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VOLUME II Harbor Springs, .. Ma?' 25, 1,923.

1\0. XXIX.
JUNIORS WIN INTER-
CLASS TRACK MEET
On Thursda.y afte.rnoon, May 10, the
Interclass Meet was put fortil:L under
the a uspices of tlbe Junior a nd Senior
cl:a.sses. The mile, running bnoad
jhmps, discus, pole vault, :and the
ha)f mile was put on after school.
Cn Frid.ay afternoon the track meet
,,1-.:l s fi:1ished. The teams were well
matched and worked h<nd to win. for
their r espective cla.sses.
This track meet a g t eat s uc-
cess because eadi:!l was willing to
wok in onlo2r to mal{;e it worth
while.
Here is bbe summary of the events:
Mile- Jun. 1 Clark; Jun. 2 Wres-
Rel: So'P-h. 3 Cornell. Time, 5 min.
s ec.
rrunning broa d jumv- Sen. 1 Mar-
tindale ; Soph. 2 Armstrong; Sooph. 3
Backus. Dista nce 18 feet 4 indhes.
Discus- Sen 1 Ma.rtindal e ; Sen. 2
Vlils:cn: Goph. 3 Jones. Distance, 118
feet 4 incho s.
P ole Vault-Sen. Wils'On a nd Rose
Ue for first a nd second; Soph. 3 A.rm
slnong.
Ha l f Mile-Jun 1 P ettinger; Jun.
2 . Wilcox; So ph. 3 Klienfe!t. Time, 2
min. 21% sec. '
Shot- S m. 1 Martindale ; Sen. 2
ft rt - Staph. 3 Backus Dista nce, 36
fe ot 8 incii:lets.
J un. 1 K. Powe rs; F. 2 A.
Jun. 3 B. Allen.
BasJet Ball' Throow- F 1 V. Wood-
r u ff ; Jun. 2 K. Power s ; F . 3 A. Wil-
cox.
120 High Hur dles- S:oph. 1 Wood-
r n ff : 2 Jo nes ; .Tun. 3 Vorce
100 yard dash- Jun. 1 Pettinger;
F. 2 M ouiton; Sen . 3 Graham.
f O vard dash-- F . 1 H . Rose; Jun.
2 F . Wood.rnff: Se n. 3 B. Cam.pbell.
. 220 yard 8-oph. 1 Woodruff;
E. 2 Al!er di n g s en. 3 Gr.a1hoam
440 dash- Jun. 1 P ettin ger;
Jui1. 2 Wilcox; .Sen .. 3 Adams
, 220 'Low Hurdles- So-ph. 1 Wood-
ruff;, Sooph .. , 2 Jones; .Tun. 3 Ward.
Time; 30 3-5 s:e,conds.
Hi:g_li jump'-F. 1 .AUerding; Soph.
2' Armstrong'; S en. 3 Wilson.
Hu lf mile relay-Seniors, 1; Jun-
iors, 2; Sophomores, 3.
Girls running Ngh jump--F. 1 I-I.
Rose ; Jun. 2 F. W-oodruff; F. 3 V.
Woodruff.
Gj.!'ls r-unning br.oad jump- F. 1
V. Woodruff; Jun. 2 F. Woodruff;
.Soph.: 3 1\L Terpening.
GRADE TRACK MEE.T
Fourth-Fifth-Sixth Grades
Boy's 50 y.ar d doash-6th 1 H. Tay-
lor ; 5th 2 L. Ta ylor. 6th 3 E. Wine-
ga rden.
Girls ' 50 yard dash- 4th 1 L. Stalhle;
5t h 2 G. Wheeler ; 5th 3 S. House.
Boy's running bnoad jump-61Jh 1
H. Taylor: 6tth 2 K. Grimes; 6th 3
A. Marsbrall.
B.oys' running hi.gh jump-7t\b 1 L.
Stewart ; ' St::h! 2 Hahn; 7th 3 A. House.
Boys' grade.
Boy' s high jump.,-6th 1 W.
Hahn; 6tJh 2 K. Grimes ; 6th 3 A. Mar
sh-all.
Bov's s ack orrace-4th 1 G. Hoover;
6th 2 .T. B:a bcock; 5th 3 L. Taylor.
Gir ls' Po tato race-5tlhJ" 1 , S. House;
4th 2 L. Sta.hle ; 5t-h 3 D. P erry.
Girl s s ack race- 6th 1 I. Barker;
4th 2 R. Bulock; 5t h 3 H. HaJ'an .
Gracle Events
Gi-r!s' 50 yar d dash- 81Jh 1 E. Rose
7th 2 F. Timmons; 8th 3 J .
Booth.
Boys' 100 y ard d-asrb-7th 1 G. Coo-
'PGr: 8t.'iJ, H. Hahn; 8th 3 L. Wright.
