New Lexington High School - Lexingtonian Yearbook (New Lexington, OH)

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Bertha Beckett, the aforesaid golden-haired wife, will preside in the kitchen and dairy, and will always wear a contented smile. Judge Greely, formerly known as “Red,” will hang around musty-odored, tobacco-spattered court rooms, making them shine with his eloquence and hair. Minnie Love will continue in her loving ways, until a certain Mr. Curry decides to take the fatal plunge in the matrimonial sea. Joe Braddock, having completed his electrical studies, will become famous. H. S. pupils of 1967 will study Braddock’s Law, instead of Ohm’s. The poet of the class will be Mabel Rinehart, who will discover her ability in her thirty-fifth year, and each month will send enough manuscripts to the editor to keep his fires going. Grace Trout will finally get caught by a certain angler who resides in Zanesville. He writes: My net is love, and it will not break; And your heart in it I soon will take. Mr. Strosnider will continue in his painful business and will continue to relieve people of aches, pains and money. Audrey Kinsel is doomed to be wealthy. She will acquire it by running a hotel. A German nobleman will claim her and take her to the Old World, where she will end her days. Our beloved Professor Van Atta will serve so well as County Clerk that he will gradually rise to the exalted position of Governor of Ohio. He will be honored, and bring honor to the class. Alveda Wallace will join the Red Cross Society and minister to the soldiers, and be as attentive to them as she used to be to a certain person “From” Somerset. I, Hathmar, having revealed to you these secrets, assure you that they will be fulfilled as foretold. “Here endeth our first lesson.” —CHAUNCEY RIDENOUR, 13. 19

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SENIOR ( LASS PROPHECY I, Hathmar, having searched the secrets of the revolving planets at the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune, proclaim to you certain hidden truths. The N. L. H. S. has reached the zenith of her glory. She will never in the future graduate a class that will rank with the class of T3, the star class of all history. As the pupils make up the class, so the individual characteristics, as a whole, will determine the future for the class. Glenn Park, the curly-headed boy, will learn the tinner’s trade, and at the age of thirty fall from a high building and suffer the loss of his egotism. Ethel Sycks will, at the tender age of twenty-two. become a member of the firm of ------- Co. Paul Wolfe| the second E. A. Poe, will finally become unbalanced and end his life traveling the road to and from Somerset. Mae Leach, the society editor, will choose teaching as her life-work, and will become a famous expounder of the A. B. C’s. Warren Donnelly will pass the time away sitting around on the hilltops, gazing at the heavens. He will not idle his time away, but act in the capacity of a weather prophet for Uncle Sam. Helen Lewis will fret out her life trying to find an antidote for “Blue Monday. Errett Le Fever will serve eighteen years as supervisor of Bear Run, and later be elected Congressman by the “Ruffneck party. Eugena Quinn will become an instructor in domestic science at O. S. U., and many savory odors will issue from the kitchen under her supervision. Charles Elder will be a pharmacist, and a good one. He will fill prescriptions that will cither kill or cure—invariably kill. He will die suddenly, and on his monument will be inscribed the following lines: “Maxie” has departed for the better shore, For what he took for H20 was H2S01. Enid Spencer will, at the age of forty-seven, become the President of the United States. The first one under the suffragettes. George Brown, having completed his college course, will settle down on the farm and, with the help and encouragement of his golden-haired wife, will raise corn that will average two hundred bushels per acre. 18

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the class of “N. L. H. S., ’13,” being of sound mind and memory do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by us at any time heretofore. First—We order and direct our executors to pay all our Commencement expenses as soon as possible, and our many debts of gratitude to those that have helped us reach the desired goal. Second—We give and bequeath to our teachers our many thanks for the patience they have had and for the advice and help they have given to us in the past years of work. Third—We give and bequeath our desks and seats, together with our pleasant room, to the Senior Class of 1914, our worthy successors. Fourth—We give and bequeath to Superintendent Pemberton all of our examination papers as a token of respect and also as a sign of the hard work we have had in their composition. Fifth—George Brown and Chauncey Ridenour give and bequeath their studious habits to the most popular boy in the Junior Class, who shall be a model for the other classes to pattern after. Sixth—Grace Trout, “the baby” of the class, gives and bequeathes to some Junior her desk, which is beloved by her on account of its location near the window, of which she makes use to throw her chewing-gum out when she sees one of the teachers looking at her. Seventh—Erret Le Fever, Paul Wolfe and Glenn Park give their knowledge in agriculture to some of the Juniors who expect to be farmers. Eighth—Mabel Rinehart and Helen Lewis give and bequeath to any Junior, who is most deserving of them, the many talks they have received for cutting-yp in German. Ninth—Warren Donnelly and Joe Braddock give and bequeath to any Junior, who has the ability, their power of playing detective. (?) Tenth—Mae Leach gives and bequeaths to any of her successors her ability of reciting in Physics, especially when her book is on the teacher’s desk. (?) 20