Sabetha High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Sabetha, KS)

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.XA ,. f 77f3?7 h , rt' C, 3 Q Q .4-.4 ' ' ' p'ihlla'llll0l01- ,ll.IllC.9,UIl.ll.'l. - gg ,, . .. f - I children anyhow. Violette was teaching English and Rhetoric in the high school and was very well liked while Mabelle was the music director of the high school and was turning out some wonderful singers and musicians. At the next station three people boarded the train and of course they were all members of the class. We were now calling the train the Class of '25 Limited. There were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Kirkland and Lester Mshler. Of course, you would recognize Mrs. Kirkland better if I call her Margaret. The Kirklands were farming in the locality we were leaving and they owned one of the largest general farms in the country. Their business was so rushing that Lester Mishler was employed as bookkeeper and general accountant for their farm ,income tax. Glen said that the damn income tax and his Wife just kept him busy earning money that he didn't have time to take a chew of tobacco in between times. The train had stopped once more and some more people were getting aboard. I did not know these ladies but Cleo who could always recollect girls easily said that they were Irene Carpenter and Mae Bentley. They were running an old maids home and said that the business was very rushing because the late wars were killing off so many of our noble men. At the next stop We all changed cars and when it came time for the train to leave the announcer came out on the balcony and started to call off the trains, but we would not let him Hnish for we all recognized him as Russell Mishler, who was making use of his big voice as a means of livelihood. When we told of the reunion he immediately got a substitute and joined us in our ride to Sabetha. Just before the team pulled out two men boarded the train. They were immediate- ly recognized as William Hiskey and Roy Moore. William was athletic director of the ward school of the city and Roy was teaching business administration in the high school. Both were giving satisfaction and were greatly interested in the work. As we were going along the road, it was necessary that we stop on a siding for the passing of a private cir and as it stopped for some reason or other we saw the man who was riding in the car was none other than William Bokenkroger, the presi- dent of the Hook and Eye Railroad. WVe all went and took him bodily from the car and took him to Sabetha with us. He said that he had started to work on the section and had worked up to the place he now occupied. After this last surprise we were expecting anything to happen and at the next station we received quite a long cablegram from Honk Honk, China. It was from Helen Bestwick and Dorothy Lanning and stated that they were very sorry that they could not join us, because their missionary work was of such importance that they could not leave it. At our next stop, the third from Sabetha, Opal Deaver and Audra Frazier boarded the train and on questioning them we found that they were running a millinery shop in that town and that they had only just returned from a shopping trip to Paris and that while there they had seen Nell Williamson, who had told them she had received notice of the reunion but said that she could not leave her art studio long enough to come. At the last stop before we reached Sabetha, Vera Burgett joined us and found that she was a widow and very successful as a poultry raiser. She informed us that some of the chickens she had raised had taken national prizes. When we reached Sabetha the party nuntbered thirty-one people and most of the old students were present, but at the station we met Paul Stone and Marvel Brink- worth. Paul was the president and principal stockholder of the Sabetha Taxi Cab Co., and Marvel was the City Marshal and he was so glad to see us that he forgot his office and even disturbed the peace to some extent himself. At the union station there were three telegrams for us. One was from Florence Zimmerman, informing us that she would not be able to leave her Hawaiian Dancing Class because the girls would go wrong without her guiding hand. The second was from Irene Darby, who said she was lawyer for the defendent in a bootlegging scandal on the Great Lakes and could not get away until after the time of the reunion. We always thought that Irene would make a good lawyer. The last telegram was from Lillian Walton, who said that her duties as Governor of Texas would not allow her to leave because of the up- rising of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite the fact that a few members of the class were absent, the rest of us made the best of it and the reunion was a great success. I' ' . ij 31

