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

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192 2 THE N1X0N1A the effects of this terrible agony. She is very stooped and wrinkled. However. she seems quite cheerful at the present. She says that the Arithmetic problems varied this time and were not at all in percentage. If that's tilt-case. I think that I shall trv it next time. W ell. I can hardly believe what I see. I view Voyle Roberts splashing water in a dish pan. He is head dishwasher at the Oriental Inn. One of tilt waiters is complaining that the dishes are in worse condition after they are washed than they were before. This is probably due to the fact that Voyle is still moving about in that lazy manner that he did in school. Prom this I judge that lie must still be in love. Poor boy! My goodness, what’s this? A poultry farm? I guess it is. I see geese galore. Could you guess who is the owner of this large goose farm? Clara Parr, is sole owner. .Vow I am surprised—not because Clara seems to like geese, but because she is working with something which is noisier than herself. But since she always said. “You never know what tomorrow holds in store for you.” I guess she spoke truly. Horrors, is this Maree Marsh, 1 see? It is she. She is a very efficient stenographer in a large office. The only objection to her is that during the boss’s absence, she carrier on a continuous flirtation with the office bpv. which is very disagreeable to the other boss. But Maree can’t help it. though, for she would flirt with a policeman, or an iceman, if no one else were near. W ith this magic power which I possess. I see myself treading through life alone, waiting for some Prince Charming to play a game of love with me. and while I wait. I say. “Waiting, waiting, waiting. My heart goes palpitating. But when the Prince arrives. You shall all receive one great surprise. Leona Roben ’22. Senior Charge Juniors and under classmen, we. the class of nineteen hundred twenty-two. wish to impress upon you. class of twenty-three, the great responsibility which will rest upon you. as Seniors in Nixon Township High School. Did we say well earned? Yes. indeed, for we must admit that you have done well with a remarkable perseverance seldom found in those of your tender years. Although you have acted wisely in many things, you also have made many mistakes. But what of that? One never succeeds unless one makes mistakes. All great people commit errors. We. your noble Seniors, even. Doing Justice—Mr. Rumble. Page 22

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r K NIX n N I A 19 22 Class Prophecy On this twenty-seventh day of May. I. the prophetess. IMoyeshta. of Hindustan, shall unveil to you the things that shall happen in the future to the members of the Class of Twenty-two. Heed! My Classmates, heed and hear what the future holds in store for you. I see some one standing behind a counter, acting as a cashier in a New York cabaret. I believe to my soul it is Gertrude Marsh, it surely is. Oh, here comes some wonderful man to settle his bill. I wonder what shell say. Well can you believe it? This is what she is saying: “Your check please. Hello, sixty and forty are one dollar. Isn't that so? Don’t get fresh.” Well. I never would have thought that of Gertrude, but you never know, you know. I see Kthel Smith seated upon a large white horse, and in her hand she is carrying a lasso. She is employed cn a large ranch in I exas as a cowgirl. and is known throughout the state for her wonderful ability at lasso- ing. Oh. I see someone presiding over a group of interested people. It is a select slang school. And Ivina Baker, a cultured artist, in this profession, is at the head of it. Now, I know you can't be surprised because Edna always used slang to express every idea she ever had. h. what’s this I see? It is a traffic cop. standing on a street crossing. Well, if it isn’t Donn Mire. Is i said that he is one of the best traffic-cops the city of Weldon has ever knewn. However, lie is the same old Donn. I see two girls dressed in the extremest fashion of the moment coming across the street. Donn is off his duty as usual: that is when a girl is in the case. All! I see L’ra Shearer lecturing to a group of Chinks on the evil effects of opium smoking. But. poor girl, she is having about as much effect on the Chinks as she did on her dad when she tried to convince him that tobacco chewing had a harmful effect upon him. Oh, what’s this I see? It is a Marinello shop. Could you guess who is in charge. None other than Yemeda Glenn.‘an old classmate of mine, has full swing of all the business. It is said that she knows every magic under the sun which increases beauty. Every woman knows just where to look for her husband when he says he is going out to get his nails manicured. Opal Gray, I see. sticks to the old motto. “Don’t give up the ship.’ She is still writing on teacher’s examinations at the Dewitt County Court House, where we left her several years ago. But she has begun to show Page 21 Miraculous Gait—Donn Mire.

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r II K N1XON1 A 1922 must confess we have blundered. The important thing, however, is to rise above mistakes, conquer your weaknesses, and so achieve glory and renown. Assuming that ' ur young and unsophisticated minds have not yet been able to grasp the full meaning of our words, we shall cite examples which have suggested themselves in the short time left to prepare this advice for you—examples which prove your said weaknesses. First. Juniors, will you concentrate for a moment and recall the time spent in bookkeeping class? We Seniors were very distressed when the news reached our ears that two very industrious Juniors were using our old bookkeeping sets over which we had spent many hours, working honestly and by our own efforts to obtain a fair and honest grade. Imagine our grief when we learned that these said Juniors, to save their brains from fatigue, had taken our hooks and deliberately compared their work with ours in order to find their mistakes. Now. Juniors, truly we should. I suppose, he quite gratified to find you placing so strong a trust in our work. Evidently during the past four years you have come to believe in us implicitly. Hut. Juniors, think of the deceit you are practising upon your earnest and devoted teacher who boasted so often of his efficient bookkeeping class until he had been informed of their means of progress. Don't you wonder how that poor teacher felt when he discovered your crime? Surely, your hearts arc not so hardened that you can watch that man in his mental agony and still practise such deceit! Juniors, the Seniors, as a far-seeing, experienced brother, ask you to desist from such ways.—if not for the sake of yourselves, for those who love you. Then too. as we go about the High School, keeping an ever watchful eye upon our beloved young successors, we have noticed other errors you commit, which would bear correction. We have observed one young musician.—and truly we appreciate that young man's talent, for it always fills us with pride to hear some good about the Juniors whom we try so hard to lead into paths of brilliance and fame. Particularly do we charge one voting man to be more careful; to not forget that the teachers desk, on the side of which he merrily beats a tattoo with his feet, meanwhile whistling some popular jingle to himself, is not a drum; and should treat it with the respect due it. We also assure this young man that by the time he is a Senior he will not find it necessary to go to a Sears, and Roebuck catalog for his reading, or above all things, to the little magazines from which he gets inspirations for quotations. He will be able to understand the most complex treatise. We should also like to call to the attention of a certain young lady, who is a member of the Junior class, the fact that when teacher assigns a very lengthy lesson and asks if that will be long enough, she should not tell Page 23 A good speech is a good square weal—Miss Galaway.