Humboldt County High School - Winnada Yearbook (Winnemucca, NV)

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PROPHECY HAVING just completed her latest novel, “When Love Comes,” the popular author- ess, Ruby Thompson, being an old friend of mine and knowing what an engaging personality I have, (ahem) has engaged me as her agent and I have started upon a great career. I have stopped at Winnemucca where 1 hope to dispose of a large number of books to the wealthy itizens thereof. It being near election time, I attend a politi al rally at the American Theatre. The different candidates are introduced and ea '1 delivers a short oration. When the nominee for the responsible position of Night Watchman is announced who steps forward with a graceful bow, but my old friend Dewey Nelson. His eloquent speech in which he tells of his soptless past and of the hours spent in unceasing study of his lessons, holds the audience spellbound and the burst of applause that greets this brilliant oratory is an assurance of his being unanimously elected. After the speaking, a comedy is shown on the screen in whic h a group of chorus girls perform an artistic dance. But where have I seen that girl with the dark, flashing eyes before. She smiles and it dawns upon me that she is no other than Frances Stuart. The next day is Sunday, and of course I would not miss church, so I go and arrive just as a song is ended. The preacher begins his sermon and his earnes tones ring through the church. Not a smile disturbs the serious calm of his counten- ance as he tells of the evils caused by a woman’s tongue. His emphatic tones are like a voice of the past and when his sermon is nearly ended I recognize him as Clyde Brown. Being completely moved by his emotional speech. I get up and leave the church. I see a cozy little cottage where it may be my good fortune to sell a book. As I enter the gate a man rushes out the door and past me fast enough to enable him to escape being painfully injured by a rolling pin. It may not be altogether safe for me to attempt it but I bravely march up and knock. When the door opens I behold in the lady of the house another old school friend of mine. “Why Bertha Pearce, “I exclaim. “This is an unexpected pleasure.” She blushes and points to the ring on her finger, and says, “Not Bertha Pear 0 any longer, I am Mrs. Lyon now. My husband just left a few minutes ago.” I catch the afternoon train, for, not having such marvelous success disposing of my goods, I have decided to go on to San Francisco. As I sit watching the many different people in the car, a tall lady elegantly dressed and with a commanding air sweeps down the aisle. People stare at her and whifeper to each other. “Who is the lady?” I inquire of my nearest neighbor. “She is a wealthy widow,” is the reply. “She married a second cousin to Rocke- feller and at her husband’s death which was a release from suffering, she inherited all his fortune. Her maiden name was Marguerite Otis.” I gasp, it is such a shock and everything turns black while I seem to be falling. I can still faintly hear voices saying, “get Doctor Brown,” and then I lost all conscious- ness. When I again recover my disturbed senses I see the doctor who has restored me by throwing a cupful of water in my face, just leaving and recognize him as Gerald Brown. “Gracious, you gave me a fright,” says my neighbor. “It‘s lucky the famous doctor Brown was here. You know he is the famous physician that cured the King of p]ngland of the gout.” When I arrive in San Francisco, I go to see my brother, Gerald, who is a clerk in a shoe shop. Of course he is delighted to see me and to know I am soon to bo

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HOROSCOPE (Continued) Name Besetting Sin Debtiny Appropriate Song Cause of Death Clyde Brown Following Blanche Monk “You’d Be Surprised” Blanche Eula Holloway Head Dress Missionary “When You Look Into The Heart Of A Rose” 70 Words Per Minute Gerald Brown Flirting Actor “Hot Lips ’ Eating Gerald Holloway Seriousness Henpecked Husband “Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight” Eating Paint and Powder after Twelve Blanche Goldsworthy Skinnyness Freak in the Circus “Why Should I Cry Over You” Trying to Sit Still Bertha Pearce Playing Two Fiddles at Once Soda Squirt “Three O’clock In The Morning” Elmer Ruby Thompson Giggling Ranch in Denio “Sweetheart” Loss of Her Man Ada Moore Oilman Keil Trying to Diet Emma Liotard Sheriff’s Wife President “Say You’ll Be Mine” “They Go Wild. Simply Wild Over Me” An Orange a Day Tried to Vamp Charley Garteiz Hattie Gates Sheepherder “You Tell’er I Stutter” Conceit James Moore Railroads English Dude “Chic ago” Chicagoing Bernardine Laucerica Antonia Laucerica The “Boys” Nervousness Most Anything Nun “She Is Mine, All Mine” “I Know What It Is To Be Lonesome” Married Life Algebra II Therese Pasquale Emil Housewife “I’ll Keep On Loving You” Basketball Dewey Nelson Lona Postmaster-General “There Must Be Little Cupids” TeasingMrs. Summerfield Nieves Legarza Displaying Her Pictures Follies “Smilin’ ” Bob Adamson May Livingstone Linton Brown Waitress “Quaker Down In Quaker Town” Shimmying Eva Menicucci Flirting With Dewey Nurse “There’s A Rose That Grows In No Man's Land” Dressing Up Marguerite Otis Tallness Telephone Girl “After Every Party” Admirers Emma Liotard Geology School Teacher “Oh ! Frenchy” Raising a Rough House Mateo Legarza His Lessons Bachelor “Homesick” Dissipation Ardella Holman Geometry Follies Girl “Home Sweet Home” Hurrying Helen Adamson Vamping Animated Encyclopedia “Yankee Doodle” Flunking in Chemistry Frances Stuart Boh Ranch Cook “When Frances Dances With Me” Remington Portable Lois Thompson Sewing Sunday School Teacher “Do You Ever Think Of Me” Getting an A Plus

