Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY NVe have two more representatives out west, Verne Guinney and M. Hostetler. These girls, not being able to find a husband in Indiana, went out there in hope of linding one. They are traveling in Idaho now and if they come across the horse radish ranch they may be lucky enough to get good husbands, as joe and NVayne are lonesome. Helen Brenton is in charge of a girls' seminary in Massachusetts. Strange to say, Helen allows no male on the premisesg but she can't be blamed muchffor being disgusted with the men. C. Burnett went into training immediately after graduation, and is today the champion heavyweight fighter of the world. He has whipped ,lack Johnson twice, and, 'tis said, it is impossible to knock him out. E. Burnett, after graduating, attended a' musical academy and is now in Bunker Hill giving lessons on the French harp. It seems queer that none of our members tried to find the north pole, but yet we have a representative in the north, Helen Chute, who traveled in Nova Scotia, a year after graduating. She is now performing mis- sionary work among the Esquimaux in Greenland. Helen's warm heart is making a hit in Greenland. A. Goldsbarry went on the stage and he is exceedingly -28 glad that he is small, as he is playing the baby Napoleon in The Newlyweds and Their Baby. The future of Ethan Graves was certainly inliuenced by the environment of his school days. Ethan had so many admirers-Josephine, Edith and Nellie VVilson, Dora Metheny and Loretta Bauer-that he had to become a Mormon in order to marry all. They are now living in Salt Lake City and, strange to say, no jealousy arises between the wives, for each is satished with her generous share of his love. 'L. Haas and Pug Lawrence, who were always crazy about the ocean, are now deck hands on the submarine boat Mabel, named after Pug's wife. Mabel M. and Pug were married about tive years ago, but Booy has not yet been able to find a girl that he thought would be suitable for a wife. H. Hornbeckunoted as the swellest-looking kid in high school, is now in New York, posing for fashion plates. L. Kreutzer and E. Long both took up literary life. Lucile has just finished the greatest love story ever writ- ten, while Edith is contributing detective stories for that publication called Diamond Dick. Georgia Lavengood made fudge in a candy kitchen for a number of years after graduation. One day after turn- ing out a batch she conceived the idea of making bricks

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Senior Class Prophecy It was on a beautiful April day of the year 1921 that I felt a longing to return to my old home in Peru and there visit as many of my old classmates as I could. A few hours after my plan was decided upon, I was on my way. In due time I arrived, and as I had not been in Peru since I left Qimmediately after graduationl, I ex- pected to find things somewhat changed. But when I saw the streets thronged with people, I was surprised. Upon inquiry, I discovered that it was the opening day of the VVallace-Hagenbeck shows. Of course, I was de- lighted, for I thought I would be unusually successful in seeing some of my old friends. Imagine, then, my disappointment when evening came and I had not yet seen one. I hoped against hope as I entered my box at the circus, which was fitted out like a theater. VVhile waiting for the show to start I heard a familiar voice call out Peanuts and crackerjack! Last time around ! I thought I knew that voice, and after looking around I finally saw Lee Hiner, dressed in a white canvas suit, disposing of his sweets. I called to him and asked for a sack of peanuts. Upon hearing my voice he came up and grabbed my hand and declared he was mighty pleased to see me. He also said that he and his wife would be glad to have me call at the hotel after the show. I asked him who his wife was, and he said she was the animal trainer' in the show. Cf course, I was anxious to see who she was, and I could hardly wait until the show opened. Finally I saw the animals come into the steel arena and with them a very young looking girl with short hair. Now, I always knew Bessie S. was a good boy tamer, but I never dreamed of her becoming an animal tamer. - After the show was all over I met Lee and Bessie at the hotel and began talking over the good times we used to have at school and the scattering of all the other class- mates whom I hadn't seen for so long. Lee said he and Bessie had had jobs as bookkeepers in the same office, but since both were crazy about each other and also about circus life, they had decided to get married and start out with the circus. They said they did not wish to forget all they had learned about bookkeeping, and so had decided to keep a record of the Senior class. ,I asked them to read what they had in it. It certainly contained some very funny remarks. From that and other sources I got the following: Mildred Ashton, after deciding to postpone her mar- riage a while, became a school teacher. She is now making the little things count by teaching arithmetic in the first grade. Joe Bradley and Wayne Ray, anxious to rise up in the world, went west and are now'located somewhere in Idaho on a horse radish ranch. They have met with great success and are becoming very wealthy. -27

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY from it. Now she is becoming wealthy in the brick-manu- facturing business. Blanche Loder was married three months after receiv- ing her diploma and the last time I saw her she was fussing with a lock of her husband's hair in a gold watch locket. No, her husband is not deadg he is just bald-headed. Fern Mahley, who made such a hit in the girls' basket- ball team, is now coaching the B. B. team of the Amboy Seminary. ' George Martin also tried to become a basket-ball coach, but failed. Later he took up politics, and it is ru- mored that he will be a Socialist candidate next term for the position of janitor in the White House. R. Martindale made quite a sensation with her stage dancing, but now, for some time, has been giving lessons in Boston, and it is said that some of the greatest dancers on the stage today were at one time her pupils. R. McElwee, after taking geometry in high school as long as possible, went to a special geometry school, where he graduated last year. But Mc. had his troubles for a few days after leaving the schoolg he was given this old prob- lem: How many cubic feet of dirt in a' hole ten feet square? He worked so hard on it without meeting with any success that as a result he was forced to seek the rest cure in Colorado, where he is now located. E. McCall became a Red Cross nurse and took a prom- inent part in the war between the United States and Japan. C. Miller and VV. Nelp, who are now such great mu- sicians, founded the Peru Symphony Orchestra, and are soon to make a tour of the world. C. Murphy took to following the plow and at present owns almost half of Miami county. Clarence said the girls never bothered him much, but one will get him yet, if he keeps on becoming so rich. Nellie Owens, A. Rhein and Lola Kard are ardent women suffragettes. They have succeeded in getting wom- en's suffrage in forty states of the Union and have a good chance in the rest. The trouble with these girls is that they haven't met the right fellow yet. E. Scherschel was interested in the telephone business and later invented a telephone by which the person at the other end of the line might be seen. This machine is called the Scherschelscope and is used all over the world. Edith Wells is another victim of the stage, for she is now in vaudeville, imitating Eva Tanguay. S Lelia Will and Gail Zartman were unable to secure a proper man, so are conducting a summer home for chil- dren of the slums. However, they are not like Miss Bren- ton, for they want all the men about the place they can get, in the hope of being able to keep one. -29