Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 160 of the 1909 volume:

THE MEDLEY The DANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Volume VI 1909 Published each year by the MEDLEY STAFF OF THE SENIOR CLASS NEWS PRINTING CO.. DANVILLE. ILLINOIS 0 DANVILLE ’09 ifflitliuut ayulnny fur me Ijaue yiuru uf uur brut, and .... HUtljnut undue runfidenre fur ntr realize hum far that beat l|aa fallen aljurt uf uur ideala . . . UJe uffer gnu tljia tlje aixtl) an-uual unlumr uf tlje Medley. 3 MEDI.KY 4 MARY D. HA W KINS DANVILLE ’09 an iflani D. tBauikuis mini haa lirrn a 911 tent fart in eatabliahimt for tl)ia Siijh Srlutol a hinb reputation. flJhoae work in iHathrinatirn Ijaa yainei) fur her an exrelleut reputation aa an inatrnrtor thereof. Who haa eurr lahoreh to maintain a hi nil atanharh of ethira in the personality of her pupils; ahia tuilumr is glaiily auk rrsprrtfitlhj Brkiratrk. MKDLEY Board of Education OFFICERS. L. D. GASS, President A. A. PART LOW, Secretary O. A. M’FAR LAND C. U. FELDKAMP WILLIAM E. SHEDD A. R. SAMUEL ELLA B. KINGSLEY Superintendent L. H. GRIFFITH COMMITTEES Teachers O. A. McFarland, Win. E. Shedd, A. A. Partlow Finance Wm. E. Shedd, A. R. Samuel, Ella B. Kingsley Supplies A. A. Partlow, A. R. Samuel, Wm. E. Shedd Buildings and Grounds C. U. Feldkamp, A. A. Partlow, O. A. McFarland Domestic Science Ella B. Kingsley, C. U. Feldkamp, O. A. McFarland, A. R. Samuel Text Books L. I). Gass, L. II. Griffith, A. A. Partlow, Wm. E. Shedd, O. A. McFarland o o . :-i rna (i Photo by Wamsley. Z. M. SMITH, A. M. ‘DePauw University, Principal 8 DANVIU.E ' K) V Francis Pearson Mce s, Ph. B., M. Pd.; Illinois Wesleyan University; Michigan State Normal; Cornell University; Instructor in History. Flavilla Qranl, A. B.; Fort Worth University; Instructor in English. Clara Louise Ross, A. ,F}.; Lake Forest University; Instructor in Latin. Photos by Wamsley. 0 M KDI.KY Bertha Harper, B. S., University of Illinois; Instructor in Domestic Science. Photos by Wamsley. 10 DANVILLE ' ! Edith Warfel dM.arlfley, ‘Ph. University of Chicago; Instructor in Mathematics. Carlelon H. Etna L. Robey, A. B.; University of Chicago; Wellesley; Instructor in English. Mann, A. B.; Northwestern University; De Pauw University; Instructor in Physics and Chemistry. Photos by Wamsley. MEDLEY Edna K. Wolfen-berger, Jl. De Pauw University; Instructor in Mathematics. 12 Photos by Wamsley. DANVILLE ’09 C. Harold Sac ett, A. M.; Oberlin College; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Holl, Mass; University of Illinois; Instructor in Biology. Rhue Myrtle Miller, Ph. B.; University of Chicago; Instructor in German. 13 Photos by Wamslcy. n 7OOHDS HDIH 311IANVQ AM KIM IV ---------t-- YE MEDLEY STAFF Editor-inChief Kims Manager | , r .c ,7 AthleticEditorv Litew E jitors (Wee i £■ Art Editor Illustrators AocietyEdSr HimorousEditor MEDLEY Medley Staff 1(5 Photos by VVatnslcy. DANVILLE ’no Maroon and White Officers Photo by Wamsiey. BROPHY SLAUGHTER THOMAS MILLER OSBORNE CRAFT CESSNA EDWARDS YEAGER BRYAN BURCH IT BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor in Chief __ Business Manager News Editor------ Literary Editor __ Athletic Editor __ Alumni Editor____ Humorous Editor Exchange Editor . ___Ethel Edwards ____Ralph Yeager ___ May Slaughter ____Lovia Thomas ____Harry Cessna Rhue Myrtle Miller Howard Bure hit ________Paul Bryan Junior---- Sophomore Freshmen . CLASS BUSINESS MANAGERS. _________________________Thomas Brophy _________________________Everett Craft __________________________Arch Osborne MEDI.EY The Maroon and White nN THE school year 1907-1908 the Maroon and White, our school periodical, was established under the efficient tutelage of our Principal, Mr. Z. M. Smith. Raymond Southworth was made Editor-in-chief and with him at the helm it grew to be an established success. The trend of its character is along literary lines with a smattering of humor thrown in, not giving too great an amount of space to Athletics as some papers of this kind are wont to do. It has a good exchange department wherein its faults and merits and those of other such issues are stated clearly and generously. The Maroon and White appears each month of the school year excepting September and February, or the months beginning the Semesters, at which times the Staff is too busy planning an onslaught upon “credits” to attend to the publishing business. This year the paper has had at its head Ralph Yeager and Ethel Edwards who have proved themselves amply sufficient for the work at hand. All issues have put in their appearance at the proper time and have met with general satisfaction. Of course there are always those who find fault with any ambitious and industrious attempt no matter on whose part it may be. But these are not counted on the highway to success over which our paper is most surely journeying. A school periodical is a most pre-eminent factor in binding together the social and work-a-day life of the institution. There opportunities are given to develop possibilities in all branches of literature. There the humorist. the philosopher, the poet, the novelist, and the artist may meet on an equal footing where their talents may be displayed and their accomplishments noised abroad. When the paper is kept sound in principle and with out discrimination in its statements it is bound to he appreciated and respected by all who read it. It tends to familiarize the reader with his fellow students and their work. Feeling that the Maroon and White stands forth for these precedents, all health, wealth and prosperity is wished towards its future circulation and the accomplishment of its mission. 18 Ct GO. HTIIANVd MEDLEY yllumni Association Officers President -------------------------------- Edwin McCord Vice President----------------------------------------John Garriott Secretary-Treasurer ---------------------- Harry Fairchild SOCIAL COMMITTEE Nancy Tucker Lola Olmsted Elina Cook Anne Chesley Earl Scharf DANVII.LE 0!) Alumni INCE 1872 when three girls in their white gowns were made Danville High School’s first alumnae, at the old Franklin Hall, then above Woodbury’s drug store, over six hundred students have been graduated from our schopl. The largest class, that of 11105, claimed fifty-one members. Some of the alumni have continued their studies and have represented us at Illinois, Northwestern, Chicago, DePauw, Wabash, Purdue, Rose Polytechnic, West Point, Notre Dame, Annapolis, Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Smith, Western, University of Washington, Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Michigan, Cornell, Leland Stanford. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jacksonville, Oberlin, and Ferry Hall. Others are assisting the future alumni to become worthy of their position, for among the teachers in the city schools are the following graduates: in the high school, Mrs. Meeks, Misses Myrtle Miller, Flavilla Grant, Edith Markley and Etna Robey. In the graded schools the alumni is represented by Misses Eva Sherman, Lucy Lewis, Mary Buchele, Lorean Freeman, Gertrude Fox, Mabel Bushong, Helen Palmer, Jean Hosford, Margaret Moore, Zula Persons, Jessie Phipps, Maude Lesch, Emma Low Lewis, Gertrude Payne, Katharine Sweeney, Carrie Ramsay, Ellen Watkins, Anna Meade, Lena Kelly, Minnie Hazzard, Eva Lesley, Blanche Tuttle, Grace Fenton, Cecil Alles, Garnett Acree, Pluma Hill, Nellie Hornor, and Mrs. Levia Abernathy. Others engaged in professional work in Danivlle are ex-mayor of the city and present State’s Attorney John Lewman; city collector, Fern Bishop; city engineer, Walter Martin; attorneys: Edward R. Partlow, A. A. Part-low; Clarence Beckwith, James Woodbury, Ralph Holmes, Walter Book-waiter. Dr. Guy is one of the city’s well known physicians. Adolphus Lynch represents the newspapers, Joseph Gohn, cjuarter master general of Fort Snelling, and Well Shedd are in the U. S. A. Mark Whitmeyer, Percy Platt, Clarence Baum, John Webster, Bernard Feldkamp, James Greene-baurn and Ralph Davies have been successful in business. The alumni’s only active organization is the Danville High School Alumni Association, which welcomes the “baby alumni,” at an annual reception each June. If all receptions are as delightful as the writer found the last to be, then more of our six hundred should, not only as a duty but also as a pleasure, appear at the next meeting. MEDLEY Where Are The ’08s AT HOME SWEET HOME. EDITH E. BECKMAN LENA L. BUSHONG RAY E. BOGGESS ADA M. CHAPIN HAZEL DELAY DESSA M. ELDER IDA LEWIS MARJORIE F. LEWIS HlLDEGARDE MUECKE RUTH SANDERSON ELIZABETH ST R A USER NANCY C. TUCKER VIVA COLLET MABELLE WATKINS AT U. OF I. DAVID LOUTZENHISER S. EULA LOUTZENHISER BILL SANDUSKY INSTRUCTING YOUNG • AMERICA. HELEN M. GRIFFITH AT WESTERN COLLEGE. ELMA COOKE LOLA OLMSTED AT BROWN’S OSWALD F. BECKER EARL M. SCHARF ANNE D. CHESLEY EDWIN M'CORD HELEN G. RYAN IN SEARCH OF THE FILTHY LUCRE. JOHN GARRIOTT HARRY R. COHEN HAROLD B. GREENEBAUM WALTER A. MECK ALBERT II. BECKER CHARLES F. HOWARD VICTIMS OF CUPID. EM MA ALLISON-HOWARD MAE HOCH-MOORE AT DEPAUW UNIVERSITY. C. BERNARD AUSTIN HARRY FAIRCHILD MYRTLE M. SANFORD AT FERRY HALL. EDNA COHEN AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. EDNA JANE GREER AT WHEATON COLLEGE. WALTER H. GUNN WATCHING MARVIN’S WHEREABOUTS GEORGE HOLLOWAY WEBB STILL TOGETHER. EDWIN M'CORD AND ANNE CHESLEY DANVILLE ’00 23 MEDLEY SENIOR BASKET BALL TEAM. • Photo by Wamsley. CROSS COUNTRY TEAM. 24 Photo by Wamsley. DANVILLE ’09 O' MEDLEY Senior Class Officers I. JONES President B. JONES President M’CRACK EN. Secretary FERRIS Chairman Social Committee NEB I.ICK Social Committee HUFF Historian HILL Social Committee YOUNG Social Committee CATLETT Social Committee Colors Orange and Black 2G Photo by Wamslcy. DANVILLE '00 History of the Class of 1909 THE YEAR of 1909 has conic and we can scarcely realize that we as a class will now leave the old school forever. In September, 1905, the class of 1909 made its appearance within the halls of the Danville High School. e looked like all other Freshies so the upper classmen proceeded to get acquainted with the “bashful ones.” Consequently the barbers had a short period of prosperity which we shall not forget. We cannot forget those first lessons in “good form” given us by our elders in the chilly atmosphere of those Indian Summer evenings. The first few weeks we went about doing our duties quietly and trying to learn the customs of our “avowed betters” (?). Being observant and willing to learn we soon perceived that we needed organization as well as the rest of the classes; so putting by the bashful ways of the ordinary Freshmen, we met on October the fourth, 1905, and organized, thus being the first organized Freshman class in the High School. 1 hrough efficient leadership and perseverance we won unprecedented honor and respect from our class brothers and sisters. How well that experience has aided us can only be shown by the records we have made during our High School life. In our Sophomore year new avenues of success were opened to us, and how eagerly we strove for honor in literary and athletic contests. The girls’ basket-ball team was the undisputed champion of the school and the class track and base-ball teams were the pride of the class. The Junior year was rather uneventful but we kept at work in all the departments of High School life and succeeded in capturing second place in the inter-class track meet. Through the influence of our principal, Mr. Smith, the Maroon and White the monthly publication of our school, was successfully launched with a staff, a large majority of whom were members of this class. How proud we are of its existence and of those who successfully launched it! As- Seniors we worried about our credits in Physics and Geometry for we have already learned that “it is human to err. Ira Jones was unanimously elected as the choice of our class for a leader during our Senior year and he has proven himself worthy of the honor by his conduct throughout his past school life. In our last year we appreciate the opportunities that the dear old school offers and we shall have all endeavored to take advantage of as many as possible. We have striven to do our best in our Senior year, and throughout the entire course, that our history may be written in the minds of men and that we may well be a model for the other classes which will have completed this course in the future. In our school life as well as elsewhere it requires a constant struggle 27 MEDLEY to keep up with the standard; consequently many have dropped out of our midst and our class is not so large as some of our predecessors. But we may well console ourselves with the facts that the standards are higher and it is a survival of the fittest. In athletic, society and literary work we have always been active but we have not allowed it to intrefere in any way with our regular course at school. We have accomplished enough in each however to show that we are capable of doing what we are determined to do. A number of our class are prominent in literary and newspaper work and in debates. Two members of the Varsity debating team of ’07-’08 were members of our class. If any literary program were to be given the class of ’09 must always be duly considered. In alhlet:cs we have won much honor and we are proud to have within our number Ira Jones, the boy who has won so many points for the school in all kinds of athletics. The girls have also ranked high in class athletics. In society we have spent many pleasant hours together and we have always cultivated a fraternal spirit among ourselves and toward the other classes. Having a good time in connection with our lessons is our motto along this line. Now we have finished our course in the Danville High School and pass out into the wide, wide world. We have no fear for the future however for the training we have had has amply prepared us. The members have always been loyal to the Orange and Black and to the Maroon and White and we feel that some of the class of 1909 will make their “mark in the world.” May the school be a blessing to its future members as it has been to us. We leave its halls forever but we will never forget those four jolly years spent in the Danville High School. Note:—Since the writing of this history Ira Jones has resignedifrom his position as Class President and Beryl Jones has been installed in his place. 