that arched above. Beautiful flowers crowded the shore and
crept up the walls of the palace, and as she mounted the marble
steps, leaning on the arm of the prince, rows of white-robed
maidens as lovely as the flowers stood and courtesied as she pass-
ed, owning her as mistress. The joy in her heart waxed greater
and greater until it possessed her whole being and enfolded her as
in a mantle. She wandered all the day midst the beauties of the
castle and gardens and the prince was ever near and new blisses
opened before her at every step.
But at sunset the maids came to her in troubled groups. “Fair
mistress, you have given us no directions for the feast,” they
said. And the poor princess knew not what to answer, for she
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was unskilled in such matters and had deemed not that they would
disturb her happiness in this fair home. Then it seemed that the
pure walls of the palace grew discolored and gloomy, the sunshine
faded away, there was a frown on the face of the prince, and the
lovely dream was gone.
Helena sat up and winked the sleep from her eyes. The sun
was low and from the direction of the kitchen came the familiar
sounds of her mother preparing the evening meal. “What a
ridiculous dream’’ she laughed, and yet perhaps there is as much
truth in it as in the story I read this afternoon. If some prince
should sometime claim me and carry me to a castle of my own I
should hate to be found in such a case as I was in my dream. I
believe I had better go to work and acquire more skill than I have
at present or it might happen so.
So she left the hammock and the romantic story-book for more
practical occupations in the culinary department.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
The Holy Grail.
[VALEDICTORY ORATION BY ALICE LUCILE COX, ’07.]
The San Greal, or holy grail, according to the mythology of the
Romancers, was the cup out of which our Lord drank in the last
supper with his disciples. It was brought to England by Joseph
of Arcmathea and remained there for many years an object of
adoration and pilgrimage. This cup had the wonderful power to
heal all who beheld it, but in order to keep it here on earth those
who had charge of it must be chaste and pure in thought and
word and deed. There came a time when sin and sorrow abounded
in the land and even the court of King Arthur, which was supposed
to represent all that was pure and noble, was touched by sin. It
was then that the Holy Grail was taken back to heaven.
There lived at King Arthur’s court during this time a nun who
was the sister of the brave Sir Percival. She was as pure as ever
a maiden could be. It was her great desire to live such a pure life
that she might see the Holy Grail and perchance bring it back to
earth. For this she fasted and prayed. One day she went to
her brother, her eyes shining with a wonderful and beautiful light.
That night she had been awakened by a sound, as of a silver horn,
from over the hills which gradually increased as it drew nearer.
And then a cold and silvery beam had streamed through her cell,
and the Holy Grail, rose-red and beating as if it were alive, softly
glided down the long beam until the white walls were dyed
with rosy leaping colors. Then the music died away, the Holy
Grail vanished, and the quivering lights passed away.
She begged him to fast and pray and bid his brother knights to
fast and pray that the Holy Grail might come and dwell among
them.
When Sir Galahad, the purest’and most noble of all Sir Arthur’s
knights, heard the story of the vision, his eyes filled with the
same beautiful and wonderful light which had shone from the face
of the nun. One Summer evening, when King Arthur had left the
court and all the knights had gathered around the round table,
Sir Galahad sat in the chair which was called the “Siege Peril-
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ous.” If any one who was not entirely pure sat in this chair they
were lost. All at once they heard a great cracking and tearing of
the roof, a blast and thunder overhead, and in the thunder a cry
and in the blast a long beam of light smote down the hall, a beam
of light which was seven times brighter than day. Down the long
beam stole the Holy Grail all covered with a bright and luminous
cloud that none might see who bore it, and then it vanished, but
each knight saw his brother’s face bathed in glory. All the
knights arose and Sir Percival was the first to speak. He made a
vow that since he had not seen the Holy Grail he would ride a
year and a day in search of it. Many others made the vow, among
them Sir Galahad the pure. When King Arthur heard of the
strange visions and the vo\Vs which had been made his heart was
filled with sadness. He knew that many of them who were needed
at home had gone in quest of that which they could never find.
And so it was; for of all those who went on the great search, Sir
Galahad alone was successful. The others traveled far and wide
and in many countries, following as it were a mocking fire or
phantom cloud.
The Holy Grail symbolizes the higher life; and few there are
that find it. There is an awful discipline needed; men must cross
the broken bridges over the troubled sea of life that only Galahad
traversed in safety. Such quests are only for a few; even Arthur
himself, the ordinarily noble soul, cannot undertake the Grail at all
times; he has a lowlier human task to fulfill first.
Those who seek for the Holy Grail need not spend their lives
searching for it in many countries and far away; but most often
it is found at home and in a lowly form. How often do we who
are searching for the higher things in life forget to look for the
lowly human tasks first. It is not so much what we do but how
we do it; for Christ has said that no matter what we do, even if it
be only to give a cup of cold water, if we give it in his name we
give unto him also.
The poet Lowell has told us the story of another Knight, Sir
Launfal, who also searched for the Holy Grail. It was Spring
when he started out and it was also in the Spring time of his life.
His heart was full of sunshine and hope as his charger sprang
through the gate. He was full of his noble purpose and anxious
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to be gone on his mission when he became aware of a leper crouch-
ing by the roadside and begging for alms. A loathing seemed to
come over his soul as he tossed the leper a piece of gold in scorn,
but the leper did not raise the coin from the dust, saying that he
who gave from a sense of duty gave nothing.
After many years Sir Launfal returned from his unsuccessful
search. It was cold and dreary Winter and he was no longer a
young man. As he approached the gate of the castle he beheld
again the leper who had appeared so loathsome to him when he
had started on his journey. The leper begged an alms for “Christ’s
sweet sake’’ and Sir Launfal beheld in him no longer the loath-
some leper, but an image of him who had died upon the tree; for
he also had his crown of thorns and had received the buffets of the
world. He divided with him his crust and broke the ice on the
small stream and gave him to eat and drink. Suddenly a great
light shone about the place and Sir Launfal looked up, to behold
no longer the leper, but one who stood before him tall and fair and
glorified, and
“His words were shed softer than leaves from the pine
And they fell on Sir Launfal as snow on the brine
That mingle their softness and quiet in one
With the shaggy unrest they float down upon;
And the voice that was calmer than silence said
‘So, it is I, be not afraid,
In many climes without avail
Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail.
Behold, it is here, this cup which thou
Dids’t fill at the streamlet for. me, but now
This crust is my body broken for thee
This water his blood that died on the tree.
The Holy Supper is kept indeed
In whatso’ we share with another’s need,
Not what we give, but what we share,
For the gift, without the giver, is bare.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungring neighbor, and me.’ ’’
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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A Pipe Dream.
[BY ROY APPLEGATE ’07]
(With apologies to Milton and Bunyan)
Once on a time a man, worn out by the deadly drudgery and
sordid selfishness of gaining gold, fell into a troubled sleep in his
office chair, his head and heart throbbing in unison with the incess-
ant roar of the conjested street without. Presently an idea or
memory began to grow in his troubled, greed saturated, brain.
An intangible something, an aching recollection, or a dim after-
thought from some happier day.
At last he found himself on a lonely and rugged mountain side.
Around him the great majestic pines, their green leaves trembling
up against the blue void, hummed that old familiar lay so dear to
the heart of every youth. On either hand great ragged bluffs of
basalt and lava stood out in all their rugged grandeur and majestic
simplicity. Before him lay a great valley, verdant with all the
fresh loveliness of early Spring. For miles on miles, even as far
as the aching eyes could see, stretched the green meadows, wat-
ered by many silver streams. Down, down at his very feet flowed
a limpid rivulet, its crystal waters so clear that every pebble in its
bed was visible. The air about him was filled with the sweet voi-
ces of nature, God’s own music, and poured over all like a bene-
diction was the ambient splendor of the sunshine. The blood
rushed through his veins with the glorious gladness of youth and
his head ceased to throb, but instead a great peace, a delicious
healthfulness and naturalness pervaded his whole being.
Then there appeared two beautiful maidens, two dear, long for-
gotten friends, one of them named Love and the other Health,
and taking him by the hands with a warm and gentle pressure they
led him down a once well known path between the manzanita bush-
es to a long green lane. On the left side of this lane was a beau-
tiful meadow deep with rippling grass and bordered by quiet wa-
ters, on the right a noble orchard, its great trees laden with all
the beautiful and delicions fruits of his boyhood days. Anon they
came to an old brown gate, and before them stood the staunch old
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farmhouse with its broad shady porches. He sprang up the steps,
his heart o’erflowing with happiness, for the house was strong and
noble, and its four corner stones were Honor, Faithfulness,
Brotherhood, and Civic Righteousness, and the pillars that support-
ed the porch were Peace, Contentment, and Happiness. His moth-
er came to the door, her beautiful hands extended, and oh, such a
depth of forgiving tenderness in those eyes, those wonderful moth-
er eyes. He opened his arms, his heart bursting, with gladness,
and—awoke! Still the terrible tumult of traffic tortured the suf-
fering air; still men rushed on with the insane fury of grinding
greed; and the poor man groaned in agony “I know life’s meaning
now, alas, too late, too late!”
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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The Square Deal.
[BY FRANK EARL WILSON, ’07.]
During the present administration the thinking people of the
United States have been puzzled over the conviction of numerous
cases of dishonesty and graft in public offices. Whether or not
this exposure of graft is a sign of degeneration of moral character
is the foremost question in the minds of our people. The pessi-
mist will answer in the affirmative, citing as proof that a few
years ago the prosecution and conviction of a public official was
almost unknown; that because there was no official dishonesty
brought to light it followed that none existed. On the other hand,
when the facts are known it seems obvious that the discovery of
political graft is the result of the moral awakening of our people,
led by our beloved president, Theodore Roosevelt.
Thomas A. Edison says that nature has never failed to furnish
him a neeessary substance to fill a vacant place that will make his
production practical. So it is in history. The All Knowing Ruler
of the universe has never failed to produce the right character for
the required place. Washington appeared to lead our ancestors
through the darkest times to victory and independence. Lincoln
appeared in his mission of preserving the Union and now it is the
mission of Roosevelt to revolutionize our standards of public
morality and honesty.
Where could there be found a man who is more capable of
carrying to a successful conclusion such a mission ? He came to
the presidency after nearly twenty years of public life. During
this time he had sought office at the hands of the people but three
times and none could come up the back stairs of the White House
to collect a bill for political services.
Wall street was afraid of him because he had pushed a bill
through the New York legislature making large corporations pay
their share of taxation. He was full of enthusiasm for the right,
and ambition to do the right. He had the moral courage and faith
that the people would back him in his efforts against corruption.
He commenced his war on dishonesty within a month after he
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had been sworn into the presidential chair. His first skirmish was
with the beet sugar trust against their plan to prevent Cuban
reciprocity. His was a moral issue—a square deal—the duty of
this nation to Cuba, and McKinley’s promise to fulfill that duty.
This was foremost in his mind and the people saw his point and
gave him their support. This was a typical struggle. Along this
same line he has been fighting dishonesty ever since. He asks
more than he expects to get and gets more than his enemies ex-
pect to give.
He weut into the fight with a clear moral vision, a clean mind
and a simple boyish heart. William Allen White: says “He puts
all the energy of his forceful character behind his faith in God,
and his belief in common honesty and therefore plays no tricks,
lays no ambushes, relies on no strategy, but seeing his duty goes
to it joyously, bravely and with a wise direction and simplicity.”
