Lake City High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Lake City, MI)

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U Eleventh: I, Howard Miller, having used my thinking ability to the best advantage, do hereby bequeath the same to Burton Lake, if he is not too lazy to accept it. . Twelfth: I, Ed Renowden, bequeath my broken fiddle strings and broken bows to Roy Kenyon, whether they will be of any use to him or not makes no difference. Thirteenth: I, Miss Sharley A. Sherman, bequeath my vocal ability to any Junior member who has a poodle dog which they want to train. Fourteen: We, Floy Tweedy and Ethel Brown, having en- joyed the privileges of being the largest and the smallest in the class, being urged by the patient goading of our classmates, wil- lingly give up our old Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin squabbles to Gwendolin Seafuse and Margaret Shivilie. Fifteenth: Knowing that I have been the sweetest and pret- tiest girl in my class, I, Bertha Runyan, leave my cheerful sunny smiles to Lula Goodwin and Chouty Walton. Sixteenth: I, Elizabeth Peck, leave to any future Caesar student, the little bug which causes us to be so restless. We, the following, firmly and solemnly swear that this pre- ceedinfr intsrument had been ascribed and attested to before us this fifth day of April in the year of our Lo-rd, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty. SHARLEY A. SHERMAN ARTHUR C. BIELBY CARL M. IVERSON Drawn up and sworn before me, CARL A. BIELBY, Attorney Pro. Tem. .-37-.

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CLASS WILL We, the members of the Class of 1920, of Lake City High School, City of Lake City, County of Missaukee, State of Michi- gan, being of sound mind and memories, and acting under no in- fluence or threats or command, do not declare, and publish this, our will and testimony, in the following manner: First: I, Art Bielby, leaves to the succeeding Senior Class a copyright on poetry and also of a number of trained ponies, Second: I, Carl Iverson, leaves a few pennies which re- mains in the vaults of the present Senior Class. Third: I, Doris Scott hereby, bequeath my nearly exhausted supply of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum to those members of the future Seniors who are looking for something to stimulate their jaw action. Fourth: I, Jazz R. Allen, leaves to any masculine member of the present Junior class the supreme right to call at any time fnight or dayj Miss Billy Heffernan. The number is 99. Fifth: I, Weldon Allen, having been the cause of so many broken hearts in the school, leave my general attractiveness to Dick Chick, for Unto him that hath shall be given. Sixth: We, Billy Heffernan and Ruth DeMoss as class vamps, do hereby bequeath and devise the complete knowledge with which we have been able to flirt the length and breadth of the Senior room, under the watchful care of Miss Fox. Seventh: I, Jay M. Rathburn, leave to those artistic mem- bers of the future Seniors a very large number of pencil stubs, which may prove useful in the writing of some of the distressing semester exams. They are all colors of the rainbow. Eighth: I, Cresse Barner, to show the largeness of my heart, promise to leave my promising position on the basket ball team to anyone who thinks they could handle the position as well as I can. Ninth: I, Archie Hinkley, wills my most glorified position to any person tlrat can beat me by three per cent. Tenth: I, Milford D. Tate, leave the sole right to anyone of having the privilege of leaving Lake City on Friday p. m. and re- turning anytime not later than one week, from a nice snow bound trip to Cadillac, Michigan. A return ticket ought to accompany the trip.

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DISPENSARY By Cressie Barner. Jazz Allen:-has a sort of a disease called the sleepjitus. Common symptoms are his usual tardy marks from five to twenty minutes every morning. The only remedy I can find and, I guess it is a good one, is an automatic bed. This bed may be set by a clock so that at an appointed hour it will uncoil and tumble Jazz out early enough to arrive at school in time. The scheme is for the bed to uncoil at five o'clock A. M. and not close until 6 P. M. ' You all know how terrible the disease of tuberculosis is and how many people die annually from it. Well, there is one of these Seniors who is terribly afflicted and will have to have an antidote. This is Scotty. Her disease is a new variety called the Black Jack consumption. The only symptoms are noticeable when she is being watched by Miss Fox. She instantly consumes all the gum in her mouth. I Tate's disease is the awful Audley py trods of the Runnets. He will never be any better than he is. That's why he is all the time trying to celebrate. , Renowden-, The diseased is constantly suffering from the reditis. l He is also constantly hampered by the ringing of May bells. CMabelsD. Miss Brown :-The symptoms of her disease are always quite noticeable. It being what is commonly called Excess Avoirdu- poise. Prescription :-A Diet. This being composed of the fol- lowing: Breakfast-Ham and eggs, toast, breakfast foods, coffee but little milk. Dinner-Pork roast, mutton, beefsteak, boiled veal, mashed potatoes with gravy, celery and onions, pie, pudding and ice cream and cake. Supper-Boiled cabbage, macaroni and cheese, undressed spuds, potato salads, fruit salads. In each case she may have all the bread she wants and there is no check on the candy or fruits. The main object is to lessen the flesh by the ex- tra working of the muscles which are under the obligation of car- rying this load around. Next is A. Hinkley. Through the excess of hard work and study Archie grew to be a small man. The cause of this was the property the skin possessed of not being able to stretch as Archie wanted to grow. A diet may be prescribed here also. Breakfast will consist of a cup of water and three crackers. Dinner-Two ' -3 3-