Brookport High School - Egyptian Yearbook (Brookport, IL)

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l,898. Mr. Kerr has served as justice of Peace for several years and is Vice- President of the bank. just across the street on either side is a church. The Christian was organized in 1885, and the first graduation exercise for B. H. S. was held in the Christian Church in 1904. D. Wayne McFarland is Minister there now-his hobbies are making musical recordings and raising guinea pigs. On the other corner is a Church of Christ with Bro. Homer Daniels as their leader. VVC1llL1St not overlook our town's telephone office and accomodating operators, VMrs. Jennie VVo0ds and Mable Brown. The Methodist Church is another block down toward the darn-Brother Brookinan is th pastor there and all over town people enjoy the beautiful record- ings played before services. The Methodist organized tl.e first church in Our Town in 1884-they were the days of the Circuit rider- then on the next corner is Smiths' Grocery- Miss Inezn always finds time to do special favors for her friends and customers. Perhaps you figure that we have overlooked Our Town's Beauty Parlors- hut no-we boast of three-Alice's Shop owned and operated by Alice Waynick NVelch-that's just across from the Kroger Store. The Brookport Beauty Shop, owner and operator, Mrs. Beulah Randles, is on the corner across from the Christian Church. Then there's Dot's Beauty Shop back across the highway- in that pretty little modern home of Mrs. Dorothy Harper. Then Our Town has a new photography set up just developed from a hobby following a chemistry unit. Charles Brookman and Arthur Davidson give prompt service-you may watch the rolls develop while you wait-that is if you wait long enough! Hats off to you fellows! Here's the Town Hall and jail combinedg jails in the back-and if you don't think it's thriving, just stick around until night-remember this is Saturday and it really pays off on such nights! The Mayor of Our Town is J. D. Dunn-he's a good friend to our school and has a nice home back there on River Front. He's been right poorly this winter and spent several weeks at I. C. Hospital. Going on down the highway, we pass Nesslerodt's Grocery where the busy houswives are selecting food for the noon-day meal. Down on the next corner is Tiny's Place - the hangout for the gang. Nearing our toWn's city limits , we find Kennedy's Funeral Home, con- ducted by Louis and Gladys Morris-another grand couple. The big clock in front of their home reminds us that it's dinner time, but first let's complete our tour over on the east side of town. just across' the highway, we see an unfortunate traveler who's had car trouble and is being towed in to Independent Oil Co., owned by Robert A. Dod- son and Charlie Clark for repairs. Over on the next street is our printing office owned and operated for many years by Mr. and Mrs. Hall, but Mr. Hall passed to the great beyond last spring. VVe find fl former B. H. S. student, James Morrow, to be the owner and

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X Souders Service Station--both for gas and tickets to ride those big Greyhound and Southern Limited Busses that make Our Town look right citified. Across the street, Tony is busy at the Sinclair Station tanking up cars for our Paducah commuters. VVe have a pretty nice drug store in Our Town too- right there on the leftg ownd by Truman Garrett, a wide awake citizen and school board member. His wife, Dorothy, used to be our school nurse and certainly has that urge to pro- mote better health facilities in Our Towng shels also secretary to the Womans Club. Well, this is what we call the main part of Our Town. Bank's here on the corner-Mr. Alfred Hohman is President but our orchids go to dear Mrs. Holifield, who has already celebrated her 50th anniversary in bank service. Right next door to the bank is our Post Office and of course there's our faithful postrnistress, Mrs. Grace Garrett, busily taking care of our letters and packages. She is assisted by a lovely lady, Violet Vick and Mary Russell-re- member Mary's pleasing personality-voted the best in the class of '46. Down around the next corner is Hohman Hardware and Lumber Co. run by Alphe and VVayne Hohman. Alphe is on the school board and Wayne spent about three and a half years in service-was one of the first to go. Now he's married to Rosemary Johnson-popular and honor student of the class of '4O. Howardis Cab is a recent addition to Our Town-call him for prompt service. Yes-Our Town does have a theater and it is known as the Port Theater, owned and operated by Reeder and Clark. ' Going on over toward the school we see a huge Kroger truck--who knows but what it is delivering a load of Hershey bars! Kroger's has a nw managr now in place of Shelby Morris who has catered to our wants for years- Shelby's health is poor now and he must take a rest. But we do see familiar faces, Mildred Harris and Boe Ellis, former B. H. S. students. ' Everybody knows where our school and gym is located. just take a look at that quiet peaceful atmosphere Qand don't remark, yes, this is Saturdayj. You know, we're right proud of our school-our faculty and students-they just can't be beat! The Bulldogs are over at the gym now-must be getting ready for the Regional tournament next week. I betcha that lots of folks don't know that the first brick school was built in 1894 on this site and that our own B.H.S. was erected in 1919. Mr. H. VV. Holifield, deceased, was on the building com- mittee and of course, our own Mr. Souders was serving on the board then. Another interesting fact is that the first Egyptian was published in l922. Some of the Seniors then were-Germia Butterworth, Printhia Hensler, Hazel Dunn, Nellie Maynard, john Smith, and Grace Robinett Eskew, also Dick Medley. just across from school is the face owned by Medley's-where else could the hungry pupil rather be? One block over towards the river is A. T. Kerr's Dry Goods Store, oldest established business under the same management in Massac County-opened 1n

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