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THITATTLER
December 12, 1930
THE TATTLER!—-^ow^ese^j alumni
jbe considered. i Those home for the Thanksk
At present in Russia, the j ins holidays were:
Official Publication of the
Mineral Wells High School
TATTLER STAFF
Velvae Sanders .................... Editor
Betty Butler ............ Asso. Editor
Leonard Griffith .... Feature Editor
Orval Meeks ............ Sport Edior
Waldo Fletcher ............Joke Editor
Harold White .... Circulation Mgr.
Charles Hendrix .... Business Mgr.
Reporters: Maxine Hendrix, Dor-
othy Belle Brewster, Margaret
Brassell, Anna Mae Whiting, Mer-
ry Elizabeth Wagley, Sidney Mil-
ler, Jennie Margaret Blackman,
Thomas Gent, Miles Cunningham,
Effie Jean Dyer.
cJexas High School
goal is to get more power.
From what we observe in our
high school, some students
are attempting to over throw
all present government and
establish new rules of the Bol-
sheviki nature. Are we com-
ing to that stage in this demo-
cratic country ? —V. S.
DAY DREAMING
Students! My but doesn’t
it feel good to sit in the study
hall or class room and think
about that date you had last
night or what your mother
will have for dinner tonight.
To lay your head down and
\ dream about that new dress or
that Christmas holiday that is
coming. But then you are
awakened from dreamland
when the teacher asks a ques-
tion and you answer, T don’t
know,” that is a diferent
story.
Day dreaming is a great
art if one is an artist, but
for students who are trying to
pass four subjects and can’t
understand why they are so
dumb in history or geometry,
we would suggest you give
up your dreaming for the pre-
sent.
Maybe you can do two
things at once but we don’t
Well friends, football season know any one at present who
is over. No more Friday after- can be an active member in
C.
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SSOCIATIOlt' j
utnei Wilborn—N. T. S. T. j.
back Smitn—M. T. S. T. C.
Cecil ivey—IN. T. S. T. C.
Sidney Stevens—IN. T. S. T.).
Smrmy jonnson—in. x. a. xi.
Cien Jonnaon, jr.—in. x. a. xi.
Cnnstme .Dunn—IN. T. S. T|<J.
Wilson Herring—in. t. s. x<j.
lVleiton uwen—E. x. b. x. u
FreaencK IVicUiurKin—A. <& 1.
Katnerme Larnnm—JN. X. «T.
Kathryn Haley—N. T. S. T C.
Xauiine Fonas—Trinity.
iNeva Love Thomas—Trinity
Ruth Thomas—Trinity.
Robert Rorwood—Trinity.
Cecil Evans—University of Tx-
as.
4^45500$^
noons cut short. But life is
still worthwhile, for what
should come along but basket-
ball. Just drive by the Con-
vention Hall any afternoon
and watch our boys still work-
ing for our dear old high
school.
Don’t let your enthusiasm
die students, blit support your
class and day dream at the
same time, $ich a member
would possess more diplomacy
than an ordinary person over
hopes to possess.
Come to think of it, isn’t
day dreaming a rather expen-
sive habit. A zero for not an-
swering a question and still
mire embarrassing is the re-
basketball team like you did primand that always follows.
.g^^tToptbaJl team, The^am iTA4"
m debt and it is up to usy,-to
t.bprri oiRTTiosphovs
Ferris Bramblett—T. C. U.
Faye Woodall—T. C. U.
Yancey Woodau—T. C. U.
Harvey Thomas—T. C. U.
Louise Estes—Baylor.
Charlotte Bocit—S. M. U.
Ernest Clark—S. M. U.
K. K. Davis—Weatheriord Col-
lege.
Bessie Mae Yeager—Ward Bel-
mont.
Rex Brewer—E. T. S. T. C.
Elizabeth Cranford—C. I. A.
Charles Logsdon—Texas Tech.
Albert Lowry—University of
Texas.
Wilbur Allison — Southwestern
Vocational.
Jimmie Brown—Trinity.
J. D. Moore—N. T. S. T. C.
tiemn Butler—T. W. C.
Clara Mae Lothrop—N. T. S. T.
C.
Afton Cox—N. T. S. T. C.
Ciara Beil Lyles—N. T. S. T.
C.
Ozema Daniels—Baylor .
Elton Rogers—John Tarleton.
