Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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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

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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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SENIGR CLASS PROPHECY Stella VVolfe is keeping books in a large hair-dressing parlor. It is thought that Stella is a silent partner, and I would not be surprised if she actually owned all of the business. Hester VVood, who holds the record for saying more words in a minute than any other person in the world, is now making graphophone records for the Edison people. Fern Poor joined the Salvation Army and has recently been appointed first lieutenant. She takes up the collec- Josephine Lockridge moved to New York, where she became very popular among the 'tfour hundred. VVhile reading a newspaper not long ago, I saw that she is en- gaged to an English count. I can hardly believe that, as Josephine is fa-r too good-looking to marry any one but a native of Peru. When I came to my name on the record, there was only a blur. They were unable to make it out, and so I suggested that my life was like it-only a blur-but they would not agree with me. At length, we closed the book on the intensely interesting outcome of the famous class of tion, by which she makes a good living. nineteen-lleven. -Emil Schram, jr., 1911. F Q, V- 0 ' if rf x x7 Q: all 3 :Ju lr ' JJ nd' Q frlx . 4X ' fig, .U , Y Wrkzzev f wsevz':?:?:f,.r' -30