Tarboro High School - Tar Bo Rah Yearbook (Tarboro, NC)

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round of massages, tonsorial treatments and hair dressing. A fashionable toilet is not complete until Madamoiselle Pender has administered the final touches of rouge and powder. You can take a fellow out of the country but you can ' t take the country out of him. These words well apply to Rupert Philips. He had a great struggle as to what his life ' s vocation should be; and for his wise judgment he wins the admiration of the whole world. At present he is a chiropodist. We once thought that Lilla Dale Rosenbaum would be like the little brook, which babbles on forever, but suddenly she talked out and, thinking of nothing else to say, went out west and there entered a nunnery. After Lilla, of course, my next thought was of Elizabeth Worsley. When I inquired of Joe as to the whereabouts of Elizabeth, he replied, You must have been back here in these woods some years as you have not heard of Elizabeth as a writer of the world ' s famous picture plays. Her most recent one is Weighed Down by Grief, or What Broke the Iceman ' s Scales! ' Haywood Taylor, being unsuccessful in his dealings with Cupid, resigned on account of heavy work and expense, and plans to spend the remainder of his life on Knott ' s Island, trying to discover by what powers a crawfish perambulates himself in an opposite direction. Thus, in the wee sma ' hours of last night, did I learn of the doings, wise and otherwise, of my classmates during the twenty years since we said Good-bye at the Tarboro High School. I parted from Joe with regret at his going, but with rejoicing at the chance that had sent him to my lonely cabin. I stood in the door until his figure had disappeared in the mountain passes, then went slowly to my easel. Prophet 30

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international honors as an actress, she is known to her classmates as Dignified Ty. I learned that a decided change had come into the life of Spencer Dancy. At the age of twenty he visited Utah for the study of aviation. But here his career as a bird of passage ceased, for he changed from a monogamist to a Mor- mon. At the age of forty, therefore, we find Baby Dancy making good progress in life under the care of thirteen mothers-in-law. Robert Davis is a doctor. But such a doctor! His few calls are never answered within three hours. Between the calls and the visit he has zealously studied all the diseases that his patient might have and, with a flourish, warns him that with a great deal of care he will be able to conquer the Mening- coccus germ. Annie Fountain spent the first five years out of college in Africa, as a repre- sentative of the Woman ' s Rights Movement of America. Returning to her homeland, she became the instigator of a plan of placing rings in the noses of the opponents to the cause. She declares that the remainder of her life will be spent in the carrying out of this plan. In her appearance before the National Woman Suffragette Convention, in the year 1918, Blanche Fryer made an excellent plea for the association of the two sexes. The Tarboro High School students ordered ten thousand copies for the benefit of the faculty. Edgar Hart decided to try his luck in a large city. For some time he exper- ienced difficulty, but finally, through his Palestrical appearance and his increas- ing and far-reaching vocal powers, he secured a position as an auctioneer in a well-known pawn shop. Arthur Knight was well known as a baseball player until he reached the age of thirty. At this age, having reached the height of his ambition by knocking a home run with three men on bases and the score tied, he retired in the zenith of his glory. In order to show his manly physique and facial beauty he became a conductor on the East Carolina Railway. Sophia Light is a dweller in the regions around the North Pole, selling fire- less cookers. Her enormous sale of this product is said to be due to the power of her persuasive influence and charming ways. It is well to note, however, that she still corresponds with a well-known auctioneer in a New York pawn shop. Doc Long was noted in our class for his persistency, to which fact Cath- arine Cobb could testify. His faithfulness was very marked until a certain en- sign appeared home on a furlough. Immediately his thoughts were turned to Medical Science, and since then he has been specializing in the hydrophobia of red bugs, gnats, and fireflys. Ella Pender went to New York and there studied voice for a few years. She bade fair to make a second Madame Sembrich when, to the disgust of her fam- ily and friends, she married a worthless Italian duke. Catherine Pender, it is reported, hardly has time for a word with any one. All that we hear of her is through others. Her days and nights are one ceaseless 29

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Last Will and Testament State of North Carolina ) County of Edgecombe V City of Tarboro ) We, the Senior Class of the Tarboro High School, of the aforesaid city, county, and State, being of sound and disposing minds, do, on this, the First day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, hereby make, publish, and declare our last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say: Item I. We do hereby appoint our most honored and beloved Superin- tendent, R. H. Bachman, Executor of this our Last Will and Testament; and, as a token of our esteem, we do hereby bequeath to the above a Music Faculty guaranteed against Cupid ' s darts. Item II. To Mr. Downey we do will and bequeath a book treating on the Bertillon System, to aid him in apprehending the guilty one whose finger prints were found on the Class bell. Item III. Judging from the present outlook, to Miss Banks we leave our sincere hope that she will be a permanent resident of Tarboro. Item IV. To our Math, teacher, Miss Hassell, we bequeath a plane ex- tending indefinitely into space. On account of its inconceivable length, its port- ability being thereby rendered awkward, we, the undersigned request the said Miss Hassell to will said plane to the school upon her departure. Item V. With our sympathies, we bequeath to Miss Council this bun, hoping that in its own little way it may remind her of the Bunn she is leaving behind her in Tarboro. Item VI. To William Andrews we do leave the pebbles that Demosthenes used, that he may use them if it ever becomes necessary. Item VII. To Joe Bunn we do leave a bottle of liniment, that he may always have his arm in readiness for pitching a good game of ball. Item VIII. To Claxton Cherry we do bequeath a picture of the Cream of Wheat man, recommending that he closely observe the same and practice on his 31