Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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Declamation. Jack, the Fisherman, - - Elsie Waterman Forest King's Victory, - John Beatty The Little Polish Boy, - Lou Bell Jolly Piano Solo, Second Mazurka Martha Leutwiler Claudius and Cynthia, - - Cecil Barnsback The Seamless Robe, - Lula Warnock The Soldier’s Reprieve, - - - Linda Herman Instrumental duet, “ ’ Puritan?' by Bellini Grace Friend and Lillian Curlee “Italia” - Chorus of Thirty Voices Essay. Altruism ----- Mata Roman Puritan Influence in England and America. Birdie Machin The Race Problem - Bertha Tontz The Garden of the Heart, - Tessie Blake Woman in Music, inot Cartwright Age of Gold versus the Golden Age. Hortense Corbett

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PROGRAM. Oratory. Piano Solo, (a) “ Tarantelle” S. Heller (1 ) Impromptu Mazourka, C. Bohni Edith Frohardt. The Penalty of Greed - Ferdinand Jelde Piano Solo, “Rhapsodic No. 12Liszt Bessie Bickelhaupt American Patriotism. - - - Irene Nunn Home, - Cozamine Wilson Piano and Comet Duet Henry and Edward Schwartzbeck The Warning Voice, - - Roland Griffith The Sword and the Pen. - - Win. M. P. Smith The Stranger within Our Gates - Herbert C. Smith Violin Solo. “L Aragonesa, raise do concert I) . Hard Op. 12 Sara Travous

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30 “ T H E T A T L E R . The Third Annual Meet. last the great day arrived! May 5. 1905, the most important day in the year to the members of the Alton High School—the clay when we were to go to Edwardsville (ever hear of that village?) and show the Edwardsville High School and the other schools in the Madison County High School Association. what they couldn’t do. This was our third annual meet; we had won the pennant the year before and we had no intention of coming home without it this time. 1 hink what an undecorated spot it would leave in our beautiful assembly hall! And then it makes such a nice background for the teachers when they line up on the stage for the morning exercises; for their sakes we felt bound to bring back the pennant. The day seemed to have been created especially for field events; perhaps old Sol was trying to make up for the scare he gave us the year before, when he did not appear until the middle of the afternoon. With colors dying and banners waving an enthusiastic Alton crowd boarded a special train. )n the way over we had plenty of time to practice our yells and songs, for the train crew seemed to think that they ought to give Edwardsville time to prepare a suitable reception for its distinguished guests. 1 he train went so slowly that those who were in a hurry got out and walked on. At Cahokia Creek the train stopped and some of the energetic Alton people got out and shucked some corn in a field near by, in order to get some cobs with which to fire up so that the train might move on again. After a delayed but successful journey through the jungles of Cahokia, our train finally rolled into the ancient village of Edwardsville. We found the people over there wide awake (for a change) and the sun was smiling sympathetically down on them. Well, they needed it—needed all the sympathy they could get. We marched through Main street just to show that we were from Alton, then proceeded to the magnificent and spacious opera house where the intellectual events were to take place. We were not so fortunate in this contest as we were the year before at Collinsville; but then Collinsville people know how to behave when some one is reciting. Miss Lula Warnock captured the second prize for us in a