Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 174 of the 1916 volume:

THE MEDLEY ANNUAL OF DANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL VOLUME ILLINOIS PRINTING CO.. DANVILLE. ILL. THE CURTAIN’S UP! WITH THE “tap, tap tap’’ of the prompter’s cane upon the stage the curtain rises on our year book. All are ready to make their prettiest bows to the admiring public. The entire book awaits the prompter’s call. The pictures, prose and poetry are mingled, as of yore, between the covers. And now with the “knock, knock, knock” of our dear, but ever critical readers, the curtain’s up on the 1916 Medley. . THE . EDLEY Harriet Louise Robbins 4 M.the. EDLEY To HARRIET LOUISE ROBBINS v . WHO HAS LED US WISELY AND WELL AND WHO FOR THE YEAR HAS BEEN OUR BELOVED ADVISER WE, THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTEEN WITH LOVE AND RESPECT DO DEDICATE THIS THIRTEENTH VOLUME OF THE MEDLEY M.the. EDLEY Main Building Danville High School M. THE . EDLEY Gilbert P. Randle City Superintendent of Schools . THE . EDLEY 8 A T the • IVIedley tLUntrii uf EJuiratimt O. M. Jones, President A. A. Partlow, Secretary Mrs. Jennie Freeman Dr. Solomon Jones George F. Rearick Columbus Schatz J. W. Telling Suarii of ti'utratum (Eommittpp 1315-16. (Trariirra Mr. Rearick, Mr. J. W. Telling, Mr. Partlow Butliiinii anfi (SraunfiB Mr. Schatz, Dr. Jones, Mr. Partlow S� «jitilirB Mr. Partlow, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Telling Jfittanrr Dr. Jones, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Schatz fialra anil Briutlatiuue Mrs. Freeman, Dr. Jones, Mr. Rearick Sfxt Banka Mr. Telling, Mr. Rearick, Mrs. Freeman (Citji li|irnntrnkrttt Gilbert P. Randle Hours—8:15 to 9:00 A. M. 4:00 to 5:00 P. M. Saturdays—9:00 to 11:30 A. M. 9 , THE . EDLEY The Medley Staff 10 11 . THE . EDLEY 12 M.the. EDLEY . THE . ED LEY A. W. Smalley, A. B., Principal University cf Michigan 14 M.the. EDLEY Faye Ruth Miller, A. B. De Pauw University Lelarid Stanford University Instructor in History and German W. C. Baer, A. B. Wabash College. Lake Forest College. Instructor in Civics and History 15 . THE . ED LEY Bertha M. Harper, B. S. University of Illinois Instructor in Domestic Science Lessler A. Joel, A. B. Wabash College University of Minnesota Instructor in Mathematics Ruth Lewman, A. B. James Millikin University Instructor in English and French C- 16 M. THE . EDLEY Madge K. Gundy, A. B. University of Illinois Instructor in English Arthur L. Loring, A. B. University of Michigan Instructor in Commercial- Branches Harriet L. Robbins, B. S. Knox College University of Tennessee Instructor in Biology and Physiography 17 Mi THE . EDLEY Etna L. Robey, A. B. University of Chicago Wellesley College Instructor in English Fred T. Hart, B. S. Purdue University Instructor in Physics and Cheinistry Nellie Simons, A. B. De Pauw University. Instructor in English and German 18 M. THE ; EDLEY Frances Pearson Meeks, Pd.M.,A.M. Michigan State Normal Illinois Wesleyan Cornell University University of Chicago. University of Illinois Instructor in English and Teachers’ Training Dan Lewis, Pd. B. Missouri State Normal Instructor in Shorthand, Typewriting and Commercial Arithmetic Edna Bence, A. B. De Pauw University Berlin University. Instructor in German 19 . THE . EDLEY Ella S. Brown, A. B. University of Nebraska University of Illinois Instructor in Latin H. F. Munch, B. S. Adrian College University of Chicago Instructor in Mathematics Lucy E. Lewis, A. B. University of Illinois Instructor in Mathematics 20 M. THE . EDLEY A. Tuggle. Westfield College Instructor in Manual Training Gertrude Payne, Ph. B. De Pauw University University of Chicago Instructor in History, Mathematics and Teachers’ Training Blair Converse, A. B. Earlham College Instructor in English Mary D. Hawkins, Ph. B., A. M. University of Chicago Instructor in Mathematics 21 $ . M. THE . EDLEY 23 M. THE . EDLEY Senior (Class (i)fttn'rs President. . . . Vice-President Secretary. . . . Treasurer..... Historian..... Adviser....... .. Madeline Dague Elizabeth Rearick .. .William Kieran ... Mary Seigmund ........Sina Reed ....Miss Robbins (Hmuintttrrs S’urial Amelia Starks, Chairman Palmer Craig Dorothy Symons Julia Knight Arthur Baldwin ilniiitatinu Kathryn Faith, Chairman Clara Burgette Helen Grimes Orland Church Paul Saunders Colors—Old Rose and Gold. Motto—“Be Square.” 24 ]Vf-THE • IVIedley Senior (Dana iitatortf AND AS 'twere the custom of those days, on the day of the month of the % ear, that the institution of D. H. S. opened, there appeared in the halls of that edifice a goodly number of new and verdant beings in those days called Freshmen.’’ And as they were newly come and unaccustomed to res et instodes, they committed various crimes in the name of their verdantness. But as time went on and they learned the customs and gods of their companions on che road of Knowledge, they waxed a goodly number of Sophomores. And in the season when they were to elect a' High Priest and Prophet, they showed their wisdom and selected Wilbert Foster as the former and Silas Rorem as their Prophet. During this age they held one feast on the night of all fools and witches and yea, ’tis said they waxed exceeding merry. In the time when they became Juniors, again they chose a leader— Orland Church, and kept their former Prophet. At the holy time of Christ’s birth, .all the peoples assembled at the abode of Love, as was duly befitting and proper, and held a feast, and, yea, I say unto ye, they, a second time came together and marched to a place in that day called the “Movies” and verily again they assembled and partook of manna called “Taffy” in the Hall dedicated to the noble Washington. In the fourth and noblest year of their pilgrimage, and when they had come to be venerable Patriarchs, they came together again and chose as their head Madeline Dague, and as Prophet, Harriet Robbins. Again on the Hallowed Eve they met to keep the feast and, verily, the commandment of the Almighty, for the pastries made from the golden fruit of the harvest, the pumpkin, were not forthcoming. And, verily, they also celebrated the feast of the Calendar in due time. And on the sixth eve of the fifth month the tribes of the Seniors and Juniors gathered together and partook of an excellent feast. And verily I say unto ye, that in all the battles and contests of their people, they upheld their names to great honor and glory, and in the Halls of Learning and Arts their names will long echo down the corridor of years. Their noble motto was in the language of the age, “Be square;” and verily I .say to ye, did they live up to it. Their banners were in the beautiful hues of the sunset sky, old-rose and gold. And ’tis said in due time they reached che end of their pilgrimage and came unto the Promised Land, so readeth the scroll of the Class of 1916. Sina Reed. 25 . THE . ED LEY Madeline Dague President of Senior Class 26 M-THE- IVlEDLEY William A. Kieran General Course: Wrangler; Boy’s Athletic Assn.; Class Vice-President, 3; Class Secretary, 4: Class Baseball, 3; Class Basket-ball, 3, 4; Varsity Basket-ball, 4; Athletic Editor Maroon and hite, 4; Business Manager of the Medley; Board of Finance, 4; Football, 3, 4; Tennis, 4. “What shall I do to be forever known, and make the age to come my own? Florance Walton General Course: Editor-in-Chief, Maroon and hite, 4; News Editor, 3; State District Oratorical Contest, 3; Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; Chairman Program Committee, 3; Property Committee, Honor Roll, 1, 2. 3, 4; Girls’ Athletic Association, 3, 4; Pin Committee, 3: Class Historian, 2. 2; “The Piper,” 3: “Midsummer Night's Dream,” 2; “Twelfth Night,” 1; Adarian, 1 “Her very frowns are fairer far. Than smiles of other maidens are. Jane Palmer General Course; Girls' Club; Pres. Soph. Class, 2; Social Committee, 3; Athedarian. “She watches hint as a cat would watch a mouse.’’ Orland A. Church General Course; Social Committee, 2; Class President, 3; Editor-in-Chief of Medley, 4; Invitation Committee, 4. “Strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” 27 M-THE- IVIedley Arthur E. Baldwin General Course; Pin Committee Chairman, 3; Social Committee, 4; Athletic Association, 4; Track, 4; Medley Staff, 4; “Talk to him of Jacob’s ladder, and he would ask the number of steps.” Catharine D. Hahn Commercial Course; Athaneaum, 1; Athedarian, 2, 4; Girls’ Student Club, 4; Honor Roll (attendance), 2, 3. “Some have too much, yet still do crave; I seek no more. Florence C. Bireline General Course; Chairman Social Committee, 2; Athedarian, 4; Girls' Student Club, 4. “Too fair to worship, too divine to love.” Noble Lindelsee General Course. “Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” 28 jVT' THE . IVIedley Madeline Dague General Course; Social Committee, 3; Maroon and White Staff, 4; Class President, 4; “Piper,” 3: Adarian, 1, 2; Athedarian, 3, 4; Girls’ Bible Class, 1; Girls’ Student Club, 2, 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus, 3. “I am resolved, to grow fat and look young 'till forty. Roscoe D. Davies General Course. “ have a good eye, uncle, I can see a church by daylight.’’ Margarita M. Burns Girls’ Club, 3, 4; Athedarian; Athletic Association; Basket-ball, 3, 4; Assistant Editor-in Chief of Maroon and White. “She had a wit, if ever such wit were. Julia Knight Adarian, 1; Wranglers, 2, 3; Athedarian, 3, 4; Secretary. 4. “Earth's noblest thing—a woman perfected. 29' . THE . EDLEY Alice E. Brown General Course; Athenaeum, 1; Anti-Cigarette Prize Essay, 1: Play, “Passing of the Indian,” I; Girls’ Student Club, 3, 4; Athedarian, 3, 4; Literary Editor of Medley, 4. “The devil hath not, in all his quivers choice An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.” Roscoe Stephens General Course. “He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.” Lucy M. Ramsey General Course. “A happy soul, that all the way to heaven hath a summer’s day.” Margaret Conlin General Course; Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; “Piper,” 3; “01 if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.” 30 M-THE- IVIedley Millie M. Williams General Course; Girls’ Club. “The fair, the chaste, the utiexpressive she.” Floyd E. Pogue Commercial Course; Athedarian, 1; Football, 2, 3; Class Baseball; Basket-ball, 3; Junior Class Officer, 3; Athletic Association, 2, 3, 4. “A decent boldness ever meets with friends. Ruth Gertrude Flynn General Course, Adarian Literary Society, 1; Athedarian Literary Society, 2, '3, 4; Honor Roll, 2: Piper,” 3; Girls’ Chorus, 4. “And truth divine came mended from her tongue. Selma Caroline Schultz County Contest in Extempore Speaking, 3. “A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. 31 . THE . EDLEY Helen Ruth Callwell General Course; Athedarian, 4; Wrangler, 4; Girls’ Club “Minstrel Show.” “Heart on her lips and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime and sunny as her skies.” Lewis A. Thompson General Course; Fithian High School, 1, 2. “Life is not so short, but that there’s always time for courtesy. Hila E. Graham General Course; Girls' Student Club, 3; Athenaeum, 1. The fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books.” Aurelia Starks General Course; Adarian, 1,2; Girls’ Club, 3, 4; Secretary Girls’ Club, 4; D. A. R. Essay, 3; Assistant News Editor Maroon and White, 3; Class Historian, 3; Literary Editor Maroon and White, 4; Calendar Editor Medley, 4; Chairman of Social Committee Senior Class, 4. “A lovely being, scarcely formed or moidded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.” 32 M . THE . EDLEY Sina Reed General Course; Adarian, 1; Athedarian, 2, 4; Girls’ Club, 1, 2, 4; Chairman of Social Committee, 2; Historian, 4. “How a little body lodged a mighty mind. Palmer Craig See. Treas. Junior Class, 3; Manager Junior Class Basket-ball, 3; Treasurer Athedarians, 4; “The Piper,” 3; Social Committee, 4; Class Basket-ball Capt., 4; Varsity Basket-ball, 4; Football, 4; Athedarian, 3, 4. ' “I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, ’tis to another sea. Adeline Cannady General Course. “Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. Beatrice C. Bannin General Course; Adarian, 1; Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; Girls’ Chorus, 4; Girl’s Student Club, 4. “Whose well taught mind the present age surpast. 33 • M.the. EDLEY Miriam Moore General Course. “Who says in verse what others say in prose.' Frank M. Ryan General Course; Football, 2, 3; Bus. Mgr. Maroon and White, 3; Medley Staff, 4. “A head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief. Vivian Finch Commercial Course; Sec.-Treas. Girls’ Athletic Association, 3; Assistant Treasurer, 3; Treasurer, 4; Girls’ Basket-ball Team, 3; Chairman Lawn Fete Committee, 3. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.'' Clara J. Burgette Commercial Course; Girls’ Club, 3, 4; Girls' Basket-ball, 2, 3, 4; Girls’ Athletic Association, 3; Invitation Committee, 4. “How poor are they that have not patience.'' 34 M-THE- JVIedley ' Elizabeth Corrine Walker General Course; Adarian, 1; Athedarian, 2, 4; Girls’ Student Club, 4; Girls’ Chorus, 3, 4; Piper,” 3; Chairman of Reception Committee, 4. “7 did not care one straw.” George R. Jones General Course, Wranglers, 1,2; Science Club, 1, 2; Football, 2; Track, 2. “The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Margaret Jewell General Course; Art Editor Medley, 3, 4; Art Editor Maroon and White, 2, 3, 4; Chairman Social Committee, 3; Semi-chorus, 3; Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; Advertiser Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; Adarian, 1; Girls' Athletic Association, 3, 4; “Twelfth Night,” 1: “Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2; The Piper, 3. “And faithfully picture all things as they are.” Vera H. Watts General Course; Athenaeums, 1; Bible Class, 2; Basket-ball, 2; Girls’ Club, 3, 4; Girls’ Athletic Association, 4; Class Basket-ball, 4. “7 am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.” 35 M-THE- IVlEDLEY Helen W. Jackson General Course; Social Committee, 2; Girls’ Chorus, 1, 2; Athedarian, 1, 2, 3, 4; Girls'Club, 4; Assistant Editor-in-Chief Maroon and White, 3; Humorous Editor Maroon and White, 4. “Not that I love study less, but that I love fun more. Charles E. Silkey General Course; Athedarian; Boys’ Athletic Association; Cross Country Team; Track Team. “None but himself can be his parallel. Blanche Bishop General Course; Athedarian Society; Girls’ Club. “Fair words never hurt the tongue.” V Mary Alberta Knight General Course; “Snow-white,” 1; Girls’ Club, 1, 2; Girls’ Student Club, 3, 4; Adarians, 1; Athedarians, 4; Jr. Basket-ball Team, 3; Sr. Basket-ball Team, 4; Sec.-Treas. Girls’ Athletic Association, 4; Wranglers, 4; .Social Committee, 4; Girls’ Club Financial Committee, 4; “Hold thou the good, define it well. 36 M.the. ED LEY Lela V. Scopes General Course; Girls' Student Club, 3, 4; Athedarian, 4. “Ladies be but young and fair.” William Anderson General Course; Treasurer Science Club, 2. “The power of thought—the magic of the mind.” Edna R. Shouse General Course; Girls’ Club, 4; Athedarian, 4. “I were but little happy if I could say how much.” Ruth Eileen Hunsaker General Course; Athenaeum, 1, 3; Play, “Snow-white,” 2; Athedarian, 3, 4; Girls' Student Treasurer, 4; Girls' Athletic Association, 3, 4. Minstrel Show, 4. “Wearing all that weight of learning lightly like a flower.” 37 . THE . ED LEY Marian McCray Athedarian 4; Girls’ Club, 4; Girls’ Bible Class. 2. “She’s all that fancy painted her, She’s lovely, she’s divine.” John D. Cannady General Course; Athenaeum Literary Society, 2; Wranglers’ Club, 3; Science Club, 3; Glee Club, 4. “Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathoms under the Rialto. Helen Wait General Course; Athedarian, 4; Girl’s Student Club, 3, 4. “The hand that hath made you fair, hath made you good.” Dorothy Eleanor Symons General Course; Adarian Society, 1; Girls’ Athletic Association, 4; Athedarian Society, 2, 3, 4; Chairman of Program; Girls’ Bible Class, 1,2; Committee of Athedarians, 4; Member of Social Committee, 2; Chairman of Membership Committee of Athedarians, 3, “Piper,” 3; Honorable mention for D. A. R. Essay, 3; Member of Social Committee, 4; News Editor of Maroon and White, 4; Girls’ Student Club, 4. “The star of the unconquered will.” 38 M-THr ■ lVlEDLEY Helen Grimes General Course; Athedarian, 3, 4; Girls’ Student Club, 3, 4. Social Committe, 2, Invitation, 4; “Her wit was more than a man, Her innocence a child.” Harry De Moss General Course. “And puts himself upon his good behavior. Adele Hixon General Course; Vice-President Girls’ Athletic Association; Athedarian. “We will answer all things faithfully.” Mary A. Seigmund Commercial Course; Girls' Club, 3, 4; Assistant Treasurer, 4; Class Treasurer, 4; “Her stature tall—I hate a dumpy woman. 39 . THE . ED LEY Kathryn Joan Faith General Course; Girls’ Chorus, 1; Basket-ball, 1; Adarian, 1; Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; Chairman Senior Invitation Committee, 4; “Site walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. M. Zua Hazzard General Course; Girls’Chorus, 1; Girls' Bible Class, 1, 2; Secretary of Girls’ Bible Class, 2; Girls’ Student Federation, 3, 4; Wranglers, Chairman of Social Committee, 4. “Indued with the sanctity of reason Helen Blair General Course; Athanaeum, 1; Athedarian, 4; Girls' Student Club, 4. “But all things which that shineth as the gold, Ne is no gold, as I have heard it told. Martha Heidrick General Course; Student Club, 3, 4. “The mildest manners, the gentlest heart. 40 M-THE- IVIedley Olga H. Six General Course; Allerton High School, 1, 2; Girls’ Student Club, 3, 4; Wranglers’ Club, 4: Alternative-Dual Debate, 4. Persuasive speech, and, more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and elouuent eyes. Paul Saunders General Course. “ shall be like that tree—I shall die at the top ” Marie Schaechtel Commercial Course; Adarian. 1; Girls’ Club, 4 3. “George Washington discovered America, or Columbus did, or somebody, some time.” Norma Cramer Girls’ Chorus, 2, 3; Athenaeum, 1, Athedarian, 2, 3, 4; “The Piper,” 3; Girls’ Club, 3, 4,; General Course. “Gentle of speech, beneficient of mind. 41 . THE . EDLEY Grace Brandenberger Adarian Literary Society, 1; Girls’ Bible Class, 2; Athedarian Literary Society, 3, 4; Girls’ Student Club, 3; Girls' Student Club, 4; Medley Calendar Editor, 4. Nothing is impossible to industry. Richard H. Johnson General Course. Thy voice sounds like a prophet’s word. Opal Cannon Girls’ Club, 2, 3, 4; Capt. Basket-ball Team, 3, 4; Athedarian, 4; Financial Chairman of the Girls’ Club, 4; Pres. Girl’s Athletic Association, 4; Athletic Editor of Medley, 4. She was good as she was fair. Elizabeth Charlotte Rearick General Course; Adarian Literary Society, 1; Sec.-Treas. Sophomore Class, 2; Girls’ Bible Class, 2; President Girls’ Athletic Association, 3; Girls’ Basket-ball Team, 3; Athedarian, 3; Assistant Humorous Editor Maroon and White, 4; News Editor Medley, 4; Vice-President Senior Class, 4: Member of Girls’ Athletic Association, 4. A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift. 42 M.the. EDLEY Esther Layton Commercial Course; Girls’ Bible Class, 1, 2; Girls’ Student Club, 3, 4; Wranglers’ Club, 2, 3, 4; Athedarian Literary Society, 2, 3; “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” 2; “The Piper,” 3; Danville-Layafette Intersholastic Debate, 4. “More than others does she laugh, Of our giggling does she half. Howard Hunter Reed General Course; Science Club, 2, 3; Wrangler, 3; Honor Roll, 3; Attendance; Base Ball, 3; Athletic Association, 3, 4; Track, 4. “Being bad never bothered him.” Lois Josephine Small General Course; Athenaeum, 1, 2; Portia, in “Merchant of Venice;” “Piper;” Athedarian, 3, 4; Wranglers, 2; Girls’ Chorus, 1, 2, 3; Basketball, 2; Girls’ Bible Class, 1,2; Student Federation, 3, 4. “There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.” Genevieve Beeler Nichols General Course. “Wise to resolve, patient to perform.” 