Markleville High School - Arabian Yearbook (Markleville, IN)

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1, y -Q1 if I 1 the town of Lockwell, North Dakota. I packed my belongings so as to be in readiness for the journey. The next morning I awoke feeling like a young man. I boarded the 5:30 train and after a few hours travel I landed in Lockwell, a town of about 15,000 population, located in the heart of a large farming district. The first thing I noticed when I got off the car was a large sign on a telegraph pole on which was stated: Flint County Fair, July 26-31, at Lockwell, 'the farmer's city'. This being the 26th, of course I was just in luck. After getting my breakfast, I started out on the hard day's walk that always goes with a fair. Everything of the fair nature was to be seen from the Palm Reader to the Motorcycle Hippodrome, but of all the attractions, the live stock and poultry exhibits were the best. All the time I was seeing the :sites I still had in mind to keep a watch for any member of the Class fo '26 that might be present. After seeing all the outside attractions and the live stock, the poultry exhibition was the last thing to go to see. As I walked through the pavillion I was soon attracted by an exhibit of about fifteen coops of White Plymouth Rock chickens which seemed to have about all the prize ribbons going. I viewed these remarkable fowls very closely as I passed along. As I came to the end of the row, whom should I see sitting there on a camp chair but Bennie Stinson. He told me that these White Plymouth Rock chickens were a few of a flock of tive- hun- dred chickens he now owned. He also explained to me how he had opened the lock to Success in the poultry business soon after he graduated from M. H. S. I then well re- membered that he had the Golden Key to the lock when we were studying Animal Hus- bandry in High School, After leaving the poultry building, it then being 5:45, I went back to tihe hotel where I ate my supper and rested about an hour and a half in order to be ready for the night session at the Coliseum. I left the hotel at 7:30 prompt, and in fifteen minutes I was comfortably seated in the Coliseum. The main feature of the evening was a lecture on Why We Should Get An Education, by Miss Mabel Padgett, Dean of Women at the University of Illinois. I soon saw it was the same Mable Padgett that was a member of the Class of '26, After the lecture and while I was still sitting there watching the livestock parade through the Coliseum, a lady of the old maid type came in and seated herself beside me. We soon commenced conversing as old friends and we soon found out that we really were, for it was Josephine Ebbertt. She told me that she had lost all trace of our dear class members but three, Mae, Helen, and Myron, and related the following concerning them: Myron Hayes, whom we knew better as 'Muss, is now one of the best dentists in the State of Indiana, located at Pinhook. The last time I saw him he had just given a man's grinders the twice over with gold, enamel, and the forceps, and I overheard him say his bill was 375.00 I guess Myron took up this occupation as his life work in order to help people have correctly shaped teeth without wearing the braces as he once did. Mae Dehart, whom we better knew as Red married the good looking Mr. l- after ten long years of successful courtship. They are now located at Peoria, Ill., where Mr. --1 is the chief electrician in the City Garage. VVl1en I last Qvisited them the red headed little - were four in number, making things merry for their happy parents. Helen Norris, after a disappointment in a love affair declared she was through with matrimony and established a beauty parlor at Detroit, Mich., where I am going some of these days to get the wrinkles removed. As for myself, after graduating from M. H. S., I attended Butler College where I graduated in 1930. After breaking my engagement with the Pendleton young farmer lad, I resolved to settle down and live a life worth while. I am now an old maid school teacher, have a well furnished room, large rocking chair, a lamp that smokes, a cat that meows, a parrot that swears and a dog that growls, so I don't see where I would have any use for a husband. After she had finished her story, I related the following about myself: After graduating from M. H. S., I took a four-year course and graduated from the Case School of Applied Science as a first degree Electrical Engineer, This proved to be very interesting Work. Three years after I took up this occupation, I married, my wife of course needs no introduction, and we now own a nice home near Muncie, this being about the center of where my work is located. After bidding Josephine good night, I returned to the hotel, packed my belongings and the next morning boarded the train for home with the thought in mind that my vacation had been well spent without the least doubt. HAROLD G. KELLER. 1926

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v- . ' -14 -:saw I 33' 7 in :JUNIOR CLASS Left to Right: First Row-Thelma Williams, Carrie Hartzell, Helen Lewis, Esther Lewis, Luanne Justice, Enid Rosinfeld, and Mildred Gale. Second Row-Forest Stickler, Robert Rector, Arthur Shelton, Mr. Ewing, Fred Markle, George Early, and Olen Dudley. 1926