1913 Granite City High School Yearbook in Madison County, Illinois * The Sphinx '13

The 1913 Sphinx

By EDWARD PLATO. 

ITHIN the last two months, while seeking adds for the Imp, questions such as : why do you print an annual ? Is it of any value 

to Granite City? Will it pay? Have been asked. 

It is the intention of all nature and of the Heavenly Father 
that every deed and every life should have a fitting close. We 
have passed four years of our High School Career. We are now 
ready to take a fresh start into the world’s work. We have, as it were, run the 

first part of our race after success, and, as the Patriarchs of old thought it well 

to set up altars in the wilderness to show others how they were progressing spiritually and financially, so we thought it fitting and proper that we should have a 
mile stone from which we can in days to come measure the distance we have run 
toward our goal. This ANNUAL therefore is printed to mark the close of our 
school life and the beginning of a wider and better life which is to follow. 

Men from all parts of the globe flock to Granite City to work in its many 
mills and factories. Its granite and steel wares are found everywhere. We 
have won renown thru our factories and St. David’s Chorus. But much as 
these things advertise our town, the excellency of its schools will do more 
toward drawing the best type of citizenship within its borders than anything 
else. This ANNUAL will be sent to different parts of the U. S. and will show 
in a small measure what has been accomplished by the normal graduate of our 
High School. It will give the reader an idea of the business training that our 
graduates receive. It has real literary value and must serve as the best of advertisement Granite City could possibly have. 

Now I have come to the last question. A question that is put to us at 
every turn of the road: “Will it Pay? Will it pay the Seniors? The under- 
graduates? The advertiser? WILL IT PAY?” Everything in this work- 
a-day world of ours is measured by the pay standard. Men and women every- 
where are concentrating practically all of their time and efforts on doing 
something that will pay, and we have followed in their wake and have made 
this ANNUAL a success: have made it pay. It has paid us financially, but 
that is the smallest part of the deal. It has paid the advertiser, for advertising always pays in dollars and cents plus the satisfaction it gives the mer- 
chant that he has helped along a good and noble enterprise. The value of 
this Year Book to the High School pupils is not to be measured in the pleasure 
of instruction we get out of it now, but its true worth will come to us in 
after years, when we are scattered to the utmost parts of the earth and all 
we shall have to connect our school days with life then will be the “IMP,” 
in which we can see the likenesses of those we once knew. It is then that we 
Mill recall the deeds done M’hile in the G. C. II. S. and in the gay, studious 
life surrounding it. The jokes will then bring a new joy to our M T ork and if 
some one of us has not done his best in the past, who knoM's but that the 
sight of some familiar face may inspire him to attain a higher ideal. If 
this book should in any way give is a lift noM r and then as M r e journey along 
it M’ill have paid us in goods that cannot be measured in time or money but 
only in eternity.Members Board of Education 

J. ODUM QUINCY MATHIS 

Mr. Prohardt — He knew himself to sing and build lofty rhyme. 

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JOHN SELB 
Treasurer of Board 

J. R. BEALE
FRED WAGNER

A. F. HOWE O. PRIMROSE 

Mr. Ward — Stately and tall he moves through the hall. Up much too high 

to hear any one call. 

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INEZ HIGHFILL 
History 

G. W. WARD 
Science and Mathematics 

Mr. Atwood — The very pine-apple of lady-likeness. 
EMMA WEST 
Commercial 

XV. H. ATWOOD 
Science 

PERRY H. H1LES 
Principal of High School 
Mathematics 

BESSIE MORGAN 
Assistant Music Teacher 

FLORINE HENSON 
Music 

Mr. Hiles — Thou canst not speak of that thou doest not feel. 

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Editorial staff 

Edw. J. Plato 
Ethel Holdinhaus 
Christy Baechtold 
Ruth E. Ellison 
Grace Odum 
Charles Foehse 
Mable Riggs 
Katherine Rath - 
William Evans - 

Editor-in-Chief 
Associate Editor 
Business Manager 

Athletics 
 Literary 
Staff Cartoonist. 

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EDWARD PLATO 

RUTH ELLISON GRACE ODUM 

Frank Ih Ihrl — I am going out into the cemetery to see the world. 

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CHARLES FOEHSE 

KATHERINE RATH 

Trevor Lewis — Silence often gets the best of 

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Class itlotto: A Day Unsealed with Sunset 
Class Jflotoer: American Beauty Rose 
Class Colors: IVine and Champagne 
Charlie Watson — I know I am good looking but I don’t go around and 

blow about it. 

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Class Officers 

ARTHUR REIMERS 
Treasurer 

Elza Wells — The laughing animal istnan. 

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Mentors; 

HELEN WATKINS 

Far lovelier than the roses in their prime. 
By voice excels the closes of sweetest 
rhyme. 

EARNEST ROBERTSON 
An athlete of rare quality. 

CHARLES FOEHSE 

Silence is the college yell of the school of 
experience. 

PEARL ROSENBERG 

I am resolved to grow fat and look young 
’till forty. 

Martha Evans — I have only a girl’s reason — I think so because I think him so. 

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FAIRY DUNCAN 

Fairy, Fairy, you are too wise, too wise, too 
wise for your size. 

Dora Reimers — With tears and laughter for all time. 

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DAISY PICK 

With her curl so fair and quaint, 
And her eyes of innocence. 
Beauteous as any saint 

Free from folly or pretense. 

MABEL RIGGS 

'Tis time to curb the passions maddening 
sway and wipe the mourner's bitter tears 
away. 

ETHEL HOLDINGHAUS 
Wearing all the weight of learning lightly, 
like a flower. 

LETHA COMER 
And well she can persuade. 

Priscilla Davis — This bud of love, by summer’s opening breath, may prove a 
beauteous flower when next we meet. 

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WELLA MUELLER 

Many a girl with a soft voice possesses a 
marble heart. 

BE A COOLY 

Put off until tomorrow the worrying you 
might do today. 

MARGARET VOIGHT 
She only said, "My life is dreary, 
he cometh not.” 

BESSIE MILLER 

She either poses, supposes, or imposes. 

Miss Higkfill — A foot more light, a step more true, ne’er from the heath 

flower brushes the dew. 

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ARTHUR REIMERS 

I put on a sober habit, talk with respect and 
swear once in a while. 

CHRISTY BAECHTOLD 
Thy eye love’s lightning bears. 
Thy voice is awful thunder. 

GRACE ODUM 

When some people know their duty they 
manage to stave it off, by asking advice. 

EVERETT TOSH 

Success comes from work oftener than it 
does from good luck. 

Mix West  i remember, oh I remember bow my childhood fleeted by. 

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RUA PERRY 

The successful person Is honored and envied. 

EDWARD HOMMERT 
A moral, sensible, and well bred man. 

RUBY HUBER 

I talk half the time to find out my own 
thoughts. 

KATHERINE RATH 

Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer. 
And tell me whereto ye can liken it? 
Rex Vaughn — A little, round, fat oily man of nature. 

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RUTH ELLISON 
I read your fortune in your eye. 

WILL LEWIS 

Brainy men always win success. 

ED. PLATO 

Every time a wise man makes a mistake he 
learns something. 

TINA McKEAN 

Marriage is a sure cure for flattery. My I 
must hurry and get a man. 

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WILLIAM EVANS 

Staff Cartoonist 

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Class; History of 1913 

By Makgi ebite Voigut. 

N A FEW days our school life will have passed into memory. 
The goal we have been seeking together will have been reached, 
the farewells spoken and we shall he scattered afar. However, 
before our leave-taking, permit us to relate a few of the experiences, that are uppermost in our thoughts. 

Of our Freshman year we have nothing, of much interest 
to say, for most of us were timid and fearful of the new ground on which we 
had to tread, but even so, we braved the photographer and had our pictures 
taken for the Senior Annual. 

As Sophomores we were exceptionally brilliant. Within two weeks after 
school had begun, we bad learned to enter classes a minute tardy as leisurely as 
a Senior, and also in response to the teacher’s query, to say, “I don’t know,” in 
a manner that would make even the Juniors envious. 

By the time we became Juniors our mental abilities were beginning to be 
recognized very deservedly, for it is rumored some of us were Juniors twice. 
The latter, however, is tradition and not history. This year, though, is marked 
by its many social functions, the most enjoyable of which was the reception 
given by the Junior Class, May 23, 1912. To the stirring music of the orchestra, 
the merry company pledged anew their friendship and their loyalty to G. C. H. S. 
This event marked the closing of our Junior year, and a few nights later, we 
recognized ourselves as Seniors. 

We had now reached the happy stage, which had been the dream of our 
childhood, the ambition of our youth, and the goal of our High School life. As a 
class, we have accomplished many great and noble deeds, which we may well 
attribute to our large number and to our great strength of intellect. Like other 
classes, we have passed through the chambers of the dead languages, and it has 
been our chief delight to recite ‘‘Gallia est omnes divisa in partes tres,” etc. 

We have also become proficient in the study of English. Some of us. while 
we have not reached the mark of Demosthenes and Cicero, can be accredited with 
possessing, at least, an inclination toward oratory. Also, the Shakespearean 
dramas have been studied and commented upon, with the ease and freedom of 
the world’s greatest literary critics. The entire class have bathed in the IDO 
of Science to their head’s content, and the vast field of Mathematics has been well 
surveyed, and we have each received our portion. 

It would be useless, indeed, to attempt a complete account of what the class 
has done, but, most important of all, it has survived. As a class, our work is 
finished, and now we stand prepared for another long campaign, in which we 
can no longer advise and cheer each other, but each must rely on his own efforts 
to achieve success. No longer shall we see those happy smiling faces, and no 
longer will their familiar voices be heard as we tread our daily path. But such 
must be. So we part from each other with a hearty grip and a cheery farewell. 

Edith Harrison — I am the very circumstance and impulse — blown away 

with the wind. 

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Class Officers 

President 

GIRARD VARNUM 

Vice-President 

 ALBERT BUSCH 

Secretary 

HENRY FECHTE 

Treasurer 

MARY COWAN 

Juniors 

Beale, Mildred 

Rigg. Wilfred 

Costley, Faith 

Rode, Amos 

Cowan, Mary 

Thomas, Wm. 

Cowan, Martha 

Varnum, Girard 

Deterding, Henry 

Williams, Oswald 

Fechte, Henry 

Wilson, Russel 

Houck, Gladys 

lluxel, Chas. 

Ibbotson, Bessie 

Gaylord, Elmer 

Jones, Ruth 

Wells, Elza 

Kelahan, Joe 

Coudy, Georgia 

Lawin, Edna 

Russell, Bea 

McKean, Claud 

Harris, Lloyd 

Morgan, Ceridwen 

Elmore, Fred 

Pick, Hetty 

Jones, Wm. 

Rader, Maud 

 “Our hands have met, and 

now our hearts.”