Frances Denson—“I can tell how
much water to the quart flows over
JNiagra Falls.”
Isabel Gibson—“All right, smar-
ty, tell us.”
Frances—“Two pints.”
Man may learn to fly like a bird
but he will never be able to sit on
a barbed wire fence.
Mrs. Jameson—“Well, Bill why
don’t you say something?”
Bill Wright—“I’m waiting for
History to repeat itself.”
Teacher—“Give the definition of
home, Sidney.”
Sidney Miller—“Home is where
part of the family waits until the
others are through with the car.”
“He done me wrong,” wailed the
math problem as the sophomore
handed in his quiz paper.
Believe It Or Not
ft doesn’t hurt a needle to put
thread in its eye.
A potato’s eye never waters.
A needle doesn't wink its eye
while reading a paper of pins.
The head of stairs never wears
hat or cap.
The brakes on a car never break.
The clock never washes its face
or hands.
A hollow log never hollows.
the fu
brig for
your school. Get behind them
and boost them on to better
things. You don’t know what
a diference your backing will
make.
We would like to see the
Pep Club out to every ga^e.
And why not ? Don’t you real-
ize your yells will make them
fight harder? Don’t you
know that the knowledge that
you are for them will make
the team carry on and win.
Just come out to the first
game and we believe you will
be so interested, as not to miss
another game all season. LET
US SEE YOU AT THE
GAME! —V.S.
BOLSHEVIST
Are you one of those per-
sons who consider himself so
far superior to the rest of us
A number of ex-students were
seen on the side-lines at the Min-
eral Wells-Eastland game. Among
those were: Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Cross, Joe Fred Brooks, Loyce
Creager, Dana Dismuke, Lucille
Herrin, Thelma Pittman, Vernon
Ponds, Loran Rodgers, * Jaunita
Stuart, Harry Yeager, B. W. Brad-
shaw, Leland Durham, Elzie Led-
04’ course afterwards we al
gjays say we will never dream (
ain. But after all we arej better, Virgil Herring,
y poor weak mortals. But; ~ 77—
let’s resovle once again to putj Extra Hours
aside all dreaming in school j -
and work this last six weeks I While looking through the files
as we have never worked be- of last year’s papers we found quite
fore. Let’s quit answering “I
don’t know” and give the
teachers the surprise of their
lives. ^ —v. s.
Exchange
For a complete half hour stu-
dents of an English class in the
Oakland Technical high school
were prisoners. The door of the
room refused to open, but after
numerous and varied attempts an
obliging students opened the door
by the simple trick of taking it
off its hinges. The misfortune
was to the students a real trage-
dy because it occured the period
before the midday repast.
a contrast between this year’s and
then’ E. H. A Debating Club had
not ben organized at this time
last year but we did have two
sororities who claimed a good deal
of space in this column.
“The New Poor,” a three-act
comedy, has been chosen by the
that he thinks he can have February graduating class of
his own sweet way no matter I Modesto High as their annual class
what the cost. We certainly
hope not.
In any branch of govern-
ment there is a law to follow.
Two people can not live to-
gether without a law. There
is a national law, a state,
county, city, school, and home
law. There are certain rules
and regulations which must
oe conformed to in order to ex-
ist at all. For example you
are not allowed to cross the
street only on green signals
or you will hear about it from
the city officials. So in school
there are rules with which
you must comply with, which
are laid down by our super-
iors.
One hears from all sides
there is not enough freedom,
you have all the freedom you
want if it is within reason.
You have freedom as long as
it is not hurting anyone else
or intruding on their proper-
ty. But when you become so
egocentric as to believe “Look
me over, I can do as I please,
my wish is law,” then it is
time to take some desperate
play.
A free ticket to the big Califor-
nia-Stanford game is the reward
for the winner of the Oakland
Technical high school essay contest,
which is now open to the students
of the school.
Since a pay telephone has been
installed at Lowell High School,
the long-congested lines have di-
minished considerably.
At Fort Wayne, Indiana, all stu-
dents who drive their cars to school
or who ride in cans with other stu-
dents, must obtain permits from the
principal and have them signed by
parents.
The report on Modesto’s annual
last year revealed the fact that a
profit of fifty-nine cents was real-
ized.
Polaris Weekly from Minneapo-
lis, Minn., reports that the most
cross-eyed guy ever seen there was
playing baseball. Not only that
but he was the pitcher. He threw
three times to first base and the
batter struck out.
