Oconto High School - Okato Yearbook (Oconto, WI)

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THE OKATO Page 17 CLASS PRGPHECY And what became of Harold Berth? I haven't lrcarzl of .nm for Rl. long: time. I guess hc's trwveling snleswxnaxi for the Elgin Watch t'o. Harold always was u fast man: all travel- ln.: 1.-alesmen get tthut wuy. Do you rcnrember the wise tx-racks hc usrrl to ,pull in French class, and he got away with it too. Poor Roland Franksg he jointed the Barnum and Rally circus us an expert blacksmith, but one left lhinzl leg ofa day when hc- was shocillg the polcenorsc, 'ie got a kick in tile solar-plexus a-ml now ln-'le tickling.: u lmrp with Saint Peter fnct that famous tlaton of O. H. SJ. llidn't you ever hear of Vurtis Davis? Well l..ut's funny! Ile went in thc 1-inf: a few years after ln- lcl't O. ll. S,n:1n.l was making a bi! hit until he liumpel up against Kid Tonsilitis. Now I guess hc's selling matches on the street corners trying to niakc u living. A'f'i2ll l'lI1'L Armstrong? He madc the worst break of ull thc fellows I ever knew. He in-irriezl some jane that had a rich unclcg tliouzrhlt he'd get some easy 'jul-k'. but the rich uncle gave l1in1 the air and now. 'Doe' is w'lel-ling a pick :lu-d shovel trying to support one wife. one dog, and six children. Oh, well. the fili-'it fifty year.-1 are the hclrdestg hc'lI lem n. I Say Babe. you must have heard alzont this trunscontintenal air line didn't yill? Well Henry t'l1i'istIs'11sen is the lad tlmt's sole owner, ,proprietor manager. and janitor of that great concern. I knew that he'd uphold the 'Great Dane' ,title and set his aim high. l+Iliza'beth Dail-ey is one of the most prominent l'illll'1l-i'l1 lS of the 'Ladies Heavy Artillery Anti-tongue Wranfzliug Assoc-iation.' You know they have those littlc Wotliu-slliuy afternoon crackers. aml tea parties and they di-:russ bobbed hair, wild parties. funerals and the like don't-chu know? l+'1-iendly little associat- ion. never breaks up in a row-Oh. no! And remrmher Ro-se I-'alque and Greta Franks and Evelyn Fcncil and those kids? 'llhcy all made glllilli. llosc lffulquc owlls and an-perates one of thc largest hat shops in the little city of flhicmwo. She claims that her success its due to the fact that 'two heads a'c hetter than one,' when- it comes to fitting tln'-in out with li-rits. Yep, Evelyn Frncil is a stenog' for the great huun Magiqc Uzrmpany. She's Mr. Gunn's private secretary: last I heard she had quite a case on Chic, the office clerk. Nice going eh? Ycp. Greta- F'rank-s has more ,popularity than an umbrella on a uainy day: she .invented some new kind of anti-wrinkle post-toastiest and now -she's the person thats responsible for 'savinqg five million corn-fed Armenians. Did you hear of the wontdlerfiil honor given to Bi.ll?'-Bill I,acourc'ere. of course. He's been chosen poet-laureate of the Figi Islands. His :greatest poem ls 'Who Made All the Noise on. bilent Night'. They say hc's rushing the queen of the islands, one of those 'Nuitsbrown maildens'. Imndis? Oh, he's one of the big guns in radio Has a new 31.000000 plant at Pensaukee that turns out over two hundred an hou-rg all you have to do is concentrate real illargl on the .station you .want and you get it. His llntcst invention is the 'Radio Bug' you hear so much about. He's the one who is really responsible for static too, they say. Alla-n Wittkopf has been a roal ere-dit to his clasf. Prominent? Say, he's running for President now, on the Independent. ticket. The bifrgest plank in his .platform is that the nnlximum number of wives ll main. can have shziullrl. be six. Ht-'s practically in the Whitc House now, and it's elcv-cn months till election. Remy Reininrton runs .a dance hall in Pcshtigo. She has made the town what it is. Henry Gvvltlc? Say-you must have kept track of him. Nels in grand opera-he mn sing five dif- ferent languagrs at once and just now hm-'s on a toni through Europe. Anvil Florence l.el'omte-She'-s happily married somewhere in the southern part of the Il. S. and has thc healthiest pair of twins you ever saw. Recently -'he won a l!.,Il0ll2Ii prize for being t'1c most sucooess t'ul mother. Ray Moss?