2^X11 3 S' 'S' X BOARD OF EDUCATION DECATUR, : ILLINOIS GENERAL REPORT 1900-1907 WITH OVERVIEWS 1865-1907 Table of Contents Picture of Mr. E. A. Gastman - Frontispiece Decatur Public Schools, 1862-1900 - - - - 7 Extracts from the Minutes of the Board, 1900-1907 - 10 Pictures of the Boards of Education, 1865 and 1907 - 6 and 16 Alphabetical list of Teachers employed 1865-1907 - 17 List of Supplementary Reading used in 1907 - - 21 Pictures of Treasurers - - - - - 22 Treasurer’s Report — Receipts 23 Treasurer's Report-Disbursements { femanent Improvement^} Insert List of School Properties - Insert Picture of the Church Street School and the E. A. Gastman School 26 Description of the Church Street School and the E. A. Gastman School 27 Wood Street School — Description J ackson Street School — Description - Sangamon Street School — Description - J asper Street School — Description - Marietta Street School — Description ... Warren Street School — Description - H. B. Durfee School — Description ... The Pugh School — Description - - - The Oakland School — Description - The Riverside School — Description ... The Roach School — Description - - The Jones School and the West Main Street School — Description The High School — Description - Historical Sketch - - Science Department - - - - - The Literary Societies j Forum The High School Library - I Alumni Association - - Graduates by Classes 1868-1907 - Alphabetical List of Graduates In Conclusion Table — Number of Teachers and Pupils 1900-1907 Table — Growth of the City and the Public Schools 28-29 30-31 32-33 34-35 |36-37 38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-47 48-49 50-51 52-53 54 55 58 61 63 72 77 88 99 100 101 OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION BOARD OF EDUCATION. JAMES F. ROACH .... ROBERT R. MONTGOMERY MRS. MINNIE P. HOSTETLER Term Expires 1908 Term Expires 1909 Term Expires 1910 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. JAMES F. ROACH, President. BENJAMIN O. McREYNOLDS, Treasure/, ENOCH A. GASTMAN, Clerk and Supt., 1906-7 H. B. WILSON. Clerk and Supt., 1907-8 The regular meetings of the Board are held on the second Tuesday evening of each month at 7:30 p. m., in the office of the High School. Office hours of the Superintendent, 4:00 to 5:00 p. m. On Satur- days, 9:30 to 11:00 a. m. EXPLANATORY. In 1900, Superintendent E. A. Gastman prepared a report summar- izing the growth of the schools of Decatur from their organization to that date. This volume attempts to carry down to the close of his adminis- tration the essential features of the previous condensed report. Had he been spared to do it, Mr. Gastman intended to do what others have attempted to do as we believe he would have done it. Practically all of the work of compiling and arranging this volume has been done by Miss Anna S. Vetterliet during the last semester of this school year at times when her duties as general supply teacher for the schools permitted. Fortune has favored in enabling us to have the services of one who had a first hand acquaintance with much of the matter herein presented and who was altogether so capable of performing this task. This volume and the one which preceded it will be treasured by those who knew Mr. Gast- man and his work, for they will constitute another of the many evidences that, while he is gone, his work and influence still manifest themselves in manifold ways. H. B. WILSON, Clerk and Supt, of Schools. June 12, 1908. REV. D. P. BUNN WM. L. HAMMER CALEB C. BURROUGHS First Board of Education DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 1862-1907 The purpose of this report is to give a brief history of the Decatur Public Schools from 1862 when Mr. Gastman assumed his duties here, to August, 1907, when he laid them aside. In that time the buildings in- creased in number from one to thirteen, the course of study was much enriched , and the methods of teaching completely revolutionized. Only a summary of the proceedings of the Board of Education from 1865 to 1900 is given in this report because a detailed account of, them was pub- lished in 1900. Beginning with July 1, 1900, and ending with June 30. 1907, extracts are given from the minutes of the board. Mr. Gastman was appointed to the position of principal of the High School and superintendent of all the schools by the Board of Directors June 12, 1862. The school term was six months and his salary was $80 per nfionth. The following year it was determined by popular vote to extend the school term to nine months. The Board of Directors, finding at this time, that the powers accorded them by the state law for the management of the schools of a rural district, was not sufficient to carry on efficiently the schools of the rapidly growing city, determined to petition the legislature for a special charter. Upon the recommend- ation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mr. Bateman, a charter similar to one granted to Rock Island in 1857 was adopted with some amendments. In accordance with the new charter an election for Members of the Board of Education was held was held April 4, 1865. William L. Ham- mer, Caleb C. Burroughs, and David P. Bunn were elected, Mr Bunn was made president and the superintendent was appointed clerk of the Board at the first meeting. Jerome R. Gorin was unanimously elected treasurer of the board, his bond being fixed at $25,000 and his salary at one and one-half per cent, of all moneys received and disbursed. The Board began at once to provide better school accommodations for the children. Under the existing conditions this was no easy task. A new building was sorely needed in the first ward. The lot had been purchased, plans accepted and bids received, but, because of lack of funds, the building could not be erected. WJL. Hammer was author- 8 GENERAL REPORT ized to try to borrow the required amount but was unable to find anyone willing to make the loan. It was two years before the building was put up. Within five years of its organization, however, the board had built two ward schools and the high school, and had fitted up a room in the south part of the city for use of colored children, in response to a petition of the colored population of the city. School boards had to be educated in the matter of furnishing school supplies. Mr. Gastman, though anxious to have the schools well equipped, was too wise to frighten the Board by making what might seem to them exhorbitant demands. In 1866 he obtained by vote of the Board, five globes and ink to be used in the schools. Three years later pens and pen- holders were supplied by the Board for the first time. In 1875 the super- intendent was authorized to purchase writing paper for future examina- tions and in 1888 it was voted to furnish drawing paper the same as other supplies. Very early in its history the Board made provision for the indigent children in the schools. In 1866 the superintendent was directed to spend not less than five dollars ($5) in the purchase of books for poor children; and later the same year the rent received from a circus company for the use of the lots purchased for a site for the high school was de- voted to the same purpose. As the years passed the amounts appropri- ated for this use were gradually increased' to meet the growing demand. The people of Decatur, ever proud of their schools, were glad to have the course of study enriched as often as was deemed practicable. In 1866 a petition was presented to the Board asking that German be made a part of the course of study in the ward schools. The question was fully discussed but the Board decided it would be inadvisable to grant the petition. United States history was introduced in the upper grades the following year. About the same time formal instruction in music was begun. Mr. Soule was employed to give two lessons weekly in vocal music in the high school at $1 per lesson. Owing to the fact that the pupils were at this time not supplied with properly graded books, the experiment did not prove successful. Four years later it was or- dered that Blackmer’s graded songs be used in the schools. This was the first text-book in music adopted. The first supervisor of music was not employed till 1891, when Miss Elizabeth Knieper was appointed. Although an effort had been made to introduce drawing as a regular study as early as 1875 it was not so regarded until 1887. At that time Prang’s drawing books were adopted. Four years after this Mrs. L. L. Miller was employed to supervise drawing, and from that time there has been a steady advance in the subject. In 1896 at the Woman’s Club building, the schools had their first drawing exhibit. As a result of that exhibit, the request came to the Board to make drawing as compulsory as the other branches Jin the schools. BOARDIOFJEDUCATION. 9 Physical culture was introduced into the schools in 1898, the par- ents having indicated their desire for it in response to a circular letter issued by Mr. Gastman. By 1900 there were in the city two four-room buildings, two six- roorii buildings, and six eight-room buildings beside the sixteen-room high school. The later buildings showed a striking improvement in construction and sanitation over the earlier ones. Careful consideration procured the best possible lighting, heating and ventilation. Single seats had replaced the double ones formerly in use. City water had been put into most of the buildings, and every school was provided with a telephone greatly expediting the transaction of schoql business. The laboratories in the high school presented a marked contrast to the first laboratory. That had been fitted up (1878) in the west room of the basement at a cost of $150. The new laboratories occupy large front rooms and are fully equipped with modern ap- paratus. The Board, recognizing the fact that the amount of work accom- plished in school is not commensurate with the length of the daily ses- sions, changed the closing- hours as conditions demanded. In 1878 four o’clock was set as the closing time instead of 4:30, as formerly, in the ward schools and in 1900, the one-session plan was adopted in the high school. The schools had by this time grown to such proportions that it was impossible for the superintendent to supervise the work efficiently unassisted. The Board therefore appointed Miss Flora B, Smith director of primary methods. 10 GENERAL REPORT EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES Of the Board of Education, July 1, 1900 to June 30, 1907. Nov. 8, 1900. In response to a letter received from Galveston, Texas, the teachers were requested to receive any amounts the children might contribute for the restoration and repairing of the school buildings of that city which had been destroyed by the storm, as the destruction of -property was so great and so general that nothing could be expected from that city for that purpose or for the maintenance of the schools after they were restored. Jan. 10, 1901. Permission was given Mrs. Jeanette L. Tyler to give a public exhibition of school gymnastics in the opera house on the evening of Jan. 29. On the same date the clerk was directed to invite the president of the University of Michigan to send a committee to examine our high school. Feb. 14, 1901, it was ordered that the spring vacation be from March 29th to April 8th instead of from March 22d to April 1st as heretofore published. The change was made to accommodate the Central Illinois Teachers’ Association which met in this city March 29th and 30th. May 9, 1901, a petition for an increase of salary was submittted to the Board by the principals. The petition was read but no action taken. May 27, 1901, it was ordered after some discussion that plans be prepared for an addition of two rooms on the southeast corner of the Durfee school. The contract was awarded to A. H. Humphrey for $4694, and the plans of Patterson & Bainum were adopted. August 27, 1901, Mr. Gastman was re-elected superintendent for the fortieth year with the understanding that either the Board or he could terminate the engagement at any time. Nov. 21, 1901, it was ordered that a projection apparatus be pur- chased for the use of the science department of the high school. Jan. 9, 1902, the following communication from the city board of health was read: BOARD OF EDUCATION. "71 11 Whereas, smallpox is prevalent in Decatur and in all of the large towns in this vicinity, and epidemic at Lincoln, Illinois, it is advisable that all children be vaccinated and we request you require all pupils not vaccinated to be vaccinated under penalty of expulsion. C. Chenoweth, President. (Signed) M. Peniwell, Clerk of Board of Health. On motion it was ordered that all pupils in the schools be required to furnish a physician’s certificate showing that they have been vaccinated in accordance with the above order of the board of health. At the next meeting, Jan. 16, 1902, it was ordered that apparatus and material for disinfecting the school building be f^irchased. May 8, 1902, the matter of making a small addition to the salaries of the teachers in the schools was discussed with an apparent feeling among the members that a reasonable addition should be made next year to the salaries then paid. Dec. 9, 1902, a request for a night school was made to the Board, but the financial condition of the Board at the time did not permit any increased expenditures. Jan. 15, 1903, Mr. J. F. Roach offered the following resolution which was adopted by a x unanimous vote: “ Resolved , That we erect on the present site of the Church street school a schoolhouse containing ten or eleven rooms. The building to be two stories with basement, and an attic of sufficient size to be used as an auditorium, and to seat not less than 600 persons, and that we will receive from various architects sketches for floor plans and elevations to be used as a basis for final plans to be adopted later on. The said sketches to be in the hands of the Board by the 24th instant.” On Feb. 17, 1903, the plans for the new school submitted by Melville G. Patterson were accepted. After much discussion and careful con- sideration, the contract was awarded April 14 to Swisher & Brooks for $42,248.88. At the same meeting it was unanimously ordered that the new school be known as the E. A. Gastman school. April 15, 1903, the question of relieving the crowded condition of the Jackson street school was discussed at some length. The following was unanimously adopted: “ Resolved , That two rooms be added to the present Jackson street school, and that as much of the material as may be found suitable for the purpose be taken from the two north rooms of the Church street school when it is torn down.” July 7, 1903, the plans and specifications of R. O. Rosen for an adddi- tion of two rooms to the Jackson street school were accepted and the contract was awarded to W. F. Gebhart for $4,547. May 12, 1903, Messrs. Roach and Gastman were appointed a com- mittee to confer with the citizens’ committee in reference to the part 12 GENERAL REPORT the school children should take in the reception to President Roosevelt on his visit to Decatur, June 4, 1903. July 14, 1903, the clerk of the board was directed to notify the clerk of Macon county that the Board of Education of Decatur school district requires that the total sum of $87,500 be levied upon the taxable property of the district as school taxes for the coming year. Nov. 24, 1903. On motion it was ordered that negotiable coupon bonds to the amount of $33,900 be issued for the purpose of providing funds for the erection of the E. A. Gastman school. N. W. Harris & Co. of Chicago took the entire issue of school bonds at par, the Board paying the expense fcf issue and examination. Oct. 13, 1903. Upon suggestion by Mr. E. A. Gastman a committee consisting of Mrs. Hostetler, of the Board, Mr. S. W. Ehrman of the high school and Mr. John Clary of the alumni association was appointed to consider the question of dedicating the E. A. Gastman school. Dec. 10, 1903. A communication from State Superintendent Bayliss asking that photographs of our different schools be prepared for display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis the follow- ing summer was referred to the president with power to act. April 12, 1904. The clerk was directed to burn the old papers stored in the high school attic but to preserve the bills since 1894. June 23, 1904. It was ordered that lot 6 in block 1 of Frank P. Roach’s addition be purchased for six hundred dollars and added to the Pugh School grounds. August 15, 1904. The president and clerk of the board were directed to notify the clerk of Macon county that $87,500 would need to be levied upon the taxable property of the Decatur school district for special school purposes. Sept. 13, 1904. K. H. Roby tendered his resignation as treasurer of the Decatur school district, to take effect October 1. , i On motion, B. O. McReynolds was unanimously elected treasurer for the year beginning Oct. 1, 1904, on the following conditions: That he give a good bond approved by the Board in the sum of $50,000; that he furnish all exchange needed free of charge; that he pay two per cent, on daily balances, and that he furnish all money required at six per cent. Oct. 11, 1904. It was unanimously ordered that the auditorium in the E. A. Gastman school shall not be rented for any purpose that is not strictly educational in its purpose, and that the price shall be $6 per night. January 17, 1905. Under the minutes of this date is a description of the marble fountain presented to the E. A. Gastman school by Mr. Gastman, as a memorial to his late wife, Carrie. The fountain had been shown in the exhibit of A. Olivotti & Co. of Florence, Italy, in the Man- BOARD OFJEDUCATION. 13 ufacturers’ building at the St. Louis fair and was presented to the school here Jan. 2, 1905. At the same meeting permission was granted the Schoolmasters’ Club to hold a banquet and meeting in the E. A. Gastman school on Friday evening. Feb. 3, 1905. June 12, 1905. It was ordered that the maximum salary in the grades be advanced to $550 per year. July 4, 1905. A petition to annex District No. 63 to the Decatur school district was submitted to the board, having been signed by more than three-fourths of the legal voters within that district. The petition was granted. July 11, 1905. It was passed by unanimous vote of the Board of Education that they certify that the total sum of one hundred forty- three thousand fifty-one dollars ($143 ,051) was required to be levied upon the taxable property of the Decatur school district. At the same meeting it was ordered that one-half of the width of West Wood street be given to the city from the south end of the school lot of district No. 63, lately annexed to Decatur, in order that the street be opened. Sept. 12, 1-905. The mattqr of introducing savings banks into the schools was laid over for future consideration. Nov. 7, 1905. The superintendent was authorized to close the schools at 3 :30 during the month of December, provided that this should apply to only such pupils as are orderly and industrious, the others to be dismissed at 4 o’clock. Dec. 12, 1905. The superintendent was directed to close the 6th and 7th grades at 2:30 o’clock Dec. 14, 1905, and to ask the teachers to go with them to the Symphony concert. Mr. Gastman suggested at this meeting that it might be wise to open at least one night school after the holidays, but no action was taken. Jan. 22, 1906. It was decided to build a new school house some- where between Walnut street and the Cowford bridge on East Cantrell street. Ground for this purpose was purchased May 29, 1906, of W. H. Starr and W. H. Mills for the sum of $3,500, at the corner of East jCant- rell street and South Walnut. The plans of B. S. Brooks were adopted and August 17, 1906, the contract for building the new school to be known as the Riverside school, was awarded to W. F. Gebhart for $19,202. Feb. 23, 1905, it was decided to send Miss Flora B. Smith, super- visor of the primary schools, and Miss Laura R. Way, supervisor of draw- ing, to Indianapolis, to investigate the subject of manual training as taught there. At the previous meeting of the board the sum of $250 had been appropriated for the purpose of starting manual training in the schools. 14 GENERAL REPORT Apr. -10, 1906. It was ordered that bids be received for building additions of four rooms each to the Pugh and the Oakland schools according to plans and specifications prepared by Mr. M. G. Patterson, architect. April 27, 1906. The contract for building the addition to the Oak- land school was awarded to Louis S. Baker for $8,400, and the contract for building the Pugh school addition was awarded to W. F. Geb- hard for $8,447.97. June 15, 1906. It was agreed to purchase two lots at the Pugh school from F. P. Roach af^OO each. June 26, 1906. It was ordered that a manual training center be established at the E. A. Gastman school, and that a supervisor of manual training, and a supervisor of domestic science be employed. Mr. Erich Brewer was selected for the former position and Miss Lizzie E. Stone for the latter. July 6, 1906. Ordered that the Board of Education certify that they require that the total sum of one hundred eight thousand fifty-one doHars ($108,051) be levied upon the taxable property of the Decatur school district for all school purposes. June 29, 1906. It was ordered that six drinking fountains be pur- chased — four for the Jackson street school, and two for the Marietta street school. August 14, 1906. The following resolution was unanimously adopted Whereas, the grand lodge committee of the Knights of Pythias of Illinois having located the home for aged Pythians and orphans in Decatur, it is necessary that the children living in said home have the advantages of the city schools, therefore be it Resolved, That the Board of Education of the city of Decatur, as soon as required by the necessities of said institution, will erect a suitable school building in a convenient location thereto for the accom- modation of said children, and that a competent corps of teachers will be employed therein and that all school advantages including the high school will be extended to them equally with the children of the city. Sept. 20, 1906. The West Main street school was ordered closed and the teacher was assigned elsewhere. Nov. 12, l!906. The superintendent recommended that another assistant in manual training work be employed; also that more school room be provided in the north part of the city. Miss Georgiana Can- field was elected Jan. 25, 1907, to fill the position of assistant in manual training. Nov. 12, 1906. It was ordered that a store room for the ascommoda- tion of school supplies be fitted up in the east basement of the high school building. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 15 Jan. 12, 1907. The clerk was directed to prepare the copy for an enlarged report at the end of the current fiscal year and to have pictures made of the different school houses. March 19, 1907. Mr. H. B. Wilson was elected by unanimous vote to the position of Superintendent of the Decatur public schools, Mr. Gastman having previously resigned. April 17, 1907. The site of the school now known as the Roach school located at the corner of East William street and North Fourth street was purchased of Mrs. Annie L. Brown and Edwin G, Allen for $6,000. The plans for the new building were prepared by M. G. Patterson and the contract for erecting it was awarded May 7, 1907, to Wright & Butts for $13,101. June 11, 1907. It was decided to advance the salaries of teachers from five to ten per cent. The minimum salaries of the grade teachers was fixed at $360 per year, and the maximum salary at $600 per year. ROACH MRS. MINNIE P. HOSTETLER R. R. MONTGOMERY Board of Education 1907 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF TEACHERS Employed in Decatur from 1865 to 1907. * Taught in High School. Abbott, Etta 1904-1907 Abel, Florence (Coughlin) 1903-1906 Adams, Carlotta 1892-1899 Adams, Edward 1871-1872 Adams, Helen 1901-1905 Adams, Josephine 1876-1878 Adams, Louise 1898- * A dams, Zella F 1889-1890 Affleck, Amanda J 1869-1871 Aikin, Kate 1888-1897 Aikin, Laura 1893-1897 Albeitz, Mrs. Rachel Cook 1876-1883 Alexander, Mrs. Ottoria 1872-1873 Allen, Sarah E 1868-1871 Allsop, Blanch 1892-1896 Amsden, Harriet M 1866 Anderson, Bettie 1885-1891 Anderson, Lucy J 1884-1887 Arthur, Della 1894-1897 ♦Bachman, Frank P 1897-1898 ♦Badenhausen, Jennie 1901-1907 Baker, Bessie 1865 Baker, Ethel 1905H907 Baker, Hattie 1868 ♦Baker, Mary E ♦Baldwin, Ella M... Barnett, Grace Barrett, Mabel Barth, Mary E Beach, Ardeila A.... Beadles Sa,da Beamer, Edith Beamer, Nannie Bean, Mattie V Bear, Ella Bear, May Bear, Mollie ♦Bear, Olive M ♦Beardsley, A. E..,. Bell, Mary A Beman, Mattie Beswick, Emma M. Betzer, Alice M Betzer, William O.. Bigelow, David Bigelow, Minnie E. Bishop, Adelia N.... Bishop, Clara B Bivans, Fannie Bixby, Eva M ♦Blair, IFrank G. 1865-67:68-70 1905-1907 1904-1907 1898-1901 1897-1906 1872-1880 1901-1907 1896-1906 1902-1907 1884-1886 1880-1885 1890 1872-1874 1891-1907 1878-1879 1871 1865-1867 1871-1872 1867-1873 1865 1865-1879 1884 to Jan. 19, 1906 1898-1907 Sept. -Nov. 1904 Apr.