Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

ball that evening and the party was post-poned a week. Then again (I heard) they were going to have the party anyway
    This morning (I heard again) the party was to be post-poned until after Christmas!
                        Thursday Dec. 8 1910
     The only way out of this turmoil over the class-party was to have a meeting, which we did this noon. I thought that our hostesses ought really to decide the matter for themselves, but then I wasn’t giving the party. We are going to have the class-party at Miss Helen Murphy’s home on Perry Street; Miss Vesta Fisher’s home on McKinley avenue and Miss Mary Lee Boyle’s home on Columbia St. tomorrow night. When Day announced the time he compromised it in this way “Meet at Boyle’s at 7:15 sharp and not later than 7:30!”
     After school to-night, Day invited Joe and Me out to his Kabal supper, but Joe was too sick to go – he had a bad cold. When I arrived at his home, King and Bill were already there.
      Day hawled out his checker out-fit.
    “Do you fellows want to play checkers” he remarked
   Altho I hate checkers, something prompted me to grab the