St Clair High School - Clairvoyant Yearbook (St Clair, MI)

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(Telephone rings.) “Hello, hello. Yes, this is Lena Vories. Why,! Ruth Joachim; where are you? In Detroit buying stock! What for? Well, what kind of establishment are you running? Oh ! just evening wraps and dresses. In what city are you located ? Emmett? Well, that’s not very far away. Why don’t you ever come to St. Clair and talk over old times? Did you hear about the high school building collapsing a while ago? They’re putting up a new $40,000 one on the old site. Mr. Keen is bossing the job. . Oh, you’ve got to go? Awfully glad you called me up. Do come and see me. Goodbye. This is Mary’s letter, I’ll read it next. Cambridge, Mass. Dear Lena: Here’s where you get two letters in one. Chester thinks it a great joke as he lets me do all the writ- ing and he sits by and laughs. You know Chester is the football coach of the Harvard squad and although he is crazy about his boys he worries me half to death as I’m always afraid he’ll get hurt when he’s showing them some new play. We have a darling little bungalow on the edge of the campus and if you ever come east you must run down to Cambridge and visit us. Lovingly yours, MARY POWRIE ROBERTSON. Well, Mary, I certainly shall! Mary did make such de- licious bread and cake in the old days. Where’s Donna’s letter? Oh, here it is — I wonder what she’s doing. - 29 —

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Francisco but I don ' t recognize the handwriting. Why! it’s from Grace Buggee. Dear Lena: I am away out here in San Francisco, work- ing as usual, you ' ll be surprised though, when I tell you what Fm doing. After my experience as editor of the Breeze ’ I thought that my dreams would all be realized if I could just be an editor of some big paper, but after landing the edi- torship of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, I stayed only five years, then retired from the force, as I felt that newspaper work was too hard on my nerves. Then I joined a moving picture company and now I’m playing the star part in two plays a week at a nice comfort- able salary. Yours in haste, GRACE. Well, of all things! To think of our dignified Grace be- ing a moving picture star! That ' s far removed from the fu- ture I should have predicted for her. This letter is postmarked Germany and I think it’s from Burm ah. Dear Lena: Well, I’ll skip this first part and go on. Not very long after I graduated, I came over here to Deutschland to study the German language and to study the home life of the german people. During my travels through the country I met a pleasant and handsome young student and, to make a long story short, I now have the very best chance to study German home life. William had an estate near the Rhine and we took up our residence there. You couldn’t find a hapiper home in all Europe. Lebe wohl, BURMAH. Here is a scrawl that resembles Justin ' s of old. Dear Lena I suppose you are just melting from the heat but up here in Alaska we have short summers and long cold winters. The hunting is great! Of course in summer there is the gold prospecting but the winter and hunting beats it all hollow both in profits and the fun of the thing. justin McCartney. — 28 —

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Capac, Mich. Dear Lena: If you could only see me now. It’s the simple life from now on for me. We have just got fairly settled on our 640 acre farm out here. We tried living in a flat in Detroit for several years but finally moved back to the farm. Now I am learning how to feed the chickens and calves and how to cook succotash and can fruit and I enjoy every minute of the day. But don ' t think that we stay home all the time. I haven’t given up all my desire for good times. We often take long cross country runs in our machine. Next week we are going to drive up to St. Clair for the alumni ban- quet so I will see you then. DONNA. P.S. — Oh, I never told you who I married, did I. Well, his initials are C. W. — guess who he is! (Picks up another envelope — reads from corner) “If not called for in ten days, return to Smith Earle, Law Office, Woodward Ave., Detroit. “Why! that must be Myron. And “Earle” — that is surely George Earle in partnership with him. Dear Lena: I’ll come right down to facts as I’m very busy just at this season, with a number of civil cases to pre- pare. I hung out my shingle in 1920 after finishing the law course at U. of M. and being admitted to the bar. I have built up an exclusive practice here in Detroit and am now fairly on my feet. Of course, I only handle certain cases, the great- er number being breach of promise suits. I find these pay best and as I always charge as my fee four-fifths of the money transferred, I manage to put away a little every month for a rainy day. Yours respectfully, MYRON. (Boy enters delivering night letter. Tears open and reads) : Am too busy for letters. Have a large practice as eye specialist in Toledo. Like it immensely. Come and see me. ETHEL DOUGLASS. Ethel, an eye doctor! Well! well! This is a man’s handwriting — why yes — it’s Carl’s. — 30 —