Benton Township High School - Scarab Yearbook (Benton, IL)

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Senior Ratings Name Known as Characteristic Aspiration Favorite Expression Don Harris ...... Connie’ .....Business-like way............To Earl Seeber ..... Slim” .........Size .......................To Pearl Neal —....“Shorty” ........Shortness ..................To Leora Seeber .... Tommy” ...»....Always jolly ............. To Freeman Harris ... Doc” .........His popularity .............To Pearle Burgess ... Min” .........Her smile ................. To Jake Kirsch .... ..“Jake” ...»...His good nature .............To Nelia McAdoo ....“Steve” ........Always has a good time......To Elvera Galvin ... Vera” .........Sweetness ..................To William Carter .. Bill” .........From Thompsonville ........l'o Eugenia Campbell Genia” ........Studiousness .............. To Jarvis Johnson .. Jarvie” .......Quietness ................. To Beatrice Adams ... Bca” .........Littleness ...............»..To Richard Dillon .. Dick” .........Likes a good time ...»......To Nellie Neal .....Nellie .........Her smile ................. To Everett Baldwin ...Everett ......Smartness ...................To Elizabeth Jackson Lizbuth” .....Her laugh ................. To Frank Quillman „. Ziegfeld” .....Shimmying ..................To Helen Parkhill .. Heinie” .......Dignity .....................To James Crisp ..... Jim” ......A-man-about-town ............To Ruth Joplin ..... Jopie” ........Has a fellow ................To Ralph Simpson ...“Simp” .........Very small ..................To Opal Rhodes ..... Polly”........Takes Pedagogy ............. .To Merwin Houk ..... Pussy” ........Musical ....................To Lena Pyle ....... Dot” ..........Has curls ..............»...To William Mayer ... Bill” .........Wiseness .................. To Clara Ewing ..... Clare” .........Modesty ....................To Maurice Campbell Count” ........Know-it-all-ness ...»........To Jessie White ....“Jess” ......Shyness .....................To James Austin .... Jim” ...»......Has a car....................To Glenna McAdoo ... Mack” .........Strongness ..................To Ernest Webb ..... Ernie” ........Goes with (Annie) ...........To Blanche Warren ... Blanch” .......Belongs to the S. W. T.....To Sybel Robertson ... Sybil” ......Likes Ernie P................To Marion Moore ....“Jock” ...... Teasing ..................... To Fay Summers .....Fay ............To finish quick ............ To Cecile McClintock Arabella” ....Likes to play P. O............To Harry Vise ......'Whiskey ...Wildnosn Po Tallie Dillon .... Lynn” ........Leuves school fourth hour ...To star at Champaign ......... Let’s have a holiday.” eat a Ton .................“Let’s eat.” make Eddie a good wife ... Where’s Smitty? be an athlete ............ Let’s don’t go inside.” be a radio operator ....... We’ve got worlds of time.” raise a fuss ............. Great Scott! Maurice.” win the Track Meet ....... Shucks! get by without studying ... Dad Gum! be good sometimes.......... Oh, Harry!” be a Doctor .............. I don’t know. get her A. M.............. 1 didn’t have a bit good time.’ have a quiet married life ...“Well.” illustrate magazine covers ... That’s too much trouble.” win a Tournament .........“Do you still love me? be liked by Mr. Andrews ... Really. get him a girl ...»........“Have you heard from Lola?” tell a joke .............“I have a joke to tell you. join the Follies”........“Take up a collection for me.’ get through H. S...........“Don’t kid me.” graduate ..................“Somebody help me get my—’ have a date ...............‘That’s cock-eyed.” he tall ...................“Who told you that?” teach school ..............“Do you know the answer?” be a musician ............. Where’s Lena?” marry Merwin .............. That’s classy looking.” be a second Mr. Wells .....“That’s the way.” pass Physics ...............“1 know I didn’t pasi play a saxophone...........“Oh, Min!’ £0 home ....................“Oh, Kid! be a flyer..................“Wish I could see mv girl.” play basketball ............ Listen. be a farmer ................“I don’t know.” get Physics ................“Here comes Mr. Andrews. pass .......................“He’ll bawl us out.” go in high society ......... Hot Dig. lie slim ...................“What’s the question? be a poet ........ ........ “I don’t understand this.” be rich ..... .............. Let’s go to the bar. bo stenographer ... . “Oh. Gee! Scarab

