Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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THE RESUME 1916 time the little Dutschers get obnoxious we who don't own private aeroplanes can walk over and see the performance. Alma Mosiman is practising her M. 1). in New York. She is a veterinary surgeon, and her skill in substituting rubber teeth in horses' mouths so that they won't have to eat predigested oats, is marvelous. Also the way she teaches lame clogs to use crutches and blind cats to use monocles is making scientists sit up and take notice. She is working now on the “F.lixir of Youth, which for every spoonful you take brings back ten years of your life! 1 bid for the first spoonful —for one hour tonight! Arthur Chesley and Esther Abbey are starring and starving by spells and bounds at some kind of a theater or other here. We went to see them tonight—I mean last night! Esther surely beats Julia Marlowe all hollow, and as for Soth-ern—well, he wouldn't get anywhere aside of Arthur! They were acting tonight in a drama entitled. “Blue-Jay Corn Blaster—Always the Best. There's a Reason. It was quite interesting and the audience shed tears of real grief. Who would have thought in the Senior play in 1916 that the parts they took could influence their destiny—but it has! The play has materialized above all our hopes and nothing could be more appropriate—unless it would be vaseline on hair cuts! While we were there who do you suppose we met? Well, nobody more ot less than Alan Gilmore! He was in New York on business, being janitor of the High School at Falls City now! He used to be governor of Nebraska, but Alan always did aspire to higher things, and it takes him to do it up in style! Boot man, by the look in his eye you can tell that the pride of his life is gone—he has lost the curl to his hair! He was out to dinner not long ago and the'waiter spilled some hot soup on his head. It made him so mad his hair stood on end and hasn’t returned to normal yet! It is getting a little late.—1 mean early.—so I bid you adieu with a toast to by far the greatest, grandest and most illustrious Class that ever graced the halls of the Falls City High School—the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen! R. L. T6. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS. F. C. H. S.. NEBRASKA. We, the Senior Class of the Falls City High School. Richardson County, Nebraska, being of sound mind and cognizant of the uncertainty of our brilliant career, do publish and declare this, our last will and testament; that is, to say: F'irst, we desire that all our just debts be paid; that is. if there is enough money in the treasury to pay them; if not. then it is the wish of our Class that these debts be charged to the Sophomores. We bequeath our love of knowledge and our proverbial dignity in full and rounded measure to the Freshies. Upon our nearest heirs, the Juniors, at our graduation, we bestow the name of “Reverend Seniors.” We also bequeath and devise to the Junior Class all of the northeast quarter of the assemby room of the High School, situated on block ninety-three in the City of Falls City, Nebraska.

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THE RESUME 1916 strations, especially around meal times and at hotels, and saves her company the cost of many hotel hills. It is said that practical demonstrations will soon be given to a school of one—who nor when, nobody knows. We were quite interested to know how popular Bayard Clark is as speaker of the House of Representatives. That new idea of his of having three hours’ adjournment for dinner sounds quite natural—in fact, you would not have needed to label who presented the bill. So he is getting bald already? Well, that’s too bad. but nevertheless to be expected. Bayard always did look like the world and all that is thereon rested on his shoulders. Yes. 1 had heard of Syble Bower's fame. It seems to me that every hat that goes down Fifth avenue has the Bowears label on it. and nobody seems to lie satisfied with their Raster bonnet unless it comes from Mademoiselle Bowears-Sybilla. I’aris-American Milliner Shop: and to think that she personally designs each one of those marvelous creations! Wilma has one! It is a brilliant pink Mexican straw, with a band of green wax leaves around the crown and one of the tail feathers of Mademoiseli’s pet rooster stuck straight up in front, with a glaring red tip (headlight)! Joe Gagnon certainly is some person—I mean he thinks he is! So he is the President's valet and all he does is to wear a stiff hat and a high “collah,” put on a melancholy air and say, The President has just left for his afternoon siesta to detemine the improvement of his health.” He is quite literary, too. He published an article lately on how to distinguish cows from weeds, and I'm sure nothing could be more instructive and contain so much food for thought! Audrey Marion and