Central City High School - Bison Yearbook (Central City, NE)

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:6 :C c.c.H.s. THE BISON PAGE24 :6 :6 Elizabeth Bollinger, Ruth Grain and Letha Miller were holding a directors' meeting of the Standard Oil Company, of which they had re- cently become the controlling stockholders. The next sight that came to the eyes of the watchers was the stage in a New York theater, where Asa Mohr and J essie Coolidge were billed as headliners in their famous tumbling act. Hilding Lyons they found putting 011 his driver's helmet preparatory to descent into the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-ship, which he had located afte1 yeals of painstaking effo1t. Bartlett Sullivan they found as chef 1n the most popular and exclusive hotel 1n the United States. Hazel Lutrell, Opal J ewell, Louise New and Grace Kidder were making the perilous ascent of Mount Everest, following closely in the tracks of their guide, Erma Van Pelt, the most famous mountain climber in the world. ' Dorothy Huxford and Perna Widman were seen in their beauty parlor in Hollywood, polishing D011 SoltIs eyebrows. D011 is the newly elected President of the Universal Film Corporation. Winona Fraser, another well known chemist, was busy perfecting a process whereby confiscated liquor could be changed into many useful perfumes, dyes, rat poisons, creosote, enamel removers, grinding com- pounds, sheep dips and insecticides. Ida Wood was found as the head of a nation-wide detective agency, the terror of all law-breakers and a great deterrent to crime. The telescope next showed Eula Willhoft as the editor of the New York Sun, known as the finest newspaper in the world, due to the efforts Of Eula andlher chief assistant, Stella Valentine. An inspiring scene next presented itself. Geraldine Sattler, succes- sor of John Philip Sousa as the director of Sousais Band, was leading the UnitedStates Marine Band 011 parade. Geraldine Mor1is and Mildred Suck we1e 1athe1 hald to find, as they we1e prospecting for platinum in the U1a1 Mountains of Russia. Madeline Turnby and Mildied Lovell, the wealthy wholesale millineis, drove up before the obser'vat01y just then and went in for a visit with their old classmates. In the course of their conversation Professor Moore said, I wonder where the Johnston twins are ? The telescope quivered, shook, and then shattered into innumerable pieces! The little group stood gazing dumbfounded upon the fragments of the instrument. Professor Marquis broke the silence. P11 bet that they arent together, he said. Which was true, as Floyd tor was it Lloydb was living in Patagonia on a chicken farm, and the other, Lloyd, I think, tor was it FloydD was exploring Madagascar. N o wonder the telescope broke! The little group finally tore their gaze from the shattered pieces. Thus it is with our lives. We are created, we serve, we die.

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:6 :6 C.C.H.S. THE BISON PAGE23 :c x gether they mounted the telescope upon its stand in a small glass room, high upon a mountain, and then sat down to test it out. Raymond Ashelford first came to their minds, and the telescope focused upon the huge irrigation lake in the Platte River, which Doc had built,..and showed. iiDoc out in the middle of it 011 a small artificial island, shooting ducks for supper. They-found Paul Ibson and Leonard Kyes, also Mrs. Kyes, nee'Hazel Gantz, in a large, busybuilding in Central City, making radios and selling them at the late of sever al carleads a day. The quality of the Ibson-Kyes machine had practically done away with competition. Olan Wilson and his talented wife, the daughter of Mr. P. A. Duffy, of Centr a1 City, were just returning from a concert tour ar ound the 1'.v011d Maiie Guild, the famous soprano, had been with them, but, while in Paris, was stricken speechless by sight of the Eiffel To1've1, and is still in F1 ance looking for her voice. The telescope next focused upon- a camp in the interior of South America. Leon Woods, Chester Thomas, Clifford Currey and- Loren Bellin were sitting around the fire, planning the next step in their task of building highways and 1'ai11' oads acr oss the continent, ther eby opening up the country for development. George Melgan and Ar thur Funk were found by the telescope while pounding their typewriters desperately in the finals of the tournament for the world,s typing championship. Dave Mathieson and Don Kyes were fairly coining money posing for iibefore and iiafter taking pictures to advertise patent medicines and physical culture methods. . Roy Messersmith and Edwin Falnham were discover ed in the act of building fences on their huge ianch in the Argentine. Helen Boelts was busy at work in the laboratory of the General Electric Company, of which company Helen is Chief Engineer. . The next change brought tears to the eyes of Professor Marquis and the distinguished Mr. Moore, for they were looking at a headstone in a large, well-kept cemetery. Upon the headstone they read Mark Parker. Born January 18, 1908. Died while making a batch of fiashlight powder, January 28, 1938. Poor Mark! Gertrude Hoagland was busy at work 011 her latest painting when i caught by the telescope. She was in a richly furnished studio, which bore testimony to the success she had won. 'John Riddlemoser was discovered in Ward No. 13 of New York,s Emergency Hospital, recovering from the injuries he had received when he absent-mindedly stepped into the elevator shaft at .the-forty-third fioor. Ralph Edger and his wife, whom the Professor and his partner recog- nized as 10121 Thomas, were seen busy keeping their cook, their six maids, their butler, their four cats and their Airedale-at work.

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