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Show BiG OVATION WITH RICE AND RUBBERS AWAITS131?iClPAr Demon stratlTe Hi eh School . iPapils Express Good Tv , . Wishes. Practically tka entire enrollment of tha , hktb . achool, grinning as . t house, a month's holiday had lust been declared, ' lined up on the campus this morning for a preliminary celebration and Jollification In honor of tha announcement of the en- . Casement of Prof. George A. Eaton, prln- v ctpal of tha high school and Mlas Edith E. Acheron. The first sight of th "caar" as ha hove into view with a timidity and ahy-neas ahy-neas unnatural to hla urntal euguat bear- -Ing waa the algnaj for general quietness. Then ss ha gradually nee red the school ' building, apparently relieved and sratl-. . fled with the thought that he waa going . to get ay without being dle-overel ties . atlllneaa wss suddenly fractured by Comanche Co-manche like yelling and the whlxs of rapidly propelled pellets of rice and a shower of old rubbers Immediately con- : vtneed the mlaeile dodging principal that he waa not going to "get by" with anything any-thing without knowing that the "atadee" , were "wise" and prepared for any amer gency. ........ The "csar." ay a aerlea of artful dodges ' snd clsver "ducks" managed 10 gala the ' .t ahaller of the nearest hallway and there he enjoyed a minute's breathing apell be', tore the student body (all except one de-mure de-mure little member) was upon him again k ' with a second bmadsids of rice. Then " snother battery of rubbers, la plaos of the customary old ahoea. which the atu-denta atu-denta happened to be wearing, and which tney ic.i max iney aoenen mora taaa th rubbers, wsa turned loose, and he who win a benedict be we rushed again Into ' th chemistry room as a haven of safety. Ths bomherdment kept tip for eeveral mlntitea. and enough -rice waa apllled, it I said, to kesp a regiment of Chinee t soldiers fat fop a month or six weeks. The violence of the students su balded . Id due time and the morning hours', passed by without much further disturb- -a no, but at tha noon hour, bottled up -enthusiasm and glggtee blew the cork a again, and ovation No. t waa eooa In -progree. Tke students lined np again and hsU looed, whistled and sang tha Menctela-aohn Menctela-aohn wedding inarch, with a tin saa a c com pen I men t. The effeet la astd -to hava beea very lmpreaaiva and solemn, i rreiraeor won la aald to nave been so , oyerconve with emotion that he was tta. , . able to leave hla of do and respoad suit. aWy to the ovation. Principal Eaton Is said ta hava regret- . ted not making his announcement tornor- ' row morning Instead of this morning, aa , that the etudenta would have had the Saturday aad Sunday, holidays In which to let their ardor cool before getting to gather on the campus. - . |