Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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Our next big stop was at Chicago. From the depot, I could see a brilliantly lighted sign, which read: “Reducing Parlors—Steam Baths, Specialty.” Upon closer investigation 1 saw that Olive Keener was the proprietress. And Olive had always had such high ideals! I went in and talked to Hive for a while. She was a great advertisement for her shop, because she had gotten a very svlph-like figure. From Olive 1 learned very little, except that sin and Edna Murphy corresponded. Edna had become a missionary. Her present work kept her in China. Her manner of converting the Chinese was very effective. If they would not agree to become Christians she had them hanged. 1 got to talk to Olive for only a short time, because she was very busy. From Chicago we went to St. Louis, Missouri. After the first performance a very flapperish lady came back to see me. She was Mrs. Alice Wallace Smith Jones VanPelt Mayo. Alice had lost her last husband in a flood only two weeks before. I asked her if she wasn’t grieved over his death, and she said, “Oh, no, there’s plenty more where he came from.” Alice had a lovely home in the suburbs of St. Louis, where I visited her. From her 1 learned that Isabelle McNees, although married, and tin mother of four children, would not give up her career as an aesthetic dancer in the Sandwich Village Follies. Isabelle, for some reason, imagined that she was famous. Alice also told me that Adolph Nielsen was the editor of the leading newspaper of St. Louis. lien I was at Alice’s I couldn’t resist reading some of the literature she had in her library. One of the most sensational stories in “True Confessions” was written by our demure Elizabeth Hill. We took a hurried departure from St. Louis, because tin negroes were on a rampage, and we feared a race riot. We stopped at several small towns in Kansas. In one of these small towns was a girls’ school, the Dean of which was Ellen Michie. Ellen told me that she had been disappointed in love, so she had decided to make her life worth while, by helping to educate girls. Ellen said that she had just heard of Evelyn’s crime. Evelyn was the only person she had heard of since 1930. We arrived, about the middle of June, in Denver, Colorado. Here 1 met Charlie Bates. Charlie told me that he dare not talk to me very long, because his wife was furiously jealous of him, and she would scalp us both. I invited him to visit me the next day, and he said that lie would if he could possibly escape from his wife. He, in some way, managed to get away from her for a couple of hours. Charlie informed me that his marriage was not what he thought it would be. It seemed that he had successfully wooed Eleanor Rendle from Mike. Eleanor had never forgiven him. In the course of our conversation I learned from Charlie that Walter Olson was in South Africa trying to convert the savages. W alter would doubtless be successful if it were not for the detrimental work of Bea Espy. Bea was teaching the natives how to do the Charleston. This was, of course, more attractive than religion. Charlie thought that lie heard Eleanor’s voice so he left rather abruptly. In Salt Lake City, Utah, I met Harry McFarland. Harry hadn’t

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Senior Class Prophecy Jn 1936, after having traveled with minor circuses for several years, 1 was offered a very good position as an acrobat in Higley Nielson Circuses, Inc. This circus had grown in the last five years, until it was even greater than Ringling Bros., or Barnum Bailey’s. The owners of this circus were two of my former schoolmates, Charles Higley and Arnold Nielsen. Although I never came into direct contact with the owners, I heard a great deal about them. For example, 1 heard that Mr. Higley had conducted a soft (!) drink parlor for a couple of years before he organized the circus, lie had been arrested for some reason, and vowed that he would never again earn a dishonest living, so his circus was run on a strictly honest basis. On my travels through the world, I met some of my old friends. I shall here endeavor to tell of my meeting them, and of their various occupations. We started from Toledo, Ohio, one day in the early part of March. Our first stop was at Indianapolis, Indiana. We were informed that we wouldn’t have a very large crowd at our opening because one of the leading actresses of the day was in Indianapolis. I t was so long since I had seen anyone act outside of a circus, that I decided to see her as soon as my part in the circus was over. The name of the play which she appeared in was “Her Diamond Necklace.” The name sounded interesting. 1 was greatly surprised to recognize Hazel Burrell as the actress who had caused such a sensation. She had changed her name to Blondina Kristackus. After the play, I went to see Hazel. She was very glad to see me, as I was only the second school chum she had seen since she went on the stage. She told me that when the play was staged in Columbia, she had met Irving Draper. He was the professor of English at Hale University. We talked for a long time about Rawlins and our school days. Hazel informed me that she was very unhappy, even though she had become famous. When I left her, she told me that we should correspond with one another, because surely in our travels we would meet some of our old friends. We did write to one another for a couple of months, but Hazel married an old man for bis money, and he wouldn’t allow her to correspond with a common circus acrobat. After we left Indianapolis we went to Springfield, Illinois. Here a murder trial was in progress. As I had never been to a trial, I decided to go to this one. It semed to be causing a great sensation. I was greatly surprised t recognize Rapheal Lackey as the District Attorney. I was more surprised and grieved to see that Evelyn Startzell was the accused. She had murdered Mike McNiff. Evelyn was dressed very well, and sat there flirting with the judge. When she was asked to tell her motive in killing Mike, she said that he had simply aggravated her beyond endurance. When I left Springfield, the accused was being examined, in an attempt to prove that she was insane.

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changed a bit. He was about to take his fifth leap into matrimony. Poor Harry! His other four wives had been utter disappointments, but he still had hopes. Harry told me that be was living off of the money which his wives had left him in order to get rid of him. He had heard of several of the old bunch. Nellie Murphy, he heard, was making a hit as an opera star in the Cosmopolitan Theatre at Fort Steele, Wyoming. He informed me that Wyeth Sullivan was a rancher. As Wyeth’s ranch was near Salt Lake City, 1 decided to go out and see him. Wyeth was just as handsome as ever. In fact, it seemed almost impossible that so charming a man should be a bachelor. Wyeth had become very prosperous in the sheep industry. It seemed remarkable that he should have so large a number of sheep, because when I had last heard of him, be possessed only two bum lambs. Wyeth told me of the only two members of our class of whom I hadn’t heard. Gordon Larson was the most popular Ambassador to Israel. Recently Gus had been involved in a political scandal, but that had blown over so that lie was now living peacefully. Harold Johnson, Wyeth had heard, had become very prosperous as a designer of French clothes on the Fiji Islands. By the time the season ended I had heard of or seen every member of the Class of 1926. MARION PORTER ’26 'W H ¥ Why Some of the Seniors go to the Shows HAZEL BURRELL—Because she gets in free. CHARLES BATES—To learn some new jokes. OLIVE KEENER—For their educational value. CHARLES IIIGLEY—To get some new pointers in love-making. IRVING DRAPER—To flirt. BEA ESPY—To razz the picture. CORDON LARSON—To learn some new big words. HARRY McFARAND ) m „ . .. ,. . WYETH SUI I IV N ) eeP “om breaking their record. ELEANOR RENDLE—Because she has somebody to take her. EDNA MURPHY—To catch up on the latest fashions. HAROLD JOHNSt)N—Because be basil’t any place else to go. MARION PORTER—To learn to be a Ford mechanic. ADOLPH NIELSEN ) Q .. , . ARNOLD NIELSEN j ho tll y can bc t°s 'tlier-ELIZABETH HILL—Because Hermine does. MIKE McNIFF—To see the last prize fight. NELLIE MURPHY—To learn the latest dance steps. RAPHEAL LACKKEY—Because it’s close to home. ALICE WALLACE—To see who’s there.