Wasco Union High School - Wasconian Yearbook (Wasco, CA)

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The type ot building, the mode of transportation, the style of clothing, the array of social events - each endured its own time and crumbled into the enfolding dust of history. is s. An early mode of transportation, familiar to Wasco's first inhabitants, was Mr. Cormack's ice wagon. 1890's 1893 1897 1900 1904 1905 Land purchase from Marshal V. Hartranft of Los Angeles Oct. 11 - a S4000 bond election for erection of per- manent school building - all 10 votes in favor Small school called Delta lat corner of Wasco-Pond Road and Kimberlina Santa Fe Railway through Wasco - first finger of civilization Town originally named Dewey and then Deweyville in honor of Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay Name changed to Wasco after tribe of Indians when dis- covered there was another Deweyville Combined Delta-Shamrock School - 5 pupils Town population 16 First game of baseball played in spring-W. G. McCombs pitched Marcia Albert and David Tracy admire the 'modern lines of his 1965 Mustang. ,amwtnmmnm