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

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THE POST Calendar 1. School opens. Gee, look at the new teachers. 2. No books, no study. 3. First call for football practice; thirty huskies out in suits the first night. 4. School books arrive. Now for the grind. 5. Virgil Edmondson visits school. 8. Chester walks home with Margaret. 9. Margaret walks home with Chester. 10. Margaret and Chester walk home together. 11. Cleone sit on a pin and Rose. 12. Blanche Kamm has a new pair of goggles. 15. Miss Edmonson asks girls to let the boys go home earlier on Sunday nights. 16 “Coffee Wierman elected cap tain of football team. 17. Doc Thrasher out for football practice. Doc Thrasher chosen to lead yells. 18. Lloyd Kimmel goes to sleep in the assembly. 19. All set for Decatur. 22. Some game, Atwood 0, Decatur 0. 23. All thoughts are about big Festival on the morrow. 29. Atwood trims Arthur 13 to 0. 30. Everybody imitating Hank Lottie. 1. Rain. 2. Grace O'Laughlin falls out of her

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THE POST iiNtmiu him with the promise of meeting him again at 7:00 o'clock. I stepped up to the desk and no— yes could it be possible? Yes it was Kenneth Maxey. He was the same old Kenneth, only he was much older and more business like. H e recognized me immediately We talked for sometime. Yes, he had just received a letter from Arthur who was now studying art in Europe. I was not a bit surprised at this lor I always expected it. He said he would be through work at seven, so we made arrangements to meet with Joe. That night just for old times’ sake, Joe and his friend Kenneth and I all went to the opera. The very first number on the program was rendered by Clark Gilpin, now famous in the musical world. His tenor solo was wonderful but my disappointment was at not getting to see him to talk with him. I went home that night, delighted at having seen or heard of seven out of twenty-seven of the A T. H. S. Freshmen of ’20. How I wished they all could go back to old Atwood with me. Thirty-six hours later I landed in Indianapolis, where I had to stay over night to get connection with the somewhat improved C. I. and W. railroad. I went immediately to Alta (Quick) Hofsas', whose husband Percy, was running a large hardware store in the city. I spent a lovely evening at their home and learned that Mary Sellable, whom I always thought would be a school marm, had a prosperous business in an up-to-date Marinello ahop. In the morning I journeyed on westward and soon the train puffed into old Atwood, still a prosperous and thriving village. I received a hearty welcome as I stepped from the train, foi there stood Russell Jones, now the Atwood station master. Well, I had the very best vacation that I ever spent here among my old friends. I had hoped to have a class reunion hut that was impossible as so many of my old friends; classmates were gone. Only a few remained at home Of course Arnold, Raymond, Wilbur and George were here yet, for they were enjoying life on the farm. Walter and Ruth had followed the same occupation and found life worth living. Neil was managet of a canning factory that had sprung up and boosted the town along. Old A. T. H. S. had been remodeled and several other buildings stood on the campus. I visited the “would-be” college and here found Carl Thrasher presiding over it as dean. Here I also found Haitie an English teacher and Hazel taking care of the Foreign Language department. Agnes and Wilmina had not made many adventures into the business or social world, but were contented to live with their parents. Carl Liven-good. I learned was a teacher of some renown in a school of Chemistry of Chicago. No one seemed to know of the whereabouts of Horace, for he lu.d left Atwood soon after he graduated and had never returned. When my vacation was over I was sorry, but I had had such a lovely vacation, and life cannot be all sunshine, so I went back to my work with as light a heart as possible. Lois Rogers, ’23

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 THE POST seat. She is wearing a patch on her nose. 3. Initiation of the Freshman. 6. Fred Bowen says, “A charter is a bunch of laws wroten out.” Atwood takes Oakland 21 to 0. 7. Lecture on smoking and chewing tobacco. 8. A general changing of seats. 9. Lecture on “gum chewing.” 10. Everybody goes to Bement game. Atwood 20, Bement 0. 13. Edna B. says marble is used to make pillows (pillars.) 14. Carl Livengood has a pair ol “tortoise rims.” 15. Pearl Barnhart arrives at school on time! 16. Red and white sweaters in school; send them to Arthur. 17. Teachers’ institute, no school. 20. Atwood beats Monticello 47 to 0. 21. Leo Harshbarger gets his hair cut. 22. Inscoe Day and Elvert Brewer forced to leave English class. 23. Check needs hair cut on his face. 24. Mothers’ club. 27. Atwood 32, Areola 6. 28. Ceiling leaks in assembly. 29. Too much whispering in assembly. 30. English grade book registers zero. 31. Platonian Program. November 3. Seniors have color rush. 4. Ruth Lancaster arrives. 5. New student starts to school. 6. Coach goes to Monticello. 7. Freshman entertain upper class- men. 10. Lillian Bowman wears Joe Baker’s coat. 11. Joe Baker wears Lillian Bowman’s sweater. 12. Thermometer falls very low. 13. Lloyd Kimmel has a boil on his neck. 14. Teachers’ meeting'at 3:45. 17. Atwood swamps Tuscola 31 to 6. 18. Boys get called down in assembly. 19. Elizabeth E. has a new loud sweater. 20. Sutton forgets his collar and tie. 21. No school. 24. Boys get called down during chapel. 25. Rain! Rain! 26. Wrytonian program. 27. Thanksgiving. 28. No school. D ecember 1. Coal question getting serious. 2. Beware! Scarlet fever.