Nixon Township High School - Nixonia Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY • Well, here it is 1928. Ten years have passed since 1 left the old town of Weldon. There is a class graduating. This reminds me of ten years ago when my class graduated from the same High School. I will try to get in touch with some of them.” Oh! Here is a newspaper. I wonder what the news is.” Ah! Ha! One of the greatest Professors of Economics in the world, Miss Mildred Saylor!—and here is a telephone.” (Kings). Hello! Who is this? Iva Emery? Well, when did you become a telephone opcratoi?w Oh! You did? Well saj, this is Yern Shinneman. 1 just came hack to Weldon and while looking at a newspaper I happened tc sec the name. Miss Mildred Saylor, Professor oi Economics at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and 1 would like to buy the Fnc for about half an hour if you don’t mind connecting me up with her.” Hello Hello!”................. Hello is this you Midge?” This is Shinney. Don’t you know me? I am glad to see yon.” Oh, l m ‘jest’ fine.” Sr.y, 1 see your name is still Saylor which is something that I never expected to hear again after graduation.” “What have you beer doing for yourself since we all departed from High School?” You graduated from Columbia University! Well, you did pretty well. I sec in the paper that 011 are holding a very high Professorship. You suiely must have struck it pretty good-” “Oh, 1? I’ve not done much of anything. 1 have been a Jack-of-All Trades just like I used to be. Say, Midge; have you kept in very close touch with any of our other classmates?” Oh, you have? Well, tell me about them?” Oh, VVilie Gray! Well 1 should say I do remember him and how he loved to sit in the class room and look out of one of those south windows of the school building.” Yes, and do you remember that time when he was looking out of one of them and fell out of his chair? Well I suppose she is his wife by now. isn’t she’” What! He is a lawyer. Well, that is right where I had him. Tell me how you know' this? “Oh! You read it in the paper.” Pcalding a case in New N ork for Clarmce Keel. And what is he?” Yes, an insurance agent is right where I thought he would he.” ’Green Ereshics? Well I should say I do remember them. They were ‘some green kids’ wdien thc first entered High School.” One of them is suing Clarence for Insurance!” “What for?” Getting his teeth knocked out by running his automobile into a railroad car?” “Well that is pretty good. Have you heard from any of the rest?” “C. C. Gray? Say, he was some studious boy wasri’t he, especially if he had three or four girls around teasing him. Well, I suppose he is some big automobile agent under Ford. Now didn’t I just about hit it?” You say he is in Ko-Kokomo, Indiana, selling Ford cars? Well, I’ll bet tha bov sells them. He would make the people buy whether they wanted to or not. Well, good luck to him.” Who?” “Gustavius Adolphius!” No. . don’t. Oh, yon mean Karl Peterson, yes I remember him and how he would blush if you teased h:m about some girl. And say he was some experimenter in Physics, too. If no one else would make ’or work he could” Oh. I believe 1 could guess pretty close.” Well let me sec. I will say that he is an Electrician over in Sweden.” ”Oh, • did. Well, 1 am a pretty good prophet then.” “Yes, 1 read in the paper a few years ago where he was the person who in- Lost—An answer hook—Alg. students.

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CLASS POEM Our ship is nearing its journey's end With eight out of thirteen That started in search of commencement land The eight arc the class of “ 'l8. c can see tlie land of our commencement Beyond which lies the land of success; But before we reach our achievement Through the first land wc must pass. Four years ago we sailed on four unknown seas Nearing our goal one sea each year Till r.ow, our sailing will soon cease; For this is the last, the Senior year. Four years have we sailed on that old ship With friends that were kind and true; Soon we must leave our old ship And hid our friends adieu. When wc think of the schoolmates we must leave And we the first class to ride the foam. It nukes one’s chest begin to heave Like a soldier hoy’s when he thinks of home. Our sailing will soon be over Our school day troubles will pass. On the eight of May wc leave forever, N. T. H. S. as the Senior class. Farewell Nixon High forever We leave thee with a sigh For from you we must part forever So now tc you, good-bye.” KARL L. PETERSON ’18. THINGS YOU OFTEN SEE Gladys running from a mouse. Ossie powdering her nose. Charles sleeping in class. .. Everyone so quiet you could hear a pin drop—when the telephone rings. Vern sitring on the legs of the chair. Florence sitting on the table. Latin students frowning. Rain— when there is a “party on.’’ Everyone .sleepy on Monday morning. Charles late to school, cso. on Monday morning. “Fr shies” gazing around the room. Ossie giggling. Florence whispering when the teacher’s hack is turned. Knock! Knock1 Knock!”—Freshies-

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vented the electric bomb that they killed the Kaiser with. Say he has some menial ability to figure out a bomb that will travel three hundred miles and then explode.” Have you heard of him lately?” “Another great invention?” “He has invented an electric machine to raise the ships that were sunk during the war! Well that is pretty good.” “Well, any one could tell that he would nlav a great part in the History of the world.” “Well there are ttfo more left foi you to tell me ar out.” W ho?” Oh, Fleet Summers yes I remember him, he played a great pait in our musical department.” “He studied law for a tew years?” “Then went on the stage!” He has appeared in Paris in, “Aida,” well say that is pretty good.” And no one has ever been so successful since Caruso retired from Grand Opera! Well, he was some vocalist when he was in school.” “Who?” Lola Emery. Yes I remember her with those ‘rosey’ cheeks and dimples every five minutes at the greatest. Well tel1 me something about her life.” You say she couldn’t find any one to marry her after Karl Peterson refused?” “Well say that was too bad.” Yes. 1 remember reading about her being a great Suffragette leader and also about her being Senator in the Legislature of the State of New York. But say you wouldn’t have thought that she had that much mental ability.” What, running a beauty parlor now? Well, who for.” “Making a specialty of selling beauty polish for boys faces!” Oh, I see to keep them from bring so hashtul ?nd also to keep other people from seeing them blush when it wasn’t leap year. Ha! Ha! Ha! That is pretty good’ She could not find a more suitable position.” Oh. She is going to run for United States Senator in the next election5 Wei1 good luck to her and she will receive my vote.” „ Well thanks for the information and I hope to meet with all of them some day VV ell good luck to you. Good-bye.” . , Wc,,! W,C,I! well| just to think of the great things that all of my classmates na.e become and myself just bumming around with no particular ideal in mind VERN SHIN NEMAN. THINGS YOU OFTEN HEAR Ira Richardson talking about the wever” (weather). Are we in “Cahoots.” Karl, you’re a hog hut I’m only a “pig.” Hit the Nail on the Head.” ' How are you coming?” I’ve got ‘Spring Fever.' ' You’ve got my sympathy.” ‘ Well. Gus.” Noah perhaps had the first navy, but Jonah had the first submarine.’ ‘ AS WE OBSERVED” ! saw my father land. “My lathe - slipped upon the ice. Because he could not stand. He saw- the glorious Stars and snipes. The Faculty is a necessity.”