New York State History

NOTES ALUMNI
Marriages
Mr. Leon Finch to Miss Ruth, Rieffanaugh '16, on April 10, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Finch will reside at Dover, N. Y.
Mr. Claud E. Bingaman to Miss Hazel Wilkinson '15, on April 14, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Bingaman will reside in New Jersey.
Mr. Allan J. Grauer '14 to Miss Ada E. Smith, on April 16, 1917.
Mr. Lorenzo Taylor to Miss Bessie Patterson '16, on April 19, 1917 .
Mr. Preston H. S. Chapman to Miss Alice Gertrude Cor¬nell '12, on April 30, 1917.
Mr. Harold M. Huse 'n to Miss Irma I. Sherk, on May 9, 1917.
Mr. Willet E. Read to Miss Rachel M. Scott '14, on May 28, 1917.
Mr. Karl F. Hutzel to Miss Nora A. Chase, '08, May 30, 1917. At home at 4230 Main Street.
Mr. Louis J. Simons, Jr., '09, to Miss Anne L. Johnstone, '09, on June 2, 1917.
Mr. John B. Crick, '10, to Miss Constance Warner, June 3, 1917.

Engagements
Miss Myrtle Dodds, '14, to William J. Hults of Buffalo.

Births
To Mr. and Mrs. Linford Moore (nee Miss Cecil Angeline Cartwright, '13), on April 21, 1917, a son.
To Mr. and Mrs. Will A. Cannon, 'n, on April 29, 1917, -a daughter, Elizabeth Jane.
To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Jenny, '08 (nee Miss Anne Bradley, '08), on May 5, 1917, a son, Robert William.

On May 14, Mr. J. H. Erwin. '08 teacher of Latin and History in our school, left for the Officers' Training Camp at Madison Barracks.
Mr. Howard O. Babcock, '10, is a member of the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Niagara.

The CHRONICLE congratulates Mr. Ozias C. Baker, '05, on his appointment as secretary of the Niagara Falls Business Men's Association. To Mr. Baker belongs the honor of hav¬ing made the suggestion that the Niagara Falls High School have a school song. As a result of his suggestion "We gather here to grasp the hand" was composed by the late Dr. Lovell, first principal of the High School. For years this song was heard at debates and at athletic gatherings.

SCHOOL SPIRIT
What is school spirit, may I ask?
Some people take this school to task;
Because we have to ask and ask
For the support of any task.
To get the students out to games,
We have to call them naughty names;
But, for the band, we all will say,
"We pledge you all our loyalty."
Now when our teams come back to school,
We cheer and laugh and play the fool,
But not like any other school.
"What was the score," our students cry,
And then we hear somebody sigh,
For rarely do we go to games,
That's why they tack on us bad names.
Come, let's turn o'er a new leaf now;
Come out to games, no matter how;
Forget to toil for once right now,
Come to the next game and show 'em how.
Bring out the horse and jitney bus;
Bring a megaphone and cheer, you cuss;
For old Niagara needs a hand-
Please give it to her so she'll stand.
In future days, when you look back,
A thrill run up and down your back,
No place can ever fill the room
Of Old Niagara's Boom, Boom, Boom.
A. E. K.

On May 10 an instructive demonstration of the Burroughs bookkeeping machine was given to the commercial students by a Burroughs representative. Fifteen business firms of the city are using these machines, including all the banks.