New Madison High School - Owl Yearbook (New Madison, OH)

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I went on home and told my cook about the accrdent and that I would have to eat wrth her alone She was a nrce lady whose name was Phyllrs She told me how odd her last name was but sard rt used to be Halderman Here I had my cook several days before I knew she was one of my old classmates Phyllrs told me that her husband was dorn mrssrorrary work 'Ind slrc cooked for busrness men durrng the sunrmer lor pr rc trcal cxpcrrence as she taught home economrcs at Mramr Unrversrty I vrsrted my factory several trmes and Mr Grrle sard that wrth hrs modern ma chrncs he would have rt done wrthrn a few days except for the parntrng whrch he couldnt do I made an apporntnrent wrth a painter who I heard advertrsed over the radro could parnt any burldrng rn town wrthrn two hours He had a small trarn runnrng on a track around the burldrng wrth a parnter rn each car who gave the burldrng a coat Thrs was somethrng new and Mr Slorp was the only parnter rn town who could handle t When I wrote hrm a S2 000 check for hrs work I found he was the same Gene Slorp that I knew rn school Machrnery was all ordered and bought for my factory but rt couldn t run without electrrcrty I asked my nerghbors to recommend a good electrrcran They told me Earl Schlecty was the best rn town so I went to hrs home to see hrm about wrrrng my fac tory Whrle we were talkrng a lrttle grrl walked rn and asked Could I have a precc of candy Grandpa' I told Mr Schcler ty that this lrttle chrld looked lrke a grrl I knew rn school Her Dorrs walked rn the same grrl I krrew oxer thrrty years ago When Mr Schlecty sard he would send several men wrth wire from hrs large storehouse I remembered that he was the same man who starte.l a small erectrrcal shop on old Marn Street The next day I checked my ad rn the newspaper announcing the openrng of my factory In a column close to mme was another advertrsement reading New brcycles wrth radio heater and free wheeling attached have just arrrved at Bakers Brcycle Shop I copred the address and went to see hrm and I was correct rt was my friend Donald Baker He told me that he and hrs brothers owned a brcycle factory rn Rrch rrrond and he sold them rn hrs shop He saw my ad rn the paper and told me if I wanted good flocks to trme my employees I should go to the clock company next to hrs factory rrr Rrchmond I took Mr Bakers advice and radroed a bus to Richmond I walked rnto the huge burldrng the Gartrell Clock Co and asked to see the owner The clerk sard he would call Davrd Yes rt was Davrd Gartrell the same fellow who tore apart hrs Benrus and mme too every day rn study hall We had an enlrghtenrng conversation and after orderrng my clocks I took a walk through hrs factory to see the many patented wat ches he had One whrch rnterested me most was an alarm watch whrch burned your arm and then threw water on rt to awaken you A few days passed and then Dr Cox phoned that my wrfe could be released from the hosprtal Trred of rrdrng taxres I bought a car from Dowler s Auto Sales and took Phyllrs my cook for a lrttle rrde before gorng after my wife My factory was now nearly frnrshed and my wrfe and I decrded to have a large celebratron before openrng rt I thought of havrng a prrvate party but who could I rnvrte I knew only a few around New Madrson srnce I had been gone so many years and most of those I remembered were old schoolmates of mrne Say that was a good rdea why not rnvrte all my old classmates rn school name was Doris Wills. Earl flipped his glasses and said that was his wife. Just then Pugc Tn :tx