43 A T. THE . IVlED LEY ahc Jjraramt }Jri2P IN MEMORY of Gustavus Clark Pearson (1827-1911), pioneer of Danville, of Chicago and of California, a staunch upholder of American ideals and institutions, and an enthusiastic patron of the public schools, the Pearson Prize has been offered for the last five years to a member of the Senior class. This has consisted of an appropriate emblem fittingly engraved, together with a sum of money. The recipient has been chosen because of scholarship, activities, attitude or influence and character, as representing best in his class the aims of the American high school in the twentieth century. In 1912, one of the highest types of American youth, president of his class and representative of our school in declamation and oratory at county, district and state contests, was nominated for the honor by his classmates. In 1913, Lillian Sandberg, who had pluckily made the highest average of scholarship with a perfect record of attendance, received the prize. In 1914, Vera Dowker, an exceptional student in the commercial branches, whose class average in scholarship and whose attendance ranked first, our representative in the Peace Price Contest and editor-in-chief of the “Medley,” was its recipient. In 1915, Ralph Rouse, president of his class and our representative in debating, declamation and oratory, was chosen for the honor by the donor from a list of six nominations by the faculty. In 1916, William Anderson, one of the highest in his class in scholarship and especially strong in science, was chosen by the donor from a list of eight nominations by the faculty. 44 = M'THE - IVIedley JJrnphrry HERE’S a letter for you, Miss Margaret,” said John, the butler, as he came to Margaret where she was sitting in a large chair, crocheting. ‘That is a funny looking post-mark,” Margaret reflected after the butler was dismissed. “I don’t know any one who lives in South America,” she mused, as she proceeded to tear off the end of the envelope. The letter read as follows: Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 5, 1921. My dearest Peggy, I certainly am tired of traveling. Father promised me that if I should go to South America with him on a business trip, the next place we stopped would be home—and to see you again. It just doesn t seem possible that it has been five years since we were together. Say, Peggy, I have the grandest news for you, but will not give you a single hint of it now. I suspect this letter won t reach you much ahead of me, for I am now waiting to take the steamer for dear old America. . Your old chum, Florance Walton. “Mother, mother, you can’t guess who is coming to see us, and from where I received a letter, said Peggy, as she ran upstairs, her ball of crochet thread dangling behind her, and with each step her fancy piece becoming smaller. No, no, daughter, who is it? I am sure that I could never guess, with all the friends you have to whom you write.” “Well, it’s Florance. What do you think? At last she is coming home, after five years of traveling. She went with her father to South America on a business trip, and he promised her that they would come home after the journey,” answered Margaret, all excited. I don’t believe I ever could stand so much travel as that girl. Daughter, when you go down stairs, tell Kate to prepare for company. From the date on the letter I suspect she will be here today.” No sooner had Margaret done her mother’s bidding, and returned to the parlor than the door-bell rang. Not waiting for John to perform his services, she ran in front of him to receive her guest. Florance! You’re the last person whom I thought I should have as a Christmas guest this year. After dinner I want you to tell me all about your trips.” Oh, Margaret, I don’t believe I ever want to travel again, for it seems so good to be back home, and with some one I really know. You may get tired of me before I go, but you may count on my making up lost time.” 45 M. THE . ED LEY “Come now, Florance, John says dinner is almost ready and we are not,” said Peggy, as much excited over her guest as a small child over bis toys which Santa has left him. After dinner the girls comfortably settled themselves in the parlor where no one could disturb them, for Florance declared that she was tired cf seeing people, and that she would see only Peggy. “I have had some of the grandest experiences, and seen some things which I shall never forget,” said Florance. “Do you remember our Seniorfdass when we went to high school.' I believe there were almost seventy in it, and during all my travels I have seen, or heard, of about all of them. This is the news which I referred to in my letter. When father and I left here we went to New York City, where we attended grand opera. When the prominent singer appeared, it was no other than our Marie Schaectel, known as Madame Schaectel.” “I just can’t imagine Marie being a singer. Was Catharine Hahn, her old chum, still with her?” “Yes, Catharine is chief editor and publisher of a magazine called “Life.” During a conversation which I had with her one afternoon, I asked it she knew what had become of any of the members of our class. She told me that there, in New York City, were three of them. They were Roscoe Davies and Orland Church who were “running” a first-class pawn shop; the other, Margerita Burns, had founded a new religion.” “Isn’t it strange what some people will do? I wouldn’t doubt but that that is a fake religion that Margarita has started,” put in Margaret. “Yes, there’s Jane and Bill who were married soon after graduation, and now they are in Europe enjoying life as it comes. I met them in Paris one day. Jane was coaxing Bill to get her a new ball dress. I hat reminds me. Florence Bireline and Hilda Graham have also settled down to married life. Both are happy, so far as I’ve heard. I don’t know just where they are, but so much for them. Vera Watts is an actress, and her company was in Europe when I was there.” “Do you know where Aurelia Starks is?” asked Margaret. “Wasn t she the chairman of the social committee of our class?” “Let me see if I have her name in my book? Aurelia Starks—was that it? Yes, here it is. She is a famous dancer, having studied in Spain.” “Oh, there is a poster down town, announcing that a noted dancer, once having lived here will appear sometime during the coming month. I wonder if that could be Aurelia?” replied Peggy. “Perhaps so; but listen. Blanche Bishop and Helen Jackson are missionaries in India, and Peck Kieran, a second Teddy Roosevelt, is in the wilds of Africa.” “Good! I always thought those girls would find a noble place in life. Do you have anything about Arthur Baldwin .'1 46 M.the. EDLEY “Yes, I am as disappointed with Arthur as I was when I heard that Frank Ryan was tramping. Arthur invented a counterfeit machine, and for seme time kept it a secret. Soon he was found out, and for a long time the officers were on his trail. Poor Arthur now rests behind the bars, serving out a twenty-five year sentence.” “The meanness in a fellow is sure to crop out some day,’’quoted Peggy. “Another one,” continued Florance, looking in her book, “who never amounted to much was Tony Scoles. When I saw him in an eastern city he was slowly pacing the streets, calling out, “Scissors and'knives to sharpen.” Let’s now see who have gone into politics. Madeline Dague, who was president of our class, is Speaker of the House. She was put there by those persistent suffragettes, Ruth Flynn and Zua Hazzard. Palmer Craig allied himself with the suffrage movement and was out electioneering for Madeline.” Y hen father and I were in the west, we saw a play which was written by Sina Reed and staged by Elizabeth Rearick, and Harry DeMoss as the man character. Selma Schultz has also made herself famous by writing comedies, while Sina’s are more tragical.” y ou haven’t mentioned any school teachers, so far,” said Margaret. “This vocation is too important not to have some members out of such a noble class as ours.” “Dorothy Symons always said her highest ambition was to be a country school teacher. Grace Brandenberger is a Latin instructor in the High School in the city of Greenville. She didn’t do all of that hard work in school, just for pleasure’s sake.” “I know a teacher to add to your list,” said Margaret. That is Josephine Small. If she keeps on, she will soon be at the head. Do you know where Helen Ruth Caldwell and Helen Grimes are?” “Yes, Helen Ruth went as Y. W. C. A. secretary in a foreign country. Here I might say that Edna Shouse went to the war as a Red Cross nurse. es, Helen Grimes had a sorrowful fate. She died of a broken heart.” Doesn t that about complete your list of persons in our famous class?” 1 here are a few more in these miscellaneous pages. Opal Cannon— conducting a beauty parlor. Adele Hixon and Julia Knight' in the whirl of society world. Floyd Pogue making rapid progress with aerial machines, Paul Saunders—peddling patent medicine. William Anderson an evangelist. Elizabeth Walker—traveling with a circus. Alice Brown—a millionairess. Marian McCray—a typical old maid, watching for her chance, for she has never given up hope so far. John Cannadv— Edison the Second. Perhaps you have read or heard of the talking machine which he invented. 47 M-THE- IVIedley ahr fflcMnt’a fftpHeayp THE MEDLEY Staff of the Senior Class wishes the students and faculty of the school a most pleasant and profitable summer vacation. Perhaps there are members of the school and faculty who will leave our midst, and whom we may neither meet nor see again for many years to come. To you we send greetings, and hope that you will enjoy long life and good health. The motto, Be Square, is a good one to follow, and we trust that you will be square in all your relations, whether business or social, and that you will leave the good influence of our motto upon those with whom you come in contact. One other wish which we are sincere in expressing is, that each of the following Medley s will surpass this one, as we have tried to make this one surpass those which have gone before. Orland A. Church 48 M.the. ED LEY M-THE • IVIedley dluntor (Elaaa ©fltrrra President. . . . Vice-President Secretary.... Treasurer. . Historian..... Adviser....... Lester Medaris .Perris Watson Verona Schui.tz . Fern Spangler . Ada Gerrard . ... Miss Miller (CmmnittrrB Suirial ?Jin Margeret Werner, Chairman Chester Guy Esther Snider Kari. Natho Esther Cowan- Anna Wall, Chairman Gustav Schneider Esther Rideout Helen Cannady 50 M-TREED LEY Humor Qilasa Statory WHO WOULD have thought that the scared and timid, yet ambitious class of Freshmen who entered into the nurseries, tortures and delights of D. H. S. in September 1913 would have become the brilliant, noble, high and mighty Juniors? Our Freshman year, although not so good as our Sophomore and Junior years, was successful. We started our Sophomore year right by electing Lanta Hastings president, John Cannon, vice-president and Miss Miller, class adviser. We participated in athletics as well as dramatics and oratory. Best of all, though, was our Junior year. With Lester Medaris, President; Margaret Werner, Chairman of the Social Committee; Miss Miller, Class Adviser we excelled all other Junior classes. Socially, it was a great success. Our first party on November 5, was in the nature of a Hollow’een affair. It was held in the Domestic Science rooms of the Washington building. Contests and games were diversions of the evening. On January 30, we had a Calendar party with the Seniors. Each person was dressed in a costume representing the month in which he was born. Much fun was derived from the queer costumes. Our last party was a Sc. Patrick’s affair on March 17, at the home of Chester Guy. At the close of this successful year, we are hoping that we may always live up to our motto and be “Nulli Secundus.” A. D. G. 51 M.the. EDLEY ittrmbera of thr .llmtior (Clans Adams, Cecil Alfieri, Gina Bachman, Hattie Brady, Davida Brewer, Gladys Brickwell, George Bunting, Charles Burk, Leo Callais, Elmer Campbell, Gene Cannady, Helen Cannon, John Carr, Lucile Carter, Birdie Carter, Helen Church, Dorothy Cloyd, Mildred Collignon, Josephine Cookingham, Perry (Nottingham, Esther Cowan, Esther Crawford, Carroll Crawford, Nell Crouse, Susie Dallas, James Durig, Eugene Dwiggins, Theodosia Dye, Frances Dyer, Lewis Ellett, Ada Fendley, Maurine Fouteck, Edward Gerrard, Ada Gibbs, Donald Glindmeier, Mildred Goldberg, Max Goodell, Ola Gutterridge, Vera Guy, Chester Hastings, Lanta Hathaway, Ferris Hendrix, Ruth Hildreth, Gladys Hill, Marvel Huber, Beatrice Hudson, Ferris Jenkins, Bertha Jones, Paul Kesler, Clifford Lange, Mamie Lauer, Helen Learnard, Helen Lee, Edna Legg, Esther Leverenz, Clarence Llewellyn, Cecil Lucier, Irredell McCord, Frances McCoy, Mae Masterson, Robert Medaris, Lester Milemore, Paul Mowery, William Natho, Karl O'Brien, Louis Olmsted, Beulah O'Sullivan, Margaret Partlow, Helen Pugh, Gladys Quinn, Thelma Rideout, Esther Rindt, Margaret Roberts, Paul Runyon, Dewey Schneider, Gustav Schultz, Verona Seymour, Russell Shields, Ercel Shutts, Frances Sibrel, Lucy Simcox, Maude Skadden, Harry Snider, Esther Spangler, Fern Sparks, Russell Stone, Harry Stuebe, Louis Sudduth, Arthur Swarts, Leland Sweeney, Gertrude Taylor, Merle Tennery, Harmon Thomas, Cleo Thompson, Frank Thompson, Mildred Throckmorton, Sidney Wall, Anna Wall, Wilma Watson, Ferris Werner, Margaret Werren, Florence Wiseman, Anna 52 M.the. EDLEY . THE . EDLEY nyhnnuirr (Claim (Affirm? President..... Vice-President Secretary. . . . Treasurer. . . . Historian.... Adviser....... Marion Coolley Clinton Johnson .....Joe Linck ....Guy Brown . .John Spearman ....Miss Brown Serial (Cmnmtttrr Clifford McArthur, Chairman Maurine Findley John Funk Elizabeth Swaim Clinton Johnson 54 M.the. EDLEY a hr S� ophnmarr (Clans ffiislnru HAVING thus arrived at the zenith of our high school career, the conclusion of the Sophmore year, we revert our thoughts from the alluring future to the past. This we do in order that we may enjoy a just feeling of satisfaction that is ever attendant to the completion of good works. In the field of intellectual achievements we rank second to none. We captured two of the six places on the debating team. Both of the orators of this year were Sophomores, as were the three winners in declamation. These victories, together with numerous honor rolls, well interspersed with Sophomore names, make a decidedly creditable showing for the class of 1918. A happy and appropriate climax was reached when the inter-class basket-ball honors went to the Sophomores. Misfortune, apparently, has attended the executive department, which, actuated by pity, we attribute to uncontrollable circumstances. We, of necessity, refrain from comment concerning the social activities of the class. The Sophomores have truly “gone down in history, but we fail to perceive any assistance contributed by the originators of this phrase, namely, the politicians. However, despite these victories, if we have not so conducted ourselves as to be a model and an inspiration for those who succeed us, we, as a class, have failed. The great or small degree of moral influence which we have exercised, spells the result of our year s labor. success or failure. Our successes we attribute in mighty measure to our instructors; our failures to our own handiwork. Only in the support of good and just things can. an organized class justify its existence. Upon our influence we cannot pass judgment; the future alone will tell. If wre have made an enviable reputation, let us preserve it; if not, let us bestir ourselves and make one. Let us unfalteringly face the future and conquer. John W. Speakman. M.the. EDLEY Adams, Mary Rose Akers, Vivian Albert, Mildred Alkire, Opal Anderson, Rudolph Anker, Esther Arf, Herman Banner, Willa Barger, Alberta Bartel, Helen Berhalter, Lillian Bingham, Marian Blair, Ruth Blankenburg, Herman Boyer, Mildred Braden, Jennie Bredehoft, Lucille Brown, Marjorie Burk, Raleigh Callais, Maud Canine, Celia Chaffee, John Chambers, Ruth Cleland, Elizabeth Coolley, Marion Coombs, Helen Crawford, Dale Crewdson, William Cruzan, Roberta Dales, Minnie Davies, Shirley Davison, Muriel Dennis, Ned Dickerson, Ilerschel Dickson, Fern Diffenderfer, Vera Dougherty, Mildred Dove, Louis Downs, Charles fflrmbfra of tlje aplpmor? (Elana Dye, Walter Ellett, Durwood Emley, Ruth Flaherty, John Forker, Ruth Foster, Howard Foster, Leslie Funk, John George, Helen Gibson, Lucille Gillespie, Philip Gillison, Robert Gladish, Donald Goff, Cecil Griffith, Howard Grimes, Myrtle Gunn, Myra Hall, Frances Hamilton, Ernest Harrington, Faith Harrison, Lucile Haskell, Esther Haworth, Genevieve Hazzard, Georgia Hecht, Clara Helm, Gladys Hickman, Allen Hill, Alfred Hixon, Hayden Hofmann, Helen Holstine, Sarah Jackson, Sarah James, Franklyn Jobson, Ellen Johnson, Clinton Kelly, Patrick Knight, Hester Knowles, Lloyd Lamm, Elsa Lawrence, Madeline Lee, Ethel Lee, Omar Le Master, Willa Lesch, Edward Leverenz, Gertrude Leverenz, Harold Leverich, Gladys Linck, Joseph Linck, Zyrelda Long, Hazel Louis, Rosalie Luke, Robert McArthur, Clifford McKenzie, Aliene Marshall, Wilbur Marsters, Carroll Marsters, Hazel Meade, Alfred Million, Joseph Mitchell, Mamie Moore, Evelyn Moore, Goodloe Moore, Margaret Morrow, John Myers, Blanche Nice, Lucy Nolen, E. Wayne Nowling, Nellie Ost, Clarence Parker, Paul Parks, Hazel Payne, Mary Perkins, Kenneth Phillips, Naydean Pomar, Gladys Purdue, Constance Radebaugh, Gladys Radliff, Josephine Robert, Iona Romig, Lois Sackett, Edna Sandberg, Hildur Saxon, Karl Schenk, Mary Schultz, Lester Sconce, Phil Scroggs, Ruth Selby, Eugenia Seward, Mary Shelato, Violet Sincere, Jack Smith, Florence Speakman, John Starr, Byron Strebel, Rufus Swaim, Elizabeth Swinehart, Letha Taylor, Virginia Telling, Gordon Tengen, Catherine Trueman, Grace Voigt, Walter Wade, Doris Wall, Helen Walter, Dorothy Walter, Helen Webb, Lamont Werner, Catherine Westwater, John White, Ralph White, Roy Yost, Ursula Youmans, Lola Young, Nellie 56 M.the. EDLEY 57 M.the. EDLEY ittmlu'rs of thr 3Firishman CClaaa Adams, Stephen Albert, Alberta Alberts, Joseph Allen, Cecil Anderson, Clara Anderson, Ralph Ashley, Helen Arter, Virginia Bailey, Robert Bailey, Thelma Baker, Harry Balsley, Mary Barkman, Roy Barnard, Leah Barricklow, Eva Bartel, Fern Baum, Eugene Baumgartnen, Etta Bayliss, Bertha Beaver, Jesse Bennett, Harry Bentrop, Henrietta Berry, Edith Berthold, Will Beyer, Donald Birtell, Lillie Birtell, William Bohland, Harold Bolton, Gertrude Borsch, Marguerite Bradbury, Ralph Brady, Edith Branson, Nila Brennan, Mary-Brown, Dorwin Brown, Guy Brown, Lucile Brown, Virgel Bruffy, Luanna Bullington, Gladys Burcham, Ruth Burow, Harold Bushong, Isabell Caldwell, Robert Cannady, Edwin Carson, Gertrude Carson, Tom Carson, Ray’ Carson, Wallace Cast, Ernest Chambers, Beulah Chapin, Harry Chesley-, Elizabeth Cleaver, Vivian Clem, Edith Clingan, Elsie Cofer, Mildred Cohn, Irving Coit, Gladys Colberg, Harry Cole, De Witt Collett, Martha Collignon, William Connor, John Covert, Roy Cowan, Rufus Craig, Roland Cramer, Margaret Crawford, Lorine Crawford, Mary Crook, Raymond Current, Harry Darnall, Jack Davis, Russell Davis, Ruth Davison, Charles Deeken, Alma Demmerly, Helen Dickerson, Gwen. Dougherty, Mabel Douthit, Estella Duffin, Russell Dye, George Eaton, Ralph Ebelmesser, Marvin EUett, Reva Endicott, Charles Evans, Clarence Faigle, Leone Fairchild, Leo Fairchild, Marie Faith, Philip I'end ley, John Fleming, Louise Fowler, Howard Fowler, Mabel Fox, Honore France, Doris Frank, Milton Frawley, John Frazer, Glady'S Freeland, Thurl Freeman, Merlyn Freese, Mildred Freimeyer, Emil Frizzell, Ruth Gaddie, Lloyd Gammel, Mary Garinger, Frank George, Bernice Goff, Helen Goldsmith, Donald Goodwin, Edith Goulding, Lowell Graham, Bess Graves, Mabel Gray, Beatrice Gray, Harry Gray', Warren Greiser, Ruth Griffin, William Grimes, Raymond Gritton, Annie Hannum, Howard Hanson, Thomas Harlan, Robert Hartson, Alice Haworth, Gertrude Hay, Sarah Miller, Carl Henman, Dorothy Miller, Stanley Henderson,Clarence Miller, Valentine Hicks, Elizabeth Hilton, Harland Hodge, Fern Hodges, Nina Holden, Harvey Hooton, Don Hosch, Pauline Hosch, Ruth Hoskins, Norman Howard, Ernest Huckstadt, Elda Moore, Charles Moore, Harry Moore, Helen Morgan, Bessie Morris, Garnett Morris, Robert Morrison, Hazel Morrison, Muriel Morrissey, Edward Neff, Wm. Nelson, Alva ........