Lincoln High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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NK' QV HS A.. 1 6 l, A1'thur Thomas, leave my various Sweethearts to next year's HCappyH. l, Lowell Lee, will my reserved seat o11 the honor roll to Thorton Blue provided he doesnlt leave the seat vacant. And lastly, to our wo1'thy housekeeper, llr. lvilkinson, we leave the stray pennies he finds on the study hall floor. Sworn and subscribed before lna john- son a11d lVendelin Ball, notaries. Our term expires lllay 23, 1926. - Class Prophecy IRST, l will introduce myselfg l am a penny, and on my face is the date of 19.4.5 and since this is the year 1950 you see l have been in circula- tion five years. During that time l have gone thru many hands and made many pilgrimages, of some of these l will tell you. ln 1945 when l first came out of a Li. S. lllint, bright and shiny, the first person l saw was Donald Hitchcock. On listening l soon learned that Donald was chief boss over the lllint and was direct- ing the whole affair. After much handl- ing l was stacked up with many others and taken to a large ofhce. lVhile here l saw many famous men and women. Un one occasion the president and his private secretary, La lllar -lones, came to the ofliceg on another th1'ee of the cabinet members: Secly of lVar, David Heimg Secly of Navy, True Stoutg and Post- master General, VVendelin Ball. But very soon l was se11t to a bank in Chicago. The President of the Bank, Lowell Lee, first unwrapped me but before l was handed out as change Cecile Beagles, Beulah l1'win and Leona Price, clerks, and a g1'eat many other hands handled me a great many times. Qne day l heard some one whisper here comes Gerald liaill the great radio king. They say hels made millions of dollars with his radio factory and is now one of the wealthiest men in Chicago, and look, the one on his right is Harold lllartin. the noted brain specialist, and the other is Welcoriie Snyder, the greatest criminal lawyer Chicago has ever known. Before five minutes had elapsed l was 28 handed to Blr, Hall as change and soon was going a1'ound over Chicago safe in the depths of his pocket. lllr. Ball stop- ped in at a famous studio to see some old friends and, behold, who was there but The Lackey rllwinsfl Stars, Hal Hoham. director of the famous Broadway Ragg- bonesw orchestra and Robert Brown, Chi- cagols most noted -ladies' dancing master. The next day l was handed to a clerk at thc famous Arlington Hotel. l lay still awhile in the cash drawer but after a while began to stir and peep out of the key-hole. l hadn't noticed until then that the clerk was Olen Albert. Late in the day l was handed to a wealthy stock and poultry dealer Glenn Baker and was soon on my-road to New York. Before reaching New York llr. Baker stopped at a pretty little tea-shop which had a sign like this above the door, lVelcome lnn. Callie and Lillie O'Dell, Proprietors. l was handed over in payment for a lunch, and for many weeks took a reit, One afternoon a party of tourists strolled into the tea-room and sat down. Callie came behind the counter and cried, 'lSay, that woman with the light knickers on is llrs. Leonard Clizbe, and the other is Hlrs. Edgar O'lieefe. Alewel a11d -luanita made a success alright didnlt they?l' lt was then that l rolled over and be- gan to listen to the conversation of the tourists. l gathered from their talk that they were going to New York to see some old friends appear in public. That evening the famous Prima Donna, Bernice lllor- combe was to appear in a Broadway theatre owned and operated by Clifford

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'XXI' K iv -U.- ---v f 19 'H G yvewyf -' A 6 I, lvendelin Ball, will the study hall to anyone who wishes to serve detentions in the small, wee hours of the morning. I, Eldon Babcock, leave my stand-in with the commercial teachers to Porter VVhaley. I, Glen Baker. will 1ny copy of How to Become Popular with the Ladies to Court Illorris. VVe, the Bixel brothers, Harold and Omer, will our ability to play andy-over on the basketball floor to ,lohn Logan and John Heimbaugh. I, Rebecca Cook, will my soft and re- fined voice to Gertrude Blue. I, Victoria Crum, will my bookishness to Violet Schlosser. I, Pauline Falconbury, will my honor sweater to Opal Graves. I, Verda Garl, will my everready com- pact to ,lane Gibson. my guarding I, Edna Beatty, leave ability on the basketball team to Cather- ine Dunlap. I, Cecil Beagles, will my ability as a typist to Bee Reeve. I, Juanita Clizbe, will my inexhaust- ible supply of postage stamps to lllary ,lane Knott, to be used only on letters going to C. ll. A. I, Alfred 'Boys, will my seat in Bill Schlosser's car to anyone that gets there first. I, Dulcia Hewitt, will my copy of Handsome Illen I have Captured to Alice Vvenzler. I, Ruby Hisey, will my excess height to Carol Bryan. I, Robert Brown, will my extra Palmer certificates to Rollo Underwood. I, Vincent Fisher, will my ability as a soda jerker to Ted lXlcLaughlin. I, lllargaret Hurford, will my forward- ness to Rosamund Huff. I, Tom Fries, will my angelic expres- sion to Paul Howard. I, Ina Johnson, will my ability to lead yells to Freda Stansbury. I, Henry Grossman, leave my trusty motorcycle to Illiss Gauld, llliss lllilner and Bliss lllosher, so that they can make the rounds among the schools more easily. I, Francis Knepper, will my superfluous height to Helen Chaney. VVe, Annabelle and Clarabelle Lackey will our positions on the basketball team to the Kladden twins. I, lllary Lidguard, will my ability to escape detentions to Elton