Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Graham. A very interesting dance executed by Miss Blanche Riley and Miss Doris Cameron proved the feature of the evening, although the Klingenberg sisters, with their wonderful trained animals, likewise proved very interesting. Later in the week I had the pleasure of meeting several of the world-famous physicians and scientists, namely: Hon. Gordon Bush, Vercoe Murphy, Dr. Devello McKinley, Floyd Brown, Floyd Dinsmore, and Ernest Robinson. I was much taken by Dr. McKinley, and the-next day I visited his hospital and met several of his most reliable nurses, among whom were the Misses Dorothy and Caryl Dent, Dorothy Fisher, and Francis Lee. I next boarded a fast aeroplane bound for Columbus, Ohio. I arrived in that city several hours later. In this city I was extensively entertained, and met many wonderful people, this city now being the social center of the country since the national capital had been located here several years earlier. Among those whom I met of considerable importance were: Messrs. Wyatt Cunningham and Wynne Vernon; the Misses Beulah Jennings, Nellie McCall, Ethel Mansfield, Gertrude and Margaret Pritchard, Edith .Pick- ering, Helen Porter, and Lucille Blackwood, all connected in the social life of the capital. While in Columbus I also had the pleasure of meeting the two greatest ball players in the world, members of the world’s champion team, the Columbus “Sen- ators, ” namely, Harold Russell and Clarence Pidcock. It was here also that I met the leaders of the great social movement which was then sweeping the country (that women should choose the man they wanted to marry instead of the old- fashioned mode then in existence). The leaders of this movement were the Misses Grace Saunders, Winifred Stephenson, Marian Watkins, and Florence West. —Homer Johnson. i Twenty-four

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Class Prophecy Ladies and gentlemen, in order to fully acquaint you with my identity and the reason I am writing of the persons whose names you will find mentioned herein, I will try to explain myself and my reason for existing. My name is Skygack, and I am the first visitor on this planet from that remote unit of the solar system. Mars. Since landing here I have often thought that I would like to write con- cerning the most popular and prominent people I have met here. I arrived on this planet in South America, in a sparsely populated section of the Chilean Andes, and the first occupants of this globe whom I cast my eyes upon were two men with long hair and bearded faces, who introduced themselves to me as mining engineers, and being the most prominent in their profession today, I know you will have no trouble in ascertaining their identity. They instructed me as to the best way which I should follow to find a seaport. I took their advice, and eventually came to the town of Saylorsville, where I met several unimportant personages. A few days later I set sail on the steamer Panama, bound for San Francisco. I was very interested in the commander of this vessel, Captain Peter Collins, who proved to have a very wide knowledge of men and affairs. Several other inter- esting people whom I met on this trip were seven renowned New York capitalists, George Banks, Paul Cotner, Dick Faubion, Eph. Shirley, Ellis Woodworth, Carl Ramsey, and William Witt, who had, as I understood it, come into their immense fortunes by financing the invention of a noiseless soup spoon by one Messiah Kech- ickian. Also on board the Panama there was a party of missionaries, returning to their native land after sojourning among the Hottentots of South America for several years. Their chief, the Rev. Darrel Herron, I found a very interesting man, and his colleagues, although members of the fairer sex, were very interesting and polite, and great interest was shown by them in my lectures about the people of Mars. The most prominent ladies in the party, which numbered nearly fifty, were: Frances Devlyn, Beryl Cone, Helen Copeland, Myrta Ashworth, Mabel Wagner, Ila Beal, Ethel Beekman, Della Clifford, Lucille Hunter, and Mary Law- head. Upon arriving at San Francisco several days later, I rode in one of the B. F. Taxicabs (famous over the entire country for their service, and owned by Mr. Hunter Brown and Burdette Foraker) to the Davidson and Kircher Bros. Hotel, the most magnificent in the state. Everything and everybody seemed very excited at this time over the coming presidential election between Miss Marian Bush, candidate of the new Universalist Party, and Miss Mary Peoples, of the Anti-Cigarette Party. However, as I was not very interested in the politics of the country (they being entirely controlled by women at this time, the most prom- inent of these feminine politicians being Miss Dorothy Slutz, Miss Dorothy Kirch- er, and Miss Madge Wyatt), I paid no further attention to the election. Several weeks later I left San Francisco and journeyed to Denver, going by air in one of the well-known passenger aeroplanes owned and controlled by Mr. Chester Edgar and Mr. Richard McKinstrv. Upon arriving in Denver I was very much surprised to find a man still holding the office of mayor in that city. Mr. Littler proved himself to be a very interesting and sociable person, as did hiis secretary, Mr. Harold Liggett. While in Denver I spent a very enjoyable evening at the Graham Theatre, owned and operated by the Messrs. Clinton and Harold Twenty-three

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