Creston High School - Annual Yearbook (Creston, OH)

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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

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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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. me -ree Magee Class History Ever since I moved to my far Western home ten years ago, it seems, for some reason or other, that I am no longer connected with what was once my old home town. Excepting a few letters from my old friends, I never hear from anyone. There are no neighbors within many miles of me, and at first my days were rather lonely, but one can get used to anything in ten years. About a month ago, as I was lazily stretched out under a shade tree, trying to decide whether to go to sleep, or listen to the cowboys talk politics, I was startled by a voice saying, Say, did you ever go to High School? I rolled over and looked at the speaker, a tall, lanky cowboy, who had never gone beyond the eighth grade. High School? I smiled. Indeed I did, four years of it. ' Four years, he repeated thoughtfully, What's it like, anyway? Why not tell us boys the whole story? Mercy, I exclaimed, Its been ten years since I graduated, but I'll do my best. It was in September 1927, when fortyfone widefeyed students started to climb the ladder of success. The ladder was too steep to climb, I guess, for by the end of the term, five had dropped out. We elected officers: Earl Hoisington as President, Edward Jesser, Vicefpresidentg Welcome Plough, Secretary, and Ellen Carpenter, Treasurer. We chose crimson and gold as our class colors, Miss Brillhart was our class advisor. The first year went amazingly well, and all began to look forward to our Sophomore year. There were only twentyfeight members that year. The first thing we did was to change our class colors to green and white. Our officers were: Earl, refelected as Presidentg Welcome, Vicefpresidentg Lucille Irvin, Secretary, Ellen, Treasurer. Miss Park was chosen for advisor. Here I paused. What else had we done? It was a shame I'd forgotten so much. Didn't you do anything except study and recite? asked the cowboy, Ken. Oh, yes! We had a baseball and a basketball team. We Sophomores were rep' resented in basketball by Bertha Bartholomay, Ruth Sykes, Margery Fetzer, Edythe Guthrie, Hugh Buchanan, and Earl Hoisington. Hugh was also on the baseball team. This year was not as interesting as our Junior year. We had lost some of our old members, but Annabelle Winkler and Paul Beaver were gained. Paul had left us when a Freshman, but decided Creston was the best place after all. Later, in the spring, Luella Franks came. Our officers this year were: Glenn Amstutz, President, Bertha, Vicefpresidentg Lucille, secretary, Doris Gatt- shall, Treasurer. Many enjoyable parties were held this year. We were represented in baseball and basketball again this year. Annabelle was added to the girls, and Paul to the boys. Our girls won the county championship and were the proud owners of the silver basketball. Annabelle won second place in foul shooting. We elected three members to the Athletic Association: Edythe, Margery, and Hugh. Bertha was apf pointed High School Treasurer, and Earl won third place in the County Declamation Contest. Glenn, Earl, Welcome, Virginia Stebbins, and George Showalter were our enthusiastic debaters. Our team won third place in the County. The orchestra was represented by Glenn and Welcome. So you see there wasn't much we weren't in. This year we had the responsibility of publishing the High School paperf'The Monday Bluz'. We tried to do our best, and I hope we succeeded. But the best is yet to come. On April 11 and 12 we presented Fingerprints, a delightful comedy, and made all the more so by the excellent coaching of our ad' visor, Mr. Metz, and Miss Alsdorf. The play was a real success. fPage Twenty-five? 101: Gl1J