Creston High School - Annual Yearbook (Creston, OH)

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htuldx- 3 Q 6 Tug.: TWH ANNUAL l .-.Q .a 'il-Y Doonf in-. Class Prophecy The Mysterious Scroll Several months ago I was visiting my cousin whose home is in the Adirondack Mountains. As the scenery is very beautiful in that locality, I decided to take a stroll. I started out, and as I had no definite route in mind, I walked along until I came to a little path. I turned down this path and followed it for a long distance. All of a sudden I heard a peal of thunder. I looked up and saw that a storm was upon me. I had been so busily preoccupied viewing the beautiful scenery around me that I had not noticed the approach of the coming storm. What was I to do? I looked ahead of me and was very much surprised to see a small log cabin about seventyffive yards away. It was raining very hard at this time and as the cabin ap' peared to be deserted I decided to take refuge there until the storm had passed. I ran to the cabin, opened the door and entered. Imagine my surprise! The cabin, which had appeared deserted from the outside, showed signs of recently being occupied. The cabin conf sisted of one small room with two small windows. A fireplace contained a few glowing embers over which hung a large, black kettle. On the mantel shelf were numerous jars and bottles of dried herbs, powders, brackish looking liquids and many other peculiar looking substances. Along one side of the wall were bunches of drying herbs and weeds. The furniture consisted of two rickety chairs and a roughly hewn square table. Cohwebs and dust gave the whole place a gruesome appearance. As I looked upon the table I noticed a large sheet of yellow paper which was covered with a peculiar scroll. I picked it up, looked at it awhile and discovered it to he Shorthand. I sat down on the sturdiest looking chair and started to transcribe it. Imagine my surprise when I made out the following: The indications for the futures of the members of the Class of 1931 of Creston High School are mostly successful although some of them are going to be failing successes. Ellen Carpenter, after serving four terms as the White House cook, and becoming acquainted with all State secrets, will aspire to become President of the United States and will be unanif mously elected. Earl Hoisington, having cultivated a great 'knowledge of Iirefarms, will become the Man' ager and Owner of a Shooting Gallery. Dorothy Dulin, in behalf of her knowledge in Chemistry, will einigrate to Alaska and propagate a new species of icebergs, guaranteed to keep their bulk and weight in the Torrid Zones. Allen Steele will travel to the remotest corner of the earth in search of a wife, and after many years will return to marry his next door neighbor, Chlora Clapp, who has meanwhile be' come a widow. Virginia Stebbins, because of her artistic tendencies, is destined to become a famous and successful milliner, whose headgear will command fabulous prices and astonish the world. Harold Fetzer, to put into practice the agricultural theories gleaned in Agriculture Class, will emigrate to Africa, buy a thousand acres of unirrigated land and raise onions on a large scale. Edythe Guthrie will become the successful manager of the world's largest chewingfgum factory. George Showalter is a. noted lecturer and politician. He went into politics as soon as he became of age, and it has been said he is going to run for Governor in the next election. Margery Fetzer, disappointed in some love affair, has become a Nun and devotes her life to going about doing good to all the world. Paul Beaver, the worldfrenowned detective, will make a trip to thc moon to follow up a clue he has discovered in his latest mystery case, namely: the death of the Man in the Moon. Luella Franks will devote her attention to the manufacture of cosmetics, and after becoming proficient in the French language, will open a beauty parlor in Paris. Glenn Amstutz will circumnavigate the globe three times with a Ford motor car and a birch bark canoe. On the second trip he will meet Lucille Irvin, who has been keeping a boarding' house for factory girls in Siam. After a short but happy courtship. they will marry and make the third trip together. Leora Gliem will become the founder of the world's largest chain stores, selling everything from collarfbuttons to Baby Austins. fPugc Twentyftlwcejl ......... .J l l

