Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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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.

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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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24 Paxton High School Reflector Class iViqlit :]Jmigrant |Jaxtnn Hic h J5 cluuil iFriitau betting, iHau 23, HU9 ‘EXCELSIOR” Music..................... Salutation, “The Transit” Class Song............... Class History— (a) General... (b) Individual. ...High School Orchestra ...........Helen Swanson ...........Class of 1919 Erie Hutchison . Mabel Farrell Class Oration, “Edward Coles, the First Anti Slavery Leader in Illinois”..................................................Lester Johnson Giftorians ............................. Class Will.............................. Class Poem, “Purple and Gold”........... Class Prophecy.......................... Vocal Solo, “Sing, Smile, Slumber”...... Class Baby Pictures..................... Presentation of the Gavel to Junior Class Response to Presentation................ Piano Duet.............................. Valedictory—“Excelsior”................. Music................................... .....Hazel Morgan, Glenn Sallee ......Iveila Karr, Mahlon Kenney ....................Edgar Peterson Marie Bennett, Clarence Kollman .................. Florence Hodam ..Hazel Morgan. Mauritz Anderson ........................Mae Tibby .............Catharine Thompson ..Lorene Hanson, Edith Chrisman .................Florence Hodam ..........High School Orchestra Class Stunts— Mary Fox, Ervin Swanson, Hazel Morgan, Clarence Kollman, Bessie Brown, Marie Bennett, Guy Gee, Edgar Peterson, Glenn S3llee, Charles Ernst. Mary Webber, Nobel C. Johnson, and others. (A) “And the Lamp Went Out;’ (B) “Miss P. H. S. Senior Entertains.” Class Colors—Purple and Gold. Class Flower—Pansy.