Eagle Grove High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Eagle Grove, IA)

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THE EAGLET she replred that Ire had rrrarrred Ida Roselrnd I passed bv lrrnr wrthorrt sperkrrrg as I thought he worrld rather not have rrre see lrrrrr so changed tronr the rrrclependerrt nran Ire used to be to tlrrs groxelrng creatrrre broken bw 1 wornan s wrll Ilre sarne evenrng we wtnt to the Prrrrcess whrclr was strll starrdrrrg The prctures were Irne and also the rrrrrsrc I asked who operated tle pl ryer prarro and she sard th rt Irene Xlrllramson had been the operator tor about hfteen rears and was gettrrrg urore expert rs trnre went on Srrrce the next das was Sunday we detrded to rttend church and hear OtLs Korslund preach Otrs was vert rrruclr changed rn appearance probably due to hrs nrustache and srdeburns Hrs text was -X xrrtuous woman rs rrrore precrous than rubres and he delrvered hrs drscourse rn an eloquent and convrncrng rrran ner 'Nlarr XX agner was the solorst rn the church drawrng a good salary Sundar atterrroon Thelnrr Iowan Dorothy Xl etter and therr tarnrlres canrt from Goldrreld to see rrre They had rrrarrred prosperous young tarnrers soon atter leavrng llrgh School I learned tronr thenr that Fern NX olfe lr rd rrrarrred a rrrrrrer and was lrvrrrg rn Jrggswrlle Colorado Fern Johnson was a sprrrtrralrst and made a great success ot rt Ethel Lash was the rrratron ot rn orphan asylunr rn Kansas Crtw Nlrssourr 'Neva Lovrerrr had been r gowerness rn a nrrllrorrarres lronre rn Buffalo New Xork for several years after learrng Hrglr School Wlrrle there she tornred a vrolent attachment tor the French chaufter and eloped wrtlr lrrrrr John Derscherd lrved next door to Tlralra John rnust always have hrdden a love ot adrenture beneath hrs quret exterror for rmrrredra ely atter leavrng Hrgh School he chartered a shrp and sarled away tor parts unknown Flrese rslarrds were peopled wrtlr wlrrte rrren but they had no lrrrguage or crrrlrzatron to speak of John wooed the rrrost beau1rful of the grrls and brought her back to the U S A They could not talk to each other but love has a language all rts own She caused qurte a strr rn the larger crtres on therr way home fronr New Xork where they had landed She had hundreds of offers to appear rn the movres but she was too frrghrered bv the strange tlrrrrg of the crvrlrzed world to leave hrs srde for a mo rrrg hrs trnre wrrtrrrg the language of the people for thenr I nre 'Norrna Poulrrrg Wrlson whrle rn Eagle Grove She sard her husband had been krlled bv 1 brg lrarlstorre about four years before I nret her She had been work ng rn a cannrng tactory rn the suburbs of Eagle Grove srnce hrs death She was ernplowed as rrrspector ot the raw foodstufls that trrrre at the tactory She told nre sonrethrng very rnterestrrrg about Toltord Thornpson He was our rrrost brrllrant s uderrt at school so rrrxthrrrg frorn lrrrrr would not hare surprrsed rrre She sard he had orrgrnated an errtrrelv new style rn archrtecture She ard the best exarnple of the Tlrorrrpsorr style was hrs crthedral at San Prancrsco I learned fronr her rlso that our eloquent ora or Ifarl Mason who so strrred our enrotrorrs durrng H gh School dats was now on the strge He has been the leadrng nrfrn wrtlr the Chase Irster Stock Cornpnw for ten serrs The worrrerr of hrs rudrences adrnrre hrrn werv nruch for hrs rrnpassroned love nrakrng whrch re ults n therr gorng lronre rrrore drs satr hed than ever wrth therr prosa c husbands It rs srrd he lrrres two secret rrres all the trrrre to answer the notes whrch rnrpressror able women wrrte hrrn Ettnr Chrrsterrserr alwaxs crrttrng up rn school rs now the hrghest pard conred enne rn the I nrted States She asked rrre rf I knew where Edwrn Parne Halel Nlwers Mn belle Danrelson and Gladws Chr stensen were I told her that Edwrrr Parne lrved rn Fhrcago He had been Pre rderrt of the Prrst Natrorral Bank there ever srnce he left Hrgh School and Hazel Nlsers was the Cashrer Fdwrn was now very wealthv end corrsrdered a catch by fhrcrgo nratrorrs wrtlr el grble daughters but so far he ar es rn lhrna dorrrg r noble work Une dar whrle glrncrng oser r nragrlrnt I saw rn artrcle wrrtten by 'Vlrlford lTh rtx one! 414 1 1- - -1 1 114 1 ' 1 1 1 1' 1 - 1 b 1 A... v ' 1' i ' A. 