Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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J U N I () K Y K A It H 0 0 K . Her plitin(Jv cry may at all times be heard echoing down the cor- • i i ») 11 Which shall I take?” 44 Oh, which shall I take?” A negro has just reported that the trestle work on a bridge I recently built has been burned by the natives, and I must give orders for its reconstruction immediately. I hope in a few months to join you in the States, but till then adieu. The same old Rexererunt. That is the letter, and I may as well tell you that Rex is risking his life every day down there, but he gets an enormous salary, and is known to be the best civil engineer in all the world. CLASS DAY PROGRAM . PHILOMATH IAN HALL , MAY 22, 1905. PART I. Duet ......... Roude d’Armour Georgia Bennett and Virginia Tabler. Advice to Undergraduates, ..... Stella Dwyer Recitation . The Village Singer . . Hallie Selby Vocal Solo . The Shoogy Shoo . . Lola Vane Class Will . . . . . . . . Jessie Garrett Presentation of Class Presents . . . . .Jay Garrett Pinna Solo.Miss Drais PART II. MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH. Scenic I. Sunday Morning at the Wiggs’.—The Sunday Dinner. The Sunday School. Scene 11 . Christmas Eve.—The Christmas Basket. SCENE 111 . Ready for the Show. Scene IV, Mr. Bob and the Wiggs Family at the Restaurant. Scene V. Mrs, Wiggs at Home. The Christmas Lady Comes to the Wiggs’ Home. Scene VI, The Broken Leg. The Benefit Dance. CLASS DAY . Notwithstanding the fact that the program in the preceding column was given in the Philomathian hall, to reach which one must climb live Mights of stairs, a good sized audience greeted the class of 11)05. The weather was not such as would induce the dubious to venture out; and for these and other reasons which made it difficult- to reach the cabbage patch, the class feel grate¬ ful to their many friends for their presence. The program was well given, and the proceeds enabled the class to make the last payment on their class memorial, a fifty-six dollar program clock. After making this payment, and paying all expenses, the class have left sufficient to place on the clock a sil¬ ver plate bearing the names of all members of the class.

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JUNIOR YEAR HOOK. JUNIOR PROPECY. By J. Porch Kelsey. I know you will all be interested in a letter I recently received from an old schoolmate of mine. Doubtless most of you remem¬ ber him. He is now a civil engineer in a little town lately sprung up at the mouth of a river in the wilds of South Africa, and is the founder of that town which, for some reason or other, he named “ Burgess. This letter, with many apologies to Rex, I will now read you that the rest may enjoy knowing the fate of the glorious class of ’06 : Burgess, Lulabalo, A. Nov. 1, 1928. f My Dear Dumnergetericks : It was with great pleasure that I received your favor of the 12th ult., but I am surprised that you have lost track of the class¬ mates you mention. Even in this trackless wild I have managed to keep informed of their whereabouts and will do my best to enlighten you. Of course you know that Will Hanson is distributing hymn books to ungrateful savages a few hundred miles from here, but you probably don ' t know that he passed through here lately and supplied me with the latest news concerning your classmates. Serena Johnson, the head deaconess inNiamona recently wrote to Will that she would send him a valuable assistant in the person of Lucille Fish, who after much deliberation, finally decided to join the ranks of those self-sacrificing martyrs who give up all in life for the sake of these ignorant, absolutely untamable savages. I am surprised at the number of your class who have chosen that as their life work, for that forbearing spirit was certainly not evinced in the old days at school. Irene Buckner has followed out the line of that suggested by her repeated election to the leadership of class affairs, and is now president of a young ladies ' seminary in Hoboken, New Jersey. Emma Pittman, much to the surprise of many, has evinced a will of her own and adopted the stage as her profession. Her beautiful voice has been cultivated and she nightly startles thous¬ ands by the magnificence and brilliancy with which she renders that dear old song, “ Any Rags ? Frank Cleary is also a famous member of the musical world, and is celebrated far and wide as a composer. Though the leader of a large orchestra in New York, he finds time for other work, and his compositions bid fair to outrival those of Mozart, Hayden and others with which you and I, as members of Miss Crail ' s music class, are only too familiar. When Mamie Halpin took up the making of stump speeches | in Washington] in the interest of woman suffrage, I was greatly surprised, for I had always supposed that she intended to wash milk bottles as her vocation, notwithstanding the fact that her sisters declare the washing of even one at home was done under protest. (Of course her fate is already known to you.) I am very glad to tell you of the brilliant record which has been made by Delbert Ralston. As good electrical engineers as he are very few, and the fact that he is conducting work in Pan¬ ama in the interests of the United States government, speaks highly to the credit of the old High School. Nina Fish is the Official Stocking Darner in the Momence Orphanage and is said to be kept busy, for the population of Momence is now about sixty thousand. In one of the papers which Will left me I read an account of a wonderful pianist who was then creating a great sensation in London. Audiences were moved to tears by the depth of feeling expressed in her renditions, and she had been invited to play before the Court. The artist was Marguerite Durham. My only sad narration I ' ve kept to the last. The fate of Floye Brown brings sorrow to all our hearts. It seems that under the great strain to which it had been subjected, her mind finally gave way and her days are now spent in the asylum at Kankakee.

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JUNIOR YEAR ROOK FIRST M. E. CHURCH