Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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Item: We leave Zoe Bissell’s, Bertha Kent’s, and Rita Evan’s boy- struck ways to Cora Barrows. Item: We bequeath Clara Sandstrom’s ability in German to Eloise Vest. Item: We leave the sweet disposition of Rose Payne to Blanche Root. Item: We suggest that Mabel Cary profit by the example set by Georgia Willard. Item: We bequeath Edna Anderson’s meek modes of manner as a beneficiary benediction to Hazel Norfolk’s random, racy, reconstruction of Roman redundants. Item: We leave Will Watson’s ability to “charge” through the cloak room door to Donald Madden. Item: We leave Vera Ford’s charming ways and position as art editor to Walter Schafer. Item: We leave the anxiety of Anita Crips to get on the class play to Marie Porter. Item: We bequeath Harry Hansell’s rowdiness to Donald Miller. Item: We desire that love for “man” be transferred from Mildred Ilarlan and Marie Mangan. to Ruth Clair and Phillis Marshall. Item: We transfer the affection of Edith Peppers for out of town athletes to Mary Fetzer. Item: We leave Will Scott’s proclivities for trouble to Joe Sheehan. Item: We leave the love of Marie Pickens for an alumnus to Mary Spry. Item: We leave Russell Weir’s lion-heartedness and his numerous engagements of a social nature to Max Wilson. All the rest and residue of our property whatsoever and wheresoever, of what nature, kind, and quality it may be, and not here disposed of (after paying our debts and funeral expenses) we give to the following class. In witness whereof, we, the class of 1910, the testators, have to this, our will, set our hand and seal, this seventh day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred and ten. Della Blackford, Chm. Will Scott, Anita Crips, Marie Schick, Fred Rankin.

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Item: The following advice, the acceptance of which will lead them to glory—copy 1010. Item: The green grass a hiding place for angry instructors. PERSONAL BEQUESTS. Item: We wish that Mr. Hammitt may obtain the desired power of making new laws to fit occasions as they arise. Item: We give Evelyn Frickc’s grades to Fave Cummings, hoping that she may be thus enabled to catch up with the ’11s. Item: We give Bill Wilkinson’s executive ability (?) to Donald Greenman. Item: We bequeath Elmer Menefee’s and Joyce Crowell’s coquet- tishness to Jack Edgerly. Item: We give Frank’s complexion to Bessie Rutter. Item: We desire that Joe Leisenring’s popularity with the girls be given to Laurence Martin. Item: We leave Arthur Bartlett’s self satisfaction to Joseph Fagan. Item: We bequeath Gene Van Gent’s shoes to Robert Hughes, his medals to Morris Friedman Item: We bequeath Mary Hedrick’s ability to teach Latin to Miss Packard. Item: We wish Hazel Davis to pattern after Mary Hull’s style of hair dressing. Item: We leave Dale Munroc’s dimples to Jake Mier. Item: We give Cleota Sutton’s dramatic ability to Herman Ells- worth. Item: We leave Fred Rankin’s “good” to Harry Hillje. Item: We bequeath Mary Root’s shyness to Helen Dysart. Item: We leave Carl Dixon’s bluffing ability to Esther Hutchison. Item: We give Vera Slaven’s beads to Dorothy Ilormel. Item: We give to Virginia Williams the frivolity of Marie Schick. Item: We give the position of messenger boy of room 10, now held by David Rosenbaum, to Oscar Stoltz. Item: We give Arthur Chidister’s football ability to Henry Wormhoudt. Item: We leave Monna Mored’s “Buddy” and Hazel Nelson’s Joe to the ’ll girls, to be divided among them as they think best, but not for keeps. Item: We give Ethel Miller’s dignified manner to Alice Kilby, and it is our sincere wish that she make use of it Item: We bemieath six feet of height from Whitfield Ilanscll to Cowell Scott and Robert Stentz respectively. Item: We give the mischievous disposition of Ruth Lenander to Vera Oldham. Item: We leave Nellie Anderson’s winsome smile to Ruth Otto. Item: We transfer the ability of Louise Leinhauser in basket ball to Welt ha Norris. Item: We leave the avordupois of Rena Asplund to “Tieky” West- erhoff. Item. We bequeath the ability of Paul Cummings and Fleming Biddison for making dates to Mr. Swank. Item: We leave to George Stutsman Herbert Jeffrey’s debating ability.

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Prophecy of the Class of 1910 In the Year 1919, A. D. •Joyce Crowell, that noted scientist, is strolling along the Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris with his friend, Elmer Menefee, the Grand Opera singer, when he notices a sign, on which are the words in gilded letters Mademoiselle Root, Clairvoyant.” Naturally, he at once thinks of his old schoolmate, Mary Root, and upon investigating finds that he has in- deed stumbled upon his former friend. After the happy recognition and joyous greetings, the talk naturally turns to dear old High School days and schoolmates. “Do you know,” said our friend, the fortune-teller, “nearly all the members of the old class of 1910 have called upon me here.” and turning the pages of a huge, mysterious looking book, worn with age, she tells him of their present life and success. “Well,” she said, “Mary Hull is a hair-dresser in the Fiji Islands. “Arthur Chidester is enjoying life with his wife, Rena Asplund. Arthur is football coach at Princeton. “Will Watson was recently elected governor of Utah on the Repub- lican ticket. “Vera Slavens, who finished a course in art at Paris, has made herself famous by her wonderful paintings. “Marie Schick is a temperance lecturer. She recently did consider- able damage in Chicago playing the role of Carrie Nation. “Georgia Willard is managing a large ranch in Oklahoma. She is studying law during her spare moments and will be ready for the bar in about three years. “Carl Dixon found public life too strenuous and is now raising chick- ens on a chicken farm in Arkansas. “Fleming Biddison is playing the “wild man” in Barnum’s ‘Great- est Show on Earth.’ “Whitfield Hansell and Herbert Jeffries are the only two living skele- tons of the twentieth century. They too arc traveling with Barnum’s circus. “Rose Payne is now Mrs. Rose Rankin. She and her husband, Mr. Fred Rankin, a prosperous merchant, are living peacefully in the good old city of Ottumwa. “Cleota Sutton has retired and is living on a small farm in Missouri after her unsuccessful debut on the stage. She is often seen riding into town in her spring wagon selling butter and eggs. “Miss Ruth Lenander, a leading suffragist of New York, gave a lec- ture on Woman’s Rights recently at the Armory in Ottumwa. “Hazel Nelson is making a hit in vaudeville, singing her famous song entitled ‘Red Head.’ “You have probably heard of Joe Lcisenring’s book on ‘Beauty Hints.’ It is extremely popular, especially among the girls. “David Rosenbaum is now president of the ‘Standard Oil Trust. It is too bad that he causes such suffering and strife among the laboring people. “Louise Leinhauser is physical director in a school for lovesick girls at Dahlonega.