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of-'ggif U .. - I 0 . 1 . 7 - . .. . , ,.A- .. . ' '.., .. T.. , ..- . ,, ,li ,. A ' F: n 1 9.0 a me 1,0 l,c.v.o.o.1.:.1.u:u uanos.v,a.o.o,o, l .1. .molcilrffn xv' ..- CLASS PROPHECY On boarding the train the other morning while on a long trip, I was quite surprized to see that the news-butcher was none other than the youngest member of my old class of 1925 of the Sabetha High School, this boy's name, as most of you will remem- ber, is Kenneth Staubus. He told me that he was making a great success of his busi- ness since he had received such a good training in business administration in S. H. S. We sat down and talked for some time and at about the third stop up the road I noticed a young couple who boarded the train at that point, seemingly on a honey- moon. But when I heard them talk I realized that they were no other than Leonard Lanning and his wife who used to be Helen Christine. She said that Leonard was doing quite a business with his Pneumatic Grain Elevator and that he was just as loving as he used to be in the old high school days. They said that they were going to a reunion of the Class of '25, and that all the members had been written to. At the next station a very distinguished military gentleman boarded the cars and I at once recognized him as my old friend and comrade Max Hause. I found out from him that he had been in the army the greater part of his time since he graduated from West Point and I learned, much to my surprised, that he was the General J. M. Hause, who had just put down the rebellion in the newest of our colonies, the Isle of Stand- ardsylvania. He was decorated for individual bravery in this war. At the next station several ladies who seemed to be school teachers boarded the train and Kenneth on his way thru the train noticed them and recognized them and told them that there was more of the old class on the train, so Eunice Parker, Helen Mishler, Iva Jordan, Daisy Jones and Agnes Mayer joined us and told us that they were not teaching school that season as they had been delegated by the International School Teachers Association to collect subscriptions for the Horne for Disgusted and Disgruntled School Teachers, They were in the vicinity of Sabetha when they heard of the reunion and so they decided to go to the city afore mentioned and take in the reunion. At the terminal of the road we were forced to go to the union station and wait for our next train, which would take us into the town of Sabetha. While I was walking around the station I saw a very distinguished looking gentle- man. By his beautiful amber hair and his everpresent freckles, I recognized him as Cleo Davisson. He said that he now was editor of that city's leading paper and that he was experiencing a great deal of trouble with a competitor, who was an old school- mate of his. This competitor was Cedric Jones, who persisted in taking unfair means of competition to put his paper before the people. Cleo and I rejoined the party who were waiting for the train to Sabetha.. Cleo was in the station looking for news, a habit that he acquired while working for Chauncey Durst, of the Sabetha Star. In about ten minutes another tall gentleman strolled down the waiting room and We all recognized Cedric Jones by his immense stature and curly hair. He Was, as I have said, a competitor to Cleo and ran a very flourishing paper. He and Cleo were not in good relations but they forgot these little differences and joned the class as merry as you please. The train we were to leave on was in the yard so the whole party got on the train and sat down. Just as the train started to pull out a very flustrated yound man jump- ed on the step and I immediately shouted, Robert Leuze, and late as usual. Robert told us that he was running a chain of grocery stores and meat markets and he spoke with a pardonable pride of the number of these he had scattered over the country. The train slowed down and stopped with a jerk and we looked out and saw that there was a great herd of cattle going across the track in front of us and on inquiry we found that this was Orville Honn's prize herd of beef cattle. We also found that they held up the train if it was not on time since they hid a special time to cross the track. We saw Orville driving behind them in his great imported Stovebolt Special. At the next station a short spectacled man boarded the train and I at once knew him to be Forrest Ralston, so I went up and brought him beck with the rest of the class and he told us that he was running some consolidated anrl incorporated beauty shops in that part of the state. We traveled for some time and at length stopped again. Here a lady entered the car and we all recognized her as Lorine Minger. Violette Hennigh and Mabelle McFall said that they were teaching in the schools in that town. Iorine had charge of the kindergarten in which she was very successful, capable. She always did like the little ,ft N . . xii!-Ax' ..... ., 30

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BAGCALAUREATE SERVICES, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1925, MEMORIAL.HALL, 8 P. M. , ,A .,m-,.:.,f yy , L,..,-, 4, ., ,L-W., -v..---,.L2g::.-iQQ6ij ,i-'Ln-1'-'1e',gg.+..D ALA.- Orchestra Prelude tthree numbersj .............. Orchestra fMarchJ Invocation ......... Anthem ........... Scripture Reading. . . Orchestra ......... . . . . . .Dr. A. S. Ross, Director ...Dr. A. S., Ross, Director ............Rev. J. J. Tawzer .Mrs. R. J. Moorhead, Director . . . . .Rev. C. V. Shulenberger . . .Dr. A. S. Ross, Director Prayer ..... ................. . .Rev. E. L. Painter Vocal Duet .... ...Mrs. W. H. Durstine, Mrs. J. A. Haxton Sermon .... .... .......... R e v. C. J. Christianson Anthem .... ...Mrs. R. J. Moorhead, Director Benediction ........ Orchestra Postlude. . . .........Rev. J. O. Vincent . . . .Dr. A. S. Ross, Director SABETHA HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. 1925, MEMORIAL HALL, 8 P. M. High School Orchestra Preludet three numbersj ........... . High School Orchestra tMarchD ................ Invocation ...................... High School Boys' Glee Club .... Salutatory .................. . .Miss Varner, Director . . . Miss Varner, Director . . .Rev. E. L. Painter . . .Miss Viarner, Director . . . . . . Eunice Parker Vocal Solo ............ ........ H elen Christine Commencement Address. . . . . .Dr. Frank R. Loveland Valedictory ............ ....... L orine Minger Presentation of Diplomas... ...Mr. A. J. Collins Five Minute Address ...... ...... M r. F. C. Marks High School Mixed Chorus... ...Miss Vtarner, Director High School Orchestra .... Benediction. High School Orchestra Postlude. . . . . . .Miss Varner, Director . . . .Rev. C. J. Christianson .Miss Varner, Director ,I S '-'M-- 'rcM'cL'1s..X5g.g,Q,1. S is f ir or 32