28 « c ■ 58 POLITICS WEITVILLE ' HOBO rtArRjMowy SPINSTER Haworth B-Jones mini STER [ )H ‘l BRUISER ARTIST ini MUSIC I ' Rums SPoarJ ATNLET£ PAUPER ROSPERi Miller LAWYER -g -V t DOCTOR FARMER WAITRESS 10ANKER POLICEMAN GUIDE teamster FIRE MAN milk maid actre butcher (j NON TEACHtf (CHORUS kittL UNKNOWN bare back balle ATER WALKER RIDER DANCER STATE legislature PRESIDENT CONGRESS ARMY Barg-Balsley Barnett Bo_y Burke Bryan Burohit Coddington Catlett Cessna, Coope_r Dull D. Dagu EU'ot D fringe r M.Dag Ferris Faurot Hoff Huff k Martens McCracKen -Neb licK Qrlea_____ .Schatz Slaughter � ■ —— — ——™ -South worth ! Straus ,,S her tall Thomas '•Will laws i Wolford Young S MEDLEY Photo by Wamsley. BERYL JONES Sarah Beryl Jones: English Course; Class Secretary and Treasurer (3); Class Vice President (3), (4); Adarian Literary Society, Vice President (3), (4); Society Editor Medley (4); Girls’ Athletic Association; Manager Girls’ Tennis Tournament (3); Girls’ Club; German Club. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.” DANVILLE 09 Helene Barger English Course; Invitation Committee (4); Atheneum Literary Society. Program Committee (4) ; Medley Play (4); Girls Athletic Association; German Club; Girls Club. “There surely must be some good hard work in her for none ever comes out. Margaret E. Balsley German Course; Girls’ Athletic Association; Girls Club; German Club. “Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever. ’ Ona Belle Barnett Latin-German Course; Invitation Committee (4); Atheneum Literary Society; Girls Semi-Chorus; Girls’ Club; German Club. “A jolly yet sagacious little cuss.” 31 Photos 1 y Wamsley. MEDLEY Arthur L. Boyer German Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Nathan Hale Play ; Class Baseball Team (1). (2), (3); Captain Baseball Team (2); Football Team (1), (2), (3). Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.” Pearle Snyder Burke English Course; Adarian Literary Society; Girls’ Athletic Association; Girls’ Club; German Club. “Thy modesty a candle to thy merit.” Paul L. Bryan German Course; Invitation Committee (4); Adarian Literary Society; Literary Editor of Medley (4) ; Exchange Editor of Maroon and White (4); Boys’ Athletic Association; Secretary and Treasurer of Glee Club (4); Medley Play (4); Maroon and White Play (4) ; Senior Play (3); German Club. “Dainty and sweet.” :vi Photos by Wamsley. DANVILLE 0!) Clara B. Coddington Latin-German Course; Literary Society; German Club; Girls’ Club; Medley Play (4). “All’s not bold that titters.” Rolland John Catlett General Course; Social Committee (4); Adar-ian Literary Society; Literary Contest (3); President Adarian Literary Society (4); Edi-tor-in-Chief of Medley (4); Nathan Hale Play (4); Boys’ Athletic Association; Minstrels (3). “For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale, And wisely tell what hour of day The clock does strike by algebra.” Harry Cessna Atheneum Literary Society; Chairman Atheri-eum Program Committee (4); Athletic Editor Maroon and White (4); Humorous Editor Medley (4); Medley Play (4). “And the lamp and I smoked on,” .13 Photos by Wamsley. MEDLEY Will Cooper English Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Class Baseball (2); Manager Class Baseball (3); Class Track Team (2). “A vacuum is a combative force.” Marian C. Dull English Course; Atheneum Literary Society, Program Committee (3); Medley Play (4); Girls’ Athletic Association; Class Basketball Team (4); Varsity Basketball Team (4); Girls’ Club. “Rich in saving common sense.” Deam Dague English Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Class Track Team (2) ; Boys’ Tennis Tournament (3). ‘‘I have more zeal than wit.” 34 Photos by Wamslcy. DANVILLE '09 Fern Daringer Latin Course; Adarian Literary Society; Adar-ian Program Committee (4) ; Basketball (4) ; Class Basketball (4); Girls' Athletic Association ; Tennis Tournament (3); Girls’ Club; German Club. “She smiles and smiles and will not sigh.’’ Mary V. Dague Latin Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Girls’ Athletic Association; Basketball (1), (2), (4); Varsity Basketball Team and Captain (4); Tennis Championship (2); Girls’ Semi-Chorus (.'?), (4); Girls' Club. “Dear to my heart are the wee small hours.” Meta Elliott English Course; Adarian Literary Society; Girls’ Club. “Some smiles look as though they had been done up in curl papers,” MEDLEY Marion Ferris English Course; Social Committee (2), (3); Minstrels (2); Maroon and White Class Manager (3) ; Boys’ Athletic Association. “He had a face like a benediction.” Flossie Mae Easterday: Atheneum Literary Society ; Girls’ Club; Girls’ Athletic Association. “She is a winsome wee thing.” Judd Preston Faurot Latin Course; Senior Invitation Committee; Adarian Literary Society; President of Glee Club (4); Orchestra (1), (2), (3), (4); Band (1), (2) ; Minstrels (1),(2), (3): Boys’ Athletic Association; Class Basketball (2), (3); Manager Class Basketball (3). “How long, O Lord, how long?” 36 Photos by Wamsley. DANvn.i.K oo Reva C. Hoff English Course; Social Committee (2), (3); Adarian Literary Society; Adarian Secretary and Treasurer (3); Athletic Editor of Medley (4); Literary Contest (3); Girls’ Semi-Chorus (3), (4); Girls’ Athletic Association, Secretary and Treasurer; Class Basketball Team (2); Tennis Tournament (1), (2), (3), (4); Girls' Club. “A happy heart makes a blooming visage.” Bernard Jenkins Huff English Course; Class Historian (4); Athen-eum Literary Society; Varsity Debating Team (4); Class Track Team (3); Boys’ Athletic .Association. “I have immortal longings in me.” Nelle A. Hill Latin-German Course; Class Vice President (2) ; Class President (3); Social Committee (4); Adarian Literary Society, Vice President (3) ; Literary Contest (2); Nathan Hale Play (4) ; Maroon and White Play (4); Girls’ Athletic Association; Class Basketball Team (4); Varsity Basketball Team (4); German Club; Girls’ Club. “With courtship pleased, with silly trifles proud, Fond of a train and happy in a crowd.” 37 Photos by Wanisley. MEDLEY Photos by Wamsley. Edna L. Haworth English Course; Girls’ Club; German Club. “She speaks, behaves and acts just as she ought.” Bessie Keerns Atheneum Literary Society; German Club; German Course. “Deeds, not words.” Lula Izetta Lane Latin-German Course; Atheneum Literary Society; German Club; Girls’ Club. “Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.” 38 DANVILLE '00 Fred M. Misch English Course; Social Committee (1); Athen-eum Literary Society; Boys’ Athletic Association ; Class Baseball Team (1); Tennis Tournament (3). “The deed I intend is great, but what as yet I know not.” Ruth I. Miller German Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Girls’ Athletic Association; German Club; Girls’ Club. “Where innocence is bliss.” Walter Martens Latin-German Course; Adarian Society; Orchestra (2), (3); Minstrels (2); Boys’ Athletic Association; German Club; Prize Examination, German, U. of C. (4). “I’m a dead game sport. MEDLEY Anna Ruth McCracken Atheneum Literary Society, Secretary and Treasurer (3), Vice President (4); Class Secretary and Treasurer (4); Social Committee (2); Girls’ Athletic Association, Secretary and Treasurer (4); German Club; Girls’. Club. “Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile.” Edith Neblick Latin-German Course; Class Social Committee (4); Adarian Literary Society, Secretary and Treasurer (4); Girls’ Athletic Association; Class Basketball Team (4); German Club; Assistant Registrar of Girls’ Club. “Oh, you nice creature! Oh, you precious darling! Oh, you delicious charmer!’’ Helen Orlea German Course; Adarian Literary Society; German Club. “A word to the wise is the root of all evil.” Photos by Wamsley. DANVILLE ’00 Esther May Schatz German Course; Adarian Literary Society; German Club; Girls’ Club. “Her passing was as the ceasing of exquisite music.” Mae Louise Slaughter Latin-German Course; Adarian Literary Society; Chairman Invitation Committee (4); I’in Committee (3) ; Girls’ Athletic Association ; Medley Play (4); Maroon and White Play (4): News Editor Maroon and White (4); German Club. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can wear tonight.” Raymond G. Southworth English Course; Class President (1); Soc'al Committee (2), (3), Chairman (2); Adarian Literary Society, President (3), Literary Contest (2), (3), (4) ; Vermilion County Oratorical Contest (2), (3), (4): Eastern Illinois Oratorical Contest (2), (3), (4); State Oratorical Contest (4); D. H. S. Representative at U. of C. Declamatory Contest (4); Varsity Debating Team (3), (4) ; President Oratorical Club (3); Editor-in-Cbief of Maroon and White (3); Business Manager Medley (4); Minstrels (2), (3); Senior Play (3), (4); Class Track Team (1), (2), (3), Manager (2); Reserve Football Team (1), (3). “What shall I do to be forever known?” 41 Photos by Wamslcy. MEDLEY Regina Straus English Course; Class Historian (1), (2), (3); Adarian Literary Society; Literary Contest (3); Girls’ Club; German Club. “I don't believe in grinding, I believe in inspiration myself.” Evangeline Shortall Latin-German Course; Adarian Literary Society ; Girls’ Club; German Club. “Ye gods, how I hate the men!” Lovia B. Thomas English Course; Atheneum Literary Society; Literary Contest (3) ; Nathan Hale Play (4); Girls’ Semi-Chorus (2), (3) ; Girls’ Club. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.” 42 Photos by Wamsley. DANVILLE ’09 Ruth P. Williams Latin Course; Adarian Literary Society; Girls’ Club. “Her voice was ever soft and low, An excellent tiling in woman.” Harold E. Wolford Latin-German Course; Class Pin Committee; Atheneum Literary Society; Art Editor of Medley (4); Medley Play (4); Class Track Team (3), (4); Varsity Track Team (4). “His cogitative faculties immersed in cogi-bundity of cogitations.” Lura D. Young Latin-German Course; Social Committee (4); Atheneum Literary Society; Literary Editor Medley (4); German Club. “Thy hair is a lamp unto thy feet. MEDLEY Elsie Parish “Wondrous, meek and wise.” Ira Jones “The love of money is sufficient.” Minnie Young English Course; Atheneum Literary Society. “Reward is its own virtue.” 44 Photos by Wamsley. DANVILLE '09 MEDLEY Junior Officers Photos by Wamsley. BLANKENBURG JOHNSON OWEN ARNOLD PRUTSMAN SNAPP PARKER Harriet Prutsman Hervey Parker___ Wayne Arnold____ Josephine Snapp . Edna Blankenburg SOCIAL COMMITTEE Georgia Johnson Walter Matthews Marjorie Owen Verner Carter __________________President ------------Vice President — Secretary and Treasurer _________________ Historian Chairman Social Committee 40 DANVILLE ’09 History of the Class of 1910 |HEN THE gates of Danville High School opened to admit the crowd of tender young green things, in September, 1907, no one felt any especial prophetic thrill. The mighty Seniors looked down upon us superciliously as is the custom of Seniors, and little thought of the downfall which their exalted class would come to, in the inter-class track meet. We began wisely, by electing lius”, athlete and all around good fellow, as our President, and he guided our tiny (?) footsteps well, failing us in but one instance, on the occasipn of our one and only party. He was then the victim of circumstances over which he had no control hut which were in the hands of some upper Classmen. We trod the straight and narrow path to knowledge that first year and most of us managed, by dint of hard struggle, to become “Sophs.” Many promising athletes appeared among our number, whose fame is now too great to recpiire ment:oning; and we were universally called the best Freshman class in D. H. S. annals. Having shown our preference for big leaders, we lived up to it by electing Carter our second President. It was in our Sophomore year that we made our record, making an excellent showing in foot-ball, track, and basket-ball. Our girls’ basket-ball team champ’oned the school. Nor did 'we lag behind in the social stunt, which we enjoyed in the form of a hayrack ride, a masquerade, and an indoor track-meet, in the latter of which the girls showed themselves fully the peers of the boys. We also had a rollerskating party. This year we have increased in importance and fame. Our men were the best on the foot-ball team and we led the school in the cross-country race. Miss Harriet Prutsman has been the most desirable of President and the Editor-in-Chief of the Maroon and White belongs to our class. The class of ’09 was entertained by us at the most splendid reception which we, at least, ever attended. We also had two other jolly parties. Next year, as Seniors, we hope and intend to do better than we have ever done before and to leave a good record behind us. 47 MEDLEY Members of Junior Class Florence Austin Josephine Jones Wayne Arnold Charles Koch Herman Barrick Lulu Kuhn James Bromley Bessie Lindsey Thomas Brophy Arthur Mason Edna Blankenburg Stanley Mires Eleanor Brazclton Ruth McNulty Mamie Buxton