Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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 Anna Lewis will be running a tonsorial parlor and will be assisted by Joe Hackett, ex-butcher and junk collector. No quarreling will be allowed in this establishment during business hours. On a little side street, just around the corner, you will see, if you happen around that way, a little sign. Something like this: “DRESSMAKING, ALL KINDS. Our Prices Are Cut On the Bias.” Ethel Pigg, Gertrude Trager, Prop’s. If you see some one coming down the street looking like Rip Van Winkle after his twenty year nap, yelling “Shears to grind” or “Umbrellas to mend,” you will know right away that it is I. —R. F. L., ’21 TO THE T. C. II. S. Oh, thou noble edifice, Standing by thyself; Illumined, grand and up right, On nature’s mantle-shelf. There is nothing nobler, Naught deserves more praise, Than such as thou art doing, Humanity for to save. Within thy halls and corridors, Wheie all aie begged to come, By work and honest diligence, Life’s frame work there is spun. You prepare us for the problems, With which in after days, Journeying thru life’s highways We’ll come to “face to face.” And thy teachers kind and true, Thee, oh, noble structure, We hold in gratest reverence, As men are wont to do. So may thy fame be cried abroad. And high thy banners fly, Thou the soul of honor Alma mater, Tuscola High. —Ex. 1

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 SENIOR PROPHECY I'air and unfair readers; did you ever stop to realize the fact that, although today we may be as happy as the lark in the field, and the hare in the cabbage patch, tomorrow a man with a long coat and a longer face might be taking our measure for a wooden kimona. It is always this in the lives of men be they great or small. As I sit and ponder on this subject my mind turns to the Senior Class ol “Twenty-One. What will they be doing ten years from now. The question puzzles me at first but—hark! The fairy of the future is whispering to me. At first it is very faint but as I listen more carefully I can hear what she is saying. In the day that will come a few years hence and flee to give place to a few more years hence, you will see Albert Bostic teaching a class in Manual Training how to make a glue joint without getting “stuck-up.” Of all the chemical laboratories in the world there will be one much better than the rest. It will be the product of years of labor. The owner will be Enos Thornton, providing he doesn’t make any T. N. T. in the meantime. I am a very good judge of live-stock and if you will go to the polls and vote for Harley Helm, who will be running for United States Senator, you will not go wrong because his wind is good. And also let me add here, that he will have good prospects for taking the “helm” of the “Ship of State.” Forrest Collar, champion light weight flirt, will be contemplating upon the subject of marriage. It is generally rumored in society circles that he will have to say “eeny-meeny-miny-mo” in order to pick the girl. The eminent painter, Mile. Ruth Thompson, will be instructing a class of bootblacks in the art of applying the pigment. And here we come to something that will cause weeping and gnashing 01 teeth; The Rev. J. Harold Hollingsworth will be preaching against such ungodly spectacles as seeing Glenn Griffith, champion heavy weight pugilist of the world, box. Glenn will be prospering and have an established residence in Newman. There will be a fine mansion go up in the prospering city of Villa Grove. It will be the home of Loren Mathews, retired section boss on the C. E. I. Railroad. There will be a group of little children romping on the lawn. I think they will belong to the couple across the street. Kate Wamsley, our beloved class president, will be instructing a Physical Training Class at the Y. W. C. A. in the art of graceful walking. Kate acquired this art by taking a correspondence course. Thelma Foley will be keeping house for Albert Thoeming, retired farmer, who will have made a million pesos selling corn at forty cents a bushel.

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 CLASS WILL THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of the Class of 1921, of the City of Tuscola, County of Douglas, and State of Illinois, made this first day of March, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-One. We, the class of 1921 of the City of Tuscola, County of Douglas, and State of Illinois, being of sound mind, do hereby make, publish and declare this our last will and testament. FIRST: It is our will that all funeral expenses, and other just debts be fully paid. SECOND : We bequeath to the class of ’22 our seats near the windows. This, is an ideal spot to look out, and dream of the “ole swimmin’ hole,” etc. THIRD: We give and bequeath to the class of ’22 all capital, knowledge, and privileges, known and described as follows: The capital (the remainder) after all expenses are paid; All our knowledge of Economics. Civics, Physics, Chemistry, and other subjects which the class of ’22 has not mastered, and our privileges as dignified Seniors, the winning of favor-in the eyes of the faculty, and bossing the Juniors. To our fellow-student W’illiam Read we bequeath Enos Thornton’s best “‘blood and thunder” stories to be read to the incoming Freshman Class. To John Bruhn we bequeath Raymond Land’s fancy thoroughbred neckties. To Gladys Wiight we bequeath Kate Wamsley’s long presidential stride. To Mary Eelles we bequeath Ruth Thompson’s ability of securing good grades. To Harland Richards we bequeath Albert Bostic’s self control, and ability to take things calmly. To Harcld Lincoln we bequeath Harold Hollingsworth’s privileges of leaving the assembly room without permission. To Charles Innis we bequeath Joe Hackett’s adorned rights of singing and reciting poetry during study periods. To Don Carrothers we bequeath the spectacles and short French mustache of Loren Mathews. To Mary Larmore we bequeath Thelma F'oley’s rat. To Everett Stallsworth we bequeath Harley Helm’s scientific up-to-date methods of reasoning. To Helen Scheideman we bequeath Forrest Lollar’s ability of escaping work in modern form. To Doris Romine we bequeath Gertrude Trager’s ability to walk to school each and every day. To Earl Smiley we bequeath Albert Thoeming’s ability as a Physics student.