La Crosse High School - Voice Yearbook (La Crosse, KS)

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List WZ Wartwazs Farmers SL Merchants State Bank A. J. Smith Geo. H. Butler Legleiter Department Store Chas. Pokorny Harper Drug Co. Wolfe Barber Shop Pittman and Pittman R. P. Schnacke Davis Hardware H. L. Baker Renberger, Jeweler Wollman Department Store C. C. Cavin City Tire and Battery Co. Dr. Baker Troy Baker Sanitary Shave House Tan Top Cafe Bogart Motors Conard Studio Maurer Meat Market Geo. C. Weber State Bank La Crosse State Bank Otis Reporter

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SENIOR CLASS ' CAST OF CHARACTERS Mrs. Hastings, The Housekeeker ...,..........,........... ..----------,- ' ,. Tom Baldwin Velma Forbes Blair Hoover, The Adventurer ....,..,............. ............ . .. Earnest Rathburn. Jane's Secretary ..,,.. Marjorie Vare, The Elder Daughter .,,,.. Dickie Waldron. a Romanticist ..,........ Mona, The Maid Horace Vare. The Father ...,........4...... Violet Vare. The Younger Daughter .,,,. John Yost Hazel Hayes Kenneth Wolfe Hilda Weigand Theodore Ochs . Kizrie Renner Ralph Mever Peter, Devoted to Vi .,.....................,.. . Arline Miller Gerald Mays. ,Terry from Sage Creek ...............,.......,.... Tom VVhi'C6I1'1HI1 Dora. a Friend of Vl,S .....S,D.............,.......... ......... Jane, Vare's Niece .................,.,e,. ..... ..,e ........................,..... G l 21 dyS Wilson Director--Mrs. S. Wollman PLACE-The entire action of the play occurs in the living room of the Vare home on Long Island, at some distance from New York City. TIME-The Present TIME OF PLAYING-About Two Hours SYNOPSIS OF ACTS ACT 1. A spring morning. Jerry intrudes. ACT 11 Late the next day. Jerry takes a hand. ACT 111. The following morning. Jerry untangles the thread. THE SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY Horace Vare. a wealthy business man tries to keep from being frozen out of the Bluebird Motors Corporation, in which he is a heavy stockholder. Blair Hoover, an adventurer, acquires notes of Vare's when the latter is short of cash and 'threatens to ruin him. The son of his comrade of years ago. appears on the scere. Jerry is a regular rustic tornado, and set out. not only to save the stock for Vare, but to win Vare's daughter. Jerry arrives fresh from Sage Creek. by heck, and is about as much at home in the Vare household, as a bull in a china shop. Besides his whirlwind courtship of Margie, Jerry furnishes much amusement for M,argie's slangy young sister, Vi, and the latter's bosom friend, Dora. Meanwhile he wins the admiration of Dickie Waldron, who is busy raising a moustache, and of Peter, Vi's sweetheart. He flees from tahe Winning wiles of Mona. the pert little French maid, and keeps his eagle eye on Mrs. Hastings, the mysterious woman in black.

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Farmers 81 Merchants State Sauk OF RUSH COUNTY Capital and Surplus 875,000.00 Established 1 888 We are glad to have had a little part in ad- vancing the school tacilities of our community and hope always to be found favoring these things which tend toward true development of our young people. In like manner would we see all the inter- ests of our vicinity advanced and to that end we pledge our rescources and facilities. Officers and Directors H. W. Grass, President W. A. Hayes, Cashier A Fred Humburg, Vice Pres. H. W. Grass Jr., Asst. Cashier W. H. Russell J. E. Andrews H. L. Baker LA CRCDSSE, KANSAS