The passage of the law creating a department of Commerce and
Labor reminded the people of the Government’s right to investi-
gate private business affairs. The “square deal” stands for the
fact that every man should have every dollar he really earns and
he can do this only when no man is allowed to have a dollar he
does not actually earn. His idea on the railroad rate question is
a plea for simple honesty. He cannot see why the misfortunes of
the shippers should be capitalized and transportation charges
based on the need of service instead of being based on the actual
cost of service.
Just laws never interfere with those who do what is right. It is
always the dishonest class who cry about laws being unjust. The
meat inspection law and the pure food laws would have caused
no fuss if the manufacturers of these articles had been giving
honest values. Therefore, if a man is working against a law that
will promote public honesty he is either a grafter himself or is
under the influence of some grafter.
The cause of dishonesty in our nation is obvious. During the
past generation this country has been earnestly engaged in getting
rich. In the thirty years that followed 1870, thirty million people
have come upon this continent and surged westward, taking with
them the customs and traditions of the East and after getting out
West have found and appropriated privileges that they were not
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allowed elsewhere. They found less limitations on the boundless
prairies, and in the unfenced forests each man was free to do as
he pleased. Thus gradually they worked into the idea that might
made right. They got rich with no question asked. Energy
came to count for more than honesty. Dishonesty was found in
nearly every occupation. In mining camps it was claim jumping;
in cattle countries it was stock stealing and all for no purpose but
that of securing wealth. For the same reason many a man has
discarded his honesty, thus putting money in the place of his God.
The idea prevailed that our great country stands as a golden apple
tree and every man must knock down all he desires. The man
who was allowed to work out his road tax would go to the place
designated and probably put in not more than three or four hours
of steady work and claim allowance for a day. The next day he
would go to the polls and elect a man whom he expected to handle
the public money honestly. If he should not oh ! what a howl that
honest voter would make.
But the people of this country are now awaking to the fact that
honesty like charity must begin at home, and so today there is a
steady although very quiet movement toward general honesty.
The men in the public offices who are still inclined to be dishonest
are very slow to attempt any such thing for they know they are
being watched. They know the common people are becoming
more honest. That private honesty will demand public honesty.
That as the people are, so must the nation and the nation’s ser-
vants be. It is a praiseworthy and noticeable thing that the
majority of the people of the United States try to do the right
thing. They are awakened to the right. They are demanding
the “square deal.’’
England as a nation has been watching the conviction of
grafters in America with a great deal of scorn for the past few
years. The thought naturally arises, is there any such thing in
England? If so, why is it not discovered? An examination of
England’s condition will show that there is public dishonesty there
as well as in the United States. Although the obligations of
personal services have been abolished, England is still feudal to
the core. The feudalism has been modernized by commerce and
manhood suffrage, but the relations of classes are those of the
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fifteenth rather than of the twentieth centuries. There is a caste
system in England like that in India. The gentry is opposed to
the laborer and the line is very clearly drawn between them. The
gentry control the railroads, press, church, mines, commerce and
franchise corporations and are thus in a position to compel the
working class to ask no questions. Therefore, they are almost as
immune from dangerous criticism as the Czar of Russia.
Under these conditions it is not surprising that there are no
exposures of dishonesty in the highei- offices of England. The
English grafter holds his position for life behind that strong
barrier, caste. For this same reason is Wall street rotten with
corruption; for unlimited power and wealth tend to corrupt most
men.
Yet the fact that here and there men are found guilty of breach
of public trust is not a cause for discouragement, when we
consider how few they are compared with the vast army of men
holding responsible positions. The fact that when a man has
violated the trust reposed in him, he is tried before a jury of his
peers, convicted and punished, is one of the most hopeful signs of
the awakening of the public conscience that the dawn of the
twentieth century reveals to us.
The problem of national honesty has been answered by Judge
Heny: "We must have as high a standard in business as in
official life. We must have a higher standard in politics. We
must have a 'square deal.’ ’’
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Macbeth Up-to-Date.
[F. e. V., ’08.]
Scene — Back of school house. (Boiling cauldron) Bell rings. En-
ter three witches.
First Witch—Twice the high school bell has rung.
Second Witch—Twice to school the kids have run.
Third Witch —The voices in the air call “time.”
First Witch —Round about the cauldron go
And in the charmed pot do throw,
All the measures of the charm
Whether free or full of harm.
• Face against the window pane
'08 cap once dropped in the rain,
Bunch of grapes and ear of cow
That once has caused an awful row,
Professor’s mustache, with no ease got,
Boil thou fiirst in the charmed pot.
All —Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch —Now a little frightened snake
In the cauldron boil and bake,
Piece of straw and cookie too
Pair of hair ribbons now will do.
Hoop of barrel made at just one
Some sweetness to complete the fun,
For a charm of powerful trouble
Like a hell broth boil and bubble.
All —Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Third Witch — Link of chain and little mouse,
Paste board box behind the house,
Half hatched egg from chemistry class,
And a football now will have to pass.
A piece of Vernie’s sweater red
Which saved one girl from a watery bed.
Some twigs from off the family tree,
A dime and a cherry as ripe as can be.
i Hixie’s slipper, a mitten, too,
A bag of beans and the mistletoe,
Handle of Prof’s little axe
With which the family tree he hacks.
Stir the charm and stir it more
With a slat kicked from the basement door,
A pleasant smile from good Judge Baldwin
Makes up the ingredients of our cauldron.
All — Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch—Cool it with a rabbit’s blood,
One that by the roadside stood.
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535c Parliament of Man.
[BY ROY APPLEGATE, ’07.]
A certain immortal document, with which we are all more or
less familiar, begins with these words:
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary
for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth
the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and
of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.”
Now it is not entirely unreasonable to assume that the time will
come, and in truth is now near at hand, when a new declaration,
not of independence, but of mutual dependence, shall be brought
forth, which may be introduced by some such words as these:
Since, in the course of human events, it has become necessary
for all peoples to unite the political organizations which have
heretofore distinguished them from each other; and to work
together for the common peace, well being, and upbuilding of
mankind, we, the powers of the earth, do hereby organize and
establish this common parliament for the attainment of these
great ends and for the government of all nations.
Let us glance back over the pages of history and follow the
movement which has led to this prediction and see if it is not
merely a possibility, but the most imminent of probabilities,
because it is the natural culmination of a slow development along
the lines of a natural evolution.
Looking back over the history of the race we first see man but
little better than a beast. He lives by the right of might. Every
man is pitted against his neighbor and is obliged to fight for his
very existence. Selfishness, greed, and injustice rule the human
heart, and the hand of man reeks in the blood of his brother. The
earth knows no peace and all disputes are settled by appeal to the
tribunal of violence.
Gradually men, as they become more human and less bestial,
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begin to realize that it is possible for one man to live in peace
with his neighbor, provided that both are controlled by a strong
temporal power and by an even handed justice, and for this
purpose governments are first established. Thus certain organized
communities of men learn to live in comparative peace among
themselves, but they have not yet learned the great lesson of
international peace, and thence arises the condition of war among
the nations. Thus, for thousands of years after the state of
anarchy has ceased to exist, nations continue to carry out the
same barbarous principle; every nation for itself and every
people turned against every other people. It is the age of
conquest, the day of Egypt, Assyria, Macedonia and Rome, when
the greatness of a nation is measured by the strength of her
legions and by the number of her crushed and bleeding thralls.
Now, as before, the strong devour the weak and the conqueror
takes toll from the conquered.
As time passes by, and as the Christian principle begins to
permeate the nations, the civilized powers begin to realize that
war is not always necessary and that it is even possible to settle
some international disputes by arbitration, but still the old dream
of conquest and the terror of the blood lust hangs over the nations
like an awful thunder cloud, ready to burst at any moment and
give vent to its devastating fury. They are forced to provide
against the terrible contingency by the maintenance of powerful
and costly armies and navies.
It is the close of the nineteenth century. The densely populated
and closely crowded nations of Europe are struggling for the
mastery, when on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1899, for the first
time in history, the Czar of Russia, the most autocratic monarch
in Europe, calls for a peace conference. The great powers meet
at The Hague for the avowed purpose of considering the disarma-
ment of the nations. Here it is decided to establish an interna-
tional board of arbitration, and strong recommendations are made
against hasty declarations of war.
Now, these provisions, though a step in the right direction, have
proven inadequate; for since that time two of the greatest powers,
both of them parties to that agreement, have transgressed its
ordinances and engaged in costly and unnecessary wars. It cost
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Great Britain four hundred million pounds and thousands of lives
to conquer little Transvaal, and Russia untold treasure in, money,
property, prestige and human lives to oppose the natural growth
of Japan. Besides these expenses, both these powers, as well as
all the other European powers, are spending so much money on
their military establishments that internal improvements, and
even the well being and happiness of citizens, are sadly neglected,
if not well nigh forgotten.
But, since the terrible Russo-Japanese war and the bloody and
unjust annexation of the Transvaal by England, the thinking and
peace loving people of the world are roused as they never were
before against this unbrotherly and unchristian institution of war.
They are beginning to ask themselves: Why the continuation,
even into the twentieth century, of this insane and barbarous
custom? Why this intolerable condition of wealth-sapping
preparation against a contingency which should not exist? Why
not abolish war?
And so, as a result of this revulsion of feeling, which is making
itself felt throughout the breadth of the earth and among all peo-
ples and races, the first parliament of the nations will meet at The
Hague next month for the further consideration of these great
questions. Yes, the first parliament of the nations, because prac-
tically every independent nation on the face of the earth will be
represented; and for this reason this meeting will assume far
greater proportions and exert much greater influence than did The
Hague peace conference. It will be the first parliament in which
all races and conditions of civilized men will be assembled to solve
their common problems, and to consider this gravest of all ques-
tions, that of limiting armaments. It has been said that perhaps
some one or two powers might possibly refuse to enter the
conference if the troublesome question of disarmament is
brought up, but in this case as well as in all ordinary
conventions, the majority should rule, and no one nation or
alliance ought to be allowed to prevent the consideration of this
question, and without such consideration the whole proceeding
becomes a farce. Most of the great military powers of Europe
are in favor of limiting armaments, while the two powers that will
take the most prominent part in the movement are those great
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Anglo-Saxon nations, England and th'? United States of America,
who represent one-third of the civilized peoples of the world.
It may be' that the world has not yet reached that stage in its
development when war can be dispensed with, or when a total
disarmament is feasible, but this international parliament is a long
stride in the right direction and, if we may judge the events of
the future by those of the past, if we trace out this evolutionary
development to its logical conclusion, the belief forces itself upon
us with resistless certainty that the world is rapidly approaching
that much to be desired condition.
As men are brought closer to each other by the common ties of
human interest and brotherhood, and as their lust for carnal glory
and theii- primitive thirst for blood are succeeded by a cool and
rational conception of the true purposes of life, this parliament of
man will assume more and more power and will acquire greater
prestige till it shall ultimately be looked upon as the high and
inviolate tribunal of all nations. And it is reasonable to conclude
that if the peoples of one empire can live in peace with each other
that the peoples of all empires can ultimately live in peace with
each other, and that as time passes on national lines will disappear
and that some time all peoples, regardless of race or nationality,
will be directed by a great central parliament. And when this
unity has been achieved there will be no need of war. And,
finally, as the barbarous and semi-civilized peoples of today take
on the civilization of the Christian world, they will naturally fall
into line, and in time all men will live as brothers. This is not an
idle dream, but the natural and logical outcome of a process which
has been going on since the beginning of history.
