Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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“Em Wylie has been pledged Kappa Alpha Theta. She seems to have taken quite an interest in the Phi Si, Phi Gamm, and Beta fraternities. We wish you luck, Em. Arny Carlsten is serving an apprenticeship in Davis' Drug Store. He expects to enter an Apothecary School in the near future. Marion Piele, Viola Gylander, Winona Gardner, Francis Glad, Harriet Cain, Ivan Johnson, Goldie Carlson, Evalyn Turner, Bob Moffett, and Walter Swanson are staying at home this year. Arline Carlsten has a fine position with Moline Brothers as stenographer Bercile Burkard, Flo Lindquist, and Bessie Steward are atteding Normal University. Martha Belle Dunnan is preparing for kindergarten work at Oklahoma University. Pete Rasmussen is working for the Zitterell Company. Irma Morrison and Pauline Given are attending school at Wheaton. Doc Corbly expects to enter a business school. Ramy Johnson will enter George Washington University. Nina Mullinax is working at the canning factory at present. Gladys Hodam, Lillie Johnson, Phoebe Johnson, Sarah Mae Kenney, and Myrtle Stange have become the strictest (?) of school marms. Zetta Jones is working in Kankakee. Ebba Tinberg has a position a? stenographer. Harold Hagens is attending Mil-liken University. BE INFORMED (Continued from Page 13) only enjoyed seeing your beautiful city but it has given me the greatest pleasure to meet your fine citizens. Never in any other city have I seen such intelligent and thrifty people. It gladdens my heart to see that so many have come to hear me tonight. I certainly feel that I am very much honored to be able to address such intelligent people. I am afraid I am not deserving of so great a favor. I am to talk to you tonight on ‘Who Will Make the Best President.’ Now I have taken the greatest pains to make a careful examination of this affair, in order that my judgment may be founded on true facts, and my well formed opinion of the affair is this: The candidate who will make the best President is the one who is not interested in personal gain or in the welfare of certain friends but in the common good of the nation. I want to thank everyone for their kind attention this evening. I hope I have not tired you out with too many political records and stories. I always aim to come right to the point and not put in too many tiresome and misleading details. It has certainly been the greatest pleasure to talk to this audience. Never in any other city have I ever talked to such interested and attentive listeners. I want once more to tell you how pleased I have been to come to this beautiful city and to t=»lk to its intelligent citizens, and I hope that what I have said to you this evening will prove useful in the coming election. I thank you. —Frances Lindley. —Page Sixteen—

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 THE ALUMNI PAGE Hello, folks, are you feeling exceptionally peppy this year? With your help we are going to have an unusually good Alumni Page, and we shall need lots of contributions. Dcn’t be bashful. If you have something you want to say, stick it in an envelope addressed to The Alumni Reporter, P. C. H. S,’ and post it. We will take editorials, personals, pictures, jokes, or questions for the question box. Please sign your name or initials with your class numerals to all contributions. We take this opportunity for thanking the contributors of this month’s page, and please remember you can send in as many contributions as you like. Thanks for our first editorial. “Doc.” Send in some more. STUDENTS, ATTENTION! Something is lacking! That ’’something’’ is School Spirit! A great many of us, in fact most of us, believe we are doing enough for the team and school by going to the games; some do not do that, yet they think they have School Spirit. They have NOT! (To be continued) REWARD REWARD REWARD Whose sentiments are the above? Send answers to The Alumni Reporter.’’ THE CLASS OF ’24 AND WHERE THEY ARE ’’Bang’’ Benjamin, upon entering the U. of I„ applied for a position as chief cook and bottle washer at one of the sororities of the Daughters of Abraham. One Reb — What is your name? ” “Bang —‘ Benjamin. One Reb —(After scrutinizing gaze)— You're hired.” “Shorty Pierce has been pledged Alpha Sigma at the U. of I. “Hump Campbell, who has entered Knox College, has been pledged Tau Kappa Epsilon. Carl has a position as salesman in a large Ladies’ Department Store. Mug Kirkpatrick, also at Knox, (merely a coincidence) has been bid Phi Mu. Spaghetti Thompson has entered Lindenwood, a school for young ladies. What does she do in her spare time??????------------- Butter Johnson and Frank Platt grace the halls of “Chicago Tech. Although we have not been able to locate Fred Ericson, we have information from a reliable source that Fred spends most of his time hanging around a certain country school. — Page Fifteen

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 REFLECTOR JOKES Hear your cook quit. Jack. Yep. My swedie went away. Freshie: “I don’t feel well this morning. Soph: Where do you feel worse? Freshie: In school. Teacher: Describe water, Johnny. Johnny: Water is a white fluid that turns black when you put your hands in it. Green Eyes: “The boys certainly fall for her. Wonder what kind of perfume she uses?” Second Green Eyes: Ether, I’ll bet. Miss Sharp: ‘And when Lord Chesterfield saw that death was near, he gathered his friends around him and before he breathed his last he uttered those immortal words. Who can tell me what the dying words of Lord Chesterfield were? Class (in chorus) : They Satisfy.” Two Sophs strolled into the Latin classroom. The first one sniffled, What smells so funny in here- It must be the dead language, said the second. No, spoke up the professor, It s the rotten grades. A wise man makes himself known by his silence, a fool by his noise.’ 1 hat is the reason so many seniors in American History think they re so smart. Clever: Say you dumb, did you ever have your head examined? Cleverer: Yah, once, and the teacher wouldn t let anyone sit close to me afterwards. Edgar R.: Do you know any- thing worse than having measles and smallpox at the same time? Oty: Yes. Having rheumatism with Saint Vitus dance. Small Boy: Say, I got an uncle with a wooden leg. Boys Friend: Ho, that’s nothing, 1 got a sister with a cedar chest. Prof.: What are you doing here? Learning anything?” Student: No, sir, 1 m just listening to you. Teacher: Jimmy, what crops are raised in China? Jimmy (rather loudly): Dish- es. Teacher (in history): Yes Old Jackson as I knew him was a fine man. Pupil (stage whisper): “Gee, she s older than I thought she was. Page Seventeen