Kimberly High School - Kimida Yearbook (Kimberly, ID)

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Page Sixteen T I-I E member all the battle fronts and prominent generals. It has been a hard strain on them for Seniors are said to be at all times and under all conditions, hard to manage but they have all done their duty and verily now they shall have their well earned reward. Item II. Again we bequeath to our beloved faculty all of the amazing knowledge and startling information we have furnished from time to time in our examination papers. We know that much which we have imparted to them has been entirely new to them as well as to all the teachers and students everywhere. If the faculty see fit they are hereby author- ized to give out such of this information to the world as they feel the world is ready to receive. We trust that they may also feel at perfect liberty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come. This of course is left entirely to their personal dis- cretion. Item III. We hereby bequeath to the Junior Class as a student body Ray Wagoner 's grades in Physics and also his brilliant remarks. tWe trust that the class will be able to survive it.j The following may seem trifling bequests but we hope that they may be accepted as a reminder of the Seniors' generosity. Part I. To our class room teacher. Miss Williams, the profound admiration and ever enduring friendship of the Class of 1918, in individual as well as collective manifesta- tion. Part II. To Burd Wall, the balance in our class treasury. It is stipulated, how- ever, that said balance shall be applied to the purchase of a pair of rubber shoes for detective work. tWe feel that she will be sure to need these in dealing with the classes of next year.j Part III. To the Basketball team of next year the ability of Jay Scott and Ernest Emerson. tWe couldn't induce Evera Mor- gan to surrender his abilityj Part IV. To the Freshman Class our un- equaled dignity. Part V. To the Sophomores our abund- ance of Pep. Part VI. To the Juniors our Annual work and Physics laboratory. Part VII. The following we bestow upon MENAN the conditions that it will be cared for, loved and cherished. Marie Turner tearfully gives up Cephus Jones to Alta King for next year only, after which she will claim the same. Part VIII. A few matrimonial articles are bestowed as follows: Marie Pettygrove to Mr. Jay L. Downing tafter the warl. Uvah Draper to Mr. William Summers fafter she has taught school a yearl. Part IX. Christine Stone's excessive love for the Boys to Margaret M1-Vey. Part X. Gladys Willmarth's editorial ability to Nellie Campbell, Part XI. Helen Albertsmeyer's position at the bank to anyone who applies. tCome early and avoid the rush.J Part XII. Jack Claiborn 's love for the fair sex to Ehrscl Frahm. Part XIII. Uvah Draper's whispering to Hollis Grove. Part XIV. Clara Belle Severance 's abil- ity to gain twenty-five pounds every winter to Mildred Gill. Part XV. Meral Lacourse's place as a guard on the Basketball team to Jean I-Iillis. Part XVI. Vera Jamison's surplus fat to Beulah Adams. Part XVII. Seniors' good memory to Proctor Spence. Part XVIII. To the School Board and Faculty twho kindly had us remain in a half hour at noon and both recesses for eight daysj we bequeath our forgiveness. As the following teachers will pass away with us we take this opportunity to dispose of some of their possessions. Miss Blynn's favorite remark Quseats please J to Miss Wall. Miss Williams' ability to keep perfect or- der to the one who takes charge of the Com- mercial room next year. Miss Smith 's musical talent to Miss Gour- ley. Mr. Downing 's office to the Superintend- ent next year on the condition, however, that it will be kept as well filled as he has had it during the past years. Besides these enforced gifts we leave not of necessity but of our own free will our blessings and the tender memories of our associations together and our regrets for anything we may not have appreciated in the past together, with a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. We, the Class of 1918, the testators, have unto this our will, affixed our official seal

