Dover High School - Crescent Yearbook (Dover, NC)

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FACULTY OF D. H. S. GILES YEOMANS NEWTON A. B. Trinity 1916 University of Bordeaux, France, 1919 VERA MYRTLE WIGGIN S A. B. Trinity 1919 JANICE BELLAMY LEARY Meredith 1915-1917 GLADYS DARE WEST Flora McDonald 1912-1916 MARY EDNA WILSON N. C. College for Women 1917 VIRGINIA DARE PADRICK East Carolina Teachers Training School 11

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VOTES FOR WOMEN It is simply disgusting, the way the women are carry- ing on. The very idea that they should vote makes me sick, ' exclaimed Ronald Davids. Of course you know that Ronald was a bachelor of thirty-one years. He lived at the Rockefellor Club in New York. His bank account had grown very large by means of practicing law for nine years. He was talking to his chum, Douglas Ferris, at the club. Now Douglas was four years younger than Ronald, and was consequently agreeing with woman suffrage. Anything that Mary Alexander liked or wanted, Douglas liked or wanted it, too. Mary wanted to vote-Douglas wanted her to! Oh, Ronald, you should have a woman to think for you. Go ahead and find 'your' lady! No, siree, I wouldn't have a woman on earth now, for fear that she would want to vote, declared Ronald. I just want your opinion six months from now. I know you'll be changed. All I want you to do, is to find a 'woman,' were Douglas' farewell words. A few days later, Douglas received the following mes- sage: Dear Pal: g I am leaving for the Virginia hills. I can't stand these women any longer. Wishing you and Mary to be Mr. and Mrs. President of the U. S. A., I am Your friend, RONALD. One Spring day the New York Limited rolled in Weston, Va., a deserted little village. From the train alighted Ronald Davids, attorney-at-law, New York City. Ronald walked up to an old man, standing near an ox 13