It doesn’t look straight to us.
A nut at the steering wheel
A peach at his right
Sharp turn in the road
Fruit salad: Good night.
The student gets the paper,
The school gets the fame,
The printer gets the money,
The staff gets the blame!
Here’s to the scrub who thought
ivory soap was made of elephant
tusks.
Now if I made 100’s along the way.
I’d help you make 100’s instead
of 60 each day.
But the 100’s go to you the 60’s to
me,
Couldn’t you be as generous as
I would be?
A girl shows her raisin when she
makes a date with a prune for
whom she doesn’t care a fig. She
may be a peach, but they’d make
Mary Venice—“What did the
farmer say in the field.”
Weldon—“Yea team! Let’s go.”
Dorothy Childs—“Dad, what’s a
word with over a thousand letters
in it?”
Mr. Childs—“I don’t know.”
Dorothy—“Postoffice.”
Miss Adams—“Make a sentence
with the word ‘tariff’.”
John A.—“My pants are so thin
they’ll tariff I bend.”
Dot Dunn (learning to drive)—
“Oh mother, the car’s running
away.”
Mrs. Dunn—“Can you stop it?”
Dot—“No.”
Mrs. Dunn—“Well, then, see if
you can hit something cheap.”
Miss Walker—“Have you had
stage experience?”
John Grady—“Yes, I had my leg
in a cast once.”
Sonny Eubanks—“I haven’t paid
a cent of repairs on my car since
I have had it.”
Skeet Huddleston—“So your gar-
age man told me.”
Miss Locke—“That article of
yours, ‘Truth is Stranger Than
Fiction’ is a dandy. Where did you
get the facts?”
Betty Butler—“Oh, I made ’em
up.”
Miss Clement—“Name three clau-
ses, Fay.”
Fay Foreman—“Adjective clause,
adverbial clause, and Santa Claus.”
Jewel Sweatt— “But Mother,
what am I going to do without a
riding habit?”
Mrs, Sweatt—“Get a walking
ike a
U'tny pear. She may be ^ 1 * . ,
yleU-^ w- atiu c-he “
a lemon, altnough she ntay have a t°r *lie •t^e those
„ ______ a
chdrry disposition. It is plum
wrong and if her name be Anna,
he ought to ban Anna. By this
time he would realize that his ef-
forts have been fruitless.
Thomas Gent’s definition of
news:
If you saw a cow, that wouldn’t
be news.
If you saw a bird singing, that
ouldn’t be news.
If you saw a thistle, that would-
’t be news.
| But if you saw a cow sitting on
thistle singing like a bird, why
at would be news.
Waldo—“Are you in the habit of
peaking to girls you don’t
now?”
Pinkie—“Why not? The ones I
now won’t speak to me.”
got a
Fern Foreman— “I’ve
angster date tonight.”
Merry Elizabeth Wagley—“A
[gangster date?”
Fern—“Yeh! He’s gonna take
e for a ride.”
Columbus is said not to have
iscovered America. Well, here we
re, but where are we?
Helen Seamaan—“I’m thirsty and
want a drink.”
Dot O’Dell—“Drink milk—it’s
good for the blood.”
Helen—“Yeah, but I’m not blood-
thirsty.”
One touch of scandal makes all
. W. H. S. chin.
Lucia Eaton—“Mother, can you
ell me if Noah was married?”
Mrs. Eaton—“Surely, don’t you
emember Joan of Arc ?”
We’re off to Belton soon.
/here the Tattler will receive heij
iouquets and slams—don’t thin!
jiat we are immune to what wd
-iave been handing you. And it’s
Dr. Chancellor—“By the way, I
as sorry to see Bill leave the
hurch last Sunday night right in
he middle of the sermon. I hope
here was nothing seriously the
atter.
Mrs. Smith—“Oh no, it was
othing very serious. You see he
as a habit of walking in his
sleep.”
said without malice so won’i See you later.
you wish us luck? We hope to
bring back honors for OUR school.
Mr,
i—“Did you
------„riose letters.
Ross'?
Mr. Ross—“Yes, why?”
Louise—“I was just thinking
that it would be so much easier to
trim them with a pair of scissors.”
Poets Corner
TO A DAISY
Roy E. Storey
Daisies are ornaments
Mother Natures says,
They adorn the bright landscape
When spring is at hand.
