The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-24
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a day nor tardy once, record that
high sense of duty her father present
ed her on ner graduation eve with
magnificent diamond ring that will
| sparkle in consonance with her intel
lect through the years to come.
Carl Lyle of Stanton, the twin
brother of Carl Lyle, read the class
will. These boys are so much alike
that you can hardly tell one from the
other. They are the youngest and
smallest members in the class phys
ically, but mentally they weigh a ton
and their records among the high
est and brightest. Carl began: In the
name of George Washington we, the
members of the class of 1910, bequeath
and will, etc. and in humorous style
and in a quaint wording endowed each
member of the class of 1911 with
very valuable asset, for instance: Mac
Kay conferred on Paul Gates the pres
idency of the class and to secure same
advised him to be polite to the girls
and seek their suffrage to enable him
to secure the position. Ellen Clarkson
willed her Latin books, in which study
very valuable asset. for instance: Mac
| Lyle conveyed his power of debate to
another SO that he might shine in the
Agatheridan Society. Miss Beck, her
power to sit up at night and study
that her successor might become
medal winner. Ethel Crosby bequeath-
| ed her position of class elocutionist
and down the list. To Fred Mef-
fert, commonly called Lazy" were left
| all pocket editions of text books so
he would not be late at rotations
hunting up the book at a store down
| town. To Curtis Crom was left the
title of senator and attorney for his
class. Mr.. Lyle has a good voice and
used it to a purpose. He made a good
impression.
Curtis Crom read the class prophecy
and in doing so won distinction thru
the Introduction of the little man with
| long beard that dropped out Of Hal
| leys comet to commune with Curtis
prophetic mood He first referred to
Mr.. Cappleman, a former student of the
! Ocala High School. then of the Uni
versity of Florida and an officer in the
Philippines, who got more work out of
| the army mule than any man who had
ever commanded there. Miss Davis
after aking a course at Peabody, be-
came the teacher of the Burbank
Academy, which had grown into quite
a place. Miss Hodge became famous
authoress and occupied a lovely home
| on Silver Springs run. the mecca of
all tourists He then described a sky
scraper in Ocala and Earl Lyle the
most imposing and prosperous tooth
doctor in the Brick City Time was SO
/ precious with Earl that he had his
private aeroplane, the auto being too
slow. so that a moments notice he
could step out of the window and be
whirled away to his grapefruit grove
at Lake Weir and note how his crop
was prospecting. Ethel Crosby finished
her musical course at the Berlin Con-
servatory of Music. became daft on the
subject and devoted all her time to
playing wedding marches. Robert F.
Polly became a captain in the Saliva
| ton Army. superinduced thereto by
the winsome lassie who thumped
tambourine in the ranks of the same
The speaker startled his audience by
assuring his hearers that Miss Ma bel
Beck became the leading lawyer of the
! Ocala bar and placed placed Ray Bull
lock in the cleaning by her superior
ability as a criminal defender. She
graduated at Stetson and for her to
wink her other eye at jury was to
win a case. Robert Ferguson bloom
ed forth the most astute and sue
cessful politician in the state and rep
resented Moss Bluff in Congress, with
the confidence of his constituents, even
greater than Steve Sparkman possesses
over those of the second district. Like
Mr. Sparkman, Robert had no opposi-