Clay High School - Tiskelwah Yearbook (Clay, WV)

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Class Prophecy I V35 we ll of the torl and neryous Strarn of graduatron week and wrshrng to seek a quret hayen where I could haye perfect rest and recuperate I took a trarn and was swrft ly wafted away from ne scenes of my fourh After rrdrng for days on a trarn they called the Caaaon Ball l stepped out at the dge of a great body of water whose extent I could not guess Feelrng that thrs was the land of perfect rest I sank upon the soft moss to con template on my surroundrngs There appeared before my eyes a phantom form rt sard I am the Sprrrt of Prophecv and wrth her mystrc touch rolled back the curtarn of the drm Bevond and permrtted me to gaze down the yrsta of thrngs yet to be Then pornt rng down the long ayenu s rn the strange land she sard l'Now your eyes are open 21d the future rs made clear to you prophecy to the members of the hrgh school class of 1091 what thrngs shall come to pass rn therr lrves as the years roll on and the saads of lrfe run out As I looked rnto the land of the future I could drscern the famrlrar faces of those larr and radrant berngs who were my class mates now Chang d and transformed rnto crtrzens of the great outsrde world I soon found that the Sprrrt of Prophecy had elrmrnated both trme and space so that what seemed moments mrght be years and what seemed rods mrght be thousands of mrles I found myself 1 a strange land and among a strange people I aporoached a shrnrng de k at the far end of a room when from behrnd rt arose a ung lady who was arrayed rn all the splendor of the Queen of Sheba As I approach d her I far lv cream Helen Samples Y there she was hayrng realrzed her hrghe st ambrtron to be the head of a great school and a mrssronary among a strange leathfa reoy e could stay but a few mrnutes to lrsten to her story of struggle ar plen rd sreee s rn th rt mysterrous land and then hastened on ls there were many others to see My prophetrc eye suddenly caught srght of a great crowd that was raprdly frllrng a burldrng rn a large crtv As I approached the court room I helrd the vorce of a pow erful barrrst r plfadrng the cause of a prrsoner at the bar and the yury frled out to eonrrder the yerdrct Almost rmmedrately rt returned and th foreman sard Not Gurlty The e wrs a wrld scream a the mother of the lrberated bay rushed oyer to the brrllrant lryycr to thank hrm for hrs plendrd seryrce As he stood 1 shout wert up from the crowd as he turned to bow hrs acknowledgement I gasped Oh lacksorr you haye found tlae plrce nature frtted you for Now the scene ch rnges and I enter a great burldrng where a splendrd orchestra was entertarnrng a large audrence Nllhat place rs thrs I a ked the usher who show e me to a self Thrs rsthe Burcherlnqmufe of Nlusre That r of the teac e the orchestra Tl a ref u She employs dozen of teachers and has many hundreds of students ard poratrng 0 a well dressed lady rn the audrence he sard That rs t e o aer owner S e rs a busr ss wonder As the musrc ceased grabbed her hand and sure enough t was or r Xersre B rt her and of course the othe was Vera 'I yy enty nrne ' Y v . 'I - r ' I V ' ,' , ' , - e ' ' ' ' .e ' r .1 yy ' ' i ., . s . . e 1 ' e . 1 , ' , - , , ' . ' s ' .. . . , s yy ' I 1 ' , , D, - 1 1 - . I- r , 1 ' ' , ' -- ee , f 1 ' ' . - , ' e a, -1 1 ' ,1 . , . 1 ew 1 . . , 1 1 1 X' 4 7 rc x , D K , N I Iv- fs s f v - . l 1 I . s C ed... . . .I es. t . ' s - , s V ', ' - 's ' ff 1 1 f ' ,I-. I . .lf . f 1 t . . I .d . r' ' - .U . I 'F-, 1 , , 1 I . I' 11 1 J . sy K , , K A 5 . in 1 . - A . . 1 if l I v- 1 .1 1. . 1 I 1 1 e 4. , 5 , ' 3 . . . 1 r L 1 .1 . ay' 'E' . ' ' I S ' . ' . : . . z . I . ' . , , ', , ,. H . - , 1- , 1. , , I1 e ., i us, c ' . . 1 1 . H. ' 1 . , 5 z ' ' ' Ar v ' ' 'YY 1- 1 I 1 1 . 4 e . . gh , X '- H 4 A' 's '. ' ' -is ls 1- f I -- d . . . I . . I . . , s me . has s- , gy s ,. ' .I , Of I 1. ter' are .ll l p p..:.. ' ' '. . ' , .. s - K X L C .1 6 ' en 'Q . T 4- ig I I. g. N -ff . . Il tl . I'1 , I Ill . , 1 1, I - , , V .' ' - . . . . r y . .t . I 1 c . , r , .

