Seguin High School - Matador Yearbook (Seguin, TX)

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The 'ICRICKET CLASS PRGPHECY llka Switch, Texas. July ll, l942 Dear Zan: I thought that I would write you for old times sake and let you know that l am still alive and hungry. I was surprised to hear that you had cleaned up in oil last week. l thought you knew what you were doing when you married the Tiemann property. While plying my trade of walking the ties last week I was most agreealaly surprised. I had turned in at a prosperous lookingufarm house and who do you suppose came to the door when I knocked? None other than Irma I-lagn. She was about ready to show me the gate until I told her who I was. l saw several children running around the house and I asked if they were hers. She said that they belonged to Frank jahns, her boss. She said she had been working there ever since Frank married Louise Stein. I picked up a butcher knife that looked familiar to me and I was not surprised when she said that john Williams had sharpened it. The traveling firm of Baxter and Williams, Knife Sharpeners and um- brella repairers had just paid her a visit. From some wrapping paper I saw on the Hoor I saw that Theo- dore Buerger was running the village store. I was glad to hear that he and Kathernie Koch were happy in their married life. Having started talking about our old classmates I couldn't stop until I had heard about all of them. Irma hac',n't heard of Willie Thomas' '-71926-' ' .e -fx?-2

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The CRICKET ELEVENTH-I, Erwin Paul Weiss, being the life-saver of this rare class in that l'm able to ask foolish questions and thus get the teachers minds off the lesson do will this necessary ability to lrving Seligman. I TWELFTH-I, Mary Leah Harrington, do hereby will and be- queath my good complexion to Robert Baxter provided he use Still- man's Freckle Cream every night as l have' done. THlRTEEJNTH-We. Dorothy Donegan, Evelyn Baer and Zan Erskine being the most in that we are able to keep up with school and town at the same time do will this unusual ability to Moulton Coodrum. FOURTEENTH-We, Ben Bull Coble, and Ellis Burges, being the plump boys of this rare class do will and bequeath our avoirdupois to Daniel Tschoepe and Maurice Hodges. FIFTEENTH-I, Teddy Buerger, do will and bequeath my place in the back of the room to Max Bergfeld, Jr., our mascot, provided that when he become of age he use it as advantageously as l have done. SlXTEENTl l-l, Emma Glenn Vickers, do will and bequeath my ride to school in the Vicker's Ford to Elvira Beutnagel, provided she latch the garage door every day as l have done. SEVENTEENTH-We, Arthur Willmann, Charles Baxter and Richard Willmann, being the sheiks of this rare Senior class do hereby will our popularity to Roland Anderson. Marvin McGee and Gussie Blumberg, provided they do as we have done and promise not to air out the same girls twice in succession. EIGHTEENTH-I, Cleva Webb, being the quietest member of this rare Senior class do hereby will and bequeath my aforesaid quietness to jewel Batey, provided she do not get on the teachers nerves as l have done. NINTEENTH-I, Katherine Koch.do hereby will my roudy ways to Amanda Beutnsgel. TWENTIETH-I, john Williams, do hereby will and bequeath my brunette beauty to Milton Glaeser. TWENTY-FIRST-I, Hilma Horner, the last but not least member of this rare Senior class, do will and bequeath my red print dress to my sister flame, provided she wash it twice a week as l have done. ln witness, whereof we, the rare Senior class, have this document inscribed with our names on this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, I926, Senior class. Seguin High School, HILMA HORNER. Attorney-at-law. 1 9 2 6 ' as A ,J Xi?

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The CRICKET new invention of making cocoanut pie without cocoanut. She was also surprised when l told her of Richard Willmann's third marriage, his latest being Elise Horner of Laff-a-Lot farm. This bringing the Homer family in my mind l asked about Hilma. l was told that Hilma was running a road house known as Jack Hor- ner's Cozy Corner. She said she was through with men forever because Arthur Willmann, her ice man had ran off and married Cleva Webb. You could have knocked me down with a toothpick when .Irma told me that C. A. Dickerson was a minister and had married Emma Glenn Vickers, who was one of his active church workers. Mary Leah Harrington has received her doctors degree and is engaged to,Erwin Paul Weiss. From the head lines in the daily paper, l learned that Evelyn Baer, famous screen star had sued Ellis Burges, film director, for Sl00,000, breach of promise. The trouble started when Ellis married lola Koepsel wealthy society woman. Much to my sorrow I also learned that the Home for the Feeble Minded, owned and operated by Drs. Hageman and Donegan had closed because of lack of funds. l then gazed through the window and saw a circus bill-board featuring Lula Mae lsinne, the only woman in capivity with long hair. Also Viola Schraub, the lion and monkey trainer. Evangeline Ernst after an unsuccessful search for a perfect man, has returned to her country home to live in seclusion. V Wishing you a long life full of happiness and success, l remain, Yours truly B. B. Cable 7 Y i -1Q26' A