Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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to the church wake up when the first number on the program starts, but are dressed and on hand for the encore. Wesleyan students give College Yell when the club closed their last number. Wilson sisters entertain entire club after concert, fine time was reported. Leave Centerville at 8 o’clock next morning. Everyone goes but Hagie who stays to wire headquarters for the missing bag. Anita makes it known that all her diamonds and gold bracelets were in the bag. The club reaches Moulton all 0. K. Hagie leaves on an afternoon train for the evening concert at Moulton, gets as far as Sedan and waits three hours on train and then decides to walk to Moulton. Starts walking, meets a farmer in bob sled, rides three miles, walks again, but meets another farmer and rides to town in buggy. Moulton a good town. Lots of dates. Neutzman and Davis need watching. One married woman becomes infatuated but nothing serious happens. Stay over Sunday and give sacred concert Sunday evening. Anita worries about traveling bag and goes home to be consoled. Arrive at Milton all right. Meet Anita at Bloomfield Jet. No bag yet. “Johnnie Davis,” “Harlie Stone” and Barnett are very popular as Milton boys. We sing at High School. Newell, Neutzman and “Prof. Lymer” make addresses. Sing to large crowd at Opera House. Grant and Venell take ride on hay rack. Kemble asks forgiveness from a bunch of girls at station. Arrive at Farmington late next evening. Give concert to fair audience. The club so crowded between numbers that they sit three deep. Anita is hung on the wall in order to make more room. A card is received from the married woman at Moulton. Leave early next morning for Keosauqua. “Humpy” very popular at Keo-sauqua. Practice at 1:30. Boys climb hills all day, several dates. “Mac” gets into the wrong house at night. Give good program. Leave for Ottumwa, several of the club nearly miss their train. Get to Ottumwa in good time. Mr. Crips meets Anita. Some go to restaurant for dinner. Sing at the Y. M. C. A. in afternoon. Boys make use of showers and pool. Sing to a big church full at night. Anita dreads reading to her home audience. She makes the big hit and is called on for three encores. Stone and Anita are very popular here. Leave next morning early for Sigourney. Barnett packs suit case on the street car as he was slow as usual. Arrive at Sigourney about 10 o’clock, and have good time. Barnett got to the evening concert on time, everyone expects a storm soon. Leave at 8:43 for Washington. Practice at 2 o’clock. Concert at 8. Better concert reported than was given by the Oberlin Glee Club who were there a few days previous. Traveling man in hotel was overheard to say he heard the Wesleyan Glee Club in Ottumwa and that they were the best singers that he had ever heard.

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 SOME NOTES, LOST BY A MEMBER OP THE MEN’S GLEE CLUB Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Dec. 22nd, 8:30 A. M. Everybody happy but “Jeff.” No. 10 reported broken down. K-line leaves without Anita. K-line stops several times on way to Salem to let the boys take pictures. Some-R-Set and other games indulged in. Arrive at Salem without accident and are met by a fine delegation. Concert begins at 8:15 P. M., fair crowd and all is well until the quartette encore, when Lodwick tries to help “Pete” out on first tenor. They all stop and “Bill” tells Stone to go ahead. Stone obeys. Stone sings and then tells “Bill” to go ahead, “Bill” returns the compliment. “Bill” tells “Pete” to beat it and “Pete” obeys. The quartette changes into a trio and then do a fine thing—they quit, with applause. Everyone laughs themselves sick. Nearly everyone is in bed asleep by 3 A. M. Leave at 9:45 next morning and arrive at Keokuk at 11:45 without accident. Have dinner and practice at 1:30, then visit the dam. The dam suits everyone and no changes in its construction are necessary. Program at 8:15, things go off fine. Newell takes “Pete’s” place in the quartette. Anita makes a hit with her readings and has to make a bow instead of a second encore. Met at church next morning at 9 o’clock. Car left for Warsaw, 111., at 10:15. All go over except Barnett. All go to Grant Hotel except the “womens” who have a parlor bedroom across the alley from the hotel. Bugs are discovered. One bed found moving about. Six of the boys are frightened. Dinner and supper are not as good as home cooking. Concert at 8:15. Forty-eight present at Saenger Hall to hear us. Some Christmas Eve! Six of the boys go back to Keokuk to spend the night. Grant and Davis take two girls home after they have turned “Humpy” and Lodwick down. Stone and Hagie go hunting before retiring and succeed in bottling fifteen healthy bed bugs before retiring, and then have good sleep. Leave Warsaw next morning at 8:45 for Keokuk. Ethel and Anita have a cup of the best coffee in Keokuk, a sandwich and the last order of doughnuts, for breakfast. Neutzman uses the telephone and then is seen with his Mt. Pleasant girl. Arrive at Memphis, Mo., at 11:20. Nearly every one goes to Hotel Kinney. Everyone gets Christmas mail, personal greetings from Dr. Lymer and cards from the “womens” of the club. Some, who have girls at home, receive a box of home made candy. Fine turkey dinner is served and everyone is happy. “Humpy” has another “birthday.” We sing to a dandy audience at the Opera House. John “D” begins acting up and makes hit on pretty girl in hotel. She goes to train with John next morning. Take pictures at hotel before leaving for Centerville. John catches last car as the train pulls out at Memphis. Arrive at Centerville at 2 P. M. Anita’s traveling bag is left on train, two hours later it is wired for, but not recovered. Several people including Anita worry about it. Everybody tired. Two of the boys who are staying next door 1

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 vv;7 i Columbus Jet. next, not much doing except dates, lots of them. Sang at High School in P. M. Leave for Wapello next day, just a short ride. Wapello is a good town, but is hard to find places to stay. “Tommy” treated every one royal. “Neutz” and Davis forgot to bring the “womens” to the concert so it began an hour and a half late. Give a fine concert when we once get started. The next day at Morning Sun, awful poor audience. Lodwick chases Anita’s chair across the platform but does not get it. The audience howls. Everyone had a swell time but are so glad that the trip is so near over. Burlington, hurrah! the last town. Everyone excited and in a hurry to get through. As soon as the last song is sung everyone beat it for the station. Reached home at midnight. Some one spilt a sack of rice when they got off the train and made the ground look awful suspicious. “Jeff” met the train. Everyone was sleepy the next morning, but were back for hard work. Thus ended the Glee Club trip. Prof. Johnson: “The best cure for selfishness is to get the other fellow’s point of view.” Geneva: “Prof. Leist, may we have a window lowered or uppered?” Alumnus: “Well, how are you?” Barker: “Oh, I’m a senior.” Katherine Druse: “There seems to be a strange affinity between a darkey and a chicken, I wonder why?” “Humpy”: “Oh, that’s easy. One is descended from Ham and the other from eggs.” Bill Campbell: “We all go to college, but we don’t all go for knowledge.” Dollie Barker: “Yes, that is so, for I have it from inside authority.” Mr. Burns: “It is an excellent plan for every young man to pay attention to his clothes, but he should bear in mind that the creases he puts in his gray matter are a great deal more important than those he puts in his trousers.” Anna Van Brussel: “We had the grandest looking young preacher at our church last Sunday, why, he was just simply handsome, he was even better looking than Mr. Vandagriff.” ' 1 ifjl , m i § s § vt § § u-fle | | .-v •