The Tattler (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1927 Page: 2 of 4
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THETATTLER
Official Publication of the
Mineral Wells High School
TATTLER STAFF
Editor _______________________ Glen Johnson
Associate Editor, Elizabeth Morris
Asso. Editor, Anna Bess Meyers
News Editor ____ Thelma McBrayer
Feature Editor____Harris Blackman
Athletic Editor________ Morris Miller
Humorous Ed., Elizabeth Cranford
Proof Reader________Dorothy Yarbro
Make- up Editor ____ Harry Yeager
Business Manager ____ Cecil Jerden
Ass’t Bus. Mgr.____Wilson Herring
Adv. Mgr. __________________ Dever Ladd
Ass’t Ad. Mgr. _________ Fred Snipes
Exchange ________________ Vernon Ponds
Reporters: Jack Sheridan, Lela
Bell Harris, Ernest McKinney,
Jimmie Brown, Allen Davis, Mary
Hill, Johnowene Crutcher, Agnes
Daniel.
edit a paper that will bring]
the students and faculty to a j
closer understanding.
The Tattler will lose through
graduation this year, one of
the finest editors it has ever
known, Elva Kuykendall. The
Tattler staff in behalf of the
student body, wishes to take
this opportunity to thank,
Elva for her splendid work
done in the Tattler. We wish
to say that we are, indeed,
sorry to lose her.
I wish to express, through
this column, my appreciation
to the students and people
who made it possible for my
being appointed as editor
this paper with the aid of the
staff chosen we shall try to
uphold the policies of the pa-
per and give to you a paper
that will be the equal of those
that have gone before.
Pupils Find Pleasure Added
To The Gaining of Practical
Experience.
Staff Members Thank
Index For Courtesy
The Week's Best
Editorial
Be careful upon what you
feed the mind. As you would
not allow dirty food to enter
y qv<r mouth, zo do not allow
impurity to be poured into
your mind, by books, papers,
or by any other source. Guard
your stomach, but guard your
mind, also.
As you have seen people who
were starved and weak be-
cause their food was not nour-
ishing, so you and I have seen
boys who were great readers.
They even neglected impor-
tant duties in order that they
might read. And on the street,
in the cars, in the school room,
they were reading—reading
all the time, and yet instead
of becoming intelligent, their
minds were undisciplined, un-
informed, and ignorant. The
trouble was not that they did
not read but that which they
read was not wholesome read-
ing, and the mind starved and
grew weaker from day to day,
and year to year.
If you do not want to be un-
disciplined, ignorant, and un-
informed, read the following
instead of novels and trash.
Read histories and biograph-
ies, sciences, and the arts,
travels, and exploration, mor-
als and religion—these are
the worthwhile subjects of
the day. The world is too full
of good books and there are
too many things in the realm
of the actual and the real, con-
cerning which you can not af-
ford to be ignorant, to permit
the reading of worthless
books.
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Editor To Continue
Tattler's Policies
Twelve members of the Tat-
tler staff who issued the In-
dex on Tuesday, the nine-
teenth, wish in this way, to
thank Mr- Miller and the
members of the Index office
who made it possible for us
to have the experience gained
through the practical work of
assisting in the editing of a
daily newspaper.
This, in addition to the
many other courtesies extend-
ed by the Index force, places
the staff and their advisers
and, indeed, the entire school
deeply in their debt.
RED CROSS NOTES
During the month of April 168
pupils were examined. It was
found that:
89 were 10 per cent underweight.
32 had defective teeth.
18 had defective tonsils.
18 had adenoids.
13 had poor vision.
There were four cases of meas-
les, one case of scarlet fever, 16,t
cases of whooping cough, 18 cases
of chicken pox.
If each pupil would stay at home
when they had a sore throat or
cold, we could keep down contag-
eous diseases as most of those dis-
eases start with a sore throat.
“Wh-wh-what is it?” exclaimed
a surprised youth as his friend
stood just outside the building oc-
cupied by the Index Printing Com-
pany.
“Don’t be silly,” returned his
friend, “s a victrola.”
“Yep”, confirmed the first after
listening a few minutes, “but who,
of why, what in the world is a victrola
doing in the Index Office, when a
paper must be published?”
“Don’t ask me,” as the two walk-
ed on.
The victrola mention above
was a portable owned by Cecil Jer-
den, Business Manager of the Tat-
tler, who brought it along to make
things lively.
Perhaps the curiosity of the two
boys was satisfied by an article in
Tuesday’s Index, which told that
ten members of the Tattler staff
published Tuesday’s edition of the
Index. This edition was judged
very good by many and the event
received a nice write-up in the Star
Telegram.
Many humorous thin5» occured
but only a few can be told.
Ask anyone who went on this trip
about Fred Snipe’s Eskimo pies.
The business staff found out
that the typewriters at the Index
Office were to write news articles
but Dever Ladd used one for writ-
ing certain squashy notes to a cer-
tain girl.
Miss Hicks is said to have felt
very small when it was found out
that six more galleys of proof were
needed to complete the paper.
It is rumored that as the busi-
ness men of the city looked on
Dorothy Yarlw.a. several others
tried to look, feel, and act as im-
portant as possible.
Miss Hicks said that her biggest
thrill came when she found out
that they had enough copy to keep
the linotype men fairly busy.
The Index Staff feels calm after
the storm has passed, but, taken
all in all, the staff had some very
real experiences in publishing a
daily paper.
Mrs. Grace Ashbaugh, field rep-
resentative of the Red Cross was
here recently. She stated that the
schools of Texas could help great-
ly, with the relief work carried on
by the Red Cross.
