St Johns High School - Le Cid Yearbook (St Johns, MI)

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CLASS PROPHECY George Atkinson has acce1-ted a position shovelling smoke on the M1 U. T. line. run- ning between St. Johns and Jackson. Thomas Atkinson is now employed in a powder factory to keep the TNT and the dynamite from forming too friendly relations. We have just learned that Leonard Bl'keslee has installed a modern heating plant on his farm in Bengal Township. Neva Bryant has published her candidacy for mayor of Elsie on the Progressive ticket. We are delighted to know that Ruth Burl is now the secretary of the Anti-Tobacco League. That popular young lady, Muriel Calkins, is now the wife of the President of the Michigan Thresher's Association, Maurice Clemons still maintains his supremacy among the fair sex. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Smith are spending a few days with their parents in this city. Mrs. Smith will be remembered as Opal Creaser. Arleen Daggett is managing o general store in Eureka. Irving Eaton has installed a machine for cutting the corns off corn-stalks at his farm south of town. Libby, McNeil 8: Libby have appointed Herman Ellis as manager of their plant at Perrinton. Mrs. John Someone, nee Ruby Ellis, is visiting her parents for a few days. Fitzpatrick 84 Fitzpatrick, Civil Engineers. -Advertisement. Russell Frank is on a. speaking tour for the Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Towards Affectionate Mosquitoes. Walter Gchn is now employed as teacher of mathematics in the school for the feeble-minded. Hazel Halsey has advertised for a husband in the St. Johns News. Jo-hn Halstead and wife are vintering in Alaska. Alice Hathaway is studying art in the art museum at Hong Kong. China. Our Beloved Pastor, the Rev. Lawrence Hostetler, is about to embark on the sea of matrimony. Kenneth Jackson is teaching advanced foot-ball at one of our higher institutions of learning, Helen Johnson is now touring the Orient in search of amusement. Isabel Kathe has accepted an important clerical position in Washington. Lester Lake, our prominent jeweler, announces the arrival of a carload of uncut stones, at rock-bottom prices. A rising pharmacist at Grand Rapids was arrested for illegal selling of illicit liquors. We heard the name was Martin.

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CLASS HISTORY About the beginning of September in the year 1918, a number of small, green, unso- phisticated, illiterate, group of human beings began to g ther about the brick structure, commonly called the schoolhouse. Their purpose there was vague, perhaps some of them had no purpose and if they did have a purpose there, they did not know it. Nev- ertheless they were there mingling With the more superior beings who did not appear to notce them. They were Freshmen-they were the class of 1922. They did not all sur- vive the hardships which confronted them in the way of Algebra, English, Geometry, Latin, Faculty and othe-r miscellaneous articles. As a result of this a number of. them fell by the waysideg some as Freshmen, some as Sophomores, and some as Juniors- and even Seniors. VVhat we h-ve left are probably the ones who started out in 1922 with a purpose. Our Freshman year, we regret to say, was rather a failure. Due to the efforts, or rather mis-efforts of Pat, alias Bernard Webb, since fallen by the wayside, we ac- complished nothing. We scarcely had a class meeting and never a party. At the end of the year, however, as is usually the custom, a good share of our Freshmen went to Crystal Lake and enjoyed a class picnic. Our Sophomore year, although judged so by some, was not a failure. lWith Russell Frank as president, we accomplished many things and rather woke up to the fact that we were alive as the rest of the cl1.sses.J We enjoyed one sleigh ride party during the winter. Arrangements were made to go to Bingham Grange hall, but owing to a severe snow storm during the day, we were unable to make the trip and had to re- sort to having our party at the school house. It was not altogether a failure after all. At the end of the year we again went to Crystal. At the beginning of our Junior year we elected Russel Frank as president of the class, and started things out with a rush. This was the year that the classes found out that we were not altogether a dead class. Thanks to the help of Mr. Rainey and Miss Hunt we were able to present Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. It was a huge success and we realized a satisfactory pecuniary remuneration. NVe were also able to put on the first and we hope not the last Junior Hop in the history of the school. It was held at the Masonic Temple, April 5, 1921. Our annual, picnic was held at Crystal at the end of the year. At the time of this writing the Senior year is not complete. We have a class of about forty of about sixty or seventy who started as Freshmen. For the third and undoubtedly the last time, Mr. Frank was elected presi- dent. With John Zabelka as editor-in-chief and accumulation of other talent we have been able to put out the first year-book which has been published for a number of years. We c-we much thanks to the lower classmen, faculty, business men and others who have helped to make this book a success. At the present time we are making preparations to put on Shakespeare'5 Twelfth Night. Wlth the aid of Miss Hunt and a talented cast we hope to make this a success. -WOODBURY.

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Cressie Matthews is teaching school in an isolated district in Northern Michigan. Harold Max-rilot has achieved the name of Second Kipling by literary critics. Louise Miller is now residing at East Michigan Ave., West on North First-st., Lansing Alice Parr secured a divorce from her fourth husband last week on the grounds of extreme cruelty. She will go abroad for a year. Zella Phillips is the wife of the Methodist minister at Hubbardston, Michigan. Orval Price is writing a series of articles on A Voyage to the N'orth Pole in a Row- boat for the 'tReview of Reviews. Evelyn Putnam and lesser half are motoring to Reno. Doris Rice is managing her husband's business with marked success. Julia Louise Ross talks to the Dictaphone at the Mayor's office in Owosso. Minnie Shonk has married in order to be close to home, Leroy Stinebower has received his M. A. degree from the U. of M. Lucille Valentine is teaching English in a prominent High School in South Michigan. Doris VanVleet and husband are residing at their farm home south of this city. Merle Walker has been elected cashier of the State Bank at Fowler. Stuart Ward is a painless dentist with offices on East Woodward Ave., at Detroit. George Woodbury, local florist, is attempting to cross the American Beauty rose with the sun flower so he can sell them by the pound. Raymond Workman is employed at the Soakem Commercial Bank at Lansing, tak- ing the pay out of pay checks. John Zabelka has just published a book entitled, Why the United States Should Become a Republic. -PRICE. .i- - 0i... i One cold morning when the school room was very chilly, Isabel Kathe turned around quickly and said, It's cold, my teeth are even twitching. Mr. Francis in history class: Where did the Scotch-Irish come from? Julia fstartledl: Germany The case was given to the jury and they drank up the evidence. Mr. Francis: They mustered their troops. Helen Johnson: How they must have looked. Teacher: The test questions are in the printing office now. Is there any question anyone would like to ask. Pupil: VVho's the printer? B. K. Class-Dorris: How far are you in bookkeeping? Myrlez I quit right where I left off. The Bontany class was discussing photosynthesis. Mr. Corbus had explained its re- lation to plants. John Besko suddenly asked: Mr. Corbus, I don't see why a bull-frog couldn't carry on that. he's green all over.