When the bright morning sun
Sends forth her glad ray,
Daisy opens her petals
To brighten the day.
She dots the green meadows
Where the wind comes to play,
Among the tall grasses
She dances and sways.
Then just at sundown
She bows her sweet head,
And closed her pedals
Nature puts her to bed.
Miss Woolwine— “Those fish
don’t look very good.
Butcher—“Well, if you’re buying
them for looks why don’t you buy
gold fish?”
Coy McAllister — (In bridge
game)—“Now if you were in the
same circumstances' how would
you play that hand?”
Bill O’Neall—“Under an assum-
ed name.”
HOLLYWOOD DOUBLES
Ann Pennington—Velvae San-
ders.
Alice White—Darlene Gunn.
Buddy Rogers—Charles Hendrix.
Lupe Velez—Mozelle Lilly.
Charlie Chase—Fred O’Neall.
Gary Cooper—Paul Grand-
berry.
Greta Garbo—Tommye Ruth
Roberts.
Mitzie Green—Velmatine Byron.
Jack Oakie—Coy McAlester.
Anita Page—Gwendolyn Rankin.
Clara Bow—Miss Gates.
Coleen Moore—Millie Fearis.
Helen Kane—Dot O’Dell.
Joan Crawford—Amy Bouldin.
Ann Harding—Miss Wright.
Bebe Daniels—Mary Venice Ed-
mondson.
[AN EXAM WE ALL MIGHT PASS
—G. R.
1. What kind of wood is used in
making mahogany pianos?
2. What month comes between
May and June?
3. Are submarines more efficient
on land or sea?
4. Who was the hero of “Oliver
Twist” ?
5. What holiday was George
Washington born on?
6. Why are green brackberries
red?
7. Do Canadians have a Fourth
of July?
8. What nationality of people be-
long to the Hebrew church?
9. In what Swedish province is
Hong Kong?
10. What effect has last month’s
full moon on next year’s cheese
crop in Australia?
11. When was the War of 1812?
JUST BOYS
On red headed sheik
Whose name is Pinkie
Has a charming complexion
And his hair is quite kinky.
Then there’s Lawrence Thornton
And Crip is his nick-name
If he keeps on playing football
He’ll land in the hall of fame.
Horror of horrors
Next comes Brown
He is so lazy
When he yawns, whew, what a
frown.
Next comes Miles Cunningham
They all call him Cunnie
Looks like he’s continually blush-
ing
Oh my, but it’s funny.
And next is Skeet Huddleston
One of the favorites in school
Has a wonderful personality
And toward you never acts cool.
Coy McAllister one of the foot-
ball stars
Is an Oklahoma boy
When he gets the football
Mineral Wells hollers for joy.
Next comes Orland Saman
Everyone calls him Son,
But since Edna Dee left *
He doesn’t have i$uch fun.
wfeiLion. oi, nidi. Ah o
t
Is to capture Austin Kidd
So far no one has succeeded
But we hear one in Senora did.
Clear the track
Here* comes Joe Yancey
They say he’s so goodlooking
He’d catch any girl’s fancy.
Now meet Clyde Brunson
Generally known as Boo
If he grows any taller
He’ll be seven feet two.
Then there’s Billie
And his brother Fred
Billie’s knida short
While you can’t see Fred’s head.
Another favorite of our school
Is one wll known as Sonny
He really lives up to his name
And everyone thinks he’s a
honey.
Still another sheik
Is one named Amos
He drives a red Ford
For which he’s quite famous.
John A. Harrington
A few call him Brother
Still mor call him Crying John
And Honest John is another.
Charles Hendrix is on the Tattler
Staff
And will probably be a printer
Maybe he’ll follow his father’s
example
When he graduates next winter
One I forgot to mntion
Is J. V. Yell
H may not be much in classes
But he plays football well.
We’ve lost one of them
One named J. R.
He’s moved to Dallas
But still that’s not so far.
Here’s another football player
Whose name is Mex Murray
When he got the ball
He was always in a hurry.
Some more brothers
The Osborns—Orph and Dude
They both always appear to be
In such a happy mood.
There are others
Too numerous to name
But nevertheless we appreciate
them
Just the same.
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Mineral Wells High School. The Tattler (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1930, newspaper, December 12, 1930; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601255/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.