Girls' running hig-h jump--71Jb 1 N.
8th 2 I. Willi:ams ; 7th 3 A.
Cummings.
Boy s ' running :broarl jump- 8th 1
R. 71Jb 2 G. Cooper; 7th 3 L.
StJe.wart.
Gi-l-ls' potJato r a ce- 7th 1 F. Tim-
Mons: 7t h 2. D . . Armstrong ; 8th ;l
J. Bnoth.
Mrs. Sarah .Judd rhas r eceived word
t hat her s on Lee, has been elected
presid.ent of .the Belle I sl e T'ennis
Club, of Detroit.
HIGH SCHOOL. L:FE
HIGH SCHOOL. L.JFE
Pwblis:Qed weekly by the Harbor
Springlil Htgh School.
Subscription price: 50c per year.
Ch:trles L. Beckon Editor-In-Chief
Lester Stanton Business Manager
Cecil Willis A1s't. Editor
illarl De-LaVergne Ass't. Editor
Theodore Athletic Editor
Mamie Wheaton Joke Editor
ESSAY ON A FROG
RARE INDIAN ARROWS
-In t!he collection of old arrows be-
longing to J . L. Bottenfield, o;f Car-
thage, Mo., are two whi_cn
are suppose.dt to have killed a white
man on tlbte great plains near Hays,
Kansas. in 1868. The heads .ar:e mad.e
of st eel a pparently fil ed from the
bla.des o'f case knives, which p.no<b<ably
fell into t he !bands of the Indians thru
trade o,J:' wete taken from the emi-
gr.ant trains captured on. the
The shafts a t e of Hgll t wood, stmi-
'nhe frog what a wonderful bird it J.a:r to boxWJo,od, and ::!.re ma rked witlh
are. When he stand he sit. When he curious groove,s and dattbs of red and
hop !him almost fly. He got no bJ.a ck paint. T.hese are to ?e,
sense eitber hardly. He am t gqt no triha,l marks, showing to whiCh tnb-
tc il either. hardly. When he sit. he es tJ h,e owners belonged. The ar.rows
sit on what he ain't got almost, hard- are f-eatured! by three rows of what
ly. r esembled goose feather.s split in
STRAIGHT EDGE STAMPS
By R. Edward Sharp, Atlanta Ga.
In a sheet of 400 stamps Y'OU fl nd
only four st'<lmps that h ave two
straight ed,ges, at the upper two cor-
ners and lower two corners. Now
why a.re these not more valua ble
than t!he ot he.r 396? Then in each
she et of 100 bhere is 19 straight edges
versus 81 pi2Tforations. r tbdnk the
sbalinp collecting pubHc would be g lad
to brave- some ruling = these, as I
believe str a.ight edges ar e soarcer
than the perforated kind.
I know some conectqrs ,a,re very
partial oo str<a:ight edges, and I have
s eren one man in my lif e time who
sends out what he calls condition Al.
perfor.a,ti<on on four sides, -WihJle others
put st.raight edges in books and send
out broadca.st fo.r sale.
FOREIGN VIEW CARDS
Many collectors of view ca.rds are
very anxious to .get those of fo.nei.gn
countries. Mra.ny only collect the for-
eign kind, whiLe other s collect only
from NorthJ America. Vi'hi!e foreign
vi\eiW oardiS are very pretty, ;and
quite different in type bhan those we
have :here, but can a ny of those fOir-
eign compar e .with the bea.utiful nat-
ural scenery we :hla.v;e in some parts
of t his c1ountr y There a1e old ruins
in f ore ign cards, but 03n' t we pro-
duce some wonderful water falls, etc.
half and neatly bound in pla;ce.
:a
RUSSIAN STAMPS
Hon. Emest R. Ackerm1n, Con-
g;rlcssman from N. J. ,- .h:as in his c?l-
lection some covers fr om Russia,
whiC'h might he worth mentioning.
r ne :ha.s swmps r epresent-
ing 9,000,000 on it, while an-
other bas a st!'ip 31 feet long, by 6
inches wLd1e, containing 1,625 stamps
Ackerman's .gold mec1'1tl collection of
st3mps, contained in 550 volumes is
at a va lue of $500,000. He
is unriv ; l t>d in philatelic histoq-y a.nd
l1is collectilon conta ins impossi:ble du-
plications. In pursuit of hi s :hobby he
; ,as traveled 750,000 miles, visiting
mof'e than 100 countries.
( Cli'pping by H. P. Husom).
LOCAL. REPORT
Thursday. May 17, 50-fair
Friday, M:ay 18, 69- fa ir
SJ.tu.r:da.y. May 19, 77- fair
Sunday, M3y 20, 64-fair
May 21, 60-fair
Tuescl a.y, Ma y 22, 70
0
- f:air
Wednesday, May 23. 73-fair
Thursrla y, May 24. 70
0
- f.a ir
Mr. and Mts. Harry L. Chapman,
of Lansing, a.nnounce the
birth of a bahY girl, Georgiana Gail,
on May 13. at Srn.rrow hospital. Mr.