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I-I 19--THE EAGLET-19 'll CLASS PROPHECY The day on which the grrl who was shampoorng my hair tactfully suggest ed a touch of dye I realized rn a keener way than ever before that I was growing old It had been fifteen years since I h rd left High School and my home town Vthere are rll mv cl rssnrates I wondered The rrrore I thought of them the stronger became the desire for old friends and accordingly I packed nry bag that evening and lett Chicago for dear old Eaglt Grove I declded to go by way of the aeroplane route The pilot of the machine I was to ride rn I learned was Elven Sharpe He hrd become a famous aviator Xie had a little wart and during this time I went over and spoke to hrnr We had a very pleasant chat during whrclr I learned something about nry old friend Bes ste Helgevold She had been IH the Aerial Mail Service for a number of years Elwen said he had a narrow escape one day when Bessie collided wrth hrm H was able to volplane to the ground without rnJury to himself but the machine was badly damaged The court compelled Bessie to pay the aeroplane company Sl O00 damages When we arrived at Eagle Grove after a very uneventful trip a large deep voiced kindly faced Travelers' Aid woman greeted us and warned us of the perils we might encounter rn the big city SOII16IhlIlg about her seemed famrllar and upon asking her name she said rt was Miss Fisher I said May I ask your first name and to this she replied that her first name was Thalra I grabbed her and cried Can rt really be true' Are vou mv old frrend Tillie Needless to say we had a good chat and she invited me to stay for a while with her while rn the crty I learned that she had been a Police Matron for fourteen vears be fore takrng this positron On day whrle Thalra was gone upon hearing a knock at the door I an swered rt rnvself A small man wearing large spectacles stood before me I-l removed hrs hat and said Good day Lady I want you to see the finest line of home remed es manufactured today This little prll I hold rn my hand will cure rm and everv rrlment known to mankind rn fortv eight hours It rs made from nrr own formula and at my factories These come rn assorted colors Turkey red lerng verv fashrorrable this wear We also have a good remedy called Painless Kllltr put up rn bot'1es W hen he put the bottle rn nn hand I read upon the lrbel CARIXIE DANIIELSOIN Rr CO factories at Thor and Nioolstock I told htm I needed no medrcme at which he seemed drsappornted VN hen I revealed who I was we hrd '1 mee trlk about old times I le rrned from him that Teressa rlwaws seek ing thrills had tourrd them rn her work as a bareback rider rn the Rrnglr g Bros trrtus He said leora had gone to Russia atter leaving Hrglr School to teach and her tolks received an announcement of her marriage to Iirn XHSSIII Krasouskv xrtch a political leader Thalra later showed me his picture He had 1 strong face attractive eyes rnd a determrrred mouth and chln Just the sort of man Ieora would lore to obey lwsrw rrrorrrrr g I srw one of rrrv old rlassm rtes 'rs he drore rrttlrrrg down the treat or he w rs now If rgle Groxes foremost mllkman u ull I srrrprls r know that rt was George I rrrtrllon lle rs the same old Joker and whether lrorrse wrt es scold or 'rre pleasant he retarrrs hrs good lrrrrnor The second dn I w rs there Th rlra md I took a w rlk Xie met fr large man wrtlr a care lined face and 1 worried rrr Something about hrs face sec med famrlrrr ron asking Thrlra who he was l l rt was ar or S I sail 4 rr ltNs rr: rbslle were rrrrssr re was the most hen peckul nrrn rn lf rglt brow ked tht r i e 1 1 lhrr , ' ,x ' v .' : 2 ' ' , v 1 1 4 sv 1 1 . 4 . . . x . , ' I ' ' ' ,. ' l , .', ' ' , , ' . ,' 3 ' ' - e I - . S, A v -' ' V. I L. I ' . .' M.- , . ' .... - e ' ' ' ' I ' A 1 'I . v , . , , . I .. A 3 4 . . K V . - : ' ' ' , , . ,' ' ' . , , . e ' ' U V v v ' D' ' c I . . I I ' , .U W' , s ' s ' ' s v Y . 1 v 1 v ' . - . 2 C ' 2 1 ' :I v ' 4 4 Ls: . 1 vr 'vs L- - I' .3 L1 -1 ' A 1 sis' 4 ' J v' ' 1 E 2 help organize a public school system there, About five years after she went there . .. ' v Lv' l I . ' 4 ' Z' L, S . . A - v :V , .bv ' , sz . ' . 7 . 1 A- 1 D. A V .2 ' 1 1 s ,1 . f ' 'zu ' Zz ' ' ' ' 5 ' . Yo v' re .' ' cel to Y 1 ' v . Y . M ' ' - -1 ' r - ' ' - .. . . , . . . r - 'I V I' It ' L ' ' fir - t . -Q 'si - , 3 rg 'z Q . 2 ' z 'z , ' . . .- , ,, . - ' , , E . . .' I i' .l , ' f 'S . -V , . ' '2 and lll ' 2 ' ,' earned that ' ' f I 'I H lbet, . h ' '- hal remained irrserrsible to t't-minine ch: 'rrrs. Ula lj: ar l Maj 1 1 '-- '::'orr- I r' Q A J - ' 2 ' It e ' -. I as ' at wht his wif was z nd 'tyl