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THE MENAN Page Fifteen shows she must practice all she preaches. She nevel' married, but refused three chances because she was so wrapped up in her specialty that she didn't want to give it up. Now I know you'll be surprised when I tell you about Vera Jamison. Don't you re- member what a skinny little runt she always was? She heard of that great flesh producer and tonic, Tanlac, and after taking twenty- eight bottles she weighs one hundred and fifty pounds and spends her time writing personal testimonials and sending her pic- tures both before and after taking to every- one who will enclose fifty cents and a stamp- ed envelope. She is healthier, heartier, and younger looking today, than she was twenty years ago. She never married either, chiefly because she never got a chance. Uvah D. Summers is certainly a grand lady. She grew tired of Bill a few years after they were married and she now draws alimony amounting to one thousand dollars a month. Bill is glad, they say, to keep her away, by giving her that much, and to be re- lieved of her hen pecking. But I am sure all those reports are untrue because Uvah doesnt seein to be such a crank. She was right in on all of our fun and laughed and made merry with the rest of us. Poor Marie Pettygrove has the saddest past of us all. You know Mr. Downing answered the call in the great war, and while fighting gallantly in the fray was mortally wounded. Petty never seemed the same after this and she found her life entirely too melancholy and painful so she gave up her home and friends and became a Sister of Mercy, and now does charity work in the slums. She is so changed, poor girl. You would never know her for the gay, light hearted, Senior of 1918. She is very gentle and sweet, and quiet and says she has found peace and comfort and rest from her sorrow at last. Gladys Willniarth is generally known as the greatest woman lawyer of all time. It was poor Prof. Downing who suggested this career to her. Isle told her she should study the law, and she rejoices that she took his advice. She never married because Burton also answered the call, like Mr. Downing, and sacrificed his life for his country. Her fame and dignity have made her quite stiff, but to the old class she is just the same. This letter has given you some shocks, hasn 't it? But as we have said before things aren't so remarkably different in most cases fromwhat we could expect. And now as we have made this long enough wc will stop right here and offer you in behalf of the t'lass of 1918 our sincere re- grets of your absence and our best wishes in the continuation of your chosen wol'k. Sincerely yours, U VAH A. I lRAIJl4lIt. MERAIJ LA COURSE, GLADYS M. W.l1lil,MA.H'l'H, fUommittee.l THE CLASS WILL ADIES and gentlemen, Board of Edu- cation, Superintendent, Teachers and Friends: In behalf of my client, the Class of 1918, of Kimberly High School, of the City of Kim- berly, State of Idaho, U. S. A. I have called you together upon this sol- emn and serious occasion, to listen to her last will and testament, and to receive from her dying hand the few gifts she has to be- stow in her last moments. Taking her de- parture so suddenly from life, and finding so many things of such gigantic proportions to be attended to before the end should come upon her, realizing at the same time that she had no longer any time left to spend in cultivation of her own virtues, she did, col- lectively and individually, deem it best to distribute with her own hands these virtues to those friends to whose needs they are best fitted. These are her decisions as at last defin- itely arrived at after very deliberate and mature consideration. Listen then, one and all, while I read the document, as duly drawn up and sworn to. Item I. - We, the class of 1918, do hereby bequeath, devise and bestow to our instructors in the wisdom of the ages a sweet and unbroken succession of restful nights, sweet dreams. No longer need they lie awake through the long watches of the night to worry over the uncertainty of whether this one is doing her night work or that one will have his Physics in the morning class, or the other ones re-

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THE on this the sixteenthday of May, in the year of our liord, Une 'l'housand Nine Hundred and Eighteen. tSignedl CLASS UF 1918. SUBSt'RlBEll AND SWORN to before me, a Notary Public of the State of Idaho, Uounty of Twin Falls, on the 16th day of M E N A N Page Seventeen May in the year of our liord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen. My Commission expires on the 'llhirtieth day of December, Une Thousand Nine flun- dred and 'llweuty-seven. tSignedl XV. F. BRECKON. tflltllilltlliill SEA ll l VALEDHCTORY ANY are the joys of life-great are its privileges-manifold its pleasures- but all these joys, and pleasures, and privileges must 1918 prepare to give up. She has long realized that the end was grow- ing nearer and more sure, but resolutely she has put off all thoughts of her inevitable fate, and joined in all the sports Zllld pas- times with gusto and vigor. But, at last, the time is here when she must prepare to die. Listen then, patiently, to her last Words, for like all departing spirits she has much to say in her last fleeting moments. Dear Superintendent, we of 1918 thank you for all you have done for us during the four years we have spent in your care. We forgive you as well, for all you may have done to us in the same time, and we hope that you may keep our memory green for at least a Week or two after our departure. And to you, our faithful teachers, Who have been our patient nurses through all of the queer attacks to which Seniors are sus- ceptible, we can say that we are indebted more than we C5111 fully realize or ever hope to repay. You have taken a personal inter- est in each of us as individuals, and have done for poor old 1918, as a class, all that could be done to make her last hours easy and painless. You have kept your finger on her pulse through each day of her indisposi- tion, and we feel sure you have had a thor- ough understanding of the cause of each rise and fall of temperature. So she gives you each all her blessing as she prepares for her final departure. Members of the Junior class, who will be ealled to till our vat-ant chairs, we cannot pass away without a word of adviee to you. You will do well to follow in the eourse of 1918, whose career you have watehed with such admiration and envy. She has done grandlyl gloriously! and we say with no little pride that she has fought a good fight, she has finished the course, she has kept the faith. We leave such a reeord for you to follow, that we pass into the Great Bevond feeling that our brief career as a 4-lass has not been in vain, and though we must die, yet may we live forever in the memories and influence that we leave behind. Classmates, our life as 1918 is fast ebbing away, and only time for one more word re- mains. We have studied together, we have played together- Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares. Together now, we pass out of existence and the class rooms and playgrounds will know us no more. But let us face the unknown future as bravely as we have faced every painful examination and severe mental op- eration, determiued to keep a stiff upper lip to the last, and to prove worthy of the colors so lavishly strewn over our remains. So as we look regretfully over the happy past and watch the lingering moments pass into eter- nity, we sadly whisper our last farewell, as 1918 dies. GLADYS M. WILLMABTH We Wx'-an suis: W y I ' LE ' K. .