Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Phenix City, AL)

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Floyd Worthy has formed a new company of taxu cabs Duck Shirley Albert Allison and Bully Brown are some of the new drivers and are reported doung nucely un theur work They have only wrecked seven cabs un two weeks of operation Mr Worthy us now looking for new drivers The famous cooks Nell Langley and Dora Dell Long are to conduct a cooking school here next week Among the quests that are to be present are Josephine and Pauline Phelps and Kate Blalock The Purvus grocery company owned and operated by Davud Purvus as the company that us sponsoring the lectures Muss Catherine McLemore and Muss Madelyn Slocomb are leaving for Parus to buy a new supply of gowns and frocks for the J A Kurven store of Columbus They are the most prominent stylusts of Columbus Well I thought they had married and settled down but I guess I was wrong I guess I ll look on the farm page and ee what the formers are doing Let s see Ruchard Guthrie and George Hugley have bought a I OOO acre farm and are going to rause nothing but cows and weeds Richard wull have hus way but George wull guve hum plenty of trouble Boy wull they be a paur of farmers F U West announces that the great one and only screen star will be un Phenux Cuty to guve a performance un the interest of the Harden Beauty Solon owned and operated by Muss Jewel Harden of Phenix Cuty The star Muss Flora Fuller has ap peared un many outstanding pictures Mr West us Muss Fullers press agent tvluldred Tullery and Eleanor Wade the noted authors of modern books are to give talks on how to read an enuoy books Muss Tullery and Muss Wade are guvung these lectures at the courthouse and all are unvuted to attend These women are noted throughout the world as authors of modern luterature The F B I us working on a case of the mussung cars James Knughton chief of the F B I says that a dozen cars were parked un a lot and suddenly they were gone and day on thus ca e As there were ro traces around the lot where the cars were theur theory us that a blump flew over the lot dropped a cable and drew the cars unto the aur I see Muss Vurgunua Hull and Muss Gladys Pope are going to start a new druve agaunst the reckless drivers un thus cuty Miss Hull and Muss Pope say that half of the population are not trying to be careful The cuty police are audung these young ladues un thus forward step for safety Others audung these young ladies are Dan Wells and Floyd Buckner these young men are experts on how to druve and drive carefully They have only two wrecks marked up against them un theur fuve years of druvung Would that I were a but younger' A new nursung school has opened and gurls from far and near are coming to take the course As a result the male population of our town has increased about fufty per cent un the two weeks sunce the school has been opened Muss Sara Harrison founder of thus new school says that she wants all gurls who are interested to hurry and sugn the school register Muss Myrtle Hardy and Muss Earon Wilson were among the furst to sign followed by Bernice Boyette Helen Smith and Edna Vernon Thus course requires about a year of study before these gurls are ready to go out unto the world Edgar Byrd and Emmett Evens have gust publushed theur furst edutuon of theur weekly paper The Tumes Mr Byrd and Mr Evans state that they have a curculatuon of 500 and that they have many more prospects Charles Franklun and Eugene Glass start reporters of thus paper have been un the business for a long tume and say that the paper wull come out on top Bully Hunt and James Scott are the artusts for the paper That paper ought to be good for each of those fellows us an expert un hus line Frederick Rumsey the outstanding clothes desugner has opened a store in thus cuty and Douglas Simms us to be the manager Mr Simms has had experience un thus . , ,, , , . . . , . , r - , J A - 11 - - ' . . ,, . . 4 . . I ' I I - , , ' ll l Chief Knighton, assisted Royes McKenzie and Montee Newsome, are working night . Q A s . , I I ' ll . . . . , . ,, . , ll 1 . . . .. - ' 1 ll - . . 11 - - . , , f I

