Milton Union High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Milton, WI)

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, 4 l A THE GOLDEN ARROW 17 XVhitewater. There was now only one fellow that Hill had not told me about and that was Babbie! VVhere is George? I asked. Rill's face grew sad and the tears came into his eyes as he answered, Balm fell down under the post office in front of the barber shop while trying to tie a tin can to a dogls tail and was fatally injured, way back in thirty-three. I went back to my quarters on the section. I was glad that I had done so well to keep up with my class and I felt quite contented with my lot. H. lu. '18. TRUE SAYINGS I':of. Uren in Physics Class: It takes 1000 seconds to do that work. Let's scc-that would be about twenty hours. wouldn't it? tXYould it?J Prof. Uren, reading names of pupils who had been absent, and had not brmiglit excuses,-And yes, I think Leo Vickerman also has one back. tllas he?1 And what is so rare as a day in .lune A poet once warbled his lay. Why our High School Orchestra playing in tune Is rarer by far than that day.

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E 16 THE GOLDEN ARROW SENIOR PROPHECY It was the year of 1942. For twenty years I had been engaged in my noble work to such an extent that I had neither seen nor heard anything of Milton. My labor had been the art of helping make possible the passage of trains-in other words, working on the section. My home had been in Palinyra, but as my line of work went east I had had no time to visit my old home town. But now my section boss had done me the honor of giving me a promotion. He said he was going to send me to Milton to juggle baggage. The first person I saw as I got off the hand car at Milton was my ex-class-A mate, Anna Fuder, delivering a lecture on probation in the village park. Having a half day off I went over to the schoolhouse. I went upstairs and looked in the door but the pupils all laughed at me and the principal grabbed me by the collar and told me it was no place for Dagos. He was only about four feet high and I could easily have handled him, but he looked familiar and upon investigation I found that he was Hubert Roy. He refused to recognize me until I had cleaned up with the assistance of the janitor whom I found to be Clyde Arrington. He greeted me condescendingly, and I found that he had cast his lot for better or for worse with Ruth Babcock and that they were happily situated on College street. As it happened to be the day for rhetoricals, L'hesty invited me up. There were only twenty-eight pupils in the High School and I saw that there was only one number on the program today which was a by Ikey Hudson. Ile informed me that this was XYalter's son. While jenny Summers played the Missouri Waltz on the piano, Ikey did the family honors to a perfection. On the corner I saw a large store having a sign upon it which said Beer and other soft drinks, Hudson and Burdick. Prop. I entered and saw Bill seated on the ttoor tinkering with the slot machine. He knew me at once and wanted to know what I was doing there. I asked him where Hud was, but he said he didn't know. 1 asked if he knew what became of the rest of our class. He said yes, he could probably tell me anything that I wanted to know. Leo Vickerman was run- ning his father's far1n outside of town. He had married Irma Rice. Cleone Bingham was his hired girl and had been for the last ten years. She seemed never to have married and was quite contented with her culinary duties. Clara Sunby, Alice Yincent and Loretta Vickerman had all been disappointed in love and had retired with broken hearts to a convent. Alice Mathie, Irene Clark and .lessie Burnett were Red Cross nurses and had been ever since the war with Germany. Doris Babcock was teaching chemistry in Milton College. Bill told me that if I would stick around, .lessie Post would be in that even- ing and dance for the beneht of the customers. just then a man poked his head in the door and asked for old rags. It proved to be Bill Summers and he said he was making big money collecting old rags and iron between Milton and

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