Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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T II E O K I» II l : I s Upon entering Crescent City, California, (at break-neck speed) John politely stepped forward and commanded me to slow down. He was chief of police in this town. I inquired as to Zella’s whereabouts. He said they were living on 22nd Avenue and she was conducting a millinery shop. Would liked to have visited them but did not have time to tarry. After reaching San Francisco, I spent a few days there that I and my horse might rest. I was certainly pleased with the beautiful scenery between this place and Long Beach, where my journey came to an end. Grace was overjoyed to see me and welcomed me to her home in the suberbs of this city, where she was conducting a small chicken farm. We have decided to make our home here together and expect to live happily as retired teachers with no crying children and male characters to boss us around. Nevertheless we hope to meet our schoolmates as I met them before and yet again I have a strange feeling that I would like to see the boy we used to call Blondy, and a faint idea that I will return to Port Orford and help polish agates ever after in the largest jewelry store in the west. And, Oh yes! Last night when everything was still, Grace, being in a reflective mood, confidentially told me that she had a longing for old Coos County and that she was thinking very seriously of returning in the near future to help manage one of the largest drug stores of the county situated in the now prosperous city of Powers. TWELVE

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY In January of this year, 1925, being tired of teaching, I decided to take a trip with my horse and dog. After traveling through the mountains for a day, at dusk I came to a small farm on the brow of a hill. A man was feeding a couple of mules near the road. I stopped when I neared him and asked if I might stay all night. He was very courteous and taking my horse, asked me to go into the house. As I neared the building I met two white haired children whose features seemed familiar; and upon entering the house was surprised to find Abbie, one of my old school-mates. She and Endigo wished me to visit them for a week but in the morning I decided to continue my journey. The next day by a brook in a small valley I chanced upon a camping party. They asked me to eat lunch with them as they had it already prepared. Who would this be but four more of my old class-mates, Harry and Audrey, and Ervin and Annie, who were on their way for a camping trip at Bandon. My I was surprised, for who would have thought that these couples would tie up. Three days later I was on the beach at Port Orford and found some very nice agates. These I took to a shop in the city to have ground; I asked for the owner as I wished the work to be done well. To my astonishment I was introduced to Floyd, another senior of the past. He was (head over heels in money) and asked me to stay there and share his lonely life, but I had my mind made up and decided to travel on. I went to a blacksmith shop to have my horse shod before leaving, and who was swinging the hammer but Larry He did an excellent job, for my horse still wears the shoes. In Gold Beach my pet dog became very ill and I inquired for a veterinary. I was directed to the office of the best one in town and there I met Roy. He speedily cured my dog and would not charge me a cent. ELEVEN

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Can You Imagine Elton if he couldn’t talk? Verle Johnson going down the street with six girls on April 16? Roy without his pipe? Nola without her Bark? Gladys with her shorthand lesson? Helen without her powder? Flentge Perkins not a lady’s man? Hazel Neal an old maid? The Senior class not quarreling? Lawrence Machado a preacher? Cub Adams with his hair parted in the center? Floyd Walker not in a hurry? Floyd Wimberly smoking a cigar? THIRTEEN