-June 1895 1889-1907 ....ljjno. Sept. 1904 Boland, May F 1904-190^ Boiler, Maggie C 1874-1876 ♦Bond, Ellen 1 1893-1895 Bothel, Clara B 1894-1907’ Bowles, Clara W. A 1884-1888 Bowles, John T 1884-1888 Boyd, Florence 1904-1907 Boyer, Ella D 1886-1907 Boyer, Rosa 22 weeks 1903 Bradley, Mrs. Mary A. (See Perry).. ..1874-1885 Brand, Florence 1887-1894 Brand, Mary R 1893-1907 Brand, Sallie 1881-1885 Brewer, Erich (Director Manual T raining) 1906- 1907 Brockway, Mrs. Susan A 1886 Brooks, Mary E 1890-1896 ♦Brown, Fay C * 1903-1904 ♦Brown, I. E. (Principal) 1874-1880 Brown, Katherine 1894-1896 ♦Brown, Mrs. Roy (See Lockett).... 1900 ♦Bruce, Frances M. (Strain) 1900-1902 Brunton, Inez 1877-1878 ♦Bullock, Jessie J 1906-1907 Burkham, Bess 10 weeks 1906 Burnham, Anna M 1872-1878 ♦Busch, Ella A 1904-1905 Calvin, Oka 1887-1894 Calhoun, Maud 1890-1894 Canfield, Georgia, (Director Knife Work) 1907- Carleton, .Annette H 1877-1881 Carson, Marietta W 1866-1878 Carter, Edith 1904-1905 Chandler, Lucy A 1906-1907 Christy, Jessie 1905-1907 ♦Clark, Eda M. (Schlauterbeck) Clark, Mary J. (Supervisor of Mu- sic) 1901-1907 Clark, Nita 1891-1893 Cochran, May 1892-1904 Colbert (See Kerr, Mary G.) 1883 Cole, A. J May-June 1880 Coleman, Nancy 1869-1872 ♦Colton, Buel P 1877-1878 Coltrin, Ella 1875-1877 Condell, Elizabeth 1895-1899 Connor, Margaret 1895-1896 Cook.JRachel (See Albeitz) 1871-1874 ♦Coolidge ,fc,Lucy (Hamsher) 1895-1900 18 GENERAL REPORT Coonradt, Jacob H 1881- Cortright, Mrs. S. L. D 1871 ♦Cotton, Emily H (Collins) 1871- Crapo, Edith Ray 1897- ♦Cravath, Bessie N 1893- Criswell, Julia V 1891 Crocker, Emeline E 1865- Crosier, Mrs. Nettie 1893- Crowley, Kate E 1874- Culp, Mora A 1891- Culver, Ruth 1878- ♦Cunniftgham, Nancy 1867 Cutler, Evaline L. - (Superivsor of Drawing) 1894- ♦Danely, Nellie Cole 1897- Davidson, Harriet A 1874-1885: 1898- Da vidson, Robert F 1894- Da vis, Jude E 1898- Davis, Mary 1896- Davis, Minnie E 1887- Dawson, A. Alta 1893- ♦Dean, Helen (Jones) 1867- Demmon, C. W 1865 ♦DeMotte, Ruby C 1902 Dempsey, Katherine 1887- Dempsey, Laura Feb.- June Dennis, Kate R 1893- DeVan, Worthy 1906- Deverell, Marianna 1898- Dills, Elizabeth 1899- Dills, Grace 1891- Dills, Marian 1895- Dingman, Inez 1900 Divan, Cora 1895- Dixon, Ella 1891- Drobisch, Alice 1899- Drobisch, Sophia 1888- Durfee, Jennie E 1867- ♦Durfee, Lucy 1902- Durham, Miss L. M 1868 East, Ulric C 1878- ♦Eastman, Clarence W 1904- Eaton, Della M 1902- Eaton, Mattie E 1866 Edwards, Mary M 1877- ♦Edwards, Walter A 1889- ♦Ehrman, Sheridan W. (Principal) 1896- ♦Eichinger, John 1894- *Elder, Ina 1894- Elliott, Winifred G 1900- Ellis, Mollie 2 months ♦English, Mary L 1887- Enoch, M. Olive 1903- Entler, Tillie 1901- Evans, Mattie H 1884- Evans, Thomas L 1880-1886: 1891- Eyman, Clara 1885- Falconer, Hattie 1897- Fenton, Philo S 1872- ♦Ferguson, Ada 1889- Ferguson, Irene 1898 File, Lura 1902- File, Nellie 1897- Fitzpatrick, Kittie 1899- Fitzpatrick , Sadie 1 905- ♦Flanagan, H. E 1903 Fleming, Marie Z Apr.-June Fletcher, Mabel 1904- Ford, Jeanette 1905- Foss, Ida L 1883- Foster, Etta 1872- ♦Foulke, Priscilla E 1870- Freely, A. Josephine 1891- 1907 1873 1898 1896 1870 1897 1884 1894 1882 1901 1898 1906 1907 1899 1902 1894 1897 1869 1907 1884 1907 1907 1903 1902 1894 1907 1897 1894 1907 1907 1907 1907 1879 1905 1907 1882 1891 1907 1895 1899 1904 1870 1907 1904 1903 1885 1904 1895 1898 1873 1891 1904 1902 1907 1907 1893 1907 1907 1884 1878 1872 1893 ♦Freeman, Grace 1896- ♦French, Mary W 1869- Fuller, J. C Apr.-June Fuller, Mary A 1865- Fulton, Belle 1878- Fulton, Laura 1880- ♦Gale, Frances 1895- ♦Gale, Mabel C 1896- Gasaway, Blanch 1887- ♦Gastman, E. A. (Principal and Su- perintendent) 1865- ♦Gastman, Louise 1898- ♦Gibson, John W. (Principal) 1884- Gildemeister, Theda 1898 ♦Gillham, Clara S r 1892- ♦Glover, Frank D 1891- ♦Gordon, A. S 1894- Granger, Anna M 1867- ♦Gray, Nannie R 1888- Gray, Ruby C 1888- Green, Helen E 1866 Green, B. Wilmah 1903- Greer, Hattie 1866 Gregory, Emma 1867 Gregory, Mary 1867 Gregory, Mary C 1*882- Gregory, Sue 1896 to Feb. Grubel, Mollie 1899 to Feb. Grunendike, Mary E 1867 ♦Hague, Stella M 1902- Haldeman, Margaret 1901 Hale, Helen F : 1865 Hall, Mary B 1892- Hall, Nettie 1885- Hamilton, Kate 1896- Hammond, Jane E 1866 ♦Hamsher, Frank (Principal) 1895- Handy, Alida R 1880- ♦Hansen, Herbert C 1902 Hanson, Henry 1866 Hardy, Elizabeth 1875- Harpstrite Emma 1893- Harwood, Josephine 1890- Hasbrouck, Mary 1885- Haskell, Anna E 1870- ♦Hawkes, Clara N 1892- Hawthome, Victor 1873- Hayden, Anna W 1889- ♦Hayward, Thos. E 1900- Heller, Gertrude 1906 ♦Henderson, George A 1879- Hendricks, Bertha 1890- Hendricks, Nellie 1 1887- ♦Ilill, Flora E .1893- ♦Hite, Grace 1891- Hobbs, Belle W 1884- Hobson, Grace 1904- Hockingberry, Ida 1887- Hoffman, Celeste 1893- Hoffman, Clara 1894- Hoffman, Eva Feb. to June 1901 Hoffman, Ruth 1902- Hollingsworth, Lucy (See Montgom- ery and Nelson) 1873- Hopkins, Ada G 1906- Hopkins, Bess L 1906- Hopson, Ethel 1896- Hord, Emma 1892- ♦Hostetler, Mrs. Minnie P. (See Parker.) 1905 ♦Howes, Elizabeth L 1885 ♦Hoxie, Robert F 1897 ♦Hubbard, Mary L 1896 1899 1907 1879 1869 1887 1884 1898 1899 1890 1907 1900 1889 1893 1892 1895 1871 1891 1889 1907 1892 1905 1906 1906 1893 1890 1907 1900 1889 1877 1900 1893 1886 1872 1907 1874 1895 1903 1880 1891 1891 1897 1893 1891 1907 1902 1901 1899 1903 1876 1907 1907 1897 1894 1907 1903 BOARD OF EDUCATION 19 Huffman, Ida G 1903-1904 Hughes, Martha E 1869-1871 Hughey, Leta 1903-1907 Hull, Bertha 1894-1896 Hummel, Rachel 1870 Humphrey, Eva 1890-1907 Hunter, Eda M 1905-1907 Hunter, Mrs. Stella 1897 Hutchison, Grace' K. (Waggoner). ...1891-1903 Imboden, Sarah M 1896-1907 Irwin, Lucy 1878-1882 Jack, Anna (Roberts) 1878-1886 ♦Jack, Samuel S. (Principal) 1870-1871 Jackson, Lottie A. (Thomsen) (Su- pervisor of Drawing) 1903-1905 ♦Jacobs, Noah N Mch.-June 1895 ♦James, George F 1887-1888 famison, Carrie A 1873-1874 Jennings, Alice 1890-1894 Tohns, Fannie (See Sedgwick) 1871-1874 ♦Johns, Nellie .....1906-1907 Johnson, Della 1893-1894 Johnson, Ella 1906-1907 Johnson, Julia 1905-1907 Johnson, Lucinda A. (Wheeler) 1893-1896 Johnson, Martha 1882-1884 Johnson, May 1874-1882 Jones, Lena B 1888-1889 Jordan, Mary 1873-1874 ♦Judd, S. Alice 1874-1884 Judson, Rose E 1881-1896 Keethes, May (Freudenberg) 1892-1897 Kelley, Margaret 1894-1895 ♦Kent, Charles W 1899-1901 Kerr, Margaret G. (See Colbert) 1868-1875 Kerr, Mrs, Mattie E 1891-1907 Keyes, Roberta 1885-1888 Kimball, Marcia 1865 Kirk, Josephine v 1905-1907 Knieper. Elizabeth (Supervisor of Music) 1891-1893 Lake, Samuel M 1867 Laughlin, Lulu 1900-1903 ♦Lee, Louis B (Principal) 1891-1894 Leeper, Elizabeth 1865-1875 ♦Leeper, Margaret 1865-1888 Leffingwell, Mrs. Sallie (See Brand) 1887-1890 Lewis, Mary : 1893-1894 Lewis, Mary E 1887-1888 ♦Locher, Fannie T 1889-1892 ♦Lockett, Grace L. (See Brown) 1894-1899 Lockett, Jessie W 1896-1901 Loeffler, John B 1892-1896 Long, Clara 1903-1907 Longenecker, Dora 1903-1906 Longenecker, Laura 1891-1907 Love, Nellie H 1897-1907 Lyon, Maud 1903-1904 Lukens, Mary A 1883-1888 Lutrell. Elizabeth 1868 Lytle, Ernest B 1895-1897 Macpherson, A. Marie 1890-1906 Magee, Anna 1867-1873 Mallory, Carrie 1895-1897 Malone, Eva 1889-1890 Mann, Wallace E 1899-1900 Mark, Elvira 1897 and 1901 Marrs, R. N 1902 Marten, John 1887-1888 Martin, Laura 1890-1907 ♦Martin, Lida B 1900-1907 Mateer, Lucy J 1905-1906 Matthews, Elizabeth 1891-1900 ♦Mayall, Vada 1906 McCall, Sallie 1894-1895 McClurg, Maud A 1896 to March 1899 McCullom, Mary 1894-1898 McGorray, Cora 1893-1895 ♦McGorray, Katherine 1895-1907 McGorray, Margaret 1888-1893 McGuire, Lizzie 1886-1887 McGuire, Maye 1904-1906 ♦McKim, Oscar F. (Principal) 1867-70: 1873-74 McLain, Laura W 1864-1865 ♦McMahon, C. M. (Principal) 1891 McMurray, Mrs. Lida A 1878 1879 Mead, Alice 1894-1907 Mead, Anna 1895-1907 ♦Mead, Walter G 1906-1907 Means, Margaret M 1872-1884 Merker, Susie 1906-1907 Merz, Martha 1903 Metcalf, J. H 1903-1907 Middleton, Millicent 1906-1907 ♦Miles, Lucy W 1 month 1870 Millbum, Priscilla 1875-1888 Miller, Julia C 1885-1886 Miller, L. L. (Mrs. ) (Supervisor of Drawing) 1890-1891 Miller, Mary 1901 Milner, Olive 16 weeks 1906 ♦Mills, Charles W 1895-1896 Mills, Maud May 10 to June 1894 ♦Minnick, J. H 1906 Mitchell, Miss L. L 1873-1874 Moffat, Ida 1872-1876 Montgomery, Edith 1898-1907 Montgomery, Mrs. Jennie 1888-1900 Montgomery, Laura 1889-1907 Montgomery, Mrs. Lucy H. (See Hollingsworth) 1877-1883 ♦Montgomery, Orville C 1906-1907 ♦Moore, Grace L 1889-1901 Moore, Harriet 1903-1907 Moore, Helen F 1877-1880 Moore, Mary E 1896-1907 Moore, Mary W 1894-1907 Mountz, Elsie K 1906-1907 Morris, George S 1895-1896 Murphy, Mrs. Anna E 1877-1901 Murphy, Chloe 1872-1876 Muthersbaugh, Emma 1898-1903 Muthersbaugh; Mabel 1902-1907 Myers, Eva T 1901-1907 Neil, Mary 1895-1900 Nelson, Lucile A 1906-1907 Nelson, Mrs. Lucy H. (See Hollings- worth) 1896-1907 Nighswonger, Eleanor 1906-1907 Norman, Bertha 1885-1907 Norman, Tillie 1887-1891. Odor, Virginia N. (Rickey) 1890-1894 Olson, Elizabeth..... 1903-1906 Olson, Mona.: *1904-1907 Okey, Maria From Feb. to June, 1879 Oshinsky, Bessie 1896-1898 ♦Page, Henry P 1883-1887 ♦'Page, William L 1890-1892 Park, Edwin 1864-1865 Park, Elizabeth M 1890-1892 Park, Mrs, Mary E 1865-1866 Parker, Calla M 1871-1876 ♦Parker, Minnie (See Hostetler) 1881-1888 ♦Patton, Arthur L 1889 Pearce, Minerva M 1874-1876 20 GENERAL REPORT Peck, Catharine E 3 months 1872 Perry, Helen 1898-1905 Perry, Mary A (See Mrs. Bradley). ...1870-1872 ♦Peters, John A 1892-1896 Pforr, Nora 1906-1907 Philbrook, Edwin 1879-1887 Philbrook, Mrs. Ella C.. ....1879-1885 Phillips, Clara 1904-1906 Phillips, Mrfe. Sue C 1867-1868 Pierce, Genevieve 1906-1907 ♦Pillsbury, Bertha 1899-1901 Pitts, Florence E 1889-1892 Porter, Mrs. Bell 1897-1898 ♦Powell, John H 1888-1890 Powers, Mary 1867-1871 Prather, Bettie 1872-1873 Pritchett, Ada S 1889-1890 Pritchett, Nettie C 1890-1907 Querry, Gussie 1905-1907 Quinlan, Ethel 1899-1907 Raymond, G. Anna 1881-1886 ♦Reardon, Neal 1900-1901 Record, Carrie A 1897-1898 Reddick, Susie M 1902-1903 ♦Reed, Bertha 1901 1905-1906 Reeme, Sallie 1868-1869 ♦Rice, Celeste 1906-1907 Roberts, Lois 1896-1907 Roddy, Mrs. Agnes 1885-1889 Roe, Sallie 1869-1877 Roell. Mrs. J. H 1864-1865 ♦Rolfe, Deete 1901-1902 Rooker, Lucre tia J 1865-1870 Ross, Silva 1901-1907 Russell, Anna E 1882-1883 ♦Rust, Frederick 1898-1900 Sabin, Elizabeth 1864-1865 Sanderson, Christina 1885-1892 Sanderson, Sarah E 1883-1890 ♦Sargent, Miranda M 1865-1877 Schmachtenberger, Maybell 3 weeks 1906 ♦Schumacher, Tillie 1902-1905 Scott, Carrie 1891-1893 Search, Katherine 1895-1907 Sedgwick, Mrs. Fannie (See Johns). .1876-1877 Seyfer, Mrs. Kate P 1887-1888 ♦Seymour, Lurene 1898-1906 Shatter, Sophia B 1881-1882 ♦Shepard, Fannie C 1901-1906 ♦Sheppard, James J. (Principal) 1894-1897 Sherrick, Elizabeth 1889-1893 Sherrick, J. B. R 1866/ 1868-1871 Sherrick, Kate 1886-1889/ 1891-1897 Shleppy, C. W 1883-1884 ♦Shorb, Gertrude 1891-1892 Sikes, Orillia 1886-1888 ♦Simms, Anna B 1882-1895 ♦Simpson, Frances 1887-1891 Slocumb, Alice E 1870-1873 Smalley, Katherine 1906-1907 ♦Smith, Bruce 1901-1907 Smith, Fannie L 1882-1884 Smith, Flora B. (Supervisor of Pri- mary Methods) 1889-1907 Smith, Lennie F 1895-1896 Smith, Myra A 1877-1878 Smith, Nellie L 1874-1881 ♦Smith, Oscar F 1899-1900 Snyder, Anna 1865-1866 Sollars, Margaret 1871-1875 ♦Southwick, Harriet 1899-1903 Spencer, Bertha (Minor) 1897-1898 ♦Spencer, Jessie 1888-1890/ 1905-1907 ♦Stafford, Mosetta I. (Vaughan) 1891-1893 Stare, Clara 1884-1885 Stephenson, Grace 1906-1907 Sterling, Bell 1878-1880 Sterrett, Mrs. J. M March 1894 to Feb. 1896 Sterrett, Mary 1904-1907 Stevens, Clevia 1904-1905 Stevens, Julia 1904-1907 ♦Stevenson, Robert \ 1904-1906 Stewart, Lillie W 1893-1894 Stickel, Kate 1870-1874 Stivers, Etna 1906-1907 Stone, Lizzie E. (Supervisor of Do- mestic Science) 1906-1907 Stuart, Edna 1901-1905 Stuart, Grace L 1905-1907 Tabor, Lillian 1872-1873 Taylor. Sallie J 1865-1869 Terrell, Vesta 1865-1866 Thunemann, Mary 1883-1884 Tinkler, A. Anna 1883-1886 Tobey, Litta. 1899-1907 Tolladay, Mary 1898-1904 ♦Towl, Elmer 1893-1895 Towl, Elizabeth 1903-1907 Trainer, John 1879-1880 Travers, Frank L 1888-1890 Trautman, Bertha 1900-1907 Trull, Emma 1864-1865 Tucker, Susie 1898-1899 ♦Tuttle, Alice (Curtis) 1886-1888 Tyler, Alice 1886-1887 Tyler, Mrs. Jeanette L. (Supervisor Physical Culture) 1898-1903 ♦Ullrich, Lena (Ewing) 1897-1898 ♦Ullrich, Luetta (Bumstead) 1891-1896 Van Deren, Ella 2 months 1876 VanMeter, Edna 1904-1907 ♦Vaughan, Mary E 1885-1888 ♦Vertrees, Carl 1901-1902 Vetterliet, Anna S 1895-1907 Viox, Eunice 1906-1907 Waggoner, Josephine 1903-1905 ♦Walker, E. D Feb. to June 1893 Wallace, Edith M 1901-1905 Wallace, Margaret (Tait) 1897-1901 Wallace, Myra Belle (Bowen) 1903-1906 Warren, Bessie (Supervisor of Drawing) 1891-1893 Watkins, Henrietta 1 month 1877 Waughop, Medora E. (See Yoa- cum) 1877-1878 Way, Laura R. (Supervisor of Drawing) 1 905- 1907 ♦Weaver, Mattie 1891-1893 Webb, Mattie 1906-1907 Webster, Grace 1906-1907 ♦Weienette, Pearl W. (Schaub) 1896-1899 ♦Welch, Anna 1905-1907 Wells, Jennie 1905-1907 Wells, Mathilda 1890 ♦Westermann, William L 1896-1899 Westhoff, Frank W. (Supervisor of Music) 1893-1900 Weston, John W 1865 White, Esther 1900-1903 ♦Wilder, Mary W. (Barnes) 1866-1889 Wiley, Nettie 1877-1880 ♦Wilkinson, Jasper N. (Principal).... 1880-1884 Williams, Mollie E 1895-1907 Willson, Frederick C 1888-1891 Wilson, Anna M 1884-1886 Wilson, Blanche 1888-1891 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 21 Wilson, Mabel 1892-1907 Wilson, Minnie E 1890-1891 Wilson, Sarah 1895-1897 ♦Witbeck, Alice 1902-1904 *Witte, Josepha 1892-1893 Wood, Mary 1892-1898 Woods, Anna E 1883-1889 ♦Worthley, J. Edna 1893-1895 Yeager, Ella W 1866-1868 Yeomans, Edith 1897-1898 Young, Bessie 1 1898-1902 Young, Jennie 1875-1881 Yoacum, Mrs. Medora (See Waughop) 1879-1880 SUPPLEMENTAL READERS List of Supplementary Readers in use in the Grades indicated. These sets are moved from school to school every five or six weeks. FIRST GRADE. Copies. Child Life Primer 23 Heath Reader 23 Cyr Primer 24 Harper’s First Reader 23 Wheeler’s Primer 23 Folk Lore Primer 22 Art Literature Primer 23 Boy Blue 24 Sight Reader 24 Sunshine Primer 23 Sunbonnet Primer 22 SECOND GRADE. Hiawatha Primer 24 Andersen’s Classic Fables 24 Overall Boys 24 Mother Goose Village 24 Around the World. Book 1 24 Plant Life 24 Household Stories 23 Poems for Supplementary Reading 24 Once Upon a Time Stories 24 Fairy Stories and Fables 25 Animal Life 24 THIRD GRADE. Classic Stories 24 American Story Book II 23 Sofat and Mew- mew 24 New Century Second Reader 24 American Story Book 1 18 Robinson Crusoe 24 Around the World. Book II 24 Seaside and Wayside 24 Child Life, Third Reader 24 Braided Straws 24 Fables and Folk Stories 22 FOURTH GRADE. Fifty Famous Stories Retold 21 America’s Story BookJIT 24 Fanciful Tales 7. 23 Around the World. Book III 25 The First Book of Birds 24 Thirty More Famous Stories 24 Seven Little Sisters 23 America’s Story Book IV 21 Norse Stories 24 Docas, the Indian Boy 23 The Story of Ulysses 24 FIFTH GRADE. Under Sunny Skies 24 Lobo, Rag and Vixen 24 Ten Boys on the Road from Long Ago to Now 23 King Arthur and His Knights 24 Tanglewood Tales 24 American Leaders and Heroes 21 King of the Golden River 23 Black Beauty.. 23 Robin Hood Stories 24 Wood Folk at School 24 American History, Montgomery 23 SIXTH GRADE. Men of Old Greece 24 Famous Legends 24 The Iron Star 24 Whittier’s Child Life 24 Achilles and Hector 24 Hawthorne’s Wonder Book 23 Wagner Opera Stories 22 Stories of our English Grandfathers 24 SEVENTH GRADE. Civil War Stories 24 Enoch Arden 24 A Man Without a County 24 Children’s Hour, Longfellow 25 The Wonder Book of Horses 24 Birds and Bees 24 Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow 23 Tales from Shakespeare 24 Stories from the Ancient Greeks K. H. ROBY B. O. McREYNOLDS LOWBER BURROWS j. R. GORIN Treasurers 1865-1907 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 23 TREASURERS’ REPORT A table showing the amount of moneys received by the Treasurers of the Board of Education for 42 years from 1865 to June 30, 1907: Years Balance on Hand District Taxes State Fund From Loans Miscellane- ous Total 1865-6 $15501 .94 $2073 .20 $2530 .85 $63 .39 $20169 .38 1866-7 $192 .26 25962 .34 2002 .34 12524 .50 188 .00 40869 .44 1867-8 892 .30 22157 .58 2049 .26 25088 .87 307 .95 50495 .96 1868-9 679 .00 41636 .64 1961 .53 23665 .43 350 .00 68292 .60 1869-70 1425 .74 27103 .28 1903 .39 11250 .00 750 .00 42432 .41 1870-1 25720 .98 1871.08 39076 .73 1871-2 - 33819 .71 1994 .19 500 .00 36313 .90 1872-3 1387 .93 30801 .30 3401 .38 35590 .61 1873-4 4972.19 41445 .96 3361 .88 2000 .00 100.0 51880 .03 1874-5 4972.19 39611 .69 3451 .84 48035 .72 1875-6 15242 .65 18103 .11 3294 .60 266 .46 36906 .82 1876-7 5765 .25 30306 .36 3187.97 219 .63 40109 .21 1877-8 10262.15 25614.39 3304 .63 430 .45 39611 .62 1878-9 10872 .60 24185 .88 3649 .62 397.35 39105 .45 1879-80 10612.16 21667 .32 3509 .52 191 .35 35980 .35 1880-1 1421 .21 22206 .90 3727 .29 330 .06 37685 .46 1881-2 13938 .38 19664 .42 4018.13 256 .40 37877 .33 1882-3 14010 .73 22788 .38 3713 .45 472 .90 40985 .46 1883-4 9302 .68 26985 .91 4009 .86 698 .80 40997 .27 1884-5 3824 .07 33250 .59 4672 .84 7,186.72 2247 .70 51181 .92 1885-6 12933 .80 34386 .76 4401 .28 706 .82 52428 .66 1886-7 12756 .23 34334 .31 4497 .25 265 .89 51853 .68 1887-8 9412.61 38488 .56 4 .803 .96 1500 .00 152 .48 67857 .61 1888-9 13894 .08 35689 .58 4360 .02 398 .52 54342 .20 1889-90 13641 .54 40167.58 4368 .21 226 .91 58404 .24 1890-1 16845.14 42316 .41 4391 .95 111. .16 63664 .66 1891-2 8248 .22 40919 .43 4803 .96 133 .40 54105 .01 1892-3 2832 .63 54760 .09 4906 .80 45000 .00 1229 .77 108729 .29 1893-4 14654 .07 54204 .54 5017.58 222.12 74098 .31 1894-5 10189 .88 61911 .88 5069 .53 39600 .00 1919 .56 118690.85 1895 .6 48966 .93 54528 .21 5184.95 225 .73 2377 .93 111283 .75 1896-7 9330 .52 94270 .92 4856 .81 797.17 109255 .42 1897-8 25127 .05 75017 .62 5101 .44 1175.92 3698". 31 110120.34 1898-9 30259-37 66260 .59 4947 .05 10330 .83 111797.84 1899-1900 33370 .00 68937 .25 5081 .47 5535 .53 112924.25 1900-1 28270 .36 \ 69394 .90 4559 .59 11877.17 2438 .45 116540 .47 1901-2 32872 .93 ^ 74264.29 5009 .50 11880.50 1500 .19 125527 .41 1902-3 39634 .48 74379 .51 4579 .24 31370 .00 2021 .34 151984 .57 1903-4 31895.65 79485 .06 5160 .43 33900 .00 592 .81 151033 .95 1904-5 36557 .68 85466 .12 5228 .50 10700 .00 814.92 138764 .22 1905-6 21283 .49 106652 .58 5147 .44 7512 .00 1180 .92 141776 .43 1906-7 48967.12 124641 .40 5127 .75 1700 .00 1901 .71 182337 .98 621713 .27 $1959013.27 $168392 .73 $306172 .36 45827.18 $3101118.81 ./ .. I COMPARATIVE EXPENSES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The Following Table Shows the Expenditures of the Board of Education for Forty-Two Years Ending June 30, 1907. EXPENSES | 1865-6 1806-7 1867-8 1808-9 1869-70 1870-1 1871-2 — 1873-4 1874-5 1875-6 1870-7 1877-8 1878-0 1879-80 1880-1 1881-2 1882-3 1883-4 1884-5 1885-6 1886-7 1887-8 1888-9 1889-90 ^0-1 1891-2 1892-3 ,303. 1894-5 1895-6 1896-7 1897-8 1898-9 1899-00 ,900-! 1901-2 1902-3 1003-4 1004-5 1905-6 1906-7 Total IFrrtght and Drayage Foe! Incidentals Interest fSwra^Salancs Hfanual Training fcs ■ • Supplemcn t ary Read ing Truant Officer’s Salary *29.10 72) II 478 .02 220 .82 612 .05 04 .70 010.09 54 83 *35.70 1218 I2 83 loo 752 .00 160.75 1277.14 070 .63 113.75 12752.44 *11 20 040 .37 3588.22 277 .ju 103 70 338.17 "14478.85 *27,5 7 M 270 .00 1112.06 208.00 327 .75 1487.37 204 .72 880 78 518 72 5356 .43 003 .30 1477.50 209.25 846 00 'I'O.'i ; . 208 .02 17059:88 854 !o6 :<7 0270 .05 520 .00 1 (82 1111 160 76 1050.06 177 03 :’"s vi '•I;-..; 1507 75 ibi " .66 375:00 14900 05 443 70 5301 .45 050 .05 1552.03 102:5b 1304 09 15471.42 " 25.50* 1097 15 028 .96 '.3.12 .7 1794:00 *71 75 2763 .26 1715645 879 B5 4130 79 587 .00 1804 .37 1025.37 169 73 17206” 10 $12 791 .40 332 nr, ni» 1511 >6 27.00 857.61 229.10 17327:75 $23.50 780 .08 374.73 3000 .00 ”1515:50 170.00 1 185 .27 17385 .08 10 .56 578 .49 284 .08 2400 .00 37”b0 213 it 17382 .53 " *28 .67 23 1950 : 0 0 025 V. 1485.00 2128.70 248.44 16103:87 M)3 22 277 .88 000 .00 55 10 1492 .37 79':72 792.73 130 .78 16357 "l8 387 .01 900.00 1503.15 2829 .25 16599:31 323.00 1027 .38 436 .78 900 .00 " ' 1640.26 1 198 :i)3 17178 67 *21 45 560 :86 "ii 1770.13 1452.92 18070 ”35 $33 .01 895 .45 B67 01 807 .23 2105.51 66.50 D83 Jl 202 .22 $36 .90 871 .31 852 :45 2105:85 ’ll? 30 20756:70 $32 55 642:29 ' 1 10 00 2376 .35 2452 99 '226b2”55 825 872 20 720.27 1068 .83 2400 ”25 3556 :05 22788.65 $30 .00 1097.44 769.46 819 27 74 .32 2434 .35| 1 in Ju 933.36 156 .85 24175 .01 $21 .85 1093 .55 826 .99 :.S7M .17 1054 .99 2575 .60 73 .50 "Its :°° 24767.00 $9 .78 1107.60 1185:63 109.30 1160.67 25045.89 148.50 $18:85 853 :05 1365 S5 2835 10 lio. bo 2213.39 510 .70 28405. 25 $24>0 1 482. 14 29ib':fl6 168:70 1708.62 29971 .55 $37:68 1792.44 924 .20 2526 .45 107 1 I.-' 3524.17 172:44 2O39':03 34293.64 1036.2° 3686.5 192.36 *481 A $15:47 1734.58 3494 :47 19.50 3688.29 152.25 2797.21 626 .43 39752 .77 | $22 ”47 1813 46 4116:1° ”2418 49 *31.73 1700 .92 1429 20 4403 .27 220 ”75 1681 .78 029.24 $25.02 1945 .56 825 .91 1085 08 4372 :97 143':b5 2844.22 079 .46 40465 :bi $40.51 2173.7k 3803 .8; 4449.23 i97:bb 3147.28 402.91 48625:77 $35 .93 2398 .00 792.06 « 4077.13 222.57 3961 ”66 441 .58 40847.48 154 00 2951 72 3 lf : I 4804 :oa 553.30 * ,0 !i2:35 $76.35 3035 .88 1053 .34 3 1 ' 1 1 37 4!M6 ioe 225.15 3305.32 465 .86 242 .82 51703.21 138.62 $40 19 2960 17 970 .07 2741 .01 953 .60 5493 .83 "225:45 53l°9 i5 262 .00 $81 30 3802 .08 2327 351 '_'i 1 5220 .83 216.51 1891.18 553 .79 122.09 ° 370 :00 107.09 3858 .59 1071 .09 8210.53 5852 .85 258.10 50 282 ;00 iShf il MM2 II" 5.S.S.-, in 135 78 251 .90 3 814 !49 60971 >23 456 .00 2959:38 1192.76 6244.13 VI 2'J 4169.33 *7h 10 "■> 422:00 *343 .02 1 tv 31 62281 .85 31285.50 119704.90 18274 .05 119476.17 727 07 3004 18 87467 .86 H311 *4 1026 .09 1246740.64 2687.62 [ Totals *14735 .88 *18314.85 *22540 .00 *24322.48 *20309 .50 *28007 .55 *25171 .01 *20202 .43 $20845 .20 *26401 .45 *25718 .86 >24756 .95 *23327 .08 *23512 .30 *20705 .98 $23378.89 $23294 .22 $24127.91 $27912.15 $27003 .58 $30699 .62 $31868.58 *30600 .06 S 31922 HI $33187 .89 $37762 .69 $38932.25 $46796 .17 5-1 1 : $53084 .38 $58172.30 $61033.03 $62044.73 $63755 .91 $67344 .88 *69414.02 $69104.25 $71115.04 $70402 .05 *70806 .72 $81435.59 $88370.88 $1715677.46 PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS 319.35 1000.00 *44 00 1024 71 858 40 *210 76 1047.80 781 .61 1103.00 4601 .26 122.88 P««s G ud I Wft£ h001 ! Furniture fl B. Durfce School . . High School Lal>oratory Investment Sinking Fund.. Jackson St School . *9 .00 17007 Jl 3666.66 *255 .00 2167.30 3008 .6( *271 .00 45074 *33 :oo *723 .00 * 78.31 401 .35 729 .08 *507 .32 - 105.00 * 17:70 135.00 * 20.00 131.15 *40 00 56 .55 *2843 .75 257 .50 150.50 240.20 $230 .70 $52.15 *155.50 31 672 .25 1372.00 242 ^0 $1 824 io ” 1072.75 $170.44 540.80 20 .00 278.10 2338 .00 $924 16 867 .75 2445.29 '" 4180.85 $ 334 84 1046 55 *2723 18 671 .75 1448.27 $416.85 702 .72 987 .00 f?8§§ 91.25 11! *i!:L 4980.59 *©:i tb* 27.1 ■ 11 jMI 079 .50 2500 .no ■SSS5 180 .00 448 .50 1239:00 I! •a §§ is *98.71 198 00 03 .81 13700 .00 $ 425 .61 1 8 | 8 08 143.18 10900 00 131 05 140.13 ’nO .87 127.82 5126 :24 1438 .85 021.00 39 5( n'j j > ' 2116.88 14467 .75 355 .08 111.46 *587 75 5600 93 Ul '*7 Ml 25400 93 22606 05 60842 .74 67208 20 Jasper St. School Marietta St. School ■Oakland School 334.50 334.50 7034 .03 7387 .67 2 fr!! 1798.00 :.. 