Ob<t pman was a former Har bor
Springs man and a graduate
from Harbor Hi,gh .
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HIGH SCHOOL. L.IFE
U. S. POSTO.FICI; DEPT. SEAL.
It has alway,s been somewhat of <t
myst ery to tJhi81 inter ested in
postal affairs, why there is no def-
inite knowledge of the origin and
lhistorry of the Post Office DepaJrt-
ment Seal, whlcib is seen on all of
t h!e> offi cial publications of the depart-
ment. It appears that the original de-
sign for tJhe Seal, a ccording to Fran-
cis Huebnen', who. is an accepted au
t hority on JltOstal affairs, was that o-f
Me . cur:,- riding On clouds but t he in-
troduction of tJhe pony expres,s in
1836, it is saidr, induced the Postmas-
t er General Amos Kendall, in an or-
der, dated May 1, 1837, to change the
celebration a memorial one. I still re-
tain my inheritance as the "One Man
Club of Amerka," which1 is well-
known a ll over the world.
And on thi.s occasiorn I will give to
each boy or girl wh.o has p.a,rtly be-
come intelfest ed in the h.o;bby of
stamp collecting, who will write me,
and send a s'Jlf addressed envelope,
a d'e;w stamps to enco111rage them in
this entrancing fad. I only want to
see the youn.gst ers sta.rt<erd: on t he
rig'b;t pat!!., as stamps mean very
much to one' s educ1tion. My address
is 172lh Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
seal oo its p,resent design of a gallop- FRANK POSTAGE
ing pony with a mail mess1enger as- Among many o.f the U. S. citizens,
tride. _w,ho enj.oy trhis privilege is Mrs.
T.h!is historical statement is, rhow- T'heodor e Roosevelt, widow of, Ex-
ever, cont r a dicted by the historian, . . _By simply autogrnphing
Benson J Lossing, who state,d. in an her letters, "IDd:ith K. Roosevelt,"
article published in Hat'Per's Monthly :hiem mail is free to any part
Magazine for Februa,ry, 1869, that 0-f U. s. and possessions, a;ccor di ng
Dcnjamin Franklin, w:hen first a:;> to p :ra"raph 3, Amend,qd: Se-ction
pointed Postmast er Genenl, i ssue1 a 493, Po-stal Laws and Regulations.
circular C'Onc<rning the Postal
vice on which was a picture of a gal-
lopipg pony, w:bi.ch he assumes was
t hJ origi u ot t he present Seal.
Tl)e r ecords of the yen of 1837 ar e
not / availa ble and in t he Post Office-
Department, and t!he order of the
Postma.st er Genera,! Kendall cannot
lJe found to ver ify the statement
of Huebne,J:', and it is left to conjec-
ture w:hether the Seal as at present
originated wit h K:Jendall in or
witlh Franklin as stat ed by Lossmg.
(p,o,stmaster 's Advooate) .
SAVED BY STAMPS
By R. Edw:: r d Sharp
Seven ye-ars ago I was left a n in-
h e; ita nce., but it had a string tied t o
it, and to ma ke it .productive it c?st
$9,000.00. Being uneducat ed and sick
all my life, I started Oil my 55th
birthday t o co<llect stamps\ with
$6,00();.00 in debt, and $2,50!k00 cash
I ma de my derb ut. This month, May
28 I will celebrat e my 57th: birthday
a lso my s =.cond anniver sar y .as a
Htamp bng and nut. As, I uwe no man,
and ha ve what some say, a rich man's
collection to boot, with a hrand new
e dlucat'<on, also f\e.gaining my h ealth,
I owe to the inter est I have
taken in this 'bo'bby;- I will make t hi s
The American Philateli st , official
oigan for tlle A. P S. was the first U.
S. pu.bli c3tion to come out with cuts
or U. S. stamps, whic.h appeared in
March issue, slllortly after the passa:ge
O'f lbill in Congress, permitting the il-
lustrations of U. S. stamps.
COLORS SUGGESTED
FOR PAPER MONEY
A club member has made or sent
in this s uggestion, pertaining to t he
printing of U. S. paper money. Many
ti mes a sever e mistake is made rela-
t ive t o the value of greenbacl{S, as
they rure known. Such as re.ceiving a
two dollar 1hill f,ol' 'bdgh.er value or of
less valuatio.n. A five dollar bill can
be g iven instead! of a one dollar, and
so .on in higher denomina t ions. This
member' s suggestion is t hat the bills
be print ed in .dliffer ent color's such as
the stamps ar e clone. The on.e dollar
could ;b;; printed in gr E.e.n; the two in
red; five in pu,rple ; t en in brown,
a nd so on up as in t h.e colors of the
stamps. There would' be less mis-
t a'l'es, whieh causres many t imes a
severe embarrassme11t, a nd not so
much short changing.