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ffl, As I walked lnslde the door I notlrcd a board of ten bush buttons one bLQldQ the name of each archltect I studled the tell nanees and Il0t1CEd they W9l all VS lley and of course I kllew thls vxas W'1lex and bons I pu hed one butt H1 xxlluh 11d R J Wlley Presldent and hls QQCICIHIY walked out and took lle to 111 IOUIII IJ ICS o vxonoen and alrplanes drexx my Bttelltlllll to the xx all 1nd I knexx he xx IS th sal lC D1cl1 Wlley 1 knew ln school Aftel a mee talk he sald my plans xx ould be d13V!ll tht next da lhe next IIIOFHIIIS x1h1le xxe xxmlc litlll ble1k11st a man 1 11111 11111 1-mx l us tr patronlze 1115 ddlly Ile lntloduced h1IllS lf as Ml Plpengel I told lllm my ll lllll and to my sulprlse he l0lII0lIlbLltd me X1 lu M418 one of ll x schoolm 1t1s B111 Plptllger I asked B111 lf he knew vxhele any Uthll of H13 classmates xxtlm He told me that Maxlne ROblnSOlI had become one of hls customers aftrl mlllylng a pohce offlcer I asked hlm hel address betause I xxantrd to sae MIXIIIG Nou l111oxx a polltlnlan IS one of man s best frlends I had a qulet day as I settled dovxn to Illllqlh mx plans for the factory The olllx lnterruptlon came xvhell one ol my younger nelghbors came to get aequalnted wlth me I asked her how she got along 111 school and she told nee school was all llght and that she llked hel teacher Maly Brown She shoxxed me a plcturn of Mrs Bloxxn and I almost svx allowed my teeth because she looked famlllar to me ex en vxlth her gray hall lllce Yes the plcture looked just llke Mary Tlmnlolls and I couldnt belleyt she vxas glttlllg so old That lllght I lented 1 car to rlde 1lo11nd toxxn and my Vtlfl suggested that we go to a shovx We pass d llllly theatels before xxe 1 11110 upon a tltle that staltled me It read Proud Father starrlng Kelth Burns as fathel I kept looklng at the marquee wonderlng lf It mlght be the Kelth Burns I knew when WHAM' llght through the trunk of another car' The pollce soon arrlved but before they came I notlced my xx lfe had smashed her arm through the xx lndshleld The p011C8 ladlOGd a doctol vxho came lmmedlately and took my xxlfe to the hospltal I looked oxer the shape of the damaged Cars then plcked up the telephone ln my rented car and called a xxlecker to come The Wrecker arrlved p1Ck9d up both ears and I rode along I asked tht man lf that was the same Kelth Burns that used to llxe near lNexx Madlsoll Ht Sald he xx as and told me that he exen vxent to school with Mr Blllllb SIIICL thc lrlloxx had to be 111 school wlth me too I asked hls name 111d It tlllflbd out to be Dlek Doxxler Vx Q talked all the way and Dlck told me he had beu III the auto bllSlfl65S fol yeals and xxlvcklng serxlce was hls hobby It vxas gettlng late so I took a t3Xl to the hospltal to see mx NVlf6 A 1111151 told me that my xxlfe had recelved l'I'l1l1OI cuts lnd a dOCtOl vxould place stltches ln the nlolll mg After a short vlslt wlth my Wlfe the nurse began to dlagram on hel ovxn arm vshele my vxlfe was cut Her xolce sounded llke a XOILE I used to hear so manx tlnles and I asked lf she exel knevx Dolls Clopp She gunned and Sald hel name had been Dorls Llopp untll she Yfldllled a clrcus manager Early the next Il'lOl'Il1llg I vxent to the hospltal The nurse told me to go to hel room as the doctor xx as tllr IC but before I entered Dorls saw mt 1nd told me he mlght be somebody I knoxx I xx 1lkcd 111 and Doc gaxr nu 1 happy good lllflllllflg I looked on hls satc hel and lead lll gold letttls D1 R L1 Cox My vxlfe told lne th1S was the same Gene Lox Vklth whom I xx ent to sehool I hld to look txxlet and xfxe had a blg laugh We talked aftel he lttellded to IIIX wlfe b11t befole he lctt he told me shi had to stay 111 the hospltal a fwx days llvmzfx P0111 eb' X. 1l'...f..41 rf , ' ' j ' ' . 1 ' ' 1 sz ' . . ' , ' , ' . ' 'Jr '1 1 1 'ss ' ' . 11-L19 .' f f 1 ' ,1 1 ,' 1 eqf. ' 1 ' 1 4 ' ' ' 1 'I v 1 , Y- 1 ' Y ' ' 1: ' g 'ea 1 : , ' 1: 1 2 a: 1c Q 1 ' ',. . ' . ' ' . , 1 AX, ' . 5. .l ' V, -V ' V 2 1 . 1 ' ' 1 1 1 - V 1 - hx- v 1 - 1A I f ' ' ,: 1 1 ' 1' 1 ' 1' 1 ' ' . ' - Vb. , . 1 V. VA 1 2 1' . ' V V ' . , . 'S U . I ' 'I V. ' ' - ' . 5 1 ' ' ' Y V 1 '0- V . -V: . . ' V' I . y 1-V V . V ' , - . V . V ' 'f V V' ' 1. I told the little girl 1 used to go to school with Mrs. Brown IIIYSUIIQ and she was very . V - 1 ' ' ' V -. ' 4 ' V X . V. Ti ' ' Y 1 2 ' 2 . V V V' 1 5. ,-V,- L. V 1. e I2 ' 1: 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' . 11 .11 - 1 X . ' . V' A of V' ' I ' - ' 1 V , v ' - ' V - V ' L , ' V Y V ' I , ' , V, L. . V V V' . . V. ' 11 1 '1 Y I ' 5 1 ' y Y K 'K 2 ' - 1 1 ' - r 1 ' ' 1 - r' f ' r , . 1 , ' ,V ' , K V ' I .V 1 , . V' . V ' ' V ' 1 1 ' ' V , . V .' .- ' V . ' V ' . . Vp T , , , - .K - , .L. 11 .I V '14 '1V V' y , , 2 v V' V b--. 4 Z V' V, 1 V 1, . ' I V 2 I V ' 1, 1 1 1' Y I S 1 ' ' 1 V v 1 y .

