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The Birch Rod
OF THE EDINBORO STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Volume II
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912
A CELEBRITY JN OUR MIDST
William Howard Taft Honors the Normal School With a
Special Visit Saturday, Oct. 26.
David Grayson sets it down as a close se
cret regarding celebrities:
“They cannot survive without common people
like you and me.”
However that may be, Mr. Grayson’s de
scription of a visit of one clothed with great
dignity is not amiss here:
“Not for many weeks have 1 had a more interteresting, more illuminating, and when all is told,
a more amusing, experience, than I had this after
noon. Since this afternoon the world has seemed
a more satisfactory place to live in, and my own
home here, the most satisfactory, the most central
place in all the world,
I have come to the con
clusion that anything may happen here!
“We have had a celebrity in our small midst,
and the hills, as the Psalmist might say, have lifted
up their heads, and the trees have clapped their
hands together.”
In the bustle of the expectation of. our en
tire community’s journeying to Cambridge
Springs to see the President on the occasion of
his visit there on October 26, Principal Baker
announced the possibility of the President’s be
ing persuaded to come to EdinBoro to make
a brief address to the Normal School.
When
the applause had subsided, he hastened to say
that the matter was not yet settled but that he
had every reason to expect the plan would
materialize inasmuch as he had the approval of
both Congressman Bates and The Birch Rod
in the undertaking.
(Applause lasted thirty-four minutes at this
point.)
Elsewhere every diplomatic move of the
gentlemen who finally convinced the Presi
dent’s aides to make the journey to Edlnboro
has been published.
It may here be said in
entire propriety that the chief and final influ
ence that won the signal distinction for the
Normal School was the effect of the approval
of Ther Birch Rod.
Just because it is true,
modesty need not forbid our saying that when
the magic name of The Birch Rod was ut
tered in the face of any slight objection to the
visit, everybody was all smiles; and even the
President’s aides were ready and eager to
come.
A special car brought the President and his
party to Edinboro at 5:20 on October 26.
Passing from the train to Normal Hall, Mr. Taft
was bombarded with flowers, the school chil
dren of Edinboro acting as an escort to the
distinguished visitor. The students and citizens
gave the President a hearty welcome on his
entrance into the hall.
His speech, which is
here given verbatim, was as follows:
“1 am glad to be here and to greet you. I thank
the Auditor General for his kindly introduction,
and I agree with what he has said about the im
portance of education, moral and secular, with the
purpose of making good citizens, but what I would
like to say tonight is something to encourage those
who are going to embrace the profession of teaching.
“In many respects, the teacher’s profession is the
greatest in the world. It is the one which takes
hold of the boy and girl at the formative period,
when they can be made something of, or let go to be
nothing. It is then that you in your profession of
teaching will first develop his mind and then develop
his character, and set him on the way to a higher
ideal in life. Now if you embrace teaching as a
profession, you have to be content to live in pretty
moderate circumstances. You have got to be con
tent to get along without luxuries and not become
the rich of the earth. You have got to be content
with living a life of usefulness. Your rewards are
going to come from the contemplation of having
done your duty, having worked out the problem
that is before you and having done something to
benefit the human race in making the boys and
girls under your tutorage better men and women.
“I don’t come here to sympathize with you. You
don’t need sympathy. The consciousness of having
done your duty, the fact that you can look back
over your life and see where your efforts have
helped someone is going to make your life worth
the living; that exceeds anything in the way of
money. You think' that is preaching, and it is; but
I am fifty-one years old and have lived long enough
to find out many things that you will learn as you
grow older. The greatest asset you have is character
and with character you will be able to play your
part in a worthy manner. So standing shoulder to
shoulder in the cause of education you can do won
ders to help in the cause and can say when you are
done, “I have done my little and for that 1 deserve
credit.”
“I like to speak to teachers because they do be
gin in the spirit of self-sacrifice. I realized this
more than ever through my experience in the Philip
pines. In the Philippines we had to instruct half a
million children. What language shall we teach
them? Should it be English or Spanish? There
were sixteen different dialects; none of them fit for
civilized people. Seven per cent, spoke English,
so we concluded to take up English. How were
we going to get teachers? We had a thousand
teachers, most of them young women, all from the
United States. The destructive tendencies of matri
mony carried away some of them, but we now have
a trained body that has taught and has created a
teaching body of from eight to nine hundred Philip
pine teachers whoteach English to the boys and girls,
so that there are now four hundred thousand children
learning your language—English. It is the language
through which these young Philipinos can learn
modern civilization. The eight or nine hundred
who contributed to that result have a right to say,
“I have lived a life of usefulness to the community
and have contributed that result which is an honor
to the nation and an honor to those who have
brought it about.
“You have embraced a profession that gives as
great an opportunity for usefulness, and therefore, as
great an opportunity for happiness as any profession
we have in this society of ours.
“Young ladies and g^tlemen, I honor, and you
should honor, the profession you are about to enter.
I congratulate you and 1 thank you.”
Immediately upon the conclusion of this ad
dress, the President returned to Cambridge
Springs, and by six o’clock was on board his
special car for Washington.
Many things might be said of the visit of the
President. Details eminently interesting at the
time are less relevant now.
The central fact
of the President’s having been with us is at
this time the most important.
Perhaps the
best thing that has been said of the whole af
fair was Mr. Barnes’ comment in the Edinboro
Independent of October 31:
“Edinboro is justly proud of the honor accorded
her in Mr. Taft’s special visit. It is not an unusual
thing for a small community on the main route of
travel to secure, in campaign time, the visits of dis
tinguished candidates, but for a town to obtain, as
a personal favor largely, the honor of a purely so
cial visit from the Nation’s Chief Executive is ex
ceedingly rare, and makes the experience of Satur
day unique and memorable. It was an inspiration
to us all, regardless of political bias, to have the
great privilege of such an intimate view of the
President of the United States—for it was as such
that Mr. Taft was here—and no one who was in
Edinboro on Saturday will ever forget the occasion.”
Page Two
THE BIRCH ROD
Frank E. NcEntire,
Writes Inter
estingly of His Trip West.
The Birch Rod has received the following
the Twin Falls Logging Company, which is a
branch of the great W^yerhauser Company.
This company is one of severabneair here.
I
was up to visit one of its camps a few \veeks
letter:
Yacolt, Wash., Nov. 4, 1912.
Dear Teachers, Classmates and Friends:
In “The Birch Rod” for Sept. 14 I read
an appeal addressed to the Alumni, which
asked for a description of their present sur
roundings. "fhe following is an answer to this
call.
In the first place I want to tell you how I
came to come to Clark County, Washington.
One day'last spring Mr. F. E. Baker received
a letter from Mr. H. J. Lonctot, ’02, formerly
of Titusville, Pennsylvania,
asking him to
recommend a young man for assistant principal
of the Yacolt High School. Mr. Baker called
me "To the Office" and when I left it I had
promised that I would go to that far off place
if elected. Later I was elected through the
recommendations of my kind teachers and so
on August 21 I started out to fulfill this
promise.
In making this trip of nearly three thousand
ago and found that they were clearing the
ground as they went of all marketable timber.
This timber is mostly fir and cedar, and the
trees from which it is taken grows on an av
erage of 200 feet in height and about three
feet in diameter.
at the hills and valleys, the gradual declining
slope of the track, and the twisting of our
train-load of logs as we swung around the
bends.
I visited the Minnesota State Capitol, the
Stock Yauds and Swift’s Packing House)
Minneapolis, the lake region of Minnesota,
(where I spent a week) Red River Valley,
Missouri River Valley, Billings, Laurel, Mon
tana, (where I spent a week in the wheat
ranch; this place is in the Yellowstone River
Valley), the Rocky Mountains, Spokane, the
Cascade Mountains,
Seattle,
Washington and Yacolt.
Take it all in all, this ride down the
mountain was much more sensational than any
scenic railroad ride I have ever taken.
In closing I will state that you may look for
a description erf my school work in my next
letter—if this letter gets into print.
Then I
wish to urge upon my readers that we who are
iri various pairts of the United States would
like to hear from you.
