Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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26 The Monesse Senior Class Will We, the Senior Class of the Momence Community High School of the city of Momence, in the county of Kankakee, and State of Illinois, being of sound minds, memory and understanding, do make this our last will and testament in manner and form following: 1. To the Juniors we bequeath our trials and tribulations in selecting our invitations. Also our seats on the north side of the Assembly. 2. To the Sophomores we bequeath our past glories in publishing the Year Book. 3. To Goldie Goldberg we bequeath Fred Bydalek’s surplus gray matter. 4. To Marcell Hall and Betty Clark we bequeath the favorite retreats of Donald Chipman and Florence Hayden. 5. To Myrtle King we bequeath Harold Price’s ability to please Miss Dahl- quist. 6. To Gertrude Shronts we bequeath a ten-ride ticket to Exline. 7. To DeWayne Mills we bequeath Andrew Pedersen’s gentlemanly decorum. 8. To Luck Yates and Buster Brassard we bequeath a bottle of soothing syrup in hopes that it will help in their numerous spats. 9. To Ruby Gray we bequeath Vivian Whiting’s newly discovered “pep.” 10. To John Hufty we bequeath the sum of one dime so that he may purchase a new shorthand notebook when necessary. 11. To Armen Blanke we bequeath Harold Mussman’s monopoly on Florence Chandler. 12. To Mr. Munson we bequeath the love of all hookey-ites. 13. To Miss Coontz we bequeath Ijunia’s red scarf in case she should lose hers. 14. To Mr. Schmitt we bequeath a parrot for the Main Assembly that is guaranteed to say, “Be careful of your seats, please!” 15. To Ruby Lamport we bequeath Virginia Adams’ ability to attract the op¬ posite sex. 16. To Lola Tinney we bequeath Lois Wallace’s “setting up exercises.” 17. To “Wop” Kennedy we bequeath a nev pair of No. 13 rubbers. 18. To Virgil Denton we bequeath some of Horace Carr’s “gab.” 19. To Miss Hardy and Mr. Hungerford we bequeath Frank Van Zant’s “Les¬ sons in Courtship.” 20. To Helen Cole we bequeath Beulah Rasmussen’s shingle bob. 21. To Mr. Baker we bequeath Dorothy Pederson’s ability to see a joke. In witness whereof, I have hereby set my hand and seal this twen ' y-fifth day of March A. D. 1924. (Seal) JOSEPHINE WENNE HOLM. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above Josephine Wennerholm, as and for the last will and testament of the Senior Class, in the presence of us, who at their request and in their presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. HALLIE KENNEDY, (Class Old Maid). ANDREW PEDERSEN, (Class Fool). LYMAN PEARSON, (Class Giant Glass Blower). MAXWELL WARD, (Class Romeo). “Could any judge probate the above?”

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The Monesse 25 ersen had nearly met death from laughing too much, but was now recovered and was in politics on the Suffrage ticket. Wishing Harold luck in his campaign, I embarked for New Yoik, where I looked up Donald Chipman. He and Florence Hayden had carried out their mat¬ rimonial intentions, and they and the seven little Chipmans were living happily out in Greenwich Village. They told me to be sure to see Earl Clawson when X vent through Paris; that Earl was consul to that city. I embarked for Europe on the air liner and arrived in Paris twenty-four hours later. I looked up Earl Clawson and he showed the sights of that city to me. We saw together the Follies Bergere and here we had a surprise, for in the chorus were three of my class, Ellen Burton, Hazel Kile and Leona Sharkey. Having; been in Europe the last five years, Earl had heard little about the class, ut said that George Sergeant had been in Paris a short while back, having in¬ herited a fortune, had gone to Monte Carlo and lost most of it, had decided that America was the place for him and gone back to the farm. Of the rest of the journey little needs to be said here except that in Rome I ran upon Hallie Kennedy and Marie Renstrom getting material and romantic at¬ mosphere for a novel they were writing; that in the Mongolian desert I happened z meet Frank Van Zant, who was now a missionary to that country, and through . irections from him met Lyman Pearson in Tokio, Japan. Lyman had written a :ok which made him enougjh money to rest easy the remainder of his life, so he was killing time by traveling. In a fashionable cafe in San Francisco I met Jessie Wyatt, who owned the i .ace. She had; started as a waitress, worked up to her present position. In Hollywood I visited the studios of the film star, Pearl Buckman, who now owned ner own company. She informed me that Elva Landoc was running a school for girls in Georgia and that Faye Gardner had married an Italian count and was living in Venice. Leaving Hollywood I reluctantly turned toward home to write this account f my journey and classmates, which I now humbly submit. “Isn’t it fortunate that all of the above is bunk?”

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I e Monesse 27 “A fellow who is easily rattled must have a screw loose somewhere.”— Henry Hanson.