Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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FP11 HILIH SCHOOL l1M11.S tle OI SL1L.l111kL but Jmerally more offn on One nxght me an the boys was havm 1 qmet httle gune of poke1 Poker D1ck had just raked 1n the pot 111 1 w1s feehn hke 1 roped broncho Poke allus was a blamed lueky tellex Bud I-l1nkly dealt 1ne a. pat hand an ace full an we w IN 1 118111 l1e1 p111ty steady Thmgs w1s gettm to look br1ghte1 Fhen 1.10116 eome the 12 30 express an g1ve '1 lon howl 'ln stopped We w1s so sur LWFISCC1. at th1s onusool h'1ppen1n th lt we dropped ou1 1 uds 111 st unpeded to t11e door I h we never ot em to heheve vet 111o11t the 11 1nd 1 held an that I had been buncoed When we looked out 11 the dool we s1w the express fellez shovm 1 lon wooden box out n the cy'1r We w1s shore cur ous to know 1ts eontents We haulet It 1ns1de though 1t was purty heavy 111 lnspeeted lts outs1des carefully By the d1m hght of our sm le lamp Bud Hmkly read Mr Cyrus Baxter Blackhole Idaho We was treed None of us know d a feller wlth a styhsh name hke th lt I1 Mebbe he s on the tram an fo1got to get off wxth thxs package of hxsn suggested Poker Dxck Anyhow the packa e w1s th 1r 111 we he 1n to spec late as to wh lt was 1ns1de Wh1skey B111 thou ht mehhe It was a Chr1stmas present but as It was September we voted tl1 lt down Then Bud mentloned lt looked mlghty hke a coffin H1111 an Poker got to d1sput1n bout th lt '1n we 11 1d to open lt up to s we 1 fxffht We all stood expectlntly around ts Wh1skey B111 pr1ed off the 11d 1n gralsbed out n bout a b 1le of hay Shore nough there w ts a dead 111 LH We was all kmder quxet He was a c1ty feller 111 deeked out 1n elgmt checked clo es B111 let the hd drop l1ke a p1sto1 crack All of us jumped an wore a k1nder s111y scalrt look It s funny how tlungs hke that works on a feller s nerves Then we held a councll what to do We dec1ded to keep It 1wh1le 'Ln see mf Cy would cla1m h1s corpse Well we kept the feller almost a week t1ll I was gettm purty fr1end1y wxth It But the boys sud we ought n t turn the depot 1nto 1 vault for the good n1me ofthe c1ty 111 sho 11d gwe the poor feller 1 decent burlal as Cy dxdnt appear an they w1s afeared of results S we decxded to hold the fun ral that afternoon Somehow xt le1ked out an almost the hull town jomed the fun ral persess1on Wh1skey B111 S3111 he dldnt know much bout the preechm Job but he would try to make 211116 xt It H d1d lt re 11 pathet1c 11ke s 1y1n the pore young feller s corpse h 1d strayed away an mebbe h1s mother or wxfe or someone else w1s w 11t1n for h11n an weep1n 1wful Ne1r1y everybody was yowhn so loud we hardly heard the rest of the sermon .2 1 . .. 1 , .1 1 1 , 1 . 11 - 1 - 1 - - 1, 1 1 1 R11 . . . Q . 1 1 Is x.. . H X 1 1 . 1 1, 1 1 n CY I 1... f 1 .1 -,A-ll x- - I 1 , , 1. 1. 1 . 1. ' ' '- . ' , U' . 1 1 1 ' ', . 1 . 1 1 1 ' ', ,. . 1 . '. 1 ' ' ' g 1 . 1. . . . 1 , .. . . . ' 1, , , , , 2 ' L 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 . 1, - , , , , 1 11 1 .5 1 ' 1 I' x x 1 1 ' f -1 1- . 1 1 1 1 1 Y . , . . K , . 1 6 , 1 , 1 1 Q E K , . . . . ' .. X W .. 1 1 , .1 1 .5 i. 1 , . 1 . 6 c 1 1 . . 6 1 11 , 11 1 , . , , . . 1 , . . i .v Y, 1 . M. , . I 1 A . . , '11 ' , . ff , I , , ' ', ' , 1 g 1, 1 .1 Q1 1 1 1 . . .i . d . . . .5 1 . 1 1 . 7 I , Y . . 1 , 1 . .V . . , . . 1, . 1 1 , , . , , , , , .1 . 1 1 1 5 1 1 r .W . . . 1 ,V x , , 1 1 1 1 1 1 , ' ' . 1 1. 1 . . ' 1 1 ' 'f ' ' 1 1 . . . . . , . . . 1 . , - , - 1 ,Y . . . . . 1 1 ,, , , . . , . 1 ef , -1 v y 5 , . . '. 1, . . 1 1 1 , ' 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 , 1 ,1 1 1 . . 1 1 1 , , 1 1, O . 1, . 1 . 1 , 1 .. , . 1 . N. . . . . 1 1 .1. 1 , C, , , 1 . 1 . V 1 .11 1 , 1 - C 9 1 . 1 - 1 -1, , 1. K. K. 1 f- C 1 L -1

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