789C : 35 437 P 15.64 1641 .25 5195 .84 93 .0 2364.92 32 .00 4570 .00 8003.04 13.20 2790.0 40 .45 10.80 15.00 1739.64 8318:86 22611 :29 20101 .41 JJ-V. 1 -.4 JW Pugh School Rea: Estate Riverside School Roach School Sangamon St. School &rwt P|ving and Sewers 4r ’ 00 .: 00 4400.00 0071 .06 4924 70 820 !00 8,41 100:bb 1600 :bo 050 00 164 27 2505.00 15.00 1431 .38 2357:b0 450 .77 901.34 2603 .92 1692.46 ”510 2157.50 7525 .00 9499 .56 330 .37 211 50 292 18 142 .60 135 .70 115.00 230 .25 000.00 4700 00 8482.02 19497 .49 21880.69 "6 19497 .49 r,:i -jo Wood S'. School ^ ^ 4430 75 »,U,H ibbibo 150 77 22.00 177. 60 137 .05 . 3 f? 52.60 ilia 44.30 85 :oo 9i6 loo 3952 .86 1198172 27 ”99 13713 .87 37.10 5000 :oo 26:96 6000 00 73! 2. 75 TT"7 '*2 17277 71 ’ 18312.75 'Totals Bonds and Notes Paid Grand Total Payments *0445 .40 21181 37 *20272 .27 in .1111 m *20209 .7: 13501 .00 50350 73 ■ 47043 .64 HI *721 .84 37842 .52 10000 .00 *NI5 '.'II 3OOOO .00 <7 1 1 Hi ni 12550 .0( 40801 .26 <1 SI 1 32780 4' *404 .75 5000 .00 31123 f.l * 153.30 6000 .00 29910.25 *5000 :00 28797 .29 * 06.55 5000 .00 28608 .85 $3820 .45 $ 283 .30' $ 531 .78 23062 .19, 23820 .00 $8131 .78 32250 .69 $6137.89 3000 .00 37050 .04 *11120. 37 $6062 .74 3000 .00 39762.36 $7492 .72 " "" 42361 .30 $20267 .26 3000 .00 53867 .82 $2706 .82 3000 .00 40629 .22 *8286.11 41474 :00 $17974.28 55736.97 $12069 .87 "51002 .12 $47209 .34 .*‘ 3 ™.:’ 3 *16459.70 $30631.36 101 900 .72 *14800.46 $10886 .62 8000 .00 80931 .25 *13309 .9 ” 77155 i8 $17355.711 84700 :69| *14213.92 83627.94 80200.61 1 45000 :00 122203 .30 98203 .73 *14798.17 *69574 .26 167946.14 $562010 .58 2502280 :23 Daily Attendance. Pupils 1 877 INo. Teachers Employed 23 004 24 25 1257 27 1277 14 28I 1340 28 18 29 1356 20 1304 30 13 !o I3 lo 13 30 13 30 1402 1502 30 | 30 1556 30 1792 34 1922 2011 38 2058 40 2145 2262 46 2330 47 24 S 2579 2824 2906 3150 72 3327 78 3327 81 3333 83 33 88 3360 I 34 92 33 0° 34 94 3082 3681 3687 103 3860 Description and Cost of Decatur School Properties: Erection Location U, of*Site n ‘ Description of Site Ground Building Total , Church St. School I E. A. Gastman School H. B.Durfcc School.. Jackson St. School. Jasper St. School 'Jones School Marietta St. School Oakland School Pugh School.. R . aSchool ; fers? l sS3?. Roach School.. West Main School — 856-7 J92>3; 1900-1 ;1002-3 867-69; 1892-3; V.-,-', 860-7; 1869-0: 887-8:1892-3. 1904 882-3; 1892-3 884-5; 1887-8 896-9 19110-7 K95 19(10-7 900-7 867 1873 863:^867:1887^ ^ Annexed N. Church nnd W. North St*. N. Church nnd W. North Sts. E. Herkimer and N. Jasper Sts. E. North and Broadway. E.ferth"ndJa S .pSs“ SU ’ N. Church and W. Marietta Sts. W. Decatur nml S. Oakland Avo. N. Monroe and W. Pugh Sts. E. Cantrell and S. Walnut. Wood and S. College Su. 0 "" E. William and N. Fourth Sts. West Main St.. 100 ftxMcyt 291 ft. x 160 ft. 273 ft. x 234 ft. is, !<: 188 ft. x 163 ft. 320 ft. x 100 ft. 222 ft. x 144 ft. 211 ft! x 135 ft: 211 ft. x 388 ft. Lots No. 1. 2, 3. 4 and 5. block 8. Bandy’s add. Lot* No. 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5. block 8. Bandy’s add. Lot No. 9. block 1. Powers’ 2d add. Lot* No. 9. 10, 11 and 12, block 7, Rcod & Co’s add. Lot* No. 1 3 and 5, Oglesby & Wait’s add. Lot No. 3. block 4. Fourth Rolling Mill add. Lots No. 1. 4. 5 and 8, block 3. Durfcc & King's add. Lots No. 17. 18 . 19. 20 and 21 biock 2. P. Brueck's add. Lots No. 1.2. 3, 4. 5. 0. 7. 8. block 1. F. I\ Roach’s add. Lots No. 9,‘io. lTl2 Pl i3ani H an blJck 5? d. Lot No. 2. block 3. Lake & Co’s add. Atract°on *°i b* ^ht 1 f’y[ ,lock Ip^WMtomadd. ^ ^ d 2 blk $800 .00 1 ,252 .'50 4 ,220 .00 1 500 0C ’lOO.OC 3 .400 .00 4 ,525 .00 4 .800 .00 3 ,600 .00 2,150.00 2 ,357 .00 887.60 6,000.00 $ 48 1839 :?2 22,666 .05 00 ,842 .74 25,909 .87 1 .942 .83 20 . 11.1 41 Sfii-S S## 1 ,571 .90 $12,406 .93 •IN .S3’) 72 23,917.55 65,062.74 26 ,509 .87 24,111 .29 I! 1:11 7 ,571 .90 $36 ,092.00 8340.191 .74 $386 ,283 .74 THE SCHOOL PROPERTIES BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS OLD CHURCH STREET SCHOOL E. A. GASTMAN SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION. 27 E. A. GASTMAN SCHOOL The E. A. Gastman school stands at the corner of North Church and West North streets on the site occupied from 1857 to 1903 by the Church street school. The building had been pronounced unfit for school purposes on account of its bad lighting and general inconvenience and was torn down in 1903 to make place for the new school named in honor of Mr. E. A. Gastman. The ground, consisting of lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in block 8 of Ban- dy’s addition and having a frontage of 160 feet on North Church street and 146 1-2 feet on West North street was bought of Elisha D. Carter in 1855 for $800. The E. A. Gastman school was erected in 1903-4 at a total cost of $48,839.72. Mr. Melville G. Patterson prepared the plans and Swisher & Brooks secured the contract. The building contains ten school rooms in which 456 children can be seated at single desks. There are two offices, a room fitted up for domestic science, one for manual training, and an auditorium seated with 600 opera chairs. The rooms are all well lighted, the halls spacious and the building is modern and convenient in every ’respect. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 29 WOOD STREET SCHOOL Is located at the corner of South College and West Wood streets, on lots 9, 10, 11 and 12 in block 10 of the Western addition. Lots 11 and 12 were bought of Orlando Powers, October 10, 1863, for SI 00. November 1, 1866, Julia S. Brown sold lot 10 to the Board of Edu- cation for S600. April 16, 1867, the same lady conveyed forty feet off the east side of lot 9 for S400. September 13, 1883, the Board sold to John M. Rainey for $212.50, eight and one-half feet from the west side of the lot. There is a frontage of 211 feet on Wood and 135 on College streets. The building contains eight school rooms in which four hundred nine children can be seated at single desks. The two east rooms on the first floor were erected in 1863, accord- ing to plans prepared by Geo. P. Randall of Chicago. Messrs. Mills and Shockley were the builders and the cost was $3,854.46. In 1867, Joseph Mills prepared plans for an addition of a second story to the rooms erected in 1863, and two rooms to the west, thus providing a house of six school rooms. The work was done by D. C. Shockley at a cost of $11,079.89. Melville G. Patterson prepared plans for the west addition of two rooms in 1887. It was erected by Harrison S. Baker for $4,868.86. In 1889, Geo. W. Ruckel built bay windows in the four front rooms to improve the light and ventilation. The cost was $1,198.71. For drainage, there has been expended $87.17. The total expenditures have been as follows: By the directors $ 3,854.46 By the Board of Education 17,234.64 Total. 21,089.10 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 31 JACKSON STREET SCHOOL This is the first school house erected by the Board of Education. It is located on lots 1, 3 and 5 of Oglesby & Wait’s addition, at the corner of South Jackson and Sheridan streets. The lot is 273 by 234 feet. It was purchased of Sheridan Wait in 1866, for $600. There are ten school rooms and a small office which accommodate five hundred pupils at single desks. No school house in the city has had. as many ad- ditions as this. The first two rooms were built in 1866 according to plans prepared by E. McNabb. He secured the contract and erected the two rooms at a total cost of $4,399.86. In 1869 the two north rooms were erected by Messrs. Myer and Brandt at a cost of $4,745.17. In 1887 the two south rooms were built by J. J. Wilson according to plans prepared by M. G. Patterson for the sum of $6,518.85. This in- cluded a new front and some changes in the roof of the building. In 1892, M. G. Patterson prepared plans for the two northeast rooms and they were erected by Messrs. Krentel & Lyon at a total cost of $5,080.20. Finally in 1903 the Board decided to add two more rooms to this building, using in so far as possible material saved from the wreckage of the Church street school. Mr. Richard O. Rosen prepared the plans and Mr. William F. Gebhart contracted to do the work for $4,547. The rooms were erected on the south side of the building; a new stairway and two toilet rooms were added at the same time. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 33 SANGAMON STREET SCHOOL Is situated at the corner of North Morgan and East Sangamon streets on lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 in block 5 of Plant & Tuttle’s ad- dition. The site has a frontage on Sangamon of 240 feet and 145 feet on Morgan street. The first five lots were purchased through Lowber Burrows, of A. Long, in 1867, for $1,500. In 1875 the east lot was bought of Edward Sweeny for $650. The house was erected by Messrs. McNabb & Bishop in 1867 accord- ing to plans prepared by Geo. P. Randall of Chicago. The total cost was $11,776.26. In 1873 the same architect prepared plans for an addition of two rooms on the north end. This was built by D. C. Shockley at a total cost of $4,654.23. In 1886 the sum of $1,610.65 was expended in deepening the base- ment and placing bay windows in the front rooms to improve the lighting and ventilation. In 1891 the entire basement was deepened and dry closets were in- troduced. The work was done by James Pierce at a cost of $2,603.92 In 1899 one basement was paved at a cost of $33. 15. The entire cost of the building was $20,497.76. Three hundred two pupils can be seated at single desks. I m BOARDT)F EDUCATION 35 JASPER STREET SCHOOL Is located at the corner of North Jasper and East North streets on lot 3 in block 4 in the Fourth Rolling Mill addition. There is a frontage of 225 feet on North and 192 feet on Jasper streets. It was bought of Ira Harris, Jr., in 1873 for $1,500. The house was erected in 1882 by Melville G. Patterson according to plans prepared by him at a cost of $10,427.97. Ten years later, in 1892, the same architect prepared plans for an addition of two rooms on the northeast corner of the building. These were erected by Krental & Lyon at a cost of $6,837.09. In 1894 Mr. Patterson prepared the plans for an addition of two rooms on the southeast corner of the building. Thomas L. Antrim erected them at a cost of $2,364.92. It is believed that these were the cheapest school rooms ever built in the cty. In 1898 R. O. Rosen prepared plans for changing the roof over the four original rooms and otherwise improving the building. The work was done by Harrison S. Baker at a cost of $2,790. For miscellaneous improvements $159.30 were spent. It furnishes accommodations in eight rooms at single desks for 434 pupils. BOARD OF EDUCATION. MARIETTA STREET SCHOOL Is located on the corner of North Church and West Marietta streets on lots 1, 4, 5 and 8 of block 3 in Durfee & King’s addition. There is a frontage of 334 feet on North Church and 184 feet on West Marietta streets. Lots 4, 5 and 8 were bought in 1867 of Henry B. Durfee for $900 and lot 1 was purchased of Mary E. Mortman in 1884 for $2,500. This included two houses which were upon the lot. The plan of the front part of the building was prepared by Melville G. Patterson and was erected by him in 1884-5 at a cost of $9,837.41 In 1887 the same gentleman planned and erected the four rear rooms at a cost of $9,694.35. There has been spent for filling up the yard, drainage, etc., $554.65 The total cost of the building as it now stands was $20,086.41. There are eight school rooms with 449 seatings at single desks. . BOARD OF EDUCATION. 39 WARREN STREET SCHOOL Is located at the corner of North Warren and East Waggoner streets on lot 2, block 3 of Lake & Co.’s addition of out lots. It was bought of William L. Smith March 12, 1890, for $2,357. There is a frontage of 150 feet on Warren and 296 feet on Waggoner streets. The building was planned by Kramer & Zoll, Findlay, Ohio. The south half of four rooms was built by J. J. Wilson in 1880 at a cost of $13,373.87. The north half was built by Lyon & Williams in 1893 for $8,365.44. There has been paid $205.50 for storm sash and plumbing, making the total cost of the house $22,284.81. There are 340 single desks in eight fine school rooms. There is also a good office. In the general arrangement of the rooms, halls and the lighting the building is probably not excelled by any in Illinois. It is believed to be a model eight room school house. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 41 H. B. DURFEE SCHOOL Was built at the corner of North Jasper and East Herkimer streets on lot 9 of block 1 of Powers’ Second addition. It was purchased of Mrs. Caroline M. Powers Oct. 31, 1890, for $1,252.50. There is a front- age of 200 feet on Herkimer and 315 feet on Jasper streets. It is one of the very best school sites in the city. The building was planned by Elah Terrell & Co., Columbus, Ohio, and was built in 1892 by the White Bros., of Springfield, Illinois, at a cost of $13,409.04. In 1900 Melville G. Patterson prepared plans for an addition of two rooms on the north end which was built by Harrison S. Baker at a cost of $4,125.83. In 1901 the architects, Patterson & Bainum, prepared plans and specifications for a two room addition to be erected at the southeast corner of the building. The contract was awarded to A. H. Humphreys for $4,694. The building now consists of eight school rooms and a good office The rooms are seated with single seats to accommodate 407 children. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 43 THE PUGH SCHOOL The Pugh school stands on the corner of North Monroe and West Pugh streets, 'on lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6J7 and 8 of block 1 of Frank P. Roach’s addition. There is a frontage of 190 feet on North Monroe street and of 320 feet on West Pugh streets. Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were bought of Mr. Roach April 12, 1895, for $3,000. In 1904 lot 6 was bought of him for $600 and in 1906 lots 7 and 8 for $1,200. The plan of the building is the same as that of the Warren street school, the first four rooms having been erected in 1895 by Thomas L. Antrim at a cost of $11,657.06. The other four rooms were built in 1906 at a cost of $8,447.97, the contract having been awarded to William F. Gebhart. As the building is now it contains eight school rooms and a very pleasant office. Three hundred ninety-two pupils can be seated there at single desks. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 45 THE OAKLAND SCHOOL Is located at the corner of West Decatur street and South Oakland avenue on lots 17, 18, 19,. 20 and 21 of block 2 of Peter H. Brueck’s ad- dition; the first two were purchased of B. L. Rosebraugh May 3, 1895, for $2,525, and the last three were bought on the same date from Edward L. Denz for $2,000. There is a frontage of 188 feet on Decatur street and 163 feet on Oakland avenue. The plan of building is a modification of the Warren and Pugh schools. It was prepared by Melville G. Patterson in 1896 and four rooms were erected by Humphrey & Brooks at a cost of $12,592.24. In 1906 Louis T. Baker put up a four-room addition on the east at a cost of $8,400, according to plans and specifications prepared by M. G. Patterson. The building now contains eight school rooms accommodating 376 pupils at single desks, and a fine office. It is the handsomest eight- room building in the city. The dense foliage renders it impossible to secure a photograph showing the building as it now stands. Four rooms have been added on the east since the cut on the opposite page was made. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 47 RIVERSIDE SCHOOL The Riverside school is located on the corner of East Cantrell and South Walnut streets, on lots No. 1, 2, 3, part 4 and 9 and one-half of 10, block 2, Mills & Starr addition; they were bought of Mr. William H. Starr and Mr. Walter H. Mills, April, 1906, for $3,500. The grounds have a frontage of 222 feet on Cantrell street and 144 feet on South Walnut streets. The following August the contract was let to William F. Gebhart for $19,202, to build a four-room building according to plans by Barkley S. Brooks. A pleasant office and spacious halls give to the building a home-like appearance. One hundred sixty-two pupils can be accommodated at single desks. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 49 THE ROACH SCHOOL The Roach school is situated on the corner of East William street and North Fourth street, on a tract of land bought of Annie L. Brown for $5,000 adjoining lots 1 and 2, block 8, E. G. and W. L. Allen’s addition, bought of Edwin G. Allen for $1,000 April 1907. Plans and specifications were at once prepared by M. G. Patterson for a four-room building, Wright & Butts contracted to erect the building for $13,101. There are large halls and a pleasant office. One hundred forty-six children can be accommodated at single desks. The grounds of this school are among the largest and handsomest in the city., having a frontage of 262 feet on East William street and 266 feet on North Fourth street. THE JONES SCHOOL THE WEST MAIN SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION. 51 THE JONES SCHOOL Is situated about two miles from the court house on North Water street. The lot was bought of Edward A. Jones, June 24, 1864, for $100. It contains a half acre of land. The house was planned and built by Joseph Mills in 1864 at a total cost of $1,942.84. About forty pupils can be accommodated in the single room. THE WEST MAIN SCHOOL On July 4, 1905, a petition to annex district 63 to the city of Decatur was submitted to the Board of Education by Abner P. Cobb and Henry Kistler, representing more than three-fourths of the legal voters of the said district. The petition was granted and the county clerk was informed that the above territory was now annexed to the Decatur school district. _ The building known as the WestMain school is now regarded as city property. It is approximately one and three-fourth miles west of the intersection of Main streets. It contains one school room seated with double desks and will accommodate forty pupils BOARD OF EDUCATION. 53 THE DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL The high school is situated on the corner of East North and North Broadway, on lots 11 and 12 of block 7 of Read & Co.’s addition, pur- chased of Warren & Durfee in 1866 for $2,400, and on lot 10 of the same block bought of Thomas Read for $1,000. Lot 9 was added to the ground in 1869, having been bought for $820. The grounds as they now are have a frontage of 291 feet on East North street and 160 feet on North Broadway. The central part of the building, consisting of five school rooms, a recitation room, a library, and an office for the superintendent, was erected in 1868. The plans had been drawn by G. P. Randall of Chicago , and the building was erected by D. C. Shockley at a total cost of $24,577.- 46. In 1892 an addition of six rooms was built on the south of the build- ing by Harrison Baker for $16,484. Three years later six rooms were added to the north end of the building by W. F. Gebhart for $l_5,300. The high school now contains thirteen school rooms, three labor- atories, two recitation rooms, a library, an office for the high school principal, and one for the superintendent of schools. About seven hun- dred pupils can be seated at single desks. As the building is neithre modern nor adequate it is hoped that better accommodations'can soon be provided. 54 GENERAL REPORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL The Decatur high school dates its origin to the year 1862, when tha directors decided to open a high school with E. A. Gastman as its head, and Miss Frances A. Peterson as assistant. During the summer follow- ing this decision, Mr. Gastman and Miss Peterson married and under their management the high school opened its doors in September, 1862, on the present site of the E. A. Gastman school with an enrollment of 64 pupils, some of whom are the most substantial and respected citizens of Decatur at the present time. In the fall of 1863 the school was moved to the basement of the Baptist church on the northeast corner of William and Water streets, where it remained until 1869 when a new high school building was erected at a cost of $24,577.46. It may be interesting to note that the new high school is the middle section of the present structure. The first session in the new building opened in September, 1869, with the following teachers in charge of the several classes: E. A. Gast- man, Mary W. French and Miranda M. Sargent. It is an interesting fact that one of those teachers, Mary W. French, is at the present time one of the most forceful teachers in the Decatur high school. During the early years of its existence the Decatur high school had no organized course of study . Until 1868 such classes were formed as would best meet the wants of the pupils , then the first course of study was printed. As compared with the elective privileges in the present course of study, it is interesting to note that the only two provisions for choice on the part of students in this early course of studies were as follows: In the second year, “Review Arithmetic or Advanced Algebra,” in the third year “pupils wishing to study Latin may drop one study.” The first class to graduate consisted of four young women. They were graduated on the afternoon of June 20, 1867, in Powers’ hall. Although these exercises were not well attended they served to arouse interest in the efforts of the school. In 1871 the course of study was extended from three to four years. In 1875 there were five teachers and the average attendance was 155 for the year. By 1890 the teachers had increased to seven and the attend- BOARD OF EDUCATION. 55 ance to 244. The graduating class of that year consisted of thirty-six members. The years from 1890 to 1907 have shown an increase in total enrollment, average daily attendance and yearly graduates, which is very gratifying. The graduating class of 1908 will number more than 100, exceeding that of an previous year. Not only has the Decatur high school advanced in point of numbers but it has also shown progress, through the reorganization of its course in helping the boys and girls to find their places in society more readily. The course of study adopted by the Board of Education in 1899 provided for many more subjects than before offered, and makes possi- ble for the student, in its elective privileges, a greater opportunity for the cultivation of individual taste. English and mathematics, because of their practical value, are required of all students. In addition to the technical and commercial courses, such work is offered in the Decatur high school as is found in the best high schools of the state, and with the teachers of training and expericence in their particular subjects. At the beginning of the present school year two new subjects were offered to the students of the high school — manual training and domes- tic science. Although these subjects have been offered but once per week the interest shown by the students has more than justified the ad- dition to the curriculum. When we think how great a factor an efficient high school is to a community, it would seem that nothing is too good in equipment for our boys and girls. At the present time the increasing enrollments and the demands of society for new courses of study have called the attention of our citizens to the necessity of a new building. It is earnestly hoped that the time is not far distant when the boys and girls in our city will be surrounded with such school environment that they will have at least a much better opportunity of finding their right places in the communiti'es of which they may be members. THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The character of the science work that it is possible to do in many of our high schools, depends to a great extent on the equipment that is furnished, for doing individual work and general class room demonstra- tions. There has been a marked improvement during the last quarter of a century in the methods used to give our pupils a definite and true idea of the facts, principles and laws of the "various science subjects. At the present time students of chemistry and physics are required to verify many of the laws in these subjects, to perform illustrative ex- periments, those in biology to observe the habits of plants and animals as well as to study their structure. By these methods the true scien- 56 GENERAL REPORT tific spirit is developed in the pupil and it is this spirit that is really more value to the pupil than the mere memorizing of the laws and principles that may be found in all of our text books, though these are not ’omitted. In order to accomplish the best results attainable, well equipped laboratories are needed, and it can be truly said that the laboratory facilities of the Decatur high school are surpassed by only a few schools in|the state. The growth of our high school laboratories has been commensurate with the general growth and development of the city schools. The first appropriation for apparatus was made in 1869 when $150 was paid for some second hand apparatus from the estate of Henry Prather, about the only part of that apparatus that is in use now is the compound micro- scope. The amounts expended mainly for apparatus during several succeeding years is given below: 1877-8. 