Sycamore School - Cardinal Yearbook (Willows, CA)

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The next day, Sunday, Gertrude and Hecliff attended church. There they met Parson Iohn Perry. He introduced them to Miss Nancy Petty, the Sunday school teacher, who was usually reading out of the Bible to her delinquent Sunday school attenders, Paul Deniz, Steve Pool, and worst of all, Lynn Cuccia whom she kept after class. They also met the Gupton Twins, Dan and Ben, and Ole Meland, choir directors. After church the congregation dashed outside to see the hanging of Porky Pig Mike Paul, Guilty Gallegos , Monster Montz, Sawed-off Smith, CEarll , Ricochet Rutledge, and Tex Sevier. The executioner, Lyncher Landon, was making last-minute adjustments on his gallows. After the hanging Iim Fisher, the undertaker, drove up in his black wagon and took the dead bodies to Boot Hill. He also picked up the grave diggers, Ierry Ehorn and Jerry Ladd. The Bounty Hunter, Rod Hill, came looking for the bandits, but was too late . I On the 1:00 p.m. stage, driven by Phillip Bell, and Raymond Lacroix, arrived Dalauna Tanner, Suzan Edwards, and Roy Fisher. Roy and Dalauna were going to open a new General Store. Bonnie Wharton, Iohn McKay, and Suzan left on the stage for San Francisco. Later on that day, Ioan Taylor and Shelley Murray took a lunch to the telegraph operators , Scott Dunlap and Howard Cawthra. On their way back, they met Martha Ward, Linda Barrera , Kelly Boyd, and Monica Lowas, the Gossip Circle of Dry Gulch. The Gossipers told them that Miss Patricia Ceccon's prize mare had run through the barbed-wire 24 .,

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fence of the wealthy cattle rancher, Deb Stanborough, and had broken its leg Dr. Paul Wiest borrowed Gunsmith Linda Gardoza's rifle to shoot it. Georgia Larrabee, Ronnie Iuney, Mike Hall, and Teresa Cavier, were spectators at the shooting. Georgia turned purple with green dots, while the other three turned white as ghosts. By this time, Gertrude and I-lecliff had had quite a day, so they went back to town in a Bartalini-Rent-a-Buggy. - They went through the hot, desert-like part of Dry Gulch. When they were half way home, the two most wanted criminals, Pam and Perry Iohnson, robbed them and took their buggy. They left and made Gertrude and I-lecliff walk back to town. When Gertrude and I-lecliff got to where they could see the town of Dry Gulch, they met Toothless Brad Taylor, l-lomely Holmesley and the Courthouse lawnkeeper, Sprinkler Winkler. They were three week-end gold panners with their seven donkeys and tools coming back from the hills. They asked Gertrude and I-lecliff if they wanted a lift. They said they did, and were back in town by 6:00 p.m. At 7:15 p.m. Gertrude and Hecliff went to a town meeting, where Congressman Fred Logue was giving a talk on the women who were against allowing more dance hall girls in Dry Gulch. Among these prejudiced women were Nacy Ernest, Maureen Fransen, Shari Sharp, Iudy Llewellen. By this time, Paul Lowe, one of the bachelors of Dry Gulch, yelled out, What's wrong with that? They're fun to have around! There's plenty wrong with that! yelled out Laurie Ell and Vicki Harmon. 25. .A