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1PQ0 (Elass nf 1920. Brutim ffiirili—(EonlinurD B is for Baldwin, a Socialist man, Helping our class lie is always a can. E is for Ernest, coming out of the kink, Very conspicuous that sly little wink. N is for Neal, to Shorty they go, When the System Club puts on a show. T is for Tallie, stenographer of the class. As a real typist she surely will pass. 0 is for Onors Campbell has won. In catching our class was just his fun. N is for No One. but Jarvis you see. He spells his name with that big ugly G '. H is for Helen, with her great big Moon,” She rides with Jim on Sunday afternoon. 1 is for Intelligent. Jessie is. that’s true. So quiet and modest a lass for who? G is for Glenna. a jolly lass; She and Blanche help make our class. H is for Humorist, don’t you know, For a hearty laugh to Quillman we go. Now if all whose names are on this page Live faithfully up to this old adage, The Lord helps those who help themselves,’’ They will not be the kind to lay on the shelves. 17

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—V.. 4. a Scarab 1020 SritUir (Hlasa $Jroplji?n} As I was bumming my way about the country. I met many of my old schoolmates. Alas! They were sadly changed. Some of them had risen in life while others had fallen very low. 1 could not help contrasting our happy school life with our life of trouble now. One of the first places 1 visited was an Old Ladies' Home, which was run by Eugenia Campbell. Pearlc Burgess and Beatrice Adams. Those three sweet angels of my school days were not very successful with their home for there was a pawnshop in the neighborhood. Who should be the owners of the pawnshop but Jarvis Johnson and Willie Carter! The three girls were so much infatuated with these illustrious characters that they often stole nightcaps from the old ladies and brought them to the pawnshop to be pawned. This so depressed me that 1 went to a carnival the next night. There I recognized Jessie White as the two-headed lady, Glenna McAdoo as the snake charmer, and Nellie Neal. Clara Ewing. Blanche Warren, and Fay Summers, as the famous Maids of 49 . 1 next visited an insane asylum, which Marion Moore was in charge of. Marion was not the lively boy 1 once knew. He had taken too many aspirin tablets and now daily watched the ravings of his old friend Whiskey Vise . Whiskey’s case was a sad one. He had had his private stock in an ice cream freezer at the Junior-Senior reception and was so highly entertained that night that he got generous and invited Mr. Andrews. Air. Wells, and Mr. Hudelson to take a drink. It was the only mistake of his life, for those three worthies drank all of poor Whiskey's private stock which catastrophe completely drove him insane. One night 1 had the pleasure of hearing the Hawaiian singers. In the troupe I noticed Earl Seeber appearing as a Hawaiian princess in native costume. It is said that Earl has the most beautiful shoulders that have ever been on the stage. I always knew Maurice Campbell's oratory was good Tor something. He is now professor of oratory in a deaf and dumb school with Ralph Simpson as his best pupil. The next night I went to the picture show to sec Jake, the famous woman imitator. Jake had given Dick Dillon charge of his wardrobe and it is said that Dick might frequently be seen about the studio with a needle, thread, and pins in his hair (he now wears his hair in two long braids), draping dresses on Connie Harris as a model. Yes, Merwin Houk is a musician. One day I saw him and his wife, Lena, playing Jews harps in front of the Salvation Army headquarters. It was a happy day for them for they had just converted that notorious highwayman and pickpocket. Jim Crisp. Tears might be seen flowing down Jim's cheeks (and dropping in fountains provided for that purpose) as he listened to the preacher, Everett Baldwin, tell of his salvation. I I was delighted to find that Elizabeth Jackson and Helen Parkhill have such a congenial occupation. In the summer they catch lightning bugs and bottle them 10