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class
By Letiia Comer 

THE class of 13 of Granite City High School, Second ward, 
Xameoki Township, County of Madison, State of Illinois, 
United States of America, on this the twenty-eighth day of 
May, in the year of our Lord, nineteen-hundred and thirteen, 
being of sound mind and memory but mindful of the briefness 
of time with which you Juniors are to be blessed with the 
the perfect embodiment of brilliancy contained in the class of 
13, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, 
revoking all former wills made by us. 

First, it is our just will that the class of T3 do reserve the sum of nineteen 
cents to be used for the purchase of a handsome wedding present for each of the 
present faculty, who will, in the future, become members of God’s greatest institution. the home. Grave fears may exist that this generous sum is here misap- 
plied, but we Seniors who know the loving and attractive characteristics of our 
beloved faculty do know wherein we bestow. 

To our Junior baby, Claude McKean, we do give, devise and bequeath 
our “Senior baby,’ Arthur Reimer’s cherished play things, including his doll, 
mummy and button-hook, given him by the girls of the Physical Geography 
class, hoping Claude will appreciate our baby’s toys next to Gladys Houck. 

We do hereby present to Miss Yenovieve Hazel Mariah Caton. forever and 
ever, amen, Tina McKean’s chewing gum, trusting that when Hazel retires a 
Senior she will have an ample sufficiency to supply her until the adoption of 
some other cud to chew that affords her the pleasure of her favorite brand the 
“Gee- Whiz.’’ 

lo Marguerite \ oight we cheerfully tender the board used in the laboratory, 
by Mr. Atwood, to abolish pilfering, for her special use in smoothing out the eight 
curls of Daisy Pick, to be used for a wig for Prof. Perry Houston Hiles. 

lo ( hristie Baechtold we do bequeath Eddie Hommert’s clod shoes, straw 
hat and hickory shirt for serviceable wear in the future, in a botanical garden 
and agricultural station in Nameoki. 

lo Miss Mabel Eugenia Riggs we, with great confidence, will the hostile 
dominion of Old Mexico to be converted by her, to the Baptist faith, so that the 
citizens of that country may aspire and not conspire to be president. 

To Grace Odum we hereby will, devise ami bequeath, Bill Lewis, until death 
do them part, realizing that Grace's romantic day dreams can best develop in 
such a setting of harmony as the ultra-sweet tempered aptitude of mind possessed by our dear Bill. 

Miss Furnas — “I am not anchored. I never shall be, for I am sailing on 
the class of infinitive sea.’’ 

association of 

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With (Earnest) sincerity we, the Senior (Mass tender our most profound 
felicitations to Ruby. 

To our Senior dwarf, Ruth Ellison, we bestow Ethel McReynolds superfluous height. In order that our Herculean athlete, Ed Plato, may not grow 
stooped and avoid the dangers to health, that beset an ardent lover who must 
look down in courting. 

Having the greatest desire to please the recipients of these various benefactions, the class of 1913, do hereby will, devise and bequeath all the chicness and 
artistic knowledge of modern fashion in dress to Helen Watkins, for use in her 
chosen vocation as a connoisseur in the art of dress in the Frenchy-American 
modiste's salon. 

It is our just will and testament that all the rest, residue and remainder of 
our estate, including faculty, marks, seats, books, lands, tenaments, hereditaments, all rights, title and interest, in and to the McKinley High School, any part 
thereof, and all moneys, love-notes and other securities, now belonging to us or 
in our possession, at the time we depart from this life, are hereby heartily given 
to the class of ’14, to be used by them for a “spread,” to be held at such place 
and such time as would afford safety of life from molestation and attack. 

The class of ’13 tenders their sincere gratitude to the Faculty and Hoard of 
Education for their kindness and their tolerance of whatever uncongenial quali- 
ties of mind or manner we may have had during the past four years. 

We leave you with deep regret and not unmindful, that whatever of con- 
sequence we are or may become, we owe much to you, for your careful training ot 
us, mentally, physically anti morally, hence, we will to you, the sentiments contained in our poem of blessing : 

The pains-taking efforts by you to us given 
We promise shall not be in vain. 

Your kindness and patience like true gifts from heaven, 

We’ll cherish along with your name. 

When dark clouds of doubt o’ershadow us all 
And the mist seems to darken the way, 

Your love will pierce through the gloomy wall, 

Like a star with its beacon ray. 

So now as we bid farewell to you, 

We will leave our love behind 

That in future years, when in distant climes, 

We may meet in the realm of mind. 

Dated at Granite City High School this 28th day of May, A. D. 1913, by the 
Senior Class. 

Witnessed by 

Rufus Andicott, Truant Officer. 

Leonard Graham, Janitor. 

Miss Henson — When I tell all I know, there’s one thing I don’t know, 
and why, it is hard to tell. 

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Class Officers 
President TREVOR LEWIS 
Vice-President CHARLES WATSON 
Secretary ESTHER SCOTT 
Treasurer HILDA KOHL 

Members 
BETHEL, FRANK 
BOYER, LOUISE 
BRAMER, MAX 
CATON, HAZEL 
COMPTON, BRYAN 
COSTLEY, PAULINE 
DUFFY, GLADYS 
EILER, MAE 
ELMORE, EDITH 
FLEISHMAN, SAMUEL 
FROHARDT, IRWIN 
GISLER, LUELLA 

Mary Cowan — Thinkest thou Heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee 
'tis not half so fair as thou. 

HARRISON, RANDLE MUELLER, EMIL 

HARRISON. EDITH REIMERS, DORA 

HOLDINGHAUS, EVERETT REYNOLDS, PEARL 

IRWIN, RALPH 
KOENIG, VICTOR 
KOHL, HILDA 
LEWIS, WILLIAM 
LEWIS, TREVOR 
LUCKERT, RAYMOND 
McREYNOLDS, RUTH 
MILLER, EARL 
MOREFIELD, MILDRED 
MORGAN, ETHEL 
SCOTT, ROY 
SCOTT, ESTHER 
TAFF, VIRGIA 
THEIS, EDWARD 
VAUGHN, HOLLAND 
VAUGHN, REXFORD 
WATSON, CHARLES 
WILLIS, HARRY 
WINDSOR, LEO 

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Class Officers 

President EDGAR LEWIS 

Vice-President MARTHA EVANS 

Secretary-Treasurer ZELLA BANDY 

Members 

Bandy, Zella 
Beckett, Madelon 
Brown, Cornelia 
Butler, Fred 
Davis, Priscilla 
Doering, Dorothy 
Evans, Martha 
Eichelberger, Clarence 
Handfelder, Rena 
Holmes, Virgie 
Huff, Earl 
Jones, Anna 
Kaiser. Irene 
Keep. Elizabeth 

Violet, Orlando 
Kogel, Carrie 
Kristian, Michael 
Kunneman, Edw 
Lennartz, Josephine 
Lewis, Edgar 
Massar, Leona 
Miller, Bertha 
Rhoades. Mae 
Ryrie, Mildred 
Santa, Victor 
Smith, Finas 
Taylor, Monroe 
Westlake, Win. 
Whaling, Katherine 

Ainbacher, Ruth 
Ead, Edna 
Gobble, Myron 
Heely, Gladys 
Krautheim, Win. 
Bindley, Kenneth 
Martin, Robert 
McGeever, Floyd 
Mitehel, Claud 
Morgan, Muriel 
Mueller, Alva 
Opdenhoff, Harold 
Pfroender, Margaret 
Smith, Irma 
Williams, Katie 

Mildred Btale — Love is a desperate thing. 

Salutatory Ibbresisi 

By Daisy Pick. 

THE REWARD OF A NOBLE LIFE. 
YOU the friends and kindred of the class of 1913 I extend my 
heartiest welcome. Perhaps we may never assemble again as 
we are assembled tonight. Tomorrow we shall scatter and each 
will take up some duty which will tend to separate us more and 
more as the years pass by. Tomorrow we will no longer be the 
Seniors of the Granite City High School; but we will be a part 
of the Alumni of the G. C. II. S. 

We have at last reached that stage in life at which we must enter upon the 
greater joys and sorrows of this broad and extensive world. Tonight we are 
standing on the threshold of a greater and higher school. Our school days of 
the past may have been tiresome at times and some of us may have been discouraged. Yet as we toil onward in life I trust we may look back upon them as 
the happiest ever spent. 

Tonight we will step out of a school in which we have been so faithfully led 
and taught by our willing teachers, into another school, known as life, in which 
our only tutor will be experience. What this future school has in store for us 
we know not. But of this we can be sure; that the lessons and problems set 
before us in this the greatest of all schools, will be harder by far than those of 
previous years. There may be many a failure and many a struggle for each one 
of us. Yet may we not be discouraged. But let us strive ever onward, that each 
hardship with which we must contend may only strengthen us with the determination of accomplishing that which we have purposed to attain. What ever 
may be our employment in life or what ever our course may be, let us each toil 
onward and upward to gain at last the reward of a noble life. And what is the 
reward of a noble life? By reward I do not mean that which we shall receive 
after this temporary existence. But I am speaking of that which the world offers 
to each noble life. It is success. It may bring neither fame nor glory, it may 
not bring power or wealth, but it does bring to us the conviction that we have 
performed our duty in this life to the best of our ability. What greater reward 
can we desire? It is that knowledge which brings peace and happiness to the life 
of each one of us. It is that knowledge which tells us that we have accomplished 
some great aim in life. And the greatest aim of every one of us should be, to live 
an honest, virtuous, and a noble life. 

And now what shall we do to gain this reward? First of all let us remember 
that nothing can be accomplished without an aim ; he who has no aim has no 

Fred Ellmore — Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. 

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ambition and therefore is not worthy to live in this world and partake of its joys 
and happiness. To him who has no aim, success shall never come. Life will he 
a burden to him and his days on earth will bring no reward. 

Therefore to attain the reward of a noble life we must have some aim for the 
future. It does not mean that we strive for some high position, for wealth, for 
fame, for honor, but that we above all strive for usefulness. Should our task 
be a lowly one, if it requires noble deeds it shall bring on sequel reward. 

And now to the members of the class of ’13 may the aim be to live so as to 
obtain the reward of a noble life. May we each remember that only our thoughts 
and deeds of the present shall determine our life of the future. That the attain- 
ment of success shall be won by the accomplishment of the little things as well as 
the great things of life. May we each remember that nature has endowed each 
one of us with those gifts through which we are able to attain success as we 
would desire it. Thus our lives will be what we make them. And if we make 
them what they should be, success shall come at length as the reward of each 
noble life. 

Life is a leaf of paper white, 

Whereon each one of us may write 
Ilis word or two and then conies night. 
Greatly begin ! Though thou have time 
But for a line, be that sublime — 

Not failure, but low aim is crime. 

Georgia Coudy — So haughty and aloof, she seems, of love she never even 
dreams. 

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Class poem 
By Mabel, E. Riggs. 

As o’er the horizon the rosy dawn peeps. 

Revealing the glories of morn, 

Never wearied by progress time gently creeps, 

On its endless orbit of time. 