--------- � ' • Hunsaker, Beulah North, Helen Jackson, Edwin O’Brien, Margaret Jamison, Dan James, Washburn _______,____ Jenkins, Genevieve Owens, Dail Jewell, Ray Palmer, Hazel Olson, Elmer Osborn, Dorothy Jobson, George Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Keith, Ralph Kibler, Pauline King, Harold King, Joseph Knignt, Fern Payne, Joseph Peevler, Walter Pellum, Bertha Peters, Raymond Phillips, Clarke Phillips, Ethel Pickard, Madeline Pickett, Frances -- _ -- ----------'i - ----- Krumreig, Edward Popejoy, Gladys Lambert, Harry Potter, Claudia Lane, Walter Lawrence, Louise LeClaire, Nellie Lesch, Louise Lewis, Howard Lewis, Marjorie Linck, Florence Prast, Harry' Pratt, Roy Pratter, Alverta Price, Constance Price, Phyllis Puzey, Elizabeth Quinn, Edwin Lindle, Annie Mai Radebaugh, Beulah Little, Roy Radford, Harold Lit tier, Opal Raimer, Edward Lucier, Harry Ramsey, Donald Lynch, Lena Randall, Harold Lynch, Orville Redenbaugh, M. McArthur, Frances Reeves, Edna McCabe, Rose Renard, Helen McConnell, Genevia Rickerd, Clarence McCoy', Vora Rideout, Russell McCrone, John Robbins, Hudson McDonald, James Ross, Alice McGuire, Howard Royse, Ercel McIntyre, Ruth Rumbaugh, Earl McKmght, Rabon Rumbaugh, Esther McLean, Tom Russell, Bessie McLeod, Lillian Russell, Clyde McMillan, Frank Ryan, Lucille Magruder, Fern Sadler, Nettie Manteufel, Esther Sando, George Marble, Earl Saultz, Cecil Martin, Burtella Scharlau, Josephine Martin, Della Martin, Ruth Mason, Mary Matthews, Eliz. Milemore, Mary 58 Schultz, Norma Schoolcraft, Donald Scopes, John Scott, Helen Shelato, Orville Shepard, Harold Shepard, John Shields, Harlan Sibrel, Lester Six, Douglas Skinner, Grace Smith, Esther Smith, Grace Smith, Howard Smith, Rosemary Smith, Wayne Snyder, Leotha Son, Gail Songer, Eugene Squire, Margaret Stephens, Percy Steward, Lillian Stickler, Chester Stickler, Ernestine Stratman, Creta Stuebe, Leonard Sudduth, Clarence .Sutton, Robert Swartz, Carl Swisher, Madeline Swisher, Philip Talbott, Gladys Tarpening, Bessie Taylor, Emily Taylor, Richard Tengen, Mary H. Thirion, Leona Thompson, Freda Throckmorton, H. Tidwell, Estella Tobie, Helen Toms, Shirley Towne, Mabel Townsend, Dorothy Trent, Elsie Trimble, Helen Utterback, Laurx ee Vice, Loren Vickery-, Faye Voss, Lillian Walker, John Walker, Lewis Walker, Loran Walker, Robert Walter, Reynolds Watt, Juanita Webb, Glendora Werner, Daisy' Werren, Gertrude White, Edward Wilber, Duncan Williamson, BAV.H. Wilson, Russell Witherspoon, Victoria Wodetski, Thelma Yeazel, Mary Ziesing, Josephine Zook, Doris. M-THE- IVIedley Athlrtir Aaanriatinn President............................Perry Cookingham Vice-President.............................John Funk Secretary-Treasurer..................Harry L. Skadden Advertising Manager...................Clifford Kesler THE ATHLETIC Association has much to be proud of after its work of the year 1915-1916. A good football team and a champion basket-ball team are something to be proud of. The membership this year was very large, and at the beginning of the year they elected the officers above noted. The financial standing of the association this year is much better than that of last. The basket-ball games were only fairly well attended until late in the season, when large crowds came out to see the games, which helped the association frcm the standpoint of mcney on hand. Basket-ball turned out to be the game most enthusiastically supported. Class games in basket-ball and baseball were held. 59 O. A. C. THE CALL for football candidates for the season of 1915 brought out about thirty men, of these only five were “D” men and very few of the others had any experience to speak of. It was evident from the start that a gigantic task was before our coach. As usual the number of ineligibles was large, thus adding to our hard luck. Practice started with light work, the men working hard to get in trim. After our first game, October 22, the prospects seemed brighter because we defeated the strong Westville team by the close score of 7 to 6. The following Saturday, October 9, we went to Paris and there defeated them 26 to 12. Owing to the fact the Paris had not been active in athletics for three or four years, we copped the game easily. The following Saturday, October 16, came Danville’s first defeat, Ridgefarm winning 81 to 0. In this game we were outweighed, thus not being able to hold their heavy ground gainers, but we stopped most of their open plays. On October 30th, Hoopeston came, determined to carry home the “bacon.” That we were just as determined they wouldn’t is evident by the 14 to 12 score in our favor. On November 13, Paris came for a return game. Their line-up had been strengthened but, despite this fact, we won a hard fought.game by a 13 to 6 score. The Paris game was destined to be the last of the season. A fire which did considerable damage to our building, upset the football routine and accordingly we were forced to cancel our Thanksgiving game with Villa Grove. Four games won and one lost is the record of the 1915 season. Surely not a 1000 per cent team, yet a very good record for one that was forced 60 M. THE . EDLEY to suffer many reverses. Much praise can be heaped upon the 1915 team for their conduct on the field. They fought all the time, yet in a sportsmanlike manner. They were men all the time. Now, however, that the season is a thing of the past, no good will come of discussing the weak and strong points of the team, so let us all, faculty, student body, team and coach, co-operate in making next year’s one of the winning teams in the history of the school. Captain Cookingham and Coach Baer have started the ball rolling toward making next year a successful one. A meeting was called and 40 men, interested in football, responded. It was decided not to have spring practice this year on account of baseball and tennis taking up most of the time. A line was taken on next year’s material and to date everything looks bright for a winning team. As everyone knows, the eligibility rules play havoc with the best laid plans, and we can but hope that every one will try his best in the summer exams, for that is the first step towards a successful season. . J. W. A. Juiotball rljrimlp D H S 7 Westville Paris 6 Oct. 9 .. .D. H. S. 26 12 Oct. 16 ... D. H. S. 0 Ridgefarm 81 Oct. 20 . . D. H. S. 14 Hoopeston 12 Nov. 13 . D. H. S. 13 Paris 6 61 . THE . EDLEY iflrmbrra of tin' Jfonthall arant Captain Alberts. Alberts was one of the nerviest and fastest ends the school has ever had. A forward pass in his direction seldom went through his hands. He was a sure tackier and an excellent ground gainer. Capt. Elect, Perry Cookingham. Perry played in hard luck all season, being injured in the Ridgefarm game and being able to play very little the remainder of the season. He is fast, uses his head, and is a sure tackier. He will make an ideal leader for the 1916 season because of his ability as a player and a leader of men. Tony Scoles. Tony played last year at end for D. H. S. Being exceptionally fast on his feet and able to catch forward passes from any position, made him one of the most valuable men in the team. His favorite trick was going down the field under punts and tackling the man in his tracks. His place will be exceptionally hard to fill. Lanta Hastings, at quarter, puts up a sensational game. The position was new to him, yet he took hold and handled the team like a veteran. An accurate forward passer and good on returning punts made him a valuable man. He will be with us next year. Clifford McArthur. “Micky,”at tackle, was one of thescrappers of the bunch. Never ready to quit, and profiting by his last year’s experience made him a good man. He was always to be relied upon to make his distances on tackle around plays and he made some sensational runs. He will fill the position creditably next year. Alva Nelson. A fullback of no mean ability and one of the finds of the season. He hits the line low and hard, is an accurate forward passer, and exceptionally good on forming interference. He will be in the limelight next year. William Kieran. “Peck” was one of the lightweights of the squad, yet he put up a scrappy game at halfback. He was fast on end runs and a good punter. He was always willing to do his share when called on, this making him a valuable man. He will be missed next fall. Clarence Leverenz. “Levy” was our center who was always on the job in great style. His accuracy in passing on various formations made him a good man. We are glad that he has another year at football. Cecil Adams at tackle was an ideal running mate for McArthur and one of the stars of the season. No better man could be placed at tackle than he. By always fighting and playing at the game, he tore into the enemy’s camp like a young tornado. He will be back next year. Keep your eyes on Cese. 62 M. THE . EDLEY Noble Lindelsee at guard played a reliable and consistent game throughout the season. His ability to open holes for the backfield was responsible for many large gains. Weregret that he has not another year. Harmon Tenxery filled a lineman’s shoes with great credit. He had a knack of getting in his opponent’s way and stopping their progress. When the smoke cleared away from a pileup, Harmon would come up from the bottom with a smile on his face. We are glad that he has another year. Russel Sparks though, not winning a D deserves special mention. A reliable little quarter-back who knew his business and was always willing to do his share. A bad knee kept him from his best condition this year, but next year should catch him at his best. Palmer Craig was another good man who failed to win his letter. He was a hard working lineman who hit ’em low and hard. His size and ability made him able to stop all that came his way. Frank James. A lineman who did not know the word, “shirk.” A fighter from the start made him able to hold his own. Next year should see him in togs all set for the D he barely missed this year. Joe Linck. Joe was one of the men who went down in the middle of the season. One of the best men on the team and one of the best fighters. A hard worker along with his nerve made him a decided setback to the enemy. We hope to see him in the line next year. Don Ramsey. Also lasted but a short time and sure went some while he was in the running. A half-back who could get away with long runs because of his speed. Let us hope he will be on the job next fall. Hal Shepard. Another ineligible; a fast man and an ideal back to work with Ramsey. The opposing team has some difficulty in stopping Shepie’s runs on account of his speed. He will be on the field next year. James Dallas. The hardest working man on the squad. Jim could fill the position of half or end. He did not get in enough games this year, but watch him next fall. Others who assisted in the scrimmage were Cecil Llewellyn, John Funk, Clifford Keslar, Gene During, Russel Rideout, Goodloe Moore, Howard Gass, Kenneth Perkins, Russel Davis and Karl Natho. 63 . THE . EDLEY William (C. IBaer. (Eaarlj FOR THE past three years we have been extremely fortunate in getting a coach with the ability to do things. Mr. Baer has done wonders with the green material that has been out for the teams. He transformed them so they were able to win the majority of games and take defeats gamely, being an athlete himself. He knows how to handle men and is square all the time. The coach is the “man behind the gun” the one who gets the credit or the blame for a victory or a defeat. It takes a man of Mr. Baer’s type to be able to take both. All of Danville’s successes have been credited to Mr. Baer, for he is the one who did the work and deserves all the credit, which rightfully belongs to him. 64 M. THE . EDLEY (ibr Ua'uitt Nickname Weight Height Warren Alberts (Capt.)...........“Baldy” 145 5-8 Perry Cookingham (Capt. Elect.)..“Cookie” 160 5-10 TonyScoles.......................“Tony” 145 . 5-8 Lanta Hastings...................“Bud” 140 5- 8 Cecil Adams......................“Cese” 165 5-10 Alva Nelson......................“Marblehead” 155 5-10 Harmon Tennery...................“Harny” 140 5-8 Clifford McArthur..........t.....“Micky” 160 5-8 Noble Lindelsee..................“Nobe” 145 5- 7 Clarence Leverenz................ “Levy” 175 6- 1 William Kieran................... “Peck 135 5- 8 Donald Ramsey....................“Kid” 145 5-8 Harold Shepard...................“Hal” 160 5- 7 James Dallas.....................“Jimmy” 135 5-9 Palmer Craig.....................“Red” 160 5-10 Franklyn James...................“Frank” 145 5-8 Russel Sparks....................“Sparksy” 130 5- 7 65 M.the. EDLEY 66 M. THE . EDLEY THE FIRST practice found a large number of green men in attendance, and the problem that confronted Coach Baer was to develop a team out of inexperienced players. Many candidates left the squad because of ineligibility and other reasons, so that the outlook was very discouraging. However, practice was not neglected, but was carried on even during the Christmas vacation. This hard work, coupled with the fact that many additional players were made eligible at the beginning of the second semester, brought hope back into the hearts of the basket-ball enthusiasts. As the season progressed we were able to win our share of the games. The Vermilion County Basket-Ball Tournament, held at the Danville Y. M. C. A. on March 10 and 11 was the first event of its kind, in which the school has ever competed. Our team was considered a rank outsider for first honors, but with the grit and determination, characteristic of them, our men went through the two days’ grill without a defeat. They succeeded in winning a great and unexpected victory along with a large silver loving cup. The spirit of the school shown this basket-ball season has not been equalled since 1910. The prospects for a winning team next year are exceedingly bright as seven “D” men will return to school, in the tall. 67 . THE . EDLEY Uprmtlimt (Enmttij (SljamptmiH 68 M. THE . EDLEY HtUmbrra nf thr Sashrtball cram R. Sparks (Captain)—A speedy forward—showed a great amount cf versatility on the floor. Although small he possessed much offensive ability. He was an ideal leader. G. Son (Capt. Elect.)—A born basket-ball player and an ideal center because of his height. Has a knack of getting his fingers on the ball, and is one of the best basket-shooters in the State. H. Skadden—Because of his weight and agility he was the strength of the defense, being a very clever guard. E. Callais—Elmer made good at guard and possesses a wonderful amount of speed and endurance. P. Craig—A consistent player and an accurate passer. Has enough speed, besides a good eye for the basket. W. Kieran—“Peck” showed “some speed” in the tournament, and was a strong, dependable forward. G. Campbell—“Handsome Al” is a good forward with much defensive ability. He is dangerous, under the basket. J. Dallas—“Jimmy” promises to crowd someone for a regular place next year, his weight and excellent guarding being factors in his success as a player. W. Neff—“Bud” has a great future as a basket-ball player, although light he is a whirlwind on the floor and has a good eye for the goal. Honorable mention is given to K. Natho, R. White, C. Rickert and H. Hilton for their faithfulness in practice and help in giving the necessary scrimmage to the regular team. 69 . THE . EDLEY ahf aournamrttt THE VERMILION County Basket-Ball Tournament was a great success from start to finish and from every standpoint. Eight teams having a combined total of seventy players were entered in the schedule. Danville won the first prize, a silver loving cup, presented by P. A. Leonard Co., and Hoopeston succeeded in carrying off the second prize, a copper loving cup, presented by Conron Hardware Co. The games in the order in which they were played are as follows: Hoopeston 32 VS. Allerton . .18 Danville 37 vs. Armstrong .13 Sidell 33 vs. Vermilion Grove Academy.. .. 18 Georgetown 38 vs. Bismarck . . 9 Danville 30 vs. Hoopeston . .26 Sidell 23 vs. Georgetown . .24 Hoopeston 44 vs. Georgetown . .30 Danville 28 vs. Sidell . .26 Hoopeston 31 vs. Sidell . .18 70 . THE . EDLEY 71 M-THE- JVIedley Armstrong (Siamr BY OVERWHELMING the heavy Armstrong basket-ball team, with a score of 37 to 13, Danville opened up its campaign for the county championship. The Armstrong team, though much heavier than Coach Baer’s five, was completely outplayed from start to finish. Son and Sparks starred for the locals, shooting baskets from all angles of the floor, while Kieran and Callais kept down the Armstrong score by doing clever work at guard. The team worked together with machine-like precision and their complicated passes seemed to baffle the visitors. When the score stood 28 to 2 Coach Baer sent in several substitutes, in order to save the regulars tor the coming games. Danville F. G. F. T. T. P. Sparks, If S 0 10 Campbell, rf 2 0 4 Son, c 1 15 Skadden, rg 0 0 0 Callais, lg 0 0 0 Kieran, rf 4 0 8 Neff, lg 0 0 0 Craig, c 1. . . 