FRANK E. McENTIRE, ’12.
miles I touched the following places of interest:
Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lake Erie, which I
traveled across on an Anchor Line Passenger,
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Paul, (where
The return trip of this visit
was most delightful, for I was riding in the cab
of the engine and in this position I could look
October Honor Roll.
According to the reports of teachers the fol
lowing students were absent neither from any
class nor from chapel during the month of Oc
tober:
Agnew, Mary
Amidon, Donis
Amidon, Angeline
Aulate, Mary
Babcock, Gerald
McIntosh, Gladys
McKinley, Frances
Madden, Francis
Marsh, Hazel
Mitchell, Freda
Baker, Mabel
Mitchell, John
Baptista, Edward
Mondereau, Emmett
Batchelor, Macie
Morgan, Ellen
Bellows, Paul
Morton, Mabel
Biemer, Regina ■
Mosier, Helen
Bowersock, Freeda
Paine, Nemesia
Bowser, Ethelyn
Perry, Alice
Peters, Carrie
Boyle, Madonna
Pieper, Matilda
Butterfield, Marguerite
Cass, Neff
Proudfit, Ruth
Compton, Alice
Query, Lucinda
Comstock, Joy
Quirk, Anna
Richey, Donald
Copeland, Fern
Coughlin, Fred
Ritchey, Rena
Coulter, Leon
Robinson, Margaret
Rondebush, Lela
Davis, Lillian
Rusterholtz, Jerome
Davis, Susie
DeArment, Roy
Scott, Charles
Fisher, Marjorie
Seavy, Edna
Shriver, Dean
Fleischmann, Irene
Sigworth, Bess
Frame, Cynthia
Sigworth, Ina
Freeman, Roy
Glenn, Lulu
Silfies, Estella
Greenman, Luella
Siverling, Mary
Griswold, Mearl
Smith, Frances
Squier, Mary
Hamilton, Leona
Steadman, Glenn
Harbaugh, John
Steenler, Oscar
Harrison, Leo
Harrison, Margaret
Terrill, Luciel
Trejchel, Joseph
Harvey, Florence
Hays, Vincent
Turner, Byron
Hasbrouck, Ora
Van Ettan, Emily
Wade, Marjorie
Huff, Paul
Waid, Vincent
Hummer, Harry
Joslyn, Carl
Waite, Olive
Waterhouse, Charles
Joslyn, Mildred
Kilgore, Almeda
Webster, Meuie
Kline, Eva
Wells, Laura
Krrisinski, John
White, Clara
Lewis, Myra
Whiting, Clara
Lockttrd, Elsther
Whitman, Walt
Lockard, Lillian
Wilkiiison, Ethel
Wood, Ivis
McCartney, Agnes
Wood, Sarah
Vancouver,
After having traveled through about three
hundred miles of arid country I certainly was
delighted when I found that on this side of the
Cascades grass,
trees, etc., were growing
native and not just in the places where irri
gation had been applied. Irrigation certainly
is opening up vast waste districts, but the
places where it has not touched are very dis
mal to one who has always been used to green
vegetation.
Upon arriving in Yacolt I found that it was
Edinboro State Normal School
STANDS FOR
A HIGH STANDARD OF SCHOLARSHIP
THE AMA TEUR SPIRIT IN A THLETICS
WHOLESOME SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
IT ALSO
situated in a valley which had been surrounded
by forests but is now only partly surrounded
BELIEVES IN AND SUPPORTS
because of the devastation of forest fires cind
the work of logging companies. Yacolt, in the
foothills of the Cascade Mountains, is a typical
The Birch Rod
logging town of only about 430 population
but it can boast of many modern conveniences.
It is forty miles north of Portland, Oregon, and
is 700 feet above sea level. From here the
logging trains go back into the mountains, a
distance of about twelve miles, to the camps of
Address the Principal
Edinboro, Pa.
Page Three
THE BIRCH ROD
Alumni Notes
Charles Burch, ’03, is principal of Lander
Greater Erie's Greater Store—Boston Store
High School.
Fern Bowman, ’08, is teaching in Titusville.
Adele and Jennie Harper, ’03, are teach
ing in the Oil City graded schools.
Jessie Fitz, ’09, is teaching in Pithole.
Fred D. Oiler, ’94, is practicing law in
Oklahoma.
Joseph Deamer, ’ 1 1, is working in Erie.
New Fall Goods in
Everi) Department
Ruby Anderson, ’07, is teaching near Edinboro.
Nellie Cotton, ’08, is teaching in Coleville.
Mary Carey, ’ 10, is teaching in Russell, Pa.
Lyle Baldwin, ’ll, is teaching in Warren
county.
William Greenlee, ’12, is principal of the
Cranesville High School.
Carl Holder, ’12, is teaching the Population
School, Elk Creek Township, Erie County.
Clyde Joslin, ’12, is teaching in Pont, Pa.
Nora Sherman, ’08, is teaching the Inter
mediate room in Wellsburg, Pa.
Elmer Frantz, ’09, is principal of the Wells
At the present time we are showing New Fall
Goods in everg department and are glad to have our
out-of-town customers inspect the showings to their
hearts'' content
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT is a charming
place for the women and girls. The hats this season
are nobbier than ever, the stgles being most practical
and wearable. No difpcultg whatever for ang one to
be suited with a hat from our varied assortments.
Then, too, we execute orders to the minutest detail
Just give us an idea of what gou want—or we will
supplg the idea, too, if gou choose.
burg High School.
Elda Swift, ’09, is teaching vocal and in
strumental music in the Caldwell Private
School, Washington, Pa.
Allene Babcock, ’12, is teaching the Pri
mary grades in the Lander High School, War
DRESS GOODS and SILKS Departments are
particularlg interesting just now, and the CLOAK and
SUIT Department, 2nd floor, is the nucleus of interest.
Coats and Suits for Fall are here in wide assortment
and the prices, as usual, are the lowest possible.
ren County.
Edinboro Defeated by Thiel College.
November second the Edinboro Normal
-football team journeyed to Greenville to play
Thiel College.
On occount of rain and snow
the field was covered with snow and water.
The game started by Thiel kicking off to
Edinboro.
Edinboro lost the ball on the sec
ond down and Thiel then succeeded in mak
ing a touchdown on their second down, by an
end run. The ball was again put in play and
after a few minutes Thiel made another touch
down and before the quarter was up they
made another one.
The quarter ended with
the score 19-0 in favor of Thiel.
In the second quarter Thiel succeeded in
SHOES, perhaps the first essential in the fall ap
parelling, are here in the new lasts and stgles of
leather—both tan and black, Suedes, etc. Walking
Shoes, Dress Shoes, Semi-dress Shoes and partg slip
pers to suit everg taste.
While we mention the above departments particu
larlg, we do not mean that theg should overshadow the
mang other departments in the store which are show
ing equallg as interesting Fall Merchandise Men's
and Women’s Underwear, Hosierg, Blankets, Flannels,
Corsets and Gloves, Upholsterg and Curtain Dept, 2nd
floor. Shirt Waists and Muslin Underwear—all con
tribute their quota to the fall displag.
—
getting two more touchdowns while they held
Edinboro from scoring.
Although the Edin
boro team did not score, this quarter it played
a great deal stronger game than during the first
quarter.
The second half opened by Edinboro kick
ing off to Thiel.
Now a real struggle began.
Edinboro was bA. last warmed up.
(Continued on sixth page.)
The ball
ERIE DRY GOODS CO.,
State Street, Erie, Pa.
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difficult drills. Finally the last ghost disappear
ed and the hall once more blazed into light.
“
Watch Us Grow.”
Next about thirty young people marched out
and gave two Swedish dances.
Osborne - Norman Co.
This again
started the audience to clapping; . then some
Cor. 11th and State, Erie, Pa.
thing still better was brought forth. This time
the Junior boys showed their skill by giving the
wheel-barrow race.
Mr. Hood was the vic
tor.
The climax finally came when Hood and
Hayes gave their barrel prize fight.