The flowers are all freshly covered with dew, 

And above in the tinted sky, 

Our minds are impressed by the clouds’ varied hue, 

T’is a day unsealed with sunset. 

Then the sunshine dispels the beauteous morn. 

With brilliant radiant rays 
It attempts with its light, the day to adorn ; 

And dispels all the beauties of dawn, 

It caused the grass and the flowers to grow; 

And it drives away all the gloom ; 

What Fate has in store for us, we do not know, 

The day is unsealed with sunset. 

Sometimes the dark clouds will o’er shade the sun-light 
And weary the day then may seem, 

We feel so despondent, our hopes all take flight, 

The sunshine is driven away. 

Is nature not perfect in all of her works? 

The flowers sometimes need the rain 
No doubt such provision in the dark clouds lurks, 

For day is unsealed with sunset. 

Each one of our lives, is like this fleeting day 
So filled with numerous changes, 

It sheds its bright sunlight as does the sun’s ray 
And seems fresh and sweet in its youth. 

T’is like all the flowers fast fading away ; 

Time stops not one moment to rest ; 

How oft, we would stop it for just one brief stay 
That day, be unsealed with sunset. 

Dear friends ! all the moments we waste here, are gone, 

They are like pearls cast before swine 
They are gone then, forever just like the dawn. 

And the sunset will come too soon. 

There is much to accomplish; is this not true? 

Each pearl should be prized, at its worth, 

May glory and honor reward all you do 
While day is unsealed with sunset. 

Will Thomas — Still sticking his nose into this and that. 

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Class
By Arthur Reimers. 

EVOLUTION OF TRANSPORTATION IN UNITED STATES. 

RANSPORTATION has evolved aloug four distinct lines, water 
navigation, railroad, vehicles and air navigation. In the early 
history of our country, when it was uninhabited by the white 
people the Indian, then the master of this country in his uncivilized state, carried on transportation by means of the canoe 
and horse. The canoe marks the highest degree of development 
that he attained. 

When Columbus discovered America he used small sail boats which would 
today be considered for use on small bodies of water only. The weight of each 
boat was about two or three hundred tons. From then on until 1807 most of 
the transportation was carried on by the sail boats. In the same year Robert 
Fulton, of New York, made the first successful voyage down the Hudson in the 
steamer, “Clermont.” Man thought this was impossible but was convinced 
when he saw the vessel moving slowly from the shore. One year later a regular 
steamboat line was established between New York and Albany. Within five 
years steam ferries were introduced in New York and Philadelphia and the 
steam vessels were running on the Delaware. In 1819 the “Savannah,” voyaged 
from New York to Savannah and thence to Liverpool. It was not long after this 
until they were introduced on the western rivers. People began to realize the im- 
portance of transportation by water and it increased to such a great extent that 
in 1823 the Erie Canal was built. However the steamboat was not used much on 
this canal as the low flatboat drawn by horses and mules was used. In 1840 the 
first regular steamboat was established from Boston to Liverpool. About this 
time the people lost interest in canal building, but their interest in ocean naviga- 
tion increased. The development of the steamship from this time on is not sur- 
passed by another of the achievements of our age. They are built in many dif- 
ferent designs as the freight steamer, which conveys freight, the whalebacks of 
the Great Lakes, for ores and the flat steamers for general merchandise. A 
modern steamer is like a great floating hotel with its drawing rooms, lobbies, 
wireless telegraph and the daily newspapers. Navigation on water has reached 
its climax in the building of the Panama canal which is to be completed in the 
near future. Thus the eastern and western part of the United States will be 
brought 12,000 to 13,000 miles closer. It will work hand in hand with the central 
states as the Mississippi river system touches twenty of them. 

The next great step in transportation was the railways. The first tramway 
was built in 1807 in Boston and vicinity. The ears were drawn by horses but 
were replaced by the imported steam locomotive. In 1820 Peter Cooper built 

Henry Fechte — I am monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to 
dispute. 

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an American locomotive for the Baltimore and Ohio Company. A few years 
later the first long road was built from Charleston to Hamburg, covering 136 
miles. Tiie growth was very rapid and was aided in many ways by the government. In 1830 there were only 23 miles; 1860, 30.000 miles; 1880, 93,000 
miles, and 1900. 190,000 miles. In 1873 the building of railroads was the most 
extensive. An enormous capital was invested which caused the panic. Co-operating with the railways are express and freight companies. The express companies, which furnish rapid transportation for small packages, were organized 
locally, but are now conducted by a number of separate companies. As a result 
of this the rates are very high. The freight companies, which furnish transportation for larger and heavier articles, seem to favor the larger companies by giving them lower rates. This was stopped by the Interstate Commerce Commis-sion. Our mail system also works hand in hand with the railroads. It is one of 
the greatest of the day for our fast trains carry the mail from one part of the 
l nited States to another in a very short time. Recently the government adopted 
the Parcel Post which is a means of carrying small packages by mail. It is in 
the hands of the government and as a result the rates are very low. Almost 
every civilized nation has adopted this system. The electric lines are now coming 
into use. The cost of installing a line is very small compared with that of the 
steam road. The electric traction has proved to be a real boon to the country 
dwellers. The New York Central has electrified some suburban lines out of New 
York with gratifying results. 

Among the first means of transportation was the horse and wagon, which 
was used to a great extent, but the cost of maintaining the former has brought in 
the bicycle and automobile. They have been increasing very rapidly. Statistics 
show that in 1906 alone the total number of motor vehicles of all kinds produced 
in the United States were 32.000, the total number in use, 80,000. These 
vehicles can be made into almost any shape or form as a result 1,000 electric 
trucks, 2,000 electric delivery wagons are used in United States, giving varying 
satisfaction. Dozens of railroads have built motor cars for suburban rail service. 

In spite of the automobile some men have succeeded, after much experimening, in inventing an aeroplane. There are many accidents and deaths due to the 
aeroplane which hinder its progress, but nevertheless it is claimed that it will in 
some day be as useful as the automobile. The government is now experimenting 
with the aeroplane in the army department in hope that it will be of a benefit 
in case of war. This all has been the work of man and in praising him remember 
that all his power comes from one mightier than he. 

In conclusion we can readily see that the means of transportation are the 
arteries of American business and social life. The effect of the evolution of 
transportation is that space and time are annihilated, distant places are connected. goods and persons are easily transported, and communication between 
distant places established. 

Charles Huxel — One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

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Mortal €bentsi 

By Katijerin Rath and Mabel Riggs. 

HALLOW ’EN PARTY. 

BE SENIORS had not had a party up until the latter part of 
October, and as Hallow ’en was near they decided to have a Hal- 
low ’en Party. 

The Juniors heard of the party and felt slighted because 
they had not been invited. Their actions made us suspicious 
and we locked the doors to the Gym, and nailed the windows 
shut. Some promised to be at the Gym at 6:30 as guards. 

Imagine their surprise when they arrived there to find the Juniors had 
already preceded them. They had a small boy in their crowd who had crawled 
into the Gym through a broken pane and had made an opening for them. 

They loosened the light globes, carried off the electric button to the switch 
and had concealed the ladders. They were attempting to get into the room 
where the eats were when the janitor came suddenly into their midst. Then 
they ran away. 

The doors had to be locked, after each senior had been admitted, to keep 
these prowlers out. When Miss Martin and all the Seniors had arrived, and 
even Mr. Frohardt came to guard the building from any harm the Juniors might 
inflict, we played games and enjoyed the music and especially the wedding 
march, since Arthur Riemers and Wella Miller headed the procession. 

Junior boys, Claude McKean, Lloyd Ilarrisand Wilfred Riggsclimbed 
into the upper school window. Claude was caught and taken below, later Lloyd 
was captured and Wilfred losing his courage scrambled out the window. Lloyd 
was tied with ropes, but the girls plead for him to be released. Then the Senior 
boys marched the two prisoners to the door and unlocked it, to let them out. 

( laude, however, was equal to the occasion and giving the Juniors a signal (a 
shrill whistle), before we hardly realized it, all were pushing in at the door. 
Prof, k rohardt appeared on the scene and the Juniors terrified hastened away. 
They declared this was caused by the Professor. But the Seniors claim the 
victory. 

The refreshments were enjoyed immensely and especially the sweet cider. 
The Seniors had a good time, but the Juniors were like drowned rats since Miss 
Martin and a few Seniors poured ice cold water upon them from above. All 
departed giving their expressions of their good time. 

SENIOR SPREAD. 

1 he Seniors waited quite a long time after Hallow’en to have another party, 
not because they feared the Juniors but because they were too busy to have one. 

hen as all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy we decided to have a spread. 

Katherine Rath offered her home for the party to be held on December 19. We 
not only invited Miss Martin but the whole faculty. 

Maud Rader — Too much wit makes the world rotten. 

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The car ride was fine, but the ride through the country was much better. We 
reached our destination without being held up. Then the fun began. 

We played games and had music galore. Refreshments were served in due 
time. We devoured the sandwiches, pickles, olives, fruit, candy, cakes, as if we 
were really hungry and thirsty. 

We departed with many thanks to Katherine for the royal time, which we 
had while there. Some of the more sentimental teachers, Misses Martin and 
Highfill, with some Seniors, walked to the car in the lovely moonlight, while the 
remainder waited to be conveyed to the car. We waited for the ear so long that we 
thought it wasn’t coming and started to walk. When it came in sight a few 
minutes later we hailed it and jumped on board. Everett Tosh, who had missed 
his car to Venice the night of the Hallow ’en party took special precaution not 
to miss it and arrived home safely as did the rest of us, without any delay. 

JUNIOR PARTY. 

Just before the close of the old year when we had laid away our books for 
the Xmas vacation we were invited by the class of T4 to a reception on the eve 
of December 23 in the gym. The sides of the gym were beautifully decorated in 
our class colors (wine and champagne). At one end stood a Xmas tree in all its 
festive splendor, while at the other end the Senior motto, “Turn Out the Lights.’’ 
was displayed in large letters. Prom the center of the room was suspended a 
large bunch of mistletoe, and woe be to the lass who strayed too near that spot. 

The evening was spent in playing various games such as “Drop the Hand- 
kerchief’’ and “Three Deep.” Some of the younger members present became 
fretful before the evening was over and had to be amused. This was done by 
placing them in chairs and pushing them up and down the gym floor. During 
this time several couples strayed out of the gym into the upper regions of the 
building and became lost. A search party was sent out to bring them back. It 
was found that all the unfortunates were Juniors. Of course the Seniors knew 
this dear old G. C. II. S. too well to get lost in it even if the lights were out. At 
a late hour dainty refreshments were served in the dining room and our Senior 
baby again distinguished himself by his good behavior at the table. Soon after 
every one departed in the best of spirits. 

Miss West executed the office of chaperon very successfully. 

WATCH PARTY. 

