Hartford City High School - Retro Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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-fl. - . X .1 .ff ,f- g F ,4',,,.f . -?.-T: Jig e is ,LL 2 r iii , N .fwmf ' - Qxv Bl rf a m Q m E benefit show, 'A Son of Democracyf But the biggest event did not oc- Q E cur until April 25-'Honor Bright'-a pleasing and humorous comedy E Q wvhich gained the approvalof everyone. I E gl During this year this intelligent group of Seniors put out two pro- Ei ductions, the Insight and the Retro. Much commendation is due the staff E Q members and contributors, for their untiring efforts and original subject E E matter. 2 Towards the close of the year the Juniors entertained the Seniors at E gl a delightful banquet and then at the end of the year came the last event- X Commencement. Forty-eight Seniors were presented with diplomas. E Now, folks, I only wish I might tell you of these young people as I gl know them now, but my time is limited and I must say farewell. E 'Eggs-..' ' -Mary Thomas, '24. E lil Class Prophecy The ship was going down for the third time, so I grasped my life firmly E in my left hand, and jumped. Gravity clutched me about the esophagus and I precipitated. As I struck the balmy sea, I opened my eyes. I was Q E just in time to receive a skillfully manipulated dipper of H20 in my manly E E countenance. I wiped the excessive moisture from my brow and gazed re- proachfully at B. Maddox. Why, Zeek l I said. 'iSuch a low-brow form of E Amusement I You big bum, you! he came back, in his original vernacular. Pounding your ear when we're supposed to get goin' by six o'clock. E Ah, yes, said I. You're always right-part of the time. Q So I oozed out of bed and into my sox, and soon we were masticating our stewed cornfiakes, and were out to the wood shed after our flivver, 5 Ilenry the Sth. E We primed it with a quart of vinegar, and started out the Shore E ' Drive, named in honor of J. Vernon Shores, the man who placed the milk E xg weed among our important dairy products. We bumped past the Will- E man Ice Cream establishment, where we saw Kenneth turning the crank E and Arlo milking the cow. ,A , P! E We were now well started out, but, as the poet hath it, great things Q E were in the ofiing. We got nearly a mile out of town when we heard a E lg knock in the engine. Will you please see what's wrong ? asked Blake, E Q as he kicked me out of the car. I cautiously raised the hood and saw some- E thing among the machinery. I pulled the something forth. It was Os Q Brockway. We decided to take him along for ballast. We got nearly to Roll, when we heard sounds as of a horse approach- ing. We stopped and a voice said, Is this your motor, mister ? Those E ears! They could belong to no one but George Martin. I learned that E George had become a prosperous oil man. We put the engine back and E ambled onward. Toward evening we ran across Hallam Tudor. It broke Q E E 5 E

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,555 e fi Q, Q r 'xi' l X, I tc: 'lt 'S ,. :ggi W A , . gs. A W A N M ssl l l L., I5 w si Qi X Agia- A--21. . :gs Class History 5 e lil Behold! The greatest crystal-gazer in the world will now endeavor 'E iii to answer any questions you may ask. There are many ways of unfolding the past and the future but this is undoubtedly the only true way. Now, mister, where is my wandering Blake tonight? cried Mrs. E Maddox. Madam, I see but faintly, but I believe he has eloped with Reva Zeek and now sojourns in the fair city of Mollie. He'll be back with his mamma 2 I, 12 A presently when the novelty wears off. E lt sl 'SmmmmemeNwm,hrmyUmeBHmRmP E ,i Yer honor, will ye tell me sumpin' more of the 1924 Senior Class ? E barked Irene's dog. i u ' Certainly, madam. The light is very clear. I see many important events of that class during the four years in high school. They have had Q a large group of influential and diligent students. In their Freshman year they numbered about one hundred and seven. They all wore new shoes and had shining noses. The dignified Seniors took long shears and clipped lg gl the poor little boys' hair off short. E Early in the school year they called a meeting and elected officers. I gl see that the president was a tall young man named Floyd Fields, the vice president was Virginia Dunbar, and Blake Maddox was responsible for the ofiice of secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Bonnie Sieler-Honey and Mr. Myers gl were the class advisors. gi The next year was a year of importance in the lives of the ninety-- gi E eight Sophomores. Robert Ayres was now enrolled in the class. They E chose as their president, Clayton