St John Central High School - Centralite Yearbook (Bellaire, OH)

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OFDQUQ fill!illQllQUlllilli0illQ0i0Q4 T H E IJ A M P A D I S T li!5illQ0i11li01lli0i010l1ll1li1Dil njcnioianioioiojexioifnjoialiojojc 11010101011 1010101 rioioioicxicrjojojcrjrvioiojvil 1880--1930 laying.-Well, look who's here! If it isn't Jimmy! How are you and what in the world are you doing? Oh, I'm pretty fairg right now I'm running a pawn shop in Moundsville. A Bellaire lady phoned me yesterday that she had something valuable to pawn, so I came up. Now, what do you suppose that valuable thing was? Why, an old buggy that somebody must have dragged out of the scrap heap. And I'll give you another guess. The lady gave her name as Mrs. Lottamoney. You don't know her? Yes yo do, toog she used to play the organ when we were in school, and we all thought she would be a nun. I felt sorry for her today. It seems old Lottamoney knows how to hang onto it, for he keeps it from his wife, and that's more than most men can do. But it's hard to get money out of anybody nowadays. Well, Jimmy, I'm sorry for your luck and still more sorry for Margaret's, but I'm glad you came over. Can you be here the day after tomorrow 'to help us lay the cornerstone of the new gym? Can I? I'd do anything to bring back memories of the good old days, and of our old Alma Mater. Jimmyq is a nice sort of fellow, even if he does run a pawn shop, and just to think, he always aspired to be a college hero! I think I'd better get some dinner. Hey, taxi !-take me to 445 Montana Ave., please. Hello, Mom, how's everything? Hope there's a nice hot dinner ready.-Why, hello, Tommy! Where did you blow in from? Oh, I just thought I'd surprise you by coming over for a few days. You know I am working now for the T. A. T. and make daily trips between Chicago and Albuquerque, N. M., but this is my vacation week, and I thought I'd hop over. It looks as if I had arrived at the proper time to see the old burg again before it gets so big I won't know itg and it's great to be here for the celebration. From the looks of the foundation, I should say the gym is going to be one of the biggest in the state. I got a big surprise when I was down here this morning. I ran into four of the old crowd. Shoe deMarco and Boiarski were there carrying bricks. I could hardly believe my eyes! Patty Molli, reporter for the Bellaire Evening Squeal, came around to take notes on the progress of the work, and I heard him call down to the other two: 'Heyl Are you two fellows still hardening your muscles for the football season ?' Hen yelled back, 'You round up a bunch of your inkslingers and get 'em in trim for basket shots. When this thing isfinished, we're going to teach 'em somethingf Then Benline linked arms with the reporter and brought him around to where I was standing. Patty suggested that we go for a bite to eat and talk over old times. I hadn't seen any of the old crowd for so long I was eager for news, and I was more than surprised to find that many of them are still living right here in Bel'aire. Yes, Tommy, that's a fact. About two blocks down from here is a flower shop owned and operated by the Witt-Palmer Co. You remember Grace and Hortense. Their trade is booming. Everything in the shop is artificial, but artificial flowers are as popular now as artificial complexions were ten years ago. And of course you remember that bright girl Genevieve Maloney. She's down at the Shadyside Silk Mills. She began as soon as she left school, and she has worked herself up to a Zfvioicxioiuioioilnioicuin '11 0:0 10101011rjo:u1oi1x:4x14n1njaxj4r14rjev:1x14n1o1o11v:u:1n:4j0j0j0101074y14njanj4pj4p1qp14yin11r1cr14v11r1o14r14 o 0,914

