Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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i7 -.5 FHea'--'Halo-'L ' 17Wi WH +vAaf ff W-, icq-4401 wt' A-3 + ' ,ja+c1.'- Jerry of Jericho Road--The Story An Operetta Given by the Combined Boys' and Girls' Choruses Alan O'Day, a wealthy Easterner, desires the hand of Sandy Bank in marriage. Sandy rejects him because her mother, Lettioe Bank, so shamelessly favors the match on account of Alan's bank account. In an effort to forget Sandy, Alan goes west to his ranch, which he converts into a tourist camp. Lattice Bank, not to be thwarted, takes her husband and Sandy and follows Alan, her excuse for the venture being that she wishes to live in the open to regain her health. The little party camps on some land adjoining Alan's ranch, which turns out to be valuable oil land owned by Geraldine Bank, a niece. Geraldine, known as Jerry, fearing arrest by the police whose station she had ' demolished with her aunt's automobile, hires out to Alan as a helper to hide her identity. John Drayton, Alan's cousin, wishing to locate Jerry for the purpose of buying her land for a syndicate of which he is a member, hires Hunter, a detective, to assist him. When he finds that Hunter is cheating to get the land for hin- self, he discharges him. Mimi, a friend of John's, locates Jerry at the ranchg John and Jerry form an attachment for each other, but through a twist of circumstances, Jerry is led to believe that John and Mimi are trying underhandedly to acquire her land at a profit for themselves. At a masquerade she denounces them and leaves. The next morning it is discovered that Jerry, Sandy, and Hunter have disappeared, also a Mr. Bean from Boston. Later Sandy returns and says that Hunter, think- ing she was Jerry, forced har into his car, but on finding his mistake, left her in the road and followed Mr. Bean and Jerry to Jericho. when Jerry and Mr. Bean return, Sandy announces that she has given him an op- tion on her land until her papers arrive from home, but, if by that time oil has not been found, she intends to sell the land to Hunter at his price. Later, when she is about to dispose of the land to Hunter, she learns that, in the Spring before, a gusher had been brought in, and had been capped awaiting her decision to sell, and that in some way Hunter had discovered the fact. She also learns that Mr. Bean is president of John's syndicate and that Mimi is his wife, and that their efforts from the first have been to protect her interests. All ends happily as Alan and Sandy forgive and forget, and Jerry, thoroughly ashamed, promises never to doubt John again.