0 o o Dallas, If 0 0 Totals 18 1 37 Armstrong F. G. F. T. T. P. Bi rd, If 2 0 4 Meitzlf.r. rf 2 0 4 Tillotson, c 2 1 5 Foster, rg 0 0 0 Folcanner, lg 0 0 0 Miller, rg 0 0 Totals 6 1 13 72 M-the- IVIedley ffinnyrstmt (batnr THIS was one of the best games of the series, as both teams were in fine condition. Son was the star player for Danville, making sixteen points out of the thirty scored. The playing was very fast and the teamwork on both sides was excellent. Madden and Mclntire, the Hoopeston stars, were handicapped by the clever guarding of Skadden and Callais. By defeating the team from the “Holy City’’ Danville was assured of playing in the finals. Danville F. G. F. T. T. P. Campbell, rf 0 2 Sparks, If 0 4 Son, c 2 16 Skadden, rg 0 2 Callais, sg 0 2 Kieran, rf 0 4 Totals 2 30 Hoopeston F. G. F.T. T. P. DeHaven, rf 9 0 4 Madden, If 2 6 McIntire, c 0 8 Smith, rg 3 o 5 F. Fraley, sg 2 2 Burton, rg 0 0 C. Fraley, rf 0 0 Totals 4 26 73 M. THE . EDLEY tiU'U Oktnu' IN THE deciding game of the series played between Danville and Sidell, the former annexed the county championship by defeating Sided by the score of 28 to 26. Owing to the big issue at stake, the game was easily the most exciting and fastest of the whole tournament. Son, Sparks and Callais received injuries during the game but pluckily played until the end. Spectacular work featured the performances of both sides. Son and Sparks w?ere the main point getters for Danville, while Skadden, Callais, and Campbell showed their cleverness at guarding their opponents. An immense crowd witnessed the final clash and the enthusiasm was at a high pitch. The frenzied rooters almost tore up the “Y” when the final bed rang, w-hich gave Danville the championship. Danvili.e Kicran, rf. . .. Sparks, If.... Son, c....... Skadden, rg.. Callais, lg... Campbell, rg. Totals.... Sidell Allen, rf. . . Astell, If.... Smith, c..... Stockton, rg. Pafe, lg..... Totals . G. F. T. T. P. 0 0 0 4 0 8 7 0 14 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 14 0 28 . G. F. T. T. P. 5 4 14 3 0 6 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 0 11 4 26 M. THE . EDLEY DANVILLE High School had a very successful year in track athletics. Our success was not due to the points made in the different meets, but because of the fact that we now have ten or twelve experienced men, around whom a winning team can be developed. Track has “slumped” in the school for the past seven years, but with the start made this year there is no doubt but that we will have a record breaking team in the near future. Our policy this year was to train the men and give them experience in contests with other schools. Danville wants track athletics and is going to come back strongly. With Mr. Lewis, of the faculty, as our coach, we can develop a team that will put us on the track map again. Mr. Lewis, besides being a fine athlete has had experience in coaching at other schools. He deserves a great amount of credit for his services in developing the new men. Captain Saundeis has done good work in the half-mile run. Sparks broke the county record in the pole vault. Natho, Goulding, Gladish, Milemore, Adams, Baldwin, Reed, Rickerd and others were all “green” men at the start but have shown such wonderful improvement from meet to meet that prospects are bright for next year. QJrark Scant m o h r X m m M-THE- IVIedley 50 Yard Dash..... 100 Yard Dash..... 220 Yard Dash..... 440 Yard Dash... . 880 Yard Dash..... 1 Mile Run........ High Jurno........ Broad Jump........ Pole Vault........ Shot Put.......... Discus............ Hammer Throw.. . 1-Mile Relay..... tftUjh S’rluml jSpcur H ... L. McCusker, ’03 ......... 5 2-5 .. .1. Jones,'07.................. 10 2-5 . . . .1 Jones, '07............... 23 2-5 ___J. Mathais, ’10................ 54 2-5 . ...J. Neal, T4.................2.08 2-5 . .. .J. Neal, ’14...............4.43 2-5 ... .H. Fairchild, '08.......... 5-6§ . . L. McCusker. ’01........... 21-1J ___R. Sparks, '17.............. 10-24 . .. . W. S.-vndusky, ’08 ...... 42-3 ... .F. Goff, T5................ 99-7 . . . .W. Sandusky, '08........ 119-9 E. Prendergast. J. Greene-baum, F. Fox, L. McCusksp,'05 1-40 Ifermiltmt (Enmity iKrrnriia [ 1907 5 2-5 Sec. Otto Yeoman Rossville 50 Yard Dash 1 1911 Allen Thornton Georgetown [ 1913 Everett Layton Rossville 100 Yard Dash 1914 10 2-5 Sec. D. Wilson Rossville I 1902 23 Sec. R. Bookwalter Danville 220 Yard Dash j 1914 D. Wilson Rossville 220 Yard Hurdles 1901 27 Sec. F. H. Cook Georgetown 440 Yard Dash 1914 54 2-5 Sec. Albert Humrichouse Georgetown Mile Run 1913 2 Min. 8 1-5 Sec. Ted Henderson Ridgefarm I Mile Run 1914 4 Min. 43 2-5 Sec. John Neal Danville Pole Vault 1914 10 ft. 10 in. George Haworth Georgetown Chas. Warner Rossville High Jump 1911 5 ft. 8 in. Dilion Haworth Georgetown Broad Jump 1912 21 ft. 1 in. R. Stickler Rossville 12 lb. Shot Put 1910 42 ft. 10 in. Jos. Kerr Hoopeston Discus Throw 1906 105 ft. 9 in. John Steward Hoopeston Relay 1914 I Min. 39 Sec. Georgetown Team . THE . EDLEY BASEBALL in the High School will again be inter-class. The members of the four classes met and decided to have the inter-class series and to elect captains a little later. The problem now is to get the teams filled out. There can be no prophecy as to which class might win the much coveted championship. As yet it is anyone’s and may the best team win. The Seniors won it last vear after a hard struggle with the Juniors. O. A. C. 78 M. THE . EDLEY (Stria Athlrtir Aaaariatton President..................................Opal Cannon Vice-President.............................Adele Hixon Secretary-Treasurer.......................Alberta Knight DLRING the year 1914-1915, the girls had gymnasium work under the direction of Miss Brown, a faculty member, for two evenings a week, in the Washington school gymnasium. In the spring an inter-class basket-ball tournament was held, in which the Juniors were victorious. In September, 1915, the Girls’ Athletic Association election resulted as above noted. It is hoped that the girls will be able to have an inter-class tennis tournament, similar to the inter-class basket-ball tournament in which a shield will be given to the winning team. The success and enthusiasm of the Girls’ Athletic Association has been due to the earnest endeavors of the officers and the faithful coach, Miss Brown. 79 . THE . EDLEY Wearers of ttje “1” ifimlball Albert (Capt.) Warren Leverenz, Clarence Lindelsee, Noble Adams, Cecil Seoles, Tony Cookingham (Capt. elect) Perry Hastings, Lanta Kieran, Wm. Tennery, Harmon Nelson, Alva McArthur, Clifford. Haskrlball Sparks (Capt) Russel Skadden, Harry Callais, Elmer Campbell, Gene Son, Gail Kieran, Wm. Craig, Palmer Neff, Wm. Dallas, Jas. ®rark Not yet awarded. 80 % M-THE- IVIedley 81 . THE . EDLEY Atheimrian tatrrary £ nrifty President.............................................Marion Coolley Vice-President........................................Verona Schultz Secretary.....................................Julia Knight Treasurer.....................................Palmer Craig Chairman of Program Committee........................Dorothy Symonds Chairman of Membership Committee............Elizabeth Walker Adviser......,...................................Miss Robey ALTHOUGH there was no play this spring the Athedarians have had a very good year. At the opening of school, in September, a campaign for new members was started and the membership of the society was greatly increased in this way. Several programs have been given, some of a musical nature, and some of a dramatical nature. Much credit must be given our adviser, Miss Robey, and those teachers who assisted her throughout the year—Miss Lewman, Miss Lewis, Miss Hawkins and Mr. Hart. Without their help the society could not have had such a good year or such bright prospects for the next. 82 J. Knight. M.the. EDLEY • • . ..‘ . Iflrmbrra of Ihr Atlirbariau tCitrranj nrirtij Adams, Stephen Bachman, Hattie Bannin, Beatrice Bireline, Florence Bishop, Blanche Blair, Helen Brady, Davida Brandenberger, Grace Caldwell, Helen Ruth Callais, Maud Campbell, Gene Cannady, Adeline Cannady, Edwin Cannady, Helen Cannon, Opal Carr, Lucile Carter, Birdie Collignon, Josephine Conlin, Margaret Cottingham, Esther Cowan, Esther Cowan, Rufus Craig, Palmer Cramer, Norma Dague, Madeline Dwiggins, Theodosia Faichild, Leo Faith, Kathryn Flynn, Ruth Frank, Milton Funk,John Gerrard, Ada Glindmeier, Mildred Goulding, Lowell Grimes, Helen Gutterridge, Vera Guy, Chester Hahn, Catherine Harrington, Faith Hastings, Lanta Hazzard, Georgia Hixon, Adele Hofmann, Helen Holstine, Sarah Huber, Beatrice Hunsaker, Ruth Jewell, Margaret Jobson, Ellen Johnson, George Jones, Paul Knight, Alberta Knight, Julia Lauer, Helen Leamard, Helen Leverenz, Gertrude Lindle, Annie Mai Little, Roy Lucier, Irredell McCray, Marian McLean, Tom Mitchell, Mamie Moore, Margaret Osborn, Dorothy Partlow, Helen Pomar, Gladys Quinn, Thelma Reed, Sina Ross, Alice Rumbaugh, Esther Sackett, Edna Sadler, Nettie Sandberg, Hilder Schultz, Selma Schultz, Verona Scopes, Lela Shouse, Edna Simcox, Maude Small, Josephine Smith, Wayne Snider, Esther Songer, Gene Spangler, Fern Swaim, Elizabeth Symons, Dorothy Wait, Helen Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Lewis Walker, John Walter, Dorothy Watson, Ferris Walton, Florance Watt, Juanita Werner, Margaret Werren, Florence White, Roy 83 . THE . ED LEY Alttira AUftt HAROLD DONALDSON and Dick McGriffen, classmates at Silverwood High School, lounged in the school library and talked. “Say,” said Dick, “some of the freshman girls are great, aren’t they? You can see the green written all over their faces. That Allen girl is from Green’s Hollow. Do you know her, Donaldson?” “I’ve met her,” said Harold, in a senior meeting.” She discounts the rest of the girls,” said Dick. “She doesn’t board; she hires a room and cooks her own meals. She drove over here with a stove, and a chair, and a frying-pan. She does her own washing, fastens her books to the washboard and studies while she’s doing it,” he added, giving his humor its way. “She brought a bushel of corn and a bag of dried apples, and that's what she lives on.” Harold said nothing, and Dick went on: “How about the dance? The Millers have invited me to go with them in their limousine. It will save my new pumps.” “I thought that you might be going in a Ford, Dick; Joe Sheman’s Ford,” Harold responded-That was a reference to a recent practical joke in which Dick McGriffen and two Freshmen had been concerned, and Dick had been the prime actor. The boys parted, laughing. They went in opposite directions. Harold Donaldson glanced into the next alcove as he passed it, and saw a girl sitting there. She was not reading; her trembling lips were bitten between her teeth, and she had the strained look of tears held back. She was Alvira Allen. As Dick McGriffen walked away, his mischievous fancy was playing with thoughts of Alvira and Harold. Alvira Allen and Harold Donaldson! The contrast struck him forcibly—the richest fellow in high and the poorest girl, the swellest fellow and the most countrified girl. Dick let his sportive imagination loose, and by the time he had reached his room in the Y. M. C. A. he had an idea. The coming mid-year dance was the great affair of the winter. Dick McGriffen sat down, chuckling; chewed his pen a minute, wrote a formal invitation to Alvira Allen and signed Harold Donaldson’s name to it. “She can’t dance, it isn’t likely, and she’ll write him a note and refuse, and I’d like to see Donaldson when he gets it,” Dick ruminated. “He’s a snob, anyway, Donaldson is. He thinks he owns the high school and has a mortgage on the town. He wouldn’t be seen with one of those country girls, and he’ll be puzzled and angry.” He folded the note and hurried it into the mail-box. That day Alvira Allen had not a minute to herself till late in the afternoon, and then she sat down by her couch, buried her head in her pillow, and burst into tears. “ I am a fool to care!” she sobbed. But she had a hard cry. Then she rose, lighted her lamp and went to work with her books. Annabel Bacon came in with her Latin for an hour's study after supper. She had picked up a letter for Alvira in the hall below and she tossed it to her. Alvira read it twice. Then she handed it to Annabel without any comment. Annabel, reading it, clapped her hand over her mouth to stop a scream. “Donaldson!” she cried. “Harold Donaldson!” The two girls looked at each other, breathless, “I don’t understand it,” Alvira said simply. “ I hardly know him.” Two or three times he had opened a class-room door for her; once he had restored a book she had dropped, and talked a few minutes. “You’ve met him,” said Annabel. She did not see why Alvira Allen, sincere and sweet and self-relying and womanly, was not his equal. She felt an unselfish gladness and a thrill of triumph at her sudden, unlooked-for distinction. “Of course you’ll go!” she said. “You can dance, can’t you?” Some,” said Alvira. She was, then, lost in unconquerable wonder; but a dawning pleasure filled her. It was not all for herself, either; she thought how proud a thing this would be to write home to her mother. “We’ll coach you a little. I’ll bring Ada Reel over here; she’s a good dancer. You’ll look sweet in your white voile dress! I have a white feather fan and I’ll let you take it. Yes, I shall; you needn’t say anything.” She caught Alvira by the shoulders and shook her in fresh excitement. She stayed an hour, and they gave themselves up to conjecturing and discussing, in sheer girlish joy. 84 M-THE- IVIedley The next afternoon Harold Donaldson received a note from Alvira Allen. She thanked him for his kind invitation to the mid-year promenade, and accepted it with much pleasure. He had only a brief moment to give to his blank amazement, for he had to attend a recitation. Hurrying along he pondered. “It’s a joke somebody’s played on her,” he reflected; and his perplexity yielded to indignation. His wrath was not on his own account, but on Alvira Allen's. What fellow has done it? His suspicions went instantly to Dick McGriffen, and when Dick overtook him and slapped him on the shoulder, he pulled away from him. He had no proof and he had to hold his tongue. He had something else to say, though. “ Did you know Miss Allen heard what you said about her yesterday?” he demanded. Dick halted. “She didn’t!” he gasped. She was in the next alcove, I saw her.” Harold went on to the class room. A few of the senior class were taking physical geography with the freshmen, and this was the recitation. Naturally, the object of his most fixed attention was Alvira Allen. He noticed that she was tall, pretty and carried herself well. He thought of what Dick had said about her, the wash tub and the rest, and he put to himself the question why grit was not as good a quality for a girl to have as for a man. He wanted to fling something at Dick. Mr. York, the teacher, did not dismiss the class when the recitation ended. “I have to speak to you,” he said, “about an occurrence of late Saturday night, a piece of wanton mischief. Doctor Wilson’s car was taken out of his garage and put into that of joe Sheman’s, a peddler, and Sheman’s car was left in Doctor Wilson’s garage.” Most of the class smiled. Doctor Wilson’s car was a large touring car while that of the peddler was a Ford. Doctor Wilson has suffered annoyances before from the students, and he has made a complaint to the faculty. We have had poor results on former occasions,” said the teacher, sarcastically smiling, “from circulating papers of inquiry among the students to be signed yes or no, and the question will be put direct in all the class rooms which I now put to you. “Were any of you concerned in this affair, or have you any knowledge of the perpetrators?” The affair, with its perpetrators was an open secret among the boys. The two guilty freshmen, being callow, felt uneasy and nervous; Dick McGriffen stretchen out his legs and stuck his hands in his pockets, smiling. Mr. York scanned the immovable faces and repeated the question sharply. “If any of you had any part in it, or any knowledge of the person or persons who did this foolish act,” he said, “it is your duty to admit it.” Then a strange thing occurred. Alvira Allen rose in her place. She was pale. Mr. York's self-possession failed him. He stared at her. Alvira Allen!” he uttered, we are not to suppose that you had any hand in the business?” Nobody smiled. The expression on Alvira’s face made every student sober; they strained their ears for her answer. No,” she said, but I was out late that night, studying with one of the girls, and going home I saw somebody putting a machine into Doctor Wilson’s garage. And I saw who it was.” Then she sat down. She had said simply what her scrupulous conscience had made her say. There was nobody in the room who did not divine it. There was breathless silence in the room. “I will see you privately, Alvira. Will you remain?” said Mr. York, and dismissed the class Dick McGriffen marched out with his chin in the air. Nobody but Harold Donaldson and the two freshmen ventured to speak to him. Harold’s comment was brief: “She’ll give you away,” he said, “and serve you right!” “Guess that’s so,” said Dick, grimly. He snubbed the two freshmen. “What’s the matter with you?” he demanded with scorn. “ It was I she saw, you two weren't in sight. Let me alone. Beat it! He lingered until the class had dispersed, then he went and sat down on the outside steps and waited. He drummed with his feet, and whistled; but the whistle was hollow bravado. His heart was filled with dismay. That girl in there with the teacher had a grudge against him. Even if it were one of the fellows he could not have been sure of him; and this was a girl, a girl he had roughly ridiculed, and who had heard him. Now she had a fine chance to pay him back, a rare chance and she would take it. Any girl would. She coifld tell why she did it and nobody would blame her. He suddenly realized what it might mean. He had concerned himself in half a dozen pranks, some worse than this. He had done little serious work, and he was partially conditioned. It 85 M.the. EDLEY was not likely that the faculty might find its patience exhausted and send him home. He sat there doggedly till Mr. York and Alvira Allen came out and parted, then he joined the teacher, “Did the Allen girl tell you who the fellow was?” he asked; and he braced himself for the answer. “She did not,” the teacher replied. “She did not see fit to do so. She had satisfied her conscience, it appears, by declaring that she knew the guilty one, and she chose to stop at that critical and interesting point. She had shown a genuine delicacy of scruple mixed in with a masculine faithfulness toward fellow-students. It is a singular case. I think I shall refer it to Professor Miles; he knows all about moral philosophy,” added Mr. York, humorously. Dick McGriffen tried to speak. He turned and faced the teacher, with a compelling impulse, “I’m the fellow,” he said, “and any other girl in her place would have said so. She had mighty good reasons to.” He turned off abruptly at a corner, and made for the Y. M. C. A. He rushed into the Donaldson residence for a few minutes talk with Harold. “She didn’t give me away!” said Dick to Harold as they entered the library. “She didn’t?” said Harold. “Not a word. I’ve told Mr. York myself, though, and if I’m shipped home, I'm shipped. It won’t be Alvira Allen’s fault. She’s a great girl. Yes, sir, she’s great.” Harold whittled a pencil. Dick fidgeted; he looked the anguish he felt. “Say! If—if you hear anything from her—if you get a note or anything----” “I’ve got it,” said Harold. “I—see here, Donaldson------” “Oh, I knew it was you!” “ What are you going to do about it?” said Dick. With a degree less of abasement he would not have asked it. “ Do?” said Harold, “ I’m going to take her, and if you want to know it, I'm glad of the chance. Dick McGriffen had a problem before him. Alvira Allen from Green's Hollow, was not the kind of girl he had thought she was. She was something different; something more. And Harold Donaldson was not, after all, a snob; he was a gentleman. He had found out what Harold Donaldson and Alvira Allen were; what was he himself? He knew several terms which he thought applied to him fitly, and he applied them all. At the mid-year dance he asked Alvira Allen for her card and took two numbers. They danced the firsthand talked about the music, the decorations, the mid-year examinations, the football team. The second they sat out at Dick’s request. Every student present had a keenly interested eye on them. For everybody had the facts now; everybody knew that Alvira refused to inform against Dick. “I’ve got something to say to you, Alvira, said Dick. “Don’t!” said she. Alvira was filled with half incredulous pride that such a part in the great merrymaking should be hers, and she had all a girl’s delight in it, besides; and she brightened and bloomed. But Dick had his say. He got through it somehow, without flinching. He spoke of his talk to Harold in the library. He did not make a set apology; he felt that the case was beyond that; Alvira knew what he felt and from the sweet