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' ILLOHMET - 1946 Among the many celebrities at the Twilight Room,',' was a former classmate who was recently mentioned in Oddities In Occupations. It was none other than Maxine Kersey, now a tobacco auctioneer. The room hushed as the Master of Cere- monies, Richard Rottman, stepped to the microphone and announced, Your favorite and mine-the famous ventriloquist, Ida Lee Coburn, who, after the show, was to DE the guest of Mildred Paisley, prominent interior decorator. After Ida Lee's most interesting performance, the Master of Ceremonies introduced the Strolling Minstrel Players, who were wintering in the city of Choat, Illinois. We were greatly surprised when we recognized, even underneath his black paint, Virgil Mohr as the Interlocutor. He in turn presented his Singing Mammies, Verna Mae Brenning- meyer and Frances Fuqua, who entertained us with several spirituals. Once more an expectant hush fell over the audience, the lights lowered, and out waltzed The Majestic Mollers, who will be remembered from high school days as Leonard Moller and the former Ruth Cromeenes. This dynamic twosome married to prove that two can live as cheaply as one. Shortly after leaving the club, our cab was struck by another car. We discovered that Emalyn had sustained a broken arm, and was knocked unconscious 1 more so than usuall. She was speedily taken to the hospital in an ambulance driven by Herbert Lynn. She was ministered unto by Dr. Eva Lo Rene Parker, who by now was quite famous as a bone specialist, and whose head nurse was Mabel Dunn, endearingly known as The Pride of Ward B. In the room next to Emalyn was Betty Weaver, who was recuperating from serious injuries received while partici- pating in the naton-wide Girls' Basketball Championship Game. After Emalyn's recovery, we started our rounds again. On this particular morn- ing our work led us to the home of Mary Helen Johnson Brown, who after tending to children and taking in washing all day, decided she certainly needed our pills. During our friendly chat, we learned she had married Lowell Brown, now a poet tand as you have guessed already? of no income. Several houses down the street we sold pills to Maxine Bakehouse, who was doing very well for herself as a violin teacher. To get to another neighborhood we took a streetcar, at which time we saw evidence that there has been a serious manpower shortage-Lawanria Mescher was the motorman, or should we say, the motorwoman. We stepped off the car right in front of Jo Ann Strubinger, who is now an English I, II, and III teacher at M. C. H. S., and she told us that she also had one class of speech correction. About a half block down the avenue, we met a couple of old friends, Ruth Wittig, and her promoter, Thelma Westerman. Ruth said she was now The Lady Wrestling Champion, and that her next bout was to be with Mary Lillian Hilge- man. While chatting with Ruth and Thelma, the postman, Earl Wiedeman, handed Ruth a letter from Edna Mae Harrell, now a directress of one of the world's largest Speech Choirs. Edna Mae's letter stated that Dorothy June Blanchard had become one of her most promising students. Since there was a big rodeo in town, there was quite a bit of advertisement about the square dance that was to be held at Ye Old Red Barn that night. Wild fJohnJ Bill Cummins and his Hillbilly Band, with Wanda Turner, the famous yodeler, and Pearl Hall, renowned bareback rider, were to furnish the music and entertainment. The main attraction of the rodeo was John Flemister, celebrated bull- fighter, who charges the bull-barehanded. In the residential section, we saw a woman busily cleaning her yard, and when we got close enough, were surprised to see that it was Ruth Horntrop, who was at home for a vacation after spending three years as a freshman in college. Ruth told us that Maraline Meinders was one of her classmates, and was well on the way to becoming a successful business woman. It was wonderful seeing our old classmates, knowing what they are doing now. All of the '46 grads heartily agreed that we shall never forget our Alma Mater, Metropolis Community High School.
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ILLOHMET - - 1946 ' Om S ' 74: 7750 On a sunny day in May 1950, three super salesladies, Emalyn Simpson, Joanne and Donna Dean, started out to make their usual house-to-house canvass. We enjoy meeting interesting people, but they don't enjoy meeting us, for we try to persuade them to buy Dr. Quack's Good-for-What-Ails You capsules. Our first stop was at an imposing two-room frame cottageg amidst the waving goldenrod, hanging out her weekly wash, was Mrs. Ben Moran, nee Jean Decker, who told us that Ben had been drafted to take Phil Baker's place on the Take It or Leave It program. While walking down Main Street, one sign in particular caught our attention, HR. La Marr and Sons Drug Store. As we were passing, we recognized the former Mary Maddox, now Mrs. La Marr. We asked about Martha, and were told that she and Mary Frances Scott were now singing with Billy Reineking and His All Girl Orchestra, featuring George Edwards in the Harlem Hop, a new dance sensation originated by Carl Brown Eyes Stoker. Mary reminded us that Slats Swenson, Heavyweight Champion, was defending his title that evening in Madison Square Garden. George Giltner, another '46 grad, will broadcast this fight through the courtesy of Leonard Quint's Quenchy Crackers. Hours later, as we were crossing the street, we were nearly run down by the Baccus Dog Wagon, driven by the great Bud himself. Farther down the avenue, we noticed a large crowd gathering, and as we drew near, we saw a soap box supporting Bonnie Blondie Hart, who was advertising Fool's Delight Peroxide, with a money back guarantee. Getting caught in a mad rush of female admirers, we were forced into Doris Korte's Klothes Salon, whose chief attraction this season is her two blonde models, the Austin twins, Marlene and Marvelle. Marlene was modeling Marvelle's Marvel Make-Up. While looking over this group of richly-clad ladies, our gaze was arrested by an unusual hair style, one that was short and extremely fuzzy. After peering closely, we saw that it was Ellen Ruth Williams, who, upon being question- ed, was eager to reveal that Monsieur William Joseph Cougill iemphasis on the laSf syllablel, promising young hair stylist, originated this coiffeur for her. Monsieur Cougill has recently been employed at Coiffeur Creations, a beauty salon owned by Beverly Cochran. After the fashion show, we began looking for a suitable place to eat, and there staring us in the face was a cafe, Helene Jackson's Home-Cooked Meals. There we saw Rev. Lindell De Jarnett enjoying one meat ball. On our way back to our apartment, we passed a newsstand, owned and operated by Jimmy Weeks, who persuaded us to buy a movie magazine whose cover was bearlng a picture of the Academy Award winner, Lila Jean Taylor, another '46 classmate. On the first page was a very good Write-up about Mary Jo Parker, star of Whistle Bait Follies, now at the Kiddo Theatre, managed by Jim Searles, with his wife, the former Evelyn Kidd, in the box office. There is just one thing wrong with this theatre-just as you get really interested in the movie, Leslie Compton comes through the audience yelling, Popcorn, Peanuts, Candy Bars! No chewing gum! We arrived at our apartment in the Grandstaff Manor just as the owner, Norma Jean, was coming out. She told us there had just been a fire in Apt. 16-B, now occupied by Eva June Lippert, swimming instructress at the Y. M. C. A.g but Fire Chief Robert Horntrop hurried to the rescue and took little time in extinguish- ing it. All during this hectic day of ringing doorbells and having doors slammed in our faces, we were looking forward to having dinner at Margaret Miller's Twilight Room. For the occasion, we dressed in our Parisian models, designed especially for us by Mademoiselle Mildred Dennis, now a well-known designer. Mildred took up this line of work when her good friend, Helen Harrington, joined the Salvation Army. After we were settled in our cab, we noticed that it was one of the many cabs belonging to Charles Hurt: and after careful scrutiny, we discovered that it was Charles himself driving. He volunteered the informaton that Alberta Scott was now employed as his private secretary.
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