Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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22 Paxton High School Reflector Dry Goods store her service during the spring season and Claire Holley is stenographer at Lindley’s office. Lowell Hodam, Chalmer Rudolph, Paul Anderson, Lewey Hammer, lund. Leslie Swanson, Flavius Webber, Rudolph Fagerburg and Elmer Olson were in the S. A. T. C. at the IJ. of I. last fall but at the present Lowell and Chalmer are working on farms. Paul holds a position in Chicago and Dewey is working in Melvin. Leslie Swanson, Elmer Olson and Martin Swanson have positions in town. Several of the class are attending commercial colleges. Fern Trickle attends Brown’s Business College, Champaign, and Allie Henson is attending Champaign Commercial College. Bill Westbrook is at a Commer. cial College in Chicago, and Georgia Smith has entered Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois. .June 1918, wedding bells were heard in the village of Ludlow when Lenere Pearson and Clifford Arnold were married. They now reside in Ludlow. Perdue Atwood enlisted in the army about a month before the close of school and shortly after was transferred overseas. He is still in Germany. Rex Hammerlund, who has been at home most of the year has enlisted in tap U. S. Army. It is reported that his enlistment is for three years. JUNIOR-SENIOR PARTY The Seniors and Faculty of P. H. S. were the guests of the Juniors at a prettily appointed lawn party held at the home of Miss Frances Culver last Friday evening, May 16. The lawn of the beautiful home was elaborately decorated with electric lighted Japanese lanterns and purple and gold crepe paper—the high school colors. After the Seniors had run the gauntlet of the Junior receiving line all joined in the program of the evening. Cracker races, towel races, “Andy and Min” and singing were phases of the evening’s entertainment. Two of the feature greatly enjoyed were “Trips to the Country,” in which Maurine Schneider and Edgar Peterson won first prizes and Mary Fox and Charles Jenson the “booby” prizes, and a ludicrous “take-off on the Senior American History class. Dainty refreshments consisting of chicken salad, ; andwiches, pickles, ice cream, cake and punch were served. FINAL EXAMINATIONS. Final Examinations will be held in the High School Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday Morning, May 27-30. Those who have been fortunate in having made high grades at the Mid-semester examinations and who have not been too frequently absent or tardy will be excused from taking the finals. Of course, those who took “French leave will write the examinations irrespective of high grades or other favorable records. Exercise and Refreshments—Sign on New York Store:—“Cup of coffee and a Roll Dawn Stairs for 15 cents.”—Exchange.

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Paxton High School Reflector 21 Miss Kaar, our beloved idol of years gone by who was so successful in teaching us Latin, is, at present, an instructor In Latin in her home school at Princeton. Illinois. Mr. Orville McCord, Manual training and Mechanical drawing teacher from 191 (I to 1918, left our domain February 29. 1918 upon receiving a notice from tiie Bloomington Exemption Board to report for service. Since being sent to France he corresponded with Mr. Papineau until recently. The last heard from him. Mr. McCord was in the Medical department. Base Hospital 82. He likes the country very well ‘‘for sightseeing” but does not care for a permanent occupation there. He reports “fine eats” and every convenience possible. Mr. Thatcher A. M.. our teacher in History and principal of P. H. S. last year is now superintendent of schools at Davis, West Virginia. Miss Mabvi Moore A. B. has charge of th Home Economics department of the Bellvllle, Illinois. High School. Miss Moore was an instructor in Sewing and English last year in P. H. S. Miss Gordon, who had charge of the Mechanical drawing and Manual training of p. h. S. last spring, after Mr. McCord left, is located at Whiteflsh, Montana, where she has an excellent position as instructor in the Art department. M. T. and H. M. ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL GRADUATING CLASS—SOME OF THEM AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. The class of 1918 was the largest class ever added to the alumni class roll in the history of P. H. S., there being forty-two graduates. Of this number eight are school ma'ams. They are at the present time successfully teach, ing at district schools within Ford County. Elfie Carlson is teaching near Piper City. Viola Lindgren. Lulu Frette and Amy Swanson, west of Paxton. The Perdueville “City School” has been taught the past term by Edna Swanson. N’aomi Miller, Agnes Leander and Avis Moffett are teaching east of Paxton. They all expect to continue teaching next year. The class of T8 has been well represented at the U. of I.; Ida Levinson, Hu by Lindberg, Rudolph Fagerburg, Ralph Stanford, l eona Peterson. Anna Watson and Flavius Webber entered last fall. Gladys Hurklund, Mary Kellar and Helen Hien . are learning the art of “housekeeping so have been at home the past year. Ben Thompson and Leonard Johnson are at the present time working on farms. Carl Peterson and Gordon Carson remained at home, in Clarence this year. Gordon has a position in his father’s office. Only four members of the class entered the business world after graduating. EBen Erickson is holding a stenographic position at the Aggarn Factory. Myrtle Hedstrand holds a position in Chicago, Dorothy White is with the Federal Jteserve Bank of Chicago and Selma Danielson, who was stenographer at Kerr Lindley's lawyers’ office is at the present clerking at the Grand Leader Department store. Ruth Morgan has been rendering the Paxton

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Paxton High School Reflector 23 Shirty-ninth Annual Commencement “Excelsior” program Music, “Madrigal in May” - - E. Newton High School Girls’ Glee Club Invocation - The Reverend W. Roy Columbus Vocal Solo (a) “The Swallows - Cotoen (b) “Come to the Garden, Love - Salter Miss Mary Tiffany, Supervisor of Music Address, “The Man in the Moon” William Forkell Music, “Night in June - - Offenbach High School Girls' Glee Club Presentation of Diplomas - O. J. Bainum, Supt. Benediction THE BUSINESS MANAGER. Mr. Lester Johnson. T9 has acted as business manager for this number of the Reflector. Special credit is due him for the skill and efficiency lie has shown. On account of the great advance in the cost of paper and printing, it at first seemed that it would be impossible to get out a sixty-four page Senior number this year and still dispose of single copies at the old price of twenty-five cents. Careful estimates, when the bids were in, indicated that, with the usual additional expense for pictures, each number, on the basis of 250 copies, would actually cost more than 50 cents. Rather than advance the price to the subscribers, tile business manager undertook the problem of increasing the income from advertising and at the same time decreasing the expense for pictures. With only a few exceptions, photos and groups appearing in this issue have been paid for by the persons most interested. Mr. Johnson has further shown his business ability by so meeting Paxton business and professional men in his rounds to solicit advertising as to increase, chiefly by securing a larger number of advertisers, the receipts from this source by about 75%. With this increased revenue in sight, it is now believed that the venture will pay out and leave a small balance.