Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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Twenty THE MONESSE 1921 MARGARET HOBART (Peggy) Momence, 4 years. Play (2) (4). President (3) “A girl Y. B. (3); B. B. Capt (4). “A girl with a winning way and lots of pep.” THEODORE JOHNSON (Cotton) Momence 4 years. Ag. Club (3) (4) Letter man Foot Ball (4) “He who blushes is not quite a brute. ” RUBY ROSS (Rub) Momence, 4 Years. Glee Club (3) (4) Operetta (4) Play (4), “Seek and ye shall find trou¬ ble. JESSIE GREENAWALT (Jess) Momence 4 years. Member of Glee Club (4) “Quiet and unas¬ suming, but always on the job.” GENOLA WALKER (Gen) Momence, 4 years. Mem¬ ber Glee Club (3) (4) “Here’s a chance for an argument.” ERNEST HARDY (Ikey) Momence, 4 years. Vice President Ag. Club (4) ; Secretary- Treasurer Athletic Association (3); Letter man Football and Basketball (3) (4). “The gravity and stillness of your youth the world hath noted.”

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THE MONESSE 1921 Nineteen LILA KENNEDY (Lila) Momence, 4 Years. Student •Council (1) (3); Editor Year Book (3). “She works when she works at other times—full of the dick¬ ens!” HARRY HUNTE (Honny) Momence, 4 Years. Sec- cetary Ag. Club (4); Student Coun¬ cil (2) (4); Letter Man Basket Ball (3) (4); “He’ll make a first-class farmer if the girls don’t get him.” RALPH M’KINSTRY (Ralph) Momence, 1 Year. Treas¬ urer Ag. Club (4). “He hath a face a benediction.” GLADY WARD (Gladys) Grant Park—1 Year in M. C. H. S. “Great modesty often hides great merit.” ALMA HALL (Alma Jane) Momence, 4 Years. Member Glee Club (3) (4) Oper¬ etta (3) (4) Historian (3) Society Editor of Year Book (3); Play (4); Author Senior Will (4). “Laugh and the world will laugh at you.” LAURA MARTIN (Laura) Momence, 4 Years. “Of a free and open nature.”

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THE MONESSE 1921 Twenty-One The Senior Class Prophecy The courtroom was as quiet as a church. The judge, Mr. Theodore Johnson, sat as stiff and digni¬ fied in his trailing black robes as the position de¬ manded. The jury sat immovable. Judge Johnson rose majestically and addressed them in a sonorous voice. ‘‘Gentlemen, we are assembled here for a very serious reason. Mr. Ernest Hardy, an aviator of more than ordinary fame, has been indicted by Po¬ liceman Harry Hunte for violating the traffic rules. He landed his machine on the wrong side of the Milky Way. His defendant, Lawyer Ault of Pump¬ kin Center, says that the crime is perfectly excusable, as the accused slid on a banana peel. I have called together as witnesses a number of his old classmates, in order that I may hear your sentiments, and that you, gentlemen, may hear their testimony.” At that, he gravely called out the name Mrs. Hardy, and sat down. I became interested, for I had often wondered who was the lucky girl. Mrs. Hardy, whom I recognized as Laura Martin, rose and testi¬ fied with many tears, frequently calling out to her husband in endearing terms. After her, Gilbert Mussman stood up, and, as the prosecutor, gave a brilliant oration on the reasons why Hardy should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Judge Johnson then called on Mr. Cooke, a pro¬ fessor of astronomy at Harvard University. I was rather surprised, but when I remembered Cooke’s penchant for star gazing on moon-light nights, I eas¬ ily accounted for it. Albert Hunte, a head waiter in a large restaurant in Chicago, testified as to Hardy’s excellent reputa¬ tion in his old home town, and even told of his bas¬ ket ball record during his High School days. Margaret Hobart, a member of Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties of 1930, and her husband, an un¬ dertaker, were ushered in. After an expectant pause, the doorkeeper announc¬ ed the arrival of Mr. McKinstry, originator of the famous “McKinstry Wild and Wooly Freak Carni¬ val.” He stalked majestically in and took a seat beside Lorraine Wiltse, who, I afterwards heard, was now the austere leader of a delegation picketing the White House, for the abolition of dancing “in any manner, shape or form!” Alma Hall, still a school teacher at Edgetown, rose, at Judge Johnson’s bidding, and told of Hardy’s unusual ability to run the Bijou Motion Picture The¬ atre, in the days of his youth. Lila Kennedy, seated next to Policeman Hunte, whom I understood was her “better half,” had been a member of the Follies, dazzling her audience in general until she dazzled Harry in particular. Marie Kinney was among those in the assembly to testify. She and Jessie Greenawalt had just returned from a tour of Europe, and were planning to set up bachelor apartments in New York eventually. Alice King, with Bernice Davis as a helper, was at the head of an orphan asylum, as proof whereof she led in a frail little specimen, following meekly in her wake.