Vedella Marvel Carl Cooper Bernice Morrow Geneva Cantrell Esther Natho Marguerite Citizen Helen Olmsted Clarence Depkc Marjorie Owen Fred Draper Caspar Platt Una Dale Harold Robinson Roxy Downing Ralph Robinson Ethel Edwards Eva Robinson Bert Fairchild Otto Sanford Hazel Fairchild Harvey Skaddcn Roy Fox Clifford Smith Ray Fox Irene Schatz Clara Fallis Cecil Smoot Arthemeise Fanson Josephine Snapp Frances Fecker Daisy Talbert Mate Giddings John Wakeley Lorene Gillock Margaret Webber Bessie Gordon Blanche Woodford Florence Griffith Ralph Yeager Harold Haas Enos Young 49 DANVILLE 00 41) MEDLEY Sophomore Officers Photo by YVamsley. MOORE OLMSTED MORIN CRAFT BABCOCK SINSABAUGH JOHNS Everett Craft _______________________________ President Ralph Moore------------------------------Vice President Alice Sinsabaugh________________Secretary and Treasurer Helen Morin --------------------------------- Historian May Babcock___________________Chairman Social Committee Donald Johns_______________________________ Yell Master SOCIAL COMMITTEE Ralph Moore Donald Johns Alice Sinsabaugh Madge Olmsted 50 DANVILLE ’Of) History of the Class of 1911 nN SEPTEMBER, 1007. the present Sophomore class entered the Dan vill High School. Its appearance was not heralded by a blaze of glory, but it was larger and perhaps more ambitious than most Freshmen classes. In the early part of the first year officers were elected who served 1911 well for two Semesters. With more wisdom and enthusiasm the class started out in the Sophomore year under the leadership of F.verett Craft. The social calender was headed by a party at the home of Miss Estelle Love. The next event was a brilliant masquerade at which courtly knights rubbed elbows with stately colonial dames. Other social functions which varied the monotonous routine of school life were held, the last of which was in honor of St. Valentine. The Sophomores have distinguished themselves not only in the social whirl but also in athletics and literary pursuits. They furnished some of the most brilliant athletic stars of the season, taking part in the various sports of football, baseball, and track. After the)- turned their attention to literary matters, their budding talents began to be displayed in the most approved manner; many of them being participants in the plays and programs. Besides engaging in all these activities, the class has kept up a standard of scholarship which is a credit to the school, and has contributed several speakers to the declamatory and oratorical contests. During its two years of High School life 1911 has achieved as much as any previous class, though all of its ideals have not yet been realized. Although it is no longer the enormous class which made its debut in High School in 1907, its ranks still hold enough ambitious members to make the remaining two years successful. During the Junior and Senior years 1011 intends to win ag much fame as here-to-fore and to “Follow knowledge like a shining star Beyond the utmost bounds of human thought. MEDLEY Members of Sophomore Class Leland Alison Ruth Little Walker Bell Harland McPherson Ben Beyer Walter Mathews May Babcock James Measer Irene Basch Harold Moore Mildred Bullock Dan Morgan Alice Bump Rachael McDowell Frances Burchit Margaret Matthews Howard Clapp Marvin Medlar Carl Conron Mildred Moore Everett Craft Helen Morin Jessie Campbell Nellie Moulton Dea Carter Edna Mueller Hester Cessna Walter Natho Ralph Driver Ruth Naylor Ruth Drake Joe Oetzel Mima Emery Madge Olmsted Charles Focht Hervey Parker Sheral Funk Marie Prendergast Frances Freeman Gilbert Smith Robert Griffin John Supple Lillian Gilgis Cal Swallow Flossie Gregory Margaret Schemel Edith Harris Alice Sinsabaugh Margaret Herbst Lois Strawbridge Dorothy Hickey Bernice Swearingen Donald Johns Mabel Tillotson Georgia Johnson Eliot Van Frank Frank King Ernst Wintrowd George Ludwig Lcthea Wat ter son Alice Lewis Roy Brown William Livay In Memoriam CHARLES RUMBAUGH Death by Accident December 18th. 8V :rrii. Nvn M RDI.KY Freshman Officers Photo by YVamsley. COLLARD CAMERON FERRIS GLASCOCK KLEIN FORCE BLOSE Harry Cameron ________________________________ President Josephine Blose______________ Secretary and Treasurer Francis Ferris_________________Chairman Social Committee SOCIAL Rose Klein Frank Collard COMMITTEE Elizabeth Force Louis Glascock DANVILLE ’0!) A History of the Class of 1912 NE OF THE largest and most interesting of the classes is the class of 1912. Immediately after entering we met and chose Lee Parker as our President, to lead us the rest of our days as Freshmen. We voted to support Old Gold and Blue as our colors. Our social functions were started with a party at Edwin Lesley's. We had ah immense time and were entertained most of the evening by the upper class men on the outside. Miss Helen Reilley entertained ns at her home on October 30th, 1908. It was in the form of a masquerade, the decorations being suitable for the occasion. We left at a late hour feeling that we had spent the evening to a good purpose. On the evening of January 22, the class met at the home of Francis Ferris, from where we had a bob-sled party. The time was very enjoyable, and afterwards we were entertained at the home of Maida Balds. Mrs. Craft acting as chaperone. We have sent our share of the athletes to the field this year. HaskelJ winning second in both cross-country meetings. We hope that the following class will be even more successful. MEDLEY Members of the Freshman Class Esther Alison Aline Andrus Donald Brown Owen Burns Nellie Balslcy Nellie Blackford Josephine Blose Alice Breach Harry Cameron Gilbert Codings Hubert Crouse Harry Crowder Horace Cushman Hattie Collard Hazel Cones Bertha Crawford Lily Depke Sophia Dillon Vannie Kasterday Page Elliott Francis Ferris Clarence Fisher Marie Fagan Ruth Fix Elizabeth Force Frank Giddings Dorothy Garrett Della Gordon Hubert Hall Fred Harmon Will Hartshorn Glen Hastings Bessie Hartman Frances Haworth Julia Hitchins Anna Hutton Cecil Jackson Harold Jackson Abe Levin Estelle Love Jake Miller Ralph Moore Os well Morin Gladys McCord Artlie Mason Mildred Mater Frcel Morris Mae Morris Marguerite Myers Frank Partlow Eugene Perry Harry Reed Herbert Runyan Madge Renard Elizabeth Roberts Lillis Robinson Ralph Schccter Eulalie Smith Ruth Spandau Pauline Specs Leta Stokes Loren Taylor Harry Watkins Harry Webber A van nia Waldron Marie Walz Wanna Wintrowd Hazel Alkirc Lucille Bennett Bion Brown Leora Brown Mabel E. Burcham Dean Campbell Robert Cessna Alice Chcslcy Edgar Daringer Carl V. Paris Pauline Fecker Leone Finkbindcr Pearl Fleming Arnold Glascock Jessie Hanks Elsie Hawkins Joanna Jones Nellie Kecslar Martha Love Ray Miller Glen Putman Mildred Robinson Bernice Shutts Wellington Spangler Ethel Starkey Pearl Watson Lucile Wilson Ed Allen Opal Barnett Louis Basch Lucilc Blair Bertha Bracewell Margaret Brady Pauline Carter Dollic R. Chapin Frank Clark Norman Dale William Day Ethel Dodd Alice Donagan Helen Eagan Helen Ellsworth Helen Feldkamp Jeanie Freeman Emma Hitchins Adlic Isaacton Frances Kelly Ruth Kneedler Edna Levcrenz Clifford Lewis Gracia Mason Harry Mason Charity O’Ferral Ethel Ogan Edward B. Parsons Maleta Pelkey Maude Richards Fern Rouse Marion Lee Paul Swisher Edward Tinker George Wait Hazel Wait George Whitlock Harriet E. Fox Frances Chitwood Bernice Clem Rose Klein Mabel Trent Mae Jones Helen Reilly Hattie Freeman Blanche Meese Ethel Klophel Helen Brown Orvil Olmsted Esther Hottel Helen Steeley Myrtle Wakeley Homer Clipson Margaret Graves Selma Nungesser Joseph Patterson Cora Rush Jack Palmer Cecil Cook Augusta Hanks Ethel Von Berg Ralph Jones George Payne Clara Depke Julia Higgins Grace Meek Fred Barnes Elmer Cooley Mary Simmons Lewis Bishop Fred Davis Northcott Thomas Helen Watkins Rachael Trummcl Ida Smith Elsie Ernst William Bunting Ivan Davis Bernice Acree Bertha Law Evelyn Johns Lcla Gordy Selma Ogden Gray Best Louis Glascock Harold Jackson Walter Lcarnard Russell Austin Regna Me Masters ' Robert Pate Helen Mills Blanche Compton Guy Clark Pearl Barton Madeline Berhalter Arthur North Maude Huston Ford Dwiggins Clarence McCord Ruth Myers Cleta W adc Christian Walz Ruby Crawford Flora Nickey Lee Hughes John Mathis Bessie Barnes Margaret Stickler Herbert Beyer Frank Collard Adelaide Sanford Mona Snodgrass Frances Koch Teresita Dillon Ella George Donald Swaim Ernest Strawbridge Paul McCusker Glen Alter Frank Hickman Charles Silkey Raymond Davis Clarence Kinningham Walter Rearick Louis Davis Georgia Pollock Willa Freeland Zora Songe Fay Knecht Mary Turpin Roxanna Brady Helen Adair Ruby Fonteck Mary Brawner Dorothy Brown Elsie Saunders Virgil Knapp Lee Campbell Charles Howard Sterling Cunningham Albert Fox Earl Brown Madge Wpolsey May Tennery Maida Balds 5G DANVILLE ’Of) r 7 MEDLEY WEARERS OF THE ‘“D” FOOTBALL TRACK JONES JONES MORGAN SHAWHAN SUPPLE WINTROWD WAKELEY CARTER BASEBALL HASKELL JONES BASKETBALL MORGAN JONES SUPPLE MORGAN WAKELEY WAKELEY CARTER CRAFT MASON MYERS CRAWFORD MASON DANVILLE ’00 D. H. S. Athletic Association CRAFT . Vice President Photo by Wamsley. JONFS BROPHY President Secretary Treasurer President ______________________________________________ Ira Jones Vice President ______________________________________ Thomas Brophy Secretary-Treasurer ________________________________ Everett Craft T HE ASSOCIATION this year has undergone a radical change, due to the ruling of the Board of Education, as result of the Kingman-Danville football game near the close of the se on last fall when Danville played McCord, an ineligible, at left end. The matter was investigated by the Board of Education and all players participating in that game were suspended from athletics for a year. Consequently Morgan, Vice President, and Shawhan, Secretary-Treasurer, were ineligible to hold offices, resigned at the annual meeting of the association in February and Thomas Brophy chosen to take Morgan’s office and Everett Craft was given the duties of Secretary and Treasurer. Our Association supports football and tennis and previously supported Basket Ball but owing to the ineligibility of several of the best men, we had no basketball team this year. It has also been decided by the Board, that the High School shall have no Minstrel show this year and this has been one of the strongest of our high school entertainments as well as a very successful financial aid to athletics. We will therefore have to. depend on the school and public for stronger support in our various contests. 5!) MEDLEY Danville. Danville Danville. Danville Danville Danville. Danville Foot Ball Schedule, 1909 vs.. vs. vs vs. ,vs. .vs. vs.. Champaign 23— 0 Tuscola____6— 0 .Urbana 0—10 Urbana 0—34 .Hoopeston 6— 0 .Hoopeston 0—22 Kingman____6— 6 Varsity Foot Ball Team Line-up Ira Jones_____________________________ John Supple___________________________ Gordon Mabin (University of Chicago) Right End_____________________________ Right Tackle__________________________ Right Guard___________________________ Center________________________________ Left Guard____________________________ Left Tackle __________________________ Left End ............................. Quarter Back__________________________ Left Half Back_______________________ Right Half Back....................... -----------------Captain -----------------Manager ___________________Coach ____________Crawford 'll .............. Allen ’10 ---Barrick TO, Moore ’ll Cameron Tl, Shawhan ’09 ____________ Bromley To --------------Carter T1 Fisher Tl, McCord T2 -------------VVakeley TO __Redden To, Morgan To ________________Jones ’09 GO DANVILLE ’09 T THE beginning of the season the prospects for a winning foot ball team were good. When Captain Jones called for men about twenty-five appeared. All of these were not star football players but an excellent team would have represented our school had they all remained eligible. On September 28th our season opened with a game with Champaign which was surprising in many ways, principally on account of the score, which was 28—7) in favor of Danville. This aroused interest in our team— Champaign being one of our strongest opponents—the scores last year being 6—5 in favor of Champaign and 5—0 in favor of Danville. With the stars of the Champaign game Danville journeyed to Tuscola and defeated on their own battle ground the gridiron warriors who had boasted over them for so long, Danville never having defeated them before. Danville returning from Tuscola carried the big end of the “stick”, the score being (!