seriousness of her face he drew his first shred of comfort. “ I owned up to the auto stunt, you know,” he added, “and the faculty sent me word to come and see them. If they had received the information from you, they’d have expelled me. I owe it to you that they didn’t—that’s the amount of it. Seeing I owned up, they let me off by apologizing to Dr. Wilson and Joe Sheman and promising to keep straight. And I’m going to. You may not believe it, but I am.” He could not express it, and he did not try, but he felt that if he amounted to anything—and he meant to—he should owe it mostly to Alvira Allen. L. J. S. � 86 M-THE- IVJLedley iUiUii'a iUcat (6irl THEY were leaning against the schoolhouse fence at the first recess; two little snub-nosed, tow-headed, first-day pupils, scarcely graduated from Buster Brown dresses to respectable trousers, and they were getting acquainted in the usual small-boy manner. “What’s yur name?” asked the “tow-headedest” of the two. “Lee Summer. What’s yurs?” “Billy Allison.” A period of silence followed, during which Lee thoughtfully churned the dust with his toe as if that were his main purpose in life. Bet my dad can lick yours,” he said, matter-of-factly. “Aw-w!” growled Lee dubiously. Then brightening up as another thought struck him, he boasted jubilantly, “Bet my mother’s the prettiest and got the most clothes! She’s got a dress that cost a hundred dollars!” Billy was impressed. He didn’t know much about dressmaker’s bills, so he couldn't argue with Lee on that point, but as to the beauty! He knew his mother was pretty, but he searched his little brain in vain to find some distinguishing mark of beauty that would set her apart from other mothers. At last his face brightened and he sang out in triumph,” Well, anway, my mother’s got the biggest feet!” Lee made no attempt to dispute that. He was overpowered with awe. It was his turn now to hunt for something with which to magnify himself and his importance in Billy’s eyes. Finally,, in an attitude of great secrecy he approached young Allison and inquired: “You aint got any girl though, have you?” “Girl! Naw!” Up to this moment Billy had supposed that girls were here for the express purpose of annoying the superior and patiently tolerating masculine sex, to be played with occasionally when no boy were available, but on the whole, to be avoided as vastly inferior beings. Now, however, he began to suspect that his views were shaky. The tone of pride in which Lee had announced his possession, filled Billy’s mind with a vague uneasiness. Lee had something desirable, and he, William Allison, whose mother had the biggest feet and whose father could kill a bear with one arm, had not that one thing—a girl. It was very plain to be seen that he must have one or his reputation would suffer. Lee was strutting around with a Napoleonic air which grated on Billy’s nerves. He condescendingly informed the girl-less youngster that the object of his affections was named Sh'rley, and that he gave her candy often. But just then the bell rang and cut short any further observations likely to arouse Billy’s youthful jealousy. Inside the school, Billv took a survey of the feminine part of the class. In the front seat, he discovered, was the lady called Shirley. She had very yellow curly hair and blue eyes. Across the aisle was another being belonging to the species which he was now beginning to believe were after all worth about as much as a boy. This one, however, had very dark hair, very dark eyes and a red dress. Billy decided that he liked her better, although he couldn’t see yet why one needed to be so proud of having a girl. There were lots of them there—it ought to be easy to get one. He decided to get him one after school. During the course of the morning he discovered that the dark-haired being was called Marguerite, so when the noon bell rang, he sauntered nonchalantly up to her, yanked one of her dark curls, and casually inquired, “Will you be my girl, Marguerite?’ She turned around, looked at him with indignant eyes, then burst into tears and fled. Billy was very near tears himself, but of course, he wouldn’t admit it. Big boys who went to school did not cry over girls, anway, so he bravely choked the tears back and walked forlornly home to where mother and dinner awaited him. “How was school, Billy-man?” she called from the doorway as she saw him approaching. Ah, aw’right, I guess,” he lied bravely, choking back an obstinate lump in his throat. “Why, what’s the matter, son? Weren’t the children nice to you?” “No—that is, yes—aw, nothin’s the matter.” Mrs. Allison wisely refrained from questioning him further but led him into the dining room, where he soon found that he was not too heart-broken to eat. All afternoon, however, he wandered forlornly about in the yard enveloped in melancholy. Pickles, his bulldog, followed i him about, whining and wagging his tail sympathetically. 87 IVIedley “Pickles, hon,” said Billy indulging in a bit of sentiment, “this is awful—awful! I have prit near everything I want, mother’n dad, a’n you, n’a gun, n’a train o’ cars, n’a sled, n’a automobile, but I aint got no gu-r-rl.” Pickles whined dolefully, thereby saying that he understood and was awfully sorry. “ Don’t you tell anybody what I told you, Pickles.” Pickles promised. Bedtime came and still Billy had not unburdened his hurt little heart of its first small tragedy Moreover, he didn’t intend to. Men didn’t tell their love affairs he felt sure. He hadn’t intended to tell it but it slipped out unexpectedly. Mother was hearing his prayers. He had just got to the “God bless mama and papa” part when a happy thought struck him. It hadn’t occurred to him before. He waited an instant in order to gain sufficient courage, then fervently he implored, “and dear God, please get me a girl! Amen.” It was over—his taut little nerves relaxed and he crawled up into his mother’s lap feeling more at peace with the world, but at the expression of polite surprise on her face, all his pent-up sobs of the day came into his throat and refused to be suppressed again. He hid his shamed tow-head on his mother’s shoulder and incoherently sobbed, “Ah, mother—it was awful—Lee’s mama had a spensive dress and you had the biggest feet—and the vellow Shirley girl was Lee's, ’an give her candy and I didn’t have none! Aoh an’ Margreet cried at me an’ runned and mother I aint got no girl! In some mysterious way, Mrs. Allison managed to piece his broken sentences together and understood what he was talking about. She rocked him silently until he calmed down, then, turning his face towards hers, she asked, “ Little son, why not let mother be your girl?” Slowly a smile spread over his babyish mouth and from thence all over his still more babyish face. Why hadn’t he thought of that? Who would make a better girl? Was she not pretty? Her black hair was curly and her blue eyes were big and altogether lovely. Did not she pet him, love him and play with him, always? He would tell Lee tomorrow that he had a girl and had had for a long time only he hadn’t wanted to tell. Her name was Lizabeth. “Mother,” he said sleepily, slipping his arm about her neck, “Mother Lizabeth, you’re the best girl a fella ever had an' I’ll-give-you some-candy-whenever-I get -any.” A. S.—’16 8 S M-THE- IVIedley 0nsin0 x rOU are always complaining that you never have sufficient exercise to keep you in good Y physical trim,” said Mrs. Marley, when she came home from a shopping tour the other day, and found Mr. Marley dozing in the hammock on the porch. “I admit the truth of all you say, Mrs. Marley,” said Mr. Marley, smiling. “If I were only in better physical trim, I should quickly be in better mental trim, my business vision would be clearer, and I should make more money and—” I suppose I could have more luxuries than I do at present?” broke in Mrs. Marley. “Naturally,” replied Mr. Marley, with the same good natured smile. “Then I should think that you would begin at once for your own sake as well as mine. By exercise, you improve and strengthen your position in the business world, and this elevation means more luxuries for me. Now, just think of it in the light of the saying,' It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways,’ and you will plainly see, that even as your business prosperity means more for me, so do my increased luxuries mean increased business prosperity for you. It is a beautiful combination, and I should think you would be encouraged by the fact, that by simply making me more happy you are rewarded by fortune. Now, I wish you would exercise enough to have the effort result in a business that would make it possible for you to give me a Nile green gown for the Larbod tea next Thursday afternoon; and a velvet suit and a pair of patent leather shoes for Reginald to wear to go to dancing school. Do you think that jumping out of that hammock and running the mower over the lawn, would place my wish within the pale of possibility?” Mr. Marley’s eyes were closed, and Mrs. Marley said with a rising as well as a rasping inflection, “Now don’t pretend that you are asleep, Mr. Marley. I want that Nile green gown, because I have been asked to ‘ pour ’ at that tea with a banker's widow, and I want to gain all the social glory that naturally grow7s out of such a golden opportunity, if only for the children's sake. Are you asleep, Mr. Marley?” “About half asleep and half awake,” replied Mr. Marley, with a yawn that lapsed into a pleasant smile, “and I don’t know whether I heard you or whether it was a dream-fairy; but whoever, or whatever it was it wanted a Nile green widow in a banker's gown to go to dancing school in a velvet suit and a pair of patent-leather shoes—was that it?” “ I suppose so,” replied Mrs. Marley, who really didn’t know what to say for she was so provoked. “All right,” said Mr. Marley, “but first of all, who is the Nile green widow?” “Which Nile green widow?” demanded Mrs. Marley, with emphasis. “Why, the Nile green widow that wanted to wear the banker’s gown.” “Oh, oh, Mr. Marley,” said Mrs. Marley, almost hysterically, you have it all mixed up! You must have been dozing. I said that I wanted a Nile green gown in which to ‘pour’ with a banker’s widow at a pink tea.” “Lovely combination, my dear; lovely, a most lovely combination—the tea pink and you in green. Why, bless me, that will be the combination to suggest a rose tree in full bloom. I can tell you what it is, Gladys, you are the tea rose that will never fade from the Chinese garden of this honest old appreciative heart. But what about the lawn-mower? Did I understand you to say something referring indirectly to a lawn mower?” “I did,” she replied. “I said you might get some needed exercise by running the mower over the lawn, and by so doing brace your business up sufficiently to buy me that Nile green gown.” “I could never do that, Gladys, because lawn-mowing is not exercise, it’s work. I need the kind of exercise that is not monotonous, but pleasant. I haven’t the time to ride a wheel ten miles a day, or to play golf. Those forms of exercise rest the mind, but cutting grass and chopping wood do not—they simply irritate and make you sore. You cannot, for instance, get the same benefit out of the washboard, that you can out of tennis; you cannot derive the same result from kicking the sewing machine that you do from pushing along on the wheel up and down hill. The only kind of work that is exercise—that is the kind that isn’t work; in short the kind that brushes the cobwebs out of your mental belfry, and not the kind that causes you to ripple and undulate in rosy argosies of bumps and blisters. Besides, what I would gain in muscle I would lose in caste.” Caste?” she gasped. “Certainly; and our neighbors would never understand that I was trying to brace up my business. They would think it was slipping away from me; they wouldn’t look upon me with 89 M . THE . EDLEY admiration and sav, ‘ there’s a good husband trying to save money to gown his wife handsomely, ’ they would probably say, ‘What an inconsiderate woman to wear such handsome gowns when her poor husband comes home early to cut the grass, which he cannot afford to have cut. The cruelty of women----- “Mr Marley!” she exclaimed in a voice that was sharper than a saw-edged collar, “ what in the world can you be thinking about to talk so?” “About you, my dear.” “About me? And what can you be thinking about me, pray? “Your various inconsistencies.” “My various inconsistencies,” she said, with a refrigerating glance. “Mr. Marley, give me just one illustration.” “With pleasure,” said Mr. Marley. “You never think about doing the cooking.” “Indeed I don’t, and I never will. The idea!” she said with spirit. “But then,” he continued, “you will pay a girl sixteen dollars a month which is one hundred and ninety-two dollars a year.” “Mr. Marley—Mr.—Mr. Mar--------- I think this too much of a—oh, oh, oh, Mr. Marley, it was a sorry day when I married you, and—I—oh-------” Mr. Marley was again asleep with the same pleasant smile flitting over his features, while the breeze whispered the fairy secrets of the rose into his ear, while he swung to and fro among the honeysuckles, lost in sweet forgetfulness. t C. H.—''16 90 M-THE- JVIedley uhc ffiiijh rhnnl 3Ftrr On a bright and sunny morning, Long ’bout eight and forty minutes, Mounted to the platform proudly, Mr. Smalley in his glory, With that smile which is so charming, Giving net a moment’s warning, Turned he to the doorway nearby, Rang, to summons all the freshmen From the nearby rooms to enter There within that big assembly For to hear some great announcements Of his treasured honor-roll, Or some new rules of the school laws. Then there broke from all the students Such a storm of loud applauding That the charming smile was fading And his warning hand was rising, Told them all that they must quit it— That the unison of their foot-beats Would so shake the rack}' building That the floor would surely give way Causing trouble for the school board, Probably school would have to close up For a long and cherished week-day. Then he read his few announcements Closing as now is the custom, “There will be no Thursday program. Wait until a week from Thursday.” Then the students cursed him wildly, Called him tyrant Kaiser Wilhelm, Said that he had gone plumb crazy Full of burning fire-water, That his ideas were old and fogyish, That they’d take him out and haze him. But he heeded net their raving, All their threats, they never phased him; For he knew how much his power was, That they dare not get too frisky Else he’d take four from their studies. So he ruled with firm precision Closing with his usual nod. 91 . THE . EDLEY Students beat it for their classes Wishing down within their hearts That the danged old building burn Leaving nothing there but ashes, Nothing there but smoking ashes. But they knew their hopes were fruitless, That no luck like this could happen. So they spent the weary morning Till the clock showed nearly noon-time. Then the students waited softly For the bell to ring them freedom, For the time to come for dining When they’d leave for just an hour To return to bitter study In the brick pile on the corner. So they waited, softly waited. Till at last the stillness broken By the bell which rings out freedom. From their seats they rushed out madly, Scrambling for their coats and sweaters, Leaving quickly with their cronies, Or with those who go the farthest, To their homes throughout the city. Little did they dream at that time What was smoldering in the attic, In the big vacated gym-room, Just above the second story. So in fifteen little minutes All had left the second story All save one whose fame has swollen, By her noble work of rescue, By her delicate sense cf smelling. She alone tripped through the hallway Lightly, till she reached the office. There she stopped for just a moment Long enough to scent the air once; Then she hustled to the platform, To the big and noble platform, Where she gave at once the warning For she knew that there was trouble Smoldering in the dark old attic, In the big vacated gym-room. 92 M-THE ■ IVIedley So she sent at once the call in For to summons all the fire-force, All the autcs and the wagons. Maybe they could work and save once The old brick walls and the pay-roll. Forth from every nook and corner Came the sauntering student body (Those who failed to leave the building). Some filed out in perfect order, Others stayed to eat their lunch up For to leave it would be fatal. Thus the first few seconds fleeted Till the truth was fully known of. Then there was a scramble rightly All their hats and coats to rescue, Also Mr. Smalley’s records Of their perfect daily presence, And the many pads of pink slips Long with charts of utmost value. Several of the very bravest Rushed up to the second story, Saved the pink slips and the records, Saved the class-books, and the papers Which recorded all our knowledge, Which we gained in early autumn, Saved it with, heroic effort. Then they hurried to room thirteen, Gathered all the students’ text bocks, Hurled them from the Pine street windows Leaving not a single thing to perish, For they thought the thing was going, Sure as thunder it was gcing, For the firemen gave them warning, And the water ran in streamlets From the stairs and tinny ceiling, Soaking them with joyous water. For its purpose was most welcome, Welcome to the o’er-worked students. But they paid no heed to warning, Went right on with the work of rescue. Wading in the dirty water, Smiling down at joyous classmates 93 . THE . EDLEY Swarming o’er the close cut campus, Scrambling for their treasured booklets, Saving them from grave most muddy. Down below the scene was different. There was Archie W. Smalley, There quite pale and trembling slightly, Trembling there beside his wifie, For to him the sight was awful, One depressing and subjecting. He was there to do his utmost In a way to save the building. But his efforts were not needed As the fire was under way now And the treasures of the school house. Lay in safety on the campus. Round them stood the staring freshmen Gazing wide-mouthed at the chemicals, Looking closely at their symbols, Wondering if in future school days They could cause such awful cdors As come drifting from the Lab room Stifling young and tender freshmen. How the crowd was growing greater! How they searched among the book piles, Getting books for years to come, Saving those which were their cronies’ Joking with their many teachers, Striving hard to keep that smile back, That which came and would not go ’way! What a feeling did prevail there, That of supernatural power! Some would like to whoop quite loudly, Others felt not unlike Sampson, Longed for some great powerful lion Or to meet a charging wild bull. These would cower before their power, By the tail they’d seize them roughly, Hurl them far cut over the city Out beyond the Western brick yards. Bunch by bunch the gleeful kidlets, Left for down town to make merry, Maybe all straight to the Lyric, 94 ]U-THE- iVlEDLEY Maybe to a movie show. Some procured at once some Spearmint, Which would keep them ever busy Chewing, chewing, making merry. Quite a crowd went to the Lyric, All on front seats they were seated Joking, laughing, clapping, giggling; Each act on, received a welcome, Good or bad it passed as “classy.” Thus they spent the afternoon, Till at eve when all were tiled out Through the town there ran like wild-fire A fine rumor hailed as “good luck.” The big ceiling of the school house Had become so soaked and loosened That the plaster had all fallen, And the floor was so much weakened That to use it would be silly And a new one must be called for, That the post office, old and empty Would become our future school house, And that school work would continue Two weeks from the coming Thursday. This indeed was only rumor For a second thought had told them That the ceiling of the assembly Was of zinc and very staple, And the floor so firm and steady, Would not fall but hold forever. This they saw with some dejection, But they could not but be grateful For the fire the Lord permitted, And they felt that luck was with them, And that school would discontinue For the balance of the week end. So with pleasant recollections Came the end of that great day; One which caused a great sensation, One to linger in our memories As an epoch in the history Of our good old High School days. By P. F. J. 1917 95 . THE . EDLEY ittaromt ani Wliitr £ taff 96 M.the. EDLEY aiii' lHarumt anil fflhiti' NEVER before, in the annals of the “Maroon and White,” has this publication been boosted and upheld by the student-body, as has been the case, this year. With the establishing of the M. and W. Box in the upper hall, contributions have flowed in such streams, that twenty-eight page issues have been run throughout the year. By the noble efforts of our business managers, an amount was totaled from advertising, which far surpasses that of any other year. The retiring staff of the year 1915-16, wishes the staff of 1916-17, the greatest success in publishing the “best ever.” Editor-in-Cliief....... Asst. Editor-in-Chief... Business Manager....... Asst. Business Manager Literary Editor........ Circulation Manager... News Editor............ Asst. News Editor...... Art Editor............. Humorous Editor........ Asst. Humorous Editor. Alumni Editor.......... Exchange Editor........ Athletic Editor........ .Florance Walton . Margarita Burns ... .Harry Skadden .... Max Goldberg . .. .Aurelia Starks .. . Lanta Hastings ... Dorothy Symons .... Fern Spangler .. Margret Jewell ... Helen Jackson Elizabeth Rearick . Miss Ruth Miller .. Madeline Dague .. .William Kieran 97 M.the. ED LEY 98 MTHE- IVIEDLEY . THE . EDLEY Affirmation Debating a ram Danville vs. Lafayette D. H. S. Assembly Room December 17, 1916 Presiding Officer—Mr. Baer (Trams AFFIRMATIVE Birdie Carter Leo Burk William Mowery NEGATIVE Stephen Hammigan Harold Rank Frank Moran Question—“Resolved, that it is now time for the United States to give the Philippines their independence.” Won by Negative 100 MTHE- IVlED LEY KVgatttip Di'luttimji uiutni Danville vs. Lafayette Jefferson High School Assembly December 17, 1916 Presiding Officer—Charles Vaughn (Trams AFFIRMATIVE Howard Grady Paul Rostoff William Grey NEGATIVE Esther Layton John Spearman Rufus Streble Question—“Resolved, that it is now time for the United States to give the Philippines their independence. Won by Negative 101 102 TV T.THE. IVIedley ffiranglrra’ (Club 1st Semester President...............................Louis Stuebe Vice-President..........................Rufus Strebel Secretary...............................Carroll Crawford Treasurer.............................. .John Spearman Chairman of Program Committee.........Birdie Carter Chairman of Social Committee............Esther Layton Sergeant-at-Arms........................Leo Burk 2nd Semester Leo Burk Edward Lesch Madeline Lawrence Louis Dyer Raleigh Dyer Zua HazzarD Elmer Olson THE WRANGLERS’ Club has passed a most eventful and most profitable year. It has, in the past seven years, been the main factor in encouraging public speaking along the lines of oratory, extempore speaking, declamation and debate. It is a real organization for real people, who do real things. Last spring most of the “stand-by’s” graduated, and left us with raw material. But, owing to the combined efforts of the members and the assistance of our adviser, the work went on. We have enlarged our roll to nearly half a hundred. It was this year that we turned the tables on Lafayette. Our negative team won from theirs in their own city; and although the affirmative lost at home, they did the best of work. The most encouraging fact, is that most of the debaters and public speaking contestants were under-classmen. Of the dual debating teams, winners of oratory, extempore, and declamation, three were Juniors and six Sophomores. With this condition before us, it would seem that the future will be great. The Wranglers, as always is the case, have had their social events. The parties, coastings, walks, picnics, and the Danville-Lafayette banquet did much toward keeping up the spirit of the workers. Our faithful adviser for the two semesters has been Mr. Converse. It is his co-operation and work that we owe much of our success. We would not have a memorial service; for only a couple of our number leave us with the close of the school year. Instead, membership, to the quality and amount of work, and to the good of the school. 103 M.the. ED LEY JJubltr Shaking DANVILLE High School has made wonderful progress in public speaking this year; especially when we consider that our contestants were all under classmen. Of course all wreaths are not ours, but we feel that we have net been of the back numbers. In April 29, at the county meet, Raleigh Burk took first place in oratory and Madeline Lawrence second. Besides their own medals, the school is entitled to the silver cup of the Vermilion County Oratorical Association, for another year. Mr. Burk’s oration was on “Unpreparedness,” and Miss Lawrence’s on “Character.” In county extempore our representative, William Mowery, secured the gold medal. Although we did not place in declamation, we feel sure that the little sophomores will do something in the future. We had as many points as the others put together, and next time will try to get one hundred per cent of them. In the State district extempore contest at Paxton, Leo Burk and William Mowery gained fifth and sixth places out of twenty-one. They have another year in which to work, so the outlook for the final state meet will seem better another year. Vivian Akers and Raleigh Burk went to Charleston on May 6, to the State district declamatory contest. We are sorry that their result was not announced before the Medley went to press. Perhaps, the success is due, in a great measure, to the public speaking advisor and coach, Mr. Converse. Last fall he had a small number of sophomores and juniors, for all the cld orators and speakers graduated the June before. But, he worked faithfully with them and in the end turned them out in fine condition. They have shown themselves worthy of the name of the seniors of the year before. If everything looks next fall, as it does now, we believe that Danville will show the whole State in 1917. 104 M. THE . EDLEY 105 M.the. EDLEY (i)ffirrrs of thp (Stria tubrnt (flub President.................................Esther Cottingham Vice-President...............................Helen Carter Secretary....................................Aurelia Starks Treasurer....................................Ruth Hunsaker 106 m-the- 1VJ.EDLEY THERE is no one in the school who does not know about the Girls’ Student Club. During the past year it has certainly succeeded in its aim to promote friendliness and good-will among the girls of the school. Every Wednesday afternoon this organization meets, somecimes to hear an outside speaker or for the monthly Bible study, and sometimes to enjoy the Question Box by which they both laugh and learn. Santa Claus visited one hundred little boys and girls at the Christmas party and of course, he brought with him an enormous tree and a basket of candy, fruit, nuts, toys and warm clothing for each one. This party proved to be one of the most successful the Club has ever given. It is hard to tell whether the girls had a better time at the Japanese Tea or at che Kid Party. The Tea was held in the Y. W. C. A. rooms which were changed inco picturesque little Japanese shops, where tea and curios were sold by girls in bright colored kimonos. An abundance of flowers and blossoms gave the rooms a decided Japanese effect. At the Kid Party each girl was a romping youngster of five or six, and enjoyed stick candy and jumping the rope as thoroughly as if she had never left kindergarten. The dinner given at the Y. W. C. A. showed what the girls could do when they were given a chance to make money. Every noon they keep a candy counter in the lower hall, and the money cleared by this relieves them from all financial worry. The Minstrel Show and the Wakemecum Circus furnished fun enough to last through the whole year. 107 Helen Ruth Caldwell, ‘16 . THE . EDLEY dFinattrial IWrft af (Cmttnil of D. 8 . Vivian Finch.... Louis Dyer...... James Dallas.... Mary Seigmund. .. Harry L. Skadden A. L. Loring..... .....Treasurer Asst. Treasurer Asst. Treasurer ......Secretary ......President ........Auditor THE FINANCE Board made up of the treasurers of the several organizations represented in the treasury met last year and elected the officers as noted above. The work has been heavy this year and it has kept the little force busy many evenings until late after school. In fact there is no position in school more difficult to handle or which requires more time than that of treasurer. The Board is in its second year. Everything points to its permanency as an institution in the High School. Last year the average indebtedness of the organization was vS14.24; at the end of the year it was §7.80, a reduction of nearly one-half in the course of nine months of the school year. June 1916 should find every organization not only out of debt but with a comfortable balance. 108 M.the. EDLEY 109 M. THE . EDLEY Jfrrslmmit iRmption F FRIDAY night, October 22, the reception for new students was held in the auditorium of the Washington building. This was one of the big affairs of the school year. It was the time when every one meets every one else, to become acquainted, and establish a feeling of good fellowship among all the students of the high school. After going through the receiving line, the people grouped themselves according to the first letter of their surnames. A grand march was formed, after which the people seated themselves to await with much anticipation the program which was to follow. The first of the program consisted of the stunts of the different letter groups. These stunts were in the hands of one or more individuals from the group, and were also generally supervised by the teacher chosen for the group. There were about twenty-two groups, which made the first part of the program have twenty parts. After the group stunts, the Athedarian play, “The Obstinate Family,” was given. The cast was as follows: Mr. Hartford (Henry), a young husband.........Perry Cookingham Mrs. Hartford (Jessy), a young wife...............Jane Palmer Lucy, the maid....................................Edna Sackett James, the butler.................................Wayne Nolen Mr. Harwood, father of Jessy......................Palmer Craig Mrs. Harwood, mother of Jessy...................Dorothy Symons Following the play were the class stunts. The Sophomore class sang a song and Theodosia Dwiggins gave a playlet, taking the three parts herself. The junior class had a suit case race between four boys, Cecil Llewellyn winning the prize. The Senior Class gave a playlet called “Ancient History,” representing Miss Robey’s Freshmen English Class, depicting the various mistakes Freshmen make (or at least are supposed to make). When the program ended, all formed in line and went down to Miss Harper’s room, where an ice cream cone and two sticks of candy were given to each person. 110 M-THE- IVIedley At tfimnr THE SEMI-ANNUAL reception to the eighth-grade students of the city schools was held Friday, January 14. They were shown class work in the laboratories and recitation rooms. Alter school they listened to a series of talks by the officers of the various school organizations. These talks were given in the assembly room where a few musical selections were also given. After this all adjourned to the Washington gymnasium, where ice cream and cake were served. A similar reception will be held in May for the pupils who are now in the eighth grade and who may enter the high school in the fall. . THE . EDLEY 0uutuir-3Juuun Hattqupt ALTHOUGH the third annual Senior-Junior banquet will not take place until after this Medley goes to press, we are going to give you a little forecast of events, and tell you something about it. For several weeks the social committees and the advisers have been working steadily perfecting the plans which promise to make this banquet the best yet. It will be held May 5, 1916, at the Plaza Hotel. A clever program has been arranged which will be presided over by toastmistress, Dorothy Symons, and s - a - y—um—m but the eats listen good. Decorations will be flowers in the colors of the two classes. The menu cards and programs will be combined in dainty booklets of old rose, gold and blue. But what’s the use of talking any more? We know it will be fine, and anyway we’ll tell you more about it in the next Medley. 112 M . THE . EDLEY ICaunt Jfrte THE PEOPLE who say that D. H. S. students lack the spirit of co-operation will surely have to take back that statement after last year’s Lawn Fete. On May 21, last year, the students of D. H. S. had a Spring Carnival that far surpassed all expectations. All the organizations in school, including the fraternities and sororities, were represented at some booth or show, and one and all worked together splendidly. The fete was held on the space between the High School and the Washington School. On the night of the twenty-first, the place was crowded, and it was certainly a pretty sight. Candy booths, shows, fortune-tellers’ tents, ice-cream booths, hamburger stands, and various other things abounded in this land of festivity, and, besides these, that ever popular confetti. It was a success financially as well as otherwise, and the proceeds helped to pull D. H. S. out of debt. ii?- w . THE . ED LEY Harralaurratr THE BACCALAUREATE service, which was held in the first Methodist Church, was attended by a large crowd. Fifty-seven graduates were present to hear the splendid and inspiring sermon by Rev. Merle N. English. (Class flan In the Washington Auditorium, June 2, 1915: Class Song....................Words and Music by Edith Fairchild Class History..................................Cassandra Love f Isabell Payne Angeline Cushman Class Will] Wilhelmine Shaffer j- Isabell Payne I Milton Guy I Fred Sackett f Earl Baker | Elsie Massing Class Prophecy] Beulah Faris Florence Moore i, Kenneth Holmes Kenneth Holmes Earl Baker “The Goat”.............................. Presentation of the Pearson Prize: “A Thursday Morning Assembly’ , Orland Church Ralph Rouse Class 116 vrTHE- IVIedley (Cnmmrnrnnrnt Commencement exercises were held in the Fischer Theatre, June 3, 1915. PROGRAM Seven-fifty O’Clock Musical Program.........................................High School Orchestra The Angelus................................................Massenet Funeral March of a Marionette................................Gounod (A marionette being a French wooden doll, worked by strings fastened to the fingers of someone behind the stage.) The Humoresque..............................................Dvorack Eight O’Clock Praelodium.................................................. Chopin Orchestra Invocation....................................Rev. A. L. T. Ewert a Glory to Isis(from “Aida”)..................................Verdi b La Serenata........................................F. Paolo Tosti High School Girls’ Chorus Address........................................Mr. Lloyd C. Douglas a Fairy Dance............................................... Ardite b Neapolitan Serenade................................E. di Capera Presentation of Diplomas...................Mr. George YV. Telling Response for the Class...............................Ralph Rouse Benediction...................................Rev. Chas. J. Adams High Jinks...................................................Frirnl 117 I 811 A33C13 ' 3 HA • MTHE- IVIedley grptnnbrr 7. Back to the life of toil at 8:40 a. m. instead of 9. One hundred and forty-four fresh innocent little faces among us. 8. Mr. Baer meets football candidates. 9. Nothing doing. 10. Ditto. 13. Football practice. Wranglers’ meeting. 14. Maroon and White meeting. More football practice. 15. Election of officers at Girls’ Student Club. 16. Athedarian meeting. 17. Athletic Association caucus. 20. “Moving Day,” also some housecleaning by the order of our prin- cipal. Wranglers’ meeting. 21. Miss Gundy must be starting a library. She began by extracting magazines from defenseless students today. (She collected quite a supply, too.) 22. Boys’ Athletic Election. Girls’Club “rush party” and installation of officers. Big crowd. 23. Harry Skadden makes a frantic appeal for “Maroon and White” subscriptions. 119 M- THE . --------------------------------------------- EDLEY 24. All boys’ meeting. 27. Class caucuses. Wranglers. 28. Girls’ Athletic caucus. 29. Sizzling hot time at Senior election. Much electioneering. (Drtohrr 29. Junior election. Wranglers’ debate. 1. Lots of enthusiasm for Sophs, at their election. 4. Girls’ Athletic Election. Danville 7, Westville 6. 5. Girls’ Club Initiation. Lots and lots of new members. 6. Athedarian meeting. Science Club. 7. Senior meeting to decide dues. 11. Score of Saturdays’ game—Danville 27—Paris 12. Mr. Smalley checks our enthusiasm somewhat by calling attention to the delicate condition of the rafters. “Cooky” leads cheering. 12. First Girls’ Chorus practice. 13. Girls’ Club gives “The Happenings of Mannerly Hall,” and original playlet. 14. Junior gives Ada Gerrard the job of historian. Wheel ! I “Maroon and White” out for first time this year. 19. Meeting of “Maroon and White” staff. 20. Girls’ Club Plantation meeting at Y. W. C. A. 21. Dr. Bowren, secretary of State Associated Charities spoke. 22. Freshmen reception. Lots of stunts. Everybody had good time. 25. Wranglers’ weenie-roast. 26. Girls’ Club Halloween Exchange. 29. Mr. Smalley hears great noise after school. Gallops post-haste into assembly to rout the boys and finds himself, to his surprise, in the midst of a feminine football convention. Now who said the girls couldn’t yell—even if they did open themselves to suspicion ? 120 M-THE- 1V1ed[,ey Nmtrntbpr 1. Senior meeting. Hoopeston game, 14-12 in favor of Danville. 2. Girls’ Chorus. 3. Mrs. Bond speaks at Girls’ Club. 4. Mr. Loring explains about the Womans’ Club Shoe and Stocking Fund. Debate tryout; Rufus Strebel, Esther Layton, Wm. Mowery, John Speakman, Leo Burk and Birdie Carter. 5. Speeches about Paris game by “Bud” Hastings, Tony Scoles, “Baldy” Alberts, Clifford McArthur, Frank Ryan and Mr. Baer. Seniors give masque party at Miriam Moore’s. Those pumpkin pies were simply out of sight! 10. Senior Girls meet new classmate, Helen Ruth Caldwell. 11. Everybody’s Funeral. Why? Exams. 12. More exams., some of them worse than yesterday’s. 15. Some excitement today. D. H. S. on fire! Books thrown from windows. Cops bar the doors when we strive to enter. Mr. Joel makes heroic dash past them into the basement and emerges panting, carrying in his arms—exam, papers! ! What will some of our faculty do next? The fire didn’t do enough damage to insure us another building. Of course fires are awful, and of course we love our school, but— Oh, well, no school for a week, anyway. “Maroon and White” given out from the editor’s automobile. 22. Back once more again yet. Faculty move about briskly distributing books lost in the fire. School still smells smoky. Honor roll read. 23. Seniors meet to decide about pictures for the Medley. Money collected for shoe and stocking fund. 24. Many old students wandering about today. We get out early. 