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token of our loye and esteem Vue gxye to Mr Boylen S10 000 as compensatlon lor all th energy and knowledge he has expended as sponsor of the annual We trust this will show hum that we really appreclate his untxrlng efforts to help us Ve give and bequeath all our natural beauty ard latest styles ln halr cuts to the Sophomores To Mrs Bobbltt we leave the jumors wtth the request that they xull try to be su llLlE3Ilf consolatnon for our loss whnch we know grueve her wry much Vie leave Mr Murphy and Nlxss Vera Reed to the Freshmen We gxve devxse and bequeath all Chemlstry note books and notes ot all klnds to Mr Custer IU order that he may see that they are not dnstrlbtued lmong the next Chern lstry class We glve devlse and bequeath our thanks to the Faculty lso ux g 1 d lo together We leave wlth you our best wlsh l succc s and happx ess n ll lut re years We hereby nomnnfate and appomt Nlr Bobbltt to be executor of thus wlll ln testlmonsy whereof we have hereunto set our hand and seal thus our Sennor year mneteen hundred and twenty seven SENIOR CLASS Per Freda Colebank Secy Slgned sealed and pubhshed and declared by aboxe nflmed Senlor Class a thelr last wxll and testament who ln thez presence and at thus request 'md ln the presen e of each other we haue hereunto subscrxbed our names as wltnesses THE FACLLTY Clay County Hlgh School County ol Clay State ot West Vlrgnnll Unlttd Qtxtcs ot AIULFI 1 J lvs entx elght vv -V ' ' 9 , l , , -1 ' . f s f - ' , ' .' - t V. . I '5 ' V . IA V W . , . 'f , ' . y . I . V .N V - Q K S . . B . ' ' t ' H , 1 . ' z Y ' ' '- - . V ' ' , ' , , , 3 a . Q ' .at'tu c ' 1' every kind wor'd and every kind deed of each one during the lour years we have bee-1 . ' ' ' ' 'Q LS 'or as. i al ' u C . ' . . ', y 1 4 f .. l 1 v . S V 'A A. ' v W X ' ' ' c I s S . L. I . , ' y ' 'r , n' ' , un ' - C ' . , . ' g ' , ' is 5. Y 7 . A , ' . k C V X , xy . . .1 ' . 1 ' X 'c.. , fi' Q ' ' M

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When I had recovered from my stomshment I sand Do you know what has be come of Sylvra Oh Yes she replled she rs the head of the English department of the State Unlyerslty whlch IS located not far from here I wlll take you over there and see lf she wlll remember you She doesnt usually speak wrth common people but for the sake of the old school from whxch we all were gr duates she may vary her rule on thls occasxon Suddenly there was a vyhlrrmg sound and an alrplarte gently settled on the ground A dozen palrs of hands commenced taklng off and puttlng on mall bags and I reallzed that thus was the transccwtlnental arr mall serylce I saw a famxllar face ln the prlot house and shouted to Bertxce at the top of my voice but the norse was so great he drd not hear me and was soon as a tmy speck far up nn the sky as he sped ayyay to the next statmn 300 mrles to the west Then I stood before a splendrd home IP the mldst of a great orchard which wa surrounded by a farm as far as the eye could see an auto drove up and a pompous gen tleman alight d and ln splte of hrs long beard I recognlzed Chrlton Wrlson He had ac cumulated wealth by developyng a seedless whlte blackberry that Burbank had trred ln yarn to produce After congratulatmg hlm I commenced