The
visitors laughed more and more until finally
Hood, champion of E. S. N. S., knocked his
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opponent from Thiel completely
out.
This ended the program.
and
The people
showed their appreciation, and even Mr. Hayes
smiled his approval, while lying in a stupor on
the floor.
The guests all voted the Junior
Class and Mr. Hayes (Manager) loyal enter
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spection.
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tainers, and the Juniors, themselves, feel am
ply repaid for all ihe’r work and effort.
—R. B.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editors ..................................Charles Marsh; Donald Richey
Athletic Editor................................................Hubert Bentley
News Editor...................... ..................................Alice Walker
Alumni Editor..............................................David S. McGuire
Manager....... .........................................William T. McKelvey
A.SSISTANT Manager........................................John Harbaugh
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Fall and Winter
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Haven Hall Notes.
Miss Ham had the nicest party last Mon
day. She said she invited thirteen guests but
only twelve came, so we’re still superstitious.
We discovered that she is a connoisseur at the
chafing dish and the jolliest of hostesses.
Big Time at the Gym.
The Junior Class surprised the other classes
of the school and residents of Edinboro, on
Irene
Flieschman,
Helena
Jackson and
Elizabeth Fowler went to Meadville last
Saturday to the Ivy Club dance and stayed
November 1, by showing them a jolly good
time. The gymnasium was decorated, mainly
over Sunday at Elizabeth’s home.
with corn stalks and pumpkins, although au
tumn leaves and apples were there in pro
game and President Taft to look at on the
same day no wonder our nerves hardly stood
fusion.
the strain.
The balcony was strung with pen
nants and in each corner of the room was a
little country store where cider, doughnuts and
apples were served.
The guest on entering, found himself im
mediately in an intricate and winding passage.
After trying his best to stumble through and to
escape from the ghosts and other unearthly
With two such big things as a foot ball
Mr. Bellows seems very popular with the
ladies.
Esther Averill spent last Sunday with friends
in North East.
Elizabeth Fowler’s father and mother spent
last Sunday with her here.
White
flowers from the Marsh-es never
ly people, he was greatly assisted over the last
moving floor and thence directed to the check
wither.
room.
As soon as all the guests were assembled,
have looked so bare these last few Sundays.
those who were either masked or in costume
took part in the grand march.
Many funny,
over Sunday:
interesting and peculiar costumes were exhibit
ed.
It afforded much amusement to both old
No wonder the tables in the dining room
The following persons visited at their homes
Ethel Dickey, Myrtle Morrison,
Morrison,
Alta
Rickard,
Ethelyn
Helen Whiting,
and young. Afterward every one unmasked
and partook heartily of the refreshments which
Frances McKinley, Regina
Randall. , Ruth
Kidder,
were then served.
Anna Quirk, Ruth Proudfit, Madonna Boyle,
The program for the evening was very en
tertaining and exciting. The playing and sing
Francis Smith,
ing met with the deep approval of the people.
This was followed by a long ghostly-ghost
If any one notices a tendency to stutter in
any of the Haven Hall girls they are warned
march.
that it is on account of a slang contest that has
In the dimly lighted room the ghosts
could be seen moving in many windings and
Erma
Biemer, Edith
Elmo Houtz,
Gabhardt,
Eleanor
j The most complete assortI ment in sizes, stples and
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materials to be found
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at this busp store.
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Osborne - Norman Co.
Asmus, Jane Riblet.
been going on for a week.
There are twelve
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contestants, six on a side, and the conditions
ability of Silvan Hilliard increased to such an
are that the side using the most slang in two
extent that he decided to walk to Meadville
last Monday, a distance of twenty-three miles.
weeks must give a feast to the other six, at the
end of that time. I’ve forgotten the exact
He was accompanied by Stuart Graham, of
number of thousand expressions recorded on
Reeder Halj.
each side but they’re getting desperate and
the construction
beginning to stammer. There is no clue yet
as to who will win and I believe Miss Ham
Erie railroad.
On their journey they viewed
work and progress
on the
and Miss Swenarton, the judges, are very
John Mitchell, one of our loyal members,
lives each day in quietude and performs the
busy settling disputes as to whether a thing is
or is not slang. I doubt if any of the girls will
duties of a WHITE man.
ever regain sufficient poise to speak without
suddenly clasping their hands over their mouth
or without warning rushing for note book to
write down, "Simply blew himself," "Goo
all over it," or "Oh, cat."
Ethel Wilkinson’s mother visited her last
Wednesday.
and also had the advantage from the start.
In
the beginning of the game the Reserves got
Mr. Sullivan, after visiting the culinary de
possession of the ball a few times but were held
for downs. Edinboro drove their opponents back
partment, reports that everything is in perfect
until they were within a foot of Waterford’s
order.
goal line, then by a line buck the ball was
carried across the line.
We, the students of Edinboro State Normal
School, who reside at the Wade house on
Meadville street, do hereby agree among our
selves for the interest of The Birch Rod and
its readers to publish weekly a fair and correct
statement of the happenings and funny in
cidents that occur to ourselves as students.
The name of this fraternity shall be, "The
Wade Frat."
Si^ed by present members:
In the second quarter the Reserves rushed
their opponents off their feet and before the
quarter was up scored two touch downs. The
half ended with the score 18-0, with Edin
boro in the lead.
During the second half although the Re
serves had the ball in their possession, in
Waterford’s tenltory, most of the time they
were unable to score.
During the last few
minutes of play Waterford attempted a for
ward pass. Just at this inopportune time a
whistle blew and Edinboro men thought it
DON HENRY
NEVIN CARMIN
CHAS. SCOTT
JOHN MITCHELL
RAY FREEMAN
SILVAN HILLIARD
The subject under discussion at the Frato
is politics, all parties being represented by
able contestants. A proof for this statement is
the representation made by our able speaker,
Chas. Scott, in chapel.
Roy, one of the most interesting members
was the referee’s whistle, therefore they allowed
one of Waterford’s men to catch the ball and
get started up the field before they found out
that it was not the referee’s whistle. On this
yards for a touch down.
Reeder Hall Notes.
Mr. Sigworth visited Fay Daley over Sun
day.
smell.
He dashed into the house and said:
"Is supper ready?"
The landlady being
amazed by the astonishing question exclaimed:
"No." Roy replied: "Well, I smelt something."
Roy, Dean and Nevin are members of the
infantry because they find it necessary to visit
their mothers weekly.
By means of rest obtained at the "Wade
Harold
Mrs. Obert and Mrs. Gorman were visiting
here last week.
Reeder Hall was opened to the girls last
Saturday during the game, on account of the
rain. Judging by the remarks made by the
girls, we ought to be proud of our dormitory.
Remarks like these: "How clean the rooms
are !" "How nicely decorated are the walls!"
"What nice pictures I"
"Look at the neck
"Anderson
ties !" were common.
vigor
and muscular
908 State Street
ERIE, PA.
Miller, Harold
Frato" and the excellent nourishment from the
Club" the
We make a special effort to
cater io the poung men
Paul Webb, William McKelvey, Joe TrejGorman, Pattison and John Krasinski were
home over Sunday.
house.
$3.00
$1.50
$2.00
The Derbp Hat Co.
of our Frato, is noted for his keen sense of
While walking up street about four
Popular Prices
play one of Waterford’s men ran seventy-five
chel, Paul Bellows,
o’clock in the afternoon he passed his bozu’ding
Headwear
The Reserves Play Waterford.
possession of the ball and by a series of line bucks
steadily drove Waterford back. Waterford got
The Wade Frato.
THAT IS NEW
IN UP-TO-DATE
October 27 the second team played the
Waterford football team at Waterford. Edin
boro outclassed and outweighed their opponents
City, visited her
Mrs. Jackson, of Oil
daughter over Sunday.
Everi^thing
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Edinboro Defeated by Thiel.
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(Continued from third page.)
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changed hands several times. At last the Thiel
team succeeded in pushing the Edinboro team
back toward their goal line, and by a trick
play secured another touchdown.
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make the selection of her |
hat a pleasure will welcome ||
the opportunity which our i
collection of choice fashions
grants.