The class enjoyed itself so well at the spread given at Katherine’s on the 
19th of December, that we decided to have a watch party December 31 to watch 
the old year out and the new year in. The party was given at the president. Win. 
Lewis’ home. We arrived there early that evening and stayed until early in 
the morning. 

The whole house was turned over to us with the permission to do as we 
wished, unless we wished to depart with house torn down, which of course would 
not be permitted. 

Hetty Pick — A woman’s home is her delight, from early morn to late at 

night. 

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We were disappointed however because Miss Martin could not he there as 
chaperon, as it was vacation week and she was out of town. Music and games 
kept us amused the whole evening. Refreshments were served at a late hour. 
After hailing the New Year, we departed declaring that we had spent our evening in a most pleasant manner, although there was no excitement furnished us 
by the Juniors who seemed to be afraid to attempt any more raids. 

FAREWELL PARTY. 

As spring drew on and brought with it among other things the opening of 
the baseball season we were called upon to bid farewell to one of our honorable 
and distinguished members, Ernest Robertson, who was soon to depart to play 
with a professional baseball team. A farewell party was tendered him at the 
home of Miss Ruby Huber another member of the class of ’13. 

Although all enjoyed themselves immensely, yet we were saddened 
by the departure of one of the members of our class. And especially was Ruby 
for she seemed so devoted to Ernest. Music and singing were the features of the 
evening after which a dainty luncheon was served. All departed leaving Ernest 
to bid the last farewell. The evening was enjoyed by all. 

SENIOR PARTY. 

The Senior boys not willing to be outdone by the girls of the class secretly 
planned a party for the latter on the eve of St. Patrick. It was held in the 
gymnasium which was aristically decorated in the cherished green for the occasion. All the girls wore little white aprons and large green ties, some also wore 
green hair-ribbon remnants of their Freshmen days and truly looked like little 
Irish maids. 

At 8:30 when about all the Seniors had arrived we were startled by the 
sudden appearance of one of our members through an open window. Our first 
thought was that it was a Junior for we had been warned earlier in the evening 
that the lower classmen intended to pay us a visit. Rut we found that it was 
only Everett, who in a few words explained that his hasty arrival was due to 
the nearness of the approaching enemy. Finding that the Juniors were upon 
us the boys hastily scoured the building to see if all the windows and other means 
of entrance were securely fastened. Their search revealed the presence of one 
Junior already within the sacred walls. He was hastily disposed of through one 
of the open windows of the gym. 

No sooner had this excitement subsided than a noise was heard in the room 
adjoining the dining room. Now as you all know there are two doors leading out 
of this room, both were securely locked but one being a folding door they quickly 
burst in upon us, but the Seniors were there to meet them, not only boys but 

Henry Dcterding — Don’t flag the busy little bee when he is going straight 

ahead. 

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many of the girls as well. The battle that ensued lasted but a few minutes for 
as soon as the supply of flower-pots and chalk boxes in Miss Stevens room were 
exhausted the Juniors lost courage and ran. One of their number was taken 
prisoner. After declaring that he would feel more comfortable on the outside 
looking in than in the inside looking out he was allowed to depart, although he 
was bold enough to ask for some ice cream. 

The Juniors, although backed by half the boys of the Sophomore and Fresh- 
men class, together with many outsiders, were so badly beaten that they did not 
attempt another attack. 

The remainder of the evening was spent in listening to the jokes and stories 
told by Miss Martin and Mr. Ililes, our chaperons. At a late hour refreshments 
were served in the dining room. After which we all departed voting the Senior 
boys royal entertainers. 

Ruth Jones — I have lied and loved. 

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’13 
By Grace Odum 

FEW DA^ S ago my mind became so overburdened with the 
prophecy of the class of 1913 that I decided to take a quiet stroll 
in the country. As I was walking leisurely along, 1 saw three 
old women coming towards me. They looked more like witches 
than human beings, talking in low, harsh, croaking voices. 
When they met me they surrounded me and asked to tell my 
fortune. 1 refused. Then one stepped forward and said : 

“Girl, there is a great problem, which is weighing heavily on thy mind, so 
if thou wilt meet us tonight as the clock strikes 12 at the old M. E. Church by the 
Emerson School, thou mayest see and hear something to thy advantage.” 

So just as the clock struck mid night I arrived at the door of the old weather 
beaten church. I heard not a sound except the croak of the frogs and the chirp 
of a cricket. 

Slowly opening the door 1 entered nearly frightened to death. There in 
the middle of the room was a great kettle with a blazing fire under it and the 
three old witches dressed in red were stirring the contents with large wooden 
spoons. The steam coming out of the kettle was very thick and dense. The old 
women did not turn nor look at me but one motioned with her hand for me to 
be seated. 

Just as 1 seated myself a great roar as of some mighty power was heard, 
and out of the depths of the kettle, sprang a huge engine such as I had never 
seen before. Standing by its side was a man who appeared to be an inventor. 
He had red hair and as he turned his head I saw the same blue eyes and freckled 
face of Charles Foehse. 

As the engine faded slowly from sight I caught the sound of rippling water, 
and there appeared a stone house with one of the most beautiful gardens sur- 
rounding it 1 had ever seen. In the center was a fountain, which had the form 
of an angel with flowing wings of water. Standing by the fountain was a man, 
whom I did not know, but 1 knew the little girl bending over the roses. It was 
Daisy Pick, happy in her New England home. 

By the witches’ magic spell I heard the noise like the clap of thunder, and 
behold there appeared a battle field. The cannon’s roar was so intense that I 
sprang to my feet and clasped my hands over my ears. There in the foremost 
of the soldiers, I saw a general leap forward with a sword in his hand. I heard 
his command to charge, at which time I saw that he was wounded and it was 
not long 'till he fell; but his men supported him and he urged his brave men 
forward, until at last the cry of victory was heard. Then they carried him back 

Elmer Gaylord — Eating little and sleeping little can never do man harm. 

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to the nice clean tents of the Red Cross Society. A little nurse who had light 
hair, large blue eyes, came forward. The general looked up and I heard 
him say, “Marguerite, is it you?’’ 

She replied, “Yes, Christie, ’tis I.” 

As they clasped hands I knew that their minds went back to the time when 
they were students of the old G. C. H. S. But not long did she stand thus, for 
if she wished to save the life of her patient she must needs get to work. Just 
then a physician came into the tent, and as he looked around Marguerite and 
Christie exclaimed, “Everett Tosh! What are you doing here?” He said that 
he was the physician for the army and was ready to do his duty. 

I saw a large city come slowly up with the streets crowded with people 
straining their necks to see some object. As I gazed spell-bound there came an 
open carriage down the street, with a tall slender man standing in it, bowing 
first to the left then to the right. Seated by his side was a lady with dark hair 
and eyes, waving at the great throng. This was Arthur Reimers. the president 
of the United Slates, and his wife, Wella Mueller. 

The carriage rolled further and further away until at last its pompous 
splendor disappeared. 

With great expectancy I leaned forward, and from the depths thereof arose 
an object which glittered with such brilliancy, that I was obliged to close my 
eyes. When I opened them, there before me was a golden cup, with the inscribed 
words on it, “Awarded to the Champion Athlete.” Then the cup slowly arose 
and remained suspended in mid-air as if held by an invisible hand over the 
scene of the Olympic Games. Just at this critical moment the Marathon race 
was coming to a close and I heard the enthusiastic onlookers shout “Hurrah for 
the American,” and leading the representatives from all nations of the world 
the young American triumphantly reached the goal. Then the cup slowly 
descended and rested in his hand as his friends lifted him upon their shoulders, 
I recognized Ernest Robertson, the one time star of the basket ball team of the 
G. C. H. S. 

As I gazed with undisguised admiration at my old classmate I caught the 
sound of a gentle zephyr stirring the leaves of trees, and with a more dense puff 
of steam, there before me were the picturesque Ozarks, and seated before his 
easel, on the side of a mountain, painting the beautiful scenery, was a young 
man. I thought that his head of curly hair looked familiar and as I looked more 
closely I recognized Edw. Plato. 

The fire died down low under the kettle and 1 heard a sound as of some 
talking in low tones and there appeared a scene of a “Black Hand Society,” 
who called themselves “The Human Four.” 

I saw a young lady enter a door at the rear of the room. As she stood in a 
listening attitude I saw that it was Bessie Miller, a girl who was always noted 
for her bravery. She raised her hand and motioned to some one behind her and 
about four policemen entered and arrested the thieves. I heard one of the 
policemen say the Miss Miller has even surpassed Sherlock Holmes in unraveling 
deep mysteries. 

Wilfred Rigg — When there is nothing else to do at nights, I study. 

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When the first moments of surprise were over I waited with intense interest 
for the next scene. I was little prepared for the studio of a sculptor. Hut 
shortly 1 saw seated in the midst of the various statues and beautiful pictures 
the fair haired Ruth Ellison, with a frown on her pretty, but serious face. She 
was working on the statue of an “Imp,” a masterpiece in itself. 

Oh, the beautiful music I then heard, words could not describe it. It was 
immortal. There slowly arose a stage of a great coliseum and standing in the 
center was a girl playing a violin. The coliseum was crowded to overflowing to 
hear the wonderful American Violinist, Pearle Rosenberg. Even the king of 
England and his royal family were present. 

Then one of the witches softly said some magic word and the music passed 
away softly. Laughter, music, and dancing were heard, and out of the depths 
there arose a large room. Coming down the center of the room was Helen 
Watkins, a leader of society, talking to the Prince of Wales who had come over 
to New York for a few days stay on business. 

As the music and dancing died away I caught the sound of hoof beats, and 
there appeared a girl riding for recreation after a rehearsal for a concert. She 
was riding a beautiful bay at a tremendous pace, and as she went speeding into 
space I caught the glimpse of the familiar face of Hea Cooley, who was the Jockey 
Girl of our class. 

Just as I had seated myself in a more comfortable position (for I had nearly 
fallen off my chair as Bea went by like a whirl-wind) the wilds of Africa came 
slowly to the top and there under a large cocoanut tree grouped together were 
thousands of the natives listening to a young lady who was teaching the gospel 
to them. 1 was astonished to see Katherine Rath as a missionary, for she was 
always so timid and quiet. But nevertheless she was there. 

The sound of a band and trumpets soon recalled to me the fact that some- 
thing unusual was going to happen, so I braced myself for the ordeal. There 
came marching right out of the kettle, a parade of women with their big bold 
lettered banners, “Votes for Women,” waving in the air and down the line there 
came a woman riding a snow white charger. As she drew near the head of the 
parade she placed a whistle in her mouth and blew it. Instantly all was quiet. 
She made a speech while seated upon her horse. Iler speech was eloquent and 
as she finished I heard men’s voices, as well as women’s, shout “Hurrah for Miss 
Voorhees the Mayor of Granite City.” 