We live in an age of comparative barbarism. The terrible
alternative of war is resorted to for the settlement of international
questions. The powers are obliged to build up great armies and
navies at the expense of their hard-working and peace-loving
citizens who are bowed down and crushed by the gruelling cost of
maintenance. A great part of the mental and physical energy of
our inventors and artisans, as well as an immense share of natural
wealth, is expended in devising engines of war for the preserva-
tion of peace.
Under such conditions we may look with hope upon this interna-
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tional parliament as a precursor of the millenium; when nations
shall learn war no more, and love and brotherhood shall fill the
hearts hitherto filled with hate and blood-guiltiness. May God
hasten the time when swords shall be beaten into plowshares and
the fiends of war go down before the Prince of Peace.
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Morning.
[BY a MODISTE.J
[A companion to Holmes' “Evening, by a Tailor.”]
Welcome, fair Morn, in misty robes arrayed,
Casting aside the velvet cloak of night,
Coming with music through the fragrant air,
And bearing in thy arms the hour of peace !
All nature draws a deeply tranquil breath,
Waiting in silent joy thy soft approach,
While chanticleer in joyous cadence sings
His praise to thee, his queen. Thou seem’st to me
Like some fair dryad, bearing flowers, who stands
On the front cover of a fashion book.
Now on thy corsage burns the brilliant sun,
Amidst the laces of thy neglige,
Waking to brighter light the dewey pearls
That jewel thy throat; and all thy petticoats
Are edged with frills of softest rosy hue.
Now doth the drowsy maiden wake from sleep
And, turning on her pillow, dream of when
She’ll hie to me to fit her wedding gown.
Anon thou’lt lay aside the morning robe
In which thou greet’st our earliest consciousness
And, stepping forth in spotless azure drest,
Like school-girls hastening to their morning tasks
In neat and jaunty jumper suits of blue,
Thou’lt tell the world the time of dreams is past.
Then must I take my needle and my shears
And with them lift my load of daily cares,
And through the sunny hours thou’st brought, sweet Morn,
I’ll labor for the weal of womankind;
That haughty dames may dress in Paris style,
And dainty maids be clad from head to foot
In garments which befit their youthful grace,
And children, from the age of babyhood,
Go ever on their ways in trig attire.
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Cbiild Labor.
[BY LUE LEONARD, ’07.]
Before civilization had developed to any marked degree man was
absolute master in his own family and his powers were unlimited.
His children were under his complete control and he could sell
them into slavery or even take their lives with perfect impunity.
However, this state of affairs gradually gave way to ond of a
more temperate character where the parent was compelled to
recognize the individual rights of his offspring and to moderate his
treatment accordingly. Mental development and a state of moral
improvement followed. Our present day and race is a direct
result of this refining and broadening.
All over the world we Americans are recognized for our high
ideals of religious and political liberty, our wealth and prosperity
and for our personal freedom. Our educational systems are being
perfected, our literature has developed till we no longer need to
take the old countries for models and strive to attain to their
eminence. Our inventions are used all over the world and the
word "American” is synonymous with progress and enterprise.
Slavery, the one blot on our otherwise stainless history, was
wiped out in blood and by the emanancipation proclamation. To
the unthinking or the uninitiated our country seems free from any
form of this evil. But is slavery abolished? If so, how can we
account for the ignoring and willfully breaking of one of the most
sacred tenets of our Nation by the great corporations of the
East?
In Pennsylvania and other eastern states where gr?at factories
are daily supplying the demands of not only our own country but
of all the world, are thousands of helpless children who, forced by
necessity or parental authority, are chained to a work worse than
the slavery of the Southland. The dawn of the 20th century
reveals these children toiling in glass factories, where the
unnatural heat and glass particles blast their growth; in cigar
factories, where the deadly nicotine saturates their systems as
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surely as if they were addicted to the worst use of the narcotic;
in coal mines, where the light of day rarely penetrates and suffo-
cating gasses fill the air; in box factories, where little girls
become bent and misshapen from constantly bending over the
tiresome work, and numberless other occupations. They are not
without restraint in these labors. Unfeeling overseers are set
over them, even as in the Southland slavery. In one case where
a visitor to a large glass factory asked the foreman why a high
barbed wire fence was erected around the grounds, he naively
replied: ‘ Oh, that is to prevent the young ones from cutting and
leaving.” In some factories the doors are locked till the long,
exhausting hours are done. Just a degree removed from the ball
and chain system of the black slaves.
During the joyous holiday seasons when the more fortunate
children of moderate circumstances or of wealth are enjoying their
beautiful toys and delicious confections the children in factories
are working over time to fill the demand for these delights of
childhood. Christmas, that season of the year which belongs
essentially to the children, is looked forward to with dread by these
little workers, for they know nothing of the pleasures of that
time. Only the exhausting labor is their share. What wonder,
then, that they are degenerating?
Selfishness, or desire for cheap labor, has always been the motive
for slavery. Child labor, or child slavery, is a direct result of this,
and began when our great factory owners were forced by competi-
tion to seek cheaper labor and thus derive larger profits. To se-
cure these they were willing to see happy, healthful children be-
come pale, emaciated, dwarfed in mind and body. They saw that
in the poverty-stricken districts children in large numbers could be
secured fora pitiably small wage and would endure long and unjust
hours uncomplainingly. And so we have them, little, helpless vic-
tims of man’s cupidity.
Not only are they degenerating physically in an alarming degree,
but also morally. When their long hours are done, they are very
often too tired to walk the wearisome distance homo, so they seek
the nearest place of shelter, which is most frequently a saloon.
Here they pick up every vice and live in an atmosphere of moral
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corruptness. School is out of the question, and there is no hope;
nay, no ambition for escape into a purer environment. What good
do our educational systems do them? If the saying, “the boy is
the father of the man,” is true, what manner of men can we hope
for in the future from such factors.
Girls who should be trained to become the home makers of our
country are becoming stinted morally and physically in the struggle
for mere existence. Their’s is the more pitiable lot, for they are
the weaker members of this system.
We hear the argument that there are laws preventing the very
young children from working, and unjust conditions of laboi* being
imposed upon them. So there are; but flagrantly broken and dis-
regarded. Parents swear to untrue statements regarding the
child’s age, and the employer is only too glad to overlook this and
take the child into his factory. The younger children are in
greater demand, for they are the more easily imposed upon. In-
human demands upon their time and strength meet with no re-
sistance, and they never riot or organize strikes. Easily intimi-
dated, they never ask for concessions, but gratefully take their
pittance at the end of the week.
The death rate of these children is appalling. The work in many
cases is most dangerous. The unnatural labor saps their vitality,
and close confinement weakens their systems and makes them an
easy prey of tuberculosis. Over twenty per cent give up the
struggle before they reach the age of sixteen. Who can say but
that hopelessness plays its part in the early taking off of these un-
fortunates. What a criminal loss of human life that a few greedy
millionaires might live in every luxury.
And what is to be the end? Bereft of the protection of parents
who should prevent this outrage and who through necessity or
mere criminal indifference allow their children to lead this exist-
ence, and preyed upon by the heartless money seekers who devised
this barbarous system, they arc entirely helpless. Unless the
public in general and the law-makers of this land of ours take the
matter up and improve their condition, their case is hopeless in-
deed.
You parents who have loved little ones of your own, compare
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their lives with that of these little down-trodden toilers and think
what your feelings would be if fate unkindly placed them in a like
position. Christ’s commaad to suffer the little ones to come unto
him did not mean the more fortunate children, but all. If we are
in any way our brother’s keeper, when will there ever be a more
pressing need for us to exert our influence than in this case.
These children are mutely crying for help, while we in apathy
allow this outrage to continue. Let us abolish this evil which is
dragging our fair civilization down and blotting our hitherto fair
escutcheon with a deep and deadly sin. Can we allow this to re-
main and leave its degrading impress upon the future generations
of America? We must not lower our high standard, and let us not
hesitate to denounce this evil influence.
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<5Z>e ^Scenery of Klamath.
[BY LILLY ARNETT, ’08.]
What is more inspiring to the poor discouraged soul, or what
fills the heart with deeper emotions, than to view some of God’s
beautiful works of nature, and know they were created for us?
Few appreciate the surroundings of their own country, but will
travel even as far as Switzerland to see what they call beautiful
scenery. It is true the scenery there is considered very beautiful,
but if we would only look at some of nature’s gifts right here in
Klamath county, we would find some grand and awe-inspiring
pieces of work. For example, the scenery along the river, espec-
ially in the morning, is full of interest. As the sun slowly wends
its way through the heavens and peeps over the lofty mountains,
it sheds its rays on the trees, flowers and shrubs, sparkling and
fresh with dew, and tinges the Autumn-colored leaves with a
golden shade, gradually fading to a delicate pink. The green
velvety carpet of grass is strewn with red-cheeked apples, golden-
colored pears, and many other varieties of fruit.
As the sun climbs slowly onward on its journey, it throws its
beams in the dashing, roaring and foaming waters of the ‘•falls.**
As the waves beat upon the rocks, throwing the white spray far
into the air, every color of the rainbow seems reflected in the
great foaming mass, as with a rush and a roar it again plunges
onward in its mad flight.
Farther up, on the lake, where the waters are more peaceful,
steamers are plying their way, while many snow white birds are
floating lazily on the still surface, and the little fishes are jumping
in and out of the water.
For about twenty miles up this lake where the Summer resorts,
Odessa and Pelican Bay lodge, are situated, the scenery is very
picturesque. Lofty mountains rise almost perpendicularly on each
side of the lake, some whose peaks are capped with snow which
sparkles in the sunlight; others whose sides are covered with ever-
green forests, while others are barren, but grand in their majesty.
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The clear, cold waters from the mountain springs; wild game, such
as deer, bear and ducks; the trout and salmon all invite the tourist
to spend his vacation at these two summer resorts.
But the great wonder of wonders, which people from all parts of
the world come to view, is Crater lake. I will not attempt to de-
scribe it as I could not do this mighty piece of masonry justice.
The name tells us that it is the remains of a volcano, but so won-
derfully wrought that it is indescribable. It is now surrounded by
a beautiful park.
These are only a few of the features of interest to be found in
Klamath county. But always there is the environment of peace-
ful nature; sunny skies which shine alike upon the lofty crags, on
heavily timbered mountains; the ever roaring, rushing falls, and
the calm, peaceful waters of the lakes.
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The Teachers Will Get You If You. Don’t
Watch Out.
[WITH DUE APOLOGIES TO RILEY.]
Thirty verdant freshmen have come to school to play,
Likewise to studi’, toe the mark and rub the green away,
To get acquainted, learn the rules, obey them more or less,
To keep from flunking if they can and other things I guess;
But all the other students, when their lessons half are done,
They get the freshies out of doors and have the greatest fun
A-showing them how snipes are caught, or turn a hose about
But the teachers will get them,
If
they
don’t
watch
out.
Now there are some naughty boys who always smirk and grin
And sometimes scuffle in the halls although it is a sin,
And leave the room to get a drink, run up and down the stairs
And do not seem to study or have any other cares:
So when it comes to Latin, penmanship and other work
They’re not half so energetic and they sometimes try to shirk;
But they’d better watch their corners and mind what they’re about.
Or the teachers will get them,
If
they
don’t
watch
out.
