Atlanta High School - Atalanta Yearbook (Atlanta, IL)

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first Dentist 3ign:he saw and never paid any attention to the name. When she got in, sue was very surprised to see that little Patsy Burns was the dentist. She was awfully glad to see Marie because she hadn't seen any of us since school was out in '45. It seems that every time she was home we were all gone. Every one seemed to be in favor of us taking a plane from Santa Fe to Dallas, Texas, so I went down to the airport to see about reservations. I got them and was tola to report back about 4:00 that afternoon to meet the pilot, i went back and we packed our bags then went back to the airport. We were told tnat we could get on the plane and wait if we wished to, so we were walking across the field to the plane when he heard something that sounded very familiar. CHARGE i J Thats right Jim Tuttle, He was walking along behind us and was trying to attract our attention some way and knew that ’would do it. He was the same old Jim, but perhaps he looked a little older. We ask him which plane he was in charge of and when he told us it was the one v e were to take. He told us that he was married also (of course we wouldn't nave any idea who the lucky girl could be.) ies, thats right La Verne Backer. He told us that sne had taught school a couple of years after she had graduated from college, but she liked home life better. He had a picture of a very cute little boy which he showed us with the greatest of pride. Jim told us about some of the pranks he pulled, so we knew right away why La Verne hadn't taught school more than she did. We left Santa Fe about 6:00 P.M. and got into Dallas about 5:00 A.:,!, It was early lor us to start looking for a place to stay so we had to stay at the airport for awhile. We were sitting there talking about getting an apartment or something when a lady ask us if we wouldn't like to rent her apartment for a couple of days. We told her we would, so she gave us the address ana v e hurried on out there. She had told us that we could cook there too if we wished. We hadn't had a home cooked meal for quite awhile, so we decided we would rest until a store was open, then get some groceries. About J: 50 we went down to see what kind of stores v e had to pick from. There was only one that was familiar to us. Krogers store. Ue thought it would be a pretty good gues3. We walked in and guess who was standing in the back giving all the orders. You guessed it, Norma Turner. We sure didn't expect to see her here. We didn't have much time to talk to her. She had such a business that she v as on the run most of the time. Ka, s?oveeaiabvM apartment fixRd our lunch and ate. We had i ga tove and while xixing lunen v e ran out of gas, so after lunch Rasie The mfnut?et?h0ne to.ask tilc operator where we could get some Yes’ P- t B?andt F Nuraber Flease she knew who it v at dowA to the off - 1 W?fre ° the sas £nd ask us to co« down to the office, we went to the office first, because we were anxious to learn how the world had been treating her. When we got £rnif tic TSVTii! 3Ce ther Was a dair acrosa £hc stree?. f ask suited her list atmosphere around the office and she said it suited ner just fine. I have always v ondered why. Well, wc thought v e had better hurry on to the gas station in order to be back In time for dinner. Pat had tolfufL go to tto Illico Oil Station. We found out that it would be just as eas- - for us H ™lk' 30 we dld we got in sight of the staUonwethSuSt I -°ald sec a familiar figure but we weren't 3ure. But the closer we got the more v e thought it was---------------Kenny Purcell, Sell,

