Clinton High School - Clintonia Yearbook (Clinton, IL)

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High School Assembly Room. Clinton, Illinois, Nov. 27, 1918 Here Aunt Mable: I got all my lessens and the teecher moved me back to the comei' by myself count of me shootin paper wads at a little gurl in the freshmun class. There fresh to, Aunt Mable. Fish aint got nothin on them. Still full of fun same as always aint 1. We had a party, Us Junurs and had a swell time. I wore them purple socks that you and Uncle Rill sent me for my birthday. Everybody noticed cm. Aunt Mable U sure got taste. I told em you did have. Someone said somethin about it “bein all in your mouth”—but I didn’t laugh like the rest did—cause I knew you did like to taste most everything before it was put on the table. I didn’t see enything funny. I herd a funny joke about socks. A fello said, “L ng as gurls wear read, white and blu socks, I’ll foller the flag.” Tliats me all over, Aunt Mable. Well, as I said, we had a party and played a lot of games. Arthur Edmunds, the good boy I told you about, got inisli-eated. They hit him awful hard in the afternoon Aunt Mable. And they put ice cream down his neck. Miss Renich won the sack race. She always wins. She covers mor ground than most people Aunt Mable. Her understanding is bigger than mine. We had two fortune tellers too Aunt Mable. One held my hand and looked at it. Its thrillin to get your hand held aint it? I went back three times. Miss Bentlay and Mis Golse wuz the fortune tellers. Camoflage. But they didnt need it . Miss Bentlay’s terribul fond of bright colors. Red mostly. And Miss Golse rolls her eyes like Theda Bara. We had Ice Cream and cake and candy for desert. I never got no candy. Brokes McClelland wuz passin the dish. He took some every time eny one else did. He’s got big hands. We had a auful good time. I took a girl home that night. Lorraine Gunter’s her name. Shes auful interestin. She makes me think of Maud when she laughs. Well I gotta ring off—C U in the funny papers. Same old L. I High School Assembly Room. Clinton, 111., April 28, 1919. Here Aunt Mable: I haven’t herd no word from you since I been ritin to you. Did you hurt your hand or sumpthin? Im not gonna rite you no more after this here letter cuz I like to have people be appresheative of me efforts at entertainin. So after I tell you somethin about what your gonna miss my tellin you in letters Im not gonna rite eny more. We got a new class President us Junurs have. Otis Skinner is his name. He’s a darling, Aunt Mable. The other Pres, had sum misfortune for which T feel sorry about and cant help. You no T don’t believe in kicking a fello when lie’s down, Aunt Mable. Boost! Tliats me all over. I aint graduatin this year like I oughta, Aunt Mable; but I aint got nothing to be ashamed of cuz I aint. I’m a Junior of the class of 1920, and proud of it. Im gonna graduate with them, and when they do hand me a little beribboned paper you bet I will have earned it, Aunt Mable. Fair and square—no cheatin for what I get. Were gonna have a nother party and a class picnic and a Junur, Seenur respetshun yet before we pass into our seeniorship. But I aint gonna rite you eny mor or tell you enything about them like I have been doin and never got eny answer for it tall. Cause as I said T like to have appresheasun showed me. As ever, L. (And L----- is Lvda Constance McClurg, Clinton High School, Class of 1920). —PAGE TWENTY-FOUR—

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SOPHOMORES 1918-1919 Anderson, Mecca Angerer, TVddie Ai nold, )lin Bodinger, Vinita Beall, Frances Bell, Bomeice Blurton, Clarence Bogardus, Jule Bowers, Guernsey Bratcher, Blanche Carroll, Gertrude Church, Edna Conant, Jerome Day, Marguerite Dreshack, Wilbur Edmonson, Kenneth Fitzsimmons, Eileene Fosnaugh, George Gibson, Edna Glenn, Maurice Greene, Francis Griffin, Cathrin Harrison, Mary Margaret Hatfield, Stella Ilill, Helen Hull, Donald Hull, Gordon Jenkins, Loren Joidan, Mildred Ivlarr, Maude Kinman, Florence Faster, Hal Lane, Harold Lennen, Linnie Lighthall, Gladys Tiitzenberger, Gladys Longbrake, Helen. Lord, Etta Lynch, Henry Lynch, Louis McClurg, Carrie McHvenna, Eilith McKinney, Harold Murray, Ada Pharos, Arthur Powers, Morin Renich, Gwyneth Scogin, Caroll Sharkey, John Smallwood, Sarah Stone, Ada Stone, Iva M. Sullivan, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Taylor, Lola Thorpe, Clyde Torbert. Grace Trowbridge, Donald Turner, Paul Watt, Charles Whitehead, Louise Wilmore, Leah Zaueis, Charles —PACK TWENTY-SIX —