25. Turkey Day. We get a chance today to eat all we please without keeping one eye on the clock. 29. Little freshmen and Sophs, look wistfully out of the windows at the first snow. The more experienced upper classmen study, of course. They know by this time that it “ain’t no use.” 121 . THE . ED LEY Drmnlu'r 3. Athedarians gave a fine play, except that it had some outlandish French name. 6. Wranglers’ Club. 7. Girls’ Chorus. 8. Girls’ Club. 9. Senior Meeting. 13. Meeting of Junior Pin Committee. Juniors 21. Freshmen 20-basket-ball. Miss Straus is substitute for Miss Robey who is ill. Everybody gets the hook (in the hall). 15. Speeches to arouse enthusiasm for Lafayette debate, by Wm. Mowery, Leo Burk, Louis Stuebe and Mr. Converse. The latter’s speech is simply “heart-rendering.” 23. D. H. S. wins statue of Abraham Lincoln in Mr. Levin’s popularity contest. Athedarians give program. No school till Jan. 3. Merry Xmas! 3Jammrtj 3. Mr. Marker visits. Report cards out. 4. Girls’ Chorus. 5. Miss Tenney of Y. W. C. A. speaks to the Girls’ Student Club. 6. Senior meeting. Lawn fete committee appointed. Brown’s Busi- ness College basket-ball team plays ours. Rev. Mr. Hanley gives fine talk on “Three Essentials of Right Living.” 7. Sidell 25—Danville 21. But cheer up! 10 and 11. Sophs, nominate Vice-Pres. Russel Sparks elected basketball captain. Meeting of Junior and Senior social committees. 12. Girls’ Student Club Question Box. “Cooky” elected football captain. 13. Football “D’s” given. Baldy gets stage fright. Medley staff meets. In the afternoon, Harry Skadden speaks on basket-ball. Mr. Joel at last gets a chance to talk. We learn how they do it at Crawfordsville. 122 M-THE • IVIedley 17. Wranglers’election. Clinton Vice-Pres. at Soph election. 18. Girls’ Club “Unfinished” meeting at Y. W. C. A. 19. Senior and Junior meetings. Mr. Smalley tells us how to be good housewives and househusbands. It’s interesting to listen to those who have had experience. 20. Senior and Junior Social committees meet. 23. Why does something always have to be taking the joy out of life, as exams, for instance? 24. More gloom. 26. We should worry! The Seniors and Juniors had a good time tonight anyway at their Calendar Party. 31. There were fifteen minute periods in the morning to get the first assignments of the new semester and the names of new books. About ninety new Freshmen appeared. There was no school in the afternoon. iFfliruanj 1. This was the first real day of school of the semester. Overcrowed halls began to be noticed. 2. Everyone carried all his books to class to have them 0. K’d. 3. An excellent Vietrola program was rendered. 4. M. McConnell visited school in the afternoon. 15. Miss Bence and Mr. Lewis were absent from school. 16. Mr. Lewis returned but Miss Bence is still absent. 17. A program was given by the members of the basket-ball team. This was followed by school yells. A new rule that all must be out of the building by 4:00 p. m. unless they intend to study, and then these must leave by 4:30. That there would be no school play was also announced. Miss Bredehoft filled Miss Bence’s place. 18. It was announced that from the 14th to 16th of February, there were 195 absences and 25 tardinesses, caused by illness and by the “Birth of a Nation.” Everyone presented his excuse in due time, and no one was suspended from classes. 123 MTHE- IVIedley 24. A debate was given by the Wranglers on the subject: “Resolved, That compulsory military training should be instituted in the High Schools of the United States.” The result was in favor of the affirmative. 27. Miss Bence returned. iflarrh 2. The subscriptions for the Medley were taken. A financial state- ment regarding all school organizations was read. Mr. Smalley gave an announcement concerning the vocational class. 3. The basket-ball boys gave a program and announced the Champaign game. Cheering followed this. 6. An announcement of the Vermilion County Basket-ball Tourna- ment to be held at the Y. M. C. A. on March 10, and 11, was given. 7. Dr. Chas. E. Barker, formerly physical director of President Taft, talked on “How to Make the Most of Life.” His three main points were “a strong arm, a clear head, and a brave heart.” 13. There was cheering for the boys who won the County Championship. Cards went out and the honor roll was read. 16. An excellent musical program was given by Lilia Payne, violin; Miss Bodine, violin; Mr. Newman, flute; and Mr. Adair, piano. 23. Mr. Smalley talked on “How and When to Study.” Then he read an editorial on “Honesty.” 27. Jewell Whyte, Mary Overman, and Milton Guy were at school. 28. The Freshmen came into the assembly to hear about the mid- semester examinations. 30. Mid-semester examinations. 31. Ditto. April 6. Mr. Smalley gave a second talk on “Studying,” and read “A, B and C.” It was announced that Madeline Lawrence and Raleigh Burk placed in the oratorical contest in thought and composition. 124 M-THE- IVIedley 125 . THE . EDLEY CLASS CREEDS Senior—I believe in mind, the incarnation of greatness, the attainable wisdom and dignity and beauty of old rose and gold. I believe that D. H. S. is on the verge of destruction, owing to the graduation of our class in June and that if anything remains, it will be because of what we have done and are doing. I believe in marriage and in our ability to teach country schools. I believe that greatest thing in the world is to be an Alumnus. Junior—I believe that work exists, for instance the Junior-Senior banquet. I do not believe in hogging everything. (For instance, the class basket-ball series). I believe the only thing in the world is work. I believe in following in the foot-steps of our predecessors, and that, after all, a senior is It. Sophomore—I believe that I know all; and that knowing all things worth knowing there remains nothing for me to learn. I believe that having attained all the dignity and greatness of a Sophomore standing, I now have the prerogative of posing before the whole world and exclaiming: “Behold, what genius hath produced from nothing.” I believe chat the greatest thing in the world is greatness. Freshman—I believe Mr. Smalley is D. H. S. and that Mr. Munch is his assistant. I believe that I am, but know not what I am, until this June. I fear I am verdant and insignificant, but that some day I will grow. I believe that some day, I will be a senior or a “pony boy” or something. I believe the greatest thing in the world is Monsieur We Wee —Ryan’s “maul.” There are two things that can’t be done. You can’t kid Hooton and you can’t guy Brown. SLIGHT MISTAKE Freshman to O. A. Church—“Say what frat do you belong to? Are you a Phi Alph ? 6. A.—“Yes I am a Ph’ Alph. Freshman—“Say, don’t you know I thought you were a Sophmore.” SO HAVE WE ALL Chemist—“Have you determined the stresses in an egg?” Student—“Yes, and we found the inside, much stronger than the outside.” 126 M-THE- IVIedley Little dabs of vaseline, Rubbed in here and there, Make a pretty pompadour For the front of Radford’s hair. There are three varieties of fuels: 1. Solid fuels—also called boneheads. 2. Liquid fuels—or sapheads. 3. Gaseous—who rely on hot air. Theodosia Dwiggins—“What do you think of my friend?” Sina Reed—“The only thing he has in his head is a cigarette, and it’s going out.” ACROSS THE BAR The other day my father dear, He calls me to his knee; “Ignatz, my son, my end is near, But ’ere I go,” sez he, “I have one wish, I want fulfilled, Altho’ I toped,—my grog I’ve swilled, My groggy days are o’er. And when I croak, my darling child, Don’t weep no bitter tear, But bury me by the ocean wild, Where foam will cover my bier. CRUEL CRU-EEL FATE Jake—“Vy don’t you have a fire, Abe, if you vas in such financial troubles?” Abe—“Vat! Me have a fire! My, don’t you know I live on the second floor—fire house below—schwimming pool above! Golly, man, I can’t have no fire.” Ed. Raimer—“An heirloom is something handed from father to son.'' L. O’Brien—“That’s a funny name for pants.” 127 . THE . EDLEY Be she gone and am she went, And be I lefted all alone? Oh, cruel fate.—Why thus unkind, To take she ’fore and leave I hind? EVOLUTION Freshie—“I beg your pardon, but I did not understand the question.” SorH.—‘‘I didn’t understand the question.” Junior—“What?” Senior—“Huh?” D. H. S. SIDE SHOW Living Skeleton..... Fat Lady............ Strong Man.......... Incubator Babes..... Egyptian Dancer. . . . Boston Beauty Squad Don’t Ask Us........ Clowns.............. Snake Charmer....... Fire Eater.......... ....................C. Le erence .......................Gina Alfieri ........................Geo. Gones Eugene Songer and “Pinky” Johnson .............................Selma .................Lamm, Dye, Palmer ............................Ci.oyd ....................Cookie—Scoles .....................Juanita Watt ......................Lycile Carr Miss Robey (Eng.6)—“Have you ever seen any races?” Cliff Kesler—“Many of them.” Miss Robey—“What was the closest race you ever saw?” Cliff—“The Scotch.” V. Finch—“I had the grandest long talk with Harry last night.” Girls—“Why, what did he say?” V. Finch—“He? Oh he didn’t say anything.” SAFETY FIRST The non-chemists take a solid stand for preparedness. They desire the school board to appropriate enough money for oxygen helmets to combat the gases of the chemistry laboratory. 128 M. THE . ED LEY Mr. Hart—“There are three ways for a gas to expand; at constant temperature, at constant pressure, and what’s the other?” R. Sparks—“Let it expand at constant volume.” Dorothy Church—“Ha, ha, you tickle me.” Bert McCord—“Aw, you tickle me first.” Freshman—“Are you a Y. W. C. A?” L. Medaris—“No, I don’t believe in secret societies.” CAESAR “— ! ! !— ? ?—?—!” Calpurxia—“What ho, my lord; what ho!” Caesar—“What hoe? What hoe? Gillette, it, Gillette.” CAN’T BE DID Helen Partlow—“Will you love me like that always, Raymond?” R. Peters—“Huh-uh, I gotta study some.” START THE GIRLS’ PETITION Don Hooton—“Do you believe in preparedness?” Mid” Cloyd—“Well, I wouldn’t mind being in arms.” ABE MARTIN Tain’t always the stationary hooks that gits the hats in the hall. John Cannady—“Say, Dyer, can a foot ball?” Lewis Dyer—“No, but pigs kin.” Russ Cunningham—“Speaking of dressing, how quickly can you do it?” Johnny Westwater—“Oh, it generally takes me half an hour. Russ C.—“Why, I can do it in ten minutes.” J- W.—“Yes, but I wash. 129 M. THE . ==== EDLEY HEARD AT JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET “Gee, this chicken’s tough.” Clint Johnson—“There’s a dime for you, my poor soldier;” and he tossed a coin in:o the cap of the poor fellow who was blind. Blind Man—“Thank you, marm.” Clint—“I’m not a woman.” Bund Man—“Thank you miss.” Mr. Munch—“My hair is falling out. Can’t you give me something to put it in.” Barber—“Yes, here is a cigar box.” ON HOOPESTON BASKET-BALL TRIP E. CallaiS—“This morning, in the hotel, when you were washing in your room, why did you drop ten cents in the basin?” Gene Campbell—“Because the sign on the wall said, ‘Tip che basin after using.’ ” Jim McDonald—“Don’t try to flirt with every pretty girl you meet. Beauty is only skin deep.” H. Hilton—“Well I’m no cannibal.” IDEAL LOVE She—“You’re cruel to me.” He—“I’m cruel to you because I love you. I don’t know what to say when you’re around. Words fail me. When I gaze into your eyes my hands long to--------” (he stops and pulls the other’s hair, bobbing her head back and forth between his hands and treating her roughly, generally). “Oh, how I love you.” Mule in the barn yard, lazy and sleek, Freshie, with a pin on the end of a stick, Sneaks up behind him, still as a mouse, Crepe on the door of the Freshie’s house. 130 M-THE- IVIedley Tom Carson—“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Max Goldberg—‘‘Yes, but give me a friend who isn’t in need.” WELL— “Hal” Shepard (In Sincere’s restaurant)—“What kinda pie you got?” Clerk—“Apple, raisin, mince, blackberry, chocolate, cocoanut, raspberry and peach.” “Hal—“What kinda soup?” Clerk—“Bean, beef, vegetable and oyster.” Shep.—“Gimme a warm veal-sandwich.” Opal Cannon—“And so you quarreled again?” G. Hildreth—“Yes, and returned all his presents, and what do you think he did?” O. C.—“Something horrid, I am sure.” Gladys—“He sent me half a dozen boxes of face powder and a note explaining chat he thought he had taken as much as chat home on his coat since he met me.” HOW THE AVERAGE STUDENT READS HIS ANNUAL First Five Minutes—Looks for himself in his class group and society group, and finds his name wherever he is on a committee. This is the most enjoyable period of inspection. Second Five Minutes—Does the same for his girl’s name and picture. Third Five Minutes—Huncs up every joke on his “case” or himself. Last Five Minutes—Makes sure of all these things, then shuts the book forever. After this he takes pains to say that the Annual isn’t as good as it generally is. Mr. Hart (In chemistry)—“How was iron discovered?” Max Goldberg—“I heard my dad say they smelt it.” Gladys Brewer—“Esther my motto is ‘Love one man and love him well’. What’s yours?” Esther Cookingham—“Love no man, not even your brother. If girls must love, love one another. 131 . THE . EDLEY TESTIMONIALS Washington, D. C., April 23, 1916. Dear Editors: Your advance copy of the 1916 Medley at hand. I have studied it carefully and find it very instructive and entertaining. The pictures of the youthful ones were very good indeed. Mrs. Wilson joins me in sending regards. Woodrow Wilson. Chihuahua City, Mexico, May 25, 1916. Dear Editors:— I received the T6 Medley today by special messenger. It certainly is great, and I wish to congratulate you. Drop into Mexico sometime and I’ll show you the time of your life. Yours fleeing, Villa. Dear Guys:— It sure is some grand book. Holycross. Chicago, Illinois, May 26, 1916. Dear Sirs:— After carefully considering your excellent publication we have decided to enter an order for 1,500,000 copies. Yours truly, Sears, Roebuck Co. Berlin, Germany, May 25, 1916. Dear Editors: Your Medley was exceedingly appreciated. I have read and reread it and have found it an excellent way to divert my mind from more strenuous matters. Sincerely yours, Kaiser Wilhelm. 132 M-THE- IVIedley A TIP FOR BEGINNERS When she says the clock’s correct She is neutral we suspect. When she says the clock is fast, You are making time at last. When she says the clock is slow, You are done for. Better go. N. Phillips—“I wish I could flirt.” B. Tarpening—‘‘Come sit by me and I’ll flirt with you.” N. Phillips—‘‘All right, just as you say.” B. Tarpening—‘‘Oh! ain’t I bashful? I just can’t say a word.” For Sale—One chemistry note book. As good as new—almost. Frank Ryan. GET ’EM SQUIRREL? Overheard at Georgetown game. ‘‘That must be bad water they’re giving those players; they all spit it out.” “What are those jiggers the players wear on their hips? Life preservers?” AT THE LYRIC (In the rear part of the theatre). Bud Hastings (straining to hear)—“The acoustics is bad.” Mable Towne—“Shut up, Bud, I don’t smell nuthin.” DEDICATED TO ABOUT ? % OF D. H. S.’ERS. Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. -It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean, It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve ever seen. I like it. 133 M-THE- IVIedley COUNTY WORK BANK WORK Illinois Printing Company PRINTERS. BLANK BOOK MAKERS AND STATIONERS SPECIALTY MADE OF Engraved and Embossed Stationery, Cards and Invitations PUBLISHERS OF MEDLEY DANVILLE, ILLINOIS 134 M-THE- JVJ.EDLEY Life is real, life is earnest, Let us strive to do our best And departing, leave behind us, Notebooks that will help the rest. John Shepard had finished his test paper and wrote at the bottom of the page: “During this examination I was unable to catch anyone looking at my paper. Further I wish to state that my own frantic S. O. S. signals were entirely disregarded.” A hair on the head is worth two in the brush. ADV. A. W. S. BEWARE! ! HE’S DANGEROUS! A. Baldwin—“What were you talking to Mr. Hart about.” O. A. Church—“-----------.” A. Baldwin—“Was it any thing that will interest me.'” Baldwin—“I say, what were you talking to Mr. Hart about.'” O. A.—“If you don’t lay off me you’ll wake up in the cemetery, with somebody patting your face with a spade.'” HE MAY KNOW BASKETBALL, BUT In Physiology Class—Gail what is the function of the stomach?” Gail Son—“The function of the stomach is to hold up the trousers.” Helen Jackson—“How would it feel to have whiskers on one’s face?” “Baldy”—“Sorry, just got a shave.” Frances Dye—“My cheeks are all on fire.” P. Cookingham—“I thought I smelled burning paint.” Miss McIntire—“Give the principal parts of the verb, examine. “Pete” Dye—“Examo, Thindere, Busto, Quitum. . THE . EDLEY IVho’s Your The Photographs in this Medley were made by the PHIPPS STUDIO. The home of true Art. We excel in Fine Work. 132 N. VERMILION STREET Telephone 3399 136 TVTTHE- JVIedley WHERE TO FIND THE MEMBERS OF OUR FOOTBALL TEAM TEN YEARS HENCE Baldy Alberts. ,............................At Home with the Babes. Perry Cookingham.......................................... In D H c Tony Scoles..............................Ringling Bro. Circus (Clown) Leverenz..............................................Minister of Gospel. Adams................................................................Gang Foreman. Sparks..........................................Mayor of Westville. Lixdelsee..................................German Candidate for Alderman. Kesler.........................................Patent Medicine seller. Nelson..................................................Sheriff of Lyons. Dallas..........................................Professional Ball Player. ATH0..........................................Driving Cab for Jim Green. James...................................................Quack Doctor. McArthur...........................................Proprietor of Saratoga Hotel. Kieran...................................Janitor of Danville High School. Hastings..................................... Overseer in a Laundry. Tennery .........................................Professional Gambler. OUR W. R. O. MAN Charlie Downs in oral theme—“All European soldiers are equipped with tin cups of aluminum.” Guy Brown—“Fifty miles an hour. Are you brave?” “Dot” Walter—“Yes, I’m just full of grit.” And she swallowed another pint of dust. Neighbor—“How do you tell the twins apart?” Mr. Johnson—“I stick my finger in Clinton’s mouth, and if he bites me I know it is Phillip. William Percy Anderson—“You’re an odd fellow?” Percy Cookingham—“Nope, a Royal Arcanum.” Miss Gundy—“Patrick, where is your Ancient Mariner?” Kelly—“In the book store.” 