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All the Leading
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Stples are Here \
We will not attempt to
describe them, but rather
emphasise our established
reputation of "‘making good”
in the originality of the
styles, guality of materials
and workmanship. We must \
also mention that the prices
asked are far less than
others'. We specialise on
hats at
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$3.75, $5, $7.50
and $10.
Trask
Prescott &
Richardson Co.
9th and State Streets
ERIE, PA.
The ball
was again put in play by Edinboro again kick
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ing off to Thiel.
For the rest of the quarter
the teams fought back and forth across the
center of the field.
The fourth quarter started by Edinboro kick
ing off to Thiel. Thiel lost the ball on downs.
Edinboro then, by a series of line bucks, be
gan gradually to approach Thiel’s goal line,
the latter team lighting vigorously, but they
could not stop Edinboro’s line rushes.
With
the ball two feet from their goal line Thiel
made a last desperate effort to check Edinboro,
but a rush through the center carried the ball
across. Goal was then kicked. The ball was
then put in play by Thiel kicking off to Edin
boro. Again Thiel was slowly driven back.
When the whistle blew for ”time up” the ball
was in Edinboro’s passession on Thiel’s twen
ty-five yard line.
Although the score was 31-6 in favor of
Thiel, Edinboro deserves some credit.
The
Edinboro team was on the field almost an hour
before the game began, and when the contest
started they were wet and stiff.
They were
not used to the wet field.
Four times when
the ball was near their own goal line and they
attempted to punt, the ball was so wet that it
slipped and hit the lines and bounded back
ward. This gave Thiel the ball each time,
near Edinboro’s goal line.
Thiel also out
weighed Edinboro twenty pounds to the man.
Ex-Senator Cannon on Mormonism.
To those who knew little or nothing of the
menace of Mormonism, Ex-Senator Cannon’s
address on Monday evening came as a start
ling revelation.
Once a Mormon himself,
Mr. Cannon spoke as one thoroughly acquaint
ed with what he had to discuss. He is at
present devoting his entire time to an edu
cational campaign against the Mormon church
and its practices. While not an easy nor a
pleasant speaker, his message was of the sort
to compel the closest atterftion; he charges
Mormonism with a long series of deadly sins.
Most serious, perhaps, was that of open treason
to the government of the United States.
He gave the past history of Mormonism;
told of the crisis that came in their church life
in Harrison’s administration; revealed the char
acter of the present Mormon leader as he had
come to understand it.
He particularly invited attention to the
polygamous teachings and practices of the
church. By a series of stories he laid bare a
state of affairs, both in the church and in the
missionary endeavors of the church, that was re
volting. It was too bad, inasmuch as this was
one of his most serious charges against the or
ganization, that he felt that he could make any
allusion to the practice of polygamy that the
audience could feel free to take as humor.
Such was the case; perhaps it was the fault of
audience rather than that of the speaker.
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THE BIRCH ROD
Warren High Wins by Small Margin
on Local Grounds.
had possession of the ball on Warren’s ten-yard
line.
The tackles of Dearment, Richey and Bent-
In the football game of last Saturday Warren
High School had a hard run for their money,
vv^hen they gained a victory of 7-6 from the
Edinboro eleven. From the way the uniforms
of the teams looked after the game, the weather
man must have forgotten that the game was to
be played Saturday, November 9.
The game was opened by Edinboro kicking
off to Warren. In a few minutes Warren suc
ceeded in getting the ball within two feet of
Edinboro’s goal line.
The cry of the referee
was, "First down and two feet to
gain!"
Here was a chance for Edinboro’s linemen to
show what they could do. Warren tried line
bucks and trick plays, but none of them suc
ceeded in getting the
ball across
Edinboro’s
goal line.
In fact at the end of Warren’s
fourth down the ball was two yards from Ed
inboro’s line.
Edinboro then punted and car
ried the ball back to Edinboro’s twenty-yard
line. After a few plays, in which neither side
gained much, the whistle blew for the end of
ley were the feature of the last quarter.
line-up was as :follows:
The
EDINBORO—6
WARREN—7
Shriver_______ ..............L. E...........________ Ghering
Dereamer____ . _______L. T____
Richey_________ ..............L. G.........
Dearment...___ ________C.----.Matthews-Bentley -____ R. G. .... ______ Geracimos
Marsh____ ____ .......R. T...........
Graham.......... .. ......... .R. E............
Green____ _____
-Q. B.............
___ Messner
Jewel-Hood____ ... ..L. H.......... ...._____ Miller
Obert-- _______ ........... F. B........... .________ Stevens
Leach__________ ______R. H_____
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The editors have been informed that the
quotation from the Potter placard is enoneous.
Our reporter read a mutilated placard and
wishes to rectify his error.
The placard read,
"Potter, the society that uses no slang."
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the quarter.
The second quarter began with Warren
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making two good gains on end runs.
They
then made a touchdown by a forward pass
t
across Edinboro’s line. Goal was kicked. The
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game was continued by Warren kicking off.
Edinboro received the ball and on the first
down made a a forward pass to Leach, who
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carried the ball for fifty yards and placed it be
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hind Warren’s goal.
The trial for goal failed.
Edinboro then kicked off to Warren, holding
their opponents until on the fourth down they
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punted.
Edinboro then obtained the ball and
tried a forward pass that failed.
Edinboro
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May 2----------------------------Edward Amherst Ott
Harris Thompson
in the center of the field.
At the beginning of the second half Edin
boro punted to Warren and held them for
downs. Then Edinboro lost the bal] on a
fumble.
Warren took the ball and punted.
Edinboro received the ball and tried a forward
pass, which failed.
The third quarter ended
with the ball in Edinboro’s possession on War
ren’s twenty-five yard line.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter Ed
inboro made a forward pass and Warren
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gained ten yards on the next play, which was
a line buck.
Edinboro was then forced to
punt.
Warren succeeded in getting the ball
back to the center of the field, by end runs.
When the half was ended the ball was nearly
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caught it. No gains were made on either side
this quarter, each team holding the other for
downs and compelling their opponents to punt
on the last down.
During the last few min
HENRY J. SEVIN
utes of play Edinboro got possession of the
ball and gradually pushed the Warren team
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THE BIRCH ROD
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Allegheny Reserves Win Close Game.
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In the fourth football game of the season,
played Saturday, October 26, against the Al
legheny Reserves, on the home grounds, Edinboro was defeated by a score of 14-6.
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The
Varsity eleven showed better team work in
this game than in any other game of the sea
son thus far.
The first quarter opened
kicking off to Edinboro.
by
Allegheny
Edinboro carried the
ball back to the center of the field and lost it
on the second down.
Allegheny then suc
ceeded in getting back to Edinboro’s thirtyfive yard line.
Edinboro then regained the
ball and White was given a chance to carry it
on a wide end run around right end. He car
ried the ball for sixty-five yards and placed it
behind Allegheny’s goal, for a touchdown.
The attempt to kick goal failed.
Allegheny
again kicked off, but there were no more long
gains made by either side.
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During the second quarter the ball was car
ried back and forth across the field, neither
side scoring, ending with Edinboro still in the
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lead.
The second half started by Allegheny kick
ing off to Edinboro. In a few minutes Alle
gheny secured possession of the ball and by a
few skillful plays carried the ball over the line
for a touchdown.
The goal was kicked.
Allegheny again kicked off to Edinboro.
inboro lost the ball on downs.
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slowly took the ball down the field and by use
of the forward pass made another touchdown.
Goal was again kicked.
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The quarter end
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The ball was then
put in play but neither side gained much, the
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Edinboro rallied in the last quarter and out
classed their opponents in every way, although
Allegheny succeeded in getting the ball to Ed
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inboro’s five-yard line. Edinboro then secured
the ball and by a series of line bucks and end
E. J. SWANSON, Prop’r
runs carried the ball towards Allegheny’s goal
line.
The whistle blew
with Edinboro on
Allegheny’s twenty-yard line.
Great credit is to be given the team for
their good work. They were outweighed fif
teen pounds to the man.