1892- 3. 1893- 4. 1894- 5. 1895- 6. 1896- 7. 1897- 8. 1898- 9. • 99.41 465.28 27.12 122.50 679.50 103.51 171.01 150.69 During the years 1877 to 1892 the only laboratory was in the base- ment of the building. It was poorly lighted, practically had no means of ventilation, and it was always damp. It contained only eight or ten plain tables and no apparatus or facilities for practical individual work. The real work of building up the chemical and physical laboratory began in 1881. The science teacher and his pupils constructed some apparatus •and each succeeding year some of this home-made apparatus has been added and much of it answered just as well as the more expensive and highly finished apparatus of the dealers. When the new addition on the south side was built in 1892, one room on the third floor was specially fitted for a chemical and physical labor- atory. It was well lighted and ventilated and it was equipped with many of the modern conveniences for chemical and physical work. It accommodated twenty-four pupils in chemistry and about twelve pupils in physics at a time. The phenomenal growth of the high school soon made it necessary to provide more room for the science department, therefore a room on the same floor on the opposite side of the hall was fitted up for a physical and biological laboratory and the chemical laboratory facilities enlarged by adding another long chemical table that accommodated twelve pupils so ab the present time there is ample room for thirty-six working pupils at a period and there are individual lockers for seventy-two pupils each BOARD OF EDUCATION. 57 having his own special apparatus and materials. The other laboratory accommodates about twenty-four pupils in biology and twenty pupils in physics at a time. It soon became apparent that the work in physics and biology in the same room was not satisfactory so in 1896 a room on the second floor that had been used as an ordinary school room was equipped with modern appliances and tables for teacher and pupils so that at present there are three well equipped laboratories, A general idea of the amount of' apparatus and material on hand for the use of the three departments can be had from the inventory taken in 1906: CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT Individual apparatus for 72 pupils $300 General apparatus 250 Chemicals and reagents 150 Total $700 PHYSICAL DEPARTMENT Carpenter’s tools andjbench $ 30 Measuring and test instruments 200 Balances 125 Laws of matter and mechanics’ apparatus 100 Hydrostatics, hydraulics and pneumatics 250 Light and heat 400 Sound 50 Static and current electricity 350 Total $1505 BIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT The amount of material for illustrative purposes in this department is probably the best in the state of any high school outside of Chicago. It has been gathered by different individuals and from various source. Considerable of this material has been presented to the high school by persons who take much interest in our public schools. This material when so presented is usually placed where it can be readily inspected and the donor’s name is attached thereto. Among those who have given 58 GENERAL REPORT valuable collections are Charles Condell, who gave several well preserved bones of a mastodon, a number of Indian relics and also some alcoholic specimens. Dr. J. H. Eddy, dentist, and Mr. Frank L. Wood have each presented a fine case of mounted birds and animals. Mr. John Imboden gave some Indian and other valuable relics. Mr. Harry Kizer, class of 1888, gave a fine specimen of a deer. The greatest part of this collection was obtained by E. A. Gastman, when he taught the classes in zoology. What is now needed is a suitable room into which the most of this material could be placed as it would then make a very fine showing as a museum of natural history.. The estimated value of the collections and apparatus in this depart- ment is as follows: 450 mounted birds and bird skins $ 400 Mounted mammals and parts of mammals 200 Alcoholic specimens in jars 300 15 cases of insects 50 48 sets dissecting instruments 48 Geological collection of ores, minerals, etc 200 Herbarium of 600 specimens 50 21 compound microscopes and accessories 344 24 simple dissecting microscopes 40 150 microscopic slides for zoology, physiology and botany 40 100 lantern slides 40 .Total $1712 THE AGORA 1893 1907 The Young Ladies’ Literary society, since grown into the Agora, was organized in 1893 by Miss Flora E. Hill. Its purpose then as now was that the girls should train and develop ^heir minds, learn to express themselves with fluency and to appear at ease before their fellow-students. Debates, orations, essays, recitations and music made up the programs. In October, 1894, this 'society met with the Boys’ society and made arrangements for a contest Dec. 7, 1894. During the fourteen years of the existence of the literary societies the girls won the first and the last contests. Mr. James J. Sheppard, principal at that time, called a joint meeting of the two societies in December, 1894. from which The High School Observer originated, the first number of which appeared Feb. 17, 1895, The first article in the paper was written by a prominent member of the Girls’ Literary society. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 59 The society, having a membership of fifty-one girls, held an open-air meeting to commemorate the birthdays of Washington and Lowell and four hundred people attended. Later the young men entertained the faculty and the Y. L. L. S. with a lawn social which custom has been kept up. October 4, 1895, the girls organized the Sapphonian society. Decem- ber 13, 1895, they won the second annual contest. This- contest was held in the Congregational church and was so well attended that more than sixty-five dollars were taken in. This contest was fax' better than the one the year before and ,it was seen that the literary societies were making good progress. The Alpha Beta entertained the Sapphonians and faculty at a lawn party. The compliment was returned the following Week by a “ Leap Year Party” and picnic at Imboden Springs. The girls held their first meeting of 1896 in September. The Sappho- nians and the Alpha Beta societies met in their third contest Jan. 8. The debate and essay were decided in favor of the Alpha Beta and the girls had met their first defeat. This event ended the literary work of the societies for that year. In January, 1898. the Sapphonian society entertained the public at an unusually good meeting. The principal feature was a play entitled “The Portrait of Clavering Bangs.” May 6 the Alpha Beta and Sapphonian societies gave a joint program in the Edward street Christian church at a benefit for the Athletic asso- ciation. , The entertainment was a financial as well as a social success. October 14, 1898, the Alpha Beta society changed its constitution and henceforth was to be a society for the young people of the high school. The boys hoped that by this means new vigor Would be infused into the society and better results obtained in all branches of their work. There was a good showing of the results derived from the union of the two societies. During the year of ’99 there seem to have been no literary societies whatever and not until March, 1900, was the Girls’ Literary society re- organized. This work was dorie by a committee of three girls assisted by a member of the faculty. The objects, as set forth in the prearrible to the constitution, were: To re-establish a society of ' young ladies whose object is- to increase their knowledge of English literature acquire fluency of speech, learn something of parliamentary law, and gain some proficiency in the art of oratory. The following school year the meeting came to order November 22. Early in the year a challenge to a literary contest was received from the boys’ new lietrary society, The Forum, and w-as accepted. The contest resulted in defeat for the Agora (the new name of the girls’ society.) With their share of the proceeds from th6 contest they tendered a reception to The Forum" April 12, 1901. The play, “A 60 GENERAL REPORT Box of Monkeys,” was given. The programs of this year showed marked improvement and were of a high order. November 27, 1901, the Agora met and adopted a new constitu- tion. This year was marked by an interchange of courtesies between the Agora and the Forum, and a good foundation was laid for the follow- ing year. December 2Q, 1902, the Agora, challenged to a spelling match, met the Forum. When the last of the Forum boys went down, twelve Agora girls were left standing. In the flush of their victory the Agora chal- lenged*their opponents to a literary contest April 10, 1903. The Forum won and the girls sent the following verses attached to their congratula- tions : The Forum can orate, declaim and debate, The Forum can holler and yell; They certainly think they are first in the state, But the Forum can never spell.” The Agora improved greatly that year due partly to the interest of individual members and to competition with the Forum. February 25, '04, the Agora held a literary contest, the program be- ing the best one given by the society for some time. The greatest suc- cess that year was the Agora-Forum play with candy bazaar. Socially the Agora entertained the girls of the high school at the home of Mr. Ehrman May 20, 1904. Among other benefits reaped that year the girls learned to feel and appreciate more truly the companionship of their classmates. The Agora seems to have worked especially to increase the member- ship and to make the programs profitable as well as entertaining during the year of 1904-’05. The programs comprised orations, debates, sto- ries, readings, extemporaneous speeches, musical numbers, and reports on current events. The extemporaneous debates proved interesting and instructive and helped to develop the girls’ power of self expression and fluency of speech. Valentine’s day was celebrated by the presenta- tion of the play, “ The Swiss Times,” which was followed by the “ Smith Mystery in honor of the seniors. During 1905-’06 the Agora had its first regular faculty advisor, Miss Anna Welch. She was present at every meeting acting as critic and giving very helpful suggestions. Under her guidance the programs have shown a marked improvement. Several of the teachers gave inter- esting stories of their college life. A ‘‘German Day” was held. Miss Bertha Reed gave a talk about Germany, the Girls’ Glee club sang Ger- man songs and Agora members gave German recitations. On June the first the Agora entertained the Forum with a lawn party at the home of Miss Ruth Roberts. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 61 The last year, 1906-7, has been one of the most successful and eventful in the history of the Agora. The membership has been limited to thirty so that better work might be done. The Agora-Forum contest, held February 15, 1907, in the E. A. Gastman hall, was the crowning success, the Agora winning everything except the serious reading, and being de- feated by only a few points in that. The anual picnic and lawn party were given in May. Through the fourteen years of the life of the society a marked increase in the excellence of the work of the students has been noticeable. Long live the Agora! THE FORUM 1900-1907. With the exception of of The Observer , the Forum Literary society is the oldest students’ institution of the high school. Doubtless, the twelve boys who formed the society in 1900, had little anticipation of the rise of the Forum to such a potent factor of high school life as it now is. Two years previous to the formation of the Forum, the two literary societies had dissolved and it was organized merely as an experiment. After its formation, the Forum grew rapidly. The first literary event of any importance was a debate with Jacksonville. The result was de- feat for the Forum which rather disheartened them for the remainder of that year. The next year, however, the boys rallied enough to challenge the girls’ literary socibty to an oratorical contest, which the Forum boys won. During this year the Forum gave a reception to the Girls’ Glee club in the assembly room. Later in the year the Agora gave the Forum a very pretty reception in the Guards’ armory. The program for the evening consisted of a one-act farce, entitled, “A Box of Monkeys.” During the spring vacation the Forum rented two rooms in the Millikin building and converted them into club and reading rooms. At the first meeting of the following year it was decided after a heated discussion, that alumni were eligible to membership. The first social event of this year was an open meeting at which the chief feature was a play entitled, “Gentlemen of the Jury,” in which twelve boys took part. This was followed by a mock trial. Later in the year a debate was held with the Bloomington high school in which the Forum boys were the victors. The year 1902-1903 was ushered in by a spelling match with the Agora. The result was that ten girls were still standing when the last boy went down. Following a mock trial a literary contest between the two societies occurred. In this contest the Forum secured sweet revenge for the lost spelling match. The result was wholly for the Forum. 62 GENERAL REPORT In 1903-1904 not a great deal was done. Several open meetings were held, at one of which a farce, entitled “A Letter of Introducion,” was presented by a company of Agora-Forum members. At the end of the year the Forum gave a reception to the Agora and in return the Agora entertained the Forum at a lawn party at the home of Mr. D. S. -Shel- labarger. The next year, 1904-1905, several very helpful and interesting joint meetings were held with the Agora. One of the features of this year was a number of mock trials. At the end of this year the Forum enter- tained the Agora at a lawn social at the home of Mr. George Powers. 1905-1906 was a rather dead year for the Forum. The society threatened to go to pieces. The faculty advisor left school in the middle of the year and no meetings were held for two months. But conditions brightened and the year ended with success. The greatest function was a Forum reunion and mock trial. Later a farce entitled “Joining the Army” was given to the Agora by several Forum boys. At the end of the year the Forum was pleasantly entertained by the Agora on the lawn of Mr. T. T. Roberts. This last year has probably been the most eventful in the history of the Forum. The society has grown and its members have become prom- inent. The first joint meeting showed what the members were capable of doing. The program was a very creditable one. This year they placed The Outlook in the High School library as a gift to the Board of Educa- tion. Then the Forum challenged the Agora to an oratorical contest and were soon busily preparing for the preliminary contest. In the mean- time another joint meeting was held with the Agora the last night before the Christmas vacation, the principal feature of which was a Christ- mas box. At last the eventful contest was held in the E. A. Gastman school where a large assembly had gathered. All the contestants were well prepared and each did his part creditably. The judges decided in favor of the Agora. Toward the end of the school year a senior farewell joint meeting was held. An enjoyable social time followed an exceptionally good program. The next day they went to a picnic at Woodbine Park. The year closed with a party at the home of ( Miss Louise Riley. Although the Forum has not attained all its ends, it has made rapid advances the last year. The programs consisted of a debate, essay, ora- tion, reading and an occasional newspaper. Devotional exercises were instituted this year as a fitting openings of the meetings. Variety was given the programs by the addition of musical numbers from time to time. The discussion of parliamentary law has proved especially help- ful. Effort and application have been prominent characteristics of the society, and its success was in large measure due to these. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 63 LIST OF BOOKS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY Abbott, The Scott I About Vanilla Adam Bede 2 cop. Eliott Adams, Charles Francis Adams Adams, John Morse Adams, John Quincy Morse Adams, Samuel Hosmer Addison, Joseph Courthope Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • Mark Twain Adventures of Ulysses Lamb Age of Antonines, The Capes Age of Chivalry Bulfinch Age of Elizabeth.ftThe Creighton Age of Fable Bulfinch Age of Milton, The Masterman A. L. A. Catalog <.... Dewey Alcott, Louisa May Cheney Alfred the Great Hughes Alhambra, The Irving American Anthology Stedman American Beaver and his Works Morgan American Encyclopeadic Dictionary, 6 vols. American Engineers’ and Surveyors’ In- struments Gurley American Entomologist Riley American Entomologist and Botanist .... Riley and Vasey American Entomologist Walsh and Riley American Ephemeres and Nautical Almanac. American Government Ashley American History Leaflets, 9 vols Hart and Channing American Literature Richardson American Men of Letters — J. F. Cooper ... Lounsbury American Naturalist.... Packard and Putnam American Poems Longfellow, Whittier Bryant, Holmes, Lowell American Political Economy Bowen American Revolution, 2 vols, 2 cops Fiske American Statesmen — George Washington Lodge A. M. of L Among my Books Lowell Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals Huxley Ancient History Botsford Ancient History Rollins Animal Life Jordan and Kellogg Animal Locomotion Pettigrew Animal Parasites and Messmates Beneden Animal Physiology Clelland Annual Records of Science and Industry 2 vols Baird Annual Report of Smithsonian Institute to 1907 '. Antelope and Deer Caton Apple Blossoms Goodale Arabian Nights Hale Around the World Prime Art and Industry in the United States. .. Clark Astoria Irving Atlas Gram Audubon Autobiography, 2 cop Franklin Bamaby Rudge Dickens Bacon’s Essays Whately Beacon Lights of History Lord Beginners of a Nation Eggleston Beginnings of English Romantic Movement Phelps Beginnings of the Middle Ages, 3 cop. ...Church Being a Boy Warner Ben Hur Wallace Benton, Thomas Hart Roosevelt Biennial Message of Richard Yates Yates Birds of Colorado Valley Coves Birds and Bees .....Burroughs Bird’s-eye View of our Civil War Dodge Birds of North America Baird, Cassin, Lawrence Birds of North America Lawrence Birds of North America Studer Birds of the United States and Canada.... Nutte 1 Bigelow Papers Lowe 1 Biographical and Critical Miscellanies Prescott Bitter Sweet Holland Black Hawk War Stevens Blue Book of the State of Illinois Rose Books and Reading Porter Briefs for Debates , Brookings and Ringw alter Brent, John Winthrop A Brief History of the Nations Fisher Bulletins of the United States National Museum Cope Bulletion of Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History Forbes Buried Cities of Campania Adams Burke Morley Butterflies of the Eastern Uniten States ' French Caesar, A Sketch Froude Caesar, A Story of, 2 cop Clarke Calhoun, John C ..Von Holst Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer Captains Courageous Kipling Carroll, Story of Lewis Bowman Cass, Lewis McLaughlin 64 GENERAL REPORT Catalogue of Coleoptera of U. S Melsheimer Catalogue of Fishes of East Coast of N. A. Gill Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of N. Amer- ica Morris Caterpillars and their Moths.... Eliot and Soule Cecil’s Book of Beasts Peabody Cecil’s Book of Birds Peabody Cecil’s Book of Insects Peabody Celestial Handbook Poole Century Atlas of the World Smith Century Book of Facts Rooff Century Cyclopedia of Names, 2 cop Smith Chamber’s Etymological Dictionary.. . Donald Chapters on the Natural History of U. S. Shufeldt Characteristics of English Poets Minto Charles the Fifth, 3 vols Prescott Chase, Salmon P Hart Chaucer Ward Chaucer to Longfellow Fraser Charlemagne, Life of Turner Children of the Abbey Roche Chinch Bug, The Thomas Choice Specimens of English Literature Shaw and Smith Christmas Carol and Cricket on the Hearth, 2 cop Dickens Cicero, Marcus Tullus Forsythe City of the Seven Hills, The Hardjng Civilization in the Middle Ages Jones Civil War and the Constitution, 2 vols Burgess Classic Myths in English Literature Gayley Classification of the Coleoptera of N. A. LeConte Clay, Henry, Life of, 2 vols Schurz Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt Abbott Climbing Plants Darwin Cloister and the Hearth, 2 cop .....Reade Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner Edgar Colonial Era Fisher Colonies, The, 4 vols Thwaite Columbus, Christopher Adams Columbus, Christopher, Life and Voyages of, 5 vols Irving 86 Page. Columbus, Christopher, Life of, 2 cop. Hale Common Frog, The Mivart Common Sense in First Steps in Political Economy Liverson Comparative Anatomy of Domestic Ani- mals Clauveau Comparative Geography Ritter Compendium of American Literature Cleveland Complete Poetical Works Longfellow Complete Poetical Works Pope Complete Poetical Works Whittier Complete Poetical Works Wordsworth Complete Rhetoric Welsh Complete Works Bums Conciliation with the Colonies Brddley Conquest of Mexico, 3 vols Prescott Conspiracy of Pontiac, 2 vols Parkman Constitutional History and Political De- velopment of the United States Stems Contributions to the Natural History of the U. S Agassiz Coral and Coral Islands Dana Coriolanus Kellogg Correct Thing in Good Society. The Hall Correlation and Conservation of Forces. .. Youmans Cotton Worm, The Riley Cranial Affinities of Man and Ape Virchow Cranford Gaskill Crayfish, The Huxley Critical History of Free Thought Farrar Cromwell Life of Oliver 2 vols.4 Carlyle Critique of Pure Reason Kant Crumbs Swept Up Talmage Cuore Hapgood Currency and Banking Price Cyclopedia of American Biography,.. 