Bagley High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Bagley, IA)

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Class Prophesy Hello folks, this is Donald Bowers speaking. I just got back from my trip across the U. S. on a bus. Who do you think was driving? You guess it. It was Clyde Dun- can who has worked on this line for the past eight years. When we stopped at the terminal I wanted to talk to Clyde. When I found him who do you think I found with him? It was Jo Ann Finley whom he had' married after she had graduated from school in 1948. I always said he would never marry Eleanor Porter. I asked him where she was and he said that she had married Bob Prescott, who is living in Iowa raising hogs with his brother Frank. I hear it is a profitable business, have to try it some time. I asked him if he knew where any of our classmates we : .. and he said Yes , Barbara Cook is working at the next bus stop in Cheyene, Wyoming and is married to one of those dude cowboys named Bill Gruber. As I traveled on down the road I saw Clara outin some dog kennel working out some dogs. I asked the driver to stop awhile and let the folks rest their weary bones . As we stopped at the gate I saw a sign The Property of Miss Clara Allen - Keep Off. My gosh, I thought she was touchy but not that bad. AS I walked towards the house a large dog about the size of a leopard jumped out at me. For a moment I thought it would kill me, but Clara called off the dog in time as she came around the house. She asked what my name was and rang for a servant to come and who do you think it was? A Max Parsons himself, working for Clara!!! Max came in, he recognized me, what was I doing for myself besides traveling around the country in a bus and spending money. I told him working on the radio giving sermons. I asked Max if he was still going to be an engineer. He said, No, not yet, I haven't enough money, and probably won't for another ten years. By then I'll be toc. old to do anything but work for Clara. When we left, Clara told me to be sure and look up Lila and Norma in Perry, and see if they were still working at the Telephone office and running around with many boys. When we arrived at Bagley I didn't recognize it. The town had changed a lot. It was about the size of Perry had been when I left. As I got out of the bus there was Bob Prescott waiting for me. I asked him how he knew I was coming and he said Clara had sent a telegram inforrning him I would be there. We went out to his farm in an old Model A which he had bought when he was a senior. When we arrived at his home, I found that it was the same place I lived in when I first moved to Bagley. When we went into the house, there was Lila and Norma who had come over from Perry when they heard I was coming. I asked Norma if she was married yet, and she said, Yes, to Norman Washam. She has two little Norms now!! Lila was married to Lincoln Mansfield and divorced and looking for another man--am I alright? I left immediately and took the first bus I could get for New York. Julia'Ha1l and Marcelyn Morris who are still old maids. Julia has great possi- bilities with Harold Sellers the mathematician at New York. C., C. Marcelyn is still an old maid who won't go with anyone.