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

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t ook store. Wo stopi ed to see what interested them and found that it was a new dictionary of the Knglish l«anguage written by Miss Dora Winkler, with about a block of degrees attached. That’s just like Dora, running competition to Webster. That ended the adventures of one day. lOarl.v next morning we hoard a great clamor in the street: rushing to the window we saw a parade consisting of women carrying banners and pennants celebrating the fact that they had elected a woman suffragist president. The two ladies leading the parade were Maigaret Daeschner and Mabel Auxier. l oth now strong party lenders In the city. While eating breakfast my attention was drawn to a very beautiful lady sitting at the next table. I asked Walter who she was and he told me that she was our old school friend. Mae Zoollers. now lender in society circles in that town, and that the two ladles with her were I-ela Hahn and Bernice Harkins, stopping over here on their way to Palm Beach to spend the summer. After a while we started on a tour of the country about in Walter’s car and it was Just our luck to run out of gasoline about ten miles from any town. We saw a school house down the road several blocks and started down there to see if we could get some gas. Verna Massey was the teacher and she directed us to n farm house on the top of the next hill. We proceeded to the farm house where Margaret Metzgar was mistress, and of course we had no trouble getting some gasoline when we had introduced ourselves. We started back to town and as we were returning to the city we saw a bunch of buildings all surrounded by large shade trees, and with a Twenty-one ORAXtiE IVn {LACK. 1919-1920 grand golf course in the background. Waller told me that this was the Spinster Club, and as we drove slow to see the heauti-ful buildings we recognized Beatrice Kottman. Elsie Pribheno. Pauline Vandervoort. and Clara Werner sitting on the veranda. We soon passed this up and again entered the city. That afternoon we attended the great Welnert Circus then showing in town. Lawrence was owner and general manager, so we got in for nothing. We saw Stacy Hoy, the greatest acrobat of all time do hair-raising stunts of all kinds: and also Price Birdslvy. clown. King of Kun-makers. Gladys Lovelace was the animal trainer and it certainly took nerve to enter the big caged arena with those wild animals, yet they seemed to have a great affection for her, just like most of the fellows who went to school with her. We returned by rail to Falls City the next day and as we were walking tip Stone street I noticed a sign in front of a large building. “Jenkins Morton. Lady Tailors,” Most Up-to-Date Styles in Ladies' Hand Tailored Clothing. I learned that Esther and Evelyn had opened this shop some time soon after graduating and were now doing a thriving and prosperous business. We walked on up the street and saw another sign. ”M. Neitzel. Beauty Parlor.” Of course we went in and got beautified, if such a thing could be possible, by the charming Miss Neitzel. As for Myrtle Xcdrow. the only member of our class I had not seen, her aspirations to become a school teacher were realized and she is now principal of old K. C. H. S., and exercising her authority with a vengeance. We soon arrived at the hotel and I threw myself into an easy chair to rest after my long and tiresome Journey. I fell asleep and when I awoke I was hack to my own fireside.

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FALLS CITY IIHIII SCHOOL Prophecy of the Class of 1920 The night nfter our commencement exercises I was sitting before the fireplace at home thinking of and living over again those past four years I had spent at Palls City High School. I must have fallen asleep for it seemed that I was sitting in the lobby of tin new hotel in Falls City: I looked around and everything seemed strange to me. While I was wondering a newsl oy entered and I purchased a paper of him. It was the Kalis City Journal, dated 1932. and in the upper left hand corner was an insert which ran thus: Published by Paul Ferdinand Keim, successor to A. It. Keim. Across tin top ran a great headline, “Miss Knight elected first woman president of the United States on Suffragist ticket.” I read on and found also that a great many women had been elected to fill places in Congress. Among the list I found two whom I knew. Garnet Hiatt and Nellie Hillyard, both elected from the state of Nebraska. I had scarcely recovered from this shock when Walter Ger-hardt came into the hotel lobby. I learned from him that he was now the head of a motion picture producing corporation. He asked me if I would not accompany him on a trip to Colorado where he was producing his latest picture: of course I consented and started over to settle with the hotel proprietor who to my surprise was none other than Thelma Griffin, another schoolmate. We entered the elevator and ascended to the top of the hotel, some twenty stories. I believe. Here stood a large passenger airplane that was Just geting ready to start. Standing l esid» the plane was a young lady in a trim uniform, presumably the driver, and as we approached she spoke to us. 1 looked at her closely and recognized her as Grace Heed an old school friend. We asked her not to drive too fast when we were in the car. We climbed into the airplane and I was astounded by the luxurious fixtures and general appearance: Just like a parlor car on the Twentieth Century Limited. The lady who collected the fares was none other than Gertrude Wilt so. We were soon on our way speeding through the air at a great speed. We were passing over a long field surrounded on all sides by large factory buildings, and Walter explained that this was one of the plants of the great Henderson Manufacturing Company of which Harold was the head. In four hours we were in Colorado and the plane landed near the place where Walter's company was producing pictures. some few miles from Denver. Walter's car was awaiting us and guess who was sitting in the chauffer's seat: none other than Glenn Hughes. Glenn always said he wanted to Ik- a minister but I guess he was mistaken in his calling. We were soon on the scene and just think who was leading lady? Grace Hinton, considered the leading vampire in motion pictures of the day. The director told me in confidence that he considered red headed girls better vamps than any other. We did not tarry here long but reentered the car and were soon in Denver. Glenn did not waste any time either, which was the cause of our getting arrested soon after we entered the outskirts of the city. We were taken to a police court where luckily I.m-Ila Weinert was presiding Judge, and we escaped with a light fine and advice not to try it over. On the way to supper we noticed on a large billboard: Come and Hear Marie Gelding, the Greatest Opera Singer of the age.” tonight. Of course we attended the opera and Marie certainly did credit to herself and her title. Irma Casey accompanied Marie with a violin and at the close gave a beautiful violin solo. We started to the hotel from the opera and were attracted by- a large crowd gathered about the window of a Twenty

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