Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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vi The SENIOR SICKLE 1921 365 with the Never-Starred Athletic Association of New York. William Matthes was compelled to leave his position as history teacher in Birdsall Center to take this appointment. Warren Van Orden will manage the new team. I IN THE SPOTLIGHT Manager Eryl Rainey presents, 'Rainey's Rainbow Riders,' a delight- ful musical drama, written by Mrs. Lucile Rainey Cnee Fowlerj the mana- ger's wife. The leading ladies are the Misses Helen and Mildred Hensey, while Francis Pennock and Fred Ridge play the male roles. Also Miss Anna Rhodes will appear as Comtesse de Part in fantastic flurriesf' DAILY SPARKS Mademoiselle Melba Baird, the distinguished singer, will give a con- cert to-night for the benefit of the 'Ouija Orphanagef organized and con- ducted by the Misses Fern Allion and Hazel Culver. Miss Marie Sherman, the pianist, will accompany her. Clair Aldrich and Laverne Moore left yesterday for Argentina where they will operate a toothpick factory. Clair Shutes will join them in a few days as he wishes to obtain orders for the Centipede Boot and Shoe Co. of jasper. Yesterday, Welcome Schneider, a husky agriculturalist, brought a kind of hoot owl to the Moon's office. Not even Leroy Richardson, the natural- ist and carpenter, could discern the species to which it belonged. ' Edith Salter and Linda Nicolai are now conducting a law school in the metropolis of Deerfield. The Misses Hildreth Gasner and Frieda Lutz will soon return from a tour through Montenegro where they have been obtaining material for their book, lHow to Hold After You Havef Turning over another paper to the ads I see: Messrs Wild and Annis, Dancing Academy. Now open. Young ladies our specialty. Easy terms. Come one, come all. Mr. Robert Lighthall and La Verne Dershem will assist us. WANTED Robert Campbell's Soup Factory wants day laborers for the tonic department. Apply at the office for Mr. Edward Dobbins, manager. FOR SALE The Goodes and Ehinger Fly-Swatter Co. will sell at auction tomorrow the old package of false teeth that they found last Tuesday.

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A v The SENIOR SICKLE 1921 v 1 CLASS PROPI-IECY ROBERT GIBSON f happened to come upon the Ching Ching Islands Mail was FTER wandering through the wilds of Africa for many years, I K, ,Zi . . I . , K ,xg Q - . just being unloaded from an airplane and glancing at a pile of newspapers, what I saw made me gasp for breath. Staring me as in the face was a newspaper which was headed: v, W0 Q THE ADRIAN MIDNIGHT MOON JUNE 9, 1936 HYRTLE FEEMAX, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Thinking that perhaps I could find out something of my old High School classmates, whom I had not seen since graduation some fifteen years ago, I started to digest its contents. l'Get Out and Sweat a Little for Sweet is the main heading. I notice that Hon. H. H. Sweet supported by the new W. C. T. U. party is trying for member of Congress. Go to it, here's hoping for you. Another article states, 'fThe Amalgamated Shoestring and Horseshoe Co. is to be represented in New Zealand by Ray Collins and Kenneth Kaynor, both Adrian men. I A cartoon entitled, VVhy Change Your Wife drawn by the famous artist, Harold Hough, looms 'up on the front page. I see that this was especially posed for by Miss Margaret Osgood, of stage fame. Harold Cutter and Sumner Howell will be rivals in the next election for Mayor of Hudson, reads another heading. VVell, who would have believed it! Turning the page I see: SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY GLENDORA KOLZ HA stereopticon lecture was given last night at Alvin Howland's Liter- ary Hall by Clayton Smith who has just returned from doing missionary work in China. He was ably assisted by Miss Etha Smith. Throughout the evening Aileen Hare, Herndon Hammel, Hazel jasper, and Loella Stegg sold chewing gum and pamphlets entitled, 'Keep Up the Good VVork,' by Agnes Gwynn. In connection with the missionary work, the Misses Muriel Bovee, Genevieve Bertram, and Leota Rogers have signif1ed their intentions of knitting stockings for the African heathensf' Turning the page I notice: SPORTS Carroll Bassett, VVilliam Matthes, and Guy Case have been signed 3 . I

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Qi 4 7F1T2Ws E NCI as s ifii L E fb 261 at F' fa 'lMiss Leta Daniels has taken a position with Bernard Snedeker's Bookkeeping School, Ruth Hoisington's Beauty Parlor closed yesterday while she went to the Misses Houser and Koehnlein Manicuring Salon for supplies. On the last page I see a letter written by Miss Inez Drake, well known Hction writer from Palmyra, telling of her travels in the South. She writes that Miss Frances Bowerman has married a Methodist minister and is living in Florida. The Misses Edna Spielman and Alta Knapp own a ranch near the Mexican border, while Florence Zumstein and Ethel Gillies are the chief forewomen. Also Miss Drake writes that she met Miss Mildred Bragg, who has received much comment on her poem, And Then the Little Birdies Built Their Nestsf' Harold Rice while traveling in the plains of Siberia doing evangelistic work, discovered a corn beef mine and is now rolling in wealth. He has appointed Courtland Munn to run the mine. l'Ernest Engel has just been made head office boy for the famous Dromedary Hat Pin Co. This is getting quite interesting. Halsey Eggleston is now touring japan in the interests of the Y. M. C. A., selling compressed yeast cakes on the side to defray expenses. Florence McComb is in England hoping to catch a duke or prince or something. Maybe she'll get the Prince of 'Whalesf HThe Misses Helen Fraley and Myrtle Campbell have just written us telling of their success in selling velocipedes to the children of Hawaii. A new store will be opened on South Main St. in the near future by Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, who will sell Reed Suspenders, a novel invention by Miss Mildred Reed. Donald Swartz and Edward Habrick, Raisin Township poultry raisers, have received a shipment of Sure-nuf Lice Exterminatorsf' Taking up the last paper I see: The Misses Verna Hoxie and DeVera Hutchinson are now receiving homeless pigeons at their homes in Addison. v 'lMay Lewis, Mildred Engel, and Allison Belcher left yesterday for Kong-Kong, China, in the interests of the -lass-Em Up Snare Drum Co. Miss Clara Morrow will give a musical program to the Ladies' Monday Evening Poker Party at Blisstield next Monday. She will be assisted by the Misses Rita Roberts, Catherine Snyder, Ella Cook, and Leola Harris, who will give recitations from Miss Florence Mesler's 'Snappy Sidelights for Ladies. ' Miss Sylvia Morse has succeeded in interesting the Bachelor's Club