Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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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.

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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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mm of tf)f Class of 1908 E, the members of the class of 1908 feel several symptoms of approaching old age which make us fear that the delightful hours spent in the chem- ical “lab” and the other places of amusement about the building, are soon to cease forever. The stiffness due to rheumatism attendant upon old age, was first noticeable at the Inter-class Track Meet this spring. The result of this meet lead us to consult our physician, Dr. C. E. Heed, whose x-rav examination of that part of our anatomy technically known as the “ report i bus cardibus” revealed the fact that our sands of life are running low. Furthermore, the gradual relaxation of the pained and worried countenance of Miss Harrington, our beloved session-room teacher, causes us to think that she knows facts pointing to our impending departure. Considering these facts, and in view of the richness and com- plet ness of our possessions, we deemed it advisable to settle our estates and to make this, our last will and testament. To the following we make these bequests: To the class of 1909 we leave: ITEM: Our overabundance of class-spirit, that they may profit in class meetings thereby. ITEM: Our class disputes and excellent art of petitioning, that it may in the future benefit them as much as it has us in the past. ITEM: To the '09 girls we give the care of the library, hoping that will keep as perfect order as the ’08s. ITEM : To the ’09 boys we give the privilege of sitting beside the teacher in the library. ITEM: An extensive supply of former '08 students to be treated tenderly in memory of us. To the class of 1910 we bequeath: ITEM: Our unsurpassed ability in basketball. P. S.—We leave our especial wonder, Art McCune, as forward. ITEM: Our smiling and beaming countenances, with the ex- ception of Genevieve Norfolk’s. To the class of 1911 we leave: ITEM: Our stand in with the faculty, particulary Earl Vance’s. ITEM: Our ability to crib and graft.