Marine City High School - Mariner Yearbook (Marine City, MI)

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-nufilufuu, L 1 L, -ni? uni'-ninfnufnnir nu:-nninnfnii nu :nf un Y Y Y n uh n- 1923 THE MARINIUR 1923 -nniinu nn f Y nu unfuiivuiifnu- mi .nn uufuufnnf nn1mi, 1 L in u ::- Dante again settled down to work and in time found that Mildred Heatherington had been the owner of the XV. li, Fillem Co. during the Golden Age of moving pictures. Sarah Bean was the owner of a rival company, bearing her name, which later combined with Mildred's company. The combination of VV. E. Fillem with Bean's raised the moving picture play from the commonplace to the epic when they, starring Katherine Bowers, produced that classic, The Lost Fish Line in one reel. The scenario for this play was written by Edith Hopson. the editor of the Pacific Monthlyf, a leading literary magazine. She received her early training for this work as literary editor of the Mariner when in High School. Bernice MacDonald's High School work helped her also, for it was the training that she got in Mechanical Drawing Class which laid the foundation for her later success as an architect of air castles. XYalter Baird had gained fame in an altogether different field, the football field. The International Correspondence School team was piloted to victory over the All American team by Walt, who played as quarter. However, he declined all credit for the victory in favor of jack Dickinson, who had coached the team, when interviewed after the great game by the sporting editor of Marine City Reporter, Beulah Tedder. The Editorship of this influential publication had fallen to L. Z. Mitchell, and he was largely responsible for making it what it was. This paper, with the vast interests controlled by Leda Shaw and Anna Laura Baird, helped to make Marine City the metropolis of St. Clair County. Besides being a large stockholder in the Penny Prudential Bank, Leda had a controlling interest in the leading fruit importing company of that section of the county, The Hamand Egg Co. Anna Laura Baird started life as a chemist, but on discovering the formula for milk, she branched off into the milk business. Until her death at an advanced age she was still sweet sixteen and owner of the Consolidated Dairy Co. of Marine City. Katherine Vallier was another member of the class who contributed much toward the improvement of the home town. She entered politics and is remembered chiefiy because she secured a gym. for the High School. She was opposed in this by Fern Smith, who, because of her gift of eloquence. had been the walking delegate of the Crapehanger's Union, having been elected to this responsible position almost without opposition. One of the most important legal battles of the century was fought out in a court of Marine City before justice of the Peace Calvin Diem. This was the case of the United States vs. the notorious Pie Trust. This case attracted great attention and much comment. but the defendants, Leona Saph and Pearl NYarner, were finally released chiefly on the testimony of Roy Stark, the chief pie sampler for the Trust. ' Pagc 7-'IvL't'llfJ'-f01U'

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-Illl Illl IIII Y ml nu im nn un ml un--nu un nu lm nn nnTnl 1 Z I, IN, ,In ml.. 1923 THE MARINER 1.923 CLASS PROPHECY J. C. MILLER In 3000 A. D. Dante reincarnated was making a second trip through the Great Beyond for the purpose of obtaining material for another Divine Comedy. VVhile on this trip, he of course went into the great hall where the records of all the people who have lived on the earth are kept, and, as he had previously gone through the Hall of Fame and noticed many names there with Graduate of M. C. H. S., 1923 under them, he decided this would be a good time to look up the records of those people. Previous to about 2000 A. D. this would have been impossible, but in that year Katherine Warwick, who had been an efficiency expert on earth, installed a spirit card indexing system which left nothing to be desired. This system was explained to Dante by Katherine herself. In doing this she showed him the records of Aleda Peterson and Bernice Stark, who gained great fame for themselves by settling in a series of debates that world important question, VVhen is a Doughnut Whole? These debates were preserved for posterity in book form by the Normal Mitchell Pub. Co., at 31.75 per copy. As Katherine had been of the class of 1923, she was able to give Dante a great deal of information not in the records concerning its members, and the following brief account of them is taken largely from what she told. When Dante found that writing poetry did not pay, he turned his epic, the Divine Comedy, into a comedy of that name to be a successor of the Follies Consequently he was interested in actors, so first looked up the card entitled Ingram, Harry. From this he learned that Harry had been one of the world's greatest actors. He was so moved by admiration that he resolved that when producing his Divine Comedy of 300l, he would try to find a leading man most nearly like the immortal Ingram. Among the things thata Dante noticed while scanning Mr. Ingram's card was that he had gained his fame in the Folkerts circuit of theaters, owned and operated by Hazel Folkerts. Hazel had started life as a dancer but had risen to a position as high in the show world as that of P. T. Barnum, Another person who had gained fame and fortune in the theatrical world was Arthur Zimmermann, who was known while in the dancing profession as Rubegolf Vaseleno. Shortly after he found these interesting facts, Dante was driven from his investigation by what he took to be the approach of a hurricane or the end of the world, but was able to take up his work again when told that the disturbance was only the weekly practice of the Ouellette Heavenly Harp Orchestra. Before returning to Earth, Dante had an opportunity to see this orchestra and came away greatly impressed by Violet's angelic bearing and the beauty of her wings. Pagr' Twenty-tlz1'ee

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-nn nn nn f uu+nu fun nnkunr im--ini-turf imfnn im nn 1 f T ...:f.... - .1923 THE MAIHINER 19.93 -un un in 2 nn :inf-un nn iiu--,,,,,.,.,7m. im Hull... 1 T -W E inn :mf - Dante noticed that it was quite late but that the illuminating system of the place kept it as light as day. 'When he asked her about this, it was explained to him by Miss XVarwick. She said that it was made possible by the work of two members of the class of TZS. joe lXIiller, working with Volney Jones, who finished the project, harnessed all the heat which had been going to waste in the Inferno and used it to produce electricity to light the stars with. Helen McMullen gained a place among the great leaders of the world when she became commander of the Salvation Army. The members of this body claimed that she was the fulfilment of the old Bible prophecy, And a little child shall lead them. Helen was greatly hindered in her work by the opposition of Aubrey Kirclmer, the great pacifist, who opposed the Army on the grounds that it was too militaristic. The card of Everett Thomas interested Dante particularly. ln l956 the country was again saved when Everett was elected to the presidency by the Radicals on a platform of equal rights for men. ln the bitter campaign which preceded this election, the Conservatives were led by Thelma Long, who was opposed to making any more concessions to the men. The new president was congratulated by the King of lreland, Hazen Langell. Hazen, with the help of Easton Kirclmer, had seized the power during one of the revolutions, and in return for the aid given him, he made Easton an admiral in the Royal Irish Navy. Everett also received the good wishes of Milton Hunt, the recently elected governor of Alabama. His election was a surprise to all and was accounted for by the fact that he had gained the colored vote by distributing free, just before election, vast quantities of hair straightener of his own invention. Harold Bulgrin became an inventor and reformer. After perfecting a device which eliminated the necessity for steering street cars, he entered upon a successful campaign to have Fords shortened so that more of them could be run on the roads. ln doing this he rendered a great service to society in general and to Clayton Parker in particular, for it enabled Clayton to sell more gasoline and become the gas king of his time. After reading the records of this remarkable class, Dante decided that the character of its members could best be summed up in the immortal words of Shakespeare tor was it some one elsej, They seen their duty, and they done it noble. Page Ttwlzfy-fiifc