Plainview High School - Plain View Yearbook (Plainview, TX)

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MAY 15, 1940 'Ni' One evening after a hard day's work as I was walking home 1 saw a fine car stop in front of my house. I could not imagine who the owner was, so was surprised to find that it was Elmer Cleavinger, an old schoolmate. VVe soon began to talk about our 1'ormer class- mates, many of Whom we had not seen for years. Elmer had become immensely wealth when oil was found on his sheep ranch, and had de- cided to spend several months visiting the members of the class ot '25, if he could learn their addresses The first one I had the pleasure of meeting, said Elmer, was Sam Barton. He was engaged in the very difficult task of shoeing a locoed mule and was in no humor to meet anyone so I drove on. I was becoming thirsty so decided to go to a confectionery to quench my thirst, but, before arriving, I met Alcott Kirk Whom I asked to have a drink with me. He objected on the grounds that he had something better and insisted that I drink with him. I did and found that., like Sam Barton, he was also handling something with it kick. He told me that I would find Robert Tull and Lyle Thomas working together for the Santa Fe. I made the mistake, however, of visiting them during working hours, so had not talked to them long when the section boss Hballedl' me out for interfering with his men. I was having a mighty hard time seeing the boys so decided to call on some of the girls. I happened to know where one ot them lived and as I was driving down the road, thinking of the days spent in P. H. S. and not realizing that I was on the left side of the road, I ran headlong into a truck loaded with barrels of slop. The driver, a bearded, hard-looking hog raiser, called me some ugly names and was getting I vw enty eight

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i 3 fflfl' f MARIE LUNA MINNIE WEBB We all love Marie because we can't Friendship in some may be at low help it. ebb, n . But we find it strong in Minnie Philo '23, '24g Senior Club '25g Glee 4 Vvebbln Club '24, '25- Eufglo 'zlg Glee Club 325. I MULLIS ISBELL WELDON GARNER A hearty sort of a boy, Happy-go-lucky and full of fun, Lil-9 to him Seems a joyy He's always there when there's a race to run. Basketball '25, Orchestra '22, '23, '24g Euglo '23, '24: Representative to staff '23, '24, Twenty-seven

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I fl -1. fkLJ i . ready to overhaul me with a monkey wrench when he recognized me. He was none other than NVeldon Garner. I was surprised to learn that he had married Lois Lipscomb, a member oi' the class, and that her lighting weight was three hundred and twenty-five pounds. I knew that it' he could take a small girl like Lois and fatten her into such proportions, he would, no doubt, have great success at his present occupation. I gave VVeldon the remains of my car and the price ol' a new Ford truck and we parted, hoping to meet again, but not in the same manner. The girls are very hard to l'ind for most ot them have changed their names at least once, while others like Jessie Lea Mauk have married and divorced their husbands from five to seven times. I met several of the class at a street carnival where J. C. Boyd took up tickets on the merry-go-round, Raymond Marquis was the human skeleton in a side show and Vvilliam Pinkerton was oi'- fering one dollar a minute to anyone who could stay in the ring with him. I asked William il' he knew where Frank Barnes was and he said that he thought everybody knew: he occupies cell number I4 at th-e asylum at Terrell. Hard study wrecked his master mind. He thinks he is Nero and plays his fiddle every time he hears the fire whistle. None of the old students I have seen amount to much except one, and that is in size only. l believe that this condition is a re- sult oi' the severe sand storms and lack of rain in the spring of l925, it' I have interpreted correctly the dissertation given me by the eminent Dr. Charles WVright who said he made a protracted study of the condtions on his trip to Europe the summer following his brain storm brought on by worry during the fatal month before his departure from P. H. S. I'll call on you on my way back and tell you about the rest of the 'gangi Goodbye. -CLASS PROPHET. Twenty mn'