The contents of the kettle began to bubble and sputter, the steam came 
faster and thicker, and with a puff more dense than any before, there came up 
the interior of a court house, and filing in slow procession, came the nine judges 
of the Supreme Court dressed in their sombre black robes. Leading them was 
my one time classmate William Lewis. 

I now caught the sound of sacred music and there appeared a church, which 
was the largest Baptist Church in America. A young lady was singing a beau- 

Lloyd Harris — “I am Sir Oracle, and when I open my lips let no dogs 
bark.” 

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 piece called “Emanuel,” her voice rose and fell like the waves of the sea. 
I recognized Mabel Riggs. The minister arose then and, inspired by the song 
which his wife had sung, preached an eloquent sermon. 

The witches began to walk around the kettle and sing in low gutteral voices 
in some unknown language, and while they were doing so there came out of the 
depths, an operating room, such as doctors of science use. The man, who was 
working therein had just finished grafting a pair of limbs on to a man who had 
been crippled for years. The doctor was none other than Edward Hommert. 

It was fortunate for me that I was too frightened to move for just at this 
minute a green light lit up the old church and just as the witches whispered “Be 

still,” an aeroplane came sailing out of the green light, in which a girl was 

nynig and as it sailed very closely to me I recognized Rua Perry. 

Now I heard the rolling and dashing of the restless ocean and a large ship 
could he seen rising and falling gracefully with the waves, and as it sailed past 
me I caught the glimpse of a pretty girl, who was talking to a young man. I 
heard an old lady say in answer to a question that the young lady was Gertrude 
McAnanary, the girl of leisure. 

The green light faded and gave place to a bright red light. As this change 
took place 1 saw the interior of a house, and there sat Ruby Huber writing She 
raised her head and said, “Oh! I have written so many novels about other 

people, now I am going to write one in which I am the heroine and Ernest 

my hero. 

I now heard cheering and there arose a temperance speaker, who was lectur- ing in a large hall. I heard some one say that she was Ethel McReynolds a second Carrie Nation, only she does not use the “Ilatchet” but wins by kind and 
gentle words. 

An ofhce came slowly to the top of the kettle. A lady seemed to be drawing 
plans for some great building which was to he the largest library in America. 
I saw by the letters on the door that this was the office of Christina McKean an 
architect. Fairy Duncan was to be the chief librarian of this library. 

The witches began to stir the contents of the kettle as fast as they could and 
there arose a room of a high school highly decorated with portraits of distinguished Latin men, and seated before the desk I observed Ethel Holdinghaus 
teaching a Latin class. 

The fire was nearly out under the kettle, the room became darker, and then 
all ot a sudden there appeared a kitchen. I saw Letha making the icing for a 
large delicious looking cake, which was on the table. Letha, when in our school 
« a>s had always said that she was going to be a domestic science teacher, so I 
saw that she really had become one for Bill. 

Now the twenty-eighth picture was coming to the top. This was mine so I 
could not wait leaned forward to take a peek into the kettle and lo and behold 
the witches and the kettle disappeared in the flash of fire and a mighty clash and 
I stood alone. 

Faith Costlcy — Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. 

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Oration 

ByWii. II. Lewis. 

THE SPIRIT OF PROGRESS IN AMERICA. 
IIE world as it exists today is in its highest stage of development. 
The ideal conditions of the men that live in it are profound proofs 
of this undeniable fact. But of all the countries that have helped 
the world to develop into its present stage of existence. America 
alone stands pre-eminent and supreme. 

Should you endeavor to trace the rise of the Republic from 
the discovery of the North American continent to the present time you would 
find that the spirit of progress, which has always existed in this country, has 
been the greatest factor in the moulding of our national character. It has 
also produced our distinctive political and moral national traits. 

Four hundred years ago America was an unknown wilderness. It was a 
space of territory that stretched from the frozen regions of the North to the 
sunny skies of the tropics; from the stormy Atlantic to the calm Pacific. A land 
embracing every variety of climate, and a soil capable of producing every product 
of the earth, from the stunted herbage of the North to the luxuriant fruits of 
the tropics. A land overflowing with mineral deposits, from the invaluable veins 
of coal, to beds of the most brilliant and precious minerals. It pours out in 
streams, oil for burning, salt that but requires the heat of the sun for its perfection and beds of pure soda, that cover the earth like the dust in the highway. In 
short all that is needed for the preservation and comfort of animal and human 
life, exists in this favored land in the greatest profusion. 

Such is the land designated by God for the home of liberty. Nor have the 
people to whom God intrusted this land abused the trust. For have they not 
discovered processes for the rise and distribution of this wealth, these alone in 
themselves are proofs of the Great Spirit of Progress that exists in this land of 
ours. In the short space of four centuries, the American people have grown from 
a race of hardy adventurers to a “mighty continental nation,” still increasing 
with a rapidity that is almost marvelous. They have built up their country on 
a scale of magnificence of which they are justly proud. They have covered it 
with powerful and free states, and splendid cities, connected by a net work of 
railways, telegraphs, navigable rivers and canals, which bind all the scattered 
parts into one solid whole. They have made a commerce and system of manu- 
factures before which the fabled wealth of Tyre sinks into insignificance. 

They have created a literature which commands the respect of the world ; 
they have illustrated their Spirit of Progress by deeds of arms not less splendid 

Amos Rhode — “My life is but a walking shadow.” 

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than their more peaceful achievements, and they have given to the world names 
in every walk of life that will never die. They have shown that liberty and 
power can go hand in hand ; they have made themselves into a nation in which 
God is feared and respected above all things. They have created a land in which 
Christianity is the basis, in which ignorance and vice are despised. A country 
in which the great lesson that liberty is possible only to an educated and virtuous 
people is being practically demonstrated. The history of Progress of America is 
a grand record of highest achievements of humanity, the noblest, most thrilling 
and glorious story ever penned on earth. We have triumphed over adversity; 
now we are called upon to bear the test of prosperity, and if we in the glory of 
our success do not forget our Creator and Redeemer, by his blessing this country 
will continue to be a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, 
but of Wisdom, of Peace and of Liberty, upon which the world will gaze with 
admiration forever. 

Oswald Williams — “He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.” 

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The officers of our Athletic Association are as follows: C. Baechtold, 

President; C. McKean, Vice-President ; H. Fechte, Secretary; Wm. Atwood, 
Treasurer. 

Will Witner — A wise man puts his ears on the job and gives his tongue a 

rest. 

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GAMES AND SCORES. 

G. C. H. S. 47 

G. C. II. S. 55 

G. C. II. S. 46 

G. C. II. S. 77 

.G. C. II. S. second team 

. .Bellville 

• N. E. A. C. Alton 

Fallon II. S 

20 

G. C. H. S. 24 
.Collinsville 

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G. C. II. S. 17 
.N. E. A. C. Alton 

G. C. H. S. 41 

.Universal A. ('., St. Louis. 

G. C. II. S 26 
• Mt. Vernon 
G. C. II. S. 22 
Alt. Vernon 
24 
G. C. II. S. Id 
Du Quoin 
G. C. II. S. 49 
G. C. II. S. 16 
Hillsboro 
G. C. H. S. 90 
Collinsville 
G. C. II. S. 26 
Centralia 
G. C. II. S. 92 
. Eden College 
G. C. II. S. 16.... 
G. C. II. S. 50 
.McKendree College .... 

G. C. 11. S. 35 
.Alumni 
G. C. H. S. 30 
.Litchfield 
G. C. H. S. 18 
Shelbvville 
G. C.H. S. 15 

Bellville 

Won. 8; lost, 13; tied, 0. Total number of points, G. C. 
ponents, 729. 

II. S., 805; op- 

The Seniors played a game with Venice defeating them by 
24 and also with the Juniors, defeating them, 63 to 19. 

a score of 41 to 

The line-up of the Senior team was as follows > E. Plato. R. 
L. F. ; C. Baechtold, Center; E. Tosh, R. G. ; Win. Lewis, L. G. 

F. A. Reiraers, 
team was not able to enter into the Southern Illinois Championship 
Tournament on account of several disputes. The opposing contestants barred 
several members of our team, saying that they had played professional basket 
ball. If we would have been able to compete in this tournament we would have 
no doubt captured the banner. 

Russel Any mans credit is good when it comes to borrowing trouble. 

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By Christy Baechtold. 

I R ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION was organized in 1 006 and has 
accomplished much since its organization. 

The first contest was a county track meet, which we entered 
in the spring of 1905, when we were obliged to take second place 
due to lack of practice which could not be obtained. We have 
continually progressed since then, and took first place in the 
meet of 1906 at Upper Alton and also in 1907 at Collinsville. 

In the county meet of 1908 Granite City and Alton tied for first place. 
Trouble arose between these contestants and as a result the Madison County 
High School Association was dissolved. 

Track meets were then given up and none were held until the spring of 
1911. The Alton District Interscholastic Association was then organized. 
Their first meet being held at Sportsman’s Park, Alton and Granite City again 
carried away the banner. 

This meet seemed to enliven the public and interest the schools and another 
meet was decided to be held at the same park in 1912. In this meet the boys of 
Granite City again proved themselves the strongest and defeated the competing 
schools. The number of points were divided as follows: Granite City, 61 ; Alton, 
52; Collinsville, 16, and Edwardsville, 6. 

The track team entered another meet which was held at Harrisburg, 111., 
but as they were not in a very good condition after arriving at their destination. they could not win very many honors and concluded to be satisfied with 
third place. 

Another meet will be held in Alton on May 24, 1918. The competing 
schools are: Granite City II. S., Alton II. S., Collinsville II. S., and Edwardsville H. S. We are also expecting many good results from this meet and 
everybody is welcome to attend. 

Baseball or football have never gained success in our High School, but 
basket ball has been one of the main features. Our first basket ball team was 
organized in 1906 and was provided with an outdoor court on which to prac- 
tice. They scheduled two games during the season and lost both. Hut this did 
not discourage their successors, who had a gravel floor to play upon after the 
New High School was completed and a large gymnasium built. They played 
five games of which they were the winners of four. 

The following year (1908) the Athletic Association had a good hardwood 
floor put into the gymnasium and they decided to make use of it which they 

Edna Lawin — Such a quiet modest little girl. 

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did, and every team since lias had success. They played eighteen games, in 
two of which they were defeated. 

Jn 1909 they grew still stronger but had not reached their limit. In 1910 
they were able to compete in the Southern Illinois Championship Tournament but failed to conquer first place. Jn 1911 the banner of the Southern 
Illinois Championship Tournament was carried home with triumph. This also 
occurred in 1912. In these two years the teams were also represented in the 
State Championship Tournament but were the winners of second place both 
times. 

At the opening of the basket ball season of 1912 and 1913 an athletic 
meeting was held the early part of the school year and Edward Plato was 
elected manager and captain of the basket ball team. Hut resigned the captaincy after a short time and Gratt Taff was then elected as captain. The boys 
which were selected to represent the first team were practically all strangers to 
one another in basket ball because they had not played together enough. They 
played many games during the season but as a result had not won many, al- 
though they were very fast and their total number of scores amounted to more 
than those of their opponents. Very few of them had ever played on strange 
floors which was also a great hindrance to them. 