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Here I am washing dishes trying to read the paper and not benng able to get a thing done As President of the United States I dont think I have to do this but my wnfe has gone to a bridge club and left me alone Well Ill read the paper and see what has happened I see that some of the boys nn the old school band have nonned the Cnty Band Milford Gunnells Johnny Hugley and Carlton Smith are the backbone of the new and splendid band The cnty has some new policemen Look at the new chief J VV Gresham and hns new men Ralph Franklin James Veasey and James Cobb' They are looking for the men who robbed the Phenix Girard Bank and made a get away with only SSI and a few cents The gossip cblumn June Rowland and Mildred Davns editors They worked nn the school offnce and now they wrnte gossip They say Bettye Reese gave a party where Agnes Zagar Jean Schofield and Emma Jean Pittman won all of the prizes Parties are the cause of my having to wash the dishes The stork vnsnted the homes of Jack Miller and Billy Nnckols who are reported donng nicely I guess they mean the children The editors Ralph Glass and George Hammer still make errors as they did nn the Keyhole at school The great tenor Jack Knnny and hns company of singers composed of Leon Poyner bass Johnny Jerknns baritone and Rufus Hall tenor wnll perform at the noted opera owned and operated by Isaac Johnson and H C Harden Joyce Bankston wnll be the acccmpannst Joe Dudley ns the dnrector of thns great and wonderful show Neal Smnth ns now head of the WRBL broadcasting company Smnth studied radio assnsted by Johnnne Lun ford who was one of hns classmates They are now installing a large studio nn Phenix Cnty Wnllnam Barnes and Charles Blalock are both candidates for State Senator Mr Barnes has been mayor of Phennx Cnty and Mr Blalock was the city recorder before their campaigns began I hope they make good and are always honest A special wrnte up about a new cafe Kate Blalock and Ruth Sharpe have opened the Cafe DeLuxe at the corner of Broad and Fnfth Streets The cafe wnll serve all sea foods and have as a specialty hot dogs l guess that my wnfe and I wnll go down to eat there some tnmes Grimes Flanagan is taking over hns fathers danry and ns going to have all of hns cattle shnpped an for the danry Robert Davns health inspector for Phenix Cnty ns giving hns approval of thns plan for securnng a better mnlk supply The cows were ransed nn New Jersey by the Byrd and Harden farms These farms are owned by Wnllnam Byrd and Jack Harden Louise Sallas the noted lnbrarnan has lust added fnve new books to her modern lnbrary Mnss Sallas ns known for her delncate chance of books and has some of the world s most famous ones She has all of Shakespeare s works as well as those of mod ern authors She nnvntes the publnc to vnsnt her and dn cuss the noted books wnth her Robert Gunter has taken over hns fathers business and wnll carry on as usual Johnnne Pharrns and Warren Wyatt wnll assist hnm nn the work Dorothy Ann Dudley is hns typnst . , , , ,, . , . 4 . . I ,, . . I I I - V I I : , 1 , , and its affiliates for a number of years and is now being repaid for his study. He is . . Q . . . V , . - A - f nn ,, . . . . . ,, . ,, D . . , . ,, . . . . , . , . . . ,, ,, . . . . , , , I A I . . . . I . . . ,S 4 . .,, . , . .

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Iune of work for many years ln the ladues department you wull see two ladues who wull walt on you and fut you wuth the latest tyles they are tvluss Harveta Barron and Mu s Frances Chadwuck lll tell my wufe about h s James Tant and Tony Thompson are sellung out theur barber busuness un order to go unto a new lune of work Thus paper also states that Horace Ward and Gene Wrught are the ones that are buyung the place of bu mess and are goung to make a grocery tore of' the old buuldung Mr Tant and Mr Thompson have been un thus busuness for a number of years and theur many fruends wull be sorry to hear that they are sellung ou Hazel Pelham and Mary Louuse Carden have been elected for two year terms un Congre s Those young ladues have done what most people thought was umpossuble and are goung to even hugher fame Muss Pelham and tvluss Carden toured the states before theur electuon Other elected at the same tume were Thomas Fuquett and James Na on Mr Nason and lvlr Fuquett had close races but won by a small number of votes Douglas Carpenter Wulluanu Thompson and Hayward Tullman are now the owners of one of the largest shoe stores un the South These young men started un the busuness when they got out of school and have been un ut ever sunce They have ten stores un the South and several un Europe Helen Luttle and .luanuta DuBose the famous blues sungers are goung to guve a performance here next week Muss Luttue and lvluss DuBose studued operatuc musuc un Europe and then decuded to sung popular ongs They have toured the Unuted States and Canada and now are goung on a Iona vacatuon Dorus Cowart Emma Kate Corbutt and Dorus Knight were rescued from a cluff un North Caroluna Thus cluff has never been scaled and these gurls were goung to do thus one fooled us they stated we are goung to try agaun I ee that the great gurls basketball team us to play here on the last week of May Thus team us unbeaten and has played IOO games The captaun Clara Gates says the team us not to be beaten Maruarue Hooks owner of the team says that the team us favored to wun the natuonal funals Edward Harrelson and Jack Golden the all Amerucan backs for thus year wull play un a benefut game for the Red Cross Harrelson and Golden started out wunnung honors un theur fre hmen years and have not stopped yet They are the best backs that I have ever seen sand C C Gruggs coach Gruggs started hus coachung career as manager of hus hugh school team Marlorue Beard and Ruth Chulds are receuvung theur degrees un chemustry from L S U thus week Muss Beard and tvluss Chulds took chemustry un hugh school and then decuded to advance theur knowledge un that fueld They have teachung posutuons In the Bleecker Hugh School and are goung to teach classes at nught for people that cannot attend them un the day tume A new barber shop has opened and has some of the most modern equupment un the South Grover Hulyer us the owner and has some of the best barbers un the Qouth workung for hum Marlon Hull and Marvun Helms are among the best Thus shop us really a fune place and when l need a hour cut after l get some haur I am goung down and get one lt us really fun to sut down and read the paper and see what your old class mates are doung When you get out of school you say that you are glad but l dont belueve that l wull ever muss any thung and wush for ut agaun as much as I do the old school days and the arguments that we had wuth the teachers ED COULTER Class Prophet . . . 5 F . 's s ' . ' ' t i . , S. M . C . . . . . I. C ..- . . V S . W . C . ,t - - u , . . . , , I . Q . ,, . , . . , the impossible-and nearly did, They are known for their dangerous climbs. Although . H tt - - tt S , , , tt t . - f - I ' ' C , M H ll ,, , . . . , , . . 4 - H tt . I M . .