-l,: t nn- -see-oh to he sureelle's gprominent in Hollywood circles-rrim-mber when Rudolph Valentino was so popular? They say Ray is falling right in his foot-lteps,-and Evelyn O'Connor, -sheis played leading lrrdy opposite him several times. -Ney say she's a secirnd Bebe lla-nicls-tand isn't it a coincidrncc?-V-Uharlotte Mclfalltllcn is hcr m-uid-in real life I mean. Iiatlller nice to have so much of Ucouto down there iso L it? 'Marvin Johnson? lle's depot agent at Pensautkee and is married and quietly settled down-lies seems contented. And Olga Moewyoifd never believe it, She's gone ln for politics and is elcctionccring for Allan Wittkopf for the coming election.-And 'away in tho -rutskill mountains living as a hermit in his nice little hutsfor you know he is a great poet---in Kenneth Noonan. As for Lina Mac M u-Farlanc! You'd never guess! She lives in New York and is tihe wife of an artistg she is his chief model they say. And John Kenny? Uh-he runs an orange uzrovc somewhere in llalifirrniu. Ilc's a scconld l,ut.her Hur- bank-he h-as allready produced a seezllessspnlp- less? jnilcclessetastelesa orange that surpasses any that has yet been produced. And who do you su.ppo'se is our chief conlediun? I-Ir' plays in all the leading Vauldeville Ilouses in the Vnited States. l'at Halloran, of l'll'lllTFtl'. Ile surely niak-ev a hit-he's thinkin.: of goinlf: into the lnoviesn As for .lohnny Hynes-we always knew hc woutld make a man out of hinraelfelie is the head one of the Chicziam 'l'ribune. He speciallizes on the 'Womenis Pa,':e's-l+'asl1iori.s, A-dviee to thc Love-lorn, etc. He writes that part up himself. And Cecile Nagle! She won the National Ulhaiiipionship game of tennis in .the U. S. and this summer is playinig in the Olympic games-Home l'll see her when she comes overg her husband, lby the way, won the championship for swinnninlg mud they are coming over together. They are very devoted to one another. As for Edmund Heller. 'lle's not such a lfig man-merely making millions yearly-owns the largest moving-pictures in the world. For a while he was la rival of the Paramount Pictures but now he's far ahead.

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1 Page I6 THE OKATO N- Cl-GSS!!! LX1 I X, MX U e ,N . A X ffllllbkx 4 V, R .X so Il v ll ll ll l , f ay M, for , , X if A x i' ,. QW 1 X X A j f fill-up fy , L X 5 X TDCKETSJ K ' I g 1?-M'L.'3, I It was in the fall of 11540 on one of th-use dreary, dull, foggy, days. so usual in London, that I happen- ed to go into la hoek-shop to pawn my good old lngersol when lo and l:e'lold and everything else. if there wa'f.n't Albert Hidde perched on a three-legged stool anl looking just like the Czar inf Chezko-Slorka hiniself. Il'e had on the same old suit, he used to wwir when we were fre lnnen in hienll sehool, but my! how he had grown. He looked like u fat ohl Iluteh- man happily misplaced. He haul, on one of those skull ezlps so prominent .among the pompadour-seeking shiaeks of twenty years ago. Well Babe old Kid. says I. How's llllSlllt'95'?'. Oh 'taint so bad, and 'taint so goot eider. Holy suffering gvulvlfisll, he's even got the 'Abit- Goldfish aeeent' on his buetiness thinks I to my-self. Well after I'd passed around the eigurs about the fourth time. he seemed to jolly up ui bit. an-Q we be-gun talking about old times. 