Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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CLASS PROPHECY a stamped self-addressed envelope, and receive instructions free of charge.” Paul R. Stoltz, Mutual Life Building, New York City. Woman’s Rights having been granted thro’ her efforts several years a o, Rachel Lumsdon has succeeded “Uncle Joe” as speaker of the House. Greenleaf Merrill is the willing martyr to the new breakfast food Wheat- grass, which is demonstrated by Miss Mary Garner, who with her charm- ing smile and hair attracts many customers. Dr. Harold Augustus Spil- man has made his fortune by the sale of his wonderfully efficient Kquiknogen Bitters composed principally of H-2-0. The Leinhauser girls have become spiritualists. Their meetings are really quite interesting, but they can’t convince me that what they say is true. It’s a great money-making scheme, however. Annie O’Malley sings Irish folk songs in private musicales. She is quite the rage here in Ot- tumwa. Golden Pearl Stone, the gem of the class has edited a new German grammar. Wanda tho’t enough of her class to come up here clear from Mexico City, Mexico, where she is proprietress of the Hotel de Yrigoven. Last but far from least we have the two unseparables, Arthur Lowenberg and Fritz Trost, still admiring lovers at a respectful distance Mr. Lowenberg is known in all the studios in Paris, for his manly beauty. 1 have done my best to make up for your necessary absence and have told you briefly of all your old schoolmates except myself, about whom there is no need to say anything. You know where I am and what I am doing, and so enough. As ever Your Old Friend and Classmate, Margaret E. Hutchison.

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CLASS PROPHECY Lake City. She just hates men, she says. Incidentally I heard that Ethelbert Coffin has been in that city for several years. Joe Darner is the proprietor of a shooting gallery down near the opera house. He doesn’t have much to do with (Connell since the latter became a frenzied financier. Grace Coughlin was present at the reunion and favored us with a few extracts from her treatise on “How to Cure Lisping.” She has been working on it for several years and she is not yet entirely satisfied with it. Will Cushing is captain of the league base ball team and he exercises his executive ability even upon the diamond. Howard Davis is acting the juvenile parts in several comedies written expressly for him bv the successful playright, Edwin Mather, who in his spare time does athletic stunts at county fairs. Wallace Graham has followed his natural bent and is proud of his reputation as the Beau Brum me 1 of New York. His clothes furnish the model for the men of the Smart Set in that city. Ethel Watson is teaching a country school in Rutledge. After a long hard struggle she succeeded in passing the teach- ers examinations and expects next fall to get an assistant position in town. Harold Lynch was unable to come as he was at the time held in custody back west, for taking part in a shooting fray. Elizabeth Haven with a beaming smile appeared at the reunion and informed us that sh? had the dearest husband in the world, and that she had won the prize for the best home-made bread in Wapello county. Ada Kendall, after an eventful life as an elocutionist, has gone into comic opera. Irl Baker is professor of the Science of Flirting in Bryn Mar. He was unable to come home but wrote us all about his work and his fair pupils. Nell Madden was also unable to be present as she is traveling in Ireland on the proceeds of the Madden-Baker breach of promise case which was so ably carried on by the famous lawyer Theodore Lundblad. The latter came clear from Philadelphia to honor us with his presence. Etliyle Palmer has eloped with her father’s chaffeur so we didn't have the pleasure of seeing either of them. Winifred Kevhoe has published a re vised edition of Fanny Y. Cory’s “Memoirs of a Baby.” It far surpasses the original. Stella Garland is a fashionable dressmaker in Kansas City. Donald Fallen is the truant officer here. He knows by intuition or i may be, experience, just where to look for truants and he has proved the most efficient official the city has yet employed. Three of our girls have sought recognition in the public eye. Marie Muller ana Helen Osier are performing remarkable equestrian feats in Ringling’s circus, and Florence Walker has succeeded to the fame of the renowned Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill. Mary McCune with Janet Lindsey as her collaborator has publishei a literal translation of the Jungfrau. They are taking life easy on the proceeds of their work. Paul Stoltz was present, but this advertisement tells his story better than I can: “How to increase the height from two to five inches ?n a month. Send

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CLASS WILL WILL OF THE CLASS OF 1906. £NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That we, the class of 11)0(5, of the High School of the city of Ot- tumwa, the county of Wapello and State of Iowa, I'nited States of America, knowing the uncertainty of life and feeling the unmistakable evi- dences of approaching old age and being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this our last will and testa- ment in manner following that is to say:— I. It is our will that the expenses of our demise, as well as all our other just debts Ik» fully paid. II. Custom has decreed that the subjoined list of our possessions should descend to our Moved sister 11)07. as our right and lawful suc- cessor to the throne of the High School world.: 1. Our superfluous Senior dignity to be distributed in small pack- ages as occasion demands. -• Our exceptionally wonderful and highly developed decorative talent, along with our best wishes for its due appreciation from the Senior Guardian Angel. 3. And last, but not least. Our Abundance of Class Spirit, suggest- ing that it be taken in reasonable doses as an incentive to scholarship and live (?) athletics. III. We give and bequeath to the faculty, the Prep class to provide entertainment in |»eriods of monotony. I . We give Kd Mather’s gridiron accomplishments to Hen Hur Wilson. V. We leave Etliyle Palmer’s rapidity of speech to Harry Anderson. VI. We bequeath Florence Coolidge’s knowledge of English literature to Alice Spry. VII. We bequeath the 11)0(5 girls’ ability in basket ball to the ’07 girls, hoping they will improve by the wonderful example set before them. III. We leave the boys of 11)07 to Aletha Norfolk and Xannette Curry, hoping they will progress in their undertakings concerning them as suc- cessfully as thev have with the 1900 young men. IX. We give the mirror in the Senior girls cloak room to Beulah Gilt- ner, Vera Shadford and Hazel Gephart.