Then, again, we have some girls who are polite and smart,
Except when they forget themselves, which times are far apart.
So you may find one in a corner a talking to a boy,
With her face all lighted up expressing deepest joy;
Or she may forget and whisper, while the teacher turns away,
And get sent into the office for to stay a half a day.
At such times they’d best remember and keep their wits about
Or the teachers will get them,
If
they
don’t
watch
out.
THE SENIOR CLASS, ’07.
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THE SENIOR CLASS.
The Seniors.
Rickety-ax !
Co-ax !
Co-heaven !
K. C. H. S.,
Naughty Seven !
Although our class is by far the smallest in school numerically,
we seniors have reason to feel proud of our achievements during
the past year. We have taken a leading part in all the school
enterprises, both athletic and literary and have maintained
throughout the year a high average in scholarship.
We number among our ranks the first editor-in-chief of the
“Boomer,” three members of the present staff, the secretary of
the student-body, two members of the glee club, one member of
the K. C. H. S quartet, the president of the athletic association,
and the manager of the baseball team.
Finally, though hampered by many adverse circumstances,
we have succeeded in producing this '07 Annual, which will bear
witness to our enterprise, school spirit, and literary ability. We
submit it to a “candid world” for judgment.
NAME.
Nickname.
Senior Characterizations.
Favorite Exclamation.
Favorite Occupation.
Present Attainment.
£
Florence Boorey ....
Roy Applegate......
Lue Leonard........
Frank Wilson.......
Lucile Cox.........
Augustus Bonney ...
“Betty”..........
“Gobbler” .......
“Bunny”..........
“Doodles”........
“Hixie”..........
“Augustus Caesar”
“That’ll be all right”..
“Oh bugs!”...........
“Gee!”...............
“By gory!”...........
“How nice!”..........
“I don’t know”.......
Looking pretty....
Drawing cartoons .
Having a good time
Singing...........
Smiling...........
Meditating........
President senior class.
Class editor.
Local editor.
Baseball manager.
Society editor.
Josh editor.
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Senior Will.
Know All Men That We, the senior class of 1907 of the K. C. H.
S., in the State of Oregon, being of sound and disposing mind and
memory, and not acting under duress, menace, fraud, or undue
influence of any person whomsoever, do make, publish and declare
this our last will and testament, in the manner and form following,
to wit:
First. It is our will, and we do order, that all our just debts
be duly paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently can be done
after our departure.
Second. We give and bequeath unto all under classmen our
personal effects which we will have no further use for, such as
decrepit books and pencils, which have outgrown their days of
usefulness, and to the freshmen our empty ink bottles, considering
that they as freshmen will appreciate these bottles especially.
Unto the sophomores we bequeath our beloved Caesars with all
notes and underlining intact, thus rendering a pony unnecessary.
Also our private code of wireless communication, which has proven
efficacious in times of need.
To the juniors, who will succeed us and who must uphold the
dignity of the seniors and keep our memories green, we hereby
bequeath the front steps of the high school and the library room
between periods for the sacred purpose of pairing off. Also the
registers, to be used exclusively by them as foot warmers. Also
to them we leave a little volume dedicated to all high school
students oppressed by undue restrictions and authority, containing
full directions in the art of bluffing successfully and some valuable
sidelights on how to get out of scrapes gracefully. All senior
prerogatives we hand down intact.
Furthermore, to the Faculty we leave a whole year of training
in the art of managing unruly students as embodied by the Senior
class. To them we leave a few words of advice, which from the
standpoint of students seems good. Be very discreet about follow-
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ing the evidence of your sight and hearing. Things are not always
what they seem, so don’t rush in where angels fear to tread. A
little leniency is better than much bluster and a little diplomacy
acts as oil on troubled waters. More especially though, we leave
them a world of good will, and our sincere thanks for their unnum-
bered kindnesses to us. Their assistance and time, which they
gave to us so freely, is appreciated by us deeply, and we realize
that but for their patience and forbearance we would not stand as
we do now in the ranks of the graduates. We will always think
of them with gratitude mixed with contrition for the unnecessary
trouble we have caused them.
To the dear old Klamath County High we leave as a mark of our
love and esteem this little memorial, which we hope will be a con-
stant reminder of the Class of ’07, who leave her halls with regret
and with many memories of happy hours.
And Lastly, We nominate, constitute and appoint Prof. Willis
E. Faught to be executor of this, our last will, hereby revoking all
other wills, legacies and bequests by us heretofore made, and de-
claring this, and no other, to be our last will and testament.
In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto set our hands this 29th
day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and seven. Signed:
FLORENCE BOOREY,
LUE GLENN LEONARD,
ALICE LUCILE COX,
LEROY GILBERT APPLEGATE,
AUGUSTUS ALVA BONNEY,
FRANK EARL WILSON.
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Commencement.
“Finished —but just beginning !”
Just here we pause a space,
’Twixt school life stretched behind us
And the future that we face.
We feel a certain triumph
For, having reached this height,
We know ’twas gained only
By individual might.
Each one alone has striven,
Lifted by no man’s hand.
We rose through patient labor
To the plane on which we stand.
But is this ground the highest
Our climbing feet shall know ?
Ah, no ! The future opens
With dreamland’s rosy glow.
This taste of high attainment,
This breath of purer air,
Calls us to heights more lofty
And triumphs far more fair.
So we’ll bid farewell, dear schoolmates
To the paths we’ve walked with you,
And turn our faces forward
And to our dreams be true.
Senior Quotations.
Florence Boorey—
“Her face it is the fairest that ’er the sun shone on.’’
Frank Wilson—
“I dare do all that doth become a man, who dares do more is
none. ’’
Lue Leonard—
"Shall I go on, or have I said enough ?”
Augustus Bonney—
“I never dare to write as funny as I can.’’
Lucile Cox —
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.”
Roy Applegate—
“This fellow’s wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well
craves a kind of wit.”
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Class of 1907
Class Colors — Gray and Gold
Glass Roll
Florence Boorey
Lue Glenn Leonard
Alice Lucile Cox
Frank Earl Wilson
Augustus Alva Bonney
Leroy Gilbert Applegate
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Commencement Program.
May 31, 10:30 A. M. High School Chapel.
March and Instrumental Solo.....................Listz
MISS LETA NICKERSON.
Invocation.....:..............................
JUDGE J. B. GRIFFITH.
Salutatory and Oration.............“The Square Deal”...........
FRANK EARL WILSON.
Oration.........“We Are a Part of All That We Have Met”
FLORENCE BOOREY.
Vocal Solo ....................................
BURGE MASON.
Oration......................“The Parliament of Man”
LEROY GILBERT APPLEGATE.
Oration................................“Child Labor”
LUE GLENN LEONARD.
Piano Solo.....
\(a) “La Regata Veneziana”....Franz Listz
'/(b) “To Spring’’................Greig
MISS MAE WORDEN.
Oration..............................“High Ideals”
AUGUSTUS ALVA BONNEY.
Oration and Valedictory..............“The Holy Grail”
ALICE LUCILE COX.
Vocal Solo.........................“The Creole Girl”
MISS BERTHA HAMMOND
Presentation of Diplomas........................
JUDGE J. B. GRIFFITH.
Violin Solo........“The Last Hope’’.........Gottschalk
PROF. A. L. CAMP.
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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We Are a Part of All We Have Met.
[FLORENCE BOOREY ’07]
“All fires are fed from the sun and all streams from the sea.
Yet one torch may light another and every tiny streamlet which
grows into a great river is fed by tributary streams, by snows de-
scending from the hills, by springs welling up from the earth.
Cut off from these sources of supply and replenishment the stream
shrinks to a thread. Lacking the outlet, through which it gives
away what it has received, it loses itself in marshes.” In like
manner our lives receive from all we meet the elements that help
to develop them into the fullness of their strength.
How much of strength and joy that is in our lives is not our
own, but the gift of others? Take from an individual all that
teachers, friends, and books have put there, and what remains
would permit no pride. The touches of love, inspiration of ex-
ample, promptings of confidence—by a thousand daily happenings
such as these —we are upheld and moved without our knowledge.
Our greatest delight in looking over a book read sometime be-
fore is in the surroundings and memories it brings back to us.
We remember the place where we read it, the feeling of the air,
the sky, the fields, and the music of birds. Each book has a differ-
ent message for every reader. A great deal of the influence of a
book depends upon the circumstances under which it is read. A
book, like a person, may be fortunate or unfortunate in falling
into our hands at a time when we can get the most good from it.
Books give to all, who faithfully use them, the spiritual presence
of the best and greatest of our race, and the best books are those
which help us to think for ourselves.
Though so much of value may be obtained from books, yet those
whoso busy lives allow them very little reading need not be dis-
couraged. All that the greatest writers ever put into their books
is taken right from this very world under our hands—for what are
books but parts of all that we meet?
Culture in its broadest sense is the result of keen thought, ob-
servation, and practice. We have never read a book, nor met a
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person, nor gone through any experience that did not add to our
education. Among Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems is this prayer:
“If beams from happy human eyes have moved me not; if morn-
ing skies, books, and my food, and summer rain knocked on my
sullen heart in vain — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take and
stab my spirit broad awake.”
The past has great power in its influence over oui- lives. A
striking example of the influence of lives of the past upon people
of the present is found among the peasants of Oberamergau whose
greatest ambition is to take a worthy part in the Passion Play
which has made their village famous. Their lives and hearts are
full of its thoughts and emotions, and their manners and faces are
moulded by it until when surrounded by them one seems to be
among the people of Galilee.
Carlyle says: “Great men are like fire pillars in the dark pil-
grimage of mankind. They stand as heavenly signs. Ever living
witnesses of what has been; prophetic tokens of what may still be
— the revealed embodied possibilities of human nature.”
Mother Nature, too, from her abundance adds to our lives with
a lavish hand. Who can gaze into the skies without a feeling of
reverence for the Creator of such a universe? Who can live in the
shadow of majestic mountains without receiving from them some-
thing of their strength and majesty? Or dwell beside the restless
ocean and not become imbued with a spirit of unrest—a desire to
sail away and away and find what lies beyond the billowy waves?
Nature teaches many lessons of patience and love and hope.
Happy is he who reads her aright—who finds “Books in the run-
ning brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
In life we find two things that make for discontent; one is lack
of harmony with those we meet, the other is dissatisfaction with
our opportunities. Of these, the first may be overcome; the sec-
ond may be put out of our lives. A congenial environment is not
one of the essentials of life; present opportunities if rightly used
are as great as any one need ask. Our environments may be very
disagreeable; they may bring constant hurts of heart, mortifica-
tion, tears, angry rebellion, and wounded pride, but there is a
reason for these environments. To become strong, the soul must
needs fight something, overcome something. It cannot gain in
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power on a bed of Eider down. A great part of the strength of
life consists in the degree with which we get into harmony with
appointed environments. So long as we are at war with our town,
our relatives, our family, our station, and our surroundings, so
long will much of the force of cur lives be spent uselessly, aim-
lessly.
Often we do not appreciate our opportunities, nor do we know
how to estimate the experiences of our lives, still we must realize
that we are a part of all that we have met.
Hosts of little things, too, we would forget, never to recall, if it
were not for the fact that some slight circumstance occurs to re-
mind us of them. We just begin to love a person or a place and
then fate separates us. At the time we are never conscious of the
ties we are forming, but afterward they hold us with a life-long
grasp.