HIGH SCHOOL i.. IFE
HIGH SCHOOL
FRIDAY
Last Friday afterno:on was devoted
to the .eoobibiti:on of much of tlhe
yaa.rs work Mr. Scalf had some won-
derful sp-ecimens of. the work the
btoys under ihds supervision hiave turn-
ed out. Among them was a model of
a barn, tool chest, piano bench, and
numerous other t hings.
WEEK
Arran,gements for Commencem ent
week ar.e about completed and in a
s:hort t ime the 1923 Schoql Year will
dr aw .to a _ close.
The Baccal aureate address to t he
Senior dass will be deliber ed by
Rev. H. (}. Ozanne a t tJ.be lVI1ethodist .
chu!cfi on Sunday evening, J une 3,
at 7:30.
The Commencement program will
be hE:l d in t1:1e Hi-gh, Spibool Auditor -
i um, J une 7, 8: 30 p. m. The Com-
mencement address is . to_ be deliver -
ed l' Y P.r of G. Masselink, of the Fer -
ris I nsti t ute.
Miss McCar tney's ex-hibition slhow-
.e.d .blow tb:orough had been h eT
Many wonderful creations
of dr esses were on disp-lay. Without
t his tr[J.ining the girls woul.d ruever
had been able to make . such thi ngs .CR. JO'HN REYCRAF'r
as they ha;ve made. Miss McOartney
deser ves m,ucli pl'ais:e. and honor for
- tr<ai ning :of the girls and als'o for her
attnactive exhibition of tlheir work.
I
In ea(lh of. t he- gr ade r ooms- the
wor k of the pupils was displayed.
This also was attr active and slhows
t he vast amlount :of work by both the
teac:hers land the pupils.
DAY SPEAKER
Memor ial Day will be fitti ngly ob-
served in our cit;y, ,May 3<:J. T he W.
R. c. will hold memor ial at
their hall at 8:00 o'clock a . m. for
membe:rs lwho b:a.ve . to
Great Beyond', during t he past year .
Anyone wishing t.o attend these ser-
vices will be weleomed, .after which
they will be joined by the Grand Ar-
my, the Ameri can Le.gion and Aux-
iliar y a nd 'Yill march to the. watf>r" to
hold services for the unknown dead,
nnrl from tiher e t o Zorn Park, wher e
tlJRY will be j oin0d by the school
cl)ild.rRn, wher fitting eJ::er c,ises will
be held.
Dr . .Jolhn Re.ycraft, ol; Petoskey,
,_,_, m dR' i.vR the Memorial Day ad-
{1n: ss Special s inging has arranged,
t t e school childr en to have a p:J. rt in
tthe progr am. '
J\ t the cen1et erv the Grand Army
i n traini ng these bays and girls for tbe IN. R. c: wiW hold the ser-
tbeir Els ie Growl gav:e- a solo vice at t be C::J. nnon and will r eturn to
dance and the program was 0omplet - tl\oeir wher e rl i nner will be ser-
ed by a game of v.ol!ey ball by tlb:e ved by t he Legion Auxiliary.
4th and' 5th grade boys. Miss Wells
is due much prai s e for the wonderful
exhibition of the work wlhi ch she has
lac-co\npliSihed during the year.
Tlh:e afternoon p rogram was com-
pleted by t'he exhibition in Miss Wells
depa rtment. T:Iie program was opened
by a march d.r:ill by a ll high s cho1ol
.girls, The ' younger gi.rls gave the
r eed drill. tJhe Hi,g.b-land fling the Irish
dance and :other s, . and a Chinese
was given b:x; Wright.
'I'he .May PoLe was also given by t en
of tlhe younger gi rl s. The sixth a nd
S()Y:ent h- .gr-ad.e .boys g;a,ve a drill of
marching, :boxing, pitcbdng ball, and
nun,_er ons other things. It showed t he
vast. amount 'Of effort by Miss Wells
The exhibiti:on was well attended
by towns p2opl1e and t hey r.ea-
lize now, more . than ever bellor e, j ust
what their boys and girl s are a c-
complishing in thetr school work and
I'Wiblat the t eac-hers 'He doi ng fior them.
Altogether the exhibition wta.s a great
success.
Ail those having: automobil es .are
r equest ed to be in formaUon at Zorn
P ark a t clos.e -of t he exer ci ses in 'or -
d'er t o- carry the G. A. H.'s and W. R.
C.'s, small dhil rln:m and ot her s who
wish to go t o the cemetery who are
not able t o wal k.
Th Legion members are requsted
to meet at their /hall in the morning
in ti me to mar ch arid take par t i n the
mor ning progr.am.
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