Garrett High School - Aeolian Yearbook (Garrett, IN)

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“THE CORNER STORE” In a quaint, okl fashioned village store Bud Wheeler was working for his father. He had recently returned from the city where he had been dismissed from his posi¬ tion without explanation. The constabulary, Otto Guckenheimer, was interrupted in his shrewd questions concerning Bud’s return by Jerusha Jane Alvirah Ann Boggs, a country girl, but tricky, who had escaped from the poor-house. Aunt. Hannah, Budd’s mother, gave the poor girl a home. Soon Harvey Barton and Dora, Eli’s niece, arrived from the city and later Eli, too, came, bringing with him Dora’s inheritance, $61,248 in good old Uncle Sam’s currency. In the second act, while at the supper table in the room above the corner store, Harvey informed Dora, Aunt Hannah and Uncle Eli that Bud had been accused of forgeries. Eli became indignant over the “dirty, uncalled for slur,’’ when he realized that Barton, Sr., also had access to the notes on which the forgeries had been made. During the same night Eli’s guard over the $61,248 was interrupted by a crash in the adjoining room. During his absence Bud entered, wrote his farewell letter and returned to the city. After Bud’s departure Harvey stole the treasure, which was lifted from his pocket by Jerushy who was hiding behind the coats on the hall tree. When Eli returned to the room he immediately connected Bud’s departure with the theft of Dora’s money. The last act pictured the return of Bud into the home. Eli proclaimed his son’s guilt, but the latter was exonerated by Jerusha. Barton was humiliated just before the curtain was lowered. —JESSIE PRESSLER. Page Twenty-Three

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reluctantly left the booth. I stopped to buy a smoke at the cigar counter, where I was confronted by Harry Rosenberry, the proprietor of the place. As we exchanged greetings, he said that Ethel Clark, Maurene Houser, Essa Teeters and Vonell Heffelfinger were all traveling with Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties, and that Valena Strause, who had been married to an official of the Vandalia railroad, was living at Churubusco. He had also learned that Thelma Hawver and Vernie Housel were the wives of wealthy farmers living near Garrett. When I took off several hours afterward, I continued to think of the happy lives which fortune had given to my old associates. I reached my home in Akron the next day and when I entered the office to delve into the pile of mail which had accumulated during my absence, I was greeted by Erma Griffin who had been employed as a stenographer in the manager’s office during my vacation. When I thought over my entire trip I concluded that it had been most ideal, for I had seen or located all the members of the dear old class of ’20. —CHARLES BAKER AND VIRGINIA PATTERSON. WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK September eighth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the modern Xerxes advanced from the Sophomore class to the Junior class. It was then that the struggle, which was to continue throughout the remainder of the year, began. Xerxes met no resist¬ ance until he reached the pass of Thermopylae, which was securely held by the modern Leonidas and his gallant army of Seniors. The first struggle of importance was the race for the highest membership in the Athletic Association. After many days of struggle, first one gaining ground, then the other, until at last by the strength and power, Leonidas, very unlike the great Spartan leader of old, succeeded in holding back Xerxes and his army. Thus it con¬ tinued, one skirmish after another until the second race for members in the Athletic Association was brought up. Another decisive battle was fought, in which the Great Spartan leader, Leonidas, and his army successfully held the pass of Thermopylae. On one of the important nights in January, Xerxes, with much mockery, tried to deceive the people by bringing about the idea that Leonidas and his army had died. Leonidas, however, by a very brilliant display of his gallantry, successfully proved to those people that he and his army were very much alive and able to con¬ tinue their struggle loyally and bravely. Next came the publishing of the Senior edition of the Echo, and because of the success of it, Xerxes and his army were very jealous and again tried to deceive the people as to the existence of the Spartan leader and his people. Then Xerxes began his night raid and painted his symbol on all the walks and steps. On the following day the crisis came when the two leaders and their famous armies were called to¬ gether in a joint consul. It was then that Xerxes was forced to sign the uncondi¬ tional surrender, after which the two laid down arms and were peaceful and friendly toward one another; also they began reconstruction work rather than the destructive work which had formerly been carried on. Then on the first of April Leonidas and his army gave a brilliant display of their talent, which banished all ill feelings and ideas which the people might hold against them and gained the respect of all. —FAYE SANDERS. Page Twenty-Two

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