We are not aware of the desk, the picture, the study chair, and
the door-knob with the piece chipped out, nor the broken board in
the front walk. We are reading all the hopes and pangs of our
lives as we pass along. We meet these day by day and yet take
no note of them. We use them, we enjoy them thoughtlessly and
without love or sentiment. But some day will change all of this.
Other chairs and other walks will be ours. Other surroundings
will close in upon us and we will fit into other duties and other
friendships. All will go on much as before. The past will be for
a while forgotten, but some day memory will receive a jog, and we
will recall the old sofa or the old grate, the old desk or the old pic-
ture and then we will remember what the old days taught us and
how we are a part of it all.
“No stream from its source flows seaward — how lonely so ever
its course —but that some land is gladdened. No star ever rose
and set without influence somewhere. Who knows what earth
needs from earth’s lowliest creatures? No life can be pure in its
purpose and strong in the strife and all life not be purer and
strongex- thereby.”
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High Ideals.
[AUGUSTUS ALVA BONNEY, ’07.]
Julius Caesar, whom historians call “the greatest man of
antiquity,’’ when he was only a boy determined to become dictator
of Rome. He had no money or power, but he had an ambition and
a single aim. He worked for the acdilship not because he had any
special love for amusing the Roman public, nor did he particularly
relish the consulship or the governorship of Spain. These were
only stepping stones toward his supreme aim, the dictatorship of
Rome. He did not conquer Gaul because he loved war, he abhored
it; but he knew that he could not get control of Rome without an
army. When he had conquered Gaul the senate declared him a
public enemy, his friends were driven into exile and it seemed that
fate was against him. But Julius Caesar was not the man to turn
back. He crossed the Rubicon with his army and in fourteen days
was master of Rome, the goal of his ambition. He won the great
battle of Pharsalia so easily that he reported it in three words: “I
came, I saw, I conquered.’’ Those words of Julius Caesar, which
have become proverbial, are a fitting climax to the life of the man
who centers his activities on one thing and never ceases until he
gets it. The ideals of great men have been the guiding influences
of their lives. Thomas Edison set up in his own mind the ideal of
the electric light and, although the wise electricians of that time
ridiculed the idea and said that it could never be done, he still held
to his purpose until success crowned his efforts and today the
Edison electric light shines in every hamlet, village and city.
Marconi set up his ideal in the wireless telegraph and pursued his
purpose until he reached his high aim. When Abraham Lincoln
was only a boy of seventeen he saw slaves sold at auction. His
great heart revolted at the sight and he set up emancipation as
his ideal and spent his life in a work culminating in that cele-
brated proclamation which sent millions from bondage to freedom.
We might go on through history and find a hundred other
examples equally forcible. But that is not necessary. We can
see examples around us everywhere and every day. We see
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brilliant young men wandering aimlessly through life, accomplish-
ing nothing, while we see others of very ordinary ability plodding
along to success, simply because they have something toward
which to work. They know what they are living for. Some say
that they win through luck or else they use that much-abused
word ‘‘opportunity.” But if we will review the lives of the men
who made our history' we will find that that made little difference
with them. They did not wait for “opportunity.” They made
opportunity. They have been, for the most part, men who defied
fate. The man who stands around with his hands in his pockets
waiting for an inspiration will never move the world—at least not
perceptibly.
Most men are too easily satisfied. They have no high aim in
life. This is the chief distinguishing feature between the greater
and the lesser races, between savagery and civilization. But the
savage is satisfied. The Southern Indian cared for nothing
further than his personal wants; and as long as a negro has
enough to eat and scanty clothing he is perfectly satisfied. Of
course there are exceptions like the great Booker Washington,
John Jasper and Fred Douglas. I have given the negro as an
example, but there are savage tribes which are less advanced than
the negro and who seem to have no ideals at all. But the savage
is satisfied, and that is just why he doesn’t advance. One of our
missionaries tells of a dialogue he had with an oriental which
illustrates this better than anything I can say.
The heathen asked the missionary about civilization. He said:
“I suppose you intend to civilize me?”
The missionary' said: “Yes.”
“Then you’ll show me how to work?”
“Yes. ”
“Then you’ll give me machinery to make my work easier?”
“Yes.”
“And finally I'll get so much money that I won’t have to work
at all. ”
“Yes; you’ve got the idea.”
“Well,” said the heathen, “what’s the use of going at it in such
a round about way? I don’t have to work now.”
The heathen thought that civilization had too much red tape
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for him. He was perfectly satisfied with his condition. But the
American is different. He is never satisfied, always reaching for
something higher, and it is this quality that has ever distinguished
us from the lesser races.
The knowledge of what high ideals have done for men ought to
be a great inspiration for us. It is better to aim high and fail
than never to try at all. The man who never tries is already a
failure and the world considers him such. Every man has to
prove that he is not a failure before anyone will believe it. It is
no disgrace to fail in a hard fight. The only man who never failed
is the man who never did anything.
But if we are prepared for our undertaking we’ll not fail. The
value of preparation is forcibly shown by an incident which
occurred in a pumping plant. The big engine thumped and
pounded and heated its bearing so badly that the works had to
shut down temporarily. The engineer didn’t know what was
wrong with the engine so he sent to the Baldwin locomotive works
for a skilled mechanic. The mechanic found the engine was only
out of line. He lined it up in a few minutes and handed the man
his bill, which was $25.50. The engineer noticed the decimal and
wanted an explanation. He replied: “The fifty cents is for the
work I did, and the twenty-five dollars is for knowing what
to do. ’’
The destinies, not only of individuals, but of nations depends on
their ideals. Rome’s ideal was conquest, and she never ceased
until all the known world was subjected to the Roman rule.
Alexander’s ideal was empire, and neither bribery, nor the bound-
less wealth of Darius, or any other influence, could turn him aside
from his single aim.
The ideal of our colonial forefathers was liberty, and they
fought and bled and died for it, and raised up that grand old flag
of the stars and stripes which has become the emblem of freedom
throughout the world. The high ideals of our people have raised
us up to our present standard of civilization, the highest the world
has ever known. And let us perpetuate it. Let us work toward
such high ideals that future generations, looking over our lives,
shall measure them not in years, but in deeds.
MISS ALICE APPLEGATE
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER. '
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THE FACULTY
JOHN G. SWAN, Principal, Department of History and Latin
ALICE A. APPLEGATE, Assistant Principal, Dept, of English
WILLIS E. FAUGHT, Commercial Department
LETA M. NICKERSON, Vocal and Instrumental Music
CHAS. HOWARD, Science___________
John G. Swair
Professor John G. Swan, our principal, was born in Kansas just
thirty-one years ago. He came to Oregon in his early boyhood
and received his education in the public schools of the state, the
Santiam academy and Albany college. He has taught in the va-
rious schools of the state about eight years. He held the position
of assistant principal in the Lebanon public schools and was assist-
ant post-master at Albany for three years. He came to Klamath
Falls four years ago to accept the position of principal of the
Klamath county high school, which was then being organized, and
has held that office ever since. He is a tireless worker and has
done much toward building up our school.
Alice A. Applegate
Miss Applegate is a native of Klamath county and received her
public school education in our county schools. She then took a
four-years’ course at the Monmouth state normal school, from
which institution she was graduated in 1896 with the degree of B.
S. D. While at Monmouth she held the position of critic teacher
during the last half of her senior year, was principal of the train-
ing department of Southern Oregon state normal for two years
and came to Klamath Falls in 1901 to accept the principalship of
the Klamath Falls high and public schools, which position she held
for one year. In 1904 she accepted the position of assistant prin-
cipal in the Klamath county high school, which position she still
holds. Miss Applegate has charge of the English department in
which she has done splendid work. The continued success and
growth of the Klamath county high school is due largely to her
valuable assistance and help.
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Willis E. Faught
Mr. W. E. Faught, who has been with us this year, comes to us
from Kansas, where he has had a wide range of experience in
school work. For the preceding eight years he was connected
with the Southern Kansas academy, the principalship of which he
resigned to take up the work in the Klamath county high school.
After finishing the high school course in Kansas, Mr. Faught did
work in the Southern Kansas academy, the State Normal and the
Iowa Christian college, receiving from the latter school the degree
of Bachelor of Science. He also finished the four years’ Chau-
tauqua literary and scientific course and holds a teacher’s short-
hand certificate from the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati,
which enables him to grant amanuensis certificates to high school
students. He is the holder of a teacher’s professional certificate
in Kansas. He has done splendid work in the high school com-
mercial department and has had charge of the K. C. H. S. glee
club and one of our chorus classes. He has made a host of friends
since coming to our school, and we earnestly hope to see him with
us next year.
Leta M. Nickerson
Miss Leta Nickerson was born on March 13, 1887, at ‘San Ber-
nardino, California. From there her parents moved to Klamath
Agency, Oregon, where they remained six years. From here the
family moved to Fort Lapwai, Idaho, where Miss Nickerson re-
ceived her first musical training at the age of eight years. After
a year in Idaho she returned to Klamath county, residing at Klam-
ath Falls, Klamath Agency and Yainax. After leaving Yainax,
where she received more musical instruction, she lived at Fort Bid-
well, California, for a period of two years, obtaining at that place
a good preliminary musical education. She entered the Ashland
Normal school at the age of fifteen and there took a four-year’s
musical course under Miss Silsby and Miss Weber, two of the best
instructors in Oregon. This course consisted of both instrumental
and vocal training. Miss Nickerson came to Klamath Falls last
June and accepted the position of teacher of music in the Klamath
County high school about November 1st and has held the position
since that time, being re-elected for next year. Miss Nickerson
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has a beautiful soprano voice of wonderful power, and is a splendid
pianist. She has made a host of friends both in the school and
outside, and we are to be congratulated upon having her with us
next year.
<3. A Howard
Mr. Charles A. Howard, the new member of our faculty, is a
young man who comes to us quite highly recommended both as a
man and a teacher. He has had two years’ experience in the class
room, leaving his former position in the Southern Kansas academy
under protest from the school authorities that he might finish up
his college work. He finishes his course in Baker university this
Spring, receiving the degree of Bachelor of. Philosophy. We are
sure Mr. Howard will prove a valuable addition to our school.
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<Stxsk.ll We Go To College.
[PROF. J. G. SWAN]
“He who puts his purse into his head, puts it where no man can
steal," said sage Ben Franklin. He tells us that he robbed him-
self of the customary daily fare to feed his mind. He lived on the
meager fare of bread and milk that he might save a few pennies
to buy books. Franklin desired knowledge. That want was irre-
sistable, and though born in poverty, he secured a goodly portion
of human wisdom. The education which our young people can se-
cure is limited only by the strength of their desire. Under present
conditions a college or university education is within the reach of
almost anyone. The high school prepares for entrance. The ex-
pense is usually so light that anyone by industry can find means
to meet it.
Should you seek a higher education? There are many reasons
why you should. In the first place, competition demands it of you.
Most ambitious Americans desire to advance shoulder to shoulder
with their neighbors. College trained workers are found every-
where. You will have to compete with them if you rise above the
shovel stratum. To compete successfully one must at least have
command of equal conditions. The lawyer who wins is usually
prepared on every possible phase of his case, . prepared to meet
every emergency. So the man who fights his way through life
should be prepared on every possible emergency. If a college
training will help thus to prepare you, get it. Time spent in prep-
aration is time well spent. The fellow who has the true ring to
him may well start out with a sheepskin down in the bottom of his
grip and with all that a college can give him ready to use.