'l'he conversation from then on was moftly about our oltd Oeonto High Srhotl elass of '25, The first thing he wanted to know -was whether or not Austin Allen had suceeeded in getting: a .position driving a pulmotor on G'l'2flI'l4l avenue in Suamieo, or if I knew whether or not Rudolph t'isar was still the stage door .lohnie he used to be in his younger dvayf. And poor Ed llerks. he got beat ou.t of all his -l'ard earned dough .by some 'phoney' Unstor-oil well stoekg now ln-'s a prominent fisherman on the Hay Shore. Win-r-e's Floyd Arseueau? Uh. he's presii lent of the lt t'orestration Soeiety for reforesting the Sahara llesert. lfle always planned to be a lnnrber jaek. didn't he? lt-,-nn-nilslrr the vtaeation l'e went up in the woods with a lot of 'imibition for hard Ialnnr and eame ban-k with all the eooties from eamp No. l2? Marion Herald married one of those in-'eet' colleetors who makes abiult three trips yearly up the Annazon looking for .peg-lejzged gilli NVQIIIIIIUSGIS. Well, Marian gets a lot of traveling out of married life anyway. And Mable Degeneftie, yeh. she's runnin: a six l'undref:l aere eow raueh somewhere down in North Dak-0-ta. Say Iivabe. where's t'lara Benson? Oh, shefs he-ad lady for Do Less and Seemore 00.5 you remember they bought out bars Sawbuek tk o., a few years ago. Oh yes. and whatls ibeeome of Natalie Uliosa an-d Verna Gain and those kids? yeh, Nathalie joined the Ziefield follies I think: guess it was because her mother wouldn't let h-er get married to this Rudolph Valentino: she always was a good one at making some kin-d of foolisn move or -other. And Verna Gain. let'is see. well last I heard or her she was parlor maid for the Iiinkledinks. utoae millionaire folks out at one of those Wiseonsin Summer resorts. And Wilbur Hurkhardt? He's a eonstruetlon engineer for sznne big bridge eompany. 'l'hey're builfding a bridge that's to take the place of this Brooklyn bridge, beeause it's too light to earry modern trraffie. Yep, I remember when Wilbur lK 'lilll. he used to be the 'hash stretcher' for some d-inky Uonrtruetion Co.. rl wn at Green Bay when they built ra bridge there. I1et's see. Urval I-!lueher'! You must have heard of him. When he left O. H. S. h-e went to Notre Dame. and l-rat t'rowley's reeord dead blank, the first y-ear. Well he played football there two yerirs and then got a position 'un this Yale team. for a eouple of years. and now I guess hes weoaehing at California State l'. Lorraine Iilauk? I.et's see. just what I thought. Yep she's te-achinfr nnathenrities in some Iligh Sehool in western Ilenn-ylvania. She always did know het groceries. when it Cflllll' to lll'llllil'lll'.lfl4'r'Q remember our old Solid Geoni t'lass'! lt sure was a ,hard studying c-lass.

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Page 18 THE OKATO CLASS PROPHECY Did you hear about tllle national contest held recently in the l'niteil State-1? Wanted to find the IOOYM-l girl whiell inzelu-dies perteet nealth, perfee figure, and perfect beauty, Katherine 0'Hearn won first prize. She was offered u 'position in the movies but she rrfused. Ami remember quiet Norman Mln-arik? Say- he owns om- of the largest uiremail routes in the world and makes tri-ps over 'to Europe almost every week. He has erratell quite a sensation for he has never maI'ried und all the mlrtllers over here with eligihle dau.:ihters are keeping' an eagle like eye on him. Hi' always was dashing. Anil say-as long as you are in lflngllrmd, you had better look up Winifrerl Hadlock. She lives here now. She ll1llI'1'1l'll a Lord Somellauly or other and sp-ends sfx monitlxs of the year here in 'l'e ' herlutiful eoulntry home amidst her riding-horses. dot:-4, and motors, an-d the ether Six months in the ll. S. She is Lon- donli Soeiety loader, and she too has ereated quite a sensation. . Last time I stayed at the vlitz-Carlton Hotel in New York, wllom Should 1 see but Rusfel I'l1'e- quette. I was lstruek very mueh by his dizgnified and prosperous air, whioh was further neightened by .his bell-'hop uniform. And lememher Henry Ryan?-I ran ac-ross him l.e other day-the owns the largest chewing Igium faetory in the world-the famous Ryan gum-ehew more, think less, you've h-eard so mueh about. Remember Evelyn 0'Neil? Of course I oo! She owns one of the largest dre-fs making establishments rn Fifth Avenue. Haven't you heard arhout the 0'Ne-il Fiocks? 