Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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Grace Calhoun has erected a home for stray rats; she is favor- ably inclined towards red ones. The teacher of physics in the Crumb High School is Zella I lysart. I sad ore Miller is prima donna in the Ashburton stock com- pany. Fred Hartman has made a fortune oil of his latest patent,— invisible cuspidor for slobberers. Genevieve Norfolk is head waitress at the Bee Hive hotel. Among the Seven Sutherland Sisters this year is Else Finarty; she is on exhibition at Root’s drug store in Batavia. And by the way, Kingling Brother’s circus will be here next week, with it’s new popular attraction, Nadine Dingeman as the two-faced lady. Don Kilby and Mrs. Kilby, alias Katherine Denefe, have started a dancing school in the slums at Chicago. The believe in educating your feet as well as your brain. Harold Strong is agent for Nellie Maud Baker’s latest book. Laura McCarroll has just graduated from Lake Forest where she took the same course that Helen did. Verna Honke is travelling for her health. She always was in- clined to be weak. Hallie Hirst is agent for Thomas’s face cream. Blanche Coughlin eloped with that bell boy, Dick Walker at the Court Hotel. Leora McMullen is physical director at the Y. W. C. A. in Des Moines. The Wendell sisters have a dress-making establishment in New York. Dick Tharp has a farm, seven miles east of the city. The Bloomer Girls’ have added to their number, Helen Briggs and Florence Tisdale. Maggie Trowbridge has just procured a divorce from her former husband, Earl Howard. Anna Anderson is carrying on a series of revival meetings throughout the state. Arthur Haw is running a gambling den in Ottumwa. M ae McAloon is county superintendent of schools, with head- quarters at Albia. The last election for mayor in Ottumwa was hotly contested between Ralph Stentz and Will Osier; Osier was elected by a ma- jority of 15,000. Goldie Trent is matron of a bachelor girl's apartment with six members, Lena Prather, Maud Baker, Leona Doller, Verona LaPoint, Helen Kelly and Minnie Hahn. Ruth Hall has gone as missionary to the South Sea Islands. Ruth Johnson is history teacher in the (). II. S., in Miss Hale's place and Elvira in Miss Smith's.

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5i3ropi)ccp of the Class of 1908. EFORE the fire in a cozy library, a middle-aged man sat, smoking and gazing absently at a picture, which hung over the fire-place. His reverie was interrupted by the arrival of his daughter, who coming to his side, let her eyes follow the gaze of her father. They rested upon a 1908 class picture that had been presented to him by that class on their graduation. It was my first class that graduated from the O. H. S” That was twelve years ago, was it not father?” Yes it was twelve years ago and this afternoon it has all been brought so vividly to me. I met Charles McClelland and upon bringing up the subject, he told me of the whereabouts of all of them. It was merely by chance that I ran across McClelland. I had ordered a load of coal and when the man came to the door to have Ids ticket signed, amidst the dirt and grime 1 recognized Charles McClelland, the former president of this class. I took this oppor- tunity to find out about those that I had lost track of.” He says his employer is John Hull, who, by the way, married Irene Hedrick.” Oh yes, father, I remember them but tell me about the rest. You always were esj ecially interested in this class and it teas one to be proud of. Now begin at the top of that picture and go straight through.” Well, we'll start over in this corner with Grayce Park; she is a hair dresser in Chicago, and in the same apartment is Hilda Roth who is a manicurist. Loren Meredith is a professional scab;—it’s too bad; he was a nice boy. Marguerite Smith, Loren a Crone and Alice Goodall who were maids of honor at the wedding of Earl I). Vance and Loretta Weidle, went to Europe to meet the bride and groom, and return home with them. The Garrick theatre has at last been able to secure Stuart Swinney to run as the leading man.

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Nina (5mm is teaching school in Farmington. Walter Anthony is a veterinary surgeon. Eunice Field is an artists’ model. Florence Billingsly is captain of the Salvation Army in Oska- loosa. The 1010 class play (). II. S. was trained by Cushman Haven. It was a great success. .Jessie Canfield, in partnership with “Hennesy”, furnishes the markets with fresh lish. That includes everyone in the class, save the honorary members and you see and hear of them every day. May they all be as suc- cessful in the next twelve years as they have been in the past. Hut there goes the supper-bell. Signed, Kutli Hall, Chairman, Marguerite Smith, Erwin Walker, Earl Vance, Committee.