We want all we can get out of our three score and ten years.
There are few places or experiences in life that can give us more
of pleasure, more of friendship, more of culture and refinement,
than college. There we rub off our rough edges, or get them
knocked off. There we meet representatives from various places
and various conditions. We come into contact with the traditions
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of the ancients and the past, the life throbs of the present and the
best hopes of the future. Who can not get much from all this?
Friendships are formed with people who go forth to become lead-
ers in many and far distant places. How pleasant to have such
friends in future years? Can you afford not to add this to your
life? Don’t go to college altogether for dry “learning.” Go there
to get in touch with many sided life. Our wisest youth finish our
own university, then go to an Eastern university. Our country is
broad and the East differs in spirit from the West. But that
difference is constantly being reduced by the intermixing of our
people. The fellow who from here goes East can get the best of
both. It prevents that localism or provincialism which one is
likely to have if he knows of only his home life. It destroys local
prejudices. We need to remember with the Germans that “over
the mountains there are also men.”
The youth does not know what opportunities may come to him
in life, what aspirations he may have later. He may wisely be
prepared to take advantage of the best opportunities. If he fails
to prepare, he will find opportunities that his limitations will not
permit that he seize. We better prepare for more than we
expect to reach. I should like to see our ambitious students form
the determination not to stop short of a Cornell, a Harvard, or a
Columbia. Then what comes their way in the future, no educa-
tional limitation will prevent their grasping it and enjoying it. I
hope they will hold to such a determination and let nothing block
their way. I want to see their taking high places in the world’s
sphere of activity.
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anual Training.
[BY MISS ALICE A. APPLEGATE.]
Manual training in the schools of the United States is rapidly
and permanently becoming one of 1 he important branches of
public instruction. Much more is this true in the high schools of
the country. Wherever this department has once been established
the result has proven so satisfactory that in no case has it been
abandoned. Wherever you find a school equipped with a manual
training department, especially if it includes woodworking, black-
smithing and those occupations particularly attractive to boys,
there you find the interest in the school work at the highest state
of development; there you find the physical and mental state of
the graduates more evenly balanced. These schools do not turn
out freaks, but healthy and intelligent boys and girls, who are
better prepared by this instruction to take their place in the
world.
In the United States manual training was first introduced in the
high schools and still is mainly confined to the higher grades and
classes, while in Europe the manual arts are taught the child from
the moment he enters school and continues through all the grades.
In this way the scholar, instead of merely acquiring a very limited
proficiency in a trade becomes, in many cases, expert.
Finland has the credit of first adopting the plan in the primary
schools in 1858. Later it was made compulsory in all the training
schools and primary schools in the country.
Sweden has possibly contributed more than any othei* country
and from it has sprung the greatest influence in the propagation of
manual training. In 1882 it was made obligatory in the primary
schools of France, and in 1897-98 there were one hundred twenty-
four schools equipped with workshops in Paris, of which over
thirty per cent of the teachers had taken training in the work.
Germany and the other leading countries of Europe have adopted
the work in the primary schools and it is now far past the experi-
mental stage.
W. E. FAUGHT
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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Gumption, Go, Grit.
[BY W. E. FAUGHT.]
Gumption is only a homely expression for good judgment; and
the first indication of good judgment is manifested in following
the lead of one’s talents. No one can strive successfully against
his natural aspirations. The world is full of men who are flat
failures who might become brilliant successes if their energies
were directed along the lines of their inclinations. Nature hates
botched or half-finished work and will pronounce her curse upon it.
Since different men are fitted for different occupations there will
always be room for talent and industry in employment that is
congenial. And yet men continue to choose that for which mother
nature never intended them. Good farmers are murdering the
law, while masterful lawyers are running down farms. Boys are
pining in factories or on farms who should be struggling with
Greek and Latin, while others are chafing beneath unnatural loads
in college who ought to be on the farm or in the shop. This list
might be continued ad infinitum, each of whom is conscious of an
unfulfilled destiny. Parents and friends are in a large measure to
blame for misdirected lives in urging or even compelling young
people to take up lines of uncongenial work rather than helping
them to fill the niche for which they are best fitted. The schools
and colleges are coming more and more to recognize this and are
providing courses of instruction in which the student may give his
talents greatest freedom for growth. Hence, again, the first
factor in success is gumption.
Next following, decision, the willingness to work, is necessary.
“Go ahead” was Napoleon’s watchword and it marked him one of
the greatest men in history. Heaven never helped a man who did
not do all in his own power. The very effort will give strength
and courage. An ancient Greek thought to save his bees a
laborious flight to seek their honey. He cut their wings and
gathered flowers for them to work upon at home, but thereafter
they made no honey. Work or starve is nature’s motto and it
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means starve mentally, morally and physically unless these sides
of our nature be exercised constantly. If we are idle and shiftless
by choice we become nerveless and powerless by necessity. He
who would succeed must pay the price and the price is a life of
hard work.
Energies properly directed and hard work will do much to win
success; but back of it all must come constancy of purpose, and
iron will. This is what we call Grit. The man with an invincible
purpose never knows when he is beaten. Difficulties and opposi-
tion do not daunt him. He thrives upon persecution. In fact it
only drives him to more determined endeavor. Imprisoned Galileo
experimented with the straw in his cell. Blind Milton wrote “Par-
adise Lost.” Shackled Bunyan created “The Pilgrim’s Progress.’’
The world always listens to a man with Grit. The shores of for-
tune are strewn with the wrecks of men of brilliant ability who
knew not where to direct their efforts; or knowing, lacked the
courage and decision necessary to go forward safely into port.
Given Gumption, Go, and Grit, who can limit the achievements
and successes of the youth of the twentieth century?
CHARL.ES a. HOWARD
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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Schedule of Classics for Thorough Study in
Softool.
Weeks
Date of Test spent Grade
in study
Jan. 14....18. . Shakespeare—“Merchant of Venice’’........ 9
Nov. 26 12 Burke—“Conciliation of America’’...........10
Nov. 5 . 9.. Webster—“Reply to Hayne’’...............11
March 16... 9 Lowell—“Vision of Sir Launfal’’ ..........9
Jan. 3.... 4 Lincoln—“Gettysburg-,” “Inaugural,” and other
speeches . ....... ............................10
Jan. 14. . . 9 Shakespeare—“As You Like It”............ 11
May 19 9.. Whittier—“Snowbound”....................9
March 3.... 9 Macaulay—“Essay on Addison”............ 10
March 17... 9. Macaulay—“Essay on Milton”_______________11
May 12 .. 10 Pope-“Homer’s Iliad,” I, VI, XXII, XXIV . . .10
April 7 . . . 3. Milton—“L’Allegro”..................... 11
April 28 ... 3..Milton—“Il Penseroso” ................. 11
May 18 .... 3 .Milton—“Comus and Lycidas”...............11
(The 12th grade classics are omitted.)
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Schedule for 'Tests in tfte Classics, to be Read
Oxxt of School, for tfte Year 1907-8.
Date of Ex. Grade
Oct. 16. Dickens—“Christmas Carol”................. 9
“ 17. Longfellow—“Tales of the Wayside Inn”...... 10
“ 18. Tennyson—“Enoch Arden” and other poems.... 11
Nov. 27. Goldsmith—“Vicar of Wakefield”............. 9
“ 28. Addison—“Sir Roger de Coverley”............ 10
“ 29. Emerson—“Two Selected Essays” ........... 11
Jan. 15. Hawthorne—“The House of Seven Gables”.... 9
“ 16. Shakespeare—“Julius Caesar”............... 10
“ 17. Carlyle—“Essay on Burns”.................. 11
Feb. 26. Franklin—Autobiography.................... 9
“ 27. Holmes—Selected Poems.................... 10
“ 28. Burns—“Cotter’s Saturday Night” and others... . 11
April 8. Hanson—“Essay on Burns” and “Selected Poems
from Burns”.................... 11
May 20. DeQuincy—“The Revolt of the Tartars”_______ 11
(The twelfth-grade classics omitted above.)
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Athletics
[VINCENT YADEN ’09]
At the close of the school year we sum up the various student
enterprises and find athletics in the lead. This has undoubtedly
been the most successful year in our athletic history. Taking into
consideration the limited amount of material that we had to draw
from, and our isolation from the different seats of learning, we
have done exceedingly well.
We have not gained the Pacific Coast championship in football,
baseball, or any of the great games, yet we have succeeded in
firmly establishing athletics in our school.
With lakes, mountains and great forests surrounding us, isolated
from other schools of our class, we are forging to the front and
building up our athletics so that when communication does reach
us the world will receive not a few surprises from K. C. H. S.
athletes.
Football work commenced early in September and was carried
out successfully. The different games were played with the right
kind of spirit and no one received any great injury. The football
season closed with a reception given to the football players by the
school on Thanksgiving night.
Basketball was the next game in order. A first-class outfit was
installed in the gymnasium and practice was begun early in Jan-
uary. Teams were organized and many local games were played.
Several players showed up well, giving us assurance of a good
team next year.
We are especially proud of our baseball team, which has showed,
by winning several victories, that it is well trained. Holly Sie-
mens, our pitcher, has done exceedingly well, and has proven him-
self a good twirler; Austin Hayden at short, Verne Clift at first,
W. Hurn at second, and Frank Wilson at third, all showed up well,
while the fielders proved themselves good supporters.
Next Fall we will begin our usual order of games, with football
first, taking the sports in their order. It is our intention to give
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special attention to baseball next year, as that is our long suit,
but the other sports will be followed up with due effort. We ex-
pect to have, in the near future, a gymnasium built apart from
the main school building, which will be much larger and afford
better accommodations than the present one.
The Glee Club
Prof. W. E. Faught, Leader
Miss Leta Nickerson, Pianist
Roy Applegate, Manager
Alexander Martin, Treasurer
The K. C. H. S. Glee Club was organized about the middle of
January, under the supervision of Prof. Faught, with a member-
ship of about fifteen. Since that time it has been boiled down to
ten, consisting of two first tenors, three second tenors, three first
basses and two second basses.
The services of Miss Nickerson, as accompanist, were secured,
and since that time the club has been doing very creditable work,
and has given several successful public recitals. In the course of
practice several first-class singers have been developed.
The Glee club is a new institution in our school, but is one that
ought to be well supported, being not only a source of pleasure
and profit to its members, but a good advertisement for our school.
THE K. C. II. S. GI.EE CLUB.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
The K. C. H. .S. Quartet
Erwin Rolfe, First Tenor
Oscar Wright, Second Tenor
Frank Wilson, First Bass
Will Hurn, Second Bass
The K. C. H. S. quartet was organized about a month later than
the glee club, and is composed of first-class singers. The quartet
has been instructed exclusively by Miss Nickerson and has attained
to a high degree of perfection in rendering its songs. It has sung
several times in public, especially at lodge entertainments and
other exclusive social gatherings, and has won universal apprecia-
tion and commendation.
THe K. C. H. Literary Society
The K. C. H. S. literary society was re-organized at the begin-
ning of the school year and since that time has met every two
weeks.
We are proud of the work that has been done in this society and
of the universal interest manifested in its success by the students.
The purposes of the society are to encourage the students in the
production of essays, orations, declamations, and to insure a good
training in debate.
The society is under the direct supervision of the faculty, and
one of the teachers acts as critic, thereby insuring greater perfec-
tion and care in the preparation of the different numbers.
