Milford Township High School - Reveille Yearbook (Milford, IL)

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To the left IS the firm through which Velma McKee Publlshes the Corn and Hog ournal of Amerxca Accordlng to her theory hogs are not ralsed they make themselves Sometimes I belleve she s right Far ahead you see the c1ty of Cmcmnatl Lucille Stewarts Save Yourself Hospital IS located here M155 Lucllle has presented to sclentlsts the idea that only actxon can cure a person of any malady The hospital IS well equlpped with all kmds of speed and exerclsmg contraptxons Thls hospltal xs qulte a success and will undoubtedly revolutlomze all of meclncal sclence In the distance IS the clty of Chicago The Amerncan Tlddly Wxnks Team composed of three members of your class ts now m action wnth Howard Adwell as manager Frank Bachman and Glenn Gossett have held the publxc ln the palm of thexr hands but Freda Hubner the only woman Tlddly Wxnks player has captured the publlc eye Lets see the outcome of thts contest the stadnum IS crowded It IS now a tue and Freda IS about to sprung her last chip-there If goes right mto the cup She has If the world s champlonshlp There s the World s Fair grounds as one of your classmates IS there we ll have to move to the south and east George Benner IS now a member of Ripley s Oddn torxum representmg the only man who while playlng the trombone can do the snake s Before our eyes IS the Chlcago Theatre-Clyde Bachman s name appears ln the bright lxghts as a tap dancer and he draws crowds from George Raft s performances dal y Moving westward we see Roy Haxton ln Des Moines Iowa ln the business of manufacturing love seats He deslgns them has them made up and trles them out for a period of three weeks three nxghts each week before placmg hls stamp of approval upon them Ghdmg onward we come to the home of ohn Herrlott These vast fields have brought ohn much wealth See the track all the way around the farm He runs every mght not rn order to keep fit but because the place is haunted To your left you see the cnty of Cmaha Vlrgmla Kelley works there She 15 secretary treasurer of the Pa ama Crossword Puzzle Co Our ourney tends toward a close and then we must sadly wend our way home ward but let us not forget Floyd Pltzer and Dorothy Peck Floyd 15 llvmg on a ranch from which he broadcasts daxly as Cowboy ack the Crooner At pre sent he IS trymg to convmce Dorothy that the house needs a lady but she seems to thmk that the younger generatlon needs her worse as she edxts a column for the lovelorn ln the Chlcago Trxbune Oh oh OH' Ohhhl' What have I done to merit these cruel suffering? You ve eaten too freely and indulged too much Who 15 xt that accuses me? It 15 I even I the Indlgestlon Oh Oh' for Mercys sake leave me' And I promxse faithfully never to eat too freely but to exercise daily and l1ve temperately Page I unify ux - ' - et J ' 77 ' ' ' Y Y . . , . . , . . . . . . , ,, . ,,. . . . . . ' v a s ' a . , . . . . , . . 7 7 ' ' Y . . , . . . . . , Y wrxggle. . . , . . . , 7 7 ' 3 , , 3 ' ' IQ J ,, ' ' ff J ,Y x - ' 9 , g . .. . Q! 7 ' , . 9 7 ' , . . , . . , .

