Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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THE PEKIN IAN them, and they informed me that Mabel Wallace and Ella Becker were teaching in the new High School at home, which had been finished the previous year. And that Harry Goldsmith, no longer a man of leisure, had accepted the position of janitor of tin new building, and had also taken away the trials and tribulations of Jake Graft, and was to carry on his work. As I was returning home, I stopped in Chicago a few days, and there met another of our old classmates, Ida Campbell, who is secretary of the V. M. C. A. in that city. Last week I attended the funeral of Arthur Ehrlicher. it was conducted bv Mr. Schaefer. Poor Arthur died of that disease he had while in school. The doctors pronounced tin cause of his death as ‘‘brain-give-outous,” as he knew too much for a man so small in stature. Rhoda Miner has settled down to domestic tranquility, as has Lillie King. I received a letter from Lillie a few days ago, telling me how happy she was in her palatial home in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. George Bush, one of our most industrious boys while in High School, is now Mayor of the thriving village of Manito, ami is one of its leading business men. Frank Cullinan is street and alley commissioner of Delavan. I had often wondered what had become of Hester and Nina, as I had never heard anything of them for a long time, until the other day. I had a visitor from Groveland, who told me that Nina and Hester were maiden ladies of that village, and they were always trying to excell each other in obstinacy. I understand Minnie Ginther is a giggling waitress at the Waldorf, in New York, and Fred Mott is struggling with the hardships of a poet, in a garret bedroom, hut I did not see them while in New York. Ralph Reding is one of the scientific farmers of the age, and is noted for the excellent quality of horse radish lie grows. Iva and Julia are leading suffragettes t' Peoria, and I tons Koch, Marie Fluegel and Lillian Vogelsang are in Paris, studying iii latest styles, in view of opening a fashionable ladies’ shop in Washington, 1). C. Miss Wiekkizer is tin demure wife of Rev. Eden, a popu lar evangelist. Elizabeth Weyrich and Lois Bauer are running a bakery and confectionery store, in competition with Hackler Bros. Leona Friederich and Loraine Tinnej are moving picture actresses. Miss Friederich is leading lady for the VitagIBph Co.,and MissTinney is with tin Keystone ( ., being a second Mabel Normand. Lewis Lohmann is a reporter for the Peoria Journal, school notes being his specialty. I '«• • Marguerite Alt’s quite often, as she is still living in her beautiful home in the suburbs. I hope you are succeeding in your school of ,‘Voice Culture.” Those years in Berlin must have been a great help t you. It is time for tin- mail man, and I'm expecting the check for the proceeds from the fourt li edition of my last book. I hope I have not taken up too much of your time, but I wanted to commemorate the day that is dear to us all. Sincerely, FLORENCE.

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® ® e THE PEKINIAN MHMMaBHBRCBBRRnHHBHBWHBBBKRBRSMnn JUNIOR CLASS s8S£ President, HELEN WOOD V ice President, HOWARD BROOKING Secretary, MABEL BYRAM Treasurer, IRENE KOENEKE Glass Flower — Yellow Rose Glass Colors— Purple and Gold Motto— “Sieze the opportunity’