Lincoln High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Manitowoc, WI)

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In the doorway stood Hugo himself and by his side, the Company, who was no other than Flossie, now Mrs. Holst. We looked at the other pictures. One showed a Women’s Clothing Establishment of which Anna Lamach was proprietoress and Lillian Meisner, chief dressmaker. Another pictured Gladys Zentner mounted on a cracker-box, giving a stump speech before an audience of women voters. She was a candidate, on the Prohi- bition ticket, for the mayorship of Two Rivers in opposition to Helen Zych, who represented the Socialist party. The drops of candy in the cup soon melted away and with them the pictures. We poured some more of the syrup into the water and watched the new pictures slowly form. One of unusual bright- ness represented a beautiful cathedral situated in a great metropol- | is known as Cato. A few lines at the botton of the picture inform- ed us that Herbert Schroeder and Adolph Frazier, the famous architects, had designed the cathedral, and all the decorations with- in were due to the celebrated artist, Ottmar Schroeder. Thru the open doorway we could see the priest in the act of pronouncing the benediction upon his congregation. With along, black gown and solemn face it was difficult to recognize our schoolmate, Leo Murphy. In one of the pews, watching over a group of little child- ren, piously knelt Sister Lillian, whom we once knew as Lillian Pautz. “i With a feeling of awe we turned to another picture. A large assembly of Congressmen, each with a book entitled ‘‘Morrisey’s Rules of Order,’ were in the midst of a heated discussion over a tariff question. The book’s author, Martin Morrissey, was now Speaker of the House and an important political supporter of Sen- ator Frank Chloupek. In the Gallery of the House sat Mrs. Chlou- pek, nee Marie Borcherdt, and her chum Ruth, whose husband was President of the fashionable Friedl Footwear Company, in Phila- delphia. We continued to pour small portions of candy in the water and on each drop was reflected the achievements of the class of 1912. In this manner, we learned that Clarence Alter and Edward Reich- ert were civil engineers in South Africa, and Jean Sharp and Irene Scanlan were zealous missionaries down there. Blanche Nespor, as a physical directress in India, was teaching the natives a more civilized and graceful war-dance. She had always liked gymnastics at school. One particularly lively picture was that of a scene on the coast of Lower California. A large army, under the leadership of Gen- erals Schwartz and Healy, was marching to the inspiring tune which issued from an instrumentin the hands ofa young, freckle- faced bugle-boy. We recognized the bugle and also the freckles as —31

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: aN ee (My, E — EOS, Wes) je Wl WE ( (= = sts IN i Candy Cues. Candy, as I always thot, was made for the purpose of eating. This was the only use I ever accorded to that delicacy until the other day when I had an opportunity of changing my opinion. The opportunity offered itself while I was visiting at Martha Nielsen’s home in Missouri. Martha was married to a lawyer down there and was still as fond of candy as she was at old M. H. S. ten years ago, in (912. One day during my visit, Martha and I whiled away several hours in making ‘‘divinity.” We talked of our happy, high school days and wondered how much the world had improved since it had received into its bosom the great and brilliant class of 1912. We soon found out the improvement, and our wonder grew, for we learned of our classmates in a very uncommon way. In testing the divinity, we poured several drops of the white syrup into a cup of water, to see whether they would form hard, brittle balls. Great was our astonishment when we beheld the small drops flatten, grow larger, and brightly colored pictures ap- pear on each. We eagerly scanned the largest picture. It represented a small, country village. The most conspicuous building was a grocery store, ornamented with a large, wooden sign bearing the inscription: ‘‘Holst Co., Dealers in Groceries, Mishicot, Wis.” — 30

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the highly valued property of Harold Welk. This image was soon replaced by a new scene, also in Lower California, but instead of an army we saw an immense fleet of war- ships. On the largest of the dread-naughts stood Admiral Kiland dictating a message to the wireless telegraph operator, at whom we were compelled to look twice before we discerned the resemblance to Walter Stanzel. Our attention turned toa picture which offered quite a contrast to this last one. At first only a tiny, dark object was visible mov- ing in a great patch of blue; larger and larger it became until finally a modern airship, containing five passengers, presented itself. The slight figure of the engineer at the wheel was surely the owner of that long, Dutch name, Alfred Muehlenbruch The remaining four occupants were Irma Schmitz, Cora Goodhew, Francis Piel and Peter Herzog. Irmaand her husband, Francis, were on their way to Los Angeles; Irma, to be near her chum of girlhood days and Francis, to accept a position as head book-keeper in a prominent manufacturing firm. Cora as we learned trom the picture, was to continue the journey over the ocean as far as the Hawaiin Islands, where she was a governess over four little Malay children. Peter, renowned as the inventor of the improved airship, remained with the machine on its tour around the world. Much of his leisure time he spent in writing twentieth century poetry to the Manitou, which still continued to be issued. The succeeding picture carried our thots back to Manitowoc again. Inthe elaborate Assembly Roo:n of the new High School, ‘a very learned body was congregated, comprising the School Board and teachers of the county. The chairman of the meeting, who was also President of the School Board, we distinguished as our old friend Herbert, of whom there was still as much as in days of yore. Among the teachers were seated Vivian Cavanaugh and Anna Leary, who couldn’t bear to be separated from each other and therefore had succeeded in obtaining positions in the High School— Vivian as teacher of History and Anna as English instructor. Clara Barnstein was also of this learned congregation and was in charge of the stenugraphy and typewriting classes at M.H. S, On one side of the room, taking short hand notes at the rate of sixty words per minute, sat ‘“‘Happy” Handl now reporter for the Satur- day Evening Post. ‘The tall, intelligent looking man giving an address on the “‘Conservation of Energy” was none other than the star member of our Physics class, Guy Drews, now Professor of Physics in the University of Chicago. Upon the fading of this reflection, our attention was turned to a scene in a beautiful valley thru which flowed a cool, tempting river. Near the bank were two small boys struggling to loosen themselves —32—