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

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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.”

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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 WILL » W c, tiie Senior Class of 1918, being possessed of sound mind and memory, but aware o: the uncertainty of life and with due appreciation of the fact, that as a class we shall soon cease to exist, do therefore make, ordain, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament. hirst. To our dearly beloved Alma Mater we bequeath our unceasing love ami loyalty and all the distinction we have gained while there. Second, We bequeath to this community the remembrance of the first and only “All Star Class’ to graduate or that could ever be expected to graduate from such an Institution as ours. Third. We bequeath to the faculty of the High School in return for the many benefits received from them, the remembrance of our w’ondcrful intellectuality and bnlliancy. which has caused the w'orthy title of “starts to bt bestowed upon us, hoping that in days to come, when the many inferior classes shall try their patience and burden their lives, it may cheer and encourage them. We give and bequeath to them our example of a high standard, and ask that it be held before all Seniors who are to follow us. so that it may aid them in their w’ork and keep the School up to the present standard of excellency which we have established- We give and bequeath to the Juniors who will in due course of time endeavor to fill our empty places, our most desirous wishes of success, the many honors and privileges to whicl Seniors are entitled and our section of seats located on the north side of the assembly room. We give and bequeath the first seat in row six to Gladys Hunt, who is thoroughly acquainted with the front of the room, and since 1917 has had few occasions to visit the rear. The remaining seats they may distribute among themselves in the best way they see fit, altho we ask that they remember that they are tiie future Seniors and that the distribution be made in a peaceable manner. Wc give and bequeath to Emil Parker the art of deep, scientific, mathematical study and reasoning now in the possession of Mildred Saylor. We give and bequeath to Ossie Shearer the undying love for study combined with the sunny disposition which Lola Emery holds among her possessions. vVc give and bequeath to Chas. Adams a remedy for sleepiness in class, which Karl Peterson by many hours of electrical and chemical research work has discovered. Sec Mr. Peterson at once and take the prescribed cure according to his directions. We give and bequeath to Kay Olson the eloquent oratorical power which Fleet Summers now’ possesses. We give ar i bequeath to Earl Koben the secret of having a different girl each night without any serious consequences. Clarence Keel has many other secrets along this same line that lie w ill gla-Jly impart to any Junior or Sophomore who will call upon him within the next ten days. We give and bequeath to I.ila Ra’lcnhach the authoritative power in future years which William Gray has exercised during the year of 1918. W c give and bequeath to Harry Goble the artful and diplomatic characterisitcs which Yen; Shinncman now' possesses. To the Sophomores of 18 we give and bequeath the many qualities which are requited to make a remarkable class. We g.ve and bequeath to the Freshman Class a small amount of sympathy, which we think will be greatly needed by them as they pass through the various stages of High School life. All property not herein mentioned wc give and bequeath to the remaining members of the lunior Class for one year only. At the expiration of that stated time this said property becomes the permanent possessions of the Hoard of Education of the Nixon Township High School. We do Iu rely appoint as executrix of this, our last will and testament, the President oi the Junior Class of 18. who wc think can conscientiously attend to the :arrying out of the terms of these, our last requests. itne s oik hand and seal this Seventh day of Mav, »ot8. . D.. Class of Nineteen Eighteen. C. C. GRAY. 't8. Grader arc not c cry thing — Clarence.