Several first-class debaters and orators have been brought out
and considerable latent literary ability has been developed by the
society. It has been a decided benefit to the school and will
doubtless remain through the coming years as a permanent insti-
tution.

THE BOOMER STAFF
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TFie Boomer Staff.
Editor-in-Chief............................
Associate Editor..........................
Athletics.................................
Societies..................................
Locals....................................
Exchanges................................
“Without Prejudice’’ . __...................
Staff Artist...............................
Business Manager........................
Assistant Manager........................
Subscription Agent.......................
Editor for Senior Class....................
Chester Hawxhurst
Berth,\ Hammond
Vincent Yaden
Lucile Cox
Lue Leonard
Alexander Martin
Augustus Bonney
Faye Hogue
Carletoim Spencer
Verne Clift
Perry DeLap
Roy Applegate
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
History of Boomer.
[ROY APPLEGATE ’07]
With the commencement number the Klamath County High
School Boomer finishes a year of continual improvement and pro-
gress. The first issue carried four pages of advertising and
twelve pages of literary matter. Later its size was increased to
ten pages of advertising and fourteen pages of literary matter.
The whole school has stood together nobly at the last of the year
and all classes have united in making the present number a
success.
The Boomer was first created last September as a monthly peri-
odical to be published by the student-body association. Since
that time, under the able management of Editor Hawxhurst and
Business Manager Spencer, it has been built up and made into a
first-class publication and a paying proposition financially. The
advertisements carried each month more than pay for the cost of
publication. -
The Boomer is an institution in which every student should take
an interest and of which every student should feel proud. It is to
be hoped that the Boomer has come to stay and that as the years
go by it will become a bigger and better paper and sustain its rep-
utation as a first-class periodical and as an exponent of the higher
education.
THE JUNIOR CL/VSS, ’08
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THE JUNIOR5.
President, Rachel Applegate.
Secretary, Perry DeLap.
Treasurer, Faye Hogue.
While the junior class is the best represented in all student body
enterprises, the Boomer, the literary society and athletics, our
class grades will show that we have not neglected that principal
object of school life — study.
The chairs of the student body organization and of the literary
society are occupied by members of our class and the Boomer is
edited and managed by our ’08 men. We have upheld the dignity
of our class in all the athletic sports of the past year; in football,
basketball, and one of our members now holds the position of
captain of the baseball team.
Oui* special issue of the Boomer was one of the best of its
numbers and our class has furnished more contributions during the
year than any other.
While we have had no time to make afternoon excursions on
school days our social events have been carried on in the most
up-to-date manner.
Watch us next year, when we, as seniors, shall make things
happen.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
Farewell to tfrie Seniors
[F. E. V. ’08]
To our dear, old friends, the Senior class,
We now bid a sad farewell,
But on the sad thoughts of parting,
We none of us want to dwell.
Next year, no doubt, you’ll be scattered
To the many parts of the world,
But ne’er to forget the K. C. H. S.,
Where your gray and gold was unfurled.
We, as the Juniors, thank you
For the lessons you have taught,
And we know that when WE are Seniors
We’ll use the knowledge we’ve sought.
And when we inherit your glory,
And your place in the school so high,
We’ll always think of our dear old friends
Of the '07’s absence, and sigh.
We’ll try to carry on your work
In the road that you have set,
And then partake of the pleasure
That orations always beget.
And trusting that you will remember
The place where your glory was won,
And trusting that you will never forget
The place where your troubles begun.
We, Juniors, in love and in friendship,
Now we bid you all adieu,
As you go out into the world,
To your future life, so new.
THE SOPHOMORE CLASS, '09.
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THE SOPHOMORES
President, Vincent Yaden
Secretary, Ruth Smith
Treasurer, Erwin Rolfe
We, the sophomore class, have always taken the initiative in the
various school enterprises.
The banquet, which we gave to the seniors, was the first and
best of the school banquets.
Our issue of the Boomer was not excelled by any of the class
issues.
We have been prominent in athletics. Every school team has
contained our representatives. We distinguished ourselves in
football, and our basketball team holds the inter-class champion-
ship.
Our class boasts of three members of the glee club and two in
the high school quartet.
The president of the student-body association for the first sem-
ester was a sophomore, and our members have filled many offices
in the literary society.
We have maintained the principle throughout the year that the
first duty of a class is to its Alma Mater, and it shall be our policy
during the coming year to unite our best efforts toward making
the entire school better and stronger.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
THE FRESHMEN
History of 'IO
On the 10th of September, 1906, when school started, the high
school students assembled in the high school, and among them
were the freshmen.
There were about twenty or twenty-two students in the fresh-
men class, and we did not feel very comfortable on the first day.
As soon as we were registered we left the school house and at
1:30 p. m. went back again to be assigned our lessons.
We got along very well for a few weeks; had a class meeting;
got our lessons fairly well, and everything progressed all right until
a certain Saturday night, when there was a reception given to
welcome the freshmen to the high school. Then, after playing
games, eating good things, and having a good time generally, Mr.
Swan said that it was time to go home, but we soon found that he
was mistaken, for at the foot of the stairs nearly all of the boys
of the upper classes, who had come down about five minutes be-
fore without our taking notice of the fact, jumped upon we boys
and we were taken down to the basement. Some of us were tied,
and all were guarded, and one of our tormenters held a lantern up
high and sai<^: “What shall it be, fellows?’’ “The branding iron!’’
and “Blood!’’ were the answers, and the “branding iron” was
brought forth. We were branded with something, which, to our
excited imagination, seemed like a red hot piece of iron, but aft-
erwards proved to be only a piece of ice. It was about 12 o’clock
midnight when we were at last released and we went home feel-
ing sore from the scratches and bruises received in the encounter.
This experience did not prevent our coming to school the next
Monday and things were soon going on as before. Nothing hap-
pened to excite us for a time, and then football came in vogue.
The freshmen and juniors got up a team and played the sopho-
mores and seniors, and won a victory over them, but in the next
game the sophomores and seniors won.
THE FRESHMAN CLASS, ’10.
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER. 57
After the Christmas and New Year vacation, we came back to
school with resolutions to take all of our books home and study
every one, but the second day we studied only three-fourths of
them, and then we fell into the old rut again.
In one of our class meetings we chose pink and cream as our
class colors, and so it annoyed us one noon when we saw the soph-
omore’s flag on the flag-pole. The sophomores were in the gym-
nasium and had locked the door, so we were powerless to get at
them or the flag. So one of the juniors nailed the door up, and if
the professor hadn’t come along and rescued them, the sopho-
mores would have rotted and made delicious ham sandwiches,
which, had the freshmen got hold of them, would have killed
them.
One night the sophomores gave a reception to the seniors; some
of the juniors and freshmen thought that it was a shame to waste
so much food on the sophomores and seniors, so they tried to steal
the good things. One of the sophomores turned the fire hose on
them, and some went home drenched, but not appeased. Some
time after, the juniors and freshmen had a reception, and when a
certain young man of the high school came up and cut the electric
light wires, they determined to be revenged, so all went home ex-
cept four, and, as the murderer comes back to view his crime, the
cat to see if it can steal any more milk, so this young man came
back and, as the clock was striking the hour of midnight, four of
the freshmen and juniors jumped on him and took away the prun-
ing shears with which he had cut the wires, and the next day this
young man had to pay for the wire and supply a new pair of prun-
ing shears to the person of whom he borrowed the others.
When basketball came in season some teams were organized,
and one in which were three freshmen played another and beat
twice out of three times. After these teams got tired of the
game the freshmen organized a team and defeated the juniors,
and then challenged the sophomores with the result of being
beaten. Then the smallest freshmen organized a team to play the
public school team, and it remains to be decided which is the bet-
ter of the two.
As that is about all there is to say about the freshmen, I guess
I will sneak under the curtain.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
A Freshie’s Composition.
[’■10]
The following true-to-life story was found in the typewriting
room and is here given with a few changes. It is a story by a
sophomore telling about their class experiences last year while
they were freshies.
“We, the class of ’09, were the first freshies to enter the new
high school building and consequently thought we owned the whole
thing, but the teachers soon took us down a notch. At the first of
the term, the new building not being finished, we had school in
the town hall and, as that was not very big, we had some of our
lessons in the Methodist church, but this environment of Christianity
never made us any better.
That awful first day was an awful trying one for us, for we for-
got our milk, and that made us cross. The teachers added fuel to
the flame by thinking that they knew it all and at the end of the
day we were the maddest set of babies that was ever seen outside
of a nursery.
When we arrived at the school, rather late because of being
afraid of being hazed by the sophomores, one of the girls was
shivering so much from this fear that she got up by the stove to
get over her shivers, and she fell over some wood and fell right on
the stove, but as she was too green to burn she got out all right.
We stood around like cats drenched with dishwater, afraid to
stir or even look at a junior, when the teacher came around with
her eyeglasses on and we shrank back from her, but remembering
that “Faint heart ne’er won fair lady,” we braced up and when
she asked us what studies we were going to take we managed to
say, “geom’try, physics and 'Merican hist’ry.” When we were
told that we were not high enough up to take them we were mad
and thought that we could take anything. The teacher, however,
set us at work on Latin, algebra, grammar and some other studies,
and we were shocked when we were told that we were not smart
enough for even these studies. This criticism was too severe, for
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER. 59
we sometimes studied part of our lessons, if there were no skating
parties to attract our attention.
A few days after school started we heard some of the other
classes talking about class meetings, and we asked if they were
good to eat. At last we found out that they were to unite the
class and so we decided to have one. We started out by electing
the sergeant-at-arms, and we had just nominated nine people for
secretary, when we heard a dog fight down stairs and we left our
meeting for something more interesting.
It is a wonder that there were not many artists in our class for
every one of us was drawing pictures of his teacher and not get-
ting his lessons like he should. The only things that wo had sense
when doing were inventing ways to get out of studies and whisper-
ing in a way that we could not be seen.
After a long year of this flunking our lessons, never getting a
quorum at our class meetings, putting Cayenne pepper on the stoves
and trembling lest we be hazed by the sophomores, we had our ex-
aminations at last and we managed to get through by cramming
at the last minute and possibly writing dates on oar finger nails,
though 1 am not sure about this. I know that I didn’t do it, but
furtive glances at finger nails of others made me have my suspic-
ions about them.”
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ROOMER.
Klamath County High School
[l. b. ’10]
A spacious building erected high,
O’er the flourishing town of Klamath,
All over arched by the deep, blue sky,
And beneath are the rocks, staunch and mammoth.
She stands like a monarch on her throne,
Over-looking her whole empire grand,
As if defeat she had never known,
As she guards the hills and lower land.
She looks far down on the farmer’s land,
Yes, that sturdy hand which bought her,
And upon the rolling hills, so grand,
And Ewauna’s tranquil water.
Unshaken by the passing gale,
She stands as a castle of old,
While her inmates, young and thoughtless,
Are the knights with powers untold.
Many a genius, now unknown.
Shall spring to earth’s foremost ranks,
Master some of life’s great problems,
And to thee give all the thanks.
Statesmen, poets and musicians,
And artists of no less fame,
Shall honor thee with brush and pen,
And shall shrine thy meager name.
And many an author and a man renowned
Shall trace his old footsteps o’er,
Recall boyhood’s hours, long flitted away,
Then bless thee forever more.
Little words from Milton,
Hazy meanings crossed,
Make us lose our tempers;
And Paradise is Lost!