—0. After this game hard luck struck Danville—Redden, the star half back leaving school and several of the best players being low in their studies and therefore ineligible. Thus we account for our first defeat by Urbana. Dur-the game Captain Jones and Manager Supple both were removed from the game, having sustamed injuries so serious that they were out of several games—and after the loss of our regular backfield in the early part of the game Urbana was only strong enough to defeat us by a score of 10—0. Danville in the last two games of the season with Hoopeston lost one and won one, thus leaving the championship of the county in question. Summing up the season’s records we find that our standing is high among state schools—considering the fact that Urbana won the State championship and they only defeated us 10—0 when our team was badly crippled. We feel proud of our achievements. fii Photo by Wamsley. MEDLEY DANVILLE ’09 HEN Captain Sandusky issued a call for all track team candidates to report, all members of 1997 team responded but Elliott in pole vault, and Brown in the distance runs and their places were filled with such men as Boggess, replacing Elliott, and Wintrowd a running mate for Shawhan. These with men of two and three years’ experience and with such a coach as Gordon Mabin, nothing but a string of victories could be seen. We could not hope to win the State meet as we bad no individual stars but a well balanced team—average men in every event and we could have shown any high school in the country a close contest in a dual meet. During the season four high school records were broken. Captain Sandusky setting a good example for his men, breaking the record of 40 ft. 11 3-4 inches in the shot put and raising bis own mark of 115.ft, 4 inches in the hammer throw to 119 ft. 9 inches. The season started with an Inter-Class meet on April 11, which was closely contested between Juniors and Seniors. The Juniors allowing the Seniors the meet by three points. Next came a dual meet with Thornburn High school of Urbana, which Danville easily won, taking twelve firsts out of 15 events. The following Saturday the track team with a few enthusiasts journey to ‘‘Peanut” otherwise known as Vermilion Grove, Danville taking this meet by a score of 78-53. These two meets showing our superiority as a whole team. On the first, day of May we journeyed to Arthur confident that we would win. But we were doomed to disappointment, partly due to being too slow for the company in which we were, also to some of the officials in the meet. All but one man were able to bring back medals and as a team we took fourth place. In the county meet held at Danville we easily won the championship of the county thus keeping the pennant in our High School for two years and if Danville should win this year they will get the banner to keep—holding it for three consecutive years. The season ended with the State meet where Danville was only able to win fourth in two events. 63 MEDLEY Danville High School Records Event Record Holder. Date. 50 yard dash _ _ 5 1-2 sec Leo McCusker _ . 1905 100 yard dash 10 2-5 sec 1. Jones 1907 200 yard dash -- 23 2-5 sec — I. Jones 1907 440 yard dash _ _ _ _ 54 1-5 sec. — R. Bookwalter _ 1903 880 yard run __0. Brown 1907 l mile run — _ _5:6 2-5 E. Wintrowd _- - 1908 Running high jump .__5 ft 0 1-4 in. _ __H. Fairchild — . 1908 Running broad jump 21 ft 1 1-4 in. _L. McCusker 1905 Pole vault — 10 ft. 2 in— E. Elliott __ __1907 Shot put 42 ft. 3 in __W. Sandusky 1908 Discus Hurl _ 88 ft. 9 1-2 in __W. Kiningham 1907 Hammer Throw __ 119 ft. 9 in W. Sandusky 1908 1-2 mile relay race 1 min. 40 sec __ E. Pendergrast, 1. Greenebaum, F. Fox, L. McCusker--1905 Vermilion County Records 50 yard dash, Leo. McCusker 05, Danville--5 2-5 sec. 100 yard dash, Ira Jones ’07, Danville------------10 2-5 sec. 200 yard dash. Ira Jones ’07, Danville____________23 3-5 sec. 4 l() yard dash, Robt. Bookwalter ’03, Danville --54 1-5 sec. 880 yard run, Claire Smith ’03, Hoopeston —_2:01 1-5 sec. 1 mile run, Ernst Wintrowd, ’08, Danville__5:6 2-5 sec. 220 yard hurdles, Walter Cantrell ’03, Danville -28 4-5 sec. Shot put, 10 lb., Will Stewart ’06, Hoopeston---40 ft. Discus Hurl, Michael Stiller, ’05, Rossville-----90 ft. Running broad jump, McCusker ’05, Danville 20 ft. 11 1-4 in. Running high jump, Fairchild ’07, Danville 5 ft. 0 1-2 in. Pole vault Elliott (D), Wallace (H) ’07_10 ft 2 1-2 in. 1-2 mile relay race, Pendergrast, Fox, Greenebaum, McCusker, ’05, Danville------------------1:40 sec. 04 DANVILLE ’09 Records of Illinois Inter-Scholastic ylthletic dissociation 50 yard dash—Borden ’98__________Hyde Park_________________5 2-5 sec. Eckersall ’03_______Hyde Park May ’05-------------Rochelle 100 yard dash—Eckersall ’03 1______Hyde Park_________________________10 sec. 220 yard dash—Eckersall ’03________Hyde Park_________________________22 sec. •HO yard dash—Martin 08---------Oak Park_________________51 4-5 sec. 880 yard dash—Tumble in ’07______McKinley____________2 min. 2 2-5 sec. One mile run—Berkstresser ’06____Mt. Carroll___________4 min. 38 sec. 220 yard low hurdles—Duff ’08____Normal___________________25 4-5 sec. High jump—Dougherty ’00----------Biggsville____________ __5 ft. ll in. Broad jump-----------------------Pittsfield____________22 ft. 8 3-4 in. Pole vault—Enos ’08______________Alton______________________ 11 ft. 1-2 in. Kimball ’08___________La Grange 12 lb. Shot put—Sampson ’06______Petersburg_______________46 ft. 6 in. 12 lb. Hammer throw—Evrard ’04___Pontiac_______________164 ft. 8-10 in. Discus Hurl—Griffin 08__________Joliet _______________ 129 ft. 11 in. 65 Athletics in the D. H. S. WING to various reasons, chief of which are the ineligibility of several star men and the lack of experience of others, athletics in the D. H. S. during the last school year has been almost at a stand-still. At the start of the present year prospects were never brighter. Indeed, with an even break of luck, Danville “High was conceded a brilliant chance for state championship honors in foot-ball. Things went exceedingly well for the first two or three games and all of a sudden our hopes went glimmering. Some of the best men on the team were forced to quit because of their leaving school and others because of injuries received. Then came the Kingman game with its too well-known outcome which has resulted in the placing of many of the school’s best athletes under the faculty ban for the coming year. Lack of interest and consequently the failure of support from the Board of Education was the main cause of not having a basket-ball team during the winter season. In track we have done fairly well. Considering however, that the team was made up almost entirely of new men and that they were without a coach almost the entire season, the track men are to be congratulated on their showing. Manager Wintrowd has worked long and earnestly for his team and his efforts were certainly deserving of' success. With almost identically tjie same team as this year, we can see nothing but another championship aggregation in the D. If. S. 1910 team. GO DANVILLE 'oy Cross Country THE CROSS country this year was quite successful. When the call was made for candidates for the teams, a large number of men turned out and practiced consistently and diligently every evening after school. Seeing that we were going to have a good team, an attempt was made to schedule runs for the season. We succeeded in getting runs with Lafayette. Only one was held at Danville and a return run at Lafayette. Prospects are good for next fall as we have promises of several contests with other high schools who are taking interest in long distance running. 1 here was great '.merest shown in the race here with West Lafayette, November 1-1. 1 he business men gave a helping hand and, considering the weather, there was a good bunch of rooters present who greatly assisted the team in holding Lafayette to a tie score. At the sound of the gun Gibson, of Lafayette, took the lead, which he maintained over the entire four mile course, our men being unable to keep his pace. At the finish the order of runners was as follows: 1st—Gibson, 8 points, West Lafayette. 6th—Cooper, 3 points, Danville. 7th—Silkey, 3 points, Danville. 8th—Dictrick, I point, West Lafayette. Score—Danville, 18; West Lafayete 18. Time—31 minutes, -14 second. 2nd—Wintrowd, 7 points, Danville. 3rd—Haskell, 6 points, Danville. 4th—Barnard, 5 points, West Lafayette 5th—Hish, 4 points, West Lafayette. The following Saturday our team journeyed to Lafayette. The course started at the Tecumseh Trail and followed the Wabash River until it reached the road which leads to the Purdue University grounds, here it turned and went directly to the University field where it finished with one lap around the cinder track. This race started with pace something like that of a hundred yard dash and was kept up for some distance, then settled down to a lively gait. Gibson ran about the same kind of a race as in Danville, keeping about a hundred yards ahead all the way. He succeeded in breaking the Purdue University record by one minute, winning in the time of 23 minutes Hat. I he other runners finished as follows, except Dictrick of West Lafayette, who dropped from exhaustion, not being able to stand the strain of the full four and one half mile course. 5th—Barnard, 4 points. West Lafayette. 6th—Cooper, 3 points. Danville. 7th—Hish, 2 points. West Lafayette. 8th—Dietrick, didn’t finish, West Lafayette. Score—Danville, 21; West Lafayette, 14. Danville has been very lucky in getting up good teams of this kind for in the history of Cross County in Danville “High” it has had hut three contests and has never gone down in defeat. Let us remind you of another important matter about our Cross Country team, it is this—outside of Chicago wq claim State Championship of Illinois. ,st—Gibson, 8 points, West Lafayette 2nd—Wintrowd, 7 points, Danville. 3rd—Haskell, 6 points. Danville. , ■- th—Natho, 5 points, Danville. 67 M EDLliY Boys’ Tennis THE TENNIS tournament this year did not attract the attention it has in previous years, but this may be partly due to the postponement from the spring season until last fall (1 ! 08) on account of the wet weather. Many of the players having played all summer had grown tired of the game and did not enter the tournament. At the beginning of the fall term of school, Swallow, who had been elected manager of the tournament did not return to his studies and Cecil Jackson was elected to fill the duties of the office. When the manager called for entries about fifty men responded. The first games were hotly contested but interest waned so that at the end of the season the man who presented himself at the grounds usually won the game. In the first game of the tournament Carter, as was easily seen, was in line for the championship. His opponent, Swallow, who had then returned, although one of the best in school was easily defeated and after this Carter seemed to have cast a spell over his smaller adversaries, apparently by his magnitude. In the finals Carter won from Jackson b)r default and was presented with a handsome medal which is given each year to the champion. It is hoped that in the future the weather will be seasonable at the time of the tournaments and that we may develop a tennis team with which to compete with our neighboring schools. 08 Tennis Schedule Trials Preliminaries Semi-Finals Finals Verner Carter Cal Swallow .. ) Carter ..I 6-1, 6-2 Herbert Runyan _ _ _ Idiot Van Frank Van Frank _ 1 6-1, 6-3 Francis Ferris Deam Hague Ferris 1 6-0,61 Hervey Parker Lee Campbell ) Parker _ 1 6-1, 6-1 Page Elliot Fred Misch Misch _ 1 default Harry Cameron Will Haskell Haskell S default Lee Hughes Ralph Robinson Hughes default Clarence Fisher Frank Collard _ 1 Collard _ default Bert Fairchild Ralph Yeager _ ! Fairchild _ i default Rolland Catlett Fred Shaw ban _ 1 Catlett _ i default Fred Harmon Cecil lackson _ Jackson _ 1 default Ernst Wintrowd Loren Taylor _ ) Wintrowd _ ' default (Carter 6-1 6-0 Ferris default Mi sell 6-2 6-1 Hughes default Fairchild default Jackson default Carter 6-1 6-2 Misch 6-0 6-0 Jackson 6-3 default Carter 6-3 6-2 Jackson default T.ee Parker ___ ) Parker Hubert Allen . default Faurot Faurot Hubert Hall ... 1 Faurot default default Judd Faurot ... default J - Carter default MEDLEY Girls' Athletic Association Photo by Wamslcy. McCracken, ha b cock, edwards Secretary-Treasurer Vice President President THE GIRL’S athletic association was organized in 1903. Since that time a constitution was made, very similar to the constitution of the boy’s athletic association. With Ethel Edwards as president, May Babcock as vice-president, and Ruth McCracken as secretary-treasurer, we have three very competent leaders. The membership could be much larger as every girl in High School should belong. The small fee of twenty-five cents is paid at the beginning of the year and this is used for the expenses of the association. Along the financial side of the question the School Board came to the front by giving the association forty dollars for the Basket Ball season. The girls certainly appreciate this and express their thanks through the Medley. With this help, and the dues, the girls can easily keep out of debt. This year will close with about $25.00 in the treasury. 70 DANVILLE Oft Girls’ Basket Ball WING to the fact that the State Athletic Association prohibits the playing of inter-scholastic games, the girls have organized class teams and a First and Second team. With the competent coaching of Miss Markley and Miss Robey, the spirit and excitement of team work has been kept to the highest pitch. Miss Edith Markley, a graduate of the Danville High School and Chicago University, has been the coach of the Freshmen and Juniors. She was extremely accurate in her teaching and equally as swift in her team work. Her girls certainly played to win. Miss Etna Robey also a graduate of our High School, of the University of Chicago and of Wellesley College was the founder of Basket Ball in Danville. She was very prominent in her college athletics and is a very capable coach. She had the. Sophomores and Seniors in charge. Her girls not only played to win, but usually did win. The Basket-Ball playing this season has had much more life and vim than last year, as every class has had a team out, while in the season of '()7-'08 there were only two teams, the Freshmen and Sophomores. Then, as before stated, there was a first and second team. These were composed of the best players out of each of the two squads. One good thing about athletics in general is that the player has to be up in his studies and that he has to make at least three credits the preceding semester. This keeps up the grades and still helps athletics. At the first of the Fall semester Ruth Little was chosen as manager of the Basket-ball, and we found that there had been no mistake in our choice. 