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EDINBORO
Scott-PiersonL. E--------------------- Shriver
RenningerL. T.------------------DeRemer
CurryL. G. - ,------Richey
M. Dotterer-Stevenson______C.--------------------Dearment
Allshouse-Murray-----------R. G.- - ---------------- Marsh
Kramer._R. T.---------------------- Obert
\C^itherupR- E. __----------------- Graham
Mates- -Q. B.--------------------------------- -------- - - -Green
Metcalf -. - -L. H. -. . -...................................... - - White
Pierson-BashF. B------------------------ Scott
CoxR. H--------------Jewel
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Goals from
touchdowns—Bash, 2.
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OF THE EDINBORO STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Volume II
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912
A CELEBRITY JN OUR MIDST
William Howard Taft Honors the Normal School With a
Special Visit Saturday, Oct. 26.
David Grayson sets it down as a close se
cret regarding celebrities:
“They cannot survive without common people
like you and me.”
However that may be, Mr. Grayson’s de
scription of a visit of one clothed with great
dignity is not amiss here:
“Not for many weeks have 1 had a more interteresting, more illuminating, and when all is told,
a more amusing, experience, than I had this after
noon. Since this afternoon the world has seemed
a more satisfactory place to live in, and my own
home here, the most satisfactory, the most central
place in all the world,
I have come to the con
clusion that anything may happen here!
“We have had a celebrity in our small midst,
and the hills, as the Psalmist might say, have lifted
up their heads, and the trees have clapped their
hands together.”
In the bustle of the expectation of. our en
tire community’s journeying to Cambridge
Springs to see the President on the occasion of
his visit there on October 26, Principal Baker
announced the possibility of the President’s be
ing persuaded to come to EdinBoro to make
a brief address to the Normal School.
When
the applause had subsided, he hastened to say
that the matter was not yet settled but that he
had every reason to expect the plan would
materialize inasmuch as he had the approval of
both Congressman Bates and The Birch Rod
in the undertaking.
(Applause lasted thirty-four minutes at this
point.)
Elsewhere every diplomatic move of the
gentlemen who finally convinced the Presi
dent’s aides to make the journey to Edlnboro
has been published.
It may here be said in
entire propriety that the chief and final influ
ence that won the signal distinction for the
Normal School was the effect of the approval
of Ther Birch Rod.
Just because it is true,
modesty need not forbid our saying that when
the magic name of The Birch Rod was ut
tered in the face of any slight objection to the
visit, everybody was all smiles; and even the
President’s aides were ready and eager to
come.
A special car brought the President and his
party to Edinboro at 5:20 on October 26.
Passing from the train to Normal Hall, Mr. Taft
was bombarded with flowers, the school chil
dren of Edinboro acting as an escort to the
distinguished visitor. The students and citizens
gave the President a hearty welcome on his
entrance into the hall.
His speech, which is
here given verbatim, was as follows:
“1 am glad to be here and to greet you. I thank
the Auditor General for his kindly introduction,
and I agree with what he has said about the im
portance of education, moral and secular, with the
purpose of making good citizens, but what I would
like to say tonight is something to encourage those
who are going to embrace the profession of teaching.
“In many respects, the teacher’s profession is the
greatest in the world. It is the one which takes
hold of the boy and girl at the formative period,
when they can be made something of, or let go to be
nothing. It is then that you in your profession of
teaching will first develop his mind and then develop
his character, and set him on the way to a higher
ideal in life. Now if you embrace teaching as a
profession, you have to be content to live in pretty
moderate circumstances. You have got to be con
tent to get along without luxuries and not become
the rich of the earth. You have got to be content
with living a life of usefulness. Your rewards are
going to come from the contemplation of having
done your duty, having worked out the problem
that is before you and having done something to
benefit the human race in making the boys and
girls under your tutorage better men and women.
“I don’t come here to sympathize with you. You
don’t need sympathy. The consciousness of having
done your duty, the fact that you can look back
over your life and see where your efforts have
helped someone is going to make your life worth
the living; that exceeds anything in the way of
money. You think' that is preaching, and it is; but
I am fifty-one years old and have lived long enough
to find out many things that you will learn as you
grow older. The greatest asset you have is character
and with character you will be able to play your
part in a worthy manner. So standing shoulder to
shoulder in the cause of education you can do won
ders to help in the cause and can say when you are
done, “I have done my little and for that 1 deserve
credit.”
“I like to speak to teachers because they do be
gin in the spirit of self-sacrifice. I realized this
more than ever through my experience in the Philip
pines. In the Philippines we had to instruct half a
million children. What language shall we teach
them? Should it be English or Spanish? There
were sixteen different dialects; none of them fit for
civilized people. Seven per cent, spoke English,
so we concluded to take up English. How were
we going to get teachers? We had a thousand
teachers, most of them young women, all from the
United States. The destructive tendencies of matri
mony carried away some of them, but we now have
a trained body that has taught and has created a
teaching body of from eight to nine hundred Philip
pine teachers whoteach English to the boys and girls,
so that there are now four hundred thousand children
learning your language—English. It is the language
through which these young Philipinos can learn
modern civilization. The eight or nine hundred
who contributed to that result have a right to say,
“I have lived a life of usefulness to the community
and have contributed that result which is an honor
to the nation and an honor to those who have
brought it about.
“You have embraced a profession that gives as
great an opportunity for usefulness, and therefore, as
great an opportunity for happiness as any profession
we have in this society of ours.
“Young ladies and g^tlemen, I honor, and you
should honor, the profession you are about to enter.
I congratulate you and 1 thank you.”
Immediately upon the conclusion of this ad
dress, the President returned to Cambridge
Springs, and by six o’clock was on board his
special car for Washington.
Many things might be said of the visit of the
President. Details eminently interesting at the
time are less relevant now.
The central fact
of the President’s having been with us is at
this time the most important.
Perhaps the
best thing that has been said of the whole af
fair was Mr. Barnes’ comment in the Edinboro
Independent of October 31:
“Edinboro is justly proud of the honor accorded
her in Mr. Taft’s special visit. It is not an unusual
thing for a small community on the main route of
travel to secure, in campaign time, the visits of dis
tinguished candidates, but for a town to obtain, as
a personal favor largely, the honor of a purely so
cial visit from the Nation’s Chief Executive is ex
ceedingly rare, and makes the experience of Satur
day unique and memorable. It was an inspiration
to us all, regardless of political bias, to have the
great privilege of such an intimate view of the
President of the United States—for it was as such
that Mr. Taft was here—and no one who was in
Edinboro on Saturday will ever forget the occasion.”
Page Two
THE BIRCH ROD
Frank E. NcEntire,
Writes Inter
estingly of His Trip West.
The Birch Rod has received the following
the Twin Falls Logging Company, which is a
branch of the great W^yerhauser Company.
This company is one of severabneair here.
I
was up to visit one of its camps a few \veeks
letter:
Yacolt, Wash., Nov. 4, 1912.
Dear Teachers, Classmates and Friends:
In “The Birch Rod” for Sept. 14 I read
an appeal addressed to the Alumni, which
asked for a description of their present sur
roundings. "fhe following is an answer to this
call.
In the first place I want to tell you how I
came to come to Clark County, Washington.
One day'last spring Mr. F. E. Baker received
a letter from Mr. H. J. Lonctot, ’02, formerly
of Titusville, Pennsylvania,
asking him to
recommend a young man for assistant principal
of the Yacolt High School. Mr. Baker called
me "To the Office" and when I left it I had
promised that I would go to that far off place
if elected. Later I was elected through the
recommendations of my kind teachers and so
on August 21 I started out to fulfill this
promise.
In making this trip of nearly three thousand
ago and found that they were clearing the
ground as they went of all marketable timber.
This timber is mostly fir and cedar, and the
trees from which it is taken grows on an av
erage of 200 feet in height and about three
feet in diameter.
at the hills and valleys, the gradual declining
slope of the track, and the twisting of our
train-load of logs as we swung around the
bends.