6 vols Wilson and Fiske Cyclopedia of American Literature, 2 vols Chambers Cyclopedia of American Literature, 2 vols 2 cop Duyckinck Daily News Almanac for 1895 Data of Ethics Spencer Day in Ancient Rome, A Shumway David Balfour Stevenson David Copperfield, 2 cop Dickens Decisive Battles since Waterloo Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols Gibbon Deerslayer, The Cooper Descent of Man Darwin Descriptive Atlas of the United States ... Destruction of Young or Unfledged Lo- custs Riley Development of English Literature and Language Welsh Development of the Posterior Fissure of the Spinal Cord Bames Dialogues of Plato, 4 vols Jowett Dickens, Charles, Life of Mackenzie Dictionary of Americanisms Bartlett Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities Peck Dictionary of Dates Hadyn Dictionary of English Etymology Wedgewood Dictionary of English Language. .. Richardson Dictionary of English Literature Adams Dictionary of English Literature, 3 vols. Allibone Dictionary of French and English Lan- guages Gase Dictionary of Noted Names of Fiction Wheeler Dictionary of Phase and Fable Brewer Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets Ward Diptera of I*J. America Sacken Discovery and Conquest of the North- west Blanchard Divine Comedy, The (Longfellow) Dante Division and Reunion, 2 cop Wilson Doctrine of Evolution Huxley Does Protection Protect? Grosvenor Dombey & Son Dickens Don Quixote Cervantes Eads, James B How Early England, 2 cop Phillips Early English Literature Ten Brink Early Plantagenets, The .. Stubbs Early Rome Ihne Earth and Its Story, The Heilprin Earth and Man Guyot Earth and Man, Story of the Dawson BOARD OF EDUCATION 65 Earth and Its Inhabitants (Europe and North America) Reclus Earth as Modified by Human Action.. . Marsh Earthquakes and Volcanoes Ponton Easy Lessons on the Constitution of the United States Bayliss Ecclesiastical History Mosheim Ecclesiastical History Sozomen and Philostorgins Economics of Manual Training Rovillion Education Demanded by Modern Life... Youmans Education in the United States Butler Edward the First...: Tout Edward the Third Warburton Electrical Engineering Rosenberg Electricty and Magnetism Thompson Electricty in Modem Life Tunzelmann Elementary Meteorology Davis. Elementary Practical Physics Stewart and Gee Elementary Studies in Insect Life.. . Hunter Elements of English Composition.. Chittenden Elements of Intellectual Philosophy , Way land Elements of Political Economy Newman Elements of Political Economy Perry Eliott, George Cooke Empirical Psychology Hickock Encyclopedia Britanica, 25 vols Encylcopedia of Chemistry Booth Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. .. England of Shakespeare Goadbv English Composition Wendell English Grammar Fowler English History for Americans Higginson and Channing English History, told by English Poets Corman English Poets of the XVIII. Century Thackeray English in Schools Hudson English Language and its Early Liter- ature Gilmore English Language, The Greene English Language, The Meiklejohn English Masterpiece Course Welsh English Men of Letters — Bacon Church English of the Fourteenth Century. Carpenter English Poets, 4 vols Ward English Shakespeare, The Craik English Synonyms, Crabb English Traits Emerson Entomology Folsom Epoch of Reform McCarthy Essays Emerson Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous.. Macaulay Essays on Political Economy Greeley Essentials in English History Walker Essentials of Botany Bessey Etymological Dictionary of the English Language Skeat Evangeline Longfellow Evenings at the Microscope Gosse Every Day Topics Holland Evidences of Christianity Hopkins Excursions Thoreau Excursions in Greece Diehl Fxecutive Documents, Second Session 33d Congress, vols. 8-10 Experimental Physics Lommel Experimental Science Hopkins.. European H istory, Adams Europe in the Middle Ages Thatcher and Schwill Fairie Queene Spenser Fall of the Stuarts Hale Familiar Talks on English Literature Richardson Familiar Quotations Bartlett Famous Books Adams Faust (B. Taylor) 2 vols Goethe Ferdinand and Isabella Prescott Fermentation Schutzenberger First Annual Report of U. S. Entomolog- ical Commission for 1877 relating to Rocky Mountain Locust First Book of Geology Davis First Lessons in Civil Government Young First Lessons in Political Economy ...Walker First Principles Spencer First Two Stuarts and Puritan Revolu- tion Gardiner Five Senses of Man Bernstein Footprints of the Creator Miller The Footprints of Time and an Analysis of our Government Bancroft Formation of the Union, 4 cops Hart Forms of Water Tyndall For the Honor of the School Barbour Foundation of Zoology Brooks Four American Poets Cody Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secre- tary of the Interior Powell Fragments of Science Tyndall Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography, 15 cop Morse Franklin, Benjamin Morse French People, The Hassall French Revolution, The Morris French War and the Revolution, The Sloane.. Friend of Caesar, A Davis Garfield, Life and Public Services of James A McCabe Geographical Distribution of Animals Wallace Gallatin, Albert Stevens Ganot Physics Atkinson Geography of the Heavens Burritt General History of Greece, A Cox General History of Rome, A Merivale Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories Geological Survey of Illinois Worthen Geology and Physical Geography of Bra- zil Hartt German Dictionary Whitney German Grammar Whitney German Life in Town and Country.. . Dawson Glaciers of the Alps Tyndall Gods and Heroes Francillon Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics Palgrave Good English Gould Government in State and Nation James Grammar and Composition Lyte Grammar of Grammars Brown Grandissimes, The Cable Grant, Ulysses S Richardson Great English Writers. .. Bachus and Brown Grecian and Roman Mythology Dwight Great Wonders in Little Things Dyer 66 GENERAL REPORT Great Lives Mombert Greek-English Lexicon Liddell-Scott Greek Sculpture Von March Growth of the French Nation Adams Guide to American History Guide to Study of Insects .....Packard Half Hours with Insects Packard Hamilton, Alexander Lodge Hamilton, Alexander Sumner Handbook of History and Chronology. Gregory Hand Atlas of the World Bartholomew Handbook of Poetics Gummere Handbook of English History Guest Handbook of Universal Literature Botts Handwriting of God Randall Hawthorne, Nathaniel Woodberry Hazel Blossbms Whittier Health and Education Kingsley Health and Good Living Hall Heart of Africa ^Schweinfurth Heath s German Dictionary, 4 cop Weir Henry, Patrick Tyler Henry II Green Henry VII Gairdner Heroes or Greek Fair^ Stories Tetlow Heroic Ballads Historical Development of Modem Eu- rope Andrews Historic Note Book Brewer History for Ready Reference, 6 vols....Larned History of a Mouthful of Bread Mace History of Art Goodyear History of Christianity Milman History of Eighteenth Century Litera- ture Gosse History of Elizabethan Literature. Saintsbury History of England Coman and Kendall History of England, 7 vols Linguard History of England from Fall of WoLsey to Death of Elizabeth, 12 vols Froude History and Condition of the Fishery In- dustries Elliott History of England, 7 vols .....Hume History of England, Abridged Hume History of England, 8 vols Knight History of England, 5 vols Macaulay History of English People Green History of English Literature Halleck History of English Literature Moody and Lovett History of English Literature Spalding History of English Literature Taine History of English Literature Warton History of Europe, 4 vols Allison History of France White History of Germany Kohlrausch History of Germany Lewis History of Greece Curtius History of Greece Myers History of Greece Oman History of Greece Smith History of Macon County to 1876 2 cop. Smith History of Modem Europe Lodge History of Modem Europe Russell History of Modem Europe Fyffe History of New England, 2 vols Palfrey History of New York Knickerbocker History of Nineteenth Century Literature Saintsbury History of North American Pinnapeds Allen History of Philosophy Ueberweg History of Rome, 4 vols Mommson History of Roman Literature Cruttwell History of Rome to the Death of Caesar How and Leigh History of the American Nation, 2 vols McLaughlin History of the British Nation, 2 cop. .. Wrong History of the Crusades, 3 vols Michaud History of the Earth and Animated Na- ture Goldsmith History of the French Revolution, 4 vols. Thiers History of the Middle Ages Munro History of the Reformation D’Aubigne History of the Roman Empire Bury History of the Roman Republic Bryans and Hendy History of the United Netherlands, 4 vols. Motley History of the United States Fiske History of the United States Bancroft History of the United States Thomas History of the United States Trent History of the United States of America Schoule History of War Between Germany and France McCabe Holy Roman Empire, The Bryce Homes Without Hands Wood Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Eggleston House of Seven Gables, The Hawthorne Houses of Lancaster and York Gairdner Household Book of Poetry Dana How Western Farmers are Benefitted by Protection Mason Hudibras Butler Hulsean Lectures, The Trench Human Intellect Porter Hypatia Kingsley Iliad of Homer, 2 vols Bryant Iliad of Homer, The.. . Lang, Leaf and Myers Illinois, 2 vols Moses Illinois State Entomologist Forbes Illustrated Flora, 5 vols.. . Britton and Brown Indian Club Exercise Kehoe Inebriety Palmer Injurious and other Insects of New York Lintner Insects at Home Wood Insects Injurious to Vegetation Agassiz Insect Life Comstock Insects of the Garden Packard Insects of the Plant House Packard Insects of the Pond Packard International Geography Mill Introduction to American Literature. Painter Introduction to American Literature (with Notes) Painter introduction to American Literature, 2 cop Pancoast Introduction to American Literature, 4 cop Matthews Introduction to English Literature. .Pancoast Introduction to Entomology Kirby and Spence Introduction to General Biology MacGinley Introduction to Political Economy .Perry Introduction to Robert Browning Corson BOARD OF EDUCATION 67 Introduction to Shakespeare Corson Introduction to the History of Western Europe Robinson Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Cheyney Introduction to the Middle Ages, 3 cop.... '. Emerton Introduction to the Study of Entomology Bruner Introduction to the Study of Biology Nicholson Iowa and Minnesota Owen Irving’s Sketch Book Sprague Irving, Washington, 2 cop Warner Ivanhoe Scott Jackson, Andrew Brown Jackson Andrew Morse Jay, John Pellew Jean Valjean Hugo Jefferson, Thomas Morse Jefferson, Thomas Schoule Jerusalem Delivered Tasso Johnson, Samuel, Life of, 4 vols Boswell Josephine, History of Abbott Journal of the Constitutional Convention Journal of Researches Darwin Jungle-Book, 2 cop Kipling Kathrina Holland Kenilworth Scott Key to North American Birds Coves Kidnapped Stevenson Kingdoms of Nature Dexter King Henry IV Kellogg King Henry V Kellogg King Henry VIII Kellogg King John Kellogg King Lear Kellogg King of the Golden River Ruskin King Richard VII Kellogg Kings of Fortune Houghton Koran, The Sale Kossuth, Life of Louis Headley Landmarks of History Yonge Land of the White Elephant Vincent Last Days of Pompeii Lytton Latin Dictionary Lewis and Short Latin-English Lexicon Leaders of the Reformation Tulloch Leading Facts of English History Montgomery Leading Facts of French History Montgomery Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic : Hamilton Lectures on Modem History Arnold Lectures on the Study of History Smith Lectures to Young Men Beecher Legendary and Mythological Art Clement Legends of Charlemagne Bulfinch Legends of King Arthur and His Court 1 Greene Lessons of Political Economy Champlin Letters of a Traveler Bryant Library of American Literature, 11 vols Stedman and Hutchin Library of the World’s Best Orations.... _ Brewer Life and Growth' of Language Whitney Life of Ancient Greeks Gulicks Life of North American Insects Jaeger Life of Greeks and Romans .Guhl and Koner Life on the Seashore.. Emerton Life Histories of American Insects Weed Light Meyer and Barnard Lighthouses and Airships Adams Lincoln, Abraham, 2 vols Morse Lincoln, Early Life of Abraham Tarbell and Davis Lincoln, Life of Crosby Lincoln Inner Life of Carpenter List of Coleoptera of North America LeConte Literary Selections Literary Studies from Great British Au- thors Morgan Literary Study of the Bible Moulton Little Journey to Germany George Lives Plutarch Lives of Illustrious Men, 3 vols Plutarch Lives of the Queens of England ... Strickland Logic , Jevons Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Higginson Louisiana Purchase Hitchcock Loma Doone Blackmoore Madison, James Gay Making of the Nation Walker Malay Archipelago Wallace Mammals of North America Baird Man’s Place in Nature Huxley Manual for Study of Insects Comstock Manual of Ancient and Modem History Taylor Manual of Classical Literature Fiske Manual of Commerce Brown Manual of English Prose Literature Minto Manual of Geology Dana Manual of Inorganic Chemistry Elliott and Storer Manual of Mineralogy Dana Manual of Mythology, 2 cop Murray Manual of North American Birds.. Ridge way Manual of the Mollusca Woodward Manual of Vertebrated Animals Jordan Manual of Zoology Nicholson Manual of Zoology Tenney Marble Faun, 15 cop Hawthorne Marie Antoinette, History of Abbott Marine Mammals.... Seammon Marshall, John Magruder Mary Queen of Scots Meline Masterpieces of American Literature Masterpieces of British Literature , Different Writers Masterpieces in English Literature ... Sprague Masters in Art, 3 vols Master Virgil Tunison Mediaeval and Modem History Myers Mediaeval Europe, 2 cop Emerton Members and Officers of House of Repre- sentatives Reeve Memorial Address on the Life and Char- acter of A. Lincoln Bancroft Mental Philosophy Upham Merchant of Venice Hudson Merchant of Venice Kellogg Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle Messages and Papers of the Presidents Richardson Methods in the Art of Taxidermy Davie Method of Study in Nature Study.... Agassiz Microscope, The Carpenter Middle Ages, The Myers Middle England, 2 cop Philips 68 GENERAL REPORT Middle Period, The Burgess Mill on the Floss, 2 cop Eliot Milton Pattison Mind in Nature Clark Mineral Resources of the States and Ter- ritories Minnesota Botanical Studies MacMillan Miscellaneous Works Goldsmith Mississippi Valley, Its Physical Geogra- phy Foster Missouri Goeolgical Survey Gallaher Modem Ages, The Myers Modem Atlas Cram Modem British Essayists Jeffrey Modem Hitsorical Atlas Gage Modem Philosophy : Bowen Money and Banking White Money and Mechanism of Exchange. Jevons Monographs of Diptera of N. A Loew Monographs of Diptera of N. A Sacken Monroe, James Gilman Montcalm and Wolfe, 2 vols Parkman Morris, Govemeur Roosevelt Morris, Robert Sumner Mouth-parts of Thysanoptera Garmen Myths of Greece and Rome Guerber Myths and Myth Makers Fisk Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire Napoleon and His Marshals Headley Napoleon Bonaparte, Memoirs of DeBourienne Natural History Swainson Natural History of Birds Jones Natural History of New York DeKay Natural History of New York (Birds) DeKay Natural History of New York (Mammalia) DeKay Natural History of New York (Molluscd and Crustacea) DeKay Natural History of New York (Plates) DeKay Natural History of New York (Reptiles and Amphibia) DeKay Natural History of Plants.. . Kemer and Oliver Natural History of Rocky Mountain Lo- custs Riley Natural History of Selboume White Naturalist’s Voyage Around the World Darwin Naturalist’s Library Gould Natural Philosophy Deschaniel Nestlings of Forest and Marsh Wheelock Newcomes, The Thackeray New Chemistry. 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Hagar BOARD OF EDUCATION. 71 When Patty went to College Webster Wolsey, Cardinal Creighton Wonders of the Deep Schelede Vere Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. .Hawthorne Woodstock Scott Words and their Uses White World Almanac Works, 6 vol Addison Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, complete Works Josephus World in the Middle Ages Koeppen Xerxes the Great, History of Abbott Yesterdays with Authors Fields Yorktown Campaign Johnson Young Folks’„Book of American Explor- ers , Higginson Young Folks’ History of Germany Yonge 72 GENERAL REPORT THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BY M. L. E., CLASS OP 1884. “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’ ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ auld lang syne?” The Alumni association of the Decatur high school was organized April 12, 1878, at a called meeting of the graduates of the high school. Mr. T. E. Brown, at that time principal of the school, was the originator of the movement to form the association. Ten classes had already grad- uated, with a total of nintey-six members. Half this number had grad- uated in the three years previous to 1878, under Mr. Brown’s adminis- tration, during which an enthusiastic school spirit had been aroused. Consequently his call for a meeting of the alumni met with a hearty re- sponse. At this meeting a constitution was adopted and officers elected as follows: President, R. B. Hostetler, ’70; vice president, Harry Dur- fee, ’75; secretary, Theodore Coleman, ’68; treasurer, Mary Johnson, ’73. The officers immediately began plans for a reunion of the old alumni and a reception of the new. The commencement exercises were held on the evening of June 6, at Smith’s opera house, and the renuion the following evening at Powers’ hall. All day Saturday the alumni were busy improvising tables and the alumnae preparing dainties for the banquet; for in those days the luxury of a caterer was never dreamed of. At 8:00 o’clock the guests assembled in the hall when the following program was given: Address, History of the Decatur High School, E. A. Gastman. Oration R. B. Hostetler, ’70. Music — Vocal Duet, Misses Bettie Wingate, '76, and Mary Wise, ’76. Essay written by Miss Cora Johnson, ’75, read by Miss Lucy Erwin, ’75. Poem, Ruth Culver, ’73. Music — Instrumental Duet — Misses Carrie Fearn, ’75, and Lena Henkle, ’73. Then came the banquet followed by these toasts: Our Alma Mater, Albert Summers, ’75. The Board of Education, Dr. W. A. Barnes, president of the Board of Education The Necessity of Moral Influence in Our Schools, Rev. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 73 W. H. Prestley. Our Absent Members, letters read from numerous absent alumni, Miss Dolcid Gates, ’76. Our City Schools, Hon. W. E. Nelson. Our Teachers, Mr. I. E. Brown. The Press, J. R. Mosser. This program, so far as form is concerned, is typical of the programs observed at all 'succeeding reunions up to 1898. Ever since 1879, com- mencement exercises have been held Friday morning and the alumni reupion on the evening of the same day. From ’79 to ’91 the public was invited to the literary and musical entertainment which was given an- nually at the opera house before the banquet. The programs were noted for their excellence, many of the orations and essays being distinguished by a force and eloquence still remembered with pleasure and pride by the older alumni. The following is a complete list of the essays and ora- tions delivered on these occasions: 1879, Address, I. E. Brown; Essay, You in Your Small Corner and I in Mine, Mary Johnson, ’73; 1880, Oration, Education, Albert Summers, ’75; 1881, Essay, Parlez vous Francais? Minnie Parker, ’77; Oration, Unity and Social Inequality, the Strength and Danger of Nations, V. N. Hostetler, ’73; 1882, Oration, Decay, Horace Andrews, ’80; 1884, Oration, The Student as a Citizen, Harry Ehrman, ’79; 1885, Address, Changes of a Quarter of a Century, E. A. Gastman,; 1886, Oration,, The Social Question, Frank Roby, ’81; 1887, Essay, After Seven Years, Lillie Chadsey, ’80; 1888, Oration, Suc- cessful Roads, Charles Denton, ’84. The following short and simple annals mark the progress of alumni poesy: In 1879 a poem was contrib- uted by Ella Usrey, ’78; in 1880 and 1881 by Charles Dennis, ’78; in 1882 by Ruth Culver, ’73; in 1885* by Bering Burrows, ’80. In 1891 the custom of holding public exercises was abandoned. The reunion of 1891 was a notable one in the history of the associ- ation, being the silver anniversary of the first class graduated from the high school. The arrangements for this celebration were the most elab- orate ever made by the alumni, and were carried out with great successs. The reunion of 1895 was unusual since it was held under the auspices of the class of ’95, Louis T. Rainey, president. There was no reunion in ’93, the only year since 1878 in which none was held, Since 1879 there have been no formal banquets followed by toasts, but the reunions have taken the character of informal receptions followed by dancing. A pleasing innovation was made in 1900, when a light comedy was pre- sented by some of our clever amateurs. The program of 1904 and the two years following also included plays given under the direction of Mrs. Albert Gille and presented on the stage of the E. A. Gastman school. Miss Mary E. Lewis, ’87, and Edward B. Hitchcosk, ’01, gained enviable honors by their brilliant work in these plays. Commencement of this year (1907) was a memorable one in that the Superintendent E. A. Gastman on that day retired from office after forty-seven years of continuous service in the public schools of Decatur. 74 GENERAL REPORT Under his administration nearly fifteen hundred students had graduated from the high school. It was fitting, therefore* that the Alumni in their reunion should devote a part of the evening to expressing their appre- ciation of his faithful and effective life work in our schools. There were bright reminiscences and words of good will, genial and hearty assurance of the almost filial bond existing between our veteran leader and the boys and girls who had gone out from under his care offered by the president, J. Bering Burrows, ’80; Miss Elizabeth Smith, ’07; Mrs. E. J. Strader, ’77; Clarence Wait, ’85; Miss Letha Patterson, ’02; Chester A. Smith, ’01, and Mrs. D. C. Corley, ’78. Mr. Gastman, replying to the greetings and congratulations, said in conclusion: “After being connected with the schools here for so long, it is with much sorrow that I lay down the burden and retire to private life. For many years I have felt like a father to the children, big and little , of Decatur; and it is like denying my father- ship to relinquish the work into other hands though I recognize the fact that thqy are most able hands into which I relinquish it, abler perhaps than mine are, now that I am an old man. In closing, let me wish you all God’s peace.” With these valedictory words there went out from among us our oldest and most honored friend. For twenty consecutive years, from 1878 to 1898, a constant feature of the reunions was the after-dinner speeches, graceful, humorous, en- tertaining, with now and then a touching one in memory of an old class mate who had gone to “the undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns.” No one who has had the privilege of enjoying these speeches can help regretting that they have been discontinued. Most of the credit for /this delightful part of the entertainments was due to the brilliant and tactful toastmasters, and the list of symposiarchs given below will perhaps serve to recall to the reminiscent alumnus the ‘'best reunion he ever attended.” A sketch of the reunions would not be complete without mention of the music. Good musicians are numer- ous among the alumni, and good music has v never been lacking. J. Ber- ing Burrows, ’80, was the pioneer in introducing those jolly, rollicking school songs which are the veritable bubblings of the fountain of youth; when his banjo with its “ tinka-tinka-tinka-tinka-tinka-tink” was heard the oldest alumni forgot their years and dignity and all were boys and girls together again. So much, then, for the social and literary chronicles of the associa- tion. That there have been business problems connected with its his- tory, and those at times very sober and knotty ones, the alumni who have served as president can well testify. The finances have frequently been in a critical condition. In May, 1884, the association resorted to the device of giving a May Festival, at which refreshments were served by Mr and MtS. Squeers, Maud Muller, Evangeline and many other noted ladies and gentlemen from the world of fiction. The revenues BOARD OF EDUCATION. 75 derived from this source replenished the empty treasury, and the treasurer that year probably carried a lighter heart and a heavier pocket- book than any treasurer before or since, save one. The notable excep- tion came in 1906, when the treasurer, from the overflowing coffers of that year, presented eighty-five dollars to the high school piano fund. Thus far this is the only public benefaction of a material nature which can be recorded in the annals of the association. In the early days there was a constitution by which the association governed, and a set of records which the secretary kept; but these have disappeared. This constitution required a meeting to be called in April for the purpose of electing officers, but there was always difficulty in securing a quorum. Finally, in 1896, the officers for the ensuing year were elected at the reunion and this plan, being far more satisfactory than the older one, has prevailed ever since. A careful census of the alumni shows that 1477 students, 464 men and 1013 women, have graduated from the Decatur high school, With rare exceptions all have taken up their life work bravely and are doing their work successfully. The talents which their alma mater en- trusted to them have, for the most pJart, gained other talents; and the fifteeen hundred men and women who call themselves alumni of the Deca- tur high school, hold their foster mother in grateful remembrance for the goodly heritage she bestowed upon them. PRESIDENTS. TOASTMASTERS. 1878 R. B. Hostetler, ’70 President. 1879 James Moore, ’78 President. 1880 V. N. Hostetler, ’73 President. 1881 Horace Andrews, ’80...-. 7 V. N. Hostetler, ’73. 1882 Charles A. Ewing ’78 V. N. Hostetler, ’73. 1883 E. W. Heilman, ’79 President. 1884 W. J. Hostetler, ’77 A. T. Summers, ’75. 1885 Wilson M. Bering, ’79 Dora Walston, ’82 1886 Charles Denton, ’84 J. Bering Burrows, ’80. 1887 Harry Bumstead, ’86 Will Wood, ’84. 1888 Luetta Ulrich, ’87 Ralph Templeton, ’85. 