Weatherwax High School - Quinault Yearbook (Aberdeen, WA)

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Q IJ I N I A U L T lift job. lie lias become invaluable in the signal service because lie saves the bother of erecting an aerial. Sarah and Russel were married, of course.” A.—“Where are they now?” E.—“Sarah has gone on the stage and made a hit on Broadway. She’s a peach of an actress and is advertised as the Divine Sarah II. I saw her last winter starring in ‘Quality, Not Quantity!’ Russel is her business manager and directs tin productions in which she appears.” A.—“And what’s become of Marian?” E.—“Oh, she’s writing fiction. I met her a couple of months ago in Tombstone, Arizona. She had just had her latest story accepted by the “Friday Morning Stake” and was nearly tickled to death about it. The story was ‘The Mystery of the Missing Link,’ or ‘Who Stole the Sausage?' They say she has Edgar A. backed off the dock at that kind of stuff. Next?” A.—“Jeanette Hogan?” E.—“She went East and studied under Herr Brush and later went to Europe. I saw her in Chicago last spring. She was traveling as accompanist to Josephine McNamee who has become famous as a concert singer. It seems they both went to France and married Frenchmen of artistic ability. They were, in fact, so artistic that they exterminated themselves in a duel, so the merry widows decided to tour America. They are appearing as Madame Ilinote der Scuiek and .Mademoiselle Jeanne I)e Ivreticler. A.—“What became of Gertie Goehrend and Grace Johnson?” E.—“Gertie and Grace? Oh, they conduct a “Sanitarium for Overworked Husbands” near Palm Beach. I understand they make a success of it because ‘Dim’ and ‘Cecil’ do the cooking. A.—“To return to the superior minority; what became of Tom O’Hare and Hank Callison?” E.—“They pulled through the war all right but came down fast when they tried a flyer in Wall Street. Tom went into partnership with Francis Slover in the ‘Superior Soap Soapoolfying Syndicate.’ They’ve built a little town of their own at Slivslotohoma. Indiana. They have a race course built around it and spend their spare moments trying out the merits of their automobiles. Hank reverted to science and is occupied in solving questions of economic importance. At present he is trying to find out why man, the lord of creation, pays $12 per pound for potatoes while a potato-bug gets his for nothing.” A.—“What became of Ed Remmelmever?” E.—“Ed has been spending the last ten years trying to convert the Esquimaux to the Single Tax theory of government. I saw him in Seattle several months ago. By the, way, I ran across Bruce Ellis in Seattle. He is clerking in the perfume department of the Bon Marche and has become quite a dude in his manner of dress. He told me that Lorentz Mattila was in town for a few days. He had just come back from the Fiji Islands where he won the pocket-pool championship and a gold medal as big as. a cart-wheel.” —28

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q I! I X 1 A II L T Class $ropf)ccp Central—Number please?” Arthur—“One eight five Prospect.” Eric—“Hello, H-E-L-L-0 !” Arthur—“Hello, is this one eight five Prospect?” E.—“Yes.” A.—“Is .Mr. Stronnner there?” E.—“This is Mr. Strommer.” A.—“Hello, Ek. this is Art. I happened to notice in the paper that you were in Frisco so I thought I 'd call up. I’m at the St. Francis.” E.—Where in the name of Xerxes did you drop in from, Art?” A.—“I came in this morning from India on the ‘Alcazar.’ Been on a government survey on II. M. S. for the last five years. Lonesome hole that; if Sherman had ever been there he would certainly have substituted it for another in his well known idiom. By the way, Ek. what are you doing?” E.—“.Just at present I’m lecturing on natural science. I have been touring this country for the last year or two with my most famous lecture on the ‘Mental Ability of tin Angleworm.’ Been making a good thing out of it, too.” A.—“Do you lecture here tonight?” E.—“No, tomorrow night, the eighth. By George, Art, do you realize that this is June seventh, 1937?” A.—“Well, what of it?” E.—“Just twenty years after we graduated from the old Aberdeen Hi.” A.—“I guess you’re right. I hadn’t thought much about it. I haven’t seen or heard of any of our class except Dorothy Watson, since about 1922 or ’23.” E.—“And Dorothy’s about the only one I haven’t heard of or seen. Where did you see her?” A.—“Oh, she came out to India about four years ago with her husband. He’s an army officer, the ‘Duke of Dedbroke’.” E.—“So Dorothy’s a duchess?” A.—“Yep, and raising a couple of strapping little duklets. Speaking of Dorothy, what became of Doris?” E.—“Doris was elected to Congress last term on a ‘ten hours of housework for men’ platform. Catherine Miller was her campaign manager and I understand that she had Mark Ilanna backed off the map.” A.—“Whew! Class of Seventeen seems to have run strong to feminism. Guess it was because there were so few boys. Say, what became of the fellows that were called out with the Naval Militia? E.—“Carl McClung was the only one who stayed by the Navy as a —27—

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Q U I N I A U L T A.—“What became of Julius Tobey?” E.—“Julius married Elva and they moved back to Elma. lie is easily the big man of the town weighing close on to four hundred pounds. I saw him on my last visit to tin Harbor. Lono is running a peanut and popcorn stand but is contemplating a move because his brother’s kids eat up all the profits of the business. Julius is giving dancing lessons. Speaking of dancing, you remember Sidney Ilyatt and Carrie Carman ?” E.—“I saw them last winter when I was in St. Louis. They were appearing in the “Imperial Siamese Ballet” and were making quite a hit. They studied for some years in Peking under the famous Hop Sing Chow.” A.—“What became of Elwood Hogan?” E.—'“ Elwood went in for motion pictures and at present is playing opposite Mary Donovan in the ‘Mercies of Mary’ or the ‘Romance of a Red Cross nurse.’ The pictures are quite the rage, I believe, and they are said to make enough money to permit them to have spuds and meat at the same meal.” A.—“Where is ‘Bill’ Axlandf” E.—“I saw him a couple of years ago last fall at the Pike County Fair Rubeville, Missouri. He was selling ‘Life Elixir’ at one dollar a bottle and they were going like hot cakes. That evening when I went out to the town pump to help him mix up a supply of ‘Elixir’ for the next day’s trade lie told me about some of the rest of the class. He said that he had seen Dora Jones. Loretta Wells, Mary Tornquist and Ellen Anderson in Argentine the year before. They were traveling with the Bangrang Brothers Circus as the ‘Four Flying Fishers.’ Their stunt was the aerial stuff and a good one. William Anderson was with the same show as ballyho and Sarah Ivana was private secretary to the boss himself. Bill also saw Maude Cosgrove, Irene Green, Alberta Prentiss and Julia Benson while he was knocking around in South America. It seems that they went down there to some little ham sandwich republic and started a revolution. They won out and the United States has recently recognized the Republic of Greprebeco with Julia Benson as its first president.” A.—“By the way, Ek, what be.....” Click! Clack! Bang! “Some- one certainly must want to butt in on our conversation.” E.—“1 hope they are enjoying themselves.” A.—“As I was going to say, what became of Winifred Paine and Dorothy Boutyette? They graduated in the mid-year class, you remember.” A.—“Sure. 1 remember them. They married a couple of brothers who were going into the interior of China to preach Socialism. T haven’t heard of them for four or five years. By the way. Art. you remember ‘Dinah’ Achey, don’t you? I heard the other day that he had gone to Africa and was gaining quite a ‘rep’ among the pygmies as a heavyweight prize-fighter. ” —29—