Dakota High School - Talebearer Yearbook (Dakota, IL)

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.. THE TALEBEARER CLASS OF '25 Dorotha Rote-Office Work, Phoenix, Arizona. Cheryl Slamp-Office Assistant, Dr. C. L. Snyder, Freeport, Ill. Esther Meck-Employed at Freeport, Ill. Katherine Bobb-Office VVork, Stover Mfg. Co., Freeport, Ill. Emma Johnson-Office VVork, Rockford, Ill. Marian Young-Student, Northern Ill. State Teacher' College, DeKalb. Illinois. Josephine Price-Office VVork, Freeport, Ill. Leila Barr-At Home, Rock City, Ill. Clark Messman-Employed at Rockford, Ill. Marguerite Lapp4 Office XVork, Freeport, Ill. VVendell Rhodes-Employed Chicago, Milwaukee 8: St. Paul Depot, Dakota, Ill. Clifford Kortmeier-Employed in garage at Chicago, Ill. Lillian Greider-At home, Freeport, Ill. VVilbur Vehmeier-St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. Arthur VVeimer-Attending Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. Requartte Tracy-At home, Rock City, Ill. CIASS OF '26 Elsie Lincoln-At home, Dakota, Ill. Dorothy Pela-Nurse, at Evengelical Deaconess Hospital, Freeport, Ill. Lucille Meyer-Nurse at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Freeport, Ill. Thelma Fitzgerald-At home, Rock Citv, Ill. VVarren Lapp-Post Graduate work at D. C. H. S., Dakota, Ill. Vernon Messman-Employed by VV. C. Smith 8 Co., Dakota, Ill. Joseph Andres-Attending Brown's Business College, Freeport, Ill. Adelbert VVeaver-At home, Dakota, Ill. Kenneth Miller-At home, Dakota, Ill. Helen Spangler-Employed by XV. T. Raleigh's Mfg. Co., Freeport, Ill. 0 O O The Rock City girls made the remark that since they put a high gear on their Ford it certainly is fast-in the mud half way between Dakota and home. 0 0 O NVhat would happen if: The Rock City car would always go? Bertha Rockey would get her work in late? Mr. Stephan would be seen without his brief case? Miss Conway would forget to assign an English lesson? Miss Eldredge would fail to tell the people in room 4 when it was S:3O? Mr. Alleman woud fail to be a good sport? ,lerome Lentz would wear old clothes? Bonnie would cease to be a joker? Thelma would forget how to sing? Cleone would fail in a declamation? The Sophs. knew their Geometry? The Physics class could recite Monday morning? ,Toseph Shoemaker would become excited? ,Terome would fail to win the mile? The teachers would all leave for a day? iE3r.5s55aSfsfa3?5r2Ei f aaf 1 9 2 7 Page nineteen

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THE A TALEBEARER LINCOLN ESSAY CONTEST Each year the Illinois Watch Company of Springfield conducts a Lincoln Essay contest to encourage the study of the life and character of Abraham Lincoln. All recognized hig-h schools, junior high schools, academies and other schools of their equivalent which are located in the United States or in its possessions are ele- gible to enter this contest. This company offers a bronze medallion to the winner of each school. Velda Mc- Cauley won this year with the essay, Lincoln, the Man of Quality. Honorable men- tion was given to Mary Barker's essay, Lincoln, the Literary Artist. Lincoln, the Man of Quality The heights which are reached by great men are not reached by sudden flight, but while others are sleeping, they are toiling upward. In spite of the hardships of life which Lincoln incurred, as a youth he laid the foundation of a character upon which he built for himself a name which time cannot erase and which strikes a key- note off love and admiration in the heart of every American citizen. The character of Lincoln, rather than anything he did, makes secure the place which he holds and will continue to hold in the history of mankind. At the base of his nature, in the tap-root and very fiber of his being-, pulsed a fidelity to truth. He was proverbially honest in all of his achievements-clerk, sur-- veyor, lawyer and politician. His honesty became a by-word among his friends. Abraham Lincoln was a synonym for honest dealing. ' His scrupulous honesty was proved by an incident occurring when he was a clerk in a store at New Salem. He found that he had overcharged a customer six and one- fourth cents. To rectify this mistake he walked three miles to return the money. Another time he found that he had given a customer only four ounces of tea instead of eight which she had paid for, so he took the four ounces to her the next morning when he discovered his mistake. As a lawyer, Lincoln would often admit that he did not know enough about the case, and would not go ahead with it, pretending that he knew something about it as many others would have been inclined to do. The simple words I do not know are among- the hardest to pronounce in the English language, but Lincoln used them free-- ly so that he might be honest and true. One man classified him as being too per- versely honest to be of any use to a client who was not exactly honest. Lincoln's sterling practical sense, which went straight home to the essential point in everything he was considering, marked him as original. His thoughts, his manner, his address were eminently his own. He always judged things for himself and was not easily inHuenced by other's adverse opinions. Lincoln showed a dash of shrewdness, a quickness of wit, and a power of persua- sion. In politics he had a sense of what the other fellow would probably do, and thus could get ahead of him. One time in a legislature campaign some of the people wanted Lincoln to consent to a bit of log rolling which he considered wrong, and he broke forth in an indignant refusal that the legislators never forgot. This was a convincing demonstration that you could not buy Lincoln. The simplicity in Lincoln's talk and manners is striking. He was not a follower of glory, but rather of duty. When he was first elected president, his cabinet of- ficers were amazed to find a president who was so simple and good, loving everyone with the same simple earnestness. In his speech, he was so simple and clear that everyone understood it. His Gettysburg Address is an example of his simple, clear, exact and direct manner of talking. Every word possesses a volume of meaning. S1927 Page twenty-one