71 I'hotos by Wamslcy. DANVILLE '09 THE ANNUAL Tennis Tournament for 1908 was greatly delayed on account of the erection of the new Washington building, but was finally carried off with Bessie Lindsey TO as champion. Beryl Jones ’09 was manager, and considering the great difficulties under which she worked, she was certainly a very good one. Miss Lindsey was given a handsome tennis racket as a reward for her victory. Arrangements will be made for another tournament this year, but just where it is to be held is not known. Senior Team Marion Dull Nelli- Hill Mary Dague Fern Daringer Edith Neblick i ! Girls ’ Basket Ball Line-up Forwards Center Guards Junior Team j Ethel Klophel I Mate Giddings Harriet Prutsman j Bessie Lindsey 1 Bessie Gordon Freshman Team Fay Knccht Della Gordon Ethel Klophel Maud Huston Bernice Acrec Forwards Center Guards Freshmen-Junior ( Harriet Prutsman I Fay Knecht Ethel Edwards ' Bernice Acree ) Bessie Lindsey Senior-Sophomore Marion Dull Nelle Hill Mary Dague Margaret Matthews Ruth Little Fern Daringer May Babcock Mary Dague Nelle -Hill Marion Dull Margaret Matthews Ruth Little May Babcock Fern Daringer Ruth Drake Dillon Maud Huston Ethel Von Berg Bessie Gordon I First Team. Forwards Center I I Guards Second Team. Forwards Center | Guards Ethel Klophel I Mate Giddings Harriet Prutsman Bessie Lindsey I Bernice Acree f Fay Knecht I Adelaide Sanford Della Gordon 1 Sophia Dillon f Edith Neblick Girls’ Basket Ball Schedule February 19, 1909 ________-Seniors-Sophomores vs. Freshmcn-Juniors February 2G, 1909 ________-Seniors vs. Freshmen__________________ March 13, 1909 ------------Seniors-Sophomores vs. Freshmen-Juniors March 19, 1909 ____________Seniors vs. Juniors____________________ March 20. 1909 ------------Seniors-Sophomore vs. Freshmen-Juniors 13- 9 9- 3 12- 3 7-18 12- 5 Girls’ Tennis Schedule -i Jones ) Jones Johnson 5 (5-2, 6-4 Little 1 Little Herbst default Blose f Edwards Edwards f 6-0, 6-0 Dague 1 Dague Love 5 default B. Jones } Jones Ashley f 6-0. 6-0 Olmsted Olmsted Hoff — - f 6-1, 6-1 Barger — ) McCracken McCracken .. f default Hill I Lindsey Lindsey default Gilgis - r ( Gilgis Force 5 6-0, 6-2 Matthews __ Matthews Klophel 6-0, 6-2 Little default Dague 6-3 (5-4 Jones V (5-3 Lindsey ( � -1 6-0 Matthews 6-3 6-5 Dague default Lindsey (5-3 Lindsey 7-5 7-5 7-5 - Jones Lindsey - 6-4 7-5 Lindsey J - Ml-HI.KV MEDLEY Adarian Literary Society Photo by Wamsley. CATLETT JONES NEBLICK President Vice President Secretary EN THE material was being prepared for last year’s Medley, the annual literary contest had not been held. Both societies were expecting to win but the Adarians proved to be the Stronger, and succeeded in breaking the tie of two years standing. This year, each is again expecting to defeat the other, but the Adarians are confident of another success since by last year's victory the determination to win is much stronger and the material at hand is just as good. In the Danville-Kankakee and Danville-Urbana debates this year two of the debaters were Adarians, and although our team lost in the first we are confident they would have won had it not been for some misunderstanding on the part of our opponent's instructions to the judges. But two programs have been given this year, including the joint program which was given at the beginning of the first Semester. This is in a large measure due to the negligence of the President of the society and also to the effort put forth in rendering the play “Nathan Hale.” Other plays have been presented in which members of our society have taken an active and enthusiastic interest. 70 DANVILLE ’00 Atheneum Literary Society Photo by Wamsley. PRUTSMAN BROPHY McCRACKEN Secretary President Vice President URING the preceding years one of the two societies has given a program each month, but so far this year only one program has been given, in which the members of both societies participated. Under the capable management of Mr. Smith, our principal, the thrilling and instructive play, “Nathan Hale,” was produced and it proved a decided success. The cast consisted of the most talented members of both societies and this play only served to increase their ability along such lines. Since the two societies were founded, thirteen years ago, a contest has been held each year in which a great deal of interest has been shown by the student body. During the first few years the Atheneums proved more successful than the Adarians, but in 1006 and 1907 the result was a tie. Last year each of the societies put forth every effort to win but the Adarians were victorious. This year the Atheneums expect to put the most capable students on the program for the contest, and, after faithful preparation, hope to defeat the Adarians. 77 MEDLEY The Ostracism of Truth ¥11E BUSINESS of the Brownsville Sewing Society had been transacted, the minutes read, the meeting adjourned, and its members were now busily engaged in enjoying themselves. I heard, Mrs. Jones was saying as she overcast a seam in her small sons blouse, 1 heard that there’s a new man, a Mr. Harmon, boardin’ down to Price's. I ain’t seen him, but Mis’ Rapp said lie looks like a furriner.” “Well! What Mis Price wants t’ take a furriner t’ board for I don’t know, Mrs. Smith’s voice was coldly disapproving. “Nor me either! You can't trust them furriners. Didn't one of ’em hornswoggle Deacon Brown out of fifty dollars? One of them Eyetalians or Dagoes? Miss Perkms who for many years had had her eye on the widower Deacon, “with a view to matrimony,” was justly indignant. But he ain't an Eyetalian,” objected Mrs. Johnson timidly. “I saw him an he looks just like an American. Yellow hair an' blue eyes, an’ just as polite as can be! lie was in the store last night, an’ opened the door for me, an tipped his hat! She grew enthusiastic but was prevented from saying more by the entrance of Mrs. Smith, who announced that refreshments would now be served in the dining room. “lime’ll tell: time'll tell, sagely observed Mrs. Carson as they sat down to the table “The biggest villian generally has the smoothest face.” “hor the land’s sake, look here!” cried Mrs. Pergens’ excitedly. The assembled members of the B. S. S.,—whom Mrs. Jones was entertaining at a pink tea—immediately rushed to the window where Mrs. Pergens sat. From that vantage point they watched, with staring eyes and craning necks, a couple walk slowly past the window and down the street. When the two had finally passed out of sight the ladies resumed their seats and expressed their opinions in no uncertain terms. “Well, if Truth James ain’t got no more sense than t’ let a furriner keep company with her—” “That’s just what T think,” interrupted Sarah Perkins, “A walkin’ down the street in plam daylight with a bigamist!” “A bigamist!” was the horrified exclamation from twenty lips. “Yes. a bigamist! He’s got three wives and they ain’t none of them divorced or dead ! lie's wanted in Chicago fer bigamism—or whatever it is,— an there goin t send h m to the pen fer it. too;” said Miss Perkins melodramatically, thoroughly enjoying the sensation she was creating. “Do tell! pleaded Mrs. Johnson, speaking for all. “Yes, I II tell you all about it. I got the Chicago paper last week, wrapped around a pair of shoes I had soled at Martin’s. An’ I was a readin’ 78 DANVILLE 'nil it, and I come across a piece about this feller here. Two of his wives happened to git acquainted an’ they discovered they had the same husband! An’ then they’s goin’ t' arrest him, but he’d gone—and they can’t find him no place.” “How do you know its him? doubtfully asked Mrs. Carson. “How do I know?” repeated Miss Perkins scornfully. “This is how I know,” taking a neswpaper clipping from her pocket and reading it,—with emphasis on every other word: “Description of the bigamist, Jack North, alias Hal Miller, alias Jerry West. Height—five feet, eleven inches; weight—two hundred pounds; hair —light: eyes—blue: smooth shaven; when last seen was wearing a blue suit and a soft hat.” She paused to let her hearers grasp the full significance of her information then asked excitedly “Ain't it him? Ain’t his hair blue—I mean light—an’ his suit blue? An’ ain’t he tall an’ kinda' heavy set? Ain't lie? There was vigorous and unanimous assent from all, none of whom were brave enough to contradict Miss Perkins and her irrefutable evidence, although two or three faintly hoped that there might be some mistake. All were overwhelmed by so great a criminal’s presence in their own midst; and the only suggestion that anyone was able to oflfer, was that “somebody ought to do something.” “Do? I’ve done my duty!” Miss Perkins’ vo:ce was that of a martyr. “Just as soon as T read it I hurried over t’ Truth Jameses’. I knew it was my Christian duty t’ warn her the kind of a man she’s a gom with. The land knows she’s old enough t’ know better—she’s all of thirty—” “Just twenty-seven,” corrected Mrs. Hughes gently. “But she seems to have gone crazy over him.” continued Miss Perkins, not heeding the interruption. “Why lie’s down there nearly every day. I never go by their window but what I see him. Why, the other night T had t’ go down to the store at half past nine, for some medicine for tna,—she had the toothache—an’ I saw a bright light in her window, I wondered what was goin’ on so late, so I just stepped up to the window and looked in. An’ what do you think I saw?” she demanded impressively of her spell bound listeners. “I saw that furriner an’ Truth James a’ settin’ in the front room, one •on each side of the stand, an’ Truth was a’readin’ Brown’s or Browning’s, or some one’s poems, out loud. As I was a savin’,” she began at the beginning again, “I told Truth that this furriner that’s she’s consortin’ with, is a bigamist an that she ought to notify the police. “An’ I told her just what everybody thinks of the way she’s a earryin’ on, an’ how her mother’d feel if she was a livin’, to see her only child disgracin’ her so! “An’ what do you think the old cat did? She slammed the door in my in MEDLEY face! There were tears of self-pity in Miss Perkins’ voice as she finished. Her wounded pride was soon healed, however, by the expressions of sympathy from her friends. “I always knew that Truth James was uppitty, but I never knew she was that bad,” declared Mrs. Smith indignantly. “Why she was real insulting to you, an’ after you'd gone out of your way to do her a good turn.” “Such an act must not go unpunished,” was the conviction declared by Mrs. Knott, a greater reader of dime novels. “After much discussion and wrangling, it was agreed to follow the plan of punishment suggested by Mrs. Carson, who, in the days of her youth, had studied Greek History. “Well ostrac:sc her! she began eloquently. “In other words we’ll boycott her! We won't have have nothing to do with her until she apologizes to every single member of the Brownsville Sewing Society, for disgracin’ its honorable name. Mrs. Carson sat down in a burst of applause. I hen Mrs. Hughes—secretary of the society—wrote at dictation, a letter informing I ruth of her ostracism, its causes and the means by which it could be repealed. The missive, signed by every members of the B. S. S., was entrusted to Johnny Tompkins, who, for the consideration of five cents, delivered it into the hands of Truth herself. I he Brownsville Weekly Clarion,” issued the next day, contained the following notice: “It gives the Clarion great pleasure to announce the marriage of Miss 1 ruth James, daughter of the banker, the late Thomas James, and Rev. Morris Harmon, which conies as a surprise to their many friends. The marriage ceremony was performed yesterday afternoon by Rev. Marks, a personal friend and college chum of the groom. “Miss James is one of the leading women of this city, and her beautiful home on Centre street is the center of many social gatherings. She is a member of the Book Club and of the B. S. S., both of which organizations extend their heartiest wishes for a happy and prosperous future. “Rev. Harmon is a graduate of Princeton University and pastor of a large church in Chicago. He is known as one of the best and most progressive ministers of today. Rev. and Mrs. Harmon departed at noon today for New York, where they will remain a short time before sailing for Europe. They will tour the Holy land before returning to this country.” “And to think,” mourned the Society as one woman, “that Truth’s gone off mad at all of us, an’ we won't get a single souvenir postal from her,—all on account of that meddlin’ old maid, Sarah Perkins. An’ we didn’t get to ostracize her once, either !” FERN DARINGER, ’09. 