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njoioioip, o 0 riclibillicvixvidbiclicriaxidrirricnic 1 lioinioioioqbe 14 11 1880--1930 THE PROPI-IECY Huh! Did I hear right? It's up to me to write the prophecy? Well, I dont know anything about it. That's the only answer I could give when I was informed of the pending catastrophe. I kept thinking about it so much that when 3:30 came I had a splitting headache. Besides, Sister Wanted me to work at it that night and hand in the written evidence of my efforts the next morning. It was enough to make anybody sick. How could I see ten years ahead? After supper I betook myself to my room to cudgel my brain. I was hardly seated when at the door appeared Jimmy O'Brien, who, for some reason or other, wore a terrible look. He informed me that the coaches and officials of the two basketball teams that were to play that night cou1dn't make the superintendent of the Gravel Hill School come down to a reasonable price, therefore, the game was post- poned. Darn it, he said, if we had a gym of our own, we could have games any time we feel like it. As it is, no team can be sure of the gym. It makes me sick! Well, I'm sick too, I replied, I've got the prophecy to write, so you'd better beat it. So long! I was really sorry for him, for he'd rather play basketball than eat. It was true-St. John's boys needed a gym of their own. They were now in class A and played first class teams, and-well, why couldn't St. John's have a gym of their own? Why-- just build it. Surely the people would cooperate. How much would it cost anyway ?-Oh, I can't figure that out now, and if I don't get to work I'll be in for a bad day tomorrow. Now let's seeg what shall I put down for this guy ?-circus clown-cartoonist-Holy Moses! that idea of build- ing a gym keeps everlastingly popping up before me, and my head feels like a balloon tire! I'll put it on a pillow for a while, and see how it will work there.-There! that's better--much better! Now where was I?-Let me see 5-cartoonist-aviator-contractor.-Sure, Bernardfsince you are the contractor for the new gym, you can employ anyone you please. You say your foreman asks to take on two fellows' that look like tramps? Well, if he thinks they can do the work, it'll be all right-There goes that secre- tary's bell again. It keeps me on the jump these days. Did you ring for me, Father Wittman?-Yes, I think I can supply the entertainment for the cornerstone laying. I know a famous radio orchestra in Chicago, I'll wire them right away. And, Father, don't you think we should invite a few people of renown to help us celebrate? We could get that lady candi- date for Congress, Teresa Murray, and that Chicago Chief of Police, Harold O'Donnell--if Chicago can spare him, and I could also get in touch with Helen Lilly who runs a fruit stand there. In spite of the fact that she has a husband and a family of four to look after, she is developing quite a wonderful voice. All right, Father, I'll see to it right away.-This tele- graph office sure is big compared with the old one !-Yes, Alfreda, I'd like to have this wire sent out right away. Are you coming over for the cele- bration? You are? That's fine. Boy! I'm glad I sent that wire. They can all get here in two days and have a program ready for the cornerstone Piliifiililliliiiiblllilli T H E L A M P A D I S T lIl1iC7llb1fb1CSlI1lO 0:0

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bzorinioiuinioici 111 iriui 2031 T H E L A M P A D I S T vi1l1011ioi0ifli0Z0i0i1 1880--1930 position of responsibility. Did you take a good look at the new school while you were over there?-Where did we get the money? Why, I thought everybody knew about that. You remember that star chemist of our class-quiet and sober like? 'Yes, Lefty. Well, the year after he finished he made a furnace that burned water instead of coal-no, not fire- water, just plain H20. He kept his secret for a long time, for he couldn't bear 'to think of all the miners who would be thrown out of work when no more coal was needed. Then a mining company heard that he was getting out a patent and offered him S100,000 for itg he took the offer, turned the money over to the parish to build a school, and went off to be a trappist monk. So old Trinity disappeared to make room for the new school. Of course the coal company knew what to do with the patent. It doesn't sell water, you know. Yes, I can tell you about a couple more, but let's go out and look some of them up. I want to show you the fine new buildings on Belmont above 38th where the old mill used to be.-Oh! You came in that way? Landed at the new air port near Riverview and walked in, huh? Would you ever think that ten years could make such a change? You must have seen, as you came along, a fortune-teller's tent up near the end of the street. No? Well, I'll tell you about it. It's run by that famous duplet you knew back in school days 3-yes, Edna and Alice. They also make and sell a kind of tonic warranted to put a permanent kink in the straightest hair that ever defied a pair of curling irons. Even the scalp lock of an Indian would yield to its magic.-What? you say you have an appointment and must go? Well, so long! I'll see you the day after tomorrow .... Yes, Father Wittman, you'll be in time to meet them. My! What a parade l-where do they all come from ?-There must be ten or fifteen thousand of them in line! Looks like the crusaders on the march. Here they come down Guernsey, Old Glory at the head. Look at the step of those fellows in green and white uniforms-the St. John's band! Some style! They are pouring in around the gym.-How did Father get over there so quick? He's already robed and ready for the ceremony.--Now what's that hubbub over there? I'll have to see what it's all about, such a blabber of tongues is out of place just now. Well, if it isn't the whole bunch of '30's! No, not all of them either. Tommy and Patty and Shoe and Jimmy and Hen. And there are the two fortune tellers in their gypsy togs. -I see! The Chicago bunch has arrived! I'll have to go over and meet them. Won't you wait a little while Father? They're all coming except that monk. He sends his regrets and his blessing. The others will be on hand any minute. If I'm not mistaken, they're in that sedan which is topping the hill at seventy miles an hour. Yes, there they are: Rose, Catherine, Josephine and Clem. Just wait, Father, please, till the stray sheep are reunited to the flock. My, but I'm glad to see you all here! Rose, Mrs. Lottamoney wants to know what miracle caused you to drop in on us ff:07lfIlIIlI'd on Pagr I04J xinioioioioioioiarioi 121xiuioicifvioioicrixicxicxinioifxlwifxlricviricrilllrixbicil