The line-up of the team was as follows: E. Robertson. R. F. ; O. Williams, 
L. F. ; E. Plato, Center; G. Taff. L. G. ; C. McKean, R. G. ; E. Gaylord, W. 
Harris, L. Harris, Subs. 

('land' McKean — Lusus naturae, mirabile visu. (A freak of nature won-derful to see.) 

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By Ethel Holdinghaus

HIGHER 

IGHER ! It is a word of noble import. It lifts the soul of man 
from low and groveling pursuits, to the achievement of great 
and noble deeds. It ever keeps before him the goal of his ambitions, until it has been fully realized. 

Higher! Lisps the infant at mother’s knee, as it strives to 
rise from the floor. It is the first inspiration of childhood, to 
burst from the confines of the cradle, and to use its feeble limbs, which later 
walk in the stateliness of manhood. 

Higher, shouts the school boy as he strives with his classmates for the honor. 
Nothing is too difficult, if only he might succeed in the race. 

Higher, repeats the student of philosophy and nature. He now has entered 
a larger field, and meets with many adversities, but he must overcome them all. 
He burns the mid-night oil in his efforts to master the problems of life and nature. 
In the stillness of the night he communes with heavenly aid and is strengthened. 
His soul is never weary in the strife, for the purpose and ideal of his life to aid 
humanity, urge him on to greater activity. 

Higher, he shouts to the world, as he enters manhood well equipped for his 
pursuit in life. Nothing, as yet, has been too hard for him to attempt, he is 
always pushing on to higher things. Life is not a dream to him. It is real. It 
is earnest. The forces of evil and right are striving for mastery, and he has a 
part to play, for the victory may depend on him. With eloquence, he works in 
the cause of right and truth. His whole life is wrapped up in humanity and its 
needs. What is success to him? Is it wealth, or fame, or is it the knowledge, 
that by his efforts some life has been cheered, some life has been lifted to higher 
ideals? And when time has left its mark upon him, his heart still overflows with 
fond thoughts for the welfare of those about him. 

Higher Vet! He has reached the climax of earthly honor. He has caused 
children to love him. older people to honor him, and the whole race of humanity 
to praise him, for his life spent in their behalf. Yet he still looks forward, with 
rapturous anticipation to the never fading glory, attainable only in the presence 
of the most High. 

Beloved instructors, to you we owe our greatest gratitude. For to you has 
been given the lot, to guide our lives into higher channels of thought and work. 
And, as we pass from under your guidance, we shall more and more realize how 
great a part you have had in fitting us for life. 

Ceridwen Morgan — Sweet as a honey suckle. 

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In behalf of the class of 1913, I extend the deepest thanks to the members of 
the Hoard of Education. To you, we are indebted for your untiring efforts in 
making the Granite City High School both beneficial and pleasant. 

Fellow classmates, during the last four years, we have grown to love and 
adore this McKinley High. We have both studied and enjoyed social times together, but the hour has arrived to which we have been looking forward, with 
pleasure. To night we bid farewell to these familiar places, and pass out into the 
world. May the thoughts and ideals we have gained serve us faithfully in our 
life work. Each, has a part to play in the drama of life and may he strive higher 
aud higher in the achievement of his goal. 

“Let us, then be up and doing 
With a heart for any fate; 

Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to wait.” 

The present offieers are: H. J. Fechte, President; Edw. J. Plato, Vice 
President : Georgia Coudy, Secretary ; Hilda Kohl, Treasurer. 

A meeting of the Illiolian Society was first called on October 20, 1895. 
At tirst it had but a few members, but as the High School grew in numbers 
so did this society, until at present it has about 500 members enrolled, of 
which about 425 are Alumnis. 
Society 
President, Charles Huxel; Secretary, Ruth Ellison; Vice President, 
Maude Rader; Treasurer, Bessie Miller. 

The Delphian Society was organized in 1905 with twenty-seven pupils as 
members. Cnder good management and careful training the membership 
had increased to three hundred and twenty-six at the end of the term of 
1913; two hundred and fifty-four alumni and seventy-two pupils. 

The organization must he praised for the good programs rendered during the present term. Their local talent combined with Miss Furnas’ skill 
as an entertainer, has made the Delphians worthy of notice as a literary 
society. 

HELD AT M. E. CHURCH 
May 25, 1913. 

Invocation Rev. S. F. McDonald 

Vocal Solo Selected 

B. H. Jones 

Scripture Reading — Prayer 

Sermon — “Truth” 

Rev. C. A. Beckett 

Vocal Quartette Selected 

Messrs. Frazier, Jones, Mrs. W. Reece, and Miss Gladys James. 

Benediction 

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Commencement program 

Piano Solo — Valse Caprice. 

Beatrice Cooley 

Salutatory Address 

Reward of a Noble Life 

Daisy Pick 

Class History 

Marguerite Voight 

Vocal Duet Selected 

Helen Watkins, Bessie Miller 

Essay 

Arthur Reimers 

Class Will 

Class Poem 

Letha Comer 

Mable Riggs 

Violin Solo 

Pearle Rosenberg 

Class Prophecv 

Grace Odum 

Oration 

William Lewis 

Piano Quartette — W T altz from Faust Gounod 

Gertrude McAnarney, Rua Perry, Wella Mueller, Christina McKean 

Address to Class 

P. H. Hiles 

Valedictory Address Higher 

Ethel Holdinghaus 

Presentation of Diplomas 

R. A. Bull, President Board of Education 

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Cast of Characters 

CAST OF CHARACTERS IN “KENTUCKY BELLE.” 

Aunt Mariah Douglas Mary Voorhees 

Isabelle Douglas Ruby Huber 

John Cason Gordon Arthur Reimers 

Colonel McMillen Christie Baechtold 

Marie Van Harlenger Ruth Ellison 

Miss Madden and Miss Gordon Ethel McReynolds 

Mrs. Gordon Katherine Rath 

Dr. Rlake Win. H. Lewis 

Cindy Fairy Duncan 

Henry Edward Hoinmert 

Telephone Linemen Edward Plato, Everett Tosh, Charles Foehse 

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of Class $lap 

SYNOPSIS OF “KENTUCKY BELLE.” 

The scene of the play is laid at the plantation home of Miss Mariah Douglas, 
a southern lady of aristocratic tendencies. Her niece, Isabelle Douglas, is the 
heroine of the play but has democratic ideas of her own. 

John Cason Gordon is a rich New Yorker who is working as a telephone 
lineman in order to study the labor problem from the inside. He attracts the 
attention of Isabelle by his daring and she sends her negro maid, Cindy, out to 
him with a plate of cake. 

Colonel McMillen, who is immensely rich and old and homely, is a suitor for 
Isabelle’s hand and has the complete approval of Aunt Mariah. 

He calls to propose to her but Isabelle is very inattentive and frequently 
interrupts him. Just as he is about to say the fatal words, John Cason falls from 
a telephone pole and she flees from the room to have hirn brought into her home 
and cared for. 

She appoints herself as his guardian and they fall in love with each other. 

Her horse, Kentucky Belle, is to enter the races at Saratoga and when Cason 
proposed, she answered “Yes, if Kentucky Belle wins.” 

Colonel McMillen hears of Isabelle’s promise to Cason and is determined 
not to be defeated; he accordingly decides to ask for the hand of the elder Miss 
Douglas if Kentucky Belle is victorious. 

Cason and Isabelle can hardly stand the suspense but finally a telegram 
comes which reads, “Kentucky Belle wins by a neck.” The story ends with 
three engaged couples, Cason and Isabelle, Aunt Mariah and Colonel McMillen 
and Cindy and Henry. The curtain falls on a pretty love scene with everyone 
happy and singing “My Old Kentucky Home.” 

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The Editorial Staff of the “Imp” wishes to thank the 
merchants for their advertisements, which has made it 
possible for us to make a success of the Annual. Students 
should remember this, for you will some time be the 
publishers of the Annual. 

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Bell, 111. 219 

BOTH PHONES 

Kinloch, 219 

GRANITE CITY YARD 

20th and A Street 

In olden days the girls, sweet things. 

Would meekly wait; 

Soon, if they shall increase the pace, 

They’ll weekly mate. 

Definition — A Suffragette is a female 
who is willing to stand up for her 
rights anywhere, even in a crowded 
car. 

Beware — An open confession may he 
good for the soul, hut its apt to dis- 
figure a reputation. 
 

Food for reflection never satisfies a 
hungry man. 

Mr. Ward — Why don’t you keep 

something for a rainy day, my dear ? 

Mrs. Ward — Don’t he silly dear, 

haven’t I the prettiest rain coat and 
umbrella you ever saw? 

Here’s to the Freshies so simple and 
cute 

And from their idle brains the green 
grass doth shoot. 

Here’s to the Sophs so mischievous and 
wise 

Who in 1915 will win the big prize. 
And here’s to the foolish Juniors, as 
you all know, no doubt, 

If they don’t quit butting into our 
Senior affairs 
Will finally get booted out. 

And here’s to the Jolly Seniors 
May they live a thousand years. 

And in the course of Eternity 
Quench all of Humanity’s fears. 

Monroe R. — Oh, Georgia, if you 
want to see nature at its best, you 
should take a trip through the pine 
woods of the north. 

 Russel — Oh thou conceited one. 
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FOURTH and OLIVE ST. 

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Our ART DEPARTMENT co-operating with your artists 
can make your Annual a grand success, also eliminate 
expensive ideas generally used by Colleges. Write us. 

In American History class: 
We heard a terrible rip and roar. 

Miss Ilighfill sprang to open the door 
And there upon the hard, hard floor. 
Lay poor Claude, with his breeches all 
tore. 

It has been discovered that kisses, 
we mean love-kisses, are full of electricity. Now we know why old maids 
have described them as shocking. 

There was a young man from St. 
Who wunt to his girl’s house to caughl; 
She was berating the servant 
In language quite fervent. 

Now he doesn’t go near at aughl. 

Tina McKlan — What is your aim in 
life Arthur? 

Arthur Reimers — To own a soap fac- 
tory in Granite City. 

FOR SALE — An automobile, by a 
man with a tank holding ten gallons. — 
Inquire of Rex Vaughn. 

Ethel Morgan — What is your idea 
of heayeu, Randall ? 

Randall Harrison — A quart of ice 
cream, two angel cakes, and a quart of 
champagne. 

Ethel — Well, what is your idea of 
the other place. 

Randall — An hour afterwards. 

Run Perry — What is good for big 
feet ? 

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Bill Thomas — Big shoes, to be sure.  