There is a great need for cloth-
ing, food, and money for the suf-
ferers in the storm district. Baby
layettes, boys suits, girls dresses
and underwear are needed. Any
pupil wishing to contribute to the
aid of the sufferers may consult
Mrs. Henry Half, who is
chairman of the committee for the
Red Cross.
GIRL SCOUTS HOLD MEETING
Mrs. Cranford And Miss Cavitt
Aid In Making Nature Book
kes
To My School Days
The rain was falling softdown
that morn. The night before had
been a heavy strain, I slept all
through the din of auto horn and
creeping, groaning, rumbling rail-
road train, nor heard the gong of
the clock reverhrate from its lofty
place upon the hill. Where we do
go prepared, or meet our fate, the
clock struck seven and once again
it struck, and still I kept my cozy
face in bed, I frowned and groaned
and growled about my luck of
trying to force my studies into my
head. Once more I groaned and
tried to call it flattery. Then what
do you suppose, pshaw! it was
Saturday.
got halitosis.”
Mrs. West: “And what did you
learn in school today, dear?”
Margaret: “Oh, mother, I
don’t have to educate you over
again, do I”?
The crime wave will continue as
long as society continues to blame
it on everything else except the
criminals.
On Monday the Girl Scouts met
in their clubroom where they plan-
ned for a play entitled “Why They
Gave a Show and How.” The char-
acters for the play have not yet
been decided.
After deciding on a picnic to be
held at Lake Mineral Wells on
Monday in honor of their reasonal
director, Miss Wherry, the girls
played baseball.
Forest Week.
Since two weeks more have been
given to the girls for making their
nature books, more are working on
them, assisted by Mrs. J. D. Cran-
ford and Miss Esther Cavitt.
The moth is not a society favor-
ite even though it does frequently
appear in a dress suit.
One of the big policies in a
high school paper is to en-
deavor to bring about a more
congenial understanding and
greater unity between schools
and students of these schools.
The Tattler has always tried
to go by this policy and it is
always the wish of a high
school news paper staff to
The Early Worm
Early to rise
And early to bed
Makes a girl healthy
And socially dead.
Blake Bunzel: “Has your broth-
er come home from college yet?”
Bessie Mae Yeager: “I guess so
or else the car has been stolen.”
Miss Cavitt: “Freda, name the
four seasons.”
Freda Baldwin: “Salt, mustard,
vinegar and pepper!”
Wilson Herring: “Why is the
school paper like a girl” ?
Cecil Jerden: “Because every fel-
low should have one of his own
and not borrow from others.
Gaston Smith: “I hear you’re
out for track.”
Billy W.: “Yes, I’m getting pre-
pared to be run out of school.”
Miss Adams: “Why, I thought
you were going into seclusion un-
til your hair grew out again.”
Miss Crouch: “Yes, but I bob-
bed up again.”
Pauline Evans: “What makes a
man always give a lady a dia-
mond ring?”
Elizabeth Morris: “The lady.”
Barber: “Hair cut?”
Allen Davis: “Yes, but don’t
make it too short, I don’t want to
look effeminate.”
Helen Butler: “Six times I have
advertised that a lonely maiden
seeks light and warmth in her life
and at last I’ve got a reply-
from the gas company.”
Jack Sheridan: “A good chef
gets more than a college profes-
sor.”
Charlotte Bock: “Why should-
n’t he? More people take his
courses.”
Venus: “Is this good
for the skin?”
Giogenes: “Good! Why we
cured an eruption on Vesuvius with
it.”
Mr. Holley: “Do you serve lob-
sters here ?”
Waitress: “Yes, indeed. SR
down.”
‘Do you read old
“Yes, every day is
Johnowene:
English?”
Lela Belle:
a humorous magazine-’
Miss Adams: “Can any boy
tell me the earliest reference iii
history to a theatre”?
Thelma Pittman: “Yes, Miss
Adams, we read in Bible that
Joseph was taken from the fam-
ily circle and put into the pit.”
Jack S. “My grandfather built
the Rocky Mountains,”
Glen J.: “Aw thats nothing. Do
you know the Dead Sea. Well my
grandfather killed it.”
Miss Wilkinson: “The rest of
your days will depend upon the
rest of your nights.
Parson: “You love to go to Sun-
day School, don’t you Louis”?
Louis S.: “Yes sir”.
Parson: “What do yoq expect
to learn today?”
Louis: “The date of the picnic.”
“Mother”, cried Raymond Alex-
ander, as he rushed into the farm
house they were visiting, “Robert
wants the listerine. He’s just
caught the cutest little black and
white animal, and he thinks it’s
“Are you Hungary?”
“Yes Siam.”
“Den Russia to the table
E’ll Fyi.”
“Allright, Sweden my coffee
and Denmark my bill.”
and
Elizabeth Donelly (after a vio-
lent dance) “There, my heel’s gone.
That’s done for me this evening.”
Penson Holley: “Oh, bother!
Don’t you carry spare parts”?
FOUR GLEN JOHNSON Stores
To Select From.
Glenn Johnson Drug Co.,
Phone 77
Palace Drug Co.
Phone 2
OAK PARK WATER CO.
Well in Oak Park Addition
John Brooks—Phone 429
Absolutely Pure Soft Water
Wells 430 feet deep. Analysis shows this water to be
the purest water sold in the city. Delivery every day ex-
cept Sunday. For Special Deliveries phone 660.
Office in Carlsbad Pavilion.
We Also Deliver Carlsbad and Famous
Mineral Water.
City Drug Co.
Phone 72
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Mineral Wells High School. The Tattler (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1927, newspaper, April 29, 1927; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601257/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.