80 DANVILLE '00 “Senorita” “Very well, Senorita, perhaps you’ll have me because of the lack of another before long, he laughed, as he swung into his saddle, and, waving his broad sombrero in the air, rode off down the trail leading to the gap by the river. Elizabeth Page watched him till he disappeared around the bend and then heaving a high, walked slowly through the open door behind her. 1 he little valley, whose peaceful slumbers had not been disturbed since San Jacinto rumbled and the Alamo ran red, lay covered with the fast falling Autumn leaves which sparkled in the last rays of the sun sinking slowly into the purple tinted expanse of cactus and sage brush: Through the now almost bare trees came the soft murmur of the majestic Rio Grande as it rolled peacefully on its journey to the dark green waters of the gulf beyond. Now and then the evening bark of the gophers could be heard coming across the undulating prairie, broken here and there by a smoothly rising knoll. Five years before. Elizabeth Page, just out of school, had left her luxurious home in the East and come to this fort on the Mexican frontier, this outpost of the United States, with her father, Colonel Page, U. S. A., that his health might be benefited. These five years had been a long and lonely period in the life of this city bred girl, but the spring before Lieutenant Mansfield had arrived from West Point and since then Elizabeth had seen things with an entirely new aspect, it even being wlrspered about the garrison that they were engaged. In the living room of the little building barely meriting the name of cottage, things were in readiness for the evening meal. Before the only window of which that side of the room could boast, stood Elizabeth watching the twinkling lights appear in the barracks. On a stove in the corner a pan of fresh meat sputtered and near it a tea-kettle enveloped in cloud of vapor. The table was spread covered with dishes and near it on the spotless floor was a large black cat. Now and then the songs of the soldiers as they came from the stables could be heard coming through the open door way. intermingled with the lonely bark of a coyote far off over the prairie. After standing thus a few minutes, Elizabeth turned impatiently, speaking aloud to herself. “I just know that treacherous Lobez is up to no good. If there were only a little evidence he and his band of cutthroats would have been hung long ago. At any rate I do wish Jack would come. He’s been gone and week now and he thought he would get back in at least four days. As for myself, well—I haven’t been on the frontier five years for nothing,” she concluded, glancing at a brace of army revolvers, hanging on a nail in the wall. She was just starting for the spring in front of the house, when on 81 MEDLEY reaching the gate she saw two horsemen approaching rapidly through the dusk. One, whom she recognized as a soldier from the garrison, dismounted with the other in his arms, and called out: “It's the lieutenant, Miss l’age. He’s been shot. “Shot? she exclaimed, as she ran back in to the house to prepare a place to put him. Is it very bad? she continued, as the others came in. “He's unconscious, but 1 don't think it's serious,” answered the soldier and then when they had done all they could he explained. I was just coming along the old Mexican trail with him not far ahead, when 1 saw a man step out and after firing two shots at his head, stoop as if to search him but when he saw me coming he jumped on his horse and rode off toward the river. I'll hurry and find the doctor and then send in my report. Soon after he left the doctor came and with him Elizabeth's father. Hie wound was juickly dressed and the wounded man brought back to consciousness. 11 is wound was not serious so it was thought that the young officer would be well in a few weeks. The next morning Elizabeth, who had been charged with keeping the subject of his assailant from her patient's mind, entered the room, waving a newspaper just received at the fort, in her hand. “Oh. Jack, the Army’s go:ng to play the Navy at Annapolis next v eek,” she exclaimed. “What’s the latest dope? I had almost forgotten football,” he answered. “I think the Army will win sure. You see they have two full backs and----- “Tivo full backs?” he interrupted. “ hy yes, they have a full back and two half backs. Doesn't that make two whole full backs, she explamed triumphantly. “Well I should say not, he laughed. “A dozen half backs wont make a full back.” “Well, at any rate, there are no foreigners on the Army’s team like there are on the navy’s,” continued the would be fan. “Forc’gners? Why I don’t suppose there’s a foreigner on the navy team.” Well, it says that only two are All-American men,” she pouted. “And that’s a girl’s knowledge of a football game.! Well I see its no use to talk football to you. What are they doing down at the fort? I suppose you know as well as I,” he continued before she could answer, that it was that Lobez that shot me and I think I know why. Beside having the simple desire to rid the world of my presence, he thought I had something which he wanted very much. If there had been only the former reason he would have left it for some of his assassins to do and would have DANVILI-E ' ! kept his own hands clean. On this last trip Mansfield, who had been across the border on official business, continued, “the old Indian who stayed around the fort went with me, but as he was probably over a hundred years old, the journey proved too hard for him and he died before we reached the States again. But before he died he told me that he was the last of the famous Montezuma Indians of Mexico and gave me the location of an opal mine somewhere in the mountains south of here. This bonanza was the most cherished secret of that ancient trihe and had been entered by only a few of them who reported that it contained fabulous wealth. It was for this that sneaking Greaser was seeking.” “And now we can return to dear old Boston and all our dreams may be realized,” broke in Elizabeth, before he was hardly through. In three weeks Mansfield was well and in a few days more had set off across the Mexican line under the pretense of official duties. At home Elizabeth spent her time planning how the:r fortune would be spent for she knew that when he returned that he would have found the mine and their claim would be granted. Each morning although she knew he would not return for a week or more, Elizabeth rode out on the Mexican Trail in the hope of meeting him. One morning, about a fortnight after his departure, as she was riding along a winding coulee, she came suddenly on two men on horses. One who was pointing a revolver at the other was saying with a sneer: “Now, that I’ve got you I suppose that Indian myth goes in the bargain.” Elizabeth had taken in the situation in an instant, and taking careful aim with her revolver, had broken the hammer of the other’s gun with one shot, then she said laughingly: “Your reward Senor Lobez, will be quite sufficient to develop our mine.” JUDD PRESTON EAUROT. MEDLEY Debating Team URING the year ’07-’08 debating was renewed in the Danville High School with other schools after a lapse of several years. In the fall of that year an oratorical club was organized and this feature of the regular programmes was made more interesting. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Smith a debate was arranged with Kankakee and out of several candidates a team was chosen to represent our school. 'Phis team established our reputation by gaining a sweeping victory over Kankakee. Mr. Bramer who has had charge of the work during these two years has an established reputation in oratory, and much credit should be given him for his valuable aid along this line. For that measure of success which has been attained has been due largely to his efforts. Early in the season the subject was •announced for a return debate with Kankakee to be held in that city during the latter part of the year. Many candidates were out and a preliminary contest was held to decide with respect to the members of the team. Meanwhile a debate had been arranged with Urbana in which Danville was to be represented by the same team. In the debate at Kankakee Danville photo by Wamsiey. was defeated ,but the defeat only made the members worker the harder in their preparations to meet Urbana one week later. After an exciting debate Danville succeeded in wresting the honors from that team, not by their oratory but by their team work and con-sructive argument. The members feel amply repaid by the success and the experience derived from all their efforts. This is a line of work which undoubtedly interests many who enjoy literary pursuits and public speaking. We sincerely hope that these will not be neglected in the future and that Danville High School may continue to rank high :n debating and oratory. st DANVILLE ’09 The True Greatness of Douglas (Delivered at the Illinois Oratorical Contest. Urbana, 111., May 22.) MIGHTY celebration was held last fall in the State of Illinois. At seven of our cities was observed the fiftieth anniversary of a series of conflicts, the memory of which will always occupy a high place in political tradition of this state. This celebration of the Lincoln-Doug-las debates has served to bring more clearly to our minds the career of Illinois’ two greatest statesmen. On the one hand we see Abraham Lincoln homely, uncouth, profound, the idol of the common people, the liberator of the slave. On the other hand we sec Douglas, small in stature, lirey, domineering, the giant in debate, the consummate politician. Both were great; but today the fame of Douglas is almost lost in the radiant glory that surrounds the name of Lincoln. And yet, though outshone by his great rival, Stephen Arnold Douglas is worthy of our deepest admiration for his patriotic devotion to the cause of preserving the union. Since its organization in 1787 this government has been a government by party. The strict and broad constructionists of the constitution laid the foundation of our two great political parties. From the beginning these two parties have been constant rivals. First one and then the other has gained supremacy, and the plan of majority rule has been fully developed. The spirit and force of party government in the United States has been almost as essential to the organ of government as the motor nerves are to the human body. In America the great moving forces are the parties. In the progress of this country they have grown up with opposite tenets, leaders, impulses, sympathies and hatreds. Such a system, as is shown by the history of the United States has served the people well. It has educated them on public questions and has aroused interest in vital topics. The party system has many good features; it organizes our political ideas and gives them forcible expression; it instructs the people on questions of state; it supplies to a large extent the machinery for carrying on the government. And yet it is not without its dangers. Chief among these is the danger that the individual will lose himself in his party. Because of the immensity of this country and the vast number of voters he feels himself to be a mere atom in the body politic and often lacks the moral courage to oppose the will of cither party. Again the same danger is threatened by the very fact that this government is based on the principle of majority rule. Men infer that “the voice of the people is the voice of, God,” and tamely acquiesce in the will of the greater number. Many top will stifle conscience and judgment in order to remain in good standing with their party and to reap the reward of consistent service. To promote his own selfish interests many an individual will subordinate what he believes to be the welfare of his country to the welfare of his party. It is deemed more important to be a “regular” than to vote with honesty and intelligence; a measure is pronounced good because it has the party label. In short, patriotism is made secondary to partisanship. A true patriot however will rise above his party if the occasion demands. A man who truly loves his country and has its best interests at heart will not let the fact that he is but a minute part of one mighty governmental machine interfere with the serving of his country. A devoted citizen will resist the tendency to obey his party’s commands and will forget his former prejudices if the measure advocated, would in his judgment, be a detriment to the nation, lie will cast aside all consideration of personal advancement; he will even defy public opinion if he believes the attitude of his party to be dangerous to his country’s welfare. In time of public danger he will abandon his party’s traditional policy and be guided only by the ne- So MEDLEY cessities of the movement. Such a patriot was Carl Schurz when, undaunted by political feeling, he stood aloof from his party and decried the practices committed during Grant’s administration. George F. Hoar displayed rare courage and conviction when he refused to accede to his party’s colonial policy and denounced in unmistakable terms the retention of the Philippine Islands. But examples like these are all too few. The power of a mighty party is tremendous and it sweeps all before it like the autumn blast. To adhere to one’s judgment when it is opposed to the judgment of the party demands rare self-reliance. To resist the persuasion of partisans and the allurements of office demands supreme moral courage and patriotism. Small indeed is the number of citizens who measure up to these requirements. In the ability to rise above bis party was the true greatness of Douglas displayed. When political destruction was imminent he dared to abandon his old position in politics and tender his support to his lifelong adversary. In the almost thirty years of his public life he and Lincoln had been continual opponents. They had had contemporary beginnings in Illinois. They had met in country law suits, and had encountered each other in the state legislature. They had had intellectual wrestlings on the stump, in the support of their respective parties. By years of noble service each had risen to the head of his party in Illinois. They had contested for office in the United States senate, the contest resulting in Douglas’ triumph. They had been rival candidates for the Presidency and Lincoln had been elected. At the time of his accession Lincoln faced an awful crisis in his country’s history. As he said in his farewell address to the people of Springfield, “A greater