Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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THERESA COLEMAN C. D. — Giving Orders. B. W. — Listen, Child. A. L. — To become Mrs. Ber- ryman. MARSHALL LOVE C. D. — “Sporting.” B. W. — D — n if I know. A. L. — To be a great busi- ness man. EDNA NIN C. D. — Making hats. B. W. — Monkey! A. L. — To become a milliner. bers of the class were on the Orpheum circuit, billed as the Imperial Quartet; they are Clarence Bradford, cornet; Ulysses Arnold, clarinet ; Freemont Herman, saxaphone ; and Ernestine Wade, piano. All are married but are still going under their original names on account of the stage. We left Rochester Sunday morning at 8:30 for Cleveland, Ohio. About five miles from Cleveland I ran across a large hole in the road, breaking my rear axle; luckily I was near a farm house and when I went over to secure help whom do you suppose I greeted ? Why, it was our old friend George Patterson. “Pat” had his hired man to go to town in his lizzie to buy me another axle. We arrived in Cleveland about 4 p. m., where we went immediately to a news stand to purchase a paper before going to the hotel. While look- ing over the paper I found quite a number of witty and well drawn cartoons, and learned later that they were drawn by Edmund Lane, our class cartoonist. I was up bright and early Monday, so I decided to take a walk. At the corner of Ninth and I streets s it a large building with this sign, Mme. H. T. Tolson, Manufacturing. Helen is engaged in manufacturing face and talcum powder, paints and other cosmetics. Assisting Miss Tolson in the manufacture of hair pomade and oil is Earl Drew, the ne’er- do-well of the class. After visiting this wonderful establishment we left Cleveland for Toledo. We were going down the road at a pretty good rate of speed when we passed a stalled car with a man underneath. Out of sympathy for him we turned around to give him a lift if possi- ble. Who do you suppose came from under- neath the car? It was the multi-millionaire Marshall B. Love, sporting goods manufac- turer of Chicago, who had ventured out minus his chauffeur. “Dinks” has married Ruth Price, and he tells me she is living as she has always desired — in luxury. The only thing the car needed was a little gas, which we supplied. We arrived in Toledo at 6 o’clock Monday evening and found Barnum Bai- ley’s circus. When we visited the night per- formance our attention was attracted by the barker yelling, “Come on, good people, and see the loudest man on earth.” We entered and found our good but boisterous friend Lewis Arnett. Tuesday morning after break- fast I walked into Miss Bernedia Lee, who is now mezzo soprano in the American Grand Opera Company. I was very much pleased to learn from “Bernete” that Corever Wright has opened a millinery shop in Washington, D. C. T received a wire from Chicago that my wife, who was visiting there during my ab- sence, was ill. We made a record breaking trip to Chicago and arrived at my wife’s bed- side to find a nurse in attendance from Provi- den t Hospital, in the person of Miss Edna Nix. Three more members of the class are in the graduating class at the same hospital. Fay Ritchie, Lillie Frederick and Ellen Hoard. Nathaniel H. Griffin is the superintendent and surgeon-in-chief of the Provident Hos- pital. N. Haven Griffin, M. D., or “Mathe- matical,” is still a bachelor. After my wife had recovered sufficiently for me to leave her bedside, Bob and I visited the Wendell Phillips High School, where we found Theo. Bowler principal. Caroline Dudley is teach- ing General Science and has “vamped” the principal enough to become his wife in June. Miss Jennie Walker is the assistant Girls’ Physical Training teacher at the Chicago Uni- versity; she is also to be married in June. To whom? I don’t know. We also visited the office of the Chicago Defender, and when we opened the door marked Editor a very digni- fied looking business man turned in his The Lincolnian l ag:© Seven

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' ' ; .■ ' . • £ ;■ flllasjs nf Nitu’tmt (Unumtij WHO’S WHO B. W. — By Word. C. I). — Chief Delight. A. L. — Aim in Idfe. EARL CLARK C. D. — Being a leader. B. W. — Let’s have it. A. L. — To become second only to Dr. Barker. CLASS PROPHECY Goodness gracious, how time flies! Here it is 1930 and the Class of ’20 has been out one-tenth of a century. Hard to realize, isn’t it, but it’s so. Now read carefully and see what we have been doing during the past ten years. I am located in New York City working hard, so hard that my physician has ordered me to take a rest. I decided the best kind of rest would be a cross-country tour from New York to California in my high-powered Stutz motor car. So with my legal advisor and close friend Bob Monroe, l left New York Saturday, May 1, at 5:30 a. m. After riding for nearly eight hours we ar- rived in Buffalo at 1 o’clock Saturday after- noon. When we reached the court house we found a big crowd gathered around and upon inquiry found tha,t Lawyer Marshall Taylor had just won a victory in a sensational mur- der case. Marshall has pursued his profession out in life, arguing. We left the crowd and went to the hotel for lunch, and such a lunch Bob nor myself either had ever tasted, but I was not in the least surprised when I learned that Walter M. Porter, former cook on the Burlington, was the head chef. “Alec” told me that Mabel Winston was teaching, but had to resign, as they were to be married next week. Can you beat it? I can’t. We left Buffalo at 2:30 and arrived in Ro- chester at