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famous. But I am disappointed at the change in my once modest and well behaved brother for he flirts with every pretty girl that comes in the shop. Alas, if Ruby knew, her next book would probably be “A Blighted Romance.” With a renewed force of “nervous energy,” I am now soliciting my books. I enter the dressmaking establishment of a certain Madam Klinkenhammer, where many beautiful models are displaying as equally beautiful styles. I am dazzled at one of the models in a trailing gown and when I recover my vision I behold my old friend Ada Moore. Upon leaving this p’ace I think I will go back to the hotel and rest so I purchase a newspaper with which I entertain myself. While looking at the pictures my eyes are attracted to two familiar faces and in astonishment I read: “Miss Helen Adamson, an attractive young actress, has quit the stage and will play the part of leading lady to the famous movie actor, Altman Reil, who is said to surpass even Charlie Chaplin as a comedian.” How famous my friends are becoming and to think 1 can say, “I used to go to school with them.” While continuing my reading of the newspaper, I see the headlines: “The Two Sisters. Bernardine and Antonia Laueerica have just returned from a vbP to Spain where they have been guests of honor to the queen. They are, never- theless, delighted at their return to the United States where they spent heir school days.” As I take the elevator up to my room, I am amused at a man wlio is also in it, industriously peering over a book entitled, “How To Improve Your Memory.” When he leaves the elevator he never looks up but continues his industrious search of knowl- edge. The elevator boy laughs and says, “Gee, I wish I was studious like Mateo Legarza and maybe I could be a lawyer, too.” There are so many interesting things to see in San Francisco that I almost forget my c areer. I go to the movies and an quite surprised to see Charlie Garteiz starring in the new version of “A Dancing Fool” in which Wallace Reid once took the leading part. When passing a large building with a sign in front, “Vocal and Piano Lessons Taught at Fifty Cents a Lesson.” I think surely a wealthy person like that could afford to buy a book so I enter and am delighted to find Blanche Goldsworthy as the youthful instructor. I have left San Francisco and am traveling east in hopes that the inhabitants of that section have more of a desire for romantic novels than those of the west. In my travels I find Lois Thompson to be one of the instructors in an orphan school for children. Upon entering the office of a certain large law firm, I present my book to the private secretary, who, I discover to be Nieves Legarza. Who could picture my amazement when I entered a beauty parlor to find Emma Liotard and May Livingstone as the joint owners, one acting as hairdresser and the other as manicurist. They tell me that Therese Pasquale has acquired fame, and a small fortune, by writing a Geology book which is now used by students of that subject, the main feature of the text being its simple language and its diminutive size. Also that Eva Menicucci now spends her time and money in traveling and has already been around the world twice and is planning to go again; and that Ardclla Holman while studying languages in college so far surpassed her professor that he was discharged and Ardella given the position. My sojourn in the east so far has not been as' successful sa I hoped for, bur suddenly a bright idea comes to me. If I was only in New York I could sell an endless supply of books; but the problem is how to get there in a hurry. An aeroplane comes sailing through the air and lights within a few feet from me. “Passengers to New York,” shouts the aviator. I lose no time in preparing for my journey and am soon Ol