Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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PAGE TWENTY-SIX IFmilmum QUaaa OMrera President Fred Conrad Vice-President Stanley Chandler Secretary-Treasurer Katherine Hobbie Historian Florence Logan I Student Council Lawrence Burch Motto- With the rope of the past, we’ll ring the bell of the future. Flower— Red Carnation. Colors — Orange and Black. (Elaaa iRnll Beebe, Eunice (deceased) Hall, Marjorie Mills, Ora Brown, Oswald Hardy, Irene Mills, Laurie Burch, Lawrence Harms, Doris Nagle, Ira Burns, Vera Hess, Roy O’Connel, Violet Butterfield, Gertrude High, Ernest Peterson, Beulah Bydalek, Edward Hobbie, Frank Porter, Gertrude Chandler, Stanley Hobbie, Kathryn Searls, George Chatfield, Ray Jensen, Emma Seavey, Henry Chatfield, Roy Jensen, Elizabeth Shaffer, Harry Clawson, Mabelle Kinney, Andrew Simonds, Opal Conrad, Fred Kinney, Myron Tharp, Otto Conrad, Martha Kurtz, Ida Tomas, Frank DuMontelle, Lester Lamport, James West, Fern Farmer, Robert Lanoue, Roland Younglove, Arthur Gilliland, Ida Logan, Florence Hilsenhoff, Leslie Hall, Hazel Mills, Hazsl

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PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT Freshman Prophecy URING the score of years which have passed since I was a Freshman in the Momenee High School, the United States has made wonderful progress along many lines. Among the modern conveniences is a sort of biographical atlas for each county containing a brief record of the achievements of each person over thirty years of age, a sort of a moral and historical “Bradstreet,” as it were. These volumes are kept at the state capital at Springfield. While visiting there, an insatiable desire to discover the whereabouts of my former classmates led me to peruse these weighty volumes which were stored away for the edification of future generations. Robert Farmer, now a representative in the state legisla¬ ture, gained me access to the library containing these prec¬ ious volumes, and to my great delight, I found the names of all except two of my former classmates; Andrew Kinney, who is in Africa selling mittens to the natives there, and Henry Seavey, who had taken up his abode on an iceberg near Greenland for the purpose of making detailed study of sharks and other sea animals, thus demonstrating the great promise he gave as a member of the Zoology class in the High School. I found recorded the following glowing ac¬ counts of the other members of the class. Lawrence Burch, despite the attractions he seemed to have for a certain Sophomore girl, is still a bachelor, and an admiral in the U. S. Navy. Vera Burns, following her natural bent, is working in a curling iron factory. Ger¬ trude Butterfield and Gertrude Porter are teaching in the Philippines, and Edward Bvdalek is a chef in one of the popular New York restaurants. Ray Chatfield has suc¬ ceeded Mr. J. E. Melby in the undertaking business, while Roy is cruising around the world in his yacht, on his honeymoon. Maybelle Clawson and Feme West are great musicians, and are at present performing in the Chicago Opera. Stanley C handler is engaged at all favorable times in testing out different motorcycles and trying to win a prize in some race. Martha Conrad and Lester DuMontelle are running a restaurant together at the Log Cabins. Hazel Hall is a dashing Chicago widow, and Marjorie is the principal of the Momenee High School. Irene Hardy is a missionary in India. Leslie Hilsenhoff and Otto Tharp are in the army, and Kathryn Hobbie and Arthur Younglove are movie stars. Everyone knows about Elizabeth Jensen, since she has just been elected suffragette governor of Illinois. Emma Jensen is stenographer to the president, and Roland Lanoue is a second Caruso. Myron Kinney is a ranchman in California. Ida Kurtz and Hazel Mills are trapeze climbers in a circus. James Lamport is a modern farmer. Violet O’Connell is a milliner, and George Searls a barber. Harry Shaffer is proprietor of the consolidated dry goods company of Momenee, while Beulah Peterson is a clerk in the ribbon department of one of his stores. Frank Tomas is a mechanic living in Kankakee, and Roy Hess and Oswald Brown are a pair of adventurers, now in Egypt looking at the different mummies there. Laurie Mills lives on a farm in Kentucky, and Ora is a matron at the Illinois Orphanage. Doris Harms and Opal Simonds are models in Marshall Field’s store, Chicago. Fred Cemrad is the editor of the ‘Momenee Daily Sun.’ When I had finished reading what I have here told you, I was very proud to have been one of the class of ’19. Florence Logan.