West Salem High School - Hi Lite Yearbook (West Salem, IL)

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When we arrived there we found that Margaret Weber had a tea room, but we discovered that most of the tea she sells comes in quarts, pints, half-pints, and sometimes shots. While in New York we went to Niagara Falls and while we were there Merrill Lee Myers made headlines by going over the falls and forgetting his barrel. While motoring through Indiana we heard the sad story of how Max Boewe became a midget racer driver. It was said that he missed the Bennington Bridge trying to outrun a 1968 48” cylinder Deluxe Benzine with his ’41 Chevrolet. He decided to take up a career of midget racing. In traveling on to Detroit we heard about what had been happening to the Ford business. Monica Marshall and Wilma Maidlow are now in charge of it. They enjoy the work because of their love for Fords in their high school days. Chicago was the next stop and we were very surprised to find Thelma Hardy. She told us she had won first prize in a hog calling contest and was now entering the national. She hopes to come out with another first. We found when we entered Iowa that the greatest doctor of all times was making his home in Oskaloosa. It was none other than “David, cure-um or kill-um Bratsch.” As we were going across the great plains we saw two horsemen coming toward us. They were well-armed and we found it was a hunting expedition, led by Iva Lorene Myers and Marjorie Andrews, hunting buffalo. After leaving the plains we started through the “Big Horn Moun- tains” of Wyoming. There we found Norma Bennett and Mr. Strine happily married and owning a 1000 acre goat farm. (You should see all the little kids running around.) After leaving Wyoming we chartered a boat going up the Columbia River and we met Loren Pixley. Loren is one of the biggest men in the fishing industry in Washington. In Roseburg, Oregon, we found Frank Barnhart, who is a temper- ance lecturer on “Whiskey,” and as usual, Frank is full of his subject.