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THE EAGLET Thompson I grew rnterested at once both because of the name of the author and the trtle of the artlcle It was headed How I becanre Famous ' It gave hrs prcture so I knew rt was my old frrend He had rnvented an entrrely new sort of aeroplane engure and had a large factory at Dayton Ohro He was now many trmes a mrl lronarre He had never marrled In the same rnagazrrre I saw an artrcle by the greatest dramatrc cr1t1c rn the country The artrcle I learned upon readrng was III pralse of Leslie Vlrlcox the second Jullan Eltrnge I always wondered whv Irs lre had hung ar rurrd the grrls so but now I knew rt was to perfect lrrnrself rn the ways of women so he mrglrt rmrtfrte them nrore successfully That evenrng before her cheerful frre wrth many rnterruptrons from me she told me all she knew about my old classmates I learned that Theron Porter was a desrgner specralrzlng rn evenmg gowns and cloaks He was employed by the elrte of the crty smce he was far superror to all French desrgners also more experrsrve Mabel Gunderson had marrred a banker of Fort Dodge and was the leader of socr ety there Carl Larson and Eugenra were happrly marrred and llvrng ln Des Mo nes tarl had made hrs fortune by the rnventron of a machrne whrch rs guaranteed to work any and all problems rn Physrcs When he was rn H gh School and saw the rgorrres of the Senrors whlle tryrng to solve Phvsrcs problems he resolved then and there to devote hrs lrfe to rellevrng therr sufferrngs rf he could Llarlce Donly rs the Dean of VVomen at Vassar and much loved by the grrls Helen Focht ls a mem ber of Congress wrnnrng great fame by her legrslatron for rmprovrng the work ng condrtrons of the workrng classes I learned that Hrlda Larsen had been a Red Cross nurse for some years She was now lrvrng rn Baltrmore Md One of her patrents had fallen ln love wrth her and they were marrred verv quretlv After a honeymoon trrp to South Amerrca they had settled down rn the East The romance whrch we had watched wrth so much rnterest all through Hrgh Srhool was rudelv shattered when rt came to the rnarrrage contract There Skrnnay and Mary could not agree Two of Marys condrtrons were that Skrnnav should refuse all women cllents and that he should be the one to put the cat out every nrght He refused the first be cause of pecunrfrry loss to hrm declarrng that he could plead nrore eloquently rn a womans cause and therefore wln hrs case and as for the second he never had lrked cats and thought rt beneath hrm to accept such humrlratrng terms Mary left the room rn a rage that any man should oppose her wrll The next that was heard of Mary she was rn Parrs She had thrown herself garlw rnto the socral lrfe and eventually marrred a Parlslan dancrng teacher Evert could not make any money as a lawyer so went rnto partnerslrrp wrth a Jew who run a second hand store rn the Jrwrslr quarter of New Xork trtv One day durlng my stay I went to the Irbrarv to get a book I was nruch surprrsed to find that Inez Mrdlarrd was the lbrarran She was rn one of the read rng rooms when I arrlved scoldrng a bunch of I-hgh School krds for drsturhrng the sacred strllness of the place She came out of the roorn with a severe expressron of frce wh ch drd not change to one of pleasantness when she saw rrrz and curtlv asked what I wan ed Vt hen I revealf d who I was she thawed out a lrtle and shook h ands wrth me I learned that the town had grven her the Job for lrfe She told me that Thora Iarsorr was a cook rn a COIIIIIIUIIIIQ krtchen rn Nnel She told rrre also that Olrve Berkland had nrrde a great name for herself as the successor of laura Jean lrbbev Her Answers to the lovelorrr ' were full of wrse advrte Ther appeared rn all the ntwspapers of the l nrted St rtes and Purope l stared rn Iragle Grove about three weeks I enjowd every rrrrrrute of my wsrt but could not be spared from the offrce anv longer I lett wrtlr rrruclr rcgret over not berng 'rble to see all rnw old IIl6IldS I carried away hapnx rrrerrrorres of r x rrsrr rnd ot old trrcrrds I hrd seen Ind hoped to see them all rgrrrr some brr rt x rn the fut e 1Tlrrrtx tr III 1 9 - - 1 9 Ill ' l S1 I ' . ' , , 1r I , . . - 1 a .. , Y D ' ' L ' - ' Y ' I . Q ' , , . , ' ' . ' : ' , . , .r.- ' I ' 1 ' 1 s 1 ' 4 ' . , , , . , . 1 . . . 1 f 1 I' 'n . , . 1 1 v 1 . 1 1 I ' I . ' I ' ,, Q.: , 1 . . . . . . Y . . - -. 1 na 1 . 1 1 Y , . . . . ,' -1 rr l , l , 1 l 1 ' ' ' v 1 1 1 1 ' e A ' I ' . A . U . - 1, , , . e 2 1 Q ' . .. 1 .1 1 3 1 51 1 A1 L . K. ' ' 1 ' ' A' I 4 ,V f - , rr , ,, , v , ' 1' . . ' . 1 1 1 - ' . . . . ' 1 r ' 1 L. 1 1 I K, h, 5 - 3, I . I , . 1 IV F.. I ' .1 , 1 .'1 ' 1'1' 1 1 's ' 1 ' l 'l 'J ' ni, R . I L, 2 .. , ' I A. g 4 , 2 Z. V, ,gl da-1 ' ur H lk, lr. M. j- vol