1889 Hans T. Westerman, ’86 V. N. Hostetler, ’73. 1890 Clarence A. Wait, ’85 Mrs. V. N. Hostetler, ’77 1891 Frank Hamshfer, ’90 Charles Schroll, ’85. 1892 Lewis E. Coonradt, ’91 James L. Bevans, ’88. 1893 No organization 1894 Charles Bumstead, ’93 Frank L. Evans, ’87. 1895 Louis T. Rainey, ’95 James L. Bevans, ’88. 1896 S. Wilbur Corman, ’94 Mac Crossman, '87. 1897 Frank Roby, ’81 *. Clarence Wait, ’85. 76 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907 1908. GENERAL REPORT PRESIDENTS .James L. Bevans, ’88 .Frank Evans, ’87 .Ben A. Imboden, ’98 .Charles Bumstead, ’93 T. B. Jack, ’91 Paul Robertson, ’00 .John Byrne J . Foster Waltz, ’95 Clifford Spies, ’05 J. Bering Burrows, ’80 .Chester A. Smith, ’01 OFFICERS FOR 1908. President — Chester A. Smith, ’01. First Vice President — Ralph Ivens, ’07. Second Vice President — Sue M. Maris, ’99. Third Vice President — Lucien M. Bullard, ’97. Secretary-Treasurer — Fritz Washburn, ’02. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 77 LIST OF DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES BY CLASSES Note — Where no address appears, Decatur is understood. CLASS OF 1867. (Members 4) Emma Hummell (Garver) Cerro Gordo Rachel Hummell (Bear) Denver, Colo Alice Roberts Emmaretta Williams (Hopkins) CLASS OF 1868 (Members 5) Clara Allison (Imboden) Theodore Coleman Yellow Pine, Ala Ruth Crissey (Cornell) Streator Fannie Johns (Sedgwick) Jennie Newell (Wilson) Died CLASS OF 1869 (Members 6) Frank L. Brooks Hattie Fuller (Krigbaum Carrie Hubbard (Kinney) Katie Jones (Aldrich ) Emma Reeme (Davidson) Sallie Roe (Baird) Died Died New York City Monticello Died CLASS OF 1870 (Members 8) Charles M. Barnes Died Mabel Carpenter (Summers) Los Angeles, Cal Truman S. Crissey.. Rachel E. Cook (Albeitz) Carrie Elson (Clokey) Robert B. Hostetler Minneapolis, Minn Maggie Sollars (Caldwell) Died John L. Vestal Portland, Ore In 1871 no class graduated as the course was changed from three to four years. • Class of 1872 Emma Emmons (Linsted) Etta Foster (Crawford) Sallie Malone Ida Moffit (May) Annie Shepherd (Witt) Alice Stamper (Martin) Class of 1873 (Members 6) Died Dana, Ind Died Died Died (Members 12) Lora E. Anderson (Bohon) Ella E. Coltrin (Smith) Ruth A. Culver (Vestal) Ida E. Coltrin Laura M. Emerson Lena Hinkle (Walters) Virgil N. Hostetler Died Gallop, N. M. Died Died Died Mary Johnson (Brown) Oak Park Ida T. Jones (Hartzel) Denver Sanford Leffingwell San Juacinta, Cal Nellie B. Smith Died Daro E. Waughop (Severance) Hazelton, Kan CLASS OF 1874 (Members 9) Mollie Barnes (Stanton) Maggie Dennis (Cobb) Mary Halstead (Pease) Died Eva Malone Dana, Ind Priscilla Milbum (Smith) Phillipsburg, Mont Annie Smith (Close) Duluth, Minn Abbie Ryan Myrtle Varner (Millizen) Sullivan Jennie Young (Pratt) Chicago CLASS OF 1875 Grace Adams (Birkett) Lilly Babbitt Nellie Comeau (House) Harry Durfee Lora Emerson (Richardson) Carrie Fearn Belle Fulton Minta Fulton Lucy Irwin (Harrington) Cora Johnson (Siefried) Tillie Norman (Bascom) Celia Shupp (Buchanan) Albert T. Summers (Members 13) Springfield Wyandot, Kan Died Kansas City, Mo Died Reading, Pa Denver, Col Georgetown, Col Louisville , Ky Died CLASS OF 1876 (Members 10) Mary Brett (Williams) Cora M. Bonesteel (Hueston) Leona L. Childs, (Stookey) Laura Lindsay Annie McKenzie (Leach) Josie Shea (Baum) Emily Clark (Parker) Docia Gates (Baker) Bettie Wingate (Lindamood) Mary Wise (Burks) CLASS OF 1877 Milford, la Keokuk, la Harristown Died Died Died (Members 23) Laura Adams (Huff) Laura E. Aikin William Barnes Dessie Bowers (Powers) Hattie J. Brown Maggie R. Cloyd Nellie Dnrfee (Jenkins) Annie B. Haskell Will J. Hostetler Emma I. Hughes (Irwin) Nellie O. Krohn Lou Martin (Strader) Laura B. Martin W. Clay McCune Minnie A. Parker (Hostetler) Annie E. Russell (White) Sarah Sanderson (Wilson) . Wilhelmina Shultz Fannie S. Smith (Gray) Lulu Sollars, (Wheelock) Sallie Turner (Craig) Alice S. Tyler George A. Wingate Lynn. Mass Springfield Chicago Evanston Died Died Perry, Ok Knoxville, Tenn Pana Chicago St. Paul, Kan Winnipeg, Man Kenney Des Moines, la Eldorado, Kan 78 GENERAL REPORT (Members 19) Died Sedalia, Mo CLASS OF 1878 Heston I. Baldwin Ella Bear Ella Boyer Charles A. Ewing Laura Fulton, (Corley) Alida R. Handy West Bay City, Mich Gussie Hill Died James T. Moore Laura Montgomery Maggie Mosser (Robinson) Died Sarah Bristow Died Mary Connor (Rearich) Eldorado, Kan Charles H. Dennis Chicago Abbie Pratt Nellie Pratt (Tucker) Clara E. Stare Carrie Spangler (Daniels) Died John H. Ullrich Ella G. Usrey CLASS OF 1879 (Members 15) Meta E. Batteiger (Dodson) Spokane Falls Wilson M. Bering Iola Boyd (Baker) Mishawaka, Ind Sallie Brand (Leffingwell) San .Juacinta, Cal Lillie Dermitt (Anheier) Oswego, Kan Harry Ehrman Edward W. Heilman Portland, Ore Cora B. King (Roach) W. H. Knapp Chicago Lizzie E. Lukens Riverside Lizzie A. Murphy Chicago Alverda L. Scott (Foster) Annie E. Tuttle (Phelps) Ansonia, Conn Frances L. Taylor Cincinnati, Ohio Minnie S. Brown Died CLASS OF 1880 (Members 22) Horace Andrews Norwalk, O J. Bering Burrows Bertha M. Barnwell S. Lillian Chadsey Anna Farrel (Page) Henry E. Gipson Chicago Mary W. Hardy (Morehouse) Bertha Hendricks Denver Notie M. Large (Bartholomew)Portland, Ore Emma T. Martlett (Leavitt) Los Angeles James H. Martin Minneapolis Beckie A. McRoberts (Bradfield) Louise C. Meister (Brohel) Pana Viola Moore Died Cyrus T. Randolph Chicago Mary E. Robbins (Ryder) Minnie E. Shelley (Rice) Rella Shockley (Hurst) Adele Shellabar^er (Hillman) Quincy Jessie Stephens (Page) Peoria Frank Wells Hattie B. Hardy (Johns) CLASS OF 1881 A. V. Andrews Eva M. Bixby Lillie Brown (Murphy) Nettie M. Hall James M. Roberts, Frank C. Roby Gertrude Smith (Herff) San Jose, Cal Estelle Spencer New York City Walter K. Hedges St. Joseph. Mo Mary A. Lukens (Collins) Riverside, Cal Charles R. Murphy (Members 17) Salt Lake City Died Ida M. McCormick (Klett) Ada E. Pratt (Baldwin) Jessie Spencer Angie T. Sweeney Perley W. Taylor Died Annie Tinkler (Ward) Jacksonville Mamie T. Wood (Armstrong) CLASS OF 1882 Lulu Bishop (Cunningham) Hattie Coleman (Hastie) Minnie A. Dill Harry T. Hays Minneapolis Harriet Howells California Eddie Hoy Springfield Lillian Irwin (Gingrich) Rock Island Clarence B. McClelland Died Mary Nebinger (Stadelman) Pittsburg, Pa Annie M. Prather (VanRiper) St. Louis Robert R. Rogan Katherine Search Robert D. Stewart Forsythe Clara Stommell Jennie Troutman (Albert) Dora Walston (Johnson) Chicago Beulah Whitsit Chicago CLASS OF 1883 (Members 22) Hattie A. Abbott (Brancher) Danville Everett J. Brown Maria Buckingham Della Dimmitt Jacksonville Lottie E. Eicholtz (Aikin) Chicago Blanch Gasaway (Matthews) Indianapolis Elizabeth Gastman (Powell) Seattle, Wash D. W. Heilman Portland, Ore Annie Henkle (McClelland) Ida Hockingberry Alice M. Imboden (Riggs) Annie Litzinberger (Johnson) Laura Mahannah Sherman McClelland Amanda Pickerell (Cruthers) Auburn Park Lewis Race Arthur Race Christine Sanderson (Conover) Maroa Lafayette Shelley Matt R. Smith Kansas City, Mo Fritz Westerman Lincoln Max Westerman Lincoln (Members 18) Norwalk O Chicago Anaconda, Mont CLASS OF 1884 Minnie T. Bachman (Mueller) Minnie Bigelow (Bailey) Ada Boyd (Meckalenburg) Florence Brand (Higgins) Mary Cloyd Charles C. Denton Clara E. Eyman (Walker) Arthur Flood Bessie E. Green Annie Griswold Effie Hanes (Flood) Mellie Housum (Meyers) Ella Litzenberger Annie Litterer Grace Lukens (Bixby) John Magee Lillie C. Dimmitt Ellen T. Ditzler (Metcalf) Laura Ebert (Connard) Fannie B. Ehrman (Marshall) Mary L. English Mattie Evans (Wiley) (Members 31) Auburn, N. Y. California Chicago Seattle, Wash Chicago Chicago Clinton Valle Vista. Cal Chicago Jacksonville Washington BOARD&OE EDUCATION. 79 Margaret McGorray (Schlaudeman) Calif Eva Nichols Denver Emma Petsch William Quinlan Chicago Cora Renshaw (Kellar) Lou Russell (Cruze) Knoxville, Tenn Mattie Williams (Thompson) Austin Blanch Wilson (Morrell) Died Will Wood CLASS OF 1885 Lilly Abbott (Brancher) Myrtle Abbott Marian Abel (Wait) Mary B. Aikin Edgar O. Bradley Fred A. Brown Myra A. Carmany M. Bess Dillon (Reed) Elmer E. Dresbach Marne L. Freeman (Wilmeth) Maye M. Gannon (Duncan) Eliza L. Hall Otho R. Hopson Lucy T. Keeler (Hostetler) Alma A. Koehler (Gilbert) Nettie S. Lindsay Fred E. Murphy Mary Lois Roby (Brown) Charles Schroll Jeanette Sollars (Crozier) Lottie E. Stare (Fritz) Ralph Templeton Augusta Westerman (Schroll) Clarence Wait Mollie Williams (Muzzy) Myrtle VanRiper (Keough) St. Eva Caldwell (Bradley) Ida Kain (Martin) CLASS OF 1886 (Members 28) Died Danville Lincoln, Neb Chicago Died Idaho LaPlace Died Macon Chicago St. Louis Chicago Minneapolis New York Paul Pk., Mm Minneapolis (Members 19) Leah Lou Bear, Battle Creek, Mich Fred K. Bowman Chicago Harry A. Bumstead New Haven, Conn Jennie Cariens (Cray croft) David J. Cloyd Aqua Caliente, Mex Minnie E. Davis (Strader) Howard Diller Emily S. Hamsher (Ditto) Leo Heilbrun Carrie L. Johnson (Stecher) Died Thomas J. McReynolds The Square, Ky Virginia N. Odor (Rickev) Cleveland Nettie C. Pritchett Florence Rainey (Donnelly) Cripple Creek, Col Nell Scroeder (Dunston) Kate Sherrick (Huff) H. Theodore Westerman St. Louis Cora Whitmer (McNabb) Laura Gertrude Whitsit (Page) Chicago CLASS OF 1887 (Members 32) Kate G. Aikin (Watson) * Clinton Fannie Crossman Mac Crossman Sophia M. Drobisch Will L. Dunn Asheville, N. C. Addie Ebert (Mueller) Lizzie Ebert (Lytle) Lulu R. Elwood Frank L. Evans Eve Hammer (Clark) Lafayette, Ind Lillian Haines (Stoutenborough) Maroa Alice Hiser (Shixner) Waco, Tex Nellie Hubbard (Priest) John L. Keister Mary E. Lewis Nora A. Radcliff (Starr) Bertha T. Randall John B. Robinson Jonathan Rogan Virginia Smith (Hardy) Belle Steele (Donahue) Edwin L. Stevens, * Adele Lower (Nuneville) Mary A. Magee Ella C. McRoberts (Kinhart) John W. Thomas Luetta Ullrich (Bumstead) Anna Wentz (Irvin) Alberta B. Whitmer (Byrne) Emma R. Weigand Margaret Williams (Cake) James A. Winslow Died Pittsburg Des Moines Chicago Athens New Haven Palmer, Mass Chicago Died Chicago Los Angeles Havana, Cuba Argenta Chicago Argenta Died Kansas City, Mo Indianapolis Mass CLASS OF 1888 (Members 38) Maud M. Aikin Clifford G. Arthur Olive M. Bear William A. Bentley Allen G. Bevans James L Bevans William J. Chenoweth Mary O. Colby (Denison) Vadian W. Conklin Charles A. Denison Sheridan W. Ehrman John W. Eichinger George F. Fruit Lela A. Gladish M. Josephine Gasaway (Jones) Clara E. Reeme (Widick) Harry E. Hamsher Josephine Harwood (Conant) Summerville, Charles T. Hubbard Lizzie I Hughes (Winter) Celeste Hoffman Lucinda Johnson (Wheeler) Alton May H. Keethes (Freudenberg) 5818 24th Ave., N. W., Seattle, Wash Harry E. Kizer William B. Knoble Elizabeth Knieper (Leavenworth) Jacksonville Jacob Latham Robert B. Lytle Died Florence J. Pitts (Shellabarger) Salina, Kan Frank E. Prestley Aqua Caliente, Mex Annie E. Rainey (Stafford) James Spence Gertrude Shorb (Martin) Silas E. Snyder Jessie R. Steele (Wangelin) Elmer Towl Jesse Wiswell Victoria Wallace (Arthur) CLASS OF 1889 Harley Armstrong 587 Myrtle St. Ella Antrim, Millie P. Batchelder (Cowen) Beatrice Bowman Minnie Brockway Nita Clark Elizabeth Colladay Wilbur W. Dawson Mabel Durfee (Powers) Ithaca, N. Y. Jamestown Belleville Rantoul Mt. Vernon Onarga (Members 31) Portland, Ore Died Warrensburg Died Chicago 80 GENERAL REPORT Pittsburg Chicago St. Louis Wilson Freeman J. Christie Gannon Harry E. Haines Eugenia Harris (Beach) Annie W. Hayden (Barnett) Clara E. Hoffman Frank L. Johnson Fannie T. Locher George Lytle Christina McKenzie (Witt) ^t. Joseph, Mich Harry Metz Eva May Murphy (Steams) Desdemona Millikin (Bevans) Havana N. Grace Pemwell Ada Pritchett (Bean) Bloomington Kilbum H. Roby Thaddeus Schroeder Died Wesley W. Shelley Elizabeth Sherrick Julius T. Westerman New York Charles M. Wood Maroa Alice Judson (Pringle) Chicago CLASS OF 1890 (Members 36) Walter K. Adams Charles W. Armstrong Mattie Babcock (Webb) Mae C. Brown (Shoemaker) Moberly, Mo Emma M. Condell Grace L. Dills Died Edwin K. Dinges Maud Espey Died Emma V. Falconer Hattie Falconer (Molesworth) Guthrie, Okla George M. Hart St. Louis Kathleen K. Harwood (Mallery) Died Frank Hamsher St. Louis Grace Hutchinson (Waggoner) ' Edgar E. Jack Dixon H. Kautz Tacoma Jessie W. Lockett Edith Lytle (Smith) Allegheny City Jessie P. McKenzie (Shreves) Little Rock, Ark Mary J. Matthews Lolo Montgomery (Perry) Dallas, Tex Albert E. Mowry Chicago Herbert E. Nims Elizabteh Park (Beggs) Chicago Fallis Radcliff (Miller) Alice Robinson (Pitner) Leona Sanderlin (Smallwood) Nellie Schroll (Clark) Chicago Mary B. Simon (Whiting) Mary M. Stultz (S inner) Asa C. Somerville Decroit Arthur Wait Will L. Westerman Madison, Wis Clara A. Weyl Charles C. Wilson Died Lena Ullrich (Ewing) Bloomington CLASS OF 1891 (Members 33) Will J. Armstrong Anna W. Badenhausen Pauline Bentley (Adams) Chicago Gretchen Boyer (Brant) Edna M. Bunn Mary C. Clary Lewis E. Coonradt Hattie Crossman (Gordon) Died M. Maude Dill Arthur S. Dumont Detroit Benjamin Freeman Emma F. Harpstrite Effie Harris (Lake) Champaign Thomas B. Jack Milton Johnson, Jr Jennie Leiby (McMullen) S. Minneapolis Elizabeth L. Matthews (Bachman) Elizaeth Mills (Dawson) Kate Montgomery (Sullivan) Luther Roby Peoria John C. Shea Katherine Simon (Pennington) Mabel C. Smick Chicago Bertha Spencer (Minor) Alonzo H. Tuttle ' Columbus, O Mary Tuttle (McFarland) Died Cornelia B. Underwood Jesse E. Whitsitt New York Mabel E. Wilson Mary M.Wood (Forerestr) Margaret ville, N. Y. Wilson B. Woodruff Frances M. Woodruff Clara N. Hawkes CLASS OF 1892 (Members 24) Mary Batchelder (Watson) Warrensburg Hugh Bone Crowley, La W. Winn Bramble St. Louis Donna Buckingham (Barnes)- Georgia Clendenen (Mildenberger) Stella Cowgill (Robinson) Annie E. Cool (Parks) Lake Linden, Mich Myrtle M. Garver Died Floyd A. Gastman Died Nettie Haag (McIntyre) Butte, Mont Lucy Kretzer (Davis) Myrtle V. Lyon (Jenks) Chicago Henrietta Metz Alice Mead Nellie Michl (Graybill) Elvira E. Mark John Miller Kate Quinlan Ira N. T. Roberts Gertrude Wayne (Kemper) Ida Webster (Schultze) College Corner, O Laura White Died Sarah Wilson (Mills) Charles D. Hov CLASS OF 1893 (Members 29) Chicago Denver Died Chicago Della Arthur (Hedges) Jeanette M. Bills (Heil) Morton C. Blythe i Stella A. Brooks M. Emma Clark Herbert W. Corman Eva Dills (Wilcox) Sue A. Dimock Maude Felton (Brockton) Dessie Garver (Fickess) Floy Gasaway (Niles) Mishawaka, Ind Anna M. Halmbacher (Butzbach) Died Stella E. Hamilton (Mallory) Joseph Hartley Herbert Howes Aldyth Irwin Chicago Mary Lewis (Miller) Jennie Lyons (Martin) Fannie G. Lyons Samuel Magee Kankakee Anna Mead Clara E. Mitchell (Lehman) Oakland, Cal Virginia Peake (Downing) BOARD OF EDUCATION. 81 L. Madeline Roberts Rosa B. Ruckle Eunice Scott (Chandler) Jessie R. Smith Waynes ville, Ind Charles Bumstead Monticello Anna S. Vetterliet CLASS OF 1894 (Members 49) Charles Auer Cholutera, Honduras Jennie Baldridge (Johnson) Edith B earner Lulu M. Beall (Hansel) Fannie A. Bivans Byron E. Bramble. Champaign Ella L. Buchert William Buchanan Nashville, Tenn Fred R. Cassell Marguerite Chandler Hattie Childs Annie R. Cloyd Elizabeth Condell Chicago Wilbur Corman New York Archer T. Davis Byrd A. Dinges Warren T. Durfee Fred C. Depew Died Eva N. Dunham Georgia Elliott (Robinson) Oklahoma City William Fitzpatrick Charlotte Hawes (Coonradt) James F. Hall Edna Hendricks (Hart) St. Louis Amy A. Hoffman California Ada M. Hohen (Colladay) Atlanta, Ga Pauline Johnson XAugustine) Ernest B. Lytle New Haven Florence L. Lyon Chicago Ida M. Lewis Jessie Leforgee (McCoy) Philadelphia Donnie May (Wheeler) Leonard Mitchell Chicago Jessie A. Montgomery Nellie Pratt' (Vance) Kankakee Thomas W. Pitner Carrie A. Record Died Max C. Ruehl Chicago Laura Shaffer (Morrison) Sallie Shaffer Fred Schroll Maud Stoy (Klee) Lida Sawyer (Hayes) Rosa Voelcker Mabel A. Wayne Louise Gastman (Goben) Bement Violet Bourne CLASS OF 1895 (Members 76) Fannie S. Askins Clara M. Becker Bering E. Braden Maude E. Brooks Edwin Buckmaster Mabel Carson (Lipscomb) Edna Childs Harry Colladay William H. Coonradt Jessie R. Darling (Hooper) St. Louis Mary Davis (McBride) Cecil L. Davidson Marinana Deverell Alvah H. Diehl Mary L. Dorrell (Wilson) Margaret Downing Mollie M. Drobisch Tillie M. Entler (Tullis) Maud Evans (Stewart) Harriet M. Famer (Barby) Jessie Felton (Britton) LeRoy Caroline E. Foulke Nellie B. File George S. Foster Mary Fitzpatrick (Stork) Stonington Ethel Greene (Beatty) James A. Grubbs Ada Haines (Stoner) E. K. Hampton Mt. Pulaski Clara E. Harkness (Reubsamen) Paul T. Hawes Florence Hatch (Armstrong) Ruth C. Hoffman Louie Grace Hott Hugh Housum Luther A. Howes Cora Hutsinpiller (Wood) Plattsburg, N. Y. Sarah M. Imboden Cecil M. Jack Marie Jenison (Vaughan) Springfield, Mo Ada M. Johnson Alva M. Johnson James D. Johnson Maude L. Kilgore Lewis Isaac Kirby Oreana Lida C. Martin Cora O. Martin Elizabeth McNeil (Barr) Harriet B. Martin Lida Montgomery (Stafford) L. Eva Meyers Nellie G. Moore Mary E. Moore (Ochiltree) Lena Quinlan Louis T. Rainey Schenectady, N. Y. Mary R. Ramsey (Wells) Lena Carrie I. Roberts Anne Roby (Vincent) Ft. Dodge, la Mabel R. Shimer (Cassell) Louise B. Simon Nonette Stare (Hovey) Los Angeles Pearl Homes Scott Milwaukee Baldwin Starr Amanda Trainer (Mann) Washington, D. C. Harry Turner, Orchard Farm, Mo Robert P. Vail Jessie M. Wade (Peck) Myrtie Wheeler Ida M. White (Gay) Guy W. Williams J. Foster T. Waltz Irene Wood Ardie L. Wood (Righter) Bessie I. Young Marian L. Dills Nellie Wilhelmy (Pease) CLASS OF 1896 (Members 79) Celia Arthur Jennie G. Badenhausen Nellie Batchelder (Brown) Warrensburg Laura E. Berry Adelia N. Bishop Mary Bivans (Bramble) Champaign Alma May Brown Willis Boggess Manila, Isle of Luzon John A. Brockway, Jr Frederick W. Church Toledo, O Howard G. Cloyd Walter E. Colladay Charles Dean Cool 82 GENERAL REPORT Philadelphia Durand, Mich Terre Haute Peoria St. Louis Ralph Curtis Norma Dawson Frank S. Dixon Charles Arthur Dixon George W. Dunston Grace Ebel Frank LeRoy Elliott Winnifred Elliot (Drennan) Arthur Clarence Erwin Herbert Elroy Fell Stanton Clark Fields Challis H. Gasaway Ethel Gordon Edna Graves Griswold Grovnoir Hane Hugh J. Hill George Raymond Howenstine Franklin J. Howes Salt Lake City, Colo, Josephine Hoy (Lathrop) Maud A. Hughes Bonnie Hutsinpiller (Coughlin) Estelle Jenkins (Custer) Chicago Laura Jenkins (Rigey) Fresno, Cal Carolyn King James Arthur Keith John W. Kinney Died Razella LaMar Chicago Pearl Lane Tuscola Birdie Olive Lanham Dora K. Longenecker Mabel Lord Nellie H. Love Ada E. Magee (Suleeba) Kansas City Florence McBride (Walker) Fanny Merris (Daggett) Macon Fred E. Mann Washington, D. C Charles E. Medford John Alvah Myers Chicago May Olivia Miller Jeanie Margaret Muir Grace Anna Munson Bolder, Colo Anna A dele Neiman Died Clara C. Niedermeyer James Benj. Parish Harristown Arthur B. Pease Myra E. Plummer Chicago Edgar A. Quinlan Sadie Rixse Bertha J. Roddy (Lampkin) William J. Rothfuss Ethel Scovill (Carpenter) Willis Bion Shirey Lovington Mary Jessie Stevenson Lillian M. Stout Chicago Mary Tolladay (Starr) Laura Tullis (Derrickson) St. Louis Ella Vermillion (Meyers) James Blair Vigus Died John J. Voelcker Grace Walker (Yohe) Margaret Alice Wood (Dinges) Arthur Lewis Aikin Champaign Benjamin C. Bachrach Nina Buckfnaster (Waltz) Katherine Crankshaw Gus H. Johnson CLASS OF 1897 (Members 85) May Allison Sadie C. Athons (Atherton) El Paso Rose Bachrach Emma Rosalie Bean Macon Mary Adele Blackstone Josephine Elizabeth Bold (Fife) Indianapolis Died Mexico City Died Died Gussie Bone (Johnson) Abner Brintlinger Roy H. Brown Lucien W. Bullard Ira W. Clokey Sidney Covington Ralph Earl Cruzan Frances DeCourcey (McDonald) Florence P. Donahoe Jeanette Drake Alice W. Drobisch Madge Fenton (West) Eva Myrtle Flint (Johnson) Clara C. French (Dresbach) Warrensburg Forrest File Harry Garver Ira Garver H. Allen Gleason Champaign Nora L. Graham Ina C. Graham . Mary Greene (Lowe) ' Mollie E. Grubel Minnie A. Halmbacher (Geneess) Died Benjamin T. Hoffman Lulu B. Hoyland M. Josephine Kerr Nell Keeler (Brown) William Bertrand Kennedy Lillian King (Doane) Guy W. Lipscomb G. Hortense Lytle (Heiby) Bessie Lutz (In\boden) Eva Rilla Major Robert U. Maffit Notie Merriweather (Kent) California Laura A. McNeil Mary M. Miller Ralph G. Mills Walter H. Mills Edith F. Montgomery Emma Mutherbaugh (Pitner) Benson A. Myers New York Frederick D. Niedermeyer Jessica N. Nichols Bernice Oakes George R. Oakes G. Edgar Odor Myrtle Angela Owen Roy P. Owen Russell C. Packard Detroit Clara E. Phillips (Watts) Monticello Alfred Platt Ada Rainey (Wallace) Charles F. Record Etta M. Ruddock Bessie Sanner (Clark) Clara Sawyer (Foster) Robert C. Schudel Lida Smetters (Westerman) Argenta Elizabeth B. Spalding Chicago Charles Moore Steele Chicago Marie Steinbach Mary C. Sterrett Henry C. Stevens Chicago Litta Tobey Bryant E. Vail Chicago Josephine Wagoner (Baird) Maud B. Wallace Lela A. Warwick Kansas City Sylvester Wilhelmy Estelle Verne Williams Denver Wayne C. Williams Cordelia Williams (Downing) BOARD OF EDUCATION. 83 St. Louis Paris Chicago (Members 55) Toledo Pasadena, Cal Leavenworth, Kan Chicago Harriet Weimar (Wood) Edna M. Woodford Winfred N. ConWay Ira B. Hoy Walter Irwin Ina Lydia Kincaid CLASS OF 1898 Ethel B. Ashmore Lelah Ayres (Lipscomb) Sada Beadles (Burke) Alice Be vans (Coolbaugh) Nannie Beamer Jennie Lucile Bonebrake Elmer O. Brintlinger Jessica Ellen Carr John R. Clary Helen Fayette Conover (Musser) Mary J. Clark Frank David Collins Sallie Mabel Coleman (Cripe) Olive May Casner Rice Ervin DeGroat Lucy J. Durfee Gertrude E. Dillehunt Ruthe Deetz (Ward) Leota DeHart M. Golden Danely (Slaughter) Myrtle Ethridge Daisy M. Fletcher George N. Gouy M. Adelaide Gaslon Grace Griswold Edith Adele Hunsley Mary Harry (Marquam) Maud Heminger (Wallace) Benjamin A. Imboden Arthur L. Jeffers Ed H. Jeffers Elizabeth Dills (Mann) Lee I. Knight Sarah E. King Olive O. Kunkle Ida M. Loring Alvah W. Long Margaret Landis (Keith) Clyde M. Leach Noy O. Montgomery (Nicholson) James Montgomery Albert Mann Jessie Merriweather (Pluck) Margaret P. Murrell Charlotte B. Nelson (Jack) Otto G. Prather Lillian M. Post Margaret Gertrude Phillips (DeLameter) Chicago Ethel Quinlan M. Edna Stuart (Kenney) Elizabeth R. Towl Colorado Springs Charles Edward Vermillion Jesse L. Wikoff Edith M. Wallace Minneapolis Buck Weems Denver CLASS OF 1899 (Members 70) Edwin Adamson Edgar L. Auer Clara Allison Minnie A. Brown Died Louise M. Bold Indianapolis Marie Maud Bailey * Lee Boland Ernest Bear ' Bearsdale Casner Paris St. Louis Denver Chicago Crowley, La Died Chicago James Herbert Bowdle Bement Lillie E. Baldridge Roy J. Blackburn Katheryn Amelia Burke Grace Beadles (McHose) Jesse LeRoy Conel Lynn Watson Clark Ella Cecelia Clarkson Died Della L. Dixon Edith Christine Carter (Bradshaw) Joliet Charles A. Ewing Bessie M. Etheridge Clyde M. Frazier Nora Vivian Greene Died J. Fred Grout Gioga Daghiar Gaston Cerro Gordo Desdemona Hamsher (Vigus) Daniel P. Housum Died Elizabeth L. Hawthorne LaPlace Samuel G. Heilbrtm Gertrude Anna Hott (Myers) Lura File (Rice) Bloomington Grace M. Hayes Marie B. Heinz Mabel A. Knight Crowley, La Myrtle Maud Kell Catherine E. Fitzpatrick Mabel H. Laughlin (Matthews) California Mattie E. Laughlin China Raymond H. Leonard Louise Merritts Sue Maris (Woodland) Seattle Cecil G. McCollom Detroit, Mich Mary E. Mills Zella McAllister Banus H. Prater Lucy W. Penhallegon Anna Mabel Phillips (Freeman) Marie Powers (Tureman) Kansas City, Mo Mary Ethel Priest Indianapolis Harold Ruehl Grace O. Record (Flint) Roy W. Sanner Marguerite Stauffer Walter F. Smock Died Sallie R. Thomas Susie Tucker (Jones) Springfield Bertha Troutman John A. Wolfer Maud A. Welfley Edith Mae Hanford Chicago Maurice Guy Williams Clara Mae White Luella Esther Wheeler Bess Nell Young Sadie L. Skelley Harry Jones James H. Durfee, Jr. Irene Sikes (Smith) Leslie Maffit (Weimeyer) Edith O. Foster Ada E. Lindsay t CLASS OF 1900 (Members 84) Florence Abel (Coughlin) Toledo, O Edna Alexander (Fletcher) Clara Ainsworth George I. Anthony Helen Louise Bachrach Volney Barber Harristown Martha Batchelder Warrensburg George Beatty Nellie Boutwell Nellie E. Bouser 84 GENERAL REPORT Myrtle Llew Ella Bowman Oakley Earl Braden Jessie Brown (Brintlinger) Bess Burkam Bearsdale Fay W. Burks Ralph M. Carter Lloyd A. Chenoweth Edith Hazel Catlin Mabel A. Clarkson Died Lucy Cloyd Delos Cozad - Daisy J. Coover Kathrina Disbrow (Clatterbuck) Randolph, Neb Ethel Drinkall Died Anna Mae Dunnigan Della Mae Eaton Mabel Agnes Eberly Jessie Irene Fell Alma E. Foster George Ena Farmer Sarah E. Fitzpatrick Julia Gasaway (Kenney) Pearl Gebhart Edward A. Grubel Leona Harkrader (Persinger) Harry H, H annum Bertha Heminger (Cobb) St. Louis Lucile Hickisch Eve M. Hoffman Died Mabel Howenstine Ethel Hoyland Lulu Hughes Leta Hughey Patricia Maria Hunt Grace Johnson Florence Jones (Summers) Springfield Kittie Kincaid Frances Kirk Mary Laughlin (Miller) El Paso, 111 Corinne Leach Frank M. Lindsay Mabel Logan Amy Ida Mann Minerva Merker Aileen McNumey Mabel Alice Muthersbaugh Clarence C. Neiman Estelle E. Nichols L. Aldridge Nichols Rollin B. Pease Jessie Penhallegon Celia J. Post Pansy Blossom Priest Paul F. Robertson Mabel Claire Scanlon Geneva M. Sikes Mae M. Smeltzer William P. Stevenson Jessie Lucretia Swette Marshall C. Stookey Esther Louise Thayer Helen Florence Stookey Arthur VanGuilder John L. Waddell Fao Wait J. Henry Wamecke Moses A. Watkins Carrie Louise White M. Margaret Wiefel L. Irene Wiefel Lucy Lavina Williams Bessie Belle Wilson Louise Wnght Lelia Pauline Hardy CLASS OF 1901 (Members 92) Celeste Abel Goldie Atlass Mae Badenhausen Alice G. Baker Ralph C. Braddock Albert N. Beadles Ethel Baldwin (Foote) St. Louis Mae F. Boland Zella Rice Burks (Waddell) New York Charlotte Brinkmeyer Alda H. Bom Estelle Esther Bryant Will Carleton Cash John Collier Calhoun Roy M. Cope Austin Flint Collins Nellie M. Crockett Julia Curran Ada F. DeHart June Dempster Died Frank E. Dietz Robert Carl Doake Harold F. Enlows Emma B. Ewing Josephine Epler (McNier) Freda Jewel Foster Lillian E. Friend Bertha Edmundson (Lovell) Crowley, La Beatrice Elliott (Lindsay) Died Bertha Mae Garver (Davidson) Laura Naomie Gouge (Cottle) Neta Hannum Antoinette M. Henry Chester W. Hathaway Edward B. Hitchcock Grace Hobson Walter House Ralph William Hubert Nena Imboden (Anderson) Ravenswood Ella Estelle Johnson Arthur Jones Louis Jones Charles W. Keyes Frank Kincaid Gertrude B. Knotts (Flood) Martha Kresin Myrtle T. McGowan (Henry) Denver Col Norman McCollom Lola E. Mason Lucius Mitchell Trenna June Miller Elizabeth G. McKenzie Hattie E. Moore Harry C. Morgan Florence J. McNiel Robert R. Munsie Grace Naftel Florence Nickens George T. Owens Charles Walter Padgitt Fred O. Pahmeyer Roy Cliff ord Parrish Nellie E. Painter Susie Peters Grace Pope (Gulick) Bessie Ralston Minnie Redmon Chester A. Smith Mary Theresa Smith James G. -Sheen Died Iva M. Still Macon Cisco Harristown Harristown Warrensburg BOARD OF EDUCATION. 