Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Rockford Daily Repegistar Circulation Guaranteed NOVEMBER 19, 1919 Price 10C Per I-laps 759 Slater Caught Shoplifting in L. i Wigell's Hardware Store l l ALMOST GOT Y ' LQCALS l With 2 Stoves and Gas Fixtures. Caught by C. Brocksh aw B rown ATTORNEY COLIDGE T0 DEFEND Continued on page 8. ,T..0,,1 The lady patrons of Strots meat market will grieve to learn that the good looking young floorwalker, Merlyn Trescott, has left the firm. R. Decamp is now ass't mg'r of substation No. 4 on the Beloit line. Prof, B. A. Frost has taken up a professorship of science ln W. Springs Business Col- lege. Oaursmegatheir prot . uni: confidentially ' ' predicts that it will be colder tomorrow if the temperature drops. .ii.0,T., P. I. Graves has left his be11ch in E. Widman's shoe repairing shop. He simply cau't hold the lasts between his knees. Lawyer Alice McPherson is coming to the front in sut- fragism. She will be candi- date for mayor of Roscoe next spring. M. Hemenway has bought an interest in Dreamland, We will soon see his face at the window. l l Miss Grace Barnett has ac- cepted a position as stenog- rapner at the suspender fac- tory. Ralph Billingham wishes to thank his friends for their liberal patronage of his truck gardening enterprise. Miss Pearl Burrell has ac- cepted the position ot' dem- onstrator at Pekin, China. for Denatured Iron Filing, a new brain food. Ralph James has taken a position as warden at the Vtlinnebago Insane Asylum. Drs. E, B. Rowley and C. E. Boswell will open offices in the Trust Bldg. soon. They leave a well established prac- tice in Rockton. Both are srraduates of the Dakota tIll.J Academy of Anatomy. Prominent Citizen Passes Away at Brown's Creek. Carlton Welsh is now a Dead one. Undertaker W. Anglemire buries him in brick yard by mistake. Deceased was prom- inent worker in Ladies' Aid Society. Discontinued on Pge. ti. -,ol Miss Theresa Rea is now with the Trescuit Battle Creek Co., makers of sand baked breakfast foods. Miss Belle Hinchliff has been awarded t.he position of domestic science teacher in the Marengo high school. By Qin! llire Roscoe Times-Chronicle Nov, 18th. Hallet Mershon, an agri- culturist of this locality, was thrown from his wagon in a collision with a street car this morning. The body was torn from the running gears and his products were strewn over the road, but fortunate. ly he wasn't hurt.

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20 THE ROCKFORD HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL appearance, and the teachers smile broadly as they say, XYhat can they not do when the new building is all nicely finished? The curtain falls amid a deafening clash of noises of carpentering. Scene 2. The rising of the curtain reveals thc room in Scene 1, now finished off beautifully. The confusion of carpenters has quieted and cleared away. The juniors. decreased still more in numbers, are work- ing most industriously. Anxious puckers have al- ready begun to appear in their foreheads. Yet the reports are still a credit to their labors, and the ath- letes have grown surprisingly in number and glory. The juniors are also well represented in the lland, tilee Club, Debating Society,-in fact, all the organ- izations of the school. liveryone is proud of our heroes and heroines. Only one event marks the pleasure of this scene. .-Xt the close, the kind gen- tleman who first welcomed these people as Fresh- men enters and bids a sad farewell to the mourn- ful study body. ffurtain falls.:I ACT IY. Scene 1. I.-Xll stage settings blue and whitej . The curtain, rising, reveals a very busy scene. ln the foreground the main body of now dignified Seniors is poring over deep volumes, their brows contracted with the mighty concentration of their brilliant intelleets. A group of teachers, now head- ed by a dark young gentleman, look on approvingly from the background. To the left is a group of ath- letes. football, baseball, basketball and track heroes, each crowned with a wreath of fresh laurels. and surrounded by a worshipping throng of lower class- men. At the right is a large table, over which hovers a grand old Owl, the task master of the large company about the table. At their head is a Naught Niner, however,-so of course the old bird is very happy and prosperous. Not far away another group is busy compiling the Annual, CXVith what sue- cess you are witnessj. At the other side of the stage a young orator, resplendent with a well won medal, is vying with a young lady who is deelaim- ing at his side. The teachers are busy piling up the work, For, as they say, 'tis our last chance at this banner class. Scene 2. ltefore R. H. S., as in Act I. Scene 1. .-Xll set- tings bluc and white, draped in black. The beauti- ful statue of Fama is shining with more glorious blaze than ever before. llefore the door is the class of IQO9, increased in stature and wisdom, and, though diminished from its original number, still the largest class ever graduated. All are weeping cotxiously,-athletes, orators, artists and students. The teachers and under-classmen are sadly bidding them farewell. Men and women of the world, too, are here, eagerly beckoning the Seniors forth into society, business. education, philanthropy,-all the different walks of life. Then, each proud graduate receives his or her diploma, earned by slow and pain- ful degrees. and fondly looking back all cry, l are- well, dear Rockford High l fCurtain falls.1 -I.. O. VV. 'o9.