I visited the Minnesota State Capitol, the
Stock Yauds and Swift’s Packing House)
Minneapolis, the lake region of Minnesota,
(where I spent a week) Red River Valley,
Missouri River Valley, Billings, Laurel, Mon
tana, (where I spent a week in the wheat
ranch; this place is in the Yellowstone River
Valley), the Rocky Mountains, Spokane, the
Cascade Mountains,
Seattle,
Washington and Yacolt.
Take it all in all, this ride down the
mountain was much more sensational than any
scenic railroad ride I have ever taken.
In closing I will state that you may look for
a description erf my school work in my next
letter—if this letter gets into print.
Then I
wish to urge upon my readers that we who are
iri various pairts of the United States would
like to hear from you.
FRANK E. McENTIRE, ’12.
miles I touched the following places of interest:
Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lake Erie, which I
traveled across on an Anchor Line Passenger,
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Paul, (where
The return trip of this visit
was most delightful, for I was riding in the cab
of the engine and in this position I could look
October Honor Roll.
According to the reports of teachers the fol
lowing students were absent neither from any
class nor from chapel during the month of Oc
tober:
Agnew, Mary
Amidon, Donis
Amidon, Angeline
Aulate, Mary
Babcock, Gerald
McIntosh, Gladys
McKinley, Frances
Madden, Francis
Marsh, Hazel
Mitchell, Freda
Baker, Mabel
Mitchell, John
Baptista, Edward
Mondereau, Emmett
Batchelor, Macie
Morgan, Ellen
Bellows, Paul
Morton, Mabel
Biemer, Regina ■
Mosier, Helen
Bowersock, Freeda
Paine, Nemesia
Bowser, Ethelyn
Perry, Alice
Peters, Carrie
Boyle, Madonna
Pieper, Matilda
Butterfield, Marguerite
Cass, Neff
Proudfit, Ruth
Compton, Alice
Query, Lucinda
Comstock, Joy
Quirk, Anna
Richey, Donald
Copeland, Fern
Coughlin, Fred
Ritchey, Rena
Coulter, Leon
Robinson, Margaret
Rondebush, Lela
Davis, Lillian
Rusterholtz, Jerome
Davis, Susie
DeArment, Roy
Scott, Charles
Fisher, Marjorie
Seavy, Edna
Shriver, Dean
Fleischmann, Irene
Sigworth, Bess
Frame, Cynthia
Sigworth, Ina
Freeman, Roy
Glenn, Lulu
Silfies, Estella
Greenman, Luella
Siverling, Mary
Griswold, Mearl
Smith, Frances
Squier, Mary
Hamilton, Leona
Steadman, Glenn
Harbaugh, John
Steenler, Oscar
Harrison, Leo
Harrison, Margaret
Terrill, Luciel
Trejchel, Joseph
Harvey, Florence
Hays, Vincent
Turner, Byron
Hasbrouck, Ora
Van Ettan, Emily
Wade, Marjorie
Huff, Paul
Waid, Vincent
Hummer, Harry
Joslyn, Carl
Waite, Olive
Waterhouse, Charles
Joslyn, Mildred
Kilgore, Almeda
Webster, Meuie
Kline, Eva
Wells, Laura
Krrisinski, John
White, Clara
Lewis, Myra
Whiting, Clara
Lockttrd, Elsther
Whitman, Walt
Lockard, Lillian
Wilkiiison, Ethel
Wood, Ivis
McCartney, Agnes
Wood, Sarah
Vancouver,
After having traveled through about three
hundred miles of arid country I certainly was
delighted when I found that on this side of the
Cascades grass,
trees, etc., were growing
native and not just in the places where irri
gation had been applied. Irrigation certainly
is opening up vast waste districts, but the
places where it has not touched are very dis
mal to one who has always been used to green
vegetation.
Upon arriving in Yacolt I found that it was
Edinboro State Normal School
STANDS FOR
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THE AMA TEUR SPIRIT IN A THLETICS
WHOLESOME SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS
IT ALSO
situated in a valley which had been surrounded
by forests but is now only partly surrounded
BELIEVES IN AND SUPPORTS
because of the devastation of forest fires cind
the work of logging companies. Yacolt, in the
foothills of the Cascade Mountains, is a typical
The Birch Rod
logging town of only about 430 population
but it can boast of many modern conveniences.
It is forty miles north of Portland, Oregon, and
is 700 feet above sea level. From here the
logging trains go back into the mountains, a
distance of about twelve miles, to the camps of
Address the Principal
Edinboro, Pa.
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THE BIRCH ROD
Alumni Notes
Charles Burch, ’03, is principal of Lander
Greater Erie's Greater Store—Boston Store
High School.
Fern Bowman, ’08, is teaching in Titusville.
Adele and Jennie Harper, ’03, are teach
ing in the Oil City graded schools.
Jessie Fitz, ’09, is teaching in Pithole.
Fred D. Oiler, ’94, is practicing law in
Oklahoma.
Joseph Deamer, ’ 1 1, is working in Erie.
New Fall Goods in
Everi) Department
Ruby Anderson, ’07, is teaching near Edinboro.
Nellie Cotton, ’08, is teaching in Coleville.
Mary Carey, ’ 10, is teaching in Russell, Pa.
Lyle Baldwin, ’ll, is teaching in Warren
county.
William Greenlee, ’12, is principal of the
Cranesville High School.
Carl Holder, ’12, is teaching the Population
School, Elk Creek Township, Erie County.
Clyde Joslin, ’12, is teaching in Pont, Pa.
Nora Sherman, ’08, is teaching the Inter
mediate room in Wellsburg, Pa.
Elmer Frantz, ’09, is principal of the Wells
At the present time we are showing New Fall
Goods in everg department and are glad to have our
out-of-town customers inspect the showings to their
hearts'' content
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT is a charming
place for the women and girls. The hats this season
are nobbier than ever, the stgles being most practical
and wearable. No difpcultg whatever for ang one to
be suited with a hat from our varied assortments.
Then, too, we execute orders to the minutest detail
Just give us an idea of what gou want—or we will
supplg the idea, too, if gou choose.
burg High School.
Elda Swift, ’09, is teaching vocal and in
strumental music in the Caldwell Private
School, Washington, Pa.
Allene Babcock, ’12, is teaching the Pri
mary grades in the Lander High School, War
DRESS GOODS and SILKS Departments are
particularlg interesting just now, and the CLOAK and
SUIT Department, 2nd floor, is the nucleus of interest.
Coats and Suits for Fall are here in wide assortment
and the prices, as usual, are the lowest possible.
ren County.
Edinboro Defeated by Thiel College.
November second the Edinboro Normal
-football team journeyed to Greenville to play
Thiel College.
On occount of rain and snow
the field was covered with snow and water.
The game started by Thiel kicking off to
Edinboro.
Edinboro lost the ball on the sec
ond down and Thiel then succeeded in mak
ing a touchdown on their second down, by an
end run. The ball was again put in play and
after a few minutes Thiel made another touch
down and before the quarter was up they
made another one.
The quarter ended with
the score 19-0 in favor of Thiel.
In the second quarter Thiel succeeded in
SHOES, perhaps the first essential in the fall ap
parelling, are here in the new lasts and stgles of
leather—both tan and black, Suedes, etc. Walking
Shoes, Dress Shoes, Semi-dress Shoes and partg slip
pers to suit everg taste.
While we mention the above departments particu
larlg, we do not mean that theg should overshadow the
mang other departments in the store which are show
ing equallg as interesting Fall Merchandise Men's
and Women’s Underwear, Hosierg, Blankets, Flannels,
Corsets and Gloves, Upholsterg and Curtain Dept, 2nd
floor. Shirt Waists and Muslin Underwear—all con
tribute their quota to the fall displag.
—
getting two more touchdowns while they held
Edinboro from scoring.
Although the Edin
boro team did not score, this quarter it played
a great deal stronger game than during the first
quarter.
The second half opened by Edinboro kick
ing off to Thiel.
Now a real struggle began.
Edinboro was bA. last warmed up.
(Continued on sixth page.)
The ball
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difficult drills. Finally the last ghost disappear
ed and the hall once more blazed into light.
“
Watch Us Grow.”
