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

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The Call of Fate Softly the shades of night are falling Throwing dark shadows o’er the ground. Which are promptly turned to silver When later by the moon they’re found. Thru the door O’er the piazza Down the walk to the garden gate Steals a dark shadow, Softly and silently. To take up the vigil and there to wait. To wait, to wait To wait for what? Ask and the answer is, “I know not. Something is calling me Calling me here, Something that silences my dread fear.’’ Over the hill, the bright moon arises Bringing with it, so many surprises. Out from the shadows Across the meadows Comes a gray form It stumbles and falls Falls at the feet of her who awaits Who has come here obeying, The call of fate. Quickly she kneels with her hand on his heart “It has stopped! He is dead! Oh my brother!’’ she cries But no gleam appears in the upturned eyes. The moon shines on The night is still And all is quiet In the house on the hill. Dolores Henry 18. The Marrying of Eleanor Eleanor was a good old maid. About forty-five, with flaxen hair, Big blue eyes, and a baby stare. She lived upon a hill-top With nothing but a half a lot And a stove, which she kept red hot. She had a little “feller,’’ As cunnin’ as could be. Whose hair was black and yellar” And he liked to climb a tree. (Used Without Poet’s Knowledge.) Ione Pinckard T8.

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est one of the class is now in Berlin studying music. Mary with her curls, has become the famous star of the Essanay motion pic-sure film company. Fred Brewer has at last aspired to the position of Ambassador to Germany. Harry Brunson has fulfilled our expectations and become a member of the Senate. What about Sabra? To-day’s Tribune says she is to sing to-night in the “Great American” in New York. Garold Barnhart and Lowell Stevenson are two of the most prominent names in Wall Street. Fred Wiley has become teacher of Mathematics in Oxford College. Mary Louise has spent most of her time in traveling, but is at home at present. She has become Mrs. X, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and has come home to send her daughter to Dear Old Atwood high school. I woke from my reverie with a start, for I heard the children coming home from school and I smelled my potatoes beginning to burn. 0TA Day T8. A Theory After much study and serious thought I advance that which my brain has wrought Friends it is a full blown theory Over which my mind grows weary. Many a night the oil I’ve burned Studying that which wise men spurned But at last the trick I've learned. This is it, a simple case Life is but a great foot race When we start we scarce can crawl. But later on we’ll pass them all High school teachers by the way It’s up to us to make it pay That we’ll try is all I’ll say. For four long years we have studied hard. Taken coaching like a pard Now we are on the mark they claim We hear the pistol just the same Telling us the race is on Winning now by brain and brawn We’ll make life’s fortune all our own. Theories like all else good, Are more talked of, than understood; But our theory, we’ve been testing, And in the sunlight of success, we’re resting. Traveling from scene to scene Memory doth turn back I ween To take a glance at old sixteen. Cogdal.

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Ota with her Brownie No. 2 Said to herself “Miss Wiley a picture I’ll have of you” So on the desk the camera goes, Ota little mindful of Miss Wileys pose. But when that kodak, Miss Wiley does see, She rushes to the window as quick as can be. She pulls down the shades to stop the fun. But not before the awful deed is done. Gum Kenneth to the Carnival went. On some mischief he was bent, He strode up to the baby stand And took three balls in his hand. The first he threw, the second, the third, The babies fell, still he demurred; More balls he took, and still they fell. Poor little dears, he threw so well, And when he quit, the amount of gum Amounted to an appalling sum. Next day, to school he brought that gum For all the kids to have some fun; Now Mr. Frazier saw that fun, And Mr. Frazier got that gum; He took it to the office cool, And there he chewed it after school. Lera Doty ’17.