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

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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.

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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 WILL We, the Senior Class of the St. Johns High School, County of Clinton, State of Michigan, on the sixteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-two, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and knowing the uncertainty of life at this age, do make and declare this, our Last Will and Testament, to be as follows: First-The following people wish to dispose of their personal property thus: Le- roy Stinebower bequeaths to any enterprising freshman his book entitled How to Be- come a Man. Russel Frank bequeaths to Helen Hart his Gift of Gab. Kenneth Jackson bequeaths to Raymond Hull his gentle and mild disposition. Muriel Calkins bequeaths to Pauline Kress her right of teacher's pet and the Seniors in general be- queath to the next year's Seniors the perfected art of skipping school. Second-We bequeath to next year's Bookkeeping Class the privilege of working in any room not used by the other classes tif such a room can be found.J. Third-We bequeath to the Class of 1923 all the joys and sorrows of publishing an Annual. Fourth-We give, devise and bequeath to all in general the marble drinking foun- tains, whose silvery tinkle may be heard at any time by the thirsty wayfayer Who places his thumb upon the starter-perhaps to receive a generous shower-bath covering his entire person and dripping from the tip of his nose onto his clean collar and trickling onto his sleeve. Fifth-We give, devise and bequeath to the faculty our best wishes and sincere ap- preciation for their help and encouragement and especially to Mr. Boersma for mak- ing Le Cid from a vision into a reality. Sixth-We hereby appoint Mr. Talmadge executor of this, our Last Will and Testa- ment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We, the testators, set our hand and seal this sixteenth day of June, A. D., 1922. Signed, Sealed and Witnessed by the Graduating Class of 1922. -HELEN JOHNSON.