Elko High School - Pohob Yearbook (Elko, NV)

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2 PoHoB lClClll1 llolland Slsters School of Beauty Culture When l was shown the lI1blClC sure enou h there were Fern and Vera but alas what a eh rn e' Vera s halr was bleached to a dazzhng yellow and liern had taken Marmol 1 reducm tablets t1ll she was only a shadow ol her former self' Now there came before me one of those Qlllet restful vlslons of the slmple hfe down on the farm Stanchn rn the doorway of the farm house was a woman whom l IH tantly reco nlzed as Agnes Porter .She h md than ed her name for 1 lon er one and was enjoym l1fe ex ces d1n ly l saw next the 1nter1or of a lar e barber shop Dexterously WC1lCllI'1 the sharp razor was a ladv barber The lady barber frlends was Rachel Elhott And a led headed woman was the cause of It all Thus mur mered a despondent entleman who walked dejectedly away from a house on Raxlroad street where our old frlend Mary Margaret Thomp son stlll reslded The truth seemed plam Mary had never grven up her old past1me of breaklng hearts l now beheld a world famous school of classxc dancmff where school was ably mana ed by Myrtle McKn10ht who hlres Rlta Damlle and Aletta Paul as her leadmg mstructors From here the scene IS transferred to the campus at the U of N On the athletre Held Coach Murphy IS drllhn hls men We used to know hlm as Spud but now he IS Coach Murphy of the Unlverslty Hurry GIHCC or we ll be late lm comm Mirthv lm comm Thls llttle dralo ue took place ln an apartment mhablted by two elderly women whom we mlffht have called old maxds 1n our day They were ett1n ready for Church at the tlme the plcture was shown to me As you ve doubt less surmrsed they were none other than our old classmates Grace Parker and Martha Sehmltt Whats thls l ee before me3 No not a da er to be sure only a scene famllnr to us 111 the mterlor of Mlss Knemeyer s ofhce at E. H S But another slts at the prlnclpals desk ln splte of her rayln h ur and lasses l reco nlzed lVlar aret McMurtrey Qn her -Z .gi ,, - . N. u y ' D v - ' S-I 1 f Q v . ' 2 g . ' ' , ' , ' C e ' g ' X . S U . D n 1 u . f ' ' sf f V C Q , g - ' f D U . D 1 N , . . g 1 g , , C ,, , v . , y r gf . y - W . . . D, Lelgheld selects most of hls Folhes glrls. Here l learned that the xi g s 1 C ' I n bl I7 A 1 D . I l , . Y 9 J ' . g, C N . . . . . g .D , . ' g ,. g . U 9 c A N . ' . Sas W vt. , , 3 1 w . C x c 9 . . . c A' 'l Q l A .

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PoHoB ' deeply enffrossed ln thouf ht s xt '1 txll thm prous freed rn an the pas tor of the church I turned 111 ll'T1lZCl11t,llt to Shahjhen Surely I dld not recovmze Edwln ILa0ers3 Sh lhlhen nodded and before I C uld cease wondermff another plcture flashed before me Ifhls tune I be held a vast thronff of bov miners ffatheled about a soap box on which stood an enthuslastlc orator procleumlnfr the rlffhts of the labormff man Short of stature he was und COIISICILI' lbly more rotund In shap then when I knew hlm at E H S nuertheles I had httle dlffrculty xn recocfnlzmff ohn lVIeDe1mott Then the scene vanlshed and lnstead I saw in absent mlnded eol leve professor strolllncf alonff endowed IH conversatlon wxth hrmself He was evldently much interested 111 1 book he was plannlnff to wrlte on The Power of Mlnd Over Matter lrulv I was astonlshed to recognlze m hlffl none other than jmek -Xlbm The plcture dlsappeared a had the others I saw a dlfmlfled gray halred lntelllvent IOOIQIHO min dressed 111 the unrform of a hlgh navy OmClZ-ll d1SCUSSlD0' some questlon wlth the Presldent of the Unlted States After a b11ef lntervrew he walked brlskly out to hrs dent Harold Hansen The next plcture proved to be the 1nter1or of an up to date gentle men S clothmg store An exclted httle 1 entlemin partly bald headed wearmg checkered trousers and 1 lone bl uk eoat was rush1nO about here and there attendlnff to everybody s busmess but hrs own I learned from Shahjhen that he wa Orval Ames manager of the fam ous Puett and Stranffe Clothlnff Stores lNow the scene shxfted to 1 lxr c ofhee ln the ame l3Lllld1D0' Doa lnff at thelr respectrve desks were the wellthly owners of the afore mentloned Puett md Stranfre stores Roy h ld xttamed a hewht of sm feet two now whlle lrxln h md p lt on some two hundred and forty pounds avolr du POIS Then I Oazed upon a IJLISIIIIIU new p xper office RCCIIHIHQ ln a well padded chalr xt the edxtors desk w ms x man whose faee seemed famlllar Cn lookmff eloser I reeoffnwed h m whom we were onee want to address as Speek but whose present officxal trtle was E. B Stemnver edltor ln chlef of the BIIIUYIIIC Euvle I next beheld a busr seetxon of tht busme s dlstrlet of a larve e1t On the slde of a ffreat IJUIICIIIIY hunff 1 l1LI0'? Hold letter swn y :- O g , era I L , , '- z ' z 3 ' '- . ' 2 z f ' 2 . ' . . - . , . , ,I 3 3 u C J , C x! S, , . ' 5 V t be , 1 . E . . A . ' C 0 :S D . I a ' I z I A ' e ' . ,l ' ,X l '1' ' . J . . . e ., s A CJ 5 sl ' . . I . . L C f L C - - 17 ca I3 :wc 23 ' C ID ' c . ' Y , c . . . Y x f . - C C A n , S e L '. 3 , 1 cs ra 1 e , e 1, , Waltlng llmouslne, and then I saw that he was our erstwhlle class presl- , . . , n ' :I C v H C n C ' 1 o . X E I 7. N Y. . , O Y I . s I S' , - S 3 ' I ' C t ww N 'J ' Q ' ' I ' - :1 tb' D , , A L z 3 ' z z 5 '- , ' 2 f' a .a . A ' D , s 2 1 . - 2 Q ' 2. 2 N- ' A . 7, , T, - A ' . J ,, , :D 7 ' ' D Y :' ' Y K I A 3 -I jfsw I x' D 1 J , .,. D ' 'SJ C: D ' U ' 'D s

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I POHOB faee there IS that tued kmdly exprnbmou of one who hae bllflniilbd some reat dlsappomtment Xvluthel ox no hers WIS 1 Cl13'lI'J1DO1Ilt ment m love must ever rcmam 1 mvatery Sh lhjlden 1LfllSCCl to show dxsplayed 1 llttle Ill tempel and bluntly told mc to 7 ? as 6' v I 'QS' w g . . h .wi at .if . N me more. At my reluctance to leuvc off gazing upon the future he 'Q Q ' ' ', f' 2 go. -L. H. '23, l l xl .