Maroa Forsyth High School - Trojanaire / Maronois Yearbook (Maroa, IL)

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a - ——— ee eee es CU | : . . ' LOWE weak minds of the twentieth century. But his worst sin was in marry- : . ‘ ‘ ° ing Helen Stoutenborough, who makes Otto an ideal wife. And Helen said she hated to give up John, but after he had married another, she only had one course—hence Mrs. Otto B. Gray. Now Otto is janitor of Maroa High School. . Ruth Malone taught school until she lost most of her teeth and couldn’t talk very plainly, and now has become a public lecturer and gives such lectures as, ‘‘Who Shall Be Kine—Husband or Wife?’’ Of course, she’s an old maid, but she ‘‘does have’’ some rather good ideas of the subject Eva Martinie, president of her class in 1914, committed the fol- lowing sins: Stuck the Senior in front of her with pins; also wrote notes; tore them up and put them in the roast box. After her term as president expired she played the piano in Powers’ Grand Opera, and now she is a wholesale milliner in Emery. The record ran on that William Miller, with another Senior, stole the teacher’s German sentences, also spilled ink on the floor of the eighth grade room. Later he stole a heart belonging to Ruth C and now William is manager of the Cupid association in Maroa. ister Shields, our ‘‘Sunbeam,’’ came next. She tried school teaching and dissatisfaction with that profession caused her to do the unusual with old maid school marms—she married! She didn’t real- ize that she was ‘‘jumping from the frying pan into the fire.’? Alas! for Kster. Her married life was a ‘‘disaster’’ and now she is mistress of a poultry farm down in Alabam’. When St. Peter’s finger came across the name of Lucile Shipley, his brow darkened. ‘‘Suech a disappointment,’’? he muttered to him- self. ‘‘As valedictorian of her class, we expected most wonderful things of her, but it seems that after she left the benign influence of M. H. S. her number of sins increased and the final blow came when she was caught stealing apples on a dark and stormy night in J. H. Parker’s orchard. Now she has been relegated to the lower world to shovel coal for the fiery furnace.’’ ‘‘Hasten on quickly, St. Peter, for | am so anxious to hear what has become of our long lost editor-in-chief, Earl Sigler, to whom we were always accustomed to give first place in all things. I suppose he has become a veritable Jupiter by this time—King of the Gods.’’ ‘‘Hold on, you are muchly mistaken there. For a time it seemed as if he would be an BE. H. Sothern, but while playing the part of ‘Shylock’ in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ he became involved in a ‘pound of flesh’ affair and as a result he was condemned to death for threat to kill, the prosecuting attorney being Verl Stallings, who won much fame in this case. Earl was shot to death at sunrise. And now his spirit wanders in Purgatory looking for material for a vear book to be designated ‘The Plutonian.’’

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Senior Class Prophecy Purgatory something like twenty ¥ +] : més yr paane ; é , , . -al’s f earthly sins, 1 finally reached the ‘ Pearly Gat, to After remaining 1 cleanse MY record of of that “Celestial C And here my curiosity plucked up courage tae celestial record and § low, Reluctantly he it all sunshine. ’’ 3 Glancing down the record, which was in alphabetical form, | en. the name of Ruth Adams, who had been so shy and modest aa High School, and that one day in 1914 she had come to English fn class without her lesson. She was recorded as having come to | III with the translation written out in her book. Worst of all chat a eiven up the idea of teaching school and had gone to Utah and bec - a Mormon, and had married Cyrus Young, who already had re, wives. But Ruth has outlived them all and is still livine—chief | of Mr. Young. 5 08% Next was found the name, Mark Brown, marked with a heavy dark line, and I asked St. Peter to explain the meaning of the line. “ Ah he said, ‘‘I always put that under those for whom we have no hones Read on, please.” And I found that Mark had marri wii young lady of the Senior class, but had lef - Sea 2, Seen girl in the country named Eva ut had left her two years later for a ; ed Kva ——. Afterwards he had deserted her and run on the Progressive ticket for eee ed for pe: ee Mutual Telephone Co, eter Now he wort erna Fort annear to be Misiitodeeee et ee ad the list. Her sins were: Failure lone to parts unknown iT rae and in 1915 elopement with a Mr. Ma- patent medicines, such as ley had later turned up in Australia selling the largest trade es the ee “i rm and bunion cures, and now they have the United Siatea’alans World, for they have ninety million patients i! ry Chen came Ella Grady 7 3 49) to which after some doubt I was iq, -°3” its to I Was admitted so natural on earth) got the best of me asked St. Peter to allow me to look , oo ee how my classmates had fared in the oe, the consented, saying as he did so, ‘‘You’J] ae ( ee Purgatory for a rege the record showed that she had bee! se she had kept tw years for the redemption of her sou! On the edge of a Wo young men (Wakefield and Stoutenborous!! them by Marryino lervous prostration for two ye: abe 1 then foole’ After her or Bernard Me as In the Tyas. © Came + capt he had Pe Agricultural one Gray, who had become a profess” ermManenoy 4 silo and it had ege, but had lost his position em V of Illinois Soi} fallen down, Also his thesis 0” on, , Was too deep for comprehension bY 0

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ames ot Anthony Stoutenborough ‘¢Why thus?’’ |] ea c lect, ww a St P ( . et came the 1 ounded by parentheses. rarried and went as missionaries to Utopia, but a f ? a ( iged their minds and now Anthony writes And his devoted wife warns eo JuTAases him Then Wikoff sult “Oh, they later they chal ten-cent magazies. ood work. Slowly and sadly s+ Peter closed the ‘ Golden Reeord,’’ he did so, ‘‘ Too had for such a splendid class ve Aa SaVing ag failures, and of them lAVe SO man thanked my stars that dom of Heaven. ey My Years Mes foy In his all you are the worst.’’ Then, oh! then it Many é an | Ww: ch as | at least I had managed to creep into t] QO 1e Kj Ing Senior Class Yell PINK! WHITE! STRONG! We are, we : . eae ae are SIENIORS; Alp: Zah! Zeen! Nineteen-Fourteen! i Zip! Zah! Zeen! Nj - Nineteen-Fourteen!