What a lark! When it started there were the anointed and there were the Jonadabs.
Everyone took the emblems in those days 'cos that's what everyone else did, anointed, the lot of them -- except now in 1935, the newbies, the "Jonadabs" alias "friends of the bridegroom", they just sat gawping and salivating at the memorial, a bunch of lesser mortals.
The whole problem arose when Joseph Frankly Ratherflawed realised the membership numbers of JWs was going to exceed 144,000 and that figure didn't take into account goodness knows how many earlier Christians who died thousands of years ago. So he had to come up with an expedient new teaching and like all JW doctrinal change, it was driven by prevailing circumstance and clearly not by the agency of eternal truth.
Notice how this principle is in play today with the new view on "the anointed". Yesterday's truths can be quitely buried because they think and hope JWs will have forgotten the origins of earlier JW doctrine.
So here to remind you; JFR borrowed the idea of two classes, heavenly and earthbound from an 'apostate', one of those who opposed his grasping bid for presidency in 1919 who he hated and therefore disfellowshipped; Bro Freytag, head of the Swiss branch.
Frederic Louis Alexandre Freytag went on to start his own religion: Friends of Man with doctrines of 144k heavenly anointed, earthbound other sheep, Jehovah God, vegetarianism and a bit more fun than Ratherflawed officially permitted. Yet it has to be noted that JFR, president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society did not stint himself on bootleg alcohol, a luxury lifestyle and a mistress.