sundown Saturday evening. I ran the car into the Advance Electric Auto Stor- age Garage for supplies and discovered the proprietors to be Gerald J. Maxey and J. Eugene L. Oliver, known in the shop as “Lady Lou” and “Dago.” While I was in there talk- ing over old times, who do you suppose walked in? Not a soul other than Erna Parker Oliver, with the two twins, Jerome and Lithey. Both favored their Pa. As I came out of the garage and walked up the street my attention was attracted by a large crowd on the corner. Approaching nearer I found the cause of all the excitement to be Rev. E. G. Horsey, evangelist. When I arrived at the hotel I found Bob engaged in conversation with a Mr. I-Know-Everything- Gentleman. I touched the young man on the shoulder and when he turned around shook hands with Mr. Maceo Birch, architect and builder, up to his old tricks, trying to talk Bob into buying a lot so that he could get the carpentry contract for building. Can you imagine such a thing? Birch told me that our faithful class president for two years was practicing medicine there and had his offices not a block away. I hastened to the offices of Dr. E. E. Clarke, to find him per- forming a most difficult operation (removing a splinter from underneath the fingernail of one of his patients). Dr. Clarke has married Miss Vuelta Green, the prim little Miss of the class, who prior to her marriage was the bookkeeper for the Citizens National Bank of Rochester. Bob and I decided to stay over until Sunday, so we journeyed to the Commonwealth Theatre for colored and witnessed “The Man Who Came Back,” Miss Theresa Coleman as Marcelle played the leading feminine role. After a talk with Theresa we learned that four mem- Pajfe Six The Lincolnian

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GEORGE BURGIN C. D. — Staying out of school. B. W. — O, come on. A. L. — To move a little faster. ARBRAZINDA HENDERSON C. D. — Talking in sewing. B. W. — Good night. A. L». — To become a nurse. CHATRICK HAITHMAN C. D.— Being with E. G. B. W.— Well, I declare. A. L. — To work for Single- ton. swivel chair to greet us; in spite of his gray- ness around the temples I recognized George Smith. Burt Singleton is the efficient sport- ing editor. On account of my wife’s illness we spent more time in Chicago than we had planned. So at the expiration of two w T eeks we left “Chi” for Omaha, Nebraska. We arrived in Omaha Friday afternoon, June 5, and went directly to Bob’s aunt’s house, where a week end mask party was going on. When the guests were asked to unmask I recognized James A. Johnson, who is now a lieutenant in the U. S. A., and is home on a furlough. Also William and Clif- ford Smith, who are now successful contract- ors, with 200 workmen under them. While Bob was showing me around the house we wandered upon Albert Ross sitting in the garden pouring out his heart to one of Omaha’s daintiest debutantes. Albert is en- gaged in Y. M. C. A. work . We did not spend but three days in Omaha, and during .that time we visited Anna M. Gates, who is a suc- cessful authoress, and has several good books to her credit. At this writing Miss Gates is unmarried. We left Omaha Monday morning at 5:30 and after driving all day and all night we arrived in Kansas City Tuesday morning at 9:45. After cleaning ourselves up we walked up Vine street and I endeavored to point out all the places of interest to Bob. At 24th and Vine was a new building with a sign which read, “Smith’s Home Bakery,” successor to C. E. Evans. On entering to purchase some cake I looked upon our old friend Chauncey Smith “Chancy” has had charge of the bak- ery, with the help of his wife, Connie, since Mr. Evans resigned. We left the bakery bound for L. H. S., our alma mater. On ar- riving at 19th and Tracy we found L. H. S. to be the colored Junior College and the building formerly occupied by the Manual T. H. S. is now occupied by Lincoln High. We left the Junior College for Lincoln, where we found several of our class teaching. Fannie Reeves and Edna Turner are in the Domestic Science department; Lillie Camp- bell, Victoria Simpson and Awbrazenda Hen- derson in the Domestic Art department. All of them are making good in their respective departments. After leaving the school we visited a dramatic school of art owned and operated by our wee little talkative class dramatist, Willa Dixon. One of the members of Willa’s school who knew Mozelle White, the star economics student of our class, said that she was teaching kindergarten work in Muskogee, Okla. Fine work for our “shining star.” We journeyed from Kansas City to Denver over fairly good roads and arrived at the E Z Garage at five points Friday afternoon. After putting the car up Bob and I walked up town to purchase a few necessary articles. On the corner of 17th and Champa streets was a large white front stone building. Bob’s attention was attracted by the large number of girls working inside. I glanced up at the window and saw written across, Miss Lelia G. Smith, Modiste ; for Ladies Only. The name being very familiar to me, I went in, followed by Bob, and sitting at one of the white marble tables was little Lelia Smith, who owns the shop. Lelia is assisted by Roberta Chinn, who was out at the time we were there. Roberta has been married five years but refuses to discontinue her partner- ship with Lelia. A few hours later found us in Colorado Springs, where we found Geo. Burgin, who is a guide for tourists from Manitou to Pike’s Peak. John Davidson is a civil engineer, be- ing employed by one of the largest construc- Page Eight The Eineolnian