Lula High School - Reminiscence Yearbook (Lula, OK)

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'If ,.Q. DI 1 SR UN CLASS PROPHECY WALL 'TIS NOW THE YEAR OF 2009. ITS BEEN A- BOUT 69 YEARS SINCE I LIVED AT LULER. I AM A GETTIN PDRTY OLD THEY SAY. THEY CALL ME HOLD MAN HILL.H IT WOULD SHOR SOUND GOOD FOR SOME ONE T0 CALL ME JAMES ONCE MORE. EVEN MY WIFE VIRBLE CALLS ME HOLD MANU. SHE AIN'T A YOUNG CHICKEN HERSELF. WE MARRIED IN I949 DIRECTLY AFTER MY GRADUATION, SHE IS 77 AND I AM 78. I WANT T0 TELL YOU ABOUT A TRIP ME AND MY WIFE MADE TO LULA HERE WHILE BACK. SHE WANT- ED T0 SEE ER DLD HOME PLACE UP ON BULLY CREEK KNOWN AS UDADDY CAPPS RANcH.n WE TOOK THE FIRST TRAIN OUT. VIRBLE FORGOT HER SNUFF, So SHE STARTED NADDIND ME AT NOTHING. I WAS SNDozIN AWAY WHEN ALL AT ONCE I HEERD A FELLER YELL, PoP CORN! PEANUTSI CANDY! GUM! I LOOKED UP T0 SEE MY OLD cLAsS MATE, CHARLEY FRANKS. HE IS BIG AND FAT. HE TOLD ME HE AND JOYCE BROOKS HAD BEEN MARRIED FOR 50 YEARS AND LIVE IN A HOUSE CLOSE TO THE TRACKS AT TUPELO, WAL WE FINALLY READHED LULA, AND BEAT IT ON UP T0 HARDENA GROCERY T0 CATCH A RIDE OUT T0 THE OLD PLACE. WE SAW DORIS SWEATT WAITIN A- ROUND ON SOMEBODY. SHE HADN'T EVER MARRIED BE CAUSE HER FELLER WAYMON LILLARD HAD 9 HUNTIN' DOGS THAT HE WOULD NDT PART WITH, AND SHE HATES DOGSD WAL WE FINN.Lv cAucHT A FELLER IN AN OLD, RATTLE TRAP. JUST FER PERLlTENESS'S SAKE I ASK HIM WHO HE WAS AND L01 IT WERE OLD J.E. WOOLY HE HAD MARRIED ROWENA LAFEVERS AND THE WAY I HEARD IT HE DIDN'T EVER D0 NO WDRK. JUST SET AROUND AND PLAYED HIS GUITAR. UORA JOHNSTON HAD MARRIED WILLIAM HILL. THEY HAD THIRTEEN CHILDREN. DORA WAS TAKEN IN WASHINGS AND WAS PDRE AS A WHIPPER WILL. I HAD A REAL sooo TIME VISITING THEM THOUGH. WE TOOK THE NEXT TRAIN HOME AND I'M HERE T0 TELL YOU I REALLY HATED TO LEAVE THE OLD GROUP JUST AS BAD AS I DID BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF '49. I WAS REALLY GLAD T0 SET BACK HOME , ANYWAY, FER THIS SORTA THING IS BAD ON AN OLD MAN'S BONES. I KINDA BELIEVE VERBILE WAS GLAD TOO, CAUSE SHE AIN'T N0 SPRING CHICKEN. N! I 0' 'U ' X lo

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:IEE I , .,.f,3jJF'i,- ' '---...,..Thg - V6 . X ii- 4:5 'ea CLASS WILL I, JOYCE BROOKS, DO BEQUEATH MY ABILITY TO GET UP AT 8:30 AND GET T0 SCHOOL AT 9:00 TO MY SISTER, MARY, P.D.Q, I, JAMES HILL, D0 BEQUEATH MY ABILITY T0 G0 T0 SDPHOMORE PARTIES T0 WAYMON LILLARD. WE, JAMES HILL, J. E. WDDLY, AND CHARLEY FRANKS D0 BEQUEATH OUR ABILITY TO PLAY BASKET- BALL TO COACH HOKETTIS PRDDIGIES IN THE FORM or WILLIAM HILL AND WAYMON LILLARD. I, J. E. WOOLLY, LEAVE MY ABILITY T0 ARGUE WITH MRS. EMMERSON TO WILLIAM HILL. I, CHARLEY FRANRS, WILL MY SCHOOL GIRL FIG' URE TO NDRMA JEAN HARBIN. WE, JAMES HILL, J. E. WOOLLY, AND CHARLEY FRANKS D0 BEQUEATH oUR ABILITY T0 THINK UP EX- cuSEs FOR GETTING DUT or DEMOCRACY PERIDDS T0 ANY PERSON WHO CAN BEST USE IT. I, DORIS JUNE SWEATT, DEQUEATH ALL THE SLIGHTLY USED GUM UNDER SEAT NUMBER I IN THE FIRST ROW or THE TYPING RooM T0 wHoEvER SITS THERE NEXT YEAR. WE, J, E. WooLLY, AND CHARLEY FRANKS,D0 BE' QUEATH DUR FAVORITE SEATS IN THE OFFICE T0 WA- YMON LILLARD AND WILLIAM HILL. WE, JOYCE BROOKS AND CHARLEY FRANKS, DO BE- QUEATH OUR LASTING FRIENDSHIP T0 VRIBLE CARP AND WILLIAM HILL. WE, DORA LEE JOHNSTON AND JOYCE BROOKS DO WILL oUR MATRIMONIAL SUCCESS T0 MARY BROOKS AND NDRMA HARBIN. I f is : I X I