85 Anna C Stout Mabel E. Stout Litta M. Sine (Freeman) Augusta R. Scott Leah M. Seiberling Lloyd J. Sweeney Died Fred Tolladay Ruth Valentine (Johnson) Nellie F. Warren Frances Effie Wayne (Parrish) Myra Belle Wallace (Bowen) Orville Wilhelmy Jennie Fay Wikoff (VanHall) Sybil L. Williams Maud Wilking (Hoover) Emma Wittlinger Edgar Witzeman Jennie Pearl Wohlfarth Nellie Lura Wortham Nellie H. Wright Claud Zimmerly CLASS OF 1902 (Members 92) Hildred Arthur Clara Martin Baker Walter Neil Baker A. Linn Bear Linetta M. Bear g obert V. Benton rville Harry Billington Charles Black Myrtle A. Boone Carroll Botts Lucile Carter Ethel Chambers Guy M. Chenoweth Grace Childs (Kramer) Ehrma Cloyd Streator Marquis Connard Curtis Connard Margaretta Connaghan Orville L. Cross Robert L. Church Sadie DeLashmutt Lela Eyman Lulu Eyman Henry G. French Vera Glenn Fenton Zilla H. Finnell Pearl Fribourg Ernest J. Galbraith Richard Garland Lee E. Gilbert Nellie P. Glessner Ada D. Gouge May Gouy William Charles Grout Claude E. Guy ant Palmer Harry Ernest L. G. Heyne Sylva Mae Hinton Jessie Hott Lela Grace Hopkins Guy W. Hill Raymond C. Hill Charles Perdival House ames B. Howenstine va M. Hubbard Eda Augusta Jacobson Ollie James Ethel May Jay Sidney F. Keeler Effie Belle Keller Elmer B. Keusink Alice King (Caldwell) Clinton Elizabeth Kirk Hoberta I. Knowlton Don R. A. Lehman Jessie F. Litchtenberger Ethel Lilyan Lindsley Earl A. Mann Carrie Metz Harry Floyd Midkiff Opal C. Miller Judith B. Mills Lillian Montgomery Bessie Iona Murrell. Marguerite Ethel Oakes Letha Patterson Daisy V. Payne Clara E. Phillips Lena A. Pritchett Ella Pritchett Jessie G. Reed Claribelle Richardson Ida Angeline Robbins Eugene Clifton Robertson Ralph T. Roney Bertha M. Rubicam Alice M. Ruddock Alice May Rupp Ray G. Sawyer Amelia Screeton Mabel Schutz Frank H. Stewart D. Fred Strobe] Grace Lillian Stuart Mabel Thatcher Harry VanGilder Wilkie Logan Waddell Edith Willard Fritz LeRoy Washburn Leonard E. Wise Mabel Richmond Edith May Rodgers CLASS OF 1903 (Members 71) Stella Allen Pearl R. Ammann Sidney Louis Bachrach Frank E. Binkley Edgar Bachrach Orpha B. Bear Bonnie Blackburn Ada J. Bills Frank Elizabeth Betzer (Hammer) Austa E. Brintlinger (Keyes) Mabel C. Brightbill John Byrne Chispa L. Chappelow Virginia Cloyd Harry B. Crea Linnie B. Devore Jennie S. Dashiell Ida O. Diller Lulalou DeGroat Maud Jeanette Earnest Harold A. Elliott John Evans Eugenia Ewing Mabel Fletcher Georgia S. Faith Clifford J. Gandy Pearl Garrett Mabel Gaddis Lelah Garver Olive May Gott Guy R. Harrison 6 GENERAL REPORT Myrtle M. Hatfield Irene L. Houck Pearl Huflaker Blanch O. Head Elva Inez Hartley Clair E. Hutchin Constance Ice Helen A. Jameson Roy G. Johnson Margaret E. Kelley Hazel King (Lanham) Sylvia Lee Lawrence Mary Isabelle Legg Jessie Leon Ruth May Lanham Hallie May Miller Edna C. McClelland Georgette Morgan Lillie Maud Nichols Josephine Estelle Nickens Frances C. Nye Harristown Jessie S. Montgomery Lillian May Quimby Claremont, N. H Pearl Record Hallie Rugh Fred L. Riggin Louis R. Ryan R. Zink Sanders Florence Scott Walter J. Schulz Mabel E. Thom Katherine Troutman Edith West Frank Walker William A. Witzeman Samuella Young St. Louis Madge A. Young St. Louis Charles Richard Yates Otto R. Stahl William M. Stivers CLASS OF 1904 (Members 48) Deborah C. Akers Erma C. Anderson Fred S. Benton Forsythe Helen Adelia Bishop Irene Lois Chandler Arthur F. Connard Nellie Connard Bertha I. Deetz Richard Dillehunt Elizabeth Elder , Bertha E. Eaton Frances E. Fell Grace E. Fisher Walter D. Frey burger Marian Ruby Fribourg Kendrick Otto Gile Anna E. Hughes Ruby M. Hughes Julia Johnson Edna Bernice Johnson Olga E. Keck (McDavid) Cisco Guy L. Kepler Josephine Kirk Nettie A. Kell Helen C. Kriegbaum Nellie E. Long Bert E. Lehman M. Alberta Montgomery Harry T. Moore Wiliam Nein Forsythe Esther L. Niedermeyer Jessie Oard Elsa O. M. Olsen Dorothy A. Pyatt Grace G. Price J. Milroy Quinlan Hazel M. Risser George E. Rixse Edward W Ross Inez E. Ruckle Winnora E. Sanders Elsie L. Sawyer (Murray) Louise Stevenson Bessy e E. Stewart Lucy Sikking Arthur VanCleve Dora E. Watson William A. Wayne CLASS OF 1905 (Members 65) Paul W. Armstrong Goldia Atherton George H. Auer Lucile Margaret Bragg Mary E. Bean E. Fern Boland Juanita Brown Vere Burtnett Ruby C. Carter Maud Carter Lorenzo C. Cloyd May Connard William Arthur Conel Helen Fulton Corley Marian Crabb Alice N. Dempsey Edith Adelaide DeGroat Della May Field Ella H. Fluss Dugald Gordon Mary H. Hostetler Irene Hubbard Susanna Imboden Edith Irene Jimison Mabel Frances Jones Frances Leona Jones Bessie Olive Kizer Leita S. Koons Cora Irene Leiby Bertha Elizabeth Lindsley Josephine Lindsey (Hill) Ethel L. Lichtenberger Carleton F. Mattes Gertrude Anna Mills Helen Elizabeth Mills Dwight A. Montgomery Marie Morgan Lula Elizabeth Myers Leda Mueller Clara May McNeil N. LaRue Neisler Dena M. Noonan Nellie H. Nolan Amanda B. Patrick Edgar George Peters Albert Henry Ross Myrtle Rugh Lewis William Shade Harry N. Stadler Irene E. Staley Edna N. Strader Celia Louise Still Clifford Spees Jeanette Troutman Helena Terry Helen Turner Florence J. Tucker Clara VonEnde Springfield Died Moweaqua BOARD OF EDUCATION. 87 Leona T. Walker Savilla Blanch Welsh (Munsie) Carl L. Watkins Clara M. Wise Howard H. Wise Mae Belle Wilson Bertha Yaeck CLASS OF 1906 Bessie Armstrong Sylvia Mae Armstrong Lillian E. Banning Ralph H. Bean Pearl Wilda Bigelow Jessie R. Blakeney Mary L. Bouton Marie Childs Edith F. Cope Lucian Cecil Cox Austa Lilis Darden Corinne B. Elwood Louis Fitzpatrick Paul W. Freeman Marguerite Golze Earl B. Gordon Earl Grubel Henrietta Hancock Benjamin F. Harrison Mary Frances Hobson Everett H. Hodge Zella Frances Hostetler Caroline S. Lutz John R. Lyons Mabel Matheny Caroline Jewel May Estelle McGee Maud E. McKinney Mildred H. Montgomery Helen Gertrude Morgan Jean Morris Florence Louise Oakes Goldie Miller Perry Clarence O. Radford Robert W. Ray Ruth Roberts Flora Emma Ross William E. Russell Clarence E. Sinclair Frances Louise Shumate Audrey Josephine Sine Maurice Stanley Sly Elwin Jeston Smith Pauline V. Snell Esther Marie Starr Laura Towne Edna VanBuskirk James H. Walter CLASS OF 1907 (Members 48) Moweaqua Bedford, Ind Mt. Zion Moweaqua Harristown Edgar H. Allen Ruth Averitt Edith W. Bowyer Leo Roland Brown Meta Augusta Bruce Ora Gertrude Campbell Mary Carroll Geneva Chenoweth Pansy Marian Cochrum Lewis N. Fisher Florence Eugene Gardner Roscoe A. Goodman Harry C. Griffin Caroline Gucker Clarence Hall Alice P. Henderson Wilfred Holiday Katherine Holmes Catherine C. Hoppe Martha Florence Hughes Ralph Ivens Charles A. Kirk Joyce V. Kohler Katherine M. Kuch Cleo M. Lichtenberger Everett B. McClelland Edward McNulty Florence Love Phylis Mueller Florence Aletha Newell Arthur W. Niedermeyer Harry W. Pahmeyer Notie R. Pasold Marguerite Potter Blanch Redmon James R. Redmon Feme L. R. Reeve Katherine Louise Riley Stella M. Sanford Dorothy J. Shade Mary Elizabeth Smith Ira Earl Snyder Elizabeth Ellen Terry Edith Joy VanCleve Florence VanDeventer Edith VanMeter Jennie Margaerite Votaw Bessie Margaret Warren Alice F. Watkins Marguretha Webber Lollie C. Westhafer Ethelyn Wiley Luella Witzeman (Members 53 88 GENERAL REPORT ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 1868-1907 Abbott, Hattie (Brancher) 1883 Abbott, Lillie (Brancher) 1885 Abbott, Myrtle L 1885 Abel, Celeste 1901 Abel, Florence (Coughlin) 1900 Abel, Marian (Wait) 1885 Adams, Grace (Birkett) 1875 Adams, Laura (Huff) 1877 Adams, Walter K 1890 Adamson, Edwin 1899 Aikin, Arthur Louis 1896 Aikin, Kate G. (Watson) 1887 Aikin, Laura E 1877 Aikin, Mary B 1885 Aikin, Maud M 1888 Ainsworth, Clara 1900 Akers, Deborah C 1904 Alexander, Edna (Fletcher) 1900 Allen, Edgar H 1907 Allen, Stella 1903 Allison, Clara 1899 Allison, Clara (Imboden) 1868 Allison, May 1897 Ammann, Pearl R 1903 Anderson, Erma 0 1904 Anderson, Lora E (Bohon) 1873 Andrews, A. V 1881 Andrews, Horace 1880 Anthony, George 1 1900 Antrim, Ella 1889 Armstrong, Bessie 1906 Armstrong, Charles W 1890 Armstrong, Harley 1889 Armstrong, Paul W 1905 Armstrong, Will J 1891 Armstrong, Sylvia Mae ?...1906 Arthur, Celia 1896 Arthur, Clifford G 1888 Arthur, Della (Hedges) 1893 Arthur, Hildred V 1902 Ashmore, Ethel B 1898 Askins, Fannie S 1895 Atherton, Goldia 1905 Athons, Sadie C. (Atherton) 1897 Atlass, Goldie 1901 Auer, Charles M 1894 Auer, Edgar L 1899 Auer, George H 1905 Averitt, Ruth 1907 Ayres, Lelah (Lipscomb) 1898 Babbitt, Lillie 1875 Babcock, Mattie (Webb) 1890 Bachman, Minnie T. (Mueller) 1884 Bachrach, Benjamin C 1896 Bachrach, Edgar 1903 Bachrach, Helen Louise 1900 Bachrach, Rose (Smith) 1897 Bachrach, Sidney 1903 Badenhausen, Anna W .>....1891 Badenhausen, Jennie G 1896 Badenhausen, Mae 1901 Bailey, Marie Maud 1899 Baker, Alice G 1901 Baker, Clara Martin 1902 Baker, Walter Neil 1902 Baldridge, Jennie W. (Johnson) .1894 Baldridge, Lillie E 1899 Baldwin, Ethel (Foote) 1901 Baldwin, Heston 1 1878 Banning, Lillian E 1906 Barber, Volney 1900 Barnes, Charles 1870 Barnes, Mollie (Stanton) 1874 Barnes, William 1877 Barnwell, Bertha M 1880 Batchelder, Martha C 1900 Batchelder, Mary L. (Watson) 1892 Batchelder, Millie P. (Cowen) 1889 Batchelder, Nellie (Brown) 1896 Batteiger, Meta E. (Dodson) 1879 Beadles, Albert N 1901 Beadles, Grace (McHose) 1899 Beadles, Sada (Burke) 1898 Beall, Lulu M. (Hansell) 1894 Beamer, Edith 1894 Beamer, Nannie 1898 Bean, Emma Rosalie 1897 Bean, Mary E 1905 Bean, Ralph H 1906 Bear, A. Linn 1902 Bear, Ella 1878 Bear, Ernest 1899 Bear, Leah Lou 1886 Bear, Linnetta M 1902 Bear, Olive M 1902 Bear, Orpha B 1888 Beatty, George 1900 Becker, Clara M 1895 Bentley, Pauline (Adams) 1891 Bentley, William A 1888 Benton, Fred S 1904 Benton, Robert V - 1902 Bering, Wilson M 1879 Berry, Laura E 1896 Betzer, Frank Elizabeth (Hammer) 1903 Bevans, Alice J. (Coolbaugh) 1898 Bevans, Allen G 1888 Bevans, James L 1888 Bigelow, Minnie (Bailey) 1884 Bigelow, Pearl Wilda 1906 Billington, Orville Harry 1902 Bills, Ada J 1903 Bills, Jeanette M 1893 Binkley, Frank E 1903 Bishop, Adelia N 1896 Bishop, Helen Adelia 1904 Bishop, Lulu (Cunningham) 1882 Bivans, Fannie A 1894 Bivans, Mary B(Bramble) 1896 Bixby, Eva M 1881 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 89 Black, Charles 1902 Blackburn, Bonnie 1903 Blackburn, Roy Jabez 1899 Blackstone, Mary Adele 1897 Blakeney, Jessie R 1906 Blythe, Morton C 1893 Boggess, Willis W 1896 Boland, E. Fern 1905 Boland, Lee 1899 Boland, Mae F 1901 Bold, Elizabeth Josephine (Fife) 1897 Bold, Louise M 1899 Bone, Gussie (Johnson) 1897 Bone, Hugh 1892 Bonebrake, Jennie Lucile 1898 Bonesteel, Cora M. (Hueston) 1876 Boone, Myrtle A 1902 Bom, Aldah H 1901 Botts, Carroll 1902 Bourne, Violet 1894 Bouser, Nellie E 1900 Bouton, Mary L 1906 Boutwell, Nellie 1900 Bowdle, James Herbert 1899 Bowers, Dessie (Powers) 1877 Bowman, Beatrice 1889 Bowman, Fred K 1886 Bowman, Myrtle Llew-Ella 1900 Bowyer, Edith W 1907 Boyd, Ada (Meckalenburg) 1884 Boyer, Ella 1878 Boyer, Gretchen I. (Brant) 1891 Boyd, Iola (Baker) 1879 Braddock, Ralph C 1901 Braden, Bering E 1895 Braden, Carl Edison 1900 Bragg, Lucile Margaret 1905 Bradley, Edgar 0 1885 Bramble, Byron E 1894 Bramble, W. Winn 1892 Brand, Florence (Higgins) 1884 Brand, Sallie (Leffingwell) 1879 Brett, Mary (Williams) 1876 Brightbill, Mabel C 1903 Brinkmeyer, Charlotte 1901 Brintlinger, Abner 1897 Brintlinger, Austa E. (Keyes) 1903 Brintlinger, Elmer 0 1898 Bristow, Sarah 1878 Brockway, John A., Jr 1896 Brockway, Minnie 1889 Brooks, Frank L 1869 Brooks, Maude E 1895 Brooks, Stella A ,..1893 Brown, Alma May 1896 Brown, Everett. J 1883 Brown, Fred A 1885 Brown, Hattie J 1877 Brown, Jessie (Brintlinger) 1900 Brown, Juanita 1905 Brown, Leo Roland 1907 Brown, Lillie (Murphy) 1881 Brown, Mae C. (Shoemaker) 1890 Brown, Minnie A 1899 Brown, Minnie S 1879 Brown, Roy H 1897 Bruce, Meta Angusta 1907 Bryant, Estelle Esther 1901 Buchanan, William 1894 Buchert, Ella 1894 Buckingham, Donna (Barnes) 1892 Buckingham, Maria 1883 Buckmaster, Edwin 1895 Buckmaster, Nina (Waltz) 1896 Bullard, Lucian W 1897 Bumstead, Charles M 1893 Bumstead, Harry A 1886 Bunn, Edna M 1891 Burkam, Bessie 1900 Burke, Katheryn Amelia 1899 Burks, Fay W 1900 Burks, Zella Alice (Waddell) 1901 Burrows, J. Bering 1880 Burtnett, Vere 1905 Byrne, John 1903 Caldwell, Eva E (Bradley) 1885 Calhoun, John C 1901 Campbell, Ara Gertrude 1907 Cariens, Jennie E. (Craycroft) 1886 Carl, Ruby C 1905 Carmany, Myra A 1885 Carpenter, Mabel (Summers) 1870 Carr, Jessica Ellen 1898 Carroll, Mary 1907 Carson, Mabel (Lipscomb) 1895 Carter, Edith C. (Bradshaw) 1899 Carter, Lucile 1902 Carter, Maude 1905 Carter, Ralph Merle 1900 Cash, Will Carleton 1901 Casner, Olive May 1898* Cassell, Fred 1894 Catlin, Edith Hazel 1900 Chaosey, Lillie S 1880 Chambers, Ethel 1902 Chandler Irene Lois 1904 Chandler, Marguerite 1894 Chappelow, Chispa L 1903 Chenoweth, Geneva 1907 Chenoweth, Guy M 1902 Chenoweth, Lloyd 1900 Chenoweth, William J 1888 Childs, Edna 1895 Childs, Grace 1902 Childs, Hattie 1894 Childs, Leona L. (Stookey) 1876 Childs, Marie 1906 Church, Frederick W 1896 Church, Robert L 1902 Clark, Emily (Parker) 1876 Clark, M. Emma 1893 Clark, Mary J 1898 Clark, Nita 1889 Clark, Lynn Watson 1899 Clarkson, Ella C 1899 Clarkson, Mabel A 1900 Clary, John R 1898 Clary, Mary C 1891 Clendenen, Georgia I. (Mildenberger) 1892 Clokey, Ira W 1897 Cloyd, Annie R 1894 Cloyd, David J 1886 Cloyd, Ehrma 1902 Cloyd, Howard G : 1896 Cloyd, Lorenzo C 1905 Cloyd, Lucy C 1900 Cloyd, Maggie R 1877 Cloyd, Mary 1884 Cloyd, Virginia 1903 Cochrum, Pansy Marian 1907 Colby, Mary O. (Dennison) 1888 Coleman, Hattie (Hastie) 1882 Coleman, Sallie Mabel (Cripe) 1898 Coleman, Theodore 1868 Colladay , Elizabeth 1889 Colladay, Harry J. D 1895 Colladay, Walter Earle 1896 Collins, Austin Flint 1901 90 GENERAL REPORT Collins, Frank David 1898 Coltrin, Ella E.. (Smith) 1873 Coltrin, Ida E 1873 Condell, Elizabeth 1894 Condell, Emma 1890 Conell, Jesse LeRoy 1899 Conell, William Arthur 1905 Conklin, Ralph O 1894 Conklin, W. Vadian 1888 Connaghan, Margaretta E 1902 Connard, Arthur F 1904 Connard, Curtis 1902 Connard, May 1905 Connard, Marquis 1902 Connard, Nellie 1904 Connor, Mary (Rearick) 1878 Conover, Helen Fayette (Musser) 1898 Conway, Winifred N 1898 Cook, Rachel E. (Albeitz) 1870 Cool, Annie E. (Parks) 1892 Cool, Charles Dean 1896 Coonradt, Lewis E 1891 Coonradt, William H 1895 Coover, Daisy Jennie 1900 Cope, Edith F 1906 Cope, Roy M 1901 Corley, Helen F 1905 1 Corman, Herbert W 1893 Corman, Wilbur 1894 Comeau, Nellie (House) 1875 Covington, Sidney 1897 Cowgill, Stella (Robinson) 1892 Cox, Lucian Cecil 1906 Cozad, Delos 1900 Crabb, Marian 1905 Crankshaw, Katherine 1896 Crea, Harry B 1903 Crissey, Ruth (Cornell) 1868 Crissey, Truman S 1870 Crockett, Nellie M 1901 Cross, Orville L 1902 Crossman, Fannie 1887 Crossman, Hattie (Gordon) 1891 Crossman, Mac E 1887 Curzon, Ralph Earl 1897 Culver, Ruth A. (Vestal) 1873 Curran, Julia 1901 Curtis, Ralph 1896 Danely, M. Golden (Slaughter) 1898 Darden, Austa Lillis 1906 Darling, Jessie R. (Hooper) 1895 Dashiell, Jennie S 1903 Davidson, Cecil L 1895 Davis, Archer T 1894 Davis, Mary (McBride) 1895 Davis, Minnie E (Strader) 1886 Dawson, Norma 1896 Dawson, Wilbur W 1889 DeCourcey, Frances (McDonald) 1897 Deetz, Bertha 1 1904 Deetz, Ruthe (Ward) 1898 DeGroat, Edith Adelaide 1905 DeGroat, Lulalou 1903 DeGroat, Rice Erwin 1898 DeHart, Ada F 1901 DeHart, Leota 1898 DeLashmutt, Sadie 1902 Dempsey, Alice N 1905 Dempter, June 1901 Denison, Charles A 1888 Dennis, Charles H 1878 Dennis, Maggie (Cobb) 1874 Denton, Charles C 1884 Depew, Fred C 1894 Dermit, Lillie (Anheier) 1879 Devore, Linnie B 1903 Deverell, Mariana 1895 Diehl, Alvah H ‘ 1895 Dietz, Frank E 1901 Dill, Minnie A 1882 Dill, Maude M 1891 Diller, Howard 1886 Dillehunt, Eva Gertrude 1898 Dillehunt, Richard 1904 Diller, Ida 0 1903 Dillon, M. Bess (Reed) 1885 Dills, Elizabeth (Mann) 1898 Dills, Eva I (Wilcox) 1893 Dills, Grace L 1890 Dills, Marian L 1895 Dimmitt, Della 1883 Dimmitt, Lizzie C 1884 Dimock, Sue A 1893 Dinges, Byrd Adele 1894 Dinges, Edwin K 1890 Disbrow, Kathrina (Clatterbuck) 1900 Ditzler, Ellen T. (Metcalf) 1884 Dixon, Charles Arthur •. 1896 Dixon, Della L 1899 Dixon, Frank S 1896 Doake, Carl Robert 1901 Donahoe, Florence P 1897 Dorrell, Mary L. (Wilson) 1895 Browning, Margaret 1895 Drake, Jeanette, 1897 Dresbach, Elmer E 1885 Drinkall, Ethel 1900 Drobisch, Alice W 1897 Drobisch, Mollie M 1895 Drobisch, Sophia M 1887 Dumont, Arthur S 1891 Dunham, Eva N 1894 Dunn, Will L 1887 Dunnigan, Anna Mae 1900 Dunston, George W 1896 Durfee, Harry 1875 Durfee, James H., Jr 1899 Durfee, Lucy J 1898 Durfee, M^bel (Powers) 1889 Durfee, Nellie, (Jenkins) 1877 Durfee, Warren T 1894 Earnest, Maud Jeanette (Hutton) .., 1903 Eaton, Bertha E 1904 Eaton, Della Mae 1900 Ebel, Grace 1896 Eberly, Mabel Agnes 1900 Ebert, Addie V. (Mueller) 1887 Ebert, Elizabeth (Lytle) 1887 Ebert, Laura (Connard) 1884 Edmundson, Bertha (Lovell) 1901 Ehrman, Fannie B. (Marshall) 1884 Ehrman, Harry 1879 Ehrman, Sheridan, W 1888 Eichinger, John W 1888 Eicholtz, Lottie E. (Adkins) 1883 Elder, Elizabeth 1904 Elliot, Beatrice 1901 Elliott, Frank LeRoy 1896 Elliott, Georgia 1894 Elliott, Harold A 1903 Elliot, Winnifred (Drennan) 1896 Elson, Carrie (Clokey) 1870 Elwood, Corinne B 1906 Elwood, Lula R 1887 Emerson, Laura M 1873 Emerson, Leora (Richardson) 1875 Emmons, Emma (Linsted) 1872 English, Mary L 1884 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 91 Enlows, Harold F 1901 Entler, Tillie May (Tullis) 1895 Epler, Josephine (McNier) 1901 Erwin, Arthur Clarence 1896 Espey, Maud 1890 Etheridge, Bessie M 1899 Ethridge, Myrtle 1898 Evans, Frank L 1887 Evans, John 1903 Evans, Mattie H. (Wiley) 1884 Evans, Maud (Stewart) 1895 Ewing, Charles A 1878 Ewing, Charles A 1899 Ewing, Emma B 1901 Ewing, Eugenia 1903 Eyman, Clara E (Walker) 1884 Eyman, Lela...: 1902 Eyman, Lulu 1902 Faith, Georgia S 1903 Falconer, Emma V 1890 Falconer, Hattie J (Molesworth) 1890 Famer, George Ena 1900 Famer, Hattie M. (Barby) 1895 Farrell, Anna (Page) 1880 Feam, Carrie 1875 Fell, Frances E 1904 Fell, Herbert Elroy 1896 Fell, Jesse Irene 1900' Felton, Jessie (Britton) 1895 Felton, Maude (Brocton) 1893 Fenton, Madge (West) 1897 Fenton, Vera Glenn 1902 Field, Della May 1905 Fields, Stanton Clark 1896 File, Forrest 1897 File, Lura (Rice) 1899 File, Nellie B 1895 Finnell, Zella H 1902 Fisher, Grace E 1904 Fisher, Lewis N 1907 Fitzpatrick, Catherine E 1899 Fitzpatrick, Lewis 1906 Fitzpatrick, Mary (Stork) 1895 Fitzpatrick, Sarah E 1900 Fitzpatrick, William 1894 Fletcher, Daisy 1898 Fletcher, Mabel 1903 Flint, Eva Myrtle (Johnson) 1897 Flood, Arthur 1884 Fluss, Ella H 1905 Foster, Alma E 1900 Foulke, Caroline E 1895 Foster, Edith 0 1899 Foster, Etta (Crawford) 1872 Foster, Freda Jewel 1901 Foster, George S 1895 Frazier, Clyde M 1899 Freeman, Marne L. (Wilmeth) 1885 Freeman, Benjamin 1891 Freeman, Paul 1906 Freeman, Wilson 1889 French, Clara Chesley (Dresbach) 1897 French, Henry G 1902 Frey burger, Walter D 1904 Fribourg, Marian Ruby 1904 Fribourg, Pearl 1902 Friend, Lillian E 1901 Fruit, George F 1888 Fuller, Hattie (Krigbaum) 1869 Fulton, Belle 1875 Fulton, Laura (Corley) 1878 Fulton, Minta 1875 Gaddis, Mabel 1903 Galbraith, Ernest J 1902 Gandy, Clifford J 1903 Gannon, J. Christie 1889 Gannon, Maye M. (Duncan) 1885 Gardner, Eugene Florence 1907 Garland, Richard 1902 Garrett, Pearl 1903 Garver, Bertha Mae (Davidson) 1901 Garver, Dessie A. (Fickess) 1893 Garver, Harry 1897 Garver, Ira 1897 Garver, Myrtle M 1892 Garver, Lelah 1903 Gasaway, Blanche (Matthews) 1883 Gasaway, Challis H 1896 Gasaway, Floy R. (Niles) 1893 Gasaway, Julia V. (Kenney) 1900 Gasaway, M. Josephine (Jones) 1888 Gastman, Elizabeth (Powell) : 1883 Gastman, Floyd A 1892 Gastman, Louise A. (Goben) 1894 Gaston, Gioga Dagmar 1899 Gaston, M. Adelaide 1898 Gates, Docia (Baker) 1876 Gebhart, Pearl 1900 Gilbert, Lee E ..1902 Gile, Kendrick Otto 1904 Gipson, Henry E 1880 Gladish, Lela A 1888 Gleason, H. Allen 1897 Glessner, Nellie P 1902 Golze, Marguerite 1906 Goodman, Roscoe A 1907 Gordon, Dugald 1905 Gordon, Earl B 1906 Gordon, Ethel 1896 Gott, Olive May 1903 Gouge, Ada D 1902 Gouge, Laura Naomi (Cottle) 1901 Gouy, George N 1898 Gouy, May 1902 Graham, Ina C 1897 Graham, Nora L 1897 Green, Bessie E 1884 Green, Mary Willis (Lowe) 1897 Green, Nora Vivian 1899 Green, Ethel (Beatty) 1895 Griffin, Harry C 1907 Griswold, Annie 1884 Griswold, Edna Graves 1896 Griswold, Grace 1898 Grout, J. Fred 1899 Grout, William Charles 1902 Grubbs, James A 1895 Grubel, Earl 1906 Grubel, Edward A 1900 Grubel, Mollie 1897 Gucker, Caroline 1907 Guyant, Claude E 1902 Haag, Nettie (Mclntire) 1892 Haines, Ada (Stoner) 1893 Haines, Harry E 1889 Haines, Efffe (Stoutenborough) ,...1887 Hall, Clarence 1907 Hall, Eliza L 1885 Hall, James F 1894 Hall, Nettie M 1881 Halmbacher, Alma M. (Butzbach) 1893 Halmbacher, Minnie A. (Geneess) 1897 Halstead, Mary (Pease) 1874 Hamilton, Stella E. (Mallory) 1893 Hammer, Eve M. (Clark) 1887 Hampton, E. K 1895 Hamsher, Desdemona (Vigus) 1899 Hamsher, Emily (Ditto) 1886 92 GENERAL REPORT Hamsher, Frank K 1890 Hamsher, Harry E 1888 Hancock, Henrietta L 1906 Handy, Alida R 1878 Hane, Grovnoir 1896 Hanford, Edith Mae 1899 Hannum, Harry H 1900 Hannum, Neta 1901 Hanes, Effie (Flood) 1884 Hardy, Hattie B. (Johns) 1880 Hardy, Lelia Pauline 1900 Hardy, Mary W (Morehouse) 1880 Harkness, Clara E. (Ruebsamen) 1895 Harkrader, Leona (Perslnger) 1900 Harpstrite, Emma F 1891 Harris, Effie (Lake) 1891 Harris, Eugenia (Beach) 1889 Harrison, Benjamin F 1906 Harrison, Guy Renshaw 1903 Harry G. Palmer 1902 Harry, Mary (Marquam) 1898 Hart, George M 1890 Hartley, Elva Inez 1903 Hartley, Joseph 1893 Harwood, Josephine R. (Conant) 1888 Harwood, Kathleen K. (Mallery) 1890 Haskell, Annie B 1877 Hatch, Florence (Armstrong) 1895 Hatfield, Myrtle May 1903 Hathaway, Chester W 1901 Hawes, Charlotte (Coonradt) 1894 Hawes, Paul T 1895 Hawkes, Clara N 1891 Hawthorne, Elizabeth L 1899 Hayden, Annie W. (Barnett) 1889 Hayes, Grace M 1899 Hays, Harry T 1882 Head, Blanche 0 1903 Hedges, Walton K 1881 Heilbrun, Leo 1886 Heilbrun, Samuel G 1899 Heilman, D. William, 1883 Heilman, Edward 1879 Heinz, Bertha Marie : 1899 Heminger, Bertha (Cobb) .'