Miss High fill to Ed. Plain »»i English 
Hislorg — I don't care how much noise 
you make as long as yon are quiet 
about it. 
Sam Fleishman and Max Bramer 
seen fighting in the gym the other day. 
On seeing Sammie very inactive some 
one yelled, “Sammie, why don’t you 
dive into him and lick him?” “But,” 
said Sammie, “ I can’t, I in standing on 
a nickle. ” 

Bell, 111. 154 Kinloch, 154 

F. WAGNER 

Manufacturer and Bottler of 

Absolutely 
Pure Soda 
and 
Mineral Water 
and 
Distilled Aerated 
Water 

2118-20-22 G STREET 
GRANITE CITY, ILL. 

Bessie Miller — What did you learn 
at college, Bill? 

Bill Harris — Baseball, football, basket ball and high ball. 

Bessie — Well, what is high ball? 

Bill — One that goes to the head. 

Irwin Frohart — T never get sleepy. 

Trevor Lewis — Come on, set ’em up 
to a sundae. 

Fred Elmore — No. I’m broke. 

Trevor— 1 thought you said you had 
thousands of dollars to your back? 

Fred — Yes, but 1 was leaning 
against a bank when I told you.  

Hazel Vaton — My goodness, what 
makes this car so crowded ? 

Gertrude — Why the people of 
course. 

COMPLIMENTS 
of 
Fechte-Gaylord 

PUBLISHERS of 

“The Jinx” 

Gladys Duffy — Of course not its 
your brains that sleep. 

# # # 

Tina McKean to Dora Reimers — 
Your brother stole our gate last night. 

Dora — Well, why don’t you tell 
him ? 

Tina — Because I was afraid he might 
take a-fence. 

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Kinloch 317 L Niedringhaus and D St. 

JF in the Market for a Car, Don’t 
Buy until you have looked over 

“STUDEBAKER” 

Hillen Studio 

High-Grade Portraits 

BEST CAR FOR THE PRICE 
35 ... . $1290 

GROUPS A SPECIALTY 

25 ... . 885 

20 ... . 730 

SPECIAL PRICES TO GRADUATES 

ALL CARS FULLY EQUIPPED 

OPEN SUNDAY9 

First Car Load of 35a will arrive about 
April 15th J. R. BEALE, Agent 

Ceridwen — What is a kiss? 

Jedge Higgs, Jr . — It's a short cut to 
a man’s pocketbook. I got a nickel. 

Mr. Atwood on his way hack to G. C. 
after the Christmas holidays. “I went 
to sleep on the train with my head 
sticking out of the window and when I 
got to Nameoki I had three mail sacks 
hanging on my neck.” 

“Love intoxicates a man. 

“Marriage sobers him up.” 

Beware Mick Robertson! 

Before marriage you talk about hearts; 
After marriage its clubs. 

Beware Mick! 

On the McKinley car going to the 
Sophomore party, Holland Vaughn and 
Ruth McReyuolds were seen on the 
platform and in the rush Holland had 

C. G. Sowell 

Wholesale Dealer in 

Fine Domestic Cigars 

ALL CIGARS UNION MADE 
 

19th and Madison Avenue 

put his arms around Ruth, when she 
was heard to say, “Don’t you think we 
can find room to squeeze inside?” 

Michel Christian — When I was in St. 
Louis and saw the Union Depot I held 
my breath. When I was in East St. 
Louis and saw the stockyards I held 
my nose.” 

Curley Harris — I was at a funeral 

today. 

Felix McKean — Were you one of the 
pall-bearers? 

Curley — No I was one of the mourners. He owed me two dollars. 
Rex Vaughn — Waiter, have you any 
frog legs? 

Waiter — No, its rheumatism that 
makes me walk this way. 

Office : Warehouse : 

Kinloch 460 Kinloch 290 

E. R. Voorhees 

Coal, Moving and General 
Teaming 

Moving Pianos a Specialty 

OFFICE: WAREHOUSE: 

1828 State Street 16th and E Street 

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Bell, III. 435 

Kinloch, 28 

TRI 

CITY

GROCERY CO. 

CHEAPEST AND BEST 
PLACE IN THE CITY TO 
BUY 

Groceries and Meats 

WHOLESALE 

CIGARS and TOBACCOS 

THIS PLACE IS UNDER 

NEW MANAGEMENT 

L. BEEBE, Manager 

19th and C Street 

CHAS; PAULY and SON 

ARCHITECTS 
GRANITE CITY. ILLINOIS 

Among the plans suggested by friends and 
others to the man about to build are some good 
ideas that the “Architect” of experience can 
make use of. These entrusted to the Contractor 
or Builder without expert revision would make 
the house not only unsightly but unstable. 

Designs drafted and plans prepared for 
Residences, Schools, etc., at this office are 
beautiful and practical. Many buildings have 
been erected in this vicinity from our plans. 
 Are you fond of puppies, Ceridwen ? 

Sin — What a singular way to pro- 
pose. Wilfred. Yes, darling. 
•
They stood beneath the stars, and 
silent as the heart-beats of the night, 
looked far away into the diamond- 
studded shirt front of the sky. 

“Is that Mars?” Henry whispered, 
as he slipped his arm around her waist 
and gazed upon a glittering orb in that 
distant blue. 

“No, it isn’t,” Gertrude exclaimed, 
jerking away; “It’s mine and if you 
think you are embracing mother you 
are mistaken.” 

Miss Wist — What a rude woman 
Miss Frances is. She always looks 
hack at people who pass her. 

Miss High fill — How do you know? 

Miss West — Why I ’ve caught her at 
it several times myself. 

* # * * 

“Where are you going my pretty 
maid?” 

“To the cooking school, kind sir,” 
she said. 

“And what do you do there, pretty 
maid ?” 

“Make waffles and biscuits, kind 
sir,” she said. 

“And then do you eat them my 
pretty maid?” 

“The good Lord deliver us, sir,” she 
said. 

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Our Stock Filled with a Beautiful 
Line of 

SUITS and DRESSES 
for 
Ladies and Misses 

Don’t forget our Elegant Line of 

cTWILLINERY 

R. S. HOLSTEIN 

NINETEENTH STREET 

Phone 333 L 

Get your Clothes Made at the 

Manhattan Tailoring Co. 

Meyer Brothers, Proprietors 

Exclusive Tailors 

UNION MADE 
Broadway and State Street 

GRANITE CITY, ILL. 

Arthur { tenderly ) — May 1 see you 

Letha {encouragingly.) — “Well, 

pretty soon? 

Will?” 

Tina {reproachfully) — Don't you 

Will — “Do you suppose your sister 

think I’m pretty now? 

would be willing to be my sister-in-law?” 

Elmer G . — Oh Russel, your watch is 

gone. 

The New York Herald says, “The 

Russel — No matter, it can’t go long 

word ‘pants’ should be eliminated; 

enough to get far away. 

every self-respecting person should in- 

sist on the use of ‘trousers’ instead.” 

Will Waggoner — “Ahem! Letha — 

All right when a dog gets warm he 

ahem — ” 

“trousers.” 

When in need of 

BEST DRY GOODS STORE 

Shoes, Dry Goods 

in 

GRANITE CITY 

and Furnishings 

GO 

CALL AT 

Buente Bros. 

Waschauer Store 

18th and D Street 

19th and State Street 

You may drive the stars in a nail 
keg, hang the ocean on a rail fence to 
dry, put the sky to soak in a gourd and 
unbuckle the belt of eternity, and let 
the sun and moon out. but don’t think 
you can escape the place that lies on 
the other side of purgatory if you don't 
pay for your annual. 
 

A rolling pin gathers no dough. 

Teacher — Ruby give me a sentence 
using the word gruesome. 

Ruby — Mr. Hiles quit shaving and 
gruesome whiskers. 

Father — Ethel did I not see Carl put 
his arm around you as he said good 
bye last evening? 

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THE BANK that MAKES the DIME WORTH WHILE 

The saving ot a small sum each day will secure for you an indemnity against the rigors of time. 
The saving of money is really a habit. 

In order to help you acquire the habit, we will provide you with one of our Dime Savings Banks. 

GRANITE CITY TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK 11th and E Street 

Ethel — Yes, father dear; but you 
don't believe in absolutely universal 
disarmament, do you?  

He dreamed a dream and then awoke 
And laughed for it was funny; 

He dreamed his father died 
And left him all his money. 

Hi diddle, diddle. 

Mr. Hiles grabbed a fiddle, 

Miss West jumped over the moon, 

Miss Martin laughed to see the sport 
And a couple ran away to spoon. 

Mary had a little cat, 

That warbled like Caruso, 

Till someone whirled a baseball bat. 
And now he doesn’t do so. 

Little grains of humor, 

Little bits of bluff 
Makes the simple Juniors 

Think they are just the stuff. 

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Come as as you can 
Little maid and little man ; 

Let us look at these stories together. 

I will read you the rhymes 

About the good times 

They show us in all sorts of weather. 

2

First Be.i we meet 

On her horse so fleet 

His name, she tells us, is Teddy. 

She puts on her hat, 

And rides off like that, 

For her horse is kind and steady. 

'Tis strange how many lessons some 
people have to get — especially in the 
evening when the table is to set. — 
Mabel. 

Amos — Fred, if your brains were 
made of ink you wouldn’t have enough 
to dot an i. 

Elmer Gaylord — Mother, Miss High- 
fill said 1 had talents as an inventor. 

Mrs. Gaylord (pleased) — Did she? 
What did she say you could invent ? 

Elmi r — She said I could invent more 
new ways of spelling words than any- 
body she ever saw. 

Beatrice — (Jan you King uh a hoIo, 
Charlie? 

Charlie — Yes, I can but 1 have too 
much respect for you.  

Wilfred Riijg — The first thing we 
do, lets kill all the lawyers. 

Us Freshmen don’t need no Rhetoric.  

Freshman — May 1 go out and play 
now mama? 

Mother — What, with those holes in 
your trousers? 

WASHINGTON 

THEATER 

EDISON A. DODGE, Manager 

Operated in connection 
with our new 

Washington Theater 

AT BELLEVILLE, ILL. 

which enables us to secure a 
better class of talent. 

OUR PICTURES A FEATURE 

Everett — Arthur, how was the 
silence broken? 

Arthur — Tina dropped a remark.  

All women are stuck up — judging by 

the number of pins they use. 

Why is it right for B to come be- 
fore C ? 

Because we must lie, before we 
can C. 

Freshman — No mama, with those fel- 
lows in the street. 

Ttoiher — Wilfred, give me a sen-tence with “dozen” and “toward” 
in it. 

Wilfred — I dozen know how I to- 
ward my pants. 
• • • 
Smart Soph — Translation, “Haec in 
Galliam importamus,” Hike into Gall 

— it’s important. 

Ceridvoen — Who was that drunken 
man that said “Hello” to you Wilfred ? 

Wilfrid — Oh, that's a full cousin of 
mine. 

H. FAULKNER O. H. JONES 

FAULKNER 

c AND 

JONES 

LAW and 
REAL ESTATE 

Sacramento Valley, Cal., 
Land a Specialty 

1900 STATE STREET 

BOTH PHONES 309 

NOISELESS NOISES. 
Breaking up a cold. 
Smashing a record. 