Next about thirty young people marched out
and gave two Swedish dances.
Osborne - Norman Co.
This again
started the audience to clapping; . then some
Cor. 11th and State, Erie, Pa.
thing still better was brought forth. This time
the Junior boys showed their skill by giving the
wheel-barrow race.
Mr. Hood was the vic
tor.
The climax finally came when Hood and
Hayes gave their barrel prize fight.
The
visitors laughed more and more until finally
Hood, champion of E. S. N. S., knocked his
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opponent from Thiel completely
out.
This ended the program.
and
The people
showed their appreciation, and even Mr. Hayes
smiled his approval, while lying in a stupor on
the floor.
The guests all voted the Junior
Class and Mr. Hayes (Manager) loyal enter
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Athletic Editor................................................Hubert Bentley
News Editor...................... ..................................Alice Walker
Alumni Editor..............................................David S. McGuire
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A.SSISTANT Manager........................................John Harbaugh
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Haven Hall Notes.
Miss Ham had the nicest party last Mon
day. She said she invited thirteen guests but
only twelve came, so we’re still superstitious.
We discovered that she is a connoisseur at the
chafing dish and the jolliest of hostesses.
Big Time at the Gym.
The Junior Class surprised the other classes
of the school and residents of Edinboro, on
Irene
Flieschman,
Helena
Jackson and
Elizabeth Fowler went to Meadville last
Saturday to the Ivy Club dance and stayed
November 1, by showing them a jolly good
time. The gymnasium was decorated, mainly
over Sunday at Elizabeth’s home.
with corn stalks and pumpkins, although au
tumn leaves and apples were there in pro
game and President Taft to look at on the
same day no wonder our nerves hardly stood
fusion.
the strain.
The balcony was strung with pen
nants and in each corner of the room was a
little country store where cider, doughnuts and
apples were served.
The guest on entering, found himself im
mediately in an intricate and winding passage.
After trying his best to stumble through and to
escape from the ghosts and other unearthly
With two such big things as a foot ball
Mr. Bellows seems very popular with the
ladies.
Esther Averill spent last Sunday with friends
in North East.
Elizabeth Fowler’s father and mother spent
last Sunday with her here.
White
flowers from the Marsh-es never
ly people, he was greatly assisted over the last
moving floor and thence directed to the check
wither.
room.
As soon as all the guests were assembled,
have looked so bare these last few Sundays.
those who were either masked or in costume
took part in the grand march.
Many funny,
over Sunday:
interesting and peculiar costumes were exhibit
ed.
It afforded much amusement to both old
No wonder the tables in the dining room
The following persons visited at their homes
Ethel Dickey, Myrtle Morrison,
Morrison,
Alta
Rickard,
Ethelyn
Helen Whiting,
and young. Afterward every one unmasked
and partook heartily of the refreshments which
Frances McKinley, Regina
Randall. , Ruth
Kidder,
were then served.
Anna Quirk, Ruth Proudfit, Madonna Boyle,
The program for the evening was very en
tertaining and exciting. The playing and sing
Francis Smith,
ing met with the deep approval of the people.
This was followed by a long ghostly-ghost
If any one notices a tendency to stutter in
any of the Haven Hall girls they are warned
march.
that it is on account of a slang contest that has
In the dimly lighted room the ghosts
could be seen moving in many windings and
Erma
Biemer, Edith
Elmo Houtz,
Gabhardt,
Eleanor
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been going on for a week.
There are twelve
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contestants, six on a side, and the conditions
ability of Silvan Hilliard increased to such an
are that the side using the most slang in two
extent that he decided to walk to Meadville
last Monday, a distance of twenty-three miles.
weeks must give a feast to the other six, at the
end of that time. I’ve forgotten the exact
He was accompanied by Stuart Graham, of
number of thousand expressions recorded on
Reeder Halj.
each side but they’re getting desperate and
the construction
beginning to stammer. There is no clue yet
as to who will win and I believe Miss Ham
Erie railroad.
On their journey they viewed
work and progress
on the
and Miss Swenarton, the judges, are very
John Mitchell, one of our loyal members,
lives each day in quietude and performs the
busy settling disputes as to whether a thing is
or is not slang. I doubt if any of the girls will
duties of a WHITE man.
ever regain sufficient poise to speak without
suddenly clasping their hands over their mouth
or without warning rushing for note book to
write down, "Simply blew himself," "Goo
all over it," or "Oh, cat."
Ethel Wilkinson’s mother visited her last
Wednesday.
and also had the advantage from the start.
In
the beginning of the game the Reserves got
Mr. Sullivan, after visiting the culinary de
possession of the ball a few times but were held
for downs. Edinboro drove their opponents back
partment, reports that everything is in perfect
until they were within a foot of Waterford’s
order.
goal line, then by a line buck the ball was
carried across the line.
We, the students of Edinboro State Normal
School, who reside at the Wade house on
Meadville street, do hereby agree among our
selves for the interest of The Birch Rod and
its readers to publish weekly a fair and correct
statement of the happenings and funny in
cidents that occur to ourselves as students.
The name of this fraternity shall be, "The
Wade Frat."
Si^ed by present members:
In the second quarter the Reserves rushed
their opponents off their feet and before the
quarter was up scored two touch downs. The
half ended with the score 18-0, with Edin
boro in the lead.
During the second half although the Re
serves had the ball in their possession, in
Waterford’s tenltory, most of the time they
were unable to score.
During the last few
minutes of play Waterford attempted a for
ward pass. Just at this inopportune time a
whistle blew and Edinboro men thought it
DON HENRY
NEVIN CARMIN
CHAS. SCOTT
JOHN MITCHELL
RAY FREEMAN
SILVAN HILLIARD
The subject under discussion at the Frato
is politics, all parties being represented by
able contestants. A proof for this statement is
the representation made by our able speaker,
Chas. Scott, in chapel.
Roy, one of the most interesting members
was the referee’s whistle, therefore they allowed
one of Waterford’s men to catch the ball and
get started up the field before they found out
that it was not the referee’s whistle. On this
yards for a touch down.
Reeder Hall Notes.
Mr. Sigworth visited Fay Daley over Sun
day.
smell.
He dashed into the house and said:
"Is supper ready?"
The landlady being
amazed by the astonishing question exclaimed:
"No." Roy replied: "Well, I smelt something."
Roy, Dean and Nevin are members of the
infantry because they find it necessary to visit
their mothers weekly.
By means of rest obtained at the "Wade
Harold
Mrs. Obert and Mrs. Gorman were visiting
here last week.
Reeder Hall was opened to the girls last
Saturday during the game, on account of the
rain. Judging by the remarks made by the
girls, we ought to be proud of our dormitory.
Remarks like these: "How clean the rooms
are !" "How nicely decorated are the walls!"
"What nice pictures I"
"Look at the neck
"Anderson
ties !" were common.
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Paul Webb, William McKelvey, Joe TrejGorman, Pattison and John Krasinski were
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The Derbp Hat Co.
of our Frato, is noted for his keen sense of
While walking up street about four
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play one of Waterford’s men ran seventy-five
chel, Paul Bellows,
o’clock in the afternoon he passed his bozu’ding
Headwear
The Reserves Play Waterford.
possession of the ball and by a series of line bucks
steadily drove Waterford back. Waterford got
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October 27 the second team played the
Waterford football team at Waterford. Edin
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City, visited her
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Edinboro Defeated by Thiel.
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changed hands several times. At last the Thiel
team succeeded in pushing the Edinboro team
back toward their goal line, and by a trick
play secured another touchdown.
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The ball
was again put in play by Edinboro again kick
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ing off to Thiel.
For the rest of the quarter
the teams fought back and forth across the
center of the field.
The fourth quarter started by Edinboro kick
ing off to Thiel. Thiel lost the ball on downs.
Edinboro then, by a series of line bucks, be
gan gradually to approach Thiel’s goal line,
the latter team lighting vigorously, but they
could not stop Edinboro’s line rushes.