..1900 Heminger, Maud (Wallace) 1898 Henderson, Alice P 1907 Hendricks, Bertha 1880 Hendricks, Edna (Hart) 1894 Henkle, Annie (McClelland) 1883 Henry, Antoinette M 1901 Heyne, Ernest L. G 1902 Hickisch, Lucile 1900 Hill, Gussie 1878 Hill, Guy W 1902 Hill, Hugh J 1896 Hill, Raymond C 1902 Hinkle, Lena (Walters) 1873 Hinton, Sylva Mae 1902 Hiser, Alice (Shimer) 1887 Hitchcock, Edward B 1901 Hobson, Grace 1901 Hobson, Mary Frances 1906 Hockingberry, Ida 1883 Hodge, Everett H 1906 Hoffman, Amy A 1894 Hoffman, Benjamin T 1897 Hoffman, Celeste 1888 Hoffman, Clara E 1889 Hoffman, Eve M 1900 Hoffman, Ruth C 1895 Hohen, Ada M. (Colladay) 1894 Holiday, Wilfred 1907 Holmes, Katherine 1907 Hopkins, Lela Grace s 1902 Hoppe, Catherine C 1907 Hopson, Otho R 1885 Hostetler Mary H 1905 Hostetler, Robert B 1870 Hostetler, Virgil N 1873 Hostetler, William J 1877 Hostetler, Zella Frances 1906 Hott, Gertrude Anna 1899 Hott, Jessie 1902 Hott, Louie Grace (Myers) 1895 Houck, Irene L v 1903 House, Charles Percival 1902 House, Edmund Walter 1901 Housum, Ddniel P 1899 Housum, Hugh 1895 Housum, Mellie (Myers) 1884 Howell, Harriet 1882 Howenstine, George Raymond 1896 Howenstine, James B 1902 Howenstine, Mabel 1900 Howes, Franklin J 1896 Howes, Herbert S 1893 Howes, Luther A 1895 Hoy, Charles D 1892 Hoy, Eddie 1882 Hoy, Josephine (Lathrop) 1896 Hoyland, Ethel 1900 Hoyland, Lulu B 1897 Hubbard, Carrie (Kinney) *. 1869 Hubbard, Charles T 1888 Hubbard, Irene 1905 Hubbard, Iva M 1902 Hubbard, Nellie E (Priest) 1887 Hubert, Ralph William 1901 Huffaker, Pearl 1903 Hughes, Anna E 1904 Hughes, Emma I. (Irwin) 1877 Hughes, Lulu 1900 Hughes, Lizzie I. (Winters) 1888 Hughes, Martha Florence 1907 Hughes, Maud A 1896 Hughes, Ruby M 1904 Hughey, Leta 1900 Hummel, Emma (Garver) 1867 Hummel, Rachel (Bear) 1867 Hunsley, Edith A dele 1898 Hunt, Particia Maria 1900 Hutchin, Claire E 1903 Hutchinson, Grace (Waggoner) 1890 Hutsinpiller, Bonnie (Coughlin) 1896 Hutsinpiller, Cora (Wood) 1895 Ice, Constance 1903 Imboden, Alice M (Riggs) 1883 Imboden, Benjamin A 1898 Imboden, Nena (Anderson) 1901 Imboden, Sarah M 1895 Imboden, Susannne 1905 Irwin, Aldyth 1893 Irwin, Lillian (Gingrich) 1882 Irwin, Lucy (Harrington) 1875 Irwin, Walter 1897 Ivens, Ralph 1907 Jack, Cecil M 1895 Jack, Edgar E 1890 Jack, T. Burrows 1891 Jacobson, Edith Augusta 1902 James, Ollie 1902 Jameson, Helen A 1903 Jay, Ethel May 1902 Jeffers, Arthur L 1898 Jeffers, Ed H 1898 Jenison, Marie (Vaughan) 1895 Jenkins, Estelle (Custer) 1896 BOARDIOF EDUCATION, 93 Jenkins, Laura (Rigey) 1896 Jimison, Edith Irene 1905 Johns, Fannie (Sedgwick) 1868 Johnson, Ada M 1895 Johnson, Alvah M 1895 Johnson, Cora (Seifried) 1875 Johnson, Carrie L. (Stecher) 1886 Johnson, Edna Bernice 1904 Johnson, Ella Estelle 1901 Johnson, Frank L 1889 Johnson, Grace 1900 Johnson, Gus Hugh 1896 Johnson, James D 1895 Johnson, Julia 1904 Johnson, Lucinda A. (Wheeler) 1888 Johnson, Mary (Brown) 1873 Johnson, Milton, Jr 1891 Johnson, Pauline (Augustine) 1894 Johnson, Roy 1903 Jones, Arthur 1901 Jones, Florence (Summers) 1900 Jones, Frances Leona 1905 Jones, Harry; 1899 Jones, IdaT. (Hartzel) 1873 Jones, Katie (Aldrich) 1869 Jones, Louis 1901 Jones, Mabel Frances 1905 Judson, Alice M. (Pringle) 1889 Kain, Ida B. (Martin) 1885 Kautz, Dixon H 1890 Keck, Olga E 1904 Keeler, Lucy T. (Hostetler) 1885 Keeler, Nell (Brown) 1897 Keeler, Sidney F 1902 Keethes, May H. (Freudenberg) 1888 Keith, James Arthur 1896 Kennedy, William Bertrand 1897 Kell, Myrtle Maud 1899 Kell, Nettie A 1904 Keller, Effie Belle 1902 Kelly, Margarete E 1903 Kepler, Guy L 1904 Kerr, Josephine 1897 Keusink, Elmer B 1902 Keyes, Charles W 1901 Kiester, John L 1887 Killgore, Maud L 1895 Kincaid, Frank 1901 Kincaid, Ina Lydia 1897 Kincaid, Kittie 1900 King, Alice (Caldwell) 1902 King, Carrie 1896 King, Cora B. (Roach) 1879 King, Hazel (Lanham) 1903 King, Lillian (Doane) 1897 King, Sarah Etta 1898 Kinney, John William 1896 Kirby, Lewis Isaac 1895 Kirk, Charles A 1907 Kirk, Elizabeth r. 1902 Kirk, Frances 1900 Kirk, Josephine 1904 Kizer, Bessie Olive 1905 Kizer, Harry E 1888 Knap, W. H 1879 Knieper, Elizabeth (Leavenworth) 1888 Knight, Lee 1 1898 Knight, Mabel A 1899 Knoble, William B 1888 Knotts, Gertrude B. (Flood) 1901 Knowlton, Hoberta 1902 Koehler, Alma A. (Gilbert) 1885 Kohler, Joyce V 1907 Koons, Leita S 1905 Kresin, Martha R 1901 Kretzer, Lucy 1892 Kriegbaum, Helen C 1904 Krone, Nellie 0 1877 Kuck, Katherine M 1907 Kunkle, Olive 0 1898 LaMar, Rozella 1896 Landis, Margaret (Keith) 1898 Lane, Pearl 1896 Lanham, Birdie Olive 1896 Lanham, Ruth Marne 1903 Large, Notie M. (Bartholomew) 1880 Latham, Jacob 1888 Laughlin, Mabel H. (Matthews) 1899 Laughlin, Mary (Miller) 1900 Laughlin, Mattie E 1899 Lawrence, Sylvia Lee Delda 1903 Leach, Clyde M 1898 Leach, Corinne 1900 Leffingwell, Sanford 1873 Leforgee Jessie (McCoy) 1894 Lehman, Bert E 1904 Lehman, Don R 1902 Legg, Mary Isabel 1903 Leiby, Cora Irene 1905 Leiby, Jennie (McMullen) 1891 Leon, Jessie 1903 Leonard, Raymond H 1899 Lewis, Ida J 1894 Lewis, Mary E 1887 Lewis, Mary L. (Miller) :..1893 Lichtenberger, Cleo M 1907 Lichtenberger, Ethel L 1905 Lichtenberger, Jessie F 1902 Lindsay, Ada E 1899 Lindsay, Frank 1900 Lindsay, Laura 1876 Lindsay, Nettie S 1885 Lindsey, Josephine (Hill) 1905 Lindsley, Bertha Elizabeth 1905 Lindsley, Ethel Lilyan 1902 Lipscomb, Guy W 1897 Litterer, Annie t 1884 Litzenberger, Annie (Johnson) 1883 Litzenberger, Ella....* 1884 Locher, Fannie T 1889 Lockett, Jessie W 1890 Logan, Mabel 1900 Long, Alvah W 1898 Long, Nellie E 1904 Longenecker, Dora K 1896 Lord, Mabel 1896 Lorlng, Ida M 1898 Love, Florence 1907 Love, Nellie Hanlon 1896 Lower, Adele M. (Nunneville) 1887 Lukens, Grace (Bixby) 1884 Lukens, Lizzie E 1879 Lukens, Mary A. (Collins) 1881 Lutz, Bessie F. (Imboden) 1897 Lutz, Caroline S 1906 Lyon, Florence L 1894 Lyon, Myrtle V. (Jenks) 1892 Lyons, Fannie G 1893 Lyons, Jennie (Martin) 1893 Lyons, John R 1906 Lytle, Edith M. (Smith) 1890 Lytle, Ernest B 1894 Lytle, George 1889 Lytle, G. Hortense (Heiby) 1897 Lytle, Robert B 1888 Mafiit, Leslie 1899 Maffit, Robert Usrey 1897 Magee, Ada E. (Suleeba) 1899 94 GENERAL REPORT Magee, John 1884 Magee, Mary A 1887 Magee, Samuel 1893 Mahannah, Laura 1883 Major, Eva Rilla 1897 Malone, Eva 1874 Malone, Sallie 1872 Mann, Albert 1898 Mann, Amy Ida 1900 Mann, Earl 1902 Mann, Fred E 1896 Mark, Elvira E 1892 Martin, Cora 0 1895 Martin, Harriet B 1895 Martin, James H 1880 Martin, Laura B 1877 Martin, Lida C 1895 Martin, Lou (Strader) 1877 Martlett, Emma T. (Leavitt) 1880 Maris, Sue 1899 Mason, Lola E 1901 Mattes, Carleton F 1905 Mattheny, Mabel 1906 Matthews, Elizabeth (Bachman) 1891 Matthews, Mary J. (Newell) 1890 May, Jewel Caroline 1906 May, Donnie (Wheeler) 1894 McAllister, Zella 1899 McBride, Florence (Walker) 1896 McClelland, Clarence B 1882 McClelland, Edna C 1903 McClelland, Everett B 1907 McClelland, Sherman 1883 McCollom, Cecil G 1899 McCollom, Norman 1901 McCormick, Ida (Klett) 1881 McCune, W. Clay 1877 McGee, Estelle 1906 McGorray; Margaret (Schlaudeman) 1884 McGowan, Myrtle T 1901 McKensie, Annie (Leach) 1876 McKenzie, Christine H. (Witt) 1889 McKenzie, Elizabeth G 1901 McKenzie, Jessie P (Shreves) 1890 McKinney, Maud E 1906 McNeil, Clara 1905 McNeil, Elizabeth J (Barr) 1895 McNeil, Florence J 1901 McNeil, Laura A 1907 McNulty, Edward 1907 McNumey, Aileen 1900 McReynolds, Thomas J 1886 McRoberts, Beckie A. (Bradfield) 1880 McRoberts, Ella C. (Kinhart) 1887 Mead, Alice 1892 Mead, Anna L 1893 Medford, Charles E 1896 Meister, Louise C. (Brohel) 1880 Weriweather, Jessie (Pluck) 1898 Meriweather, Notie (Kent) 1897 Merker, Minerva J 1900 Merris, Fannie (Daggett) 1896 Merritts, Louise 1899 Metz, Carrie 1902 Metz, Harry 1889 Metz, Henrietta 1892 Meyers, Alva John 1896 Myers, L, Eva T 1895 Michle, Nellie (Graybill) 1892 Midkiff, Harry Floyd 1902 Milbum, Priscilla, (Smith) 1874 Miller, Hallie May 1903 Miller, John 1892 Miller, Mary M 1897 Miller, May Olivia 1896 Miller, Opal C 1902 Miller, Trenna June 1901 Millikin Desdemona (Bevans) 1889 Mills, Elizabeth N. (Dawson) 1891 Mills, Gertrude A 1905 Mills, Helen E 1905 Mills, Judith B 1902 Mills, Mary E 1899 Mills, Ralph G 1897 Mills, Walter H 1897 Mitchell, Clara E. (Lehman) 1893 Mitchell, Leonard 1894 Mitchell, Lucius 1901 Moffit, Ida (May) 1872 Montgomery, Dwight A 1905 Montgomery, Edith F 1897 Montgomery, James 1898 Montgomery, Jessie A 1894 Montgomery, Jessie Sumuelva 1903 Montgomery, Kate F. (Sullivan) 1891 Montgomery, Laura 1878 Montgomery, Lida (Stafford) 1895 Montgomery, Lillian 1902 Montgomery, Lola (Perry) 1890 Montgomery, M. Alberta 1904 Montogmery, Mildred H 1906 Montgomery, Noy Oglesby (Nicholson). ..1898 Moore, Harry T 1904 Moore, Hattie E 1901 Moore, James T 1878 Moore, Mary E. (Ochiltree) 1895 Moore, Nellie G 1895 Moore, Viola 1880 Morgan, Georgette 1903 Morgan, Harry Comeau 1901 Morgan, Helen Gertrude 1906 Morgan, Marie 1905 Morris, Jean 1906 Mosser,, Maggie (Robinson) 1878 Mowry, Albert E 1890 Mueller, Leda 1905 Mueller, Phyllis 1907 Muir, Jeanie Margaret 1896 Munsie, Robert 1901 Munson, Grace Anna 1896 Murphy, Charles R 1881 Murphy, Eva May (Steams) 1889 Murphy, Fred E 1885 Murphy, Lizzie A 1879 Murrell, Bessie Iona 1902 Murrell, Margaret P 1898 Muthersbaugh, Emma (Pitner) 1897 Muthersbaugh, Mabel Alice 1900 Myers, Benson, A. L 1897 Myers, Lulu Elizabeth 1905 Naftel, Grace 1901 Nebinger, Mary (Stadelman)) 1882 Neiman, Anna Adele 1896 Neiman, Clarence C 1900 Nein, William 1904 Neisler, N. LaRue 1905 Nelson, Charlotte B 1898 Newell, Florence Aletha 1907 Newell, Jennie (WJlson) 1868 Nichols, Estelle E 1900 Nichols, Eva 1884 Nichols, Jessica N 1897 Nichols, L. Aldridge 1900 Nichols, Lillie Maude 1903 Nickens, Florence 1901 Nickens, Josephine Estelle 1903 Niedermeyer, Arthur 1907 Niedermeyer, Clara 1896 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 95 Niedermeyer, Esther 1904 Niedermeyer, Frederick D 1897 Nims, Herbert E 1890 Nolan, Nellie H 1905 Noonan, Dena M 1905 Norman, Tillie (Bascom) 1875 Nye, Frances C 1903 Oakes, Bernice 1897 Oakes, Florence Louise 1906 Oakes, George R 1897 Oakes, Marguerite Ethel 1902 Oard, Jessie 1904 Odor, G. Edgar 1897 Odor, Virginia N. (Rickey) 1886 Olsen, Elsa O. Maria 1904 Owen, Myrtle Angela 1897 Owen, Roy P 1897 Owens, George F 1901 Packard, Russell C 1897 Padgitt, Charles Walter 1901 Pahmeyer, Fred 0 1901 Pahmeyer, Harry W 1907 Painter, Nellie E 1901 Farish, James Benjamin 1896 Park, Elizabeth M. (Beggs) 1890 Parker, Minnie A. (Hostetler) 1877 Parrish, Roy Clifford 1901 Pasold, Notie R 1907 Patrick, Amanda B 1905 Patterson, Letha 1902 Payne, Daisy V 1902 Peake, Virginia A 1893 Pease, Arthur Bonnom 1896 Pease, Rollin B 1900 Penhallegon, Jessie R *...1900 Penhallegon, Lucy W 1899 Penniwell, N. Grace 1889 Perry, Goldie Miller 1906 Peters, Edgar George 1905 Peters, Susie 1901 Petsch, Emma 1884 Phillips, Anna Mabel (Freeman) 1899 Phillips, Clara E 1902 Phillips, Clara E. (Watts) 1897 Phillips, Margaret Gertrude (DeLamaster 1898 Pickerell, Amanda (Cruthers) 1883 Pitner, Thomas W 1894 Pitts, Florence J (Shellabarger) 1888 Platt, Alfred 1897 Plummer, Myra Edwards 1896 Pope, Grace L. (Gulick) 1901 Post, Celia 1900 Post, Lilian M 1898 Potter, Marguerite 1907 Fowers, Marie (Tureman) 1899 Prater, Banus H 1899 Prather, Annie M. (VanRiper) 1882 Prather, Otto G 1898 Pratt, Abbie 1878 Pratt, Ada E. (Baldwin) 1881 Pratt, Nellie (Tucker) 1878 Pratt, Nellie G. (Vance) 1894 Prestley, Frank E 1888 Frice, Grace G 1904 Friest, Mary Ethel 1899 Priest, Pansy Blossom 1900 Pritchett, Ada S. (Bean) 1889 Pritchett, Ella 1902 Pritchett, Lena A 1902 Pritchett, Nettie C 1886' Pyatt, Dorothy C 1904 Quimby, Lillian May 1903 Quinlan, Edgar A.. v 1896 Quinlan, Ethel L 1898 Quinlan, J. Milroy 1904 Quinlan, Kate 1892 Quinlan, Lena 1895 Quinlan, William 1884 Race, Arthur 1883 Race, Lewis 1883 Radcliff, Fallis S. (Miller) 1890 Radcliff, Nora (Starr) 1887 Radford, Clarence 0 1906 Rainey, Ada (Wallace) 1897 Rainey, Annie E. (Stafford) 1888 Rainey, Florence G. (Donnelly) 1886 Rainey, Louis T 1895 Ralston, Bessie 1901 Ramsey, Mary R. (Wells) 1895 Randall, Bertha T 1887 Randolph, Cyrus T 1880 Ray, Robert W 1906 Record, Carrie A 1894 Record, Charles F 1897 Record, Grace O. (Flint) 1899 Record, Pearl 1903 Redmon, Blanche 1907 Redmon, James R 1907 Redmon, Minnie *..1901 Reed, Jessie G 1902 Reeme, Clara E. (Widick) 1888 Reeme, Emma (Davidson) . 1869 Renshaw, Cora (Keller) 1884 Reeve, Feme L 1907 Richardson, Claribelle 1902 Richmond, Mabel 1902 Riggin, Fred L 1903 Riley, Katherine Louise 1907 Risser, Hazel M 1904 Rixse, George Earle 1904 Rixse, Sadie 1896 Robbins, Ida Angeline 1902 Robbins, Mary E. (Ryder) 1880 Roberts, Alice 1867 Roberts, Carrie 1 1895 Roberts, Ira N. T 1892 Roberts, James M 1881 Roberts, L. Madeline 1893 Roberts, Ruth 1906 Robertson, Eugene Clifton 1902 Robertson, Paul F 1900 Robinson, Alice C. (Pitner) 1890 Robinson, John B 1887 Roby, Anne H. (Vincent) 1895 Roby, Frank C 1881 Roby, Kilbum H 1889 Roby, Luther E 1891 Roby, Mary Lois (Brown) 1885 Roe, Sallie (Baird) 1869 Roddy, Bertha J. (Lampkin) 1896 Rodgers, Edith Fay 1902 Rogan, Jonathan 1887 Rogan, Robert R 1882 Roney, Ralph T 1902 Ross, Albert Henry 1905 Ross, Edward W 1904 Ross, Flora Emma 1906 Rothfuss, William J 1896 Rubicam, Bertha M 1902 Ruckle, Inez E 1904 Ruckle, Rosa B 1893 Ruddock, Alice M 1902 Rudaock, Etta M 1897 Ruehl, Harold 1899 Ruehl, Max C 1894 Rugh, Hallie 1903 Rugh, Myrtle 1905 96 GENERAL REPORT Rupp, Alice Mae 1902 Russell, Annie E. (White) 1877 Russell, Lou (Crhze) 1884 Russell, William E 1906 Ryan, Abbie 1874 Ryan, Louis R 1903 Sanderlin, Leora (Smallwood) 1890 Sanders, R. Zink 1903 Sanders, Winnora E 1904 Sanderson, Christine (Conover) 1883 Sanderson, Sarah (Wilson) 1897 Sanford, Stella 1907 Sanner, Bessie (Clark) 1897 Sanner.Roy W 1899 Sanner, Clara (Foster) 1897 Sawyer, Elsie L. (Murray) 1904 Sawyer, Lida (Hayes) 1894 Sawyer, Roy G 1902 Scanlon, Mabel C 1900 Schroeder, Nell (Dunston) 1886 Schroeder, Thaddeus 1889 Schroll, Charles 1885 Schroll, Fred 1894 Schroll, Nell (Clark) 1890 Schudel, Robert C 1897 Schulz, Walter John 1903 Schutz, Mabel A 1902 Scott, Alverada J. (Foster) 1879 Scott, Augusta R 1901 Scott, Eunice (Chandler) 1893 Scott, Florence 1903 Scott, Pearl H 1895 Scovill, Ethel (Carpenter) 1896 Screeton, Amelia 1902 Search, Katherine 1882 Seiberling, Leah M 1901 Shade, Dorothy J 1907 Shade, Lewis William 1905 Shaffer, Laura (Morrison) 1894 Shaffer, Sallie 1894 Shea, John C 1891 Shea, Josie (Baum) 1876 Sheen, James G 1901 Shellabarger, Adele (Hillman) 1880 Shelley, Lafayette 1883 Shelley, Minnie E. (Rice) 1880 Shelley, Wesley W 1889 Shepherd, Annie (Witt) 1872 Sherrick, Elizabeh 1889 Sherrick, Kathleen (Huff) 1886 Shimer, Mabel R. (Cassell) 1895 Shirey, Willis Bion 1896 Shockley, Rella (Hurst) 1880 Shorb, Gertrude (Martin) 1888 Shultz, Wilhelmina 1877 Shumate, Frances Louise 1906 Shupp, Celia (Buchanan) 1875 Sikes, Geneva M 1900 Sikes, Irene (Smith) 1899 Sikking, Lucy 1904 Simon, Katherine E. (Pennington) 1891 Simon, Louise B 1895 Simon, Mary B (Whiting) 1890 Sinclair, Clarence E 1906 Sine, Audrey Josephine 1906 Sine, Litta M. (Freeman) 1901 Skelley, Sadie L 1899 Sly, Maurice Stanley 1906 Smeltzer, Mae M 1900 Smetters, Lida (Westerman) 1897 Smick, Mabel C 1891 Smith, Annie (Close) 1874 Smith, Chester A 1901 Smith, El win Jeston 1906 Smith, Fannie S (Gray) 1877 Smith, Gertrude (Huff) 1881 Smith, Jessie R 1893 Smith, Mary Elizabeth 1907 Smith, Mary Theresa 1901 Smith, Matt R 1883 Smith, Nellie B 1873 Smith, Virginia E (Hardy) 1£87 Smock, Walter F 1899 Snell, Pauline V 1906 Snyder, Ira Earle 1907 Snyder, Silas E 1888 Sollars, Jeanette (Crozier) 1885 Sollars, Lulu (Wheelock) 1877 Sollars, Maggie (Caldwell) 1870 Somerville, Asa C 1890 Spalding, Elizabeth 1897 Spangler, Carrie (Daniels) 1878 Spees, Clifford 1905 Spence, James 1888 Spencer, Bertha (Minor) 1891 Spencer, Estelle 1881 Spencer, Jessie 1881 Stadler, Harry N 1905 Stahl, Otto R .1903 Staley, Irene E 1905 Stamper, Alice (Martin) 1872 Stare, Clara E 1878 Stare, Lottie E(Fritz( 1885 Stare, Nonette (Hovey) 1895 Starr, Baldwin 1895 Starr, Esther Marie 1906. Stauffer, F. H. Marguerite 1899 Steele, Belle (Donahoe) 1887 Steele," Charles Moore 1897 Steele, Jessie R (Wangelin) 1888 Steinbach, Marie 1897 Stephens, Jessie (Page) .* 1880 Sterrett, Mary C 1897 Stevens, Edwin L 1887 Stevens, Harry Conklin 1897 Stevenson, Louise 1904 Stevenson, Mary Jessie 1896 Stevenson, William P 1900 Stewart, Bessye E 1904 Stewart, Frank H 1902 Stewart, Robert D 1882 Still, Celia Louise 1905 Still, Iva M 1901 Stivers, William M 1903 Stommell, Clara 1882 Stookey, Helen Florence 1900 Stookey, Marshall C 1900 Stout, Anna C 1901 Stout, Lilian M 1896 Stout, Mabel E 1901 Stoy, Maud (Klee) 1894 Strader, Edna L 1905 Strobel, D. Fred 1902 Stuart, Grace Lillian 1902 Stuart, M. Edna (Kenney) 1898 Stultz, Mary M. (Sanner) 1890 Summers, Albert T 1875 Sweeney, Angie T 1881 Sweeny, Lloyd J 1901 Swette, Jessie Lucretia 1900 Taylor, Frances L 1879 Taylor, Perley W 1881 Templeton, Ralph 1885 Terry, Elizabeth Allen 1907 Terry, Helena 1905 Thatcher, Mabel 1902 Thayer, Esther Louise 1900 Thomas, John W 1887 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 97 Thomas, Sallie R 1899 Thom, Mabel E 1903 Tinkler, Annie (Ward) 1881 Tobey, Litta 1897 Tolladay, Fred 1901 Tolladay, Mary (Starr) ...1896 Towl, Elizabeth Ruth 1898 Towl, Elmer 1888 Towne, Laura 1906 Trainer, Amanda.. (Mann) 1895 Troutman, Bertha 1899 Troutman, Jeanette 1905 Troutman, Jennie (Albert) 1882 Troutman, Katherine 1903 Tucker, Florence J 1905 Tucker, Susie (Jones) 1899 Tullis, Laura (Derrickson) 1896 Turner, Harry 1895 Turner, Helen 1905 Turner, Sallie (Craig) 1877 Tuttle, Alonzo H 1891 Tuttle, Annie E (Phelps) 1879 Tuttle, Mary A. (McFarland) 1891 Tyler, Alice S 1877 Ullrich, John 1878 Ullrich, Lena (Ewing) 1890 Ullrich, Luetta (Bumstead) 1887 Underwood, Cornelia B 1891 Usrey, Ella 1878 Vail, Bryant 1897 Vail, Robert P 1895 Valentine, Ruth (Johnson) 1901 VanBuskirk, Edna 1906 VanCleve, Arthur 1904 Van Cleve, Edith Joy 1907 VanDeventer, Florence 1907 VanGilder, Harry 1902 VanGuilder, Arthur 1900 VanMeter, Edith < 1907 VanRiper, Myrtle (Keough) 1885 Varner, Myrtle (Millizen) 1874 Vermillion, Charles Edward, 1898 Vermillion, Ellen M. (Myers) 1896 Vestal, John L 1870 Vetterliet, Anna S 1893 Vigus, James Blair 1896 Voelcker, John J 1896 Voelcker, Rosa 1894 VonEnde, Clara 1905 Votaw, Jennie Marguerite 1907 Waddell, John L 1900 Waddell, Wilkie Logan 1902 Wade, Jessie M. (Peck) 1895 Waggoner, Josephine (Baird) 1897 Wait, Arthur 1890 Wait, Clarence 1885 Wait, Fao 1900 Walker, Frank 1903 Walker, Grace (Yohe) 1896 Walker, Leona T 1905 Wallace Edith M 1898 Wallace, Maud B 1897 Wallace, Myra Belle (Bowen) 1901 Wallace, Victoria (Arthur) 1888 Walston, Dora (Johnson) 1882 Walter, James H 1906 Waltz, J. Foster T 1895 Wamecke, J. Henry 1900 Warren, Besssie Margaret 1907 Warren, Nellie F 1901 Warwick, Lela A 1897 Washburn, Fritz LeRoy 1902 Watkins, Alice F 1907 Watkins, Carl L 1905 Watkins, Moses A 1900 Watson, Dora E 1904 Waughop, Dora E. (Severance) 1873 Wayne, Frances Effie (Parrish) 1901 Wayne, Gertrude (Kemper) 1892 Wayne, Mabel A 1894 Wayne, William A 1904 Webber, Margaretha 1907 Webster, Ida (Shultz) 1892 Weems, Thomas Buck 1898 Weigand, Emma R 1887 Welfley.'Maud R 1899 Wells, Frank 1880 Welsh, Savilla Blanch (Munsie) 1905 Wentz, Anna E. (Irvin) 1887 West, Edith T 1903 Westerman, Augusta (Schroll) 1885 Westerman, Fritz 1883 Westerman, H. Theo 1886 Westerman, Julius T 1889 Westerman, Max 1883 Westerman, Will L.. 1890 Westhafer, Lollie C 1907 Weyl, Clara A 1890 Wheeler, Luella Esther 1899 Wheeler, Myrtle 1895 White, Carrie Louise 1900 White, Clara May 1899 White, Ida M. (Gay) 1895 White, Laura 1892 Whitmer, Alberta (Byrne) 1887 Whitmer, Cora (McNabb) 1886 Whitsit, Beulah 1882 Whitsit, Jesse E 1891 Whitsit, Laura Gertrude (Page) 1886 Wiefel, L. Irene 1900 Wiefel, M. Margaret 1900 Wikoff, Jennie Fay 1901 Wikoff, Jesse L 1898 Wiley, Ethelyn 1907 Wilhelmy, Nellie (Pease) 1895 Wilhelmy, Orville 1901 Wilhelmy, Sylvester 1897 Wilking, Maud (Hoover) 1901 Willard, Edith 1902 Williams, Cordelia (Downing) 1897 Williams, Emmaretta (Hopkins) 1867 Williams, Estelle Verne 1897 Williams, Guy W 1895 Williams, Lucy Lavinia 1900 Williams, Margaret (Cake) 1887 Williams, Mattie (Thompson) 1884 Williams, Maurice Guy 1899 Williams, Mollie (Muzzy) 1885 Williams, Sybil L 1901 Williams, Wayne C 1897 Wilson, Bessie Belle 1900 Wilson, Blanch (Morrell) 1884 Wilson, Charles C 1890 Wilson, Mabel E 1891 Wilson, Mae Belle 1905 Wilson, Roy R 1894 Wilson, Sarah (Mills) 1895 Wingate, Bettie (Lindamood) 1876 Wingate, George A 1877 Winslow, James A 1887 Wise, Clara M 1905 Wise, Howard H 1905 Wise, Leonard E 1902 Wise, Mary (Burks) 1876 Wiswell, Jesse 1885 Wittlinger, Emma M 1901 Witzeman, Edgar 1901 Witzeman, Luella 1907 98 GENERAL REPORT Witzeman, William A 1903 Wohlfarth, Jennie Pearl 1901 Wolfer, John A 1899 Wood, Ardie (Righter) 1895 Wood, Charles M 1899 Wood, Harriet W 1897 Wood, Irene 1895 Wood, Mamie T. (Armstrong) 1881 Wood, Margaret Alice (Dinges) 1896 Wood, Mary W. (Forrester) 1891 Wood, Will 1884 Woodford, Edna M 1897 Woodford, Frances M 1891 Woodruff, Wilson B 1891 Wortham, Nellie Lura 1901 Wright, Louise 1900 Wright, Nellie H 1901 Yaeck, Bertha 1905 Yates, Charles Richard 1903 Young, Bessie 1 1895 Young, Bess Nell 1899 Young, Jennie (Pratt) 1874 Young, Madge A 1903 Young, Samuella 1903 Zimmerly, Claude Kyle 1901 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 99 IN CONCLUSION It had been Mr. Gastman’s plan to retire from active service Sep- tember 1, 1907, and then to prepare a report covering his entire admin- istration, giving a detailed account of the years from 1900-1907. His sudden and unexpected death in August, however, prevented him from carrying out his plans and the work of writing the report devolved upon some one else. It has been the aim of the compiler to have this report conform to the one issued by Mr. Gastman. in 1900. A careful perusal of the foregoing pages will show that the schools had a wonderful development under Mr. Gastman’s administration. He took charge here when there was only one school house and some branch schools and a force of twenty-three teachers. At the close of his term of service there were thirteen buildings and a force of one hundred fifteen teachers. More than three hundred forty thousand dollars had been expended for erecting school buildings and more than two million dollars for carrying on the work of the schools. The course of study of the grades was enriched from time to time by the addition of music, drawing, physical culture, construction work, manual training, knife-work and sewing. The work of the high school is of so high a standard that the leading universities have placed it on the accredited list, while its courses in cooking and manual training have won the hearts of those who are skeptical as to the value of a high school offering only cultural courses. These innovations were made so gradually and so unobstrusively that the public was hardly aware of them, and quite unconscious of the infinite patience and tremendous labor required to make them. Since 1 865 five hundred twenty-five teachers have helped to carry on the work of the schools and one thousand four hundred seventy-seven young men and young women have completed the high school course. Who will ever be able to estimate what Mr. Gastman’s forty-five years have meant to this community? He needs not our praises. The kindly affection with which the hundreds of men and women associated with him in school work remember him, is a greater tribute to his memory than any eulogy which we might utter, and the Decatur schools , which he organized into the present system , are a monument more lasting and of greater significance and importance than any which we might erect. Table Showing the Number of Pupils and Teachers and the Cost Per Pupil; Also the Number in the High School from 1900-1907. Amount Raised for School Purposes. $68 ,500 .44 65 ,826 .24 79 ,859 .06 79 ,905 .31 130,913.62 100 ,785 .05 135 ,689 .63 School Tax-rate CO 00 00 t-h O 1-H 1> CD -i>oot^r^ Assessed Valua- tion of Property. $3 ,976 ,494 3 ,916 ,500 3 ,467 ,739 3 ,457 ,135 3,609,218 3,962,198 4,224,942 Total l cq in i— i oo © oo co 1 © 03 Tfl © TtUO No. of Graduates c S £ oujr-i^Hcqoo © no © 00 © CO CO 8 § > o CQ OOOOOi-HOOOO ©©©©©t^.© Oq Oq r-l ,-H ,-H rH ,-H t>r- HrtrlHHHH Number Teachers Employed -U>