'Phey my she loves sewinrz. No-I ean't imagine it either. Theodore Riewe has heeome a great crystal guzerame of these 'Sees all. knows all, tells a11'. Hel-:-fa-lullwiusly rich, I healr. Earns it all telling wives whether their hu1S'hamls really went to lodge and if they did, what they dill tlu-re. Clymene Parisey?-Very-Oh y-els-She's presi- -dent of the W. ll. '1'. Il. Onee in preaehing in one. of our prisons 'she met the notorious 'Black Jack' and lIl!l1'1'li'lil him to neform him. ' Robert Sullivan-oh!-he and Wesley Tal- madge have gone into partneiship out on a naneh in 'liexav-'-'llhey make lu speeialty of raising three legged Jael: Rilhhit stew with a Niagara punch in itg one drink 'and you fall. 'rldna Russell runs a Reality Parlor in Cream City. 'Phe lateft style of coiffure is the solos-e erop. 'l'u:ht to the sealpejust like a man's. Her idea. Ruthsr elever. An-d Ilse Seliluenz, she's a living model in one of our exclusive New York Shops. You s-eel they need someone with n rather dignified belar- ing-n Gaton St. 1'eter-say-he's heen all over. For a while 'i1e,was a sailor and went from Honolulu to Aralhia. He still likes the sea so h-e hauls in nets somtwvhere ln Sturgeon Bay. l l l l l l I l r Not So 1-Lug ago .us I was traveling through th-e U. 0. I in-rt llzla Goodman. She has never nmr- ried. She is a lgreat traveler and leeturer. Her chisel' sulbjeet is 'Why livery Girl She is Twenty One. Should Marry Before I saw a good Vauileville York. This-re was a wonal-erful 8: Jeff. Latter I diservered the other day in New impersonation of Mutt they were Raymond Zlllllllllflllflll and Orville Juekson. 'Bunny' uml 'Ami' a'ways did have their ups aml downs, in life. Hazel Wittkopf has joinrwl the Zilzfirlfl Follies. I just raw her rreently: she is the l1lf1lll .4l kieker ever known. She is quite wonderful. And no doulst you la-le Ill'lll1iZ11l1l'01l with our ln-st modern A1lll'1'll'.1ll author, Marie Van Rossum--ller la-test most wid-rly read hooks is 'Shattered Love D1'eams.' All liez' works are very popular. I saw Allen Voy reeeutly. Ise was sitting in his Tu-rkil-11 Harem amidst his beautiful wives. mlres- 'erl in the eharaeteri:tie f.owiug: rohes: yeseif was in the movies. H-e seemed entirely at ease nerelr- the- less. M.adrian Qualley? She leads a life of leisure. She married a multimillionaire and her summers- she spen-ds in Europe and her winters at Palm l4eueh.-- Rather -ellassy-elif!-Slie has 'been marriefl three times. The other two she divoreedg one was a farmer and the -other an undertaken I passed Alfred Rhode, one day in a beautiful limousine on Fifth Avenue. New York, you know. 1 hear he lives in an e4'alhorate baehlelors' apartment with a Chinese valet, and leads a gay life. He's one of the most prominent brokers on Wall str-eet. He's broken nearly everyone. they say. Norman Tennison broadcasts over Radio Station P. D. Q. in the southern part of China. liven the inlsects tune in with their antenna-e when they hear his voice. 'tllucille Sehwedler got her long desired 131. A. degree at Columbia. where she met and imirriefl a great traveler and explorer. She goes with him on all his trips. they say. and now they uve exwloriug the heart of Africa. She has done womlerful work among the natives, .distributing hooks to them. Their favorite author is Van Rorwunif' Oh Yea! Speaking of your jobs. Joseph Herouxls got the softest.-te-'ting mattresses for Simz-1on's Bed Urinipiany. He said all his sm-cess is du-e to continual praetiee during this plastie stayzes in dear old 0. I-I. S. The papers are full of Stanley Holman. who ls Offleial globe trotted' for Pheeko Slcwllki-'ii Govt He ree-eived the Honorary F. 0. B. degree from the Prince of Ileigle in appreeiation of his large do-nation of eounterfeit money to the Starving Hottentots in Brazil. Gosh Halle. didn't our 4-lass of '25 do some tall lI1l1g'1'-lltlllgl I Wouldn't like to try aml loeate some of them ten years from now: I believe we would even fi-nd some of them on the moon. XVel1. so 'long. I'1l se you to-morrow night at the 'Dew Drop Inn,' and we'l1 talk things over.