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Parke Freark A Iady's man. Harry Ehlert Picnic. .. A Friend of Shakespeare. Committccs: Class Dayg Farewell .Xfldressg Com- mittee: Commeliceincnt Prograiu. Milton Gaffney 'CX real atlllcti-. Athletic Editor of The CZ1lJltOllllE!j Foot-ball Team, '05, '06, ,07, 'o8g Captain '07, 'o8g .Xrrangemcut of Class Dance. , I
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Page 8 THE CAPIT OLINE recognized the teacher as Miss Minnie Nelson, the girl who organized the skating party. s w i s The next picture filled me with indescribable horror. When it opened a well dressed elderly gentleman was seated in a chair calmly reading a newspaper. In a moment a masked man crawled through an open Window and stealthily creptctoward the reader, with an open knife 'in his hand and without warning plunged it into his back. The victim half raised from his chair, then rolled to the floor evidently dead, while the murderer threw off his mask as unconcerned as could be. To my horror I recognized him as my class mate, George Klock- son. Could' it be possible, thought I, that this fellow who in his school' days had been so meek could have turned into a brute like thisl But in a short time all was explained. Mr. Klockson had turned actor and was then rehearsing anew drama which ,later drew the attention of the whole' theatre-going world. . . f - The followingpicture was. I believe as much of a surprise to me as any. The story I gained from it was' that the Misses'Theoline Sharp and Elizabeth Riggins had opened a studio, the ,former teach- ing ,paintingiand the latter singingf The most striking feature of Miss, Sharp was that she had very little hair. I wondered what had caused-this as she had had such a large amount while at school. Miss Riggins was sleeping in a chair with her head leaning on a table and I imagined she was dreaming of people with warts on their heads. Mr. Parke Freark,-who had gained great fame as ai newspaper man, was still paying his attention to both ladies, having done so for years because he was unable to come to a decision of which he like the better. The next picture is one of which I dislike to tell or even.think. It was a picture of a tombstone on which was inscribed: Karl Stock- dale, born October 31, 1889, died April zgd, IQ23: It seemed the late Mr. Stockdale had gotten into the habit of smoking cigarettes while attending the Springfield High School andsso great was his appetite for them that he rarely ate or slept. He became horribly thin and too weak to work so as a last resort he engaged himself to Ringling Bros.' Circus in their freak menagerie as The Human Coiin Nail. This life was extremely hard on him and caused his death. After that sad picture came one, lit to be framed and labeled with the motto, I-Iome Sweet I-Iomef' iBefore a 'cheerful grate fire, in a large arm chair, sat a mother with a baby in her lap and several chil- dren playing by her side. As the fire flickered and threw a better light on the scene, I became aware that the mother of this happy family was the former Miss Esther Ralph, salutatorian of the Mid-Year, 1909, graduating class. ' ' Y I A very pleasant picture followed that one. Before an altar stood a preacher going through the ceremony of marrying .a middle-aged couple. Something. in the preacherlsi expression tolld me that this holy man was no other than Carl Rebok of my class. It seems Carl had 'played baseball with the Cubs forseveral seasons but had run up against Billy Sunday and had been converted. The groom I did not
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