peril confronts me than that which confronted Washington.” The entire nation was in a state of confusion. The South had already seceded and was forming the Confederacy. The North was divided; some demanded war; others cried for peace. The conditions were such as might well have made a weaker man despair. But in the darkness of this crucial hour Douglas proved himself a true patriot—a lover of his country. Forgetting that lie is the representative of one wing of a divided and a defeated party Douglas comes forth to confront the emergency threatening this government, casting aside his antagonism, rising above his partisanship and leaving behind him the memory of his thirty years of never ceasing political conflict, be advances to meet the issue of the hour. At the time of greatest gloom when he might have exulted in his opponents distress lie breathes new hope into the despondent heart of the nation’s leader. Impelled by ardent patriotism and a noble sense of duty he pledges his support to the President in his effort to preserve the union. Northern Democracy follows. Party lines are lost, as the forces of the North unite. A solid front opposes the rebellious South. Four years of bitter civil war and the united Northern forces inspired by a patriotic devotion to a common cause, made possible by the heroic actions of Stephen Arnold Douglas, have vanquished the Southern host. This country, threatened to be shattered into warring elements, is firmly welded into a lasting union. But Douglas did not live to see the result of his noble action. In the first year of the war. yea at the very beginning of the struggle, he passed away. It was enough for him to know that he had done his duty in the hour of his country’s greatest need. He had risen above bis party and had placed his name among the patriots of American history. He could die content. His patriotic spirit had never left him, and in his last words—in this message to his sons, “Tell them to obey the laws and always be true to the Constitution of the United States,” lie had a fitting close of a noble career. For such lofty patriotism it is right that we hold in reverence the memory of Douglas. Whatever may have been the motive underlying his earlier career, the crowning action of his life was one of supreme devotion. And when we celebrate the anniversary of the mighty conflict between the two great sons of Illinois, it is proper that we not only recall the glory of Lincoln, but that we also remember the courage, the patriotism and the final act of devotion of Stephen Arnold Douglas. RAYMOND G. SOUTHWORTH. so MEDLEY Social Happenings at D. H. S. SN THE DANVILLE High School, social events form no small part of school life. They afford a pleasant relaxation from the daily routine of study and recitation. The round of gaieties begins in the latter part of September, after the classes have been organized, and ends in June with the Alumni reception. Parties, hay-racks and bob-sled rides, picnics and class receptions are the usual form of entertainment. This year all the classes have mingled freely in the social whirl. The Senior social life began with a very enjoyable lawn party, Holland Catlett at the SokPers’ Home, being host. The spacious lawn was a pleasing feature of the evening's entertainment, adding a welcome diversion from the ordinary class parties. The Juniors met at Bernice Morrow, for the purpose of loading the class on a bay-rack, and the evening was to be spent at a sugar camp somewhere in a secluded district. But owing to unfortunate events which prevented the class from occupying the camp, the party took the form of the usual class social evening, which was spent in many games of wit and skill. At the first social event of the Sophomores, the class of 1911 was entertained at the home of Estelle Love. The party was well chaperoned by eight members of the faculty. It was quite a success and the one hope of the Sophomores is that there will be many more events as enjoyable. “Last, but no least, the Presides decided to have a party. Alter amusing themselves in a very suitable manner, for children, they hurried homeward at an early hour. Then all the classes enjoyed masquerade and Hallowe’en parties. The Seniors, taking advantage of that bewitching evening of fun, spent it with Marion Dull. The Sophomores were entertained at a masquerade at the home of Margaret Ilerbst. The first part of the evening was spent in discovering the identity of the guests. Hallowe’en games were then played, when finally the lateness of the hour compelled the guests to make their “adieus.” Oh! Yes, the Freshmen had a party too at the home of Helen Reilly. The German club, one of the most successful of all High School social organizations held their first meeting of the year, with Miss Myrtle Miller. German games were played, and the evening was appreciated and enjoyed by all the members of the club. The Christmas party of the German club, met at the home of Frances Fecker. The unique feature of the evening was a short German play “Durch Weihnachstleid zue Weihnachtsfrend.” The refreshments furnished the real novelty of the evening, consisting of “apfelwein and “Deutsche Kucken.” During the year the annual receptions were given by the Senior and 88 DANVILLE ' K Junior classes. Now as the Seniors leave the dear old D. H. S. they wish all the classes as many good times as they have had. ’10-09 On December the fourth. li)0S, the Juniors entertained the Seniors at the Woman’s Club rooms, which were brilliantly illuminated and prettily decorated in the Senior colors of Orange and Black. In order that all the guests should be acquainted, a general round of introduction was made after which a number of beautiful and effective tableaux were given. Then everyone participated in an original guessing contest, entitled a “Wooden Romance, in which Nelle Hill and Mr. Bramer carried off the honors. Dainty refreshments were served after which dancing and games amused the guests for the remainder of the evening. The Seniors will always remember the ’10’s as being most royal entertainers, and this event will stand forth in the memory of the upper class-'men as one of the most splendid of all joint class events. ’09-T0 On the night of April 30th, the Junior Class was entertained by the Seniors. The reception, according to custom, was held at the Woman’s Club rooms which were tastefully festooned in purple and white colors. This color scheme was carried out through the entire evening. The partners for the “eats” were chosen by giving out cards bearing the title of the book to the boys and bearing the name of the author to the.girls. This was an opportunity for a display of wisdom which was gladly accepted by all. A magazine contest was also held in which the names of current magazines were the answers to a list of questions. As usual Mr. Bramer came off victorious. The “Grand March” then opened the dancing which continued during the remainder of the evening. A moonlight Waltz and barn dances were special features. As a whole the reception was a- decided success and because it is of not too frequent occurrence was undoubtedly enjoyed by all. $! MEDLEY 00 DANVILLE K ✓ MEDLEY Music in the D. H. S. HT CAN NOT he said that Orpheus has not done his part in the High School this year. Seldom has Danville been represented by a better orchestra or Glee Club or Semi-Chorus. Music, which has this year been under the direction of Mrs. Ella B. White, has so taken its place in High School life that it bids fair to reach a still higher standard. I11 1905 and 1906, Danville had a high school band that was without rival in this part of the state. But since then, as material has been scarce, the whole attention of the High School musicians has been turned to the orchestra, and the result has been an organization of which the school may well be proud. This year has been no exception to the rule and an orchestra, more representative of the High School itself, has been formed. It has furnished delightful music for all entertainments and has been greatly appreciated by outsiders as well as the students. At the beginning of the year it was thought that good material might be obtained for a Boys’ Glee Club and so a club was formed and officers elected, but as time was scarce among its members little was accomplished until the beginning of the new year. Weekly practice then began and the boys appeared on numerous programs in the High Schoool and outside. Numerous appearances were also made at the homes of high school teachers and students on moonlit nights which were greatly enjoyed, especially by the Glee club. Their success in a large part was due to their leader, Mr. Sackctt. whose interest and ability as an instructor was greatly appreciated. Hopes are entertained that next year Danville may have a Mandolin Club for which there is abundant material in the High School. In the Spring, the girls of the High School, wishing to follow the example of the preceding year and to again bring the honors already won to Danville, organized a Girls’ Semi-Chorus. The services of Mr. Mercer were procured and the girls soon began to show the form of the preceding chorus, many of whose members still remained. And now, may next year see the ideals of music set higher than ever before, with the same excellent orchestra, a larger Glee Club along with a Mandolin Club, and another winning Semi-Chorus. The Orchestra Leader, Mrs. White; first violins, Ralph Schecter, Fern Rouse, Ruth McNulty; second violins, Harry Cameron; trombone, Swerington; cello, Frank Hendricks; first cornet. Fred Draper; second cornet, Raymond Davis; mandolins, Ralph Yeager. Rachael McDowell; flute, Walter Rcarick; pianist, Marvin Medlar; drums and traps, Judd Faurot. The Glee Club Officers: President, Judd Faurot; Business Manager. Ralph Robinson; Secretary. Paul Bryan; Director, Mr. Sackett; Pianist, Walter Martens. First tenors, H. Fair-child ’10, Dague ’ll, Bryan ’09; second tenors, Catlett ’09, Faurot ’09. Hartshorn ’12; baritone, Yeager ’10, Robinson ’10, Ferris ’09; bass, B. Fairchild ’10, Boyer ’09. Semi Chorus Director, Mr. Mercer; first soprano, Reva Hoff. Willa Freeland, Margaret Balsley, Frances Burchitt, Marvin Medlar; second soprano, Ona Barnett, Lovia Thomas, Ruth Williams, Margaret Brady. Mae Morris; first alto. Nellc Hill. Mildred Mater, Julia Hutchins, Dortliy Garrett. Florence Austin; second alto, Gladys McCord, Ruth Miller, Georgia Pollock, Eva Robinson, Bertha Law. 02 MEDLEY ( Higbee of Harvard” CAST Photo by Wamsley. Watson W. Higbee, from Montana. A good fellow with millions, who knows neither fear nor grammar ------------------------------------------- __ Forrest Holmes Hon. . D. Withrow, a blue-blooded ex-senator with a tall family tree and a short bank account ---------------------------------------------------- Harold Wolford Lorin Higbee, son of Watson. Champion athlete of Harvard. In love with Madge ---------------------------------------------------------- Harry Cessna Iheodore Dalrymple, called “Ted.” Worked his way through Harvard. In love with Nancy ------------------------------------------------- Raymond South worth Higgins, the butler -------------------------------------------- Paul Bryan Nancy Withrow, the senator’s daughter. An up-to-date, level headed girl ________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mae Slaughter Madge Cummings, from Montana. A quiet sort, with temper when needed_____________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- H elen Barger Mrs. Ballou, the senator's sister from New York, who meets her second affinity at the eleventh hour------------------------------------------- Marion Dull Mrs. Malvina Meddigrew, originally from Missouri. Must always be shown ......... -------------------------------------------------------------- Clara Coddington 1)4 DANVII.I.E '00 ( Higbee of Harvard” N I HE night of November 2.‘ , an unusually large and appreciative audience witnessed the production of “Higbee of Harvard.” which was given by nine members of the ’09 class, for the benefit of this year’s Medley. The play consisted of three acts, the settings for each being remarkably elaborate as well as artistic. The curtain rose upon a lawn scene in Brookline, Mass., and the second act upon the drawing room of an ex-senator. The last act was a mining camp in Montana. a scene in which Paul Bryan distinguished himself by his economical peeling of potatoes, and singing “Who says dearie to me? Who calls me all her own?” The success of the play was largely due to Miss Robey's untiring and conscientious efforts, and her never end big ingenuity and originality. Every member of the cast distinguished himself, either by his unassuming manner or excellent acting and freedom from self consciousness. Mrs. Ballou (Marion Dull) opened the first scene with the self-possessed society manner which she so well sustained throughout the play. Forrest Holmes executed his role as though born for the part. His grammar and actions as a Westerner could not have been improved. Millions made no difference to him, for he was Watson W. Higbee from Montana “every day in the week.” His original wooing of Mrs. Ballou was characteristic. His ignorance of “etequetty” annoyed his college bred son. Lorin, but greatly amused the audience. Mae Slaughter and Helene Barger, as Nancy ithrow and Madge Cummings, were typical American girls, who performed the:r difficult parts with exceptional gracefulness and naturalness. Mrs. Malvina Meddigrew (Clara Coddington), a downright Westerner with true Missouri dialect and eccentric but appropriate gowns, and Higgins the Butler. (Paul Bryan) never failed to entertain the audience by their comic dialogues. Ted Dalrymple (Raymond Southworth,) and Lorin Higbee (Harry Cessna) made admirable college youths, who, after much trouble and many mishaps finally won the consent of Madge and Nancy. Harold Wolford, as the Hon. H. V. Withrow performed his part of an aristocratic senator well, although he was sadly omitted in the numerous love matches he bore h:s difficulties without a murmur. MEDLEY Nathan Hale CHARACTERS: Nathan Hale (Yale 1773)_________________________ Guy Fitzroy ____________________________________ Lieut. Col. K no wit on_________________________ Captain Adams ---------------------------------- Cunningham _____________________________________ Ebenezer Lebanon _______________________________ Tom Adams_______________________________________ William Hull (Yale 1773) _______________________ The Jefferson Boy_______________________________ The Talbot Boy__________________________________ Jasper _________________________________________ First Soldier ________________________._________ Alice Adams_____________________________________ Mistress Knowlton ______________________________ Angelica Knowlton ______________________________ The Widow Chichester ___________________________ Photo by VVamsley. ___Holland Catlett ____ Arthur Boyer _____ Carl Conron __ Thomas Brophy __ Dwight Pan key __ Ralph Robinson ___Fred Shawhan _________ Ira Jones _____ Bert Cooley ___ Herbert Beyer D. Hazel Fairchild _____ Casper Platt ______ Alice Bump ________ Nellc Hill ___ Lovia Thomas __ Madge Olmsted ACT FIRST. April. 