Hildred Harris are working together in Italy. Audrey, they say, is a second Schuniann-Heink, and Hildred leaves Paderwiski in the shade. They are traveling alone and make from $5,000 to $50,000 a night. The audiences are held spellbound and they say Audrey’s rendition of “Yankee Poodilio” and Tipperario are the best things that have ever appeared on the Italian stage. Mildred has lately composed a sonata entitled, “The Senior's Pep and the Italians think she is talking about some kind of a constellation, scintillating above the terrestial sphere, and all but grovel at her feet. Ruby Caskey is matron of the Insane Asylum at Beatrice and they say the inmates are brightening visibly. She has uplifted them so that they are now capable of planting spring onions and reading out of the First Reader. Ruby has worked on their imaginations until they think she is first cousin to George Washington and wife of the President of the United States. They don’t know what those are. but imagine they are some kind of gods, and Ruby rules their destinies. Zelma Moss is teaching trigonometry and civics in Central Africa, and spends her spare time cruising around after the Sixth Continent and the fourth dimension. When last heard from she was attempting to establish a domestic science department and teach the natives how to make bread. The first attempt proved disastrous, for they got mad at each other and one man got his skull severely cracked by a well aimed biscuit and a pet monkey of somebody’s was killed instantly. It was the talk of Parrotville for six weeks, and some of the natives were so petrified that they still stand as landmarks to enterprising adventurers. Myrtle Dodds is surveying for a Philadelphia construction company. She has planned the reconstruction of the Great Lakes and the rebuilding of Niagara l'alls. and is at pre.ent planning a viaduct across the Atlantic Ocean, so that next

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THE RESUME 1916 To the dear faculty we leave our best wishes. Individually we have a few legacies to leave: Myrle Naylor leaves her gentle voice to Suzaine Brecht and in case she fails to use it, to Tom Hargrave. Arthur D. Chesley desires to leave his angelic looks to Joe Reavis. Hildred Alberta Harris leaves her position as High School pianist to Nellie Lee Holt. Faye Hanna leaves Falls City for the farm. Ed P. Fisher leaves his “jack-o’-lantern grin’’ to Helen Bassett. Arthur Yort bequeaths his love to Thelma Roberts. Flora M. Ticknor her love of athletics to Mae Snelling. Charleotta Blanding the right to wear how heel shoes to Fern Falloon. Leona Wickham presents her shorthand book to Myrtle Yort. Rubv L. Caskey her frown to Will Keeling. Zelma Moss bequeaths her poetic ability, which was left her last year by Elnora Platz. to Wesley Delaney. Myrtle Dodds her love of Virgil to Elizabeth Mosiman. Wilma Russ leaves her position as center on the basket ball team to Rosa Trefzer. Ruth Lichty her sunny disposition to Lester Kister. Paul A. Frederick leaves his ability to propose to “His’n” Hoy. Florence Lyford her ability as a soloist to Nina Martin. Esther Abbey with love bequeaths her ability to flirt to Elizabeth Gist. Joseph L. Gagnen his love of argument to Given Spragins. Mabel Leola Grush leaves her good nature to Frankie Kramer. Bayard T. Clark bestows his walk to Wilma Nedrow. Louise S. Dae-diner her horror of “eight-period slips’’ to Lloyd Marsh. Ethel M. Pearson leaves her innocence to Laura Cade. Alma Mosiman desires to leave her title of “The Class Angel” to Eliza Crook. Matilda Matthews leaves her love of knowledge to Homer Sandrock. Stella Gatz leaves her license to talk in assembly whenever she desired without permission to Faye Loucks. Nina Shubert her satisfied manner to Charlie James. Alan C. Gilmore with love bequeaths his hair and blush to Dessie McCleary. Albert Weinert his ability to translate German correctly to Mary Krueger. Edna Stabler bestows her seat in the assembly to Genevra Rough, lva T. Wood her typewriter to Irene Meade. Syble Bowers bequeaths her averdupois to Harry Jones. Helen Kottman her amiable way to Anita Lively. We hereby appoint Miss Hanes, upon the suggestion of our Class advisor, Miss Fuller, executrix of our last will and testament. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hand this 24th day of May, 1916. THE SENIOR CLASS. We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the Senior Class in our presence subscribed its name to the above instrument as testator, and at the same time in our hearing and in the hearing of each of 11s declared the same to be its last will and testament, and we at its request and in its presence and in the presence of each other, subscribed our names to the foregoing as attesting witnesses. WILLIAM L. CROW, Superintendent of the City Schools, Falls City, Nebraska. JOHN LICHTY, President Board of Education, Falls City, Nebraska. A. A. M„ T6.