Chico High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Chico, CA)

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SENIORS-Ada Pulley, Cecil Smith, Juanita Scott, Neuton Enloe, Florence Camper, James Costar, Iona Bohling, was rumored that these two classmates of ours had a deep and sincere affection for each' other. On our way home we ran across Coyle Bybee and Edith Cunning- ham who had started a curio shop and were successfully set up in business. As we still had some time left before supper-time we decided to stop in a little while and see the curios. We went in and saw the prop- rietor and his wife. VVe talked over old times and asked what had happened to Minnie Baughman and Marian Stroud. A Coyle then spoke up and told us the following story of these girls: They had left high school with the intention of becoming drivers for the Allison Electric Aeroplane Transportation Company, but had landed on-a little island in the South Pacific and had made some very startling scientific discoveries in Biology and had become very famous over their work. The first thing they discovered was that if you hit a potato-bug with a sledge-hammer you will get potato-salad. Another thing was how to distinguish between a toadstool and a mushroom. Their discovery was very complicated and needs to be studied a long time to see through it. You first pick the mushroom and then eat it. If you are alive in two weeks. it is a mushroom and if not it is a toad-stool. After hearing about these amazing discoveries we decided to bid our old school friends good-bye and left the establishment. VVe decided to take a walk out into Barber and see what had happened to things out there. As we turned the corner and started down the road to the old Diamond Match Company we were very much surprised to see the sign, Ford Aeroplane Plant 5 Warren Allison, Prop. As Warren had been such a bright Physics stu- -1s- '

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v - ' , . A . A 3 3 , 5 4,,,., ,,.,.. - .af--'-' -----'--- ff -- -Y' -'f -' --'---ffm ' 'f A A, -7- -- '--A1-hams!-A .F . , 'mt 2 V SENIORS-Jessie Bowen, Roy Uhl, Nellie Bass, Phyllis Harvey, Sadie Maynard, Henry Azbill, Mary Perkins. were pinned to the floor when we got a look at her and saw it was Hazel Russell, who had grown so fleshy we hardly knew her. After we had entered a smartly clad usher took us to our seats, and who should it be but Dan Messinger! Soon the lights went out and the curtain rose. The first act on the program was acrobating and tight-rope walking by Letha Schultz. Old Schulzie walked the rope without batting an eye. She was ex- ceedingly thin because of her many disappointments in love. Helen Kunkel and Reine McCampbell were of the same group. . ' Lois Washburn next appeared in a scream, entitled, How To Get a Fellow and How To Keep Him. The young things in the audience gasped as they drank in this wonderful secret, and Anna Belle Compton eagerly took down the recipe, thinking that there was still a chance for her. The next on the program was a snake dance by Mary Perkins, who was considered the greatest vampire, not excepting Theda Bara. Marvin Deter, who was her husband, was suing for a divorce on the grounds of fickleness. Mary had refused to give up her life work, but unless she would give up that life of folly Marvin's life was void of all happiness. Vlfe looked at each other and sighed, for we remem- bered our unromantic life. But we didn't have much time to pine over ourselves, because the dramatic act of Cleopatra and Mark Antony was on the stage. XVe quickly recognized Cleopatra as Daphne Clark, and Mark Antony as our old friend, Harold Wfhite. lVe could see that the love making wasnit all acting, for it

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,V V. A. ,,,.....----- g- ----- A - ' A ' 'M' SENIORS-Daphne Clark, Joseph Drobny, Marie Baughman, Bessie Drobny, Grace Mullen, Curran Butler, Phyllis Power. dent We thought we would take a look into his factory and see We had how much he had progressed from the time known him. As We entered the factory We noticed an energetic man Working over the badly bent hulk of a beautifully shaped Ford Limousine which he was trying to straighten up into an aeroplane body and motor. We immediately ran over and shook the greasy hand of our old' friend Warren and began to ask him about his factory. He said he was working on an anti-gas-saving plan as he was also with the Stand- ard Oil Company. He had also invented a perpetual motion machine, having received his inspiration from Elmer Troxelis mouth when he had introduced the per- formers of the Lyceum Circuit. After we had looked around a little vvhilelonger we excused ourselves and made our way to our miserable abode in the poorhouse. That evening all the old members of the Class of Eighteen who were in the employ of th.e poorhouse keeper met in the dining room, which was the old As- sembly Hall, and had a little entertainment. The per- formance vvas broken into by our .school mate, Marian Roach, vvho vvas fleeing from her husband, Professor Clifford Canfield. After the performance We were greeted by a delega- tion of Eighteeners who had raised a collection for us and 'had bought us a home in the outskirts of the prosperous city of Hog Springs. Un our journey to the magnificent five-room palace We were amazed to see our class-mate, Holmes Miller, shearing sheep. Wie stopped the car and asked him why he Wasn't working in his barber shop and he said: VVell, you know after I shaved Curran Butler the other day I was imbued -14...