Shooting the rapids. 
Forging ahead. 

Firing the enthusiasm. 
“Shouting” in a saloon. 
Barking up the wrong tree. 

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GRANITE CITY 

Is Growing Rapidly, Property 
Increasing in Value. Buy 
Now. Call at Headquarters. 
We Sell All Classes of 
Property, Homes and Vacant 
Lots for Investment. 

PRICES LOW 
TERMS EASY 

Granite City 
Realty Co. 

19th and B STREET 

PHONE 191 

Chas. A. Uzzell 

Prescription 

DRUGGIST 

19th and D Street 
GRANITE CITY, ILL. 

Miss Furnace to William Howard 
Atwood — William, has an octopus got 
eight arms? 

Mr. Atwood — Yes. Lucile. 

Lucille (wistfully) — Wouldn't it be 
nice, William if you were an octopus? 

Papa may I hike with the suffragettes? 

Not if it calls for anything in the 
way of a special hiking costume, ray 
dear. 

• * * * 

A FLORAL ROMANCE 
Sweet William was a bachelor, 

He led a lonely life; 

Said he, “I'll go a courting 
And find myself a wife.'' 

He called on Btack-eycd-Susan 
In her humble little cot 
He whispered. “You are a daisy." 

She said, “Forget-me-not.” 

He kissed her on her red tulip, 

His heart beat fast and faster, 

Said he, “I'll have her for ray wife.” 
And so he up and Astor. 

“And when shall we be married?” 

She blushed a rosy red. 

“Will June, the month of roses do?” 
“Of course it will,” he said. 

The wedding day dawned fair, and 
bright ; 

The morning glorys shone. 

Jack-in-t lie-pul pit tied the knot 
He had his fox-gloves on. 

A lunch was served at four o’clock. 

The boullion was quite sloppy. 

The bride was nervous as could be 
And champagne corks were poppy. 

And when it all was over 
God speed was wished by all. 

The bride’s maids all wore violet 
And the rice did loudly fall. 

The wife jumped on the train step. 

“My bouncing Bet,” quoth he. 

“I'll live-for-cvcr by thy side 
And always happy be.” 

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Palmer Perfumes are the 

BEST 

Henry Ratz 

DRUGGIST 

Sole Agent 19th and State St. 

Claule — Gee! 1 don't think much 
of the fellow Mable goes with. 

Wilfred — Well she does her best any- 
way. You ought to see the ones she 
turned down. 

Erwin Frohardt — ’ Tis better to have 
loved and lost her than never to have 
loved at all. 

Dorothy Doering — To know her was 
to love her. 

Miss High fill— In which of his bat- 
tles was Gustavus Adolphus killed? 

Will Lewis (after reflection)— I 
think it was in his last battle. 
Old Lady (to grocery boy) — He thira 
eggs on the counter fresh ? 

Will Winter — Yes’m. 

Old Lady — How long have they been 
laid ? 

Will — Not very long, ma’am. I laid 
’em there myself less’n half an hour 
ago. 

Both Phono 

Michel Brothers 

Cash Grocers 

Busiest Grocery Store in 

GRANITE CITY 

2200 STATE STREET 

A nice clever young man went to a 
little evening party at Miss Christina 
McKean ’s the other night. This young 
man was introduced to several pretty 
girls, but he showed a distinct preference for Helen Watkins and her he led 
to supper. While there he was heard 
to say, “I like you a lot.” 

Helen (surprisingly), “ Why do you 
like me?” 

“You're the only High School girl I 
ever liked.” 

Helen: “Hut why am I?” 

“Aw — all the other High School 
girls seem to know so much ! ’  

Give a small boy a piece of chalk and 
he will make his mark. 

“Go to the aunt, thou sluggard.” 
may be good advice, but the modern 
sluggard is more likely to go to his 
Uncle. 

Junior — Why does Miss Highfill look 
at her watch so often? 
Second Junior — Perhaps there’s a 
man in the case. 

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Don V forget to attend 
the Class VI ay  

SENIOR CLASS 

McKinley High Auditorium 

May 26, 1913 

Admission, 25c and 35c 

Sash Trimmings 

PLANING 

MILL 

Door Stairs 

DRAPER 

MANUFACTURING CO. 
General Mill Work 

Blinds Glass 

“Are you Hungary?” 

“Yes, Siam.” 

“Well Russia long, then and I’ll 
Fiji.” 

Never go to latin class unless you know 
the lingo ; 

For if you do like me you will repent hy jingo ! 

Most High School students are so 
crammed with everything that they 
know nothing. In proof of this read 
these veritable specimens of definitions 
written by some : 

“Stability is taking care of a stable.” 

“A monastery is the place for monsters.” 

“Cannibal is two brothers who 
killed each other in the Bible.” 

“Anatomy is the human body, which 
consists of three parts, the head, chest, 
and stomach. The head contains the 
eyes, and brains, if any. The chest 
contains the lungs and part of the liver. 
The stomick consists of the bowels of 
which there are five a-e-i-o-u and 
sometimes w and y. 

Does it hurt a joke to crack it?  

Mr. Ellmore to Fred while on a three 
day vacation. 

Mr. Ellmore — Fred, how would you 
like to enter a relay event ? 

Fred — Oh, pop that would be just 
fine. 

Mr. Ellmore — Well lad your mother 
is about to relay the carpet. 

Hazel (.'aton — I saw in the paper 
where a man sold his wife to a blind 
man for 50 cents. My goodness I think 
they ought to hang him for doing such 
a thing. 

Edge Higg — Yes, just think of it, 
cheating a poor blind man like that. 

Revivalist — My son. when that great 
day comes, where we will find you, 
with the sheep or the goats? 

Riggsy — Blessed if I know. Ma calls 
me her “little lamb” and pa calls me 
“the kid,” so I guess I’ll have to give 
it up. 

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EVERY KIND 

Cornelia Brown — Mortals, that 
would follow me, love virtue; she alone 
is free. 

“I say, Miss Christina, won’t you 
favor me with a little song?” 

“Certainly, Mr. Britisher, anti what 
shall it he?” 

“Why, I think I should enjoy that 
one altout returning the w-wabbit.” 
(Thoughtfully) “Returning the rab- 
bit?” 

“Yaas, you know (humming). We 
turn my wabbit again, again. ” 

“Oh. I think you mean ‘Bring back 
my Bonnie to me.’ ” 

’“Yaas, that’s it. Miss Tina. Bwing 

back my Bunnie to me.” 

lie told the shy maid of his love. 

The color left her cheeks. 

But on the shoulder of his coat 

It showed for many weeks. 
 

It is easy enough to look pleasant, 
When Spring comes along with a rush; 
But the fellow worth while 
Is the one who can smile 
When he slips and sits down in the 
slush. 

A lady having more than the average 
portion of avoirdupois mounted a car 
bound for Edwardsville the other 
night. Safely inside she grabbed a 
strap and stood on Mr. lliles’ toes as 
he was seated. Almost immediately 
Mr. lliles got up, bowed gracefully and 
motioned her to his seat. “You are 
very kind, sir,” dimpled the lady sub- 
siding. “Kind!” said Mr. lliles indig- 
nantly. “This ain’t kindness — it’s self 
defense. ’ ’ 

Oswald — I think that Mr. Atwood 
would be a fine looking fellow, if his 
face was eraced and drawn over. 

Said Mabel to Will — 1 am sailing on 
the sea of matrimony. 

Said Will— l will be the rock on 
which thou shalt shipwreck. 
Atwood (in chemistry) — Miss 
Berry of what does the ruby’s spinel 
consist ? 

Christina McKean (in undertone to 
Rim) — Bones, you silly. 

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HOW WOULD THEY LOOK. 

Mable Rigg — Dancing. 

Gertrude Me Attorney — Without her 
face powdered. 

Ethel Holdinghaus — With nothing 
to do. 

Miss High fill — Without her glasses. 

Miss West — Not giving marks. 

Eduard Hommert — Without his 
pompadour. 

Christie Ilaechtold — A fat man. 

Mildred Reale — A hutting in. 

Rex Vaughn — Without his loving 
disposition. 

Katherine Rath — Cutting up. 

Daisy Pick — Without her curls. 

Mr. Frohardt — With a small nose. 

Mr. Hiles — Without his grade hook. 

Margaret 1 ’night — At church on 
Sunday nights. 

Leaf ha Comer — Without a beau. 

Helen Watkins — Not at a dance. 

Hazel Caton — Without her many admirers. 

Claude McKean — Studying. 

Will Lewis — Without five books un- 
der his arm. 

Ruth Ellison — Without her artificial 
curls. 

Arthur Reimers — Not blushing. 

Oswald Williams — Not in a hurry. 

Wella Mueller — Not complaining 
about her grades. •• 

Christina McKean — An old maid. 

Rita Perry — With her book closed. 

Miss Furnace — Not acting cute. 

Helen — This lace on my dress is 50 
years old. 

Arthur — It’s pretty ; did you make it 
yourself

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“Dad,” said Curley Harris, who was 
looking at a cartoon in the paper, 
“ Isn’t that a picture of Jonah and the 
whale?” 

“No," said Mr. Harris, “if it were, 
wouldn’t Jonah he there, too?” 

“Perhaps he’s inside the whale,” 

suggested Curley. 

# * • 

Old Gentleman — “Well, Joe, what 
have you given up as a Lenten 
sacrifice f ’ ’ 

Joe — “Nothing mister, father says 

it isn't manly to give up.” 

“I declare, Erwin,” said Mr. Fro- 
hardt, irascibly, “You are the most 
stupid hoy 1 ever saw. 1 wonder at 
your ignorance. It seems to me I’ll 
never be able to learn you anything.” 
“Do you mean to fetich me any- 

thing. pa?” asked Erwin calmly picking a toothpick. 

Arthur Re inters — “Mother will you 
wash my face?” 

Mrs. R< inters — “Why, Arthur, a 
great big hoy like you, in H. S. and 
can’t wash your face?” 

Arthur — “Oh yes, mother, I can but 
1 'll have to wet my hands and they 
don't need it.” 

“The most unpleasant constellation 
to see of a winter’s night is the grate 
hare.”  

Just come with me and smile a broad 
deep grin — 

Then laugh aloud ; 

Nor cease to roar, till nature interferes 
And each loud snore repeats the humor 
of these jokes. 

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A Small Salary is no bar to 
a Happy Home 

MARRY THE GIRL 

We’ll Furnish 

Miss High fill — What was there re- 
markable about the battle of Lookout 
Mountain ? 

Giranl — It caused bangs on the brow 
of the mountain. 

Mr, Ililes went into his room one 

morning and finding the blackboard 
covered with paper wads he turned to 
Claude aiid said. “Claude, did you 
throw those paper wads on the 
board?” 

“No, sir,” was Felix’s reply, “min 
didn’t stick.”