Gordon. I, Donald Hitchcock, leave my musical ability to llaurice Leffert. I, Hal Hoham, will my presidency in the athletic association to Edwin Barker. I, llay KlcVey, leave a package of Golden Glint to Lois Cummins. I, La Illar -lones, will my artistic abili- ty to Sanford Jacox. I, Bernice Illorcombe, will my famous contagious laughter to Fern llcliesson. I, George Kennedy, will my quiet ways to Dale Glass and Harvey Hampton. I, Alice lllusselman, will my ability as a speaker to Gail llyers and Bill Schlos- ser. I, Clifford Logan, will my motto, Early to bed, early to rise, to Forest IXlcLaughlin. IVe,, Callie and Lillie O,Dell will our love for athletics, shows, and dances to Illary Thornburg. ability to I, Harold llartin, will my manage school affairs to Flmer Anderson. I, Ernest Illathia, leave my get byu to Hap Iflrich. ability to I, Bertha Perry, will my ability to get out of school early to Paul Stout. I, Leona Price, leave my sense of mod- esty to Frances Keillison. V I, lllamie Rohrer, leave my sunny dis- position to Ruth Suter. I, I'Velcome Snyder, will my ability to sleep in the auditorium to Illarcus Gretter. I, Jewell Shaffstall, will my rosy cheeks and beautiful complexion, together with a bottle of witchhazel to Dorothy Taber. I, Ruth Steele, leave several sticks of gum to Pauline Turner. I, Helen Tanner, will my position as assistant Home Economics Instructor to Nina Cook. I, Florence Tomlinson, will my mag- netic personality to the P. H. S. girls in order that they might attract basketball players.

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'NX f Q51 -U.- 1' V' ' 19 yrfaf 26 Logan. Also during the week Rebecca Cook, expressionalist and musician was to appear. And then who shouild walk in but a group of nurses, namely iXIamie Rohrer. Alice lviusselman and lVIae lNIcVey, off for a dayls rest. They all began to talk of the class of IQZ6 and P. H. S. so I lea1'11ed that Helen Tanner was an instructor at the North VVestern Collegeg that Alfred Boys was the owner of the largest newspaper in the U. S.g that Victoria C1'um is a dean in an Ohio collegeg that Ruby Hisey is running a chain of Beauty parlors in Columbus Cityg that hIargaret Hurford and her husband were making a fortune on a large dairy farm in Illinois and that Ina Johnson was operating a large ranch in VVyoming and had every good looking cow-boy in the west at her serviceg and that INIrs. Yarrell Girten, formerly Ruth Steele, is back from her trip to Ifurope. VVell, I didn't leave that day-but the next Qmer Bixel and his famous XVorld's Champion Basket Ball Team stopped in. and I was handed to him as change. Omer toild his crew that he was going back to Plymouth to see his brother Harold, now mayor. So after a few days' travel I landed in Plymouth. Omer went into the Columbia Candy Kitchen now owned by Vincent Fisher, and left me there in payment for his soda. lN'Iany days later as I lay in the cash drawer I heard Vincent reading aloud an account in a oBston newspaper how IXIiss Yerda Garl of that city, formerly of Plymouth, had been elected National Sec- retary of the Y. YV. C. A.g also about lXIr. Albert Anderson, famous boxer, de- feating Jack Dempsey in a boxing feteg and of Bertha Per1'y's latest novel just off the press. That same day I heard hIiss Edna Beatty tell that she was teaching a class in Etiquette and fancy dancing at the High School. The next week I was handed to a little boy and was soon again on the street. The boy stopped on the street corner where a young Salvation Army man was preaching and singing. The boy dropped me in the hat as it was passed and instantly I recog- nized the young man Ernest IlIathia. For weeks I passed about from hand to hand until one day I found myself in Henry Grossman's hands. Henry was a salesman for Ford cars and that very day was driving through South Bend in one of them at about 20 miles per hour when he smashed into a hearse. Both drivers crawled out and there stood Art Thomas. Art said he was a South Bend undertaker now and that he liked the work only that it was a dead job. VVhile they were standing in the middle of the street talking, George Kennedy, in a cop's suit, walked up and invited them to go on. Some how that same week I found my- self in Pauline Falconbury's purse. Pauline was now a politician. Forthwith she took me to hIary Lidgard's dress shop and bought a new dress. I do not know what happened for months. But one day I found myself back in Chicago. This time I went to a very wealthy home. Frances Knepper was in this home serving as private teacher to the children. Very soon I became aware that there was a very hen-peeked husband some where in the house. I had no idea who he was until one day as I was about to be carried out of the house I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure and recog- nized Eldon Babcock. Eldon sat musing aloud and from his soliloquy I learned that Eldon had been married five times and this trial has p1'oved no better than the others. That he was absolutely broken hearted and the only joy he got out of life was serving in his capacity as janitor in a great business building where he met and flirted with all the pretty clerks and stenographers. Incidentally I learned that his favorite stenographer was employed by lXIiss Florence Tomlinson, the president of the Chicago Telephone Company. XVell after passing through all this ex- perience you see I am now an old batter- ed and worn off coin. I have been sent back to VVashington to be put in a hot- hot fire and melted to nothing. But be- fore I go to meet my doom I'll say good- bye to one and all.