FALLS OF LINK RIVER,
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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Life Is WKat We MaKe It.
[LILLY ARNETT ’08]
Our school year has passed all too rapidly, and vacation, which
for some of us is wrapped in a mantle of brilliant plans for the
future, has at last arrived.
We are all anxious to know what joys and pleasures it has for
us, and are always ready to dream and ponder about the future.
But do we ever meditate over what the past year has done for us?
Has it flown by as if on wings with not one thought from us of
what it marks in our lives?
We should remember: “Life is what we make it.’’ In school
we have our examinations to test our year’s work, and if we have
been faithful and persistent in our labors,' we will be stronger
both in spirits and preparation for our next year’s work.
In the battle of life there will come a test before which we will
either stand firmly and win. or falter and at last fall. Then it will
depend on the past, but remember, our “Today is but the sum of
our yesterdays.’’ If we failed yesterday, are we as strong today.
or if' we yield to some temptation today, will we resist it more
firmly tomorrow?
Some say experience is the best teacher. Some times it is, but
not always; so beware.- The one* who is always trifling with
temptation on learning through experience, may be like the per-
son handling red hot coals with the bare hands; he may get burned.
Cromwell once said he wished his army to be men who put a con-
science into their work. Do you suppose if those men, at the end
of the year had opened their day book of life, and found failures
written down in red ink on the white pages, had given up and
lived the same old routine of life over again they would have suc-
ceeded? No. They turned over a new leaf of their book and made
a resolution that the snow-white paper would never be stained by
marks, meaning failures of theirs. They put a conscience into
their work and won the battle of life.
Those of you who are in the bright morning of youth give heed
to the fast fleeting moments, so, when you enter the evening of old
age, you can look back upon the past with pride and joy, and not
with regret and contempt.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
A Monologue.
[BY ORVA E. OREM ’10.]
Dear-a-me, I wonder who that can be knocking. Company! And
I haven’t my dishes washed. Well, if they will only wait until I
wipe the dishwater off of my hands,—there, I wiped them on my
clean apron,—so much washing for nothing! And they’re knocking
again. Well, I never.
Why, how-do-du, Mrs. Smith, come right in! I’m awful glad
to see you. Did I hear the news? What news? Melendia
Jones going to college?—and Frank Brown, too! Well, I'll
bet they’re in love. You know he pulled her out of the lake last
Summer. Going so soon? — Don’t be in a hurry; but I suppose you
have lots to do.
Well, I’m glad she’s gone; I never did like gossips. — Well, those
dishes,—and Oh! there is the door again! Its that Davis girl,
—borrowing again, I bet.
Why, how-do-du, Sally, I’m awful glad to see you. The turpen-
tine? Why, certainly, I’ll loan it to you. — Another sick hen? Say,
heard the news? Why Melendia Jones and Frank Brown are go-
ing to college. I’ll bet they’re engaged. Well, good bye.
I knew she came to borrow something. The idea of giving a
hen turpentine! She’ll be giving it strychnine next. Didn’t she
look funny when I told her? — I bet she was in love with Frank
Brown herself. And there is the door again! It’s a wonder folks
wouldn’t stay away long enough for me to wash my dishes. Why,
it’s Parson Cook!
Why, how-do-du, come right in! Haven’t you heard the news eith-
er? Why, Melendia Jones and Frank Brown are going to college;
I’ll bet they get married. Going so soon? Don’t be in a hurry,
— I don’t have much company.
Well, I’m glad he’s gone; Now, I can do those dishes. I ’most
know they’ll get married. Just think! Josiah has been dead
nearly twenty years, and I haven’t had a single chance to get mar-
ried, and don’t suppose I ever shall.
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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The K. C. H. Baseball Team Goes to Klam-
ath Agency.
[F. E. w. ’07]
We, the high school team, left town at 7 p. m. on Friday even-
ing, May 17th, in Mr. Wampler’s launch for Klamath Agency to
play ball. At Eagle Point we met a veryr strong head wind, caus-
ing a midnight bath to the fans and a drowning of the engine.
We drifted to Eagle ridge, but succeeded in keeping the launch
from destruction by the use of our ball bats. Luckily we had
three good engineers on board who soon succeeded in starting us
on our way.
Mr. Wampler kindly took us to his homestead on Coon point at
11:30, where we spent the remainder of the night quarreling over
who should eat the onions and potatoes that were elaborately pre-
pared by Alex Shive, as kuckeri-meister, and Vernie Clift, as
servant.
At 4 a. m. we started again over the waters which were now
made beautiful by the reflection of the rising sun. After wasting
an hour or so searching for the straight leading to Agency lake,
Harry Telford, who had been handling the rudder and going any
direction that anyone wanted him to, got possession of the only
gun on board so that he could keep the fellows from kicking, and
turned the boat around and steared directly for the strait.
The wind soon arose and sent the big white-caps rolling while
we were crossing Agency lake. But as we were not going directly
against the wind we were noi bothered by the spray, and enjoyed
the rolling motion very much.
After walking toward the Agency for some time, we were met
by Mr. John Lee Ball, the captain of Klamath Stars, and were
speedily driven to our destination. On nearing the Agency we
saw the good old crimson and white floating gracefully from the
well-known figure of Miss Maud Nail, who came riding rapidly to
welcome us. We felt that sensation of contentedness that one
finds on seeing a loyal high school student in a strange place, and
knew that we would have some support on the side lines.
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
After a hearty breakfast we repaired to the grounds and met a
picked-up team from Agency. They played the game from the
start, but not until the third or fourth inning did our boys arouse
from their slumbers, but it was in time to save the game. At the
end of six innings dinner was ready, so we stopped the game
with the indicator standing at 15 to 12 in oui- favor.
At 2:30 we again took our places on the diamond, but providence
favored us with a brisk shower, which stopped the game. The
next morning we were taken in rigs to Fort Klamath, where,
after a due amount of growling as to whether we should stay and
play in the rain or go home, we went out and warmed up. Then
Miller, who was first at the bat, made a safe hit and we all fol-
lowed suit. We took the lead in the first inning and held it
through all that rain. By the middle of the game we had batted
the covers off both balls and lost them, so we finished with new
ones.
After the usual amount of complaint about the umpire, and after
the Indian boys saw the score card that read Klamath Stars 10,
High school 12, they decided the game was over. The people of
Fort Klamath sustained their notable reputation fox’ hospitality by
inviting us to the Hoyt hotel for dinner. We are not surprised
that the people boarding at the Hoyt house have such a rounded,
healthy shape. We certainly enjoyed that delicious dinner.
After dinner we started toward Agency landing as fast as four
government mules could pull us, which wasn’t very slow. But a
severe storm was ahead of us and we were invited to go back to
the Agency and spend the night, and although we were very anx-
ious to get home we were afraid the storm would get us out, so
we didn’t try the home run until next morning.
Miss Maud Nail corralled us and took us to church, where we
listened to “The Holy City’’ played by the Agency orchestra and a
good sei’mon by Rev. Griffiths. We were surprised to hear such
excellent music.
The Indian boys wanted to play another game the next morn-
ing, but as it looked like it would storm we bid oui' hosts good-bye
and started for Klamath Falls. The home run was a very pleasant
one since the engine behaved very nicely, making the trip in a
little over four hours.
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
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On the whole, our trip was a very enjoyable one. The kindness
shown us by Superintendent Wilson, and also the lady employees
who prepared our numerous meals, will always be remembered.
The members of our crowd were: Holly Siemens, captain; Frank
Wilson, manager; Alex Shive, Verne Clift, Austin Hayden, Otis
Miller, Harry Telford, Roy Taber, Jesse Siemens, Lester Leavitt.
"166.”
“ O, be she gone, and am she went,
And left I here alone ?
O, cruel fate to take her first
And leave I ’hind.” — [Ex.]
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KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER.
Joshes.
[AUGUSTUS BONNEY, ’07.]
Mias Nickerson’s choral class has been singing “Forsaken” for
her benefit. (Also Oscar’s.)
A little ferrous sulphide,
And then some Hcl,
Forms sulphureted hydrogen,
And makes an awful smell.—F. H.
The students of the K. C. H. S. made out an humble petition to
the chemistry class to desist from the use of stale eggs, limburg-
or, etc., but the paper untimely fell into the hands of the princi-
pal.
The new windows between Prof. Swan’s room and his private
office are much appreciated, as we students can see who the victim
is.
This rather startling announcement appeared on the blackboard
before the photographer came: “Glee club will be shot at 12:45 P.
M.; prepare for the worst.”
Extracts from the debate in student-body on taking the 8th
grade on the K. C. H. S. excursion:
Carlton—“I heard one of the opposition say that he did not want
the 8th grade to go because he did not want the little brutes un-
der foot; now I wonder how many of the little brutes he could get
under one of his feet.” (Laughter.)
Roy—“I think that the 8th grade ought to bo allowed to go along
and learn what they can from us and then when they come up hero
next year as freshmen they will not be as green as—as they other-
wise might be.” (Laughter and applause.)
A student—“I can’t see any reason why the 8th grade shouldn’t
go along; we will be there to see that none of the little fellows fall
in and get drowned.” (Laughter.)
Another student—“I think that we ought to take the 8th grade;
KLAMATH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BOOMER. 67
we can charge them fifty cents each; about thirty will go and we
can make about thirty dollars off from them.”
Holly—“I am opposed to such graft.” (Applause.)
Erwin— ‘ ‘I move that we invito the whole town and charge thorn
all one dollar and a half each.” (Laughter and prolonged applause.)
Erwin Rolfe singing in gloo club—"Good news, the (chariot)
steamboat is coming, good news the (chariot) steamboat is coni'
ing, and I don’t want her to leave me behind.”
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C. F. STONE. A11 o r n ey - a t - La w, Klamath Falls, Oregon    H. J. Winters Jeweler and Optician .*. Eyes Tested Free. Fine Stationery
See VIRGIL & SON For your Housekeeping Outfit, ■ Stoves, Ranges, Tin and Granite 1 Ware, at the Bridge on Main St.    MRS. FISH Great Reduction in all Christmas Novel- ties, Ladies’ Walking Skirts, Hats, Etc.
EAST END MEAT MARKET Wholesale and Retail Butchers SAUSAGES A SPECIALTY. WE ARE ANXIOUS TO PLEASE. CR1SSLER & STILTS    Fst>9 for BAIHS 1 1 Connection Qegn Sh^Ves
THE BOOMER
Would be appreciated
by your absent friend,
and it will cost you only
50c. a year to send it.
H. BOIVIN,
Only Exclusive Plumber
in the city
SPENCER & BOND,
Real Estate
We can sell your property.
GEO. R. HURN,
Hardware
Just received 5,000
rolls of Wall Paper
W . fV< - UOWN6ON F».
THE PANTATORIUM
CLOTHES CLEANED ano REPAIRED
O. K. BARBER SHOP
For the best shave in town
SCHALLOCK & DAGGETT
CTUDENTS, have your
Photos taken at the
THE BEST GROCERS
MONGOLD GALLERY
Klamath County Bank
Capital Stock, $100,000
Organized - - 1899
First Bank
in the
Klamath Basin
President - - - - ALEX. MARTIN
Vice-President - - - E. R. REAMES
Cashier - ALEX. MARTIN, JR.
Assistant Cashier - - C. P. CHASTAIN
For the Best of Everything in
CLOTHING,
SHOES and
DRY GOODS
At the Lowest Prices, Come to the
Busy Boston Store