Avon High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Avon, IL)

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 o alir iBiuimrrmm 5» 0 1 Wfr™-- altr S nttnr Pay The comet!y, “When Smith Stepped Out,” a new royalty play, was presented by the Senior class on May nineteenth. The cast was as follows: William Horace Smith, Uncle Bill.............................. Floyd Bivens Geo. Smith, his nephew...................................Forrest Townsend Richard Keene, a detective...................................Charles Hubble Bob Stanley, a wooer..........................................Clifford Wall Mrs Geo. Smith, Nellie.......................................Esther Young Muriel Armitage, her younger sister..........................Ruby Jennings Miss Winslow, a spinster......................................Pauline Neice Hilda, the Swedish maid........................................Frances Wise 29 fc 4i£4ik

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MU» Chr Huumrrmui tM» Q» quake had changed the course of the water, leaving beside what was now the trail, a large rock, formerly in the center of the stream, with a curiously carved hole in its apex. Georgia, quick to spy an advantage and understanding Kelly’s nature, cried out, “Ah dare you-all to put my locket on that rock.” With a careless fling, Kelly threw the locket—right down in the apex of the rock. “Mistah Yarnell,” cried Georgia loudly, “Mistah Yarnell! Kelly threw mah locket away!” “Didn’t neither! You dared me.” “Mistah Yarnell! You-all make Kelly get mah locket.” “Wal,” said Bill, “if you don’t want another thrashing Kelly, you’d better fetch that locket.” Kelly, with certain unpleasant recollections of Bill Yarnell’s muscle in action, obediently climbed the rock to find no locket. “Guess she’s side-tracked down the hole. Aint no locket hereabouts.” “It went down that hole. Ah saw it, Kelly Mulligan,” asserted Georgia, with a stamp of her foot. “You’d better go to town and fetch some powder and get that locket Kelly ” said Bill. “Aw, not fer no locket.” “You heard what I said.” At this, Kelly started for town, and the rest of the group went on down the trail toward the mines. Soon, however, Georgia dropped quietly behind, and started back to the rock. “Wouldn’t it be funny,” she mused, “if Kelly’d find gold in that rock? Then, ah reckon he’d go back to New York, and his dad d build more houses. Ah wish Kelly and me could be married and live in one -and have a pet cat— and Georgia dropped quietly down beside the trail some distance from the rock, for she could hear Kelly grumbling to himself as he plied drill and hammer. “Fool girl! Bedad! All fer a locket! Might o’ knowed she’d have her way. She’d oughta lose it, and me not with the gang faith, I guess the hole’s deep enough for de big noise—” Kelly carefully tamped the powder in and arranged the fuse. He looked about carefully to see that no one was near, and touched off the fuse. After “de big noise,” he hurried to the rock, and gave a shout of surprise. “Holy Moses, have I struck a pocket?” Sure enough, Kelly had struck a pocket. This small horde of gold had been de- posited in the rock by the stream. “Ah guess now Mistah Kelly, you can go back to New York!” said Georgia wist- fully, as she came running up and spied the “find.” And Pa Mulligan with the ten young Mulligans, Kelly included, did leave for New York on the next boat. Does woman always have her way? The final chapter in the Kerney-Mulligan tale was added ten years later. In the marriage license column of Georgia’s home-town paper, interested friends read: Kelly Mulligan, New York, 23; Georgia Kerney, LeGrande, 22 Yes, woman will have her way! By FORREST TOWNSEND.

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•44« abr ilimimrrauu Q - • t H' ]----------- -i •O “Aarmt iSagga, JFrrahman” IT never rains but it pours. How true this old proverb seemed when the Junior class prepared to give its play, “Aaron Boggs, Freshman.” The date first set for presenting the play was March ninth, but due to the epidemic of mumps it was necessary to postpone it twice before the actual presentations on March twenty-fifth and April fourteenth were successfully accomplished. The play is a delightful portrayal of college life. Aaron Boggs, a Freshman from Splinterville, feels the usual pangs of homesickness, but these are forgotten when his hazing begins. Lizzie Maude, also from Splinterville, who is a waitress at Aaron’s boarding house, comes to the rescue with the news that Aaron is the only heir of his multi-mil.ionaire uncle, J. P. Boggs. Aaron immediately becomes the he- ro of the campus, but when the rumor of his wealth proves false and life seems darkest, Lizzie Maude again comes to the rescue. The inevitable happens, Aaron finds that it is Lizzie, for whom he has cared all along.