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'J ROCKFURD DAILY REPEGISTAR PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING Assocnvrsn l ness SERVICE 23 BOTH PHONES 23 3 Editorial If you happen to be knock- ed in these columns, kindly remember that the editor doesn't write this fhI'll mal- ice: he has to SllDDOI't a small family of nine large children.-J. W. VV. l0,.Y Miss Lillian Tinberg gave an oratorical 1'ecital at the White Conservatory of Dra- matic Arts last evening. The large number who were pres- eIIt were very much impress- ed and speak highly of the results being accomplished by the instructors, the Miss- es Lucile and Leila White. Niss Garnett Nash, teach--r of grade 1, Lincoln school, has arranged to give her pu- pils a treat tomorrow after- noon. They will be given a lecture by Prof. Ferguson Wormwood, M. D., N. I. F., the famous ex-Rea specialist. He will enlighten the little ones as to the Super-excres- cence of Expository Motiva- tion. ..T0. Advertise in the Repegistar ROCKFORD DAILY REPEGISTAR A HORRIBLE CCIDE T Joe Lundholm, head pencil pusher for Pearson Lumber Co., slips on piece of atmo- sphere and is precipitated to the ground. Hang nail on right hand horribly mangled. Thinks atmosphere was placed there on purpose. Dr. 'William Holly administers relief. Continued elsewhere. -EOL- The Misses Marguerite Pe- terson and Alma Stevens are home on a short visit from Chicago, where they are nurs- ing in St. Luke's hospital. Esther Mead and Mary Ross are editing a new maga- zine, The Ladies' Home Ba- zar. Every copy contains short stories, dress patterns, 2 pages of music and house- hold hints. It is illustrated oy that artist of far-famed ability, Miss Stella Mande- ville, and promises to be very popular among the gentler sex. Another star has been add- ed to the galaxy of Repegis- tar reporters. After using every means of persuasion, the editor has obtained the services of Miss Marguerite Skinner, who will write our Society Notes and also a new column of her own invention, headed Smiles . 553996899689963294-89i682k32iC-8294-599689 socusrri 1voTEs :Za Pi- 39'DG 32-DG89-56SSNSQNSS-X-SSX-SSNSSMSSH Miss Edna Cutting enter- tained at a dinner party last night. It is whispered about that it was a prenuptial af- fair. Rev. W. Ashton Johnson of Court St. M. E, church will take for his text next Sun.. The immoralities of reading literatrre on the Sabbath. Brother Elvidge will lead Sun. School. Master Waldo Harris will take a place as soloist in the chcir cf the Holy Jumpers. Miss Marjorie Gihbonoy has returned from Mud lake, where she reports the fish are plentiful, biting on iAn- glelworms taken from the tlwirel. M'1ne. Lucie Brearly has returned to her old home for a few days visit prior to a year's concert tour in Eu- rope. Miss Fern Lane has been appointed teacher of room 8 of the Fred Camlin school, taking the place va- cated by Miss Madeline Pet- ritz. Miss Petritz leaves the city next week for Lawt, on the river Rhein. HAIRBREADTH ESCA PE Four Ladies Attacked in Wildsksaved by a Merry Widow Almost breathless, four young ladies dashed into the Sanitarium grounds. They were the Misses Gladys By- ers, M. Moscrop, Ruth Lar- son and Cora Lind. They had been gathering flowers. when suddenly :I carnivorous Bovine dashed from ambush with devouring intentions. With great presence of mind Miss Byers threw off her Merry Widow llat and while the beast devoured it the four escaped. The quartet are em- ployed at the Buckbee seed plant. io--- Signor Penn Worden is now the musical director at the Star theater. We all wish success for this talented mu- sician. The Misses M. Gunner, Ed- nah Allen and R. Alley have been appointed missionaries to British East Africa. They will look after the theological interests of the Roosevelt party. After two years of patient waiting Eugene Garey has been admitted to the Cherry Valley Nurse Girls' Union.