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.-.-.I Lua we Asslw - Item 5- Hugh Buchanan leaves his abilityito drive the 'kid wagon' to anyone who wants the job next year. Item 6- Ellen Carpenter bequeaths her liking for Home Economics which she will need in the near future to Ethel Fetzer. 7f8-- Dorothy Dulin and Ruth Hookway have decided to give their secrets concerning dates and new 'boy friends' to Eleanor Giffen and Mildred Snyder. Item Item 9Y Bertha Bartholomay bequeaths her smiling and sunny disposition to Freeda Edingtonf' Item 10- Ellsworth Kimes bequeaths his good looks to Edward Kirschnerf' Item 11-- Margery Fetzer bequeaths her walking to and from school with Donald Stutzman to any girl that wants the place. Item 12- Ruth Fouch has bequeathed her ability to get very much excited and romantic over a 'date' to Arlene Carbaughf' Item 13- I.uella Franks has fully decided to collect her musical voices in a bucket and give to Glenn Hartzler providing he uses them next year. Item 14-- Allen Steele has decided to give his habit of winking at Chlora to Elmer johnson. Item 15-- Doris Gattshall bequeaths her ability to get all A's to any junior who might need them. Item 16- Edythe Guthrie presents her habit of continually chewing gum to her best girl friend, Nellie Carter. Item 17- With all due sympathy we give Leora Gliem's ability to clerk in Woolworth's 7 and 10 cent Store to Alice Bombargerf' 18-!'Earl Hoisington bequeaths a doublefbarrelled shotgun and a 1928 hunting license to Donald Stutzman who wishes to become a second Daniel Boone. 19- Lucille Irvin bequeaths her great ambition to become a strict and dignified teacher to Lillian Kirschnerf' 20- Gladys Vanzile bequeaths her recipe on 'How to get Slim, to William Henry. 21- Virginia Stebbins bequeaths her popularity with teachers to Kathryn Benjamin. 22- George Showalter bequeaths his ability to break all typing speed records to Everett Miracle, providing he makes good use of it and wins a gold medal. 24!'Wayne Stoll bequeaths his curly locks, 'after much thought, to Russell Rhoadsf' 25- Annabelle Winkler bequeaths with the greatest pleasure her ability at writing wills to anyone in the Junior class. ' 26--Paul Beaver bequeaths his ability to juggle milk bottles at 3 A.M., without waking the customers, to Bob Myers. We hereby set our hand and seal to the last will and testament of the Senior Class of 1931 to our administrator, Mr. Metz, to solve for the future. Item Item Item Item Item Item Item Item Signed: Samoa CLASS OF 1931. Witnesses: MEMBERS or ANNUAL STAFF. The Faculty, Juniors, Sophomores, and Freshmen, smiling quietly, arose and left the court room to lill their positions left them by their beloved friends, the Seniors of 1931. When our High School days are over and all the work is done, We think over the months when our work was there begun, How we worked and slaved and tried To gain the goal for which we strived: When you juniors are Seniors too, These difficult tasks will fall on you, One of the worst things is to please the class With a class will that you will pass The inspection of all, and criticism toog Look out, Junior friends, it's coming to you! ANNABELT.E VJINKLER, Class 1931. fPage Tixentyftwozl L-

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if... eras Karma! jf' Hugh Buchanan will go to India to tame elephants, will be carried away on the back of the tamest one to parts unknown and when next seen will be ringing the church bell in Canaan. Annabelle Winkler is about to publish a book on her Adventures In the Core of the Earth. This is certain to be an intensely interesting book, as this is the first successful trip ever made into those subterranean regions. Welcome Plough, whose well known musical talent is expected to send her to the top round of the ladder of fame, will become the instructor of music in the Elementary Schools in Wayne County. Ruth Hookway will be the Hrst woman to make a nonfstop solo flight to Jupiter and back in the newly invented rocketfship. Ruth Sykes will achieve world fame as a Nurse and after discovering a sure cure for Spring Fever, a very contagious disease and prominent in this locality in the Spring Time, will travel to the prominent hospitals of the world to administer her famous formula to its victims. Ellsworth Kime will go to California and make a fortune while there, gathering snails and selling them to French restaurants. Doris Gattshall, who has a welleknown love for sweets, will accept the position of forelady in the Sweets for the Sweet candy factory at New York City. Iola Bowman will receive worldfwide recognition of being a very active 4fH Club leader. She leaves soon for Madagascar where she will attempt to organize a 4fH Club among the natives. Ruth Fouch, whose marvelous voice has claimed worldfwide attention, will make her debut over radio station BfU'NfK at Creston tomorrow evening. This will be the first broadcast by television. Here's a big surprise for all of us! Gladys Vanzile has the distinction of being the thinnest woman alive. She has made a huge fortune appearing with the BarnumfBailey Circus. Wayne Stoll has revolutionized the world of Science by constructing a machine which has perpetual motion. Professor Stoll was tinkering around in his laboratory at Hermanville when he accidentally conceived his idea, and upon putting it into action he had accomplished a feat which has perplexed our great thinkers for ages. ' Bertha Bartholomay, who has had the task of dipping into the future to reveal the fate of ber classmates will accept a position as Star Gazer at Harvard University and will discover a new planet. After I hnished translating this supernatural scroll I glanced out of the window and noticed that the storm had passed and the sun was shining brightly once more. I was just about to leave the cabin when I heard a peculiar noise which seemed to be coming from beneath the floor of the cabin. I looked down and to my horror saw a trap'door, heretofore unnoticed, slowly opening. A large, scarred, yellow hand protrudedg the floor gave away beneath me-just at that moment I awoke-I had fallen out of bed. VJhen .sometimes our feet grow weary, On the rugged hills of life, The path stretching long and dreary With trial and labor rife, We pause on the upward journey. Glancing backward oier valley and glen And sigh with an injinite longing, To return and begin again. 'KAh, futile and vain is the pleading! Life's duties press all of us on, And who may refuse the calling, Or sigh for the sunshine that's gone? Yea, euermore upward and onward Be our steps on the hills of life! And some day a golden dawning Shall glorify trial and strife. BERTHA BARTHOLOMAY. fPage 'Twentyffonrj