Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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“Mary Colyer —Mary Ma—ry---------------Oh! Mary Colyer, yes I know her, she wouldn’t talk much at school tho, and never seemed to like me in Cicero Class.’ “Why you little rascal you have not been to school before today have you?' “All winter my Lady, Oh I know a thing or two, even tho you Seniors do think you know all there is to be known.” “Now I will tell you about Mary Colyer for a second. She will attend the Champaign University next year and will be the leader of her class and one of the best entertainers in the University. The next year she will do something which will make her famous, but I can’t tell you what it is. It is one of those things which cannot be told — I’ve got to leave you this minute or I will lose my power of knowing the future of other people.” Wait you Genius!—Genius!—Genius! You forgot to tell me about myself.” But he was gone, Alas! gone. Annie Laurie Suffern ’13

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GLASS PROPHECY About three o’clock one afternoon before school was out I was sitting at my desk back in the southeast corner of the well known assembly room, when I noticed outside it was becoming dark. In a few minutes 1 heard the distant roll of thunder then the lightning flash. The windows were up and a good fresh breeze was blowing thru them. I was thinking deeply when “ker thump a book dropped oft of my desk on the floor. I reached down to get it and as I did so I — did what, you ask—gave my third finger on the right hand an awful rub and on that very finger was our class ring. With startling suddenness the ugliest little mortal you ever saw appeared. One of those well known genii - which we hear so much about and never see. Up he jumped on my finger and asked in a hollow voice, ‘What do you want with me? I’m here.” Well! I was scared and dumfounded too, but suddenly my senses returned to me end I whispered, “Will you tell me anything I want to know? “Certainly I will, miss. Just then the thought flashed across my mind, “Ask what is to bs the future of your fellow students who are to graduate with you.” This was the very best tho’t I could have had, so my friend the genius was asked immediately. “My Lady, I’ll begin with the Valedictorian and you need not be mad because you are not that person. Laughing I told him I was not at all jealous. “Alright Miss, I’m ready to talk if you are ready to listen, my visits are limited so I can stay only a certain length of time. Helen Davis, the girl of whom I’m going to speak will go to Northwestern next year, take Liberal Arts and Music, and as usual will be at the head of her class and she will graduate with honors. Soon you will be readiug in the large newspapers of her success as a language teacher in the famous Vassar School for girls. Now then you say you want to hear a-bout Herschel Baker and Paul Fisher. Those two young men will of course finish their college career and in so doing Paul will become interested in pharmacy and Herschel in medicines. Just before they receive their sheep skins, the two young men, who are now ready to fight the battles of life will decide to become partners, and now if you will walk down Madison Street in Chicago, you will see the sign in a large window, Dr. Baker and Dr. Fisher. “Next I will tell you about Maud Weath-erholt and Mary Colyer two more of your good students. Maud will go to Millikin, take Domestic Science and become very much interested in that subject. In i915 you will find her in San Francisco at the World’s Fair demonstrating the new and practical applications of Domestic Science. She has become by this time one of the best Domestic Science lecturers in the great West. And Mary Colyer will-------” Wait a minute Mr. Genius what else a-bout Maud?’,, That little drawn up drawf of a genius just looked at me and blinked his eyes; then he gave his skinny head a twist and said he wouldn’t tell me any more a-bout her - Little Wretch! Guess “I’ll talk a-bout Mary now if you will let me, said my strange friend.

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HOW THEY WILL LOOK IN 1923 Last night Maud Weatherholt, the celebrated high soprano, sang before a large and enthusiastic audience. Miss Weatherholt possesses a voice of unusual sweetness and quality and those who did not hear her may be sure they missed something worth while in this life. From New York Tribune. Forward and onward, oh my sisters! Let us fight for this noble cause! Let all else be put aside for this perfectly grand undertaking! Let us be up and at work! I, Mary Colyer, will lead you! Forward! Onward! ! March! ! Ah hum. This is what I call comfort. Bachelor life for me! I don’t want any girls hanging around. Poor things, they are sort of crazy about me. How those girls in the A. H. S. used to run after me! And I never gave them any encouragement either. But no more girls in mine! But no more girls in mine! But no more girls in mine! Believe me, Paul Fisher’s not the fellow to get married! “Senator H. F. Baker, of Illinois, made a strong and impressive speech yesterday in the Senate on Protective Tariff. He advanced many new and valuable ideas which doubtless will be adopted. Senator Baker is one of the most active and progressive members in Congress. He is well known all over the United States and on the Continent for being one of the best statesmen the world has ever known. From the Washington News.