to mqurre about our scattered class Have you heard of Martha Summers Yes he replned she became qulte a pol xtlclan and was ommated for Congress on the Socralust trcket Clyde Graham was always a smart chap what do you know of hum He be ame a c1v1l engmeer and surveyed the great Lmcoln Hrghway from Ogden Utah to the west coast and rs lccated out there now Murray Smxth was a f1 uancler rn a small way m school Dad he develop any abrlntv along that lmc Ye he became a stock broker and lnternatlonal promoter H underwrote the Royal Radro Corporation and made a fortur though all who bought the stock lost what they lnvested Ira jackson used to make eyes at Irls Murphy I suppose they were marrled ln after years'9 No they had a break up abo.1t somethmg I heard she had found a hand somer man Anyway to drown hrs sorrow he went on a explormg expedltron to the head waters of the Amazon and never came back Rumor sald the cannrbals ate hlm but we were never sure Golkhe and Gay went as medrcal mrssronalres to Iydra Gay converted and mar rled a g eat chief away up near the Hrmalaya Mountams Coldxa lrved with her and preached to the natlves Wlth several other daring mrs yonarres she trxed to cllmb to the IPD of Mt Everest the hrghest pomt rn the world and Iver came back What has become of Thurman Slfko Well you k ov Thuramn always had a klnd of sneaklng notxon that we wanted to run a wlld west sh w It was hls dream to out h Buffalo Brll He went out west to get mto the blsme s but the last we heard of hlm he only owned one long horned steer and he wouldnt go on the rofyd wlth hrm alone There was some hurts of h1s mfatuatron for a beautlful Indlan glrl but I don t know anything about lt You remember Thelma Byrd who was such an artlstl dresser She became a great student and graduated from the L'lIVCI' tty' Certrude Pncrson took a course rn Do me trc Scrence rn the Unlversnty of Chrcago and they formed a partnershlp and started fl young ladres college rr Salt Lake City lbroke m How about Catharme Brooks You remembe she used to look srdeway at Earl McCun but he never knew If H went west and made a mrlllon or two rn the mlmng busxness and last year made a trm round the vyorld She became the head buyer for 'Vlarshall Fneld 81 Co of Chrcago and e r she yyent on 1 busune s trm to France and yyho dld she meet but Earl No It didnt end the yyay you th nk If d d He had hls brndc along so the story end there luly I lxton fx d 'Vlary Drake yye e great loycrs of 'ur Iulu concelyed thc rdea ol Thnty ' ' ll V - 2 y . GH ., yy - I., - - 1 1 Y I , . V . , . Q . . . y - . Q . - 0 u - - yy V . . . V . x . Y -1 C N I k . y t . . . Q . , .. - y k V - y F . Q . . . . . . - 1 . . 1,,. X y - g It rv - I. - - . . , . . . . . . . . ,, 1 fl . ' 9 -I A , . . A v I - rv ' 1 A. A K I . . . , U . . rr' S . S . . n . -, ' ,Y Y U 1 ' . . , . . , Uh . . . , .. . Y! It - . . . . A . r . f - I' , ' v . S, I . , I S' , . v X . H . 1 x - y S. - 3 , 1 3 - , . . C I , 1' I ' - rn ., . . . ,Q . - L 1 r 'l 'S . 1 x , ' Q A G . . . . . -- . , t . I V . , . 1 . ,, . , . b ,D J . . . . . I' ' . 'S S . C 0 v . D ' . V I , n.. I ln.-4 7 .1 s y ' F. ' ' ' X 4 s - c . .X , ' . ,4 . , - f 1 V I Y . . . . . . A 1 I . . . e . I . . . f s . I y Y r A i . . . . . . .4 . . 'I I . ' 1 ' . . . ' . . N, . ' I - v