With
the ball two feet from their goal line Thiel
made a last desperate effort to check Edinboro,
but a rush through the center carried the ball
across. Goal was then kicked. The ball was
then put in play by Thiel kicking off to Edin
boro. Again Thiel was slowly driven back.
When the whistle blew for ”time up” the ball
was in Edinboro’s passession on Thiel’s twen
ty-five yard line.
Although the score was 31-6 in favor of
Thiel, Edinboro deserves some credit.
The
Edinboro team was on the field almost an hour
before the game began, and when the contest
started they were wet and stiff.
They were
not used to the wet field.
Four times when
the ball was near their own goal line and they
attempted to punt, the ball was so wet that it
slipped and hit the lines and bounded back
ward. This gave Thiel the ball each time,
near Edinboro’s goal line.
Thiel also out
weighed Edinboro twenty pounds to the man.
Ex-Senator Cannon on Mormonism.
To those who knew little or nothing of the
menace of Mormonism, Ex-Senator Cannon’s
address on Monday evening came as a start
ling revelation.
Once a Mormon himself,
Mr. Cannon spoke as one thoroughly acquaint
ed with what he had to discuss. He is at
present devoting his entire time to an edu
cational campaign against the Mormon church
and its practices. While not an easy nor a
pleasant speaker, his message was of the sort
to compel the closest atterftion; he charges
Mormonism with a long series of deadly sins.
Most serious, perhaps, was that of open treason
to the government of the United States.
He gave the past history of Mormonism;
told of the crisis that came in their church life
in Harrison’s administration; revealed the char
acter of the present Mormon leader as he had
come to understand it.
He particularly invited attention to the
polygamous teachings and practices of the
church. By a series of stories he laid bare a
state of affairs, both in the church and in the
missionary endeavors of the church, that was re
volting. It was too bad, inasmuch as this was
one of his most serious charges against the or
ganization, that he felt that he could make any
allusion to the practice of polygamy that the
audience could feel free to take as humor.
Such was the case; perhaps it was the fault of
audience rather than that of the speaker.
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Home of Gold Seal Rubbers.
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THE BIRCH ROD
Warren High Wins by Small Margin
on Local Grounds.
had possession of the ball on Warren’s ten-yard
line.
The tackles of Dearment, Richey and Bent-
In the football game of last Saturday Warren
High School had a hard run for their money,
vv^hen they gained a victory of 7-6 from the
Edinboro eleven. From the way the uniforms
of the teams looked after the game, the weather
man must have forgotten that the game was to
be played Saturday, November 9.
The game was opened by Edinboro kicking
off to Warren. In a few minutes Warren suc
ceeded in getting the ball within two feet of
Edinboro’s goal line.
The cry of the referee
was, "First down and two feet to
gain!"
Here was a chance for Edinboro’s linemen to
show what they could do. Warren tried line
bucks and trick plays, but none of them suc
ceeded in getting the
ball across
Edinboro’s
goal line.
In fact at the end of Warren’s
fourth down the ball was two yards from Ed
inboro’s line.
Edinboro then punted and car
ried the ball back to Edinboro’s twenty-yard
line. After a few plays, in which neither side
gained much, the whistle blew for the end of
ley were the feature of the last quarter.
line-up was as :follows:
The
EDINBORO—6
WARREN—7
Shriver_______ ..............L. E...........________ Ghering
Dereamer____ . _______L. T____
Richey_________ ..............L. G.........
Dearment...___ ________C.----.Matthews-Bentley -____ R. G. .... ______ Geracimos
Marsh____ ____ .......R. T...........
Graham.......... .. ......... .R. E............
Green____ _____
-Q. B.............
___ Messner
Jewel-Hood____ ... ..L. H.......... ...._____ Miller
Obert-- _______ ........... F. B........... .________ Stevens
Leach__________ ______R. H_____
Young men who wear
T & L. Shoes fairlg
glide through
life.
The editors have been informed that the
quotation from the Potter placard is enoneous.
Our reporter read a mutilated placard and
wishes to rectify his error.
The placard read,
"Potter, the society that uses no slang."
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the quarter.
The second quarter began with Warren
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making two good gains on end runs.
They
then made a touchdown by a forward pass
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across Edinboro’s line. Goal was kicked. The
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game was continued by Warren kicking off.
Edinboro received the ball and on the first
down made a a forward pass to Leach, who
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carried the ball for fifty yards and placed it be
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hind Warren’s goal.
The trial for goal failed.
Edinboro then kicked off to Warren, holding
their opponents until on the fourth down they
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punted.
Edinboro then obtained the ball and
tried a forward pass that failed.
Edinboro
SPRING
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April 14--------------------------------.____Edward Reno
The Magician
May 2----------------------------Edward Amherst Ott
Harris Thompson
in the center of the field.
At the beginning of the second half Edin
boro punted to Warren and held them for
downs. Then Edinboro lost the bal] on a
fumble.
Warren took the ball and punted.
Edinboro received the ball and tried a forward
pass, which failed.
The third quarter ended
with the ball in Edinboro’s possession on War
ren’s twenty-five yard line.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter Ed
inboro made a forward pass and Warren
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gained ten yards on the next play, which was
a line buck.
Edinboro was then forced to
punt.
Warren succeeded in getting the ball
back to the center of the field, by end runs.
When the half was ended the ball was nearly
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caught it. No gains were made on either side
this quarter, each team holding the other for
downs and compelling their opponents to punt
on the last down.
During the last few min
HENRY J. SEVIN
utes of play Edinboro got possession of the
ball and gradually pushed the Warren team
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THE BIRCH ROD
It’s a store that was founded
in 1852 on such principles
that hove built for Erie
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Allegheny Reserves Win Close Game.
Schluraff Floral Co.
In the fourth football game of the season,
played Saturday, October 26, against the Al
legheny Reserves, on the home grounds, Edinboro was defeated by a score of 14-6.
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The
Varsity eleven showed better team work in
this game than in any other game of the sea
son thus far.
The first quarter opened
kicking off to Edinboro.
by
Allegheny
Edinboro carried the
ball back to the center of the field and lost it
on the second down.
Allegheny then suc
ceeded in getting back to Edinboro’s thirtyfive yard line.
Edinboro then regained the
ball and White was given a chance to carry it
on a wide end run around right end. He car
ried the ball for sixty-five yards and placed it
behind Allegheny’s goal, for a touchdown.
The attempt to kick goal failed.
Allegheny
again kicked off, but there were no more long
gains made by either side.
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During the second quarter the ball was car
ried back and forth across the field, neither
side scoring, ending with Edinboro still in the
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lead.
The second half started by Allegheny kick
ing off to Edinboro. In a few minutes Alle
gheny secured possession of the ball and by a
few skillful plays carried the ball over the line
for a touchdown.
The goal was kicked.
Allegheny again kicked off to Edinboro.
inboro lost the ball on downs.
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slowly took the ball down the field and by use
of the forward pass made another touchdown.
Goal was again kicked.
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The quarter end
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The ball was then
put in play but neither side gained much, the
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Edinboro rallied in the last quarter and out
classed their opponents in every way, although
Allegheny succeeded in getting the ball to Ed
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inboro’s five-yard line. Edinboro then secured
the ball and by a series of line bucks and end
E. J. SWANSON, Prop’r
runs carried the ball towards Allegheny’s goal
line.
The whistle blew
with Edinboro on
Allegheny’s twenty-yard line.
Great credit is to be given the team for
their good work. They were outweighed fif
teen pounds to the man.
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RESERVES
EDINBORO
Scott-PiersonL. E--------------------- Shriver
RenningerL. T.------------------DeRemer
CurryL. G. - ,------Richey
M. Dotterer-Stevenson______C.--------------------Dearment
Allshouse-Murray-----------R. G.- - ---------------- Marsh
Kramer._R. T.---------------------- Obert
\C^itherupR- E. __----------------- Graham
Mates- -Q. B.--------------------------------- -------- - - -Green
Metcalf -. - -L. H. -. . -...................................... - - White
Pierson-BashF. B------------------------ Scott
CoxR. H--------------Jewel
Touchdowns—White, Mates, Bash.
Goals from
touchdowns—Bash, 2.
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