Oakfield High School - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Oakfield, WI)

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score was 2 to 5 in favor of the latter team. After the game Earle took us up to the college, saying he wished us to meet the instructor in athletics who had trained the victorious team. However we met him on the way, and all recognized him at once, for it was none other than Fred Gordon. He was very enthusiastic and invited us to a concert in the evening, to l e given in honor of the victorious team, and to a base ball game today. The people here are just as good musicians as athletes and under Fred’s direction the hand played many difficult selections with charming ease and power. Fred accompanied us to the hall game this morning and explained all the changes recently introduced, lie also told us of a new game soon to he tried, it is a ball game in which the numerous satellites of the planet Saturn will be used, his one objection being that some player may get burns. (Extract from Miss Halbach’s Diary.) July 18, 1928. We left Saturn yesterday intending to go to Jupiter, but changed our minds on the way. Last night Earle informed us that we were moving more slowly than usual on account of some resistance through which the electricity from Jupiter had to act. This morning we learned what it was, for in our path was a beautiful comet. We were all eager to inspect it and Earle said we would spend the day doing so. The comet is much smaller than the planets but has the advantage of being able to move about among them. Immediately upon landing we saw a company of people carrying artist’s materials coming toward us. They sketched us as we stood upon the car, and after so doing, presented each of us with a copy. I think I shall have mine framed when I reach home. Upon this comet we found Lucile and received the information that she is the greatest artist of the times. She is well known among the lovers of art on all the pla lets, her paintings being highly prized by them. She travels about on the comet so aptly named “The Will-o’-the Wisp, stopping on one planet or another to reproduce some beautiful scene on canvas. She showed us many of the pictures which she had made on this trip and these proved to us that she was indeed an artist of great ability. .July 21, 1928. We reached Jupiter, “the home of the orators,” to-night. We were met at the laboratory by Walter, to whom Earle had sent a wireless informing him of our coming. Walter invited us to attend a session of the “House of Law” to-morrow. July 22, 1928. We attended the House of Law to-day. As Walter had obtained some excellent seats for us, we could see and hear all that was done and said. As a very important measure was before the House for discussion, the building was crowded to the doors. The subject under consideration was a hill making it a crime for an inhabitant of Jupiter to leave the planet more than 23

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 IN THEIR FUTURE SPHERES (Extract from Mr. Curtis Diary.) July 6, 1928. We are started at last on the grandest trip ever made by human being. Earle Henningsen invited the three teachers who taught in the Oakfield High School twenty years ago, to accompany him on this, his first grand tour in the “Claryal Dale.” Earle has most certainly accomplished wonders. He has not only revolutionized all the former uses of electricity, but has also invented many new electric machines. The most wonderful of these is the interstellar-electromotor by means of which he travels from planet to planet with as much ease as though it were across a quiet lake in an electric launch. Although travelling at incalculable speed, one would never dream such were the case, the motion is so uniform. July 9. We landedsiefly on the planet Mars today. After visiting Earles laboratory, we started out sight-seeing. The architecture here is wonderful, there is nothing on earth with which to compare it; even the smallest buildings here would make our “sky scrapers” seem insignificant. We entered one of the larger ones and found it to be a business college. The students were passing to the recitation rooms, so we followed one of the classes. Among the work of the day was an extremely complicated business transaction which puzzled all of the students, none of whom had been able to solve it. The teacher upon learning of their difficulty began to carefully explain it, taking it step b,v step and making each point so clear that no one could fail to understand it. The readiness with which similar transactions were solved by the pupils testified to her skill as a teacher. During the explanation it seemed that the voice sounded natural, and a better view of her face proved that it was none other than Myrtle Reynolds who had exhibited much skill in teaching during the years spent by her in the High School. Upon talking to her after the class was dismissed, we found that she intends to return to Earth for a visit, next summer, accompanied by the frank-hearted man who had found Earth too lonely after she left, and had tried travelling among the planets, finally accepting a position in one of the wireless telegraph stations on Mars. (Extract from Miss Curtis' Diary.) July 15, 1928. We reached the planet Saturn yesterday and have been busy ever since attending ball games and concerts. The people here are certainly a pleasure-loving class and have many beautiful parks and ball games. The first game we attended was a foot ball game, between two of the leading colleges. The players of both teams exhibited that skill which is attained only by patient practice directed by the best of teachers. One of the teams was remarkable for its unique handling of the ball. At the close of the game thej 22

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twice a year or to be absent more than three weeks at a time. The lirst orator spoke strongly in favor of the bill, decrying the tendency of the youth of Jupiter to visit the ball games on Saturn. After he had, in his own opinion, proven how injurious these distractions were, he sat down. Walter now gained the door and in a few eloquent words, completely annihilated the arguments of the first speaker. In his speech great talent was discernible and we were all surprised and pleased at the power thus evinced by ore of our former pupils. (Extract from Miss Curtis’ Diary.) Aug. 15, 1928. We have at last begun our homeward journey, having only two more planets to visit, as we are now on Venus, the planet of beauty and song. We went to a grand concert last night. It was the singer’s last evening on the planet and the house was crowded. When the singer appeared, she was greeted with a burst of applause, but as soon as the music began, all was quiet. As she sang, all sat spell-bourld and when the song was ended the applause was deafening. She was recalled again and again. The first notes of her clear soprano voice awakened dim recollections within my mind. I seemed to see again the (flee Club of 1908 of the ()akfield High School. As I gazed at her beautiful face and heard again the wonderful notes of her magnificent voice, I realized that before me stood Lola. After the concert, we attended a reception given in her honor, and here we renewed our acquaintance. She informed us that she is to spend part of her vacation on Earth and part on Saturn. Aug. IT. Lola left for Saturn to-day. She has an interstellar-electromotor of her own, fancifully built in the form of a locomotive. (Extract from Miss Halbaeh’s Diary.) Aug. 21, 1928. We are now on Neptune. This planet has certainly been rightly named after the god of the sea, for it is almost entirely covered by water. We landed on one of the largest of the islands, Earle saying that he had a surprise in store for us. As we approached a house standing among the trees, a woman who had been sitting on the veranda arose and came toward us. She greeted Earle with great friendliness. He turned to us saying, “I do not think it is necessary that I introduce this friend of mine.” “It is Elsie Phelps,” we all cried. “It is Elsie, but Phelps no longer,” he replied. Elsie blushed and led us into the house, where she served us with delicious refreshments. At the first opportunity, she drew me aside and confided her story to me. She told me that he was a missionary among tin1 Neptimites, and that she liked living on this planet very much, tho sometimes she did long for a glimpse of some Earth friend. She said that they were going to visit the Earth during the Summer. (Extract from Miss Curtis’ Diary.) Aug. 26, 1928. We have now reached the Moon. What wonders have 24