Tomah High School - Hamot Yearbook (Tomah, WI)

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HAMOT '20 28 TOMAH HIGH This article received hrst place in the Junior Story Contest. The Mourning Veil WIDE, uncovered piazza ran along the front of the Stover house and there two little girls were playing keep house. They had their doll dishes, and other play-things strewn about, but were beginning to lose interest in their house-keeping and visiting. Suddenly the younger of them said, I'lI tell you what! Let's play funeral! How? Well, we can play that my Josephine Maud Angelina died and that we buried her. That will be splendid, lets have her die right off. Immediately after the death of Maud Angelina, her grief stricken mother said, Now Kate, we must put crepe on the door knob to let people know about it. You run over to the house and get Mammafs long black veil. It ought to be white for a dollie, oughtn't it ? I guess you forgot that Josephine Maud was a married lady and a widow lady at that, didn't you? You remember how Teddy Davis' horrid dog chewed poor Josephine's husband up. Katie went away and soon returned with a long black mourning veil. It was quickly tied to Mrs. Stover's front door knob, then the bereft Dorothy's grief broke out afresh, and she wailed and wept so vigorously that Mrs. Stover said, You little girls are making too much noise down there. Mr. Stover's sick and you disturb him. My husband wants to go to sleep. How unfeelingf, said Dorothy, snatching up her dead doll and other playthings. They departed quite forgetting to take the veil off the front door. I I-Ialf an hour later Marie Simmons came down the street and suddenly stopped in front of the Stover's house. My sakes alive! if there isn't crape on Stover's door. I knew he was sick, but I didn't know he was at all dangerous. I must stop in on my way home and find out about lt. She would have stopped then if it had not been for the eagerness to carry the news to those who might not have heard about it. A little farther she met an acquaintance. Ain't heard about the troubles at Stovers have you? What trouble? Sam Stover is dead. There is crape on the door knob. I was in there yesterday, and Sam was up and around the house, but I could see that he was a good deal sicker than he or his wife had any idea of, so I ain't much surprised. My goodness mel I must Gnd time to call there before nightln Mrs. Simmons stopped at the village post office, to ask for a letter, but really to im- port her information to Uncle Don Whales, the talkative old Postmaster. Heard about Sam Stover? No, I did hear he was quintin' round a little bit, but - - - He won't quint any more, said Mrs. Simmons solemnly. He's dead. How you talk. lt's so. There's crape on the door. Must have been dreadful sudden, Mrs. Stover was in last evening an' she reckoned he'd be out in a day or two, well as ever. I know, but he ain't been well for a long timeg I could see it if others couldn't. The news was now spreading from another source, and in that way caused those who heard it to declare that it was perfectly scandulous for Mrs. Stover to carry on son. Joe I-Iigley, the grocer's delivery man, after leaving some things at the Stover house said full of indignation, That Mrs. Stover ain't got no more feelin' than a lamp post. There is crape on the door knob for poor Sam Stover, and when I left groceries there, Mrs. Stover was fryin' doughnuts, cool as a cucumber an' singin' Way Down Upon the Swanee

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TOMAH HIGH 27 HAMOT '20 1 I 4 junior Class Roll ANDERSON, DAGNEX' ASBURY, BEATRICE BARNSTABLE, ARLENE BAILEY, AUGUSTA BEARDSLEY, EDITH BELL, MARGARET BIRKHOLZ, IRMA BLASCHKE, VERONIC.-X BUSS, ADOLPH CALLAHAN, MAE CALLAHAN, MARGARET CHAPMAN, JOANNA CHAPMAN. ALVA CHAPMAN, ROY CONNOR, NIAYME CURRY, LAVVRENCE DALY, FLORENCE DAMS, ALBERT DEWEY, LEONE DEWEY, IVAH DONOVAN, KATHERINE DONAHUE, JOHN EARLE, LOUIS President ....... Vice-President ......... Secretary and Treasurer Class Advisor .......,.. EDMINISTER, BERGETTA FINNERTY, GERALD GETMAN, WALLACE GOERBING, RUTH GRAHAM, GEORGE HILLIKER, NORMA HOWIE, LUCILE HUNT, MYRTLE JOHNSON, NJILDRED KOMISKEY, ELIZABETH KOMISKEY, MARIE KYLE, HELEN LAMB, MABEL LAVVTON, CORAL LINEHAN, ROSELLA LUDEKING, CAROLINE MATTHEWS, ELMER MAUSE, MARGARET MCCAUL, KATHERINE MCCLATCHIE, JAMES MISTELE, MYRTLE MORAN, RAYMOND MONAHAN, BESSIE OFFICERS MORSE, SADIE MURDOCK, NORA PRESCOTT, DORIS PURDY, NORMA RAGAN, HELEN REYNOLDS, LYNN RIESING, CLARENCE ROWAN, ANNA SCHUEMAN, EDNA SCHULTZ, MILDRED SOWLE, EDWARD SPINK, CLIFFORD SPINK, HAZEL VANDERVORT, OSCAR VESPER, MARIE WARREN, HAROLD WELCH, LEILA WOOD, GLADYS ZELLMER, GERTRUDE MARQUART, EDWARD LANGER, EDWARD PONGRATZ, ROLLAND , . .GERALD FINNERTY . . .MARGARET BELL . , ,EDWARD SOWLE I . . . .MISS JONES

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TOMAH HIGH 29 HAMOT '20 River loud as she could screech, an' when I said I was sorry 'bout Sam, she just laughed and said she guess Sam was all right and then if she didn't go on jokin' me about Tildv Hopkins. U Old Mrs. Peevy came home with an equally scandulous tale: I went right over to the Stovers' soon as I heard 'bout poor Sam, and if you'll believe me, there was Mrs. Stover hanging out clothes in the backyard. I went right aroun' to where she was an' she said just as flippant, Mercy Mrs. Peevy where'd you drop down from? I felt so s'prised and disgusted that I says, 'Mrs. Stover, this is a mighty solemn thingl' and if she didn't just look at me and laugh with the crape for poor Sam danglin' from the front door knob, and she says, 'I don't see nothin' over solemn 'bout washing and hangin' out some of Sam's old shirts that he'll never wear again, I'm goin, to work 'em up into carpet rags if they ain't too far gone even for that. 'Mrs. Stoverf, I says, 'the neighbors will take on dreadful if you ain't careful, and she got angry and said, 'If the neighbors would attend to their busi- ness she'd attend to her's. I turned and left without even going into the house. The Carbury Weekly Star came out two hours later with this announcement: We stop our press to announce the unexpected death of our highly respected fellow citizen Mr. Samuel Stover, this afternoon. A more extended notice will appear next Week. Unexpectedl I should say sol said Samuel Stover as he read this announcement in the paper. A more extended notice next week. I'll write that myself and I'lI extend it far enough to let that editor know what I think of him. But how did this crape get on the front door? interrupted Mrs. Stover. I found it there when I went out to get the paper. It's the straight thing - - -there is the minister coming in the gate! Do calm down Sam! I-Ie's coming to make arrangements for the funeral, I suppose. Mr. I-Iavems, the minister, was surprised when Mr. Stover opened the door and said, Come right in. If you want to go ahead making arrangements for the funeral, I'll give the main points myself. MABEL LAMB-'21 I flf 'Q iff' ' W .H I 4 , . , ...U FOOTBALL SQUAD