Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-28
Class Prophecy Of 1914
[peferred from lagt ISSUE

During my visit with the Made.
moiselles Hamlin and Miller, equal
suffrage charge d'affaires in Homo
lulu, was so unfortunate as to
break down with the hemiplegia,
which put decided damper over my
much-looked-forward-to vacation.
In fact, today is the first time
have been allowed outside the hos
pital doors.
This morning as | watched the
postman going his weary way up the
corridor, was impressed by the idea
that his load was heavier than usual,
and in this notion | was decidedly
correct.
| turned again to my dreaming.
completely dismissing the postman
and his burden from my thoughts.
1t seemed hours, but in reality it was
only a few moments, when was
aroused from my reveries by good
natured voice saying: Here are a
few letters for you, MISS" and then
he made me the present of these.
| was very agreeably surprised,
and the best part was that they were
not wedding invitations, but letters
of cheer from over half the mem
bers OF my high school class, They
bore postmarks from nearly all parts
of the globe. Goodness, our old class
OF IA has surely scattered, and the
achievements accomplished by them
are wonderful. Why, it is just year
just twelve short months ago to-
night-since we received our diplo-
mas and our blessings from Professor
Briscoe
will not attempt to read them all
to you, but | thought that a few
extracts from some would be exceed
ingly interesting.
Here are couple of extracts from
Ruth Turner's:
Montague, Cal, May 8, 1915.
Dear old "C": Yesterday l saw
Everett Acklin for the first time
since last May. My lands, &C." he is
the travelling representative of the
National Cloak and Suit Company.
l learned from him of your misfor-
tune AS ever,
P. ST. just received my appoint
ment as first aid to E. Dews, presi-
dent of the Yreka G. Eastern Railway
Company
And here's one from Kenneth Nc
Williams telling of a good many of
the old class members:
ovens Ranch, May 10, 1915.
Dear CO.: Today is the first time
I've had minute to spare for ! don't
know when. Yesterday Minnie Owen
drove over to Climax and had a nice
long chat with Elmer Scott. He has
a dEt anu q COlltNllOhClg olOi
in connection. He certainly is doing
fine, too. | suppose you know that
Mabels name isn't Hansen any more.
Well, Elmer tolIes in the money at
the garage and Mabel at the candy
store You know there is nothing
like keeping it all in the family. On
our return who should we meet but
Charles Freeman, and could you i'm
agine what he was doing? You know
how tall he was at school. Well sir,
that lad has never stopped growing,
And there he was standing flatfooted
on the ground without ladder,
stringing wires on the wireless tele-
! graph poles. Another surprise was
not far away, for, 10 and behold,
right then and there team of mules,
a load of poles and Dana Frame hove
around the bend. Well, we had a
real old-time recitation room chat.
! Charles said that he saw Kenneth
| SulllulluSS NSoteIudy III AShidhu
Lithia Springs. You know that they
have changed the name of Ashland
to that after the springs waters were
piped into the park. Well, Charles
didn't have time to talk to him on
account of Tuckie's mad rush to gath
er news for Billie Briggs Lithia Tri-
bune. We talked a long time, but
finally after many attempts we were
once more homeward bound. After a
while we stopped at little cabin in
the clearing. As watered up the
car Minnie said: Look, Kenneth
there is familiar figure" and, sure
enough, there stood Sig Patterson
well" said, What are you doing
here?" Nothing, just getting sup
per for Dana she answered. Ant
you know she wasn't the least bit ex
cited. / was almost dumfounded, but
she was as clam" as could be.
must have suffered fright. and IL
feeble attempt not to show my
speechlessness | gulped out, who's
the landlord OF that tent across the
meadow" oh replied Sig. "tha
is Harold Merrill's. He came ou