Bonham, who later left school, and the EI vice president, Margaret Jones, succeeded him. Raymond Dellinger served gl as secretary, and Virginia Dunbar as treasurer. These youngsters still wore squeaky shoes and the boys' hair had just begun to grow out. Miss Harter and Mr. Myers were the advisors. But ah! A dark line seems to have been drawn through the snowy: l W 5 luster of my crystal. It is-yes, it is the death of one of their number. Alice Popejoy. ,Egg Fifty-nine enrolled in the Junior year. It was a happy group, ambi- tious to learn yet bent on a good time, too. The big event of the year was 5 the class play, 'Stop Thief,' a very clever comedy. Not long after its pro- Q duction, the hero of the play, James Russell Cronin, died. The Senior year of this class was truly the most important of all the l previous years. They elected as their oilicers, Jack Gaver, presidentg 2 Mary Nicaise, vice president, Marian Hill, secretary, and Blake Maddox, treasurer. Mr. Pressler, the science instructor, was the class ad- visor. Their first activity was the Senior booth at the Fall Festival. My, gl what a jolly time those Seniors had! The next great feature was the So-- ciety Sircus which was staged with unusual success. Then they held a -'iii Tlillf' 2 lfiufffn. if -Viiiiiriiiff Y V if V df. - asf. - . Y ..-.rf - Y Y . Y. .....,,.., H aussi15.nmamlsllsumisslslu1.21.11.soatslmls malmilair:halsszmifrosliramauslmimmslsmz 5 5 .sf 1 srsaalzommnf Q

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-,,. A gf, -01.3 A A 1:7 e 152 Q V Lge: 9. fr A is .Q Fl .L L, xx 'L 'G ,- Q5 Iii zz 5? H ,- V. .39 l I .. IJ ,. lg i a couple of ribs. When we picked him up, he showed us his police badge. 5 He said he needed money, so he hauled us before the Honorable Mollie E lvlessner. We were broke, so we got ten days on the wood pile. We met E f several of our friends there. Earl Barrett had just won the rock breaking contest, so we gave him a banquet of bread and water. We were soon re- 2 leased because of our immoral influence. When we arrived in Indianapolis we bought an issue of the Indi- anapolis Farmers' Almanac to get the latest statistics. On the back page we found t he Adventures of Annie, a thrilling comic strip by Bobo E Tritle. Mr. Tritle was known far and wide and was as famous as the Sev- en Sutherland Sisters, but he didn't have as much hair. Q We saw no more of our friends of former days, till we grappled with the American Desert. When we reached Olive Oil, Arizona, we found Maida Anguish and Florence Atkinson running a fish worm farm. Death Valley had become a famous summer resort, and business was booming. Daniel Streib tried to sell us some hail insurance but the weather forecast prom- ised dry weather for the next nine years, so we didn't bite. We emerged into California and bought a copy of Miss Delight E Cronin's latest novel, Sama Da Wop, to while away the leisure hours. E We called on Esther Gable, but she was busy painting a portrait in Ig sq crude oil of Senator Clarence Artemus Ward, legislaturer for Utah, to be gl hung in the Mormon Temple. We mean the picture, not Clarence. gi We decided one morning to visit the Cloverleaf filmery and see how lil pictures are made. Hazel Langdon was out on the lot directing Herbert E gl Robbins and his leading lady, Esther Moore, in a two and a half reel meller- E drama Alack, the Poor Farmer. Mary Nicaise had a heavy character Q part as the vicious vamp. 3 Having completely absorbed the beauties of our native land, we E boarded the more or less good ship Hands Off. We lost poor Osmer when we got about a hundred miles from shore. He fell over board and 5 didn't wade out to land till about a week later. He got rather wet. E Blake's'whiskers were getting a bit rough, so we stepped into Bob ii Ayres' Men's Beauty Parlor and got a shave. Bob said he loved the life gl on the Bounding Main. As luck would have it, we arrived in China on the 10th of May. The Chinese think ten a lucky number because it can be divided by five. Mary Thomas had just opened a cafeteria in Hong Kong and we stepped in to 'IL-5 get a bowl of chop suey. Mary rivaled the Chinese in preparing their E E favorite dish. On reaching Africa, we found the Ethiopians out in holiday garb for Q E51 the big game between the Australian Bush boys and Coach Pettit's Dusky Dandies. Dean had developed a winning combination and had been chosen to pick the All African team, as an expression of esteem. I? We were going down a street in Italy about a week later when We were gl 5 accosted, addressed and spoken to by a female of sober mein. 3 Gentlemen, have you pondered o'er your future? Shall you go down