Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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THE HARBOR BEACON could see at a glance he was a mlsslonary After a short tlme he ralsed hls face and ln splte of a heavy black mustache I recoyrnued our Valedlc torlan, Justm Iohnson I hyd expected to see hlm as a second Edlson wlth hls electrlcal appa ratus IH a halo around hun, but then strange thmvs do happen Wlth a flash the scene changed' I saw the lnterlor of a sm xll country store pictured upon the mlrror, there w LS fruit also candy and noveltles for sale But yy hat amused me most was to see two parrots yy ho appeared to be hav mg a rather anlmated conversatlon 1n one part of the room Three cats yvele curled up ln d1f ferent places and some canary blrds huno' ln one of tl1e Wlndows I could not see where elther of my glrl class mates could appear here but just then ID bustled a smart llttle yvoman of small stature whom I felt sure must be Mary Mxlne and true enough lt was The mlrror was blank for an lnstant then ap peared an 1nter1or scene ot a clrcus tent For Goodness sake l Thought I, whom I wxll see be seen yvas the antics of a monkey As I watched he tled hls tall around a trapeze swlng and yvlth a Jump out of the skln and doyvn lnto the lxfe net went a small man and yy hom do you suppose I saw when he faced me 9 VVhy Law renee Bunker of course VW e had alway s known hlm as a clown and doubtless, ln h1s present 1lObltlOIl, he recelved a hne salary for hls talent I hardly notlced the pyuse yyhen I sayy upon the mlrror an opera house stage of lmmense sue, lt must have been one of the largest ln the world boon a man of medlum sue came upon the stage carry mg a vlolxn If xom h1s dlbtln gulshed appearance I thouyrht lf must be some celebrated Frenchman but as he play ed Id1scov cred It yyas Douglas Milne who I should sly , yy as a favorlte yvlth the musical wo: ld and a great VlOllI1lSt Who next, I started to think, but lt yy as be fore me to see At hrst I could not tell yy hat lt yyas but as the troops kept marchlng by I saw that the governor yy IS recelvmv the state mllxtla The goy ernol sat on hls horse near the center of the plcture and as he returned a mllltary salute I saw the famlllar face of our class presl dent, Alton Robertson He had not changed as the others had so I kneyy hum more readlly Next came a scene of great beauty for It was a garden adyolmnfr a large vleenhouse It was ID Iune and roses were the prey '1lllI10' Hoyyers They were of every hue, lt seemed, and I thought of only one of our class yy ho could posslbly he the owner of thus property As I yy ondered, tyy o mcn came mto the garden, the older yy ts dxrectlng the other to cut a certam choice lose yylnch I tlllllk must have been a Bowden rose for the manager and proprletor proved to be Lawrence Orcutt Now I was so lnterested I could hardly walt for the next lllustratlon which, as I soon saw, proved to be a suffragette meetmv The assem bly was belnfr held ID a large hall and the wavmff banners bearlng the words Votes for women women s rlghtsl' etc , proclalmed to be a pollt lcal meetlng of the women There appeared to was the one who seemed to be most popular that I watched closely I could not thlnk for some tune who she was and where I had seen her, then lt suddenly dawned upon me that lt was Vera Gordon Well I thought, I am sorry there are only tyvo more ln the class I haven't seen IH thls fas c1n xtmv mnxor for lt was becomlnv lm men ely lnterestlnv I dld not have lonv to medxtate before the mterxor of a doctor's oihce appeared At the desk sat a m m whose posltlon looked famllur as he stooped slwhtly over hls Wllllfllf lust then a woman entered leadmfr a little boy, the chlld ran to the man who, I understood, yvas h1s father and the woman I kneyy yyas has wlfe for I recognued her When the doctor swunff around yy 1th the chlld ID hls arms to speak to her I saw, Guess, Earl Ilavey H1 ' Hal I thought, now letls see what comes next Isoon beheld the xnsnde of a yery fash lonable church, ln the pulplt preachlnv to 1 very attentlye congrcyfatlon yyas a man yyhom I 10 Il I '1 iwfv. v v n - 'w s . L. . - ' . ' . . : I ' c . . - ' gt . l 1 . ' AI I '1 1 1 ' - . n ' ' me I 1: 0 I ' I .I 1 I n Q Y! I . 15 I s :tw ' , '- 1 1 H ' s 1 - I n I C Lx I' 7 - yn l N K V 4 5 V - v I v 1 l at K O ' . I . Q 'w v . . I ' n l n kb . . - lx I . 7 K. w v 1 ' O' - ' C! E Pa . . - . gg 3, 1 . . . . ., , . . . B Y ' D . . . I here puzzles me. The most lnteresting sight to be some very prominent speakersg however, it . . K. I . Y . . . , ' ' Q Y l VY Y o P5 I u. Q .w ..2.b .Hg .V .c.- V V . 2 Y ' V S v . W. B. . G ll' l ' l 1 1 . y' 2 I l . . . . . . . . ' . a ,, ' 1 ' as 0. f B ,, c r t ' v ' . v f., v V V -, 3. ' ', - as 1 ' 1. ' ' , ,. . . B , . . 1 . . B - . f V. ' - ' . ' T - 2 4 v W A 1 ' v le. ' . ' ' 1 ' 5 2 .v

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