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of Lxttle Eva Wllma 1n her excltement made her appearance amxd over whelmmg applause and began talkmg the southern dralect there was nothlng left for Wanda to do but to assume the character Little Eva However thls was the blggest h1t show ever to be presented m Moscow Your class retams tts repu tation for appearrng showy for your classmates have a habit of keepmg their names ln lxghts Now lets journey to crty of Oslo Norway Here at the Umverslty Arch Thompson IS glvmg his famous rnterpretatlon of Irvmgs Icabod Crane You wlll remember the day he made hrs debut ln the Englrsh IV class Travellng across country we arrlve at Stockholm Sweden Thls IS the resrdence of the Swedlsh Match Makers the Dahlqulst Brothers Harold IS a preacher and Frank a jusxce of the peace They first learned how to t1e knots m Boy Scouts Mary Spurgln llves there also for at least a part of the year Marys entrance mto thxs unlque career was lndeed strange One evening Marys father who was mterested ln athletics and who recogmzed a good athlete when he saw one accl dentally snapped on the front porch llght whlle Mary and a gentleman frxend were occupying the front steps Mary whether frlghtened, or just well meaning leaped so hlgh as to establlsh a new record for the hlgh jump rn which event she has represented the U S rn the Olymplcs for several years The Esklmo Vlllage ahead on the Island of Greenland has become of extreme mterest to the whole universe for here one of the senlors of 1934 whom you would least suspect of desxrmg such a cold receptxon IS located The sclentlst, Gayle Fxeldmg has msp1red the people by teaching them how to bulld screntxflcally con structed lgloos how to brush their teeth, and how to manufacture 1ce The natwes have become so enthralled m these occupatlons and are gammg such vast knowledge that these cultural features have gradually spread to Iceland Now let s turn to our own United States and swoop down upon Bear Mountain 1n the State of New York On your right notlce the large farm This is the home of Mary Donaldson owner and manager of the Otis Peters Dalry Farm Thls farm produces a most expensxve and hrgh class brand of cheese but I can t descrlbe the taste to you but I know rt has no relative connectxon with lrmburger Steering down the Hudson we come to the cxty of New York and strange as If seems one of your classmates has come to thxs great metropolls Here Edna Burger rs operatmg a pet hospital where especlal attention IS glven to raccoons Now out past the Statue of Llberty through the Sound to Atlantic Clty where MHJOIIC Grlest has establxshed a tea room on one of the mam thorough fares It rs partromzed by the cream of socxety who proclarm Marjorxe as the hostess supreme Drtftmg across Vlrgmra we are now commg upon Eula Le Sage s Scottle Farm Whlle 1n school Eulas weakness was for the ohnnys and Wllll3mS between the ages of 16 and 20 but now IC s the W1lll6S and ohns from 2 to 4 In Phrladelphxa IS Dewey Cases publxshmg firm To allevlate the necessity of the grotesque spelllng words he rs putting out a modern srmpllfied and revrsed spellmg book rn whxch all the unnecessary letters rn the words have been cut out, bemg spelled by sound only Page Twenty five H . ,, . . . , 7 3 cz - 77 - 7 7 7 7 y - . . . 7 - 7 , . cz ' 99 - - . . , , . . . . . . , ' 7 , . ' 7 7 7 7 7 , . , . , . . . , . , . . . . , 7 , . 7 7 7 - 7 ce 73 , , , J . . . , . . , . , . 7 7 7

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Hatchet Orahon Years ago on these fertlle plams there lxved many tribes of Indlans of which the Pottowatomxes and Kxclcapoos xnhablted thls partxcular regxon As txme moved on these Ind1ans were crowded out by the more progresslve whxtes who knew the value of the rich resources the earth held In an effort to retaln these choice lands they began to malce raxds on the white settlers There was however a frlendly lndlan Chlef Washeuck who warned the whlte settlers of these attaclcs and If was he who hnally succeeded 1n persuading the Indlans and white men to bury the hatchet and have peace For lnstance thls hatchet lay burned ln the ground during whlch tlme Mllford grew to a thrwmg town whose cltxzens soon reallzed the necessity of erecting a separate buxldlng nn whlch a secondary educatxon lnstutlon would be housed Hence ln 1912 when thxs school bulldmg was dedlcated a hatchet whlch had been un earthed m excavat1on was presented to the graduating class of Milford Town shxp Hlgh School wnth the xdea that lf be handed down by each succeeding graduat mg class to those who are expected to carry on as senlors the following year ust as the Stars and Strlpes are symbol1c of Amerrcan ldeallsm so this hatchet represents all that is sacred to the members of the class of 1934 It was entrusted to our care by the class of 1933 and we have strlven to uphold all that IS noble ln thls school It rs wxth great pleasure that l as representatxve of the senior class now place thrs emblem m your hands with the firm belxef that you will put forth great effort to uphold the tradltxons of our school 1n the same manner that they have been upheld by the classes whnch have gone before you Alumm Entertalns Seniors The Semors attended as guests of the Assoclatxon at the annual Alumm Ban quet whlch was held ln the Hlgh School Audltorlum anuary 3 1933 Thls banquet IS an affaxr of growrng lmportance to all who have attended M T H S Each year more graduates come baclc to the scene of thelr school days to meet their old frrends and classmates Thxs year about two hundred Alumni and Seniors were served a delrclous banquet The usual toasts wxth Mr Stephen A Malo as toast master followed the feastlng Mr Brewer a former Prmclpal of M T H S delwered the address of the evemng which was thoroughly enjoyed by all Additional entertalnment was glven by Maxwell Crawford and Edna Burger The ofhcers for 1933 were nommated Presndent V1rg1n1a Dlsosway V1cePres1dent T B Loveless and Secretary and Treasurer Donald C3llCl!1S and were elected Then all attentxon was turned to the grand march whlch started the dancmg which contxnued far into the nlght The Class of 34 will be proud to belong to such a progressive organrzatlon and we xntend to be farthful members of the M T H S Alqmm Assocxatxon Page Twenty xeven . 9 9 9 9 9 . I . . . 9 . J 9 9 9 . . 1 ,J , - . , . . , . . , . . . ., . 9 9 9 ' 9 - - 9 9 ' , . . . . . . . . .