Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-07-01

in nah life. sho'."
Well, Sam" replied the turn
key. You won't be in here much
longer and I'll have to be hurryiug
along. SO goodmorning. And he
closed the door behind him.
Sam heard him lock 1t and then
listened until the footsteps of the
turnkey could be heard no more.
Then he turned to the tray on
which his breakfast was still un-
touched. He washed his face
and hands and sat down to eat his
morning meal. He was small
man, had a shiny. bald head and
what little hair he had was gray.
His eyes were black. and his fea-
lures were even and small. AS lie
sat there at the taSfe, little eating,
he seemed in Meditation. This
attitude was assured 3 y his staring
steadily at one spot. Then gradu
ally he seemed to come back to him
self and as he did this he began to
once he fastened his eyes on thick
packet of papers in the corner near
est the door He walked over ana
picked them up, came back to the
table and sat down. He saw the
papers had been opened and he took
the papers out 1t consisted of
letter from a sister to her brother.
The letter was long, yet mostly of
family affairs. Besides the letter
was a paper, the heading was
PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF
1921"
His eyes were steadily fastened
on the paper and he drew a long
breath of interest after reading the
next line-'E. u H. s. He gave
brief pause and then read on.
The paper read as follows:
Prelude-Using my best abil-
ity of prophecying peoples future
or future work in life, l, Alberta S.
F. Kennett, the Prophet of Glass of
1921, write the following.
William Leroy Craig Our class
Vice-President of 192O-21 did not
become civil engineer as he had
tried to- do, but as some of us sus-
picioned he4is b, happy farmer, lfv-
ing just three miles south of Eliza
beth.
Florence Ellen Litherland-The
Mathematician of our class, we fear,
will change her name and live not
very far from here
Eunice Katherine Weiss Our
Juliet (whose Romeo departed in an
earthquake surprised us all by
turning out to be milliner OF
Stetson hats in Denver. and is a
very successful manageress and
saleslady.
Ruth Elizabeth Kirkman- Our
class cartonist is now winning fame
in her cartoon work for the Denver
Post and is travelling in Europe at
present
Pauline Vivian Weiss Glass
President, has a fate too, deter
mined to change-to that of a school
ma'am and she boasts of an old
maid, at that.
Be1njce Veneta Brumbaugh--
Our little actress, gave us another
surprise in leaving Elizabeth and
is now heard of as saleslady in
one of the largest firms in Topeka,
Kansas.
Clarence Duncan Poison Our
Geometry friend is now an instruc-
tor in school of Civif- Engineering
in Boston.
Alberta Salina Frances Kennett
The Glass Secretary and Treasurer
whose goal was to be private
Stenographer in - but we're hap
py to say is successfully teaching
school in Dear Old E. U. H. s., too.
Written April 4, 1921.
Sans face beamed with joy as he
re-read the paper. Then he laid
1t aside and occasionally between
bites of breakfast he would read
part or two again.
Just as he was slipping his last
bit of coffee, which had turned
cold long ago, he heard the bar of
the heavy door being lifted. Just
as he turned around the door swaug
open and there stood the turnkey
and with him a young lady-tall
and slender with dark hair which
hung in long beautiful curls, eTec-
lively setting off her rosy, tinted
delicate complexion. Sam ~gazed
steadily at her second and then
he iumned IN and uae lxnaol;, ~