Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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THE MANUAL, 1920 . , J, 1. ' A ' ,Q A. lf?-1 14.,. I i 'P?iil'2f. T he Garment Workers, she continued, had a strike in Pekin last week and you should have seen that parade! Ruth Goldstein who was dressed according to the rules and regulations of the New Thought Clothes Association of which she is preseident, led the pro- cession. just behind her in a big red Ford were Norma Singel and Irene Beeney, secretary and treasurer of the association. On foot wer, Laura Brunner, Flo Claspell, Goldie Fendrick and Rosalia Flesner, each carrying an appropriate banner. Bringing up the rear were Flora Hoffman, Margaret Joyce, Elizabeth McFarland, Alice Meyer and Lucille Hendren. Three mounted policemen attempted to break up the parade and who do you think they were ?-Shorty Cobb Witschi, Stew Waldron and Howard Watkins. But when they recognized their classmates they allowed the parade to proceed. Have a mint, Alma, said Buck. I must tell you whom I saw in Chicago last week. Joe Checkers and Louis Moscove. They are running a Used Clothes Emporium on Michigan Boulevard just across from the Art Institute. Did you know that Ray Knuth bought the Art Institute for a studio and that he was recently jailed and heavily lined for exhibiting his latest masterpiece Venus at the Pump'? Don Brown was judge at the trial and Lyman Brown, State's Attorney, so there was small chance for Ray against the Brown combine in spite of the fact that joe Yuhasz defended him. Yes, replied Alma, I saw an account of that in the New York Times. A good many of the old class are in Chicago. Anna Hill and Muriel Lockwood have a Beauty Parlor in the Maurice Goldberg Building at Thirty-First and State Streets. Kurt Goldberger, who is their advertising manager, wrote the present' popular song entitled, If I Break My Fiddle, Will I Starve to Death? Clarence Barr runs the 19th floor express elevator in the Goldberg building so that he can be near Dorothy Finney, who presides over the Uripless hair net counter on the 19th Hoor. Paula Flach, Rose Adams, and Hazel Peterson are Maurice Goldberg's private secretaries at present, but I heard the other day that Paula is seriously considering committing matrimony. Oh, I could talk for an your about what the bunch is doing. Well, go ahead, said Buck, 'Tm perfectly willing to listen. All right, here goes, said she, as she took another mint. Carl Haelifner runs the Lone Bone Meat Shop on South Washington Street and Whitey Wolfram is his butcher and Eddie McGurk is chief sausage maker. Oh yes, and Howard Brehm is their delivery boy. By the way, Henriette must be the same as always. I read in the paper just

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333 ,Y THE MANUAL, I9Z0 .T - u ,. 'W mf Clllass nf '20 Em Bears lawns Oh look at the classy man! ejaculated the blonde clerk as Jac- quin's door opened one day in 1930 and a tall, handsome man with graying temples and a Van Dyke beard walked in. The man stepped up to Mr. jacquin and the blonde clerk Cwho was no other than Alma Olanderj heard him say Is Miss Olander still working here? Buck Wilson, I do believe! cried Alma, rushing to the front- Well, well, Alma, you haven't changed a bit, said Buck, laying his yellow gloves and gold-headed cane on the counter. How are all your folks? Oh, you wouldn't know the old place. I'm living with Maizie in South Bartonville and the place is run over with cats. Maizie is raising pedigreed black ones now. The Cone Angoras were failures, so she turned to black cats, sadly answered Alma. Have you seen any one of the old class of '20 lately? inquired Mr. Wilson. Well, I guess, Alma smilingly replied. HMaizie buys her Kon- densed Kream for Kultured Katz from Karl Kasjens and sometimes his chief engineer, Frank Stringham, delivers it. We haven't heard anything from you, Buck, since l925 when you were here demonstrating your combination ball bat and tennis racquet. Where have you been all the time? Alma asked. Oh, I've been everywhere. I toured around the world last year. I met Mary Applegren and Hattie Myers in Peking, China, and Margaret Harms in Vladivostok. They are doing Y. W. C. A. work said Eugene, swallowing another cough drop. By the way, Buck, did you know that Reeda Eibeck married the manager of the Knox Inn? You'd never know her now. In spite of the fact that she spends half the day overseeing things at the Inn and the other half singing at the Jefferson, she weighs 220 pounds, said Miss Olander. It doesn't seem possible, said Buck. Is Doris still in Clover- dale? Yes, she has a model fruit farm now. She invented a seedless raspberry and she has a corps of experienced farmers to help her, including Warren Stewart, Leo Scott, Ralph Ojemann, Prentice Nibblin and jacob Butsch. Gertrude Dudash, Hilda Pfander and Ruth Sudenga live across the road from Doris, where they raise leg- horn chickens. The nine of them have some lively times together, I understand, the blonde sweetly informed Mr. Wilson.

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gf w e 1 qgffsf w E g g. , THE MANUAL, 1920 .3 , . Li? 3-5 :2 ,... Q N J, last night that Miss Henriette Seeba, Dean of Smith College, was to give a lecture at Bradley on some such subject as Man and His Place. Ben Harris is editing the Pottstown Morning Milk. He has a staff of reporters consisting of Howard Hoffman, Carl Hartwig, Howard Richter, Charles Toms and Clarence Whitheld. Thelma Duncan and Ruth Vauters run a millinery shop at Pottstown and conduct the society column for Ben. Irene Gilbert, Olga Schweinbold, Freida Habbinga, and Helen Walters are trafhc cops in Pottstown, Kickapoo, Mossville and Jubilee, respectively. Well, this is interesting, chimed in Buck. 'AAfter ten years Walter Wichman is still a persistent pursuer of Jennie, but she holds him at arm's length. Joe Wilke succeeded his father on the school board and he has given jobs to Clarence O'Dell Bill Hoppel and Lincoln Walker as janitors at Manual to succeed Jack Newsam. William Miller is running a feather foundry at Quill Street and Walt Stein is busy sorting feathers. Soft job! Alan Ruch and Horace McCaddon are running a bakery. They roll in every morning to loaf on the job-but they get the dough. I think that takes in about everybody in the classf' I believe it does, answered Buck, And I'll have to shove off if I want to catch the next aerial express for Arkansas. Glad I saw you. Give my regards to Maizie and the cats, Tom and jerryg they must be pretty old by this time. Good-bye Buck. Drop in again some time. When you get settled in Arkansas I'll have Maizie send you a cat, she called after him as he made a hurried exit. ' Alma Olander, Paula Flach, Buck IfVils0n. QUIT GOSSIAPING. There is so much that is bad in the best of us, And S0 much that is good in the 'worst of us. It hardly behooves any of us, To talk aliout ihe rest of us.