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I XlSlt8d many of them agam and asked thtm where the rest of lnw all smatta had gone One saxd that Doxthta Helman s husband had bought a llrgc balhoom n town a few years ago If wt could ham ou1 C61CbI'3.t1011 thexe lt would be pexfect It even looked better when MI Slolp told me I could posslbly get James lalknor and h1s orchestra to fly m from Seattle He told me that Mr Falknor started an olchestra many years ago and was now playmg all 0281 the country I made a 11st of my classmates and found I had seen or heard of all of them but two It took sex eral houls to locate them but I w as successful I found out that Mr Pttry had bought a large farm mal a suburb of Nmw RTHCIISOII Nu 1 I1l'Sll0lblfk was a smger 1n Metlopohtan Opel xs m New York C lty More H1019 mn tlnough mx mmd as I thought Nex 1 could glxe us '1 few gs t l lx 1th Pux coma to g1V0 us a ftw ldeas ibout Hollywood The next molnmg I took a tllp to Mx Petxx s farm and what 1 farn xt w is Rob ert told me of the modern methods hu now had on the farm I w is bewxldertd when we took a 11de on a hog pen w luch had w heels and a motor so th it you could Do out ln the fleld xfter the hogs My factoly was now gOlllg through lts f1n xl stage and was to be opened xn two days Our celebratlon w as planned on the exe of the openmg and I called Nexa to see lf she could come from New York lf I would come after her I also expressed the same 1IIXlt3t1OI1 to Kelth Bulns 1n Hollywood and thev both accepted I got III touch Wlth Ml Falknor and he sald he would come 1n a speclal plane bullt for hxs twenty plece orchestra One of my fI'lQlIdq talked w1th Donald Ross md he sald he would be on hls motorcycle In two days everythlng was planned for the celeblatlon eury member of the class of 48 had been contacted and CXCINODC had agreed to cornc On the ue of the second day people began to arrxve one by one the same people wlth whom I had spent many happy sehool days What a happy reumon thus was to be' Although thxrty years had naturally brought changes m outward appearances I found the evenlng passed hurrledly on and I had managed to talk to everyone that they were stlll the same fI'16lldlX cooperatue gloup that they had been dullng thelr days ln New Mad1son H1gh School qt 1.vm1lv bil y' ' i ,-. ' . . , , , A. 2 1 2 S1 2 wk 1 ' ' 11 7 1 1 - A 2 . . . 2 1 v yi . 1 , - ' . ' v . . . K- , Y ' f Y Y 1' 1 v s v v ' , . - V 1 v Y ' V v .4 111 . A 1 1 , 2 .' 1 ' 2 . H2 V: ' 2 - ' .' ' ' -2 : ' I '. 2 , '2 ' lf ' ' Y 12 ' f ' J 2 . ' :son El our reuulon unc H , na :aught 1 ' r , ' 1 1 v , . , , 2 t . ' ' ' '. .' 2 ' I 2 1 '2 - , t 1 1' , ': .' 1 ' . . V . , Q Y, ' f , ' ' , ' 2 , ff , 2 . 4 v ' ' ' 2 1 1 v ' ' v ' 1 v ' 2 v , ,, , I .I I . . 4 B . . C ' ' - . . 2 , . ' 2 I ' ,f yr L1 1 1 I 11 ' V vs, 1 . P . . 1 - y 1 1 3 y x 1 1 1 ' x V 11 , . I L 71 I . ., Y ' 1 l Y - . , 2 2 V , . . Y . Y U Y. .