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Went ud to the desk and told the ;mr»o that v e needed a doctor and a room. She tool: us to a room and told uf she would send r. doctor us soon as possible• Vie got iirlono to bod as s eor a v.c cov.ld becc-uso she was suffer ins terribly. '.Vo never were so surprised when the doc-' tor arrived because it was Dr. Carl 17. Williams one of our classmates, too. Of course it wasn't a very happy reunion because Arlene v;as so sick, but wo got to talk when ho found spore time. Marie and I took turns staying with Arlene until v o were pretty tired. Co the doctor got a special nurse for us. Guc3S who she was? Thats right, Mary Louise Wright. She seemed to be very glad to see some of hc-r old friends and she was a very efficient nurse, too. Soon Arlene got to leave the hospital, '7c tried to get a trained nurse to take with us out tnoi’C just weren't any available. Mario wont to the station to got our tickets to continue on our wa'r and to see when the next train loft, Sho met otic 01 our cl..sonatas that wo didn't get to meet. Whilo she was buying our tickets, Iris Bristow walked up to the ticket window. She was going to Al'or.r-quraue, Mow Mexico where she worked at the State Farm Mutual. Sno 3aid sho and Virginia had been working there ever since school was out Wo were very glad to learn that they worn both v oll. Wc loft Sr.n Diego about 10:00 in the morning and crossed into Arizona late that night. Wc wore going on this trip to sec the scenery and wc weren't seeing much on trains. We intended to get off at least once in every state. Our train stopped in Phoenix, ..rizouc so v o got off end found a nice hotel. Wc thought v o would stay at the hotel for the evening, but I decided I wanted a paper. I went down and started looking for a newsstand. As I was walking along 1 just napponod to 0l-.ncc in x window and wno was sitting in there typing but Phyllis C hr i smart. I just couldn't walk on past without seeing her so I went in. She seemed awfully tickled to see me. She was really doing alright for herself. She was c. private secretary to some multi-millionaire. She said she was married to some jerk by the namo of Gordon. It seems he wcis the vncino.gor of Horn s Transfer in the so.no city Sho Qsk nil about us and asked us out to her house for dinner, but I explained to her we were all pretty tired and wc hed a long ride ahead of U3 yet. Y c just stopped in Phoenix for some business that ..rlonc had to attend to, so the next morning vc docided wc would take the bus to Santc Fo, New Mexico. Just as wo boarded the bus Marie started com- plaining with a toothache, so'it was a good thing that wo weren't going any further than Santo Fc, The next morning about. 7:00 wc arrived in Santc Fc. c found ourselves a room and got something to cat, Marie decided she would go to the dentist, so Arlene and I went on a sight seeing tour. . c came to the conclusion that wo would meet in our room at noon. ..rlenc and I went down to the corner to catch a city ous. Vo got on the bus and guess who wc sat down by? Priscilla i.pplcgatc. '.ic never nrd any idea that she was in that part of the country. Sho told us she was teaching Latin in one of the local schools. '.7c thought perhaps she was teaching, but we never thought it would be Latin, V o on Iked until it came time for her to got off. It soon came time for us .to go back because it was nearly noon. Wc got back around 11:45 and ..arir v.as already there, Y c thought she had a very pleasant look on her free, so wc ask her why she was happy. She said she just walked into tnc

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was just who it was. V e hadn't seen Kenny for quite awhile so it was nice to get to see him. We had to hurry though because v e v ere all quite hungry. We went back to the apartment and ate dimer. About 7:00 P.M. we got a call from the lady who owned the apartment telling us we would have to vacate because she was back. We told her we would leave early in the morning. She told us that would be fine. We hopped out of bed about 6:00 A.M., ate breakfast packed our suitcases and were out by 7:00. V e went to the depot to see about a train to Little Rock, Arkansas. V e found that there were no reservations. We knew that the bus would be too crowded so the only thing left to do was to buy a car. V e pooled our money and had 425.02. We bought a paper with the and looked in the ads for a used car. V e found one that looked reasonable, so we hurried on to the address given. While talking to the owner of the car, we noticed that he talked quite abit about his wife, whose name was Rutiiie . We asked him what Ruthies's last name was before they were married and he told us Pruitt. We had an idea that was what it wss. be asked him if we could see her and he told us she wasn't home right then, so we wrote her a note and left it with him. Arlene thought that she should d‘ ve 30 we let her, although we didn't think it was altogether good for her. We decided we would eat our lunch before v e started, so we went up town and ate then started on. That evening aoout 6:00 we saw a sign along the road advertising fresh vegetables so we stopped. I went up to the door and knocked. I never was so shocked in all my life, because Bill Marti-nie answered. When we finished school he was sure he wouldn't be • a farmer, 30 vc had a laugh about that. He sold us our vegetables, then we bid him farewell and went on our way. The next morning about 8:00 we arrived in Hannibal, Missouri. We did not stop in Hannibal, but just on the other sitVe we saw a railroad crev: working. V e could see them pretty plain and one of them stood dut especially. V e were almost sure who it was because of tho nature of the work and we new he worked around Hannibal. V e stopped the car and went over. Sure enough it was Tom Spaget Speciale. V e talked with him for awhile, but we decided we were keeping him from his work so we drove on. If v e remember Spaget though he wouldn't care how much work he missed out on. • That evening about 5:00 v.e rot into St. Loui3, Missouri. We wanted to see a ball game so wc decided to stay there all night and see the game the next day. V e found a room, ate dinner and settled down for the night. V e arose about 9:00 and ate breakfast. The ball game didn't start until 2:00 so v e had alot of time to see the city. We ate dinner about 12:00 and then v ent out to the ball park. V e wanted to get a good seat. The game was a little late in starting, but it 3oums the bat boy wasn't there yet and the game can't go on without the bat boy. The game was between the St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Sox. After the Brown's would bat we thought we could see someone who looked very familiar, so after the game we strolled down b s 33 for sure. It was just v io v e thought it was. Donald Tuane Taylor. lie told us he war still working for the position of