137 M. THE . EDLEY SAVE MONEY FOR YOUR COLLEGE EXPENSES LET US HELP YOU E. R. PARTLOW 6 EAST MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 305 WOODBURY BOOK CO. BOOKS STATIONERY SCHOOL SUPPLIES Picture Framing a Specialty 125-127 N. Vermilion Street Danville, Illinois 138 M-THE- IVIedley Helen Walters—“Say, you haven’t a fresh piece of chewing gum about you, have you?” John Cannon—“Chewing gum! What do you want with chewing gum ?” Helen—“I don’t want to tell. It’s a secret.” John—“Oh, go on, tell me. What do you want it for?” Helen—“Well, just between you and me, I want to chew it.” SPEAKING SOFTLY A Michigan farmer was driving a refractory cow down the road, and cow and driver came to a crossroad. The man wanted the cow to go straight ahead but the cow picked out the crossroad. A colored man was coming along the crossroad. “Haid her off! Haid her off!” yelled the driver. “I’se tryin ter!” replied the colored man. “Speak to her! Speak to her and she’ll stop.” “Good mawnin’, cow—good mawin’!” said the other politely. QUICK WATSON THE AXE Gail Son—“Is anybody taking you out to dinner tonight?” Esther Rideout—“No.” Gail Son—“You’ll be awful hungry tomorrow.” ALWAYS BRIEF AND TO THE POINT Freshman—“How often do you shave?” Baldy Alberts—“Three times a week every day but Sunday, then I shave every day.” MISSING WORD CONTEST Alva Nelson sat down on a tack. He at once sprang up and said only two words. The last was “it.” Any one guessing the first word and sending SI.25 to Bill Kieran, Business Manager, will be entitled to a free copy of this year’s Medley. Mr. Smalley has never opened himself to suspicion but “yours truly” saw him hook a screen door. 139 . THE . EDLEY Y. M. C. A. For Boys and Men What You Get Out of It It doesn’t make much difference what kind of development you most want, you’ll find opportunity for it in the Y. M. C. A. It’s a good thing for a young man to belong to an Association whose aim is BETTERMENT— spiritual, mental, physical; the three go together. You meet and know men who are trying to get ahead; some of them will be big men some day. In addition to such friendships you get all the BEST advantages of good club life. There is almost no limit to what you can get out of it; it’s all up to you. JOIN NOW! SEEDS OF FORTUNE Suppose a man of 21 should make a vow to put away at least ten cents each week day in the year and not touch his savings for ten years. Do you realize that at the end of that time he would have $432.80 to his credit as a result of savings so small he has not missed them? Many enormous fortunes have grown from capital smaller than this. In ten years it has become a snug nest-egg. The saving habit grows faster than the interest. One penny may seem an insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortune springs—that wonderful growth for which all of us long. If you would have one of these wonderful plants for your own—if you dream of sitting at ease under its branches in your declining years, you must go about it in a rational way. You must treat that little disc of copper, one cent, as the true seed of fortune; you will not scatter and waste seeds so valuable, but will plant them in soil which will foster them. Ten cents a day carries four shares of savings stock in this association, and the time when you should start is now. Vermilion County Building Association 141 N. VERMILION STREET HARVEY C. ADAMS, Secretary and Manager 140 M-THE- IVIedley Helen Walters—“He tried to last night.” “Ted” Dwiggins—“Some arm.” put his arm around me three times A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, Though gorgeous their plumage and regal; But instead of an oriole, robin or thrush, Let that bird be a bright golden eagle. Student, proud of his success in Latin.—“Pop, what’s the word for people in Latin ?” Father—“I don’t know.” Student—“Populi.” Father—“What? You scoundrel, I lie do I?” 1 here had been a railway collision near a country town and a shrewd lawyer had hurried to the scene of disaster. He noticed an old colored man with a badly injured head, and hurried up to him where he lay moaning on the ground. “How about damages?” began the lawyer. ‘G way boss, g’way,” he said, “I never hit de train. I never done sich a thing in all my life, so help me, Gawd! You can’t git no damages outen me.” Mr. Lewis—“What you got that string around your finger for?” Mr. Hart—“My wife put it there to remind me to post a letter.” Mr. Lewis—“Did you post it?” Mr. Hart—“No, she forgot to give it to me.” Lives of football men remind us That they’ll write their names in blood, And departing leave behind them Half their faces in the mud. Paul Saunders (in Chem.)—“If you add silver nitrate to a chloride you get a participant.” 141 M-THE • = = = IVIedley HEADQUARTERS FOR BASEBALL TENNIS GOLF OLD TOWN CANOES THOS. CONRON HARDWARE CO. SELLERS OF GOOD GOODS 116-120 E. MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 70 THIS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE BUILT THE GREATEST FURNITURE STORE IN THE CITY OF DANVILLE. IF YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING FURNISHING A HOME, GO AND SEE HIM. THE STORE IS ON JACK-SON STREET. MODEL LAUNDRY 137-139 North Walnut Street TELEPHONE 676 Family Washing and Carpet Cleaning a Specialty 142 A T•THE ■ IVIedlev Mike and Pat were washing windows in a ten-story building. Upon reaching the fourth story they were at a loss as to how to wash the outside. Mike—“We’ll put a plank across the sill and one sit on the outside and the other on the inside.” Soon Mike called— “Oh, Pat, I dropped my cloth.” Pat—“I’ll get it for you.” When Pat reached the ground he found Mike unconscious. He hurriedly got a doctor, who, after examining Mike took off his hat and sadly said—“Pat, I am afraid your friend Mike is dead. Mike—“I am not.” Pat—“Shut up, Mike; the Doctor knows best.” According to John Funk, cells, are small holes in the skin, Where inspiration comes from. Wanted—A “case” with a machine. Even Fords may apply. Gladys Brewer. EXTRA As we go to press, we notice that Charlie Downs has just received his semi-annual hair-cut. PAW KNOWS EVERTHING Willie—“Paw, why is it that music is intoxicating.” Paw—“Because it is written in bars, my son.” Joke Editor—“Why don’t you laugh at these jokes?” Soph.—“Because I was brought up to respect old age.” C. Adams—“Farm life must be terrible.” Bob Luke—“Fierce! It’s agonizing to hear the hay mown all day.” (Handle him with care, attendant, and drive fast). L. Stuebe—“Say fellers let’s go to the store and get a popple of bot. 143 . THE . EDLEY How many times have you “blessed” the dealer that sold you that last lot of coal,—coal in name only. If you will take our tip, you will have us supply your needs in the future and avoid disappointment. William B. Halbert COAL HAY GRAIN FEED TELEPHONES 2970 and 447 626-629 VERMILION STREET WE DO IT BETTER STAR LAUNDRY 208-210 Van Burcn Street Boston Shoe Repair Co. WE USE GOOD QUALITY AND DO WORK WHILE YOU WAIT TELEPHONE 175 or 196 6 and 8 E. North DANVILLE CYCLE CO. DELICIOUS R. P. BOWMAN, Proprietor INDIAN MOTOCVCLES, BICYCLES TIRES, ACCESSORIES FOUNTAIN DRINKS Expert Dispensers in Charge Repairing Done Promptly at the Right Price 128 North Walnut Street ENGLE DRUG CO. 17 N. VERMILION ST. INTER-STATE WATER COMPANY You cannot afford to take the risk of using drinking water from wells or cistern when a good safe, wholesome supply of filtered water is available at reasonable rates. If you have never used water as furnished by the Water Company, you are invited to give your serious consideration to its superior quality and healthfulness and the great convenience of the service to the members of your household. Laboratory is maintained where analysis of water is made daily. Visitors welcome at the Plant. Your patronage is solicited. Rates upon application at the office. 144 M. THE . EDLEY RIGHT IN THE SWIM A man from the city, wishing to explain the joys of metropolitan life to his country host said: “Such fun as we had last Thursday. We autoed to the country club, and golfed till dark, trollied back to town and danced till morning.” The country cousin paid him in coin by relating the pleasures of the simple life. “We have pretty good times here too. We buggied out to Uncle Ned’s and baseballed all morning, then sneaked up attic and pokered an hour.” The latter’s sturdy old father dipped in: “I muled all the way to the cornfield and gee hawed ’till sundown, then I suppered ’till dark, and piped ’till nine. Then I bedsteaded ’till the clock fived, then breakfasted ’till it was time to go muling again.” Marion Coolley (who has just been nominated)—“I move the nomination be closed.” The only difference between a man who dyes wool and a Medley editor is that one is a lamb dyer and the other is — oh, just an editor. Bert Williams—“My gal says I’m worth my weight in gold.” Lloyd Gaddie—“There ain’t that much money in the world.” POOR BILL Bill had a bill board. Bill also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill so that Bill sold the bill board to pay his board bill. So after Bill sold his bill board to pay his board bill, the board bill no longer bored Bill.” In the line of the tale we might suggest that if Bill’s board bill bored Bill why not board Bill with a board from Bill’s bill board and throw Bill’s bill board and board bill overboard. Mr. Lewis—“Are you in favor of municipal ownership of public utilities?” Mr. Baer—“I don’t know him, but if he’s a good Democrat I’ll vote for him.” 145 M. THE . ---- ED LEY The Illinois Dry Cleaning Co. THE SOIL AND WRINKLE CLEANERS Telephone 307 145 Vermilion St. EAT FURNAS ICE CREAM TELEPHONES 710—746 401-403 WASHINGTON AVE. We Support You, Why Not Help U;? “IT PAYS TO TRADE” High School Grocery WITH High Class Groceries, Meats and School Supplies Mike Plaut Co. E. W. SNIDER SON Danville’s Leading Clothiers 1448 TELEPHONE 1449 UP-TO-DATE Sanitary Laundry W. A. NOLL, Proprietor Latest Made Machinery Most Experienced Help in City COOK WITH GAS Four thousand housekeepers in Danville now using Gas Ranges consider them more economical than other stoves. Danville Street Railway and Light Co. 4 WEST MAIN STREET C. B. HOOTON Lumber And Everything Else in the Building Line Office and Yards: 603 N. GILBERT TELEPHONE 1 146 M. THE . EDLEY On the assembly platform stands One known all o’er the land; Maybe you do not understand, It is our Abraham. R. S. L. Mr. Baer—“How did Johnson die?” Bill Kieran—“Johnson died of a chronic disease—There was something the matter with his chrone.” Crack ! ! ! A pistol shot cut the murky air of the rooming house and the little bullet whistled merrily as it sped across the dining room. Plop ! ! ! She fell to the floor. Tap ! Tap ! Tap ! The murderer was running up the uncarpeted stairs. Slam ! ! ! The door of his room clashed shut and the gunman was alone. Another crack! ! ! Plop! ! ! And the murderer fell dead. Honk ! Honk ! The police motor signalled that it was on the job. Clatter! Clatter! Scuff! Scuff! A crowd was rapidly gathering at the scene of the double tragedy. Sniff! Sniff! Hysterical women were sobbing. Chug! Chug! The police motor hurled the dving woman to the hospital. WUXTRA! WUXTRA! Miss Miller. (Speaking of Greek architecture)—“The Greeks were proud, and justly proud of their domes.” If you should find a tonic rare That will stop the falling of the hair Please give two quarts to Mr. Munch And other bald ones of our bunch. 147 R. S. L. . THE . EDLEY Deutsch Millinery MID-SUMMER SHOWING OF EXCLUSIVE MILLINERY NELL MANN SHEDD Tea Room and Gift Shop 143 North Vermilion Street DANVILLE, ILL. EASE THE MENTAL STRAIN EAT V-e-r-o-n-a Bread Broken Windows Fixed While You Wait N. E. HOLDEN Lumber and Building Material “DANVILLE’S SAFEST AND PRETTIEST” FISCHER THEATRE HOME OF “PARAMOUNT” THE BEST IN PHOTOPLAY START THE SUMMER SEASON RIGHT! ORDER ELECTRIC GERMLESS ICE MANUFACTURED FROM DANVILLE CITY WATER BY THE BEARD ICE COMPANY DANVILLE, ILLINOIS TELEPHONE 495 148 M. THE . EDLEY HAIR-CUT, SHAMPOO, MASSAGE, TONIC? When Messrs. Joel, Smalley and Munch are seen together, we are reminded of the advertisement—“Going! Going! Gone!” Selma Schultz will make a practical wife. She trims her own hats and shoots her own rabbits. AMBITIOUS Papa—“What kind of a revolver do you want for your birthday.” Gene Campbell—“Well, the world would suit me.” ALGY AND THE BEAR Algy met a bear; The bear was bulgy; The bulge w’as Algy. QUICK KELLY, DUST OFF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR John Cannady—“Your eyes are like the deep blue sea.” Marian McCray—“Oh, do you really think so?” Johnny—“Yes, they’re wratery.” Miss Hawkins—“Can’t you remember anything? What is your head for?” Fat Walker—“To keep my tie from slipping off.” TEN YEARS HENCE At Village Store—“I want a half pint of vacuum; ma’s broke her cleaner.” “I hear you ca-a-alling me,” warbles Florence from the parlor. “Yes,” answers Mrs. Walton from the kitchen, “I want you to come here and help me with the dis-s-shes.” Then a profound silence reigned. 149 . THE . EDLEY Meet Your Friends at FELDKAMP’S GOOD CANDIES DELICIOUS SODAS BAUM LINDSEY Tailors to Men who Know 151 VERMILION ST. Haskin Brothers MOTORCYCLES, BICYCLES AND SPORTING GOODS A Full Line of Golf and Tennis Supplies 24 W. NORTH ST. TELEPHONE 3274 American Cafe EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT Soda Fountain in Connection MARY E. CLARK SON, Proprietors 613 W. Madison Telephone 2977 Fellows, Send Your Clothes To City Suit Club ASK ABOUT OUR PROPOSITION THOMAS McGOWAN, Prop. Telephone 2786-1 136 N. Vermilion St. P. H. LEARNARD CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL High Grade Sporting Goods and Supplies 149 N. Vermilion St. DANVILLE, ILLINOIS 150 . THE . EDLEY Bert McCord would like for someone to solve this algebra problem. Mary is 24 years of age, Anne is half as old as Mary was when Mary was as old as Anne is now. How old is Anne? USED TO THEM “Oh Will,” she said, moving a trifle closer to him, “I’m so glad you are not rich. They say that some of those millionaires receive threatening letters, saying that something dreadful will happen to them if they don’t pay the writers sums of money.” “Oh that’s nothing,” he replied, “I get plenty of such letters.” I WANT PEACE Teacher—“What is the shape of the earth?” “Doc” Natho—“Round.” Teacher—“How do you know it’s round.'” “Doc”—“All right, it’s square then. I don’t want to start any argument about it.” Teacher—“How would you express in your own words, Scott’s phrase—“They gamboled on the green.” Joe Linck—“They shot craps on the grass.” Sarah Jackson—“Do you know the most popular way to dress the hair?” M. Burns—“No I haven’t hear.” S. Jackson—“A la divorce.” M. Burns—“Heavens, how’s that? Little Sarah—“Parted.” RULES FOR JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET Don’t eat soup like a vacuum cleaner. Don’t tuck your napkin under your chin or tie it around your neck, for it might do some good that way. Lay it across your knees and continue to spill the catsup on your necktie. Always call the waiter by his first name so everybody will know you have been there before. 151 . THE . EDLEY BARGERIZE YOUR HOME WITH BARGAINS FROM BARGER’S Barger Furniture Company J. w. BARGER, Pres. AL. W. WHITE, Vice-Pres. and Treas. S. M. DOLD, Manager “Outside the High Rent District” EAST MAIN STREET HENRY J. BAHLS PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHOES L. O. Wirsching Room 204 Odd Fellows Building 111 EAST MAIN STREET Past Four Years With Phipps Studio Toiiet Articles, Stationery Mineral Waters Violetine Toilet Cream Noxall Remedies Tampa Cuba Cigars Rubber Goods A. D. S. Remedies Sanitary Soda Fountain Nunna' y’s Candies Full Line Homeopathic Remedies GAMMEL LEWMAN THE SAX-TOX STORE High School Headquarters for N.VERMILION ST New Sanitary Iceless Soda Fountain Just Installed. Coolest, best drinks in the city GOOD EATS Fisher McKee TRY JEWELERS Johnson’s Drug Store 19 N. Vermilion St. Danville, 111. NEXT TIME “If its from Fisher McKee’s its gcod 18 EAST MAIN STREET M. THE . ED LEY Name Swears Drinks Smokes Wants H. Shepard Art Baldwin F. Watson R. Peters Harry Skadden Le. Swarts Sassy Palmer Craig Bill Kieran Boscoe Stephens P. Cookingham Beautifully Never! When he flunks Just learning At this Thinks it's wicked Like a fish Just learning Sometimes In his sleep When all can hear Before exams. Never! Anything Milk In Summer Cider Soda Pop Soup Paregoric HjO To brag about it When treated Makes him sick On Sunday After dark Com Silks Cubebs Um! Yes Bacon We don’t know On frosty mornings Nebo’s To be an angel To know everything To be a town boy A girl V. Finch Unknown A Y. M. C. A. To dance Fame To be a business man To be tough WHO IS IT? Silent as a pussy cat, Big as a bear, Drives a little flivver. And has gray hair. M. Ryan (at track practice)—“Look out Reedie, I’ll hit you in the head with this 12 pound shot.” Howard Reed—“Oh you can buy another.” “Tony,” stormed pa, “don’t you ever let me catch you washing the Ford in the bath tub. Take it out in the kitchen and let ma wash it with the dishes.” It was customary for the chaplain of an English regiment to visit the soldiers every evening. It was about 8 o’clock and dark one evening when the chaplain started out to visit his regiment. He was stopped by the sentry on guard with, “Who goes there?” “The chaplain,” replied the minister. “Chaplain?” said the sentry. “O, yes; advance, Charley.” Miss Elizabeth Thompson: Palmer done lost his recompense for me and given up his distribution to ’nother gal; please tell me some medicine to put in his fudge to make him malignity himself back to me. 153 Helen Jackson. I THE • IVIedley Call on C. SCHATZ F. P. ROBEY THE GROCER JEWELER Telephone 537 405 E. MAIN ST. 110 N. VERMILION ST. William Winther GET YOUR LUNCH AT FANCY BAKER W. E. Farnum’s Grocery Clean, Sanitary and Up-to-date Cor. Pine and Madison Telephone 80S Telephone 1304 123 N. VERMILION THE PIANO HOUSE OF DANVILLE Holmes LeNeve Benjamin Temple of Music (Incorporated) “EVERYTHING ON WHEELS” Edison Disc Phonograph Columbia Grafanolas Victrolas The old reliable headquarters for field and garden seeds, farming implements, Red Jacket pumps, and vehicles. DANVILLE, ILLINOIS 26-28 N. HAZEL ST. Telephone 901 Overman’s An Appreciation of D. H. S. Patronage Prescription Pharmacy “THE DIXIE” Cameras and Supplies 126 E. MAIN ST. DANVILLE, ILL. BIG FOUR — DEPOT — WABASH 154 M-THE- IVJLedley Affliction Three Best Bets Most Hard Hearted Miss Payne Mr. Smalley Rest of Faculty Best Grafter Marion Coolley Gail Son Tony Scoles Human Gas Bag Phil Johnson V. Finch G. Brewer Worst Junior Worst Senior Mr. Rvan H. Gass Charlie Silkey Laziest Student Russ Rideout Bob Walker John Shepard Most Beautiful Doll Edna Lee E. Svvaim Florence Bireline Lady Fusser Don Hooton Harry Stone Louis Stuebe Hardest Worker Bill Mowery Bill Anderson Bill Kieran ? ? ? Lewis Thompson “Doc” Xatho Paul Saunders Best Thieves We Won’t Tell Best Singer John Cannady Alva Nelson r'Simp” Keith TWENTY YEARS AGO ITEMS Perry Cookingham just entered the Danville High School. He has a brilliant future before him. So says his manager, T. Scoles. Howard Gass appeared on the streets in his first suic of long trousers. His red bull dog shoes matched his suit beautifully. “Mur” Ryan has been released from jail and is back to school. It was his first offense. O. A. Church has returned to this city after a lay-over in Lyons. He arrived on the 4 o’clock coal-drag. He will resume his work in the local High School. John Cannon has accepted the local agency for Colgate’s Pink Powder and Cold Cream a la Feminetti. MODERN TRAGEDIES A man lit a match to see if his gasoline tank was full. It was. A man looked down the muzzle of his gun and pulled the trigger to see if it was loaded. It was. A boy struck a dynamite cap to see if it was good. It was. A man ate some “rat biscuit” to see if it was poison. It was. A man stepped on a dark place in the sidewalk to see if it was a coal hole. It was. A man asked a girl to marry him to see if she was engaged. She wasn t. A man picked up an electric wire to see if it was charged. It was. Freshie—“Where do you live?” Track Athlete—“Hoopeston.” Freshie—“Have you been leading a fast life?” Athlete—“I said I lived in Hoopeston.” . THE . EDLEY Paper Hanging and Painting F. M. NOLEN 1001 Walnut St. Telephone 3395-1 FLOWERS AND DECORATIONS Smiths, The Florists 101 N. VERMILION STREET Chilson Cleaning Co. DYEING A SPECIALTY Telephone 2019 220 W. Main St. ALL .GQOD'TWIMGS r fuS'T _____d 156 Autograph Autnyrajiha . V«a. si : ■ %