1775 The Union Grammar Schoolhouse in New London. Conn. ACT SECOND. September. 1776 At Colonel Knowlton’s House, Harlem Heights. ACT THIRD. September. 1776 The First Scene:—The Tavern of the Widow Chichester. Long Island. The Second Scene:—Outside the Tavern, early the next morning. ACT FOUR. The Next Night. Scene on Colonel Rutgers’ Farm, now Pike and Monroe Streets, New York City. 96 DANVIU.K 0 Nathan Hale HE PLAY “Nathan Hale,” which was presented at the school auditorium on December 18, was one of the best ever presented at the school. It was different from most plays, being’ strictly historical. 1 lie beautiful costumes, real colonial ones obtained from a firm in t liicago, added much to the impression made. The scenery was exceedingly attractive and lent a certain quaintness and charm to the production. The success of the play was due mainly to the instructor, Mr. Smith who showed his ability in this line of theatricals by the success attained. Rolland Catlett, in the title role, fulfilled his part in an admirable manner. He has a personality peculiarly fitted for this heroic part which he assuredly distinguished. Alice Bump, as Alice Adams, the heroine, played her part with vivacity and greater dramatic taste. Her action was natural and easy, contributing much toward the success of the performance. The role of the feminine aristocrat, Mrs. Knowlton, was assumed by an amateur actress who stars therein—Nelle Hill. Beautiful costumes and haughty airs seem to create an atmosphere which causes her masterful rendition of such a part. The part of her daughter who was severely wounded by the darts of the little blind God was taken by Lovia Thomas, another promising young star in the theatrical world. At times she might have been more demonstrative, but notwithstanding she is due much credit. Ebenezer Lebanon, alias Ralph Robinson, was fully depicted as an awkward and none to courageous pedagogue; later the ardent wooer and husband of Angelica (Lovia Thomas). The villian, Guy Fitzroy, was forcefully represented by Arthur Boyer. Although a great deal of humor is instilled in Arthur’s nature he managed to maintain his gravity and fill his part in a very commendable fashion. His comrade, Cunningham, was Dwight Pankey, who has just enough cartilage in his framework to set forth a splendid “drunk.” Ilis easy manner and unconscious acting was very entertaining. Colonel Knowlton and Captain Adams were two patriotic officers of the Continental Army. I hese characters were sustained in an exceptional manner by Carl Conron and I homas Brophy respectively. The impassioned appeal of William Hull, Ira Jones, to Nathan, the prospective spy, was most touching and eloquent. He “felt his part” deeply, which is its own recommendation. This performance as a whole “went off” with a dispatch and vim which is peculiar to the personality behind it. The entire play was most realistic and life like and it is believed was enjoyed by all present. 07 MEDLEY “Tommy’s Wife” rFTER LONG and patient effort, as is customary with such things when successful, the Staff of the Maroon and White staged the It V play entitled “Tommy’s Wife’’ on the night of the nineteenth of February. As usual it was performed in th e High School auditorium which was comfortably filled. There were some difficulties arising during the evening, such as melted fuses and hesitation on the part of the “specialties,” but these were all overcome and the performance was rendered with dispatch. The character of Tommy was taken by Ralph Yeager, who we must say is a promising young actor. He was typical of the bashful yet refined young man placed in embarrassing situations. Ethel Edwards, as Rose Carothers, the sister of Tom, played her part with aptitude and celerity, managing meanwhile to maintain the proper “temperature” toward Dick Gran-nis, the chum of Tom, alias Cal Swallow. Cal was debonair and outspoken and managed to come in promiscous contact with a sufficient number of loose articles of furniture. Yclle llill, as Mrs. De Yorburgh Smith, played the part of the grand lacly to perfection. Her haughty airs and affectations, not to mention the lorgnette, added decidedly to the evening’s entertainment. Her daughter Sylvia, Ruth Little, although very impressionable, maintained a cool head and clear eye for details and also excelled in diplomacy. Her inquisitiveness concerning the “statue” under the veil was superb to say the least. Josephine Snapp, in the role of Ratty Campbell, was the self-contained young lady with an artistic temperament. She was not above receiving some slight attentions from Tom however, and passed commcnd-ably through a few trying yet ludicrous situations in conjunction with him. The charitable girl. Mae Slaughter as Edith Bronson, was for the time being deeply involved in amateur theatricals. Hers was the strain of practical sense and resourcefulness. But the fencing master “took the cake,” if you will permit the vulgarism. He, Pierre De Bonton, was represented by Paul Bryan and bis make-up counted for its full share of the results, lie typified the excitable, passionate, and over chivalrous Frenchman in a self-possessed and effective manner. 11 is entrances and exits were his specialty. 'Pile costumes were of course modern and some were very beautiful, in fact creations of art. The stage settings were tasteful and harmonious, not detracting from but rather adding to the excellence of the play. Thomas P. Carothers, (promising young portrait painter) ______________ Ralph Yeager Rose Carothers (his sister) ________________________________________ Ethel Edwards Hick Grannis (Tom’s chum; in love with Rose)______________ ______________Cal Swallow Mrs. De Yorhurgh Smith (wealthy society woman) __________________________Nelle Hill Sylvia (her daughter: young and impressionable) _______________________ Ruth Little Pierre De Bonton (French fencing master) ______________________________ Paul Bryan Edith Bronson (friend of Rose: interested in charities) _____________ Mae Slaughter Patty Campbell (a student of the Broadway dramatic school) _________Josephine Snapp ns DANVILLE '(K) Xvutfdu Mlub iUjutnurupliirrl unit fflantalrti. 'Jieblicf, Snow, SjJriitSman, (Sobbington, Slangier, 9)Jorten§, i iatl)0, Reefer, onc$, g)oung, 3)eager. tWarteitS, '.’iotl)o, Reefer, ones, g)oitug, 3)cogcr. $ c r MI u b P o r ft a n b rafibentin ---------------------------grnnceS fyeefer SJiceprcifibent -----------------------SSoIter WartenS Scfrctor-------------------------------Caspar lott i'ianiftin ----------------------------Harriet Srittsmaii Sdjatsmeiftcr -------------------------'i cri)f Sours I 'sofepljinc Sitapp iVrgniiguugC'Comitc _________________) Cilm a (iobbingtou ) Gftfjcr 9cotl)o (Diolpf) g)eager I ynra ?)oimg Spcifecomite _______________ IcniflOter i (ibitl) 'Jieblirf (§otpppb 'iMird)itt, !)0 MEDLEY X'cr cutfdic llnl d)on Imtiie button luir ee fiir ratfmtt gefjalteti, giinftigcre ©etegenbeiten 311 baben, uns in ber beutfdjen Spradje ,511 itben. ©od) erft im ,§erbfte be8 v abreS 1907 ift unfer SButtfd) in (frfiitfitng gegaitgen. $n ben 3ufnimiienfiinfteu bee itlubs f)nbeu bie Witglieber nid)t nut ©elegenbeit, fid) ber fo eblen uitb fdjonen ©pradje 311 bebienen, fonbern and) cinigc beutfdje ©itten 311 pftegen unb einanber in gefellfdjoftlidjeiti SSerfefjr nof)er fetuten 311 lernen. 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Sicblid), ©effte ©otbon 1111b ©aut ©man Sin bent brennenben 28eibnad)t§baunt, ben foniifd)cn ©efdjenfen, ben ed)t beutfdjen .Gudjen, ben Siebern, ben ©pieten unb ben fiublidjen Moftiinteu fan.bcu StUc Piet ©ergniigen. Sfnt Stbcnb bee 3roblften fsebruare roar ber Gtnpfaitg bee Mhtbe ben ©djiilern in ber Mlafic IV 311 Gbren. pfrdufciu Slobei) biefj line aufe berdidjfte roillfominen. Wandjc beriibmte Ceute (3. ©. SSitbetm IT., 0011 ©iiforo 11. f in.) brad)t m bei unS ben erften ieil bee Slbenbe 311. Stadjbem luir etiuae beutfcfjer Wnfif 3iigel)brt batten, aiuiifierten luir une mit luftigcn ©pieleti. ©pater feruierte bae oben genanntc ftoinitee ©nnfd), rei3enbe, bepsfbrmige .Vudjeit unb ©iifjigfeitcn. .§offentIid) nerleben luir nod) nicbrere io fdjbne 3eitcn! fyiir ifjren biitfrcid)cn ©eiftanb fiitb roir ben yebrern unb Sebrerimien ber .§od)fd)uIe febr uerbuitben. 100 DANVILLE 09 CLUB ROSEBUD GARDEN OF G1RUS- colors, BLUE.-WNITE-GREEN OFFICERS UOs lHTHOMF)5-ED TH f]tDUCK.-KE.Gll F STKflUSS SCNEOUue. 5ETT• £4 - OCT• S OCT-£.e'NOV5 NOnM - DEC-3 DEC-17 ORi -7 101 MEDLEY 1910 MEDLEY STAFF Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Assistant Business Manager __ ._ Thomas Bropliy Literary Editors Harriet Prutsman _______ Athletic Editors John YVakcley Humorous Editors Ray I'ox Art Editor Society Editor __ . Josephine Snapp 102 DAN VILLI : K I0. 5 MEDLEY BOOKS BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Vanity lair------------------------------------------ Marguerite Myers Innocence Abroad ------------------------------------------- Carl Conron I lie Little Minister------------------------------------- Donald Swaim Prisoners of Hope-------------------------------------Hospital Patients I lie Debtor---------------Non-paid Subscribers of the Maroon and White i lie Spenders-----------------------------------------------------Class Treasurers I lie hiring Line--------------Speakers on the Assembly Room Platform Hot Air as a Factor in Present day Mechanics___________Eliott Van Frank Short Stories ----------------------------------------------- Freshmen The Mississippi Bubble------------------------------------Dick Harmon The Bishop’s Emeralds-----------------------------------------Lew Bishop Hearts Courageous------------------------------------------------John L. Supple The Road to Yesterday---------------------------------Expelled Skippers The Prima Donna--------1-----------------------------------Marvin Medlar hanions Affinities---------------------------------------- Marion Ferris Simplicity------------------------------------------------ Edith Neblick The Golden Treasure_______________________________________Red Shawhan 1 he Boys of “76 ------------------------------------George Pemberton Love’s Yong Dream_________________________________________Peggy Brady The Man of the Hour ________________________________________________Ira Jones The Call of the Wild------------------------------------- Beryl Jones Our Feathered Friends__________________________________1_______Swallow Down on The Farm---------------------------------------“Chuck” Howard Lives of Great Men--------------------------------------------Southworth The Theatrical Guide______________________________________“Tot” Myers I he Lion and the Mouse------------------------------Wolford and Herbst Kidnapped -----------------------------------------------------V. Carter Proper Manners-----------------------------------------------Paul Bryan I'he Desperado.” (This nerve-racking, hair-raising, blood-curdling novel by a heartless, dare-devil revolutionist, bids fair to greatly surpass The Boys of “76 , Diamond Dick, The Cruel Cowboy, and King Brady).-------------------------------------------- L5y Owen Burns (In other words “Pat” the Irish wonder). There was a crowd for there were three, The girl, the parlor lamp and he, There was a crowd and so no doubt, That is why the lamp went out! 104 DANVILLE '09 THE DOLL’S HOUSE “Up-to-Date” as played by D. H. S. Students. French Bisque Dolls----------Lee Hughes, Mildred Mater, Margaret Herbst Little China Dolls____________________________________________________ ---------Vannie Easterday, Mona Snodgrass, Sylvan Basch, Alice Chesley Beauty Dolls-------------------------------Clara Coddington, Meta Elliott The Bright Eyed Princess-----'----------------------------Frances Fecker The Dark Haired Princess___________________________________Esther Schatz Princess of D’Ciet_________________________________________Mae Slaughter Princess O’Scorn___________________________________,____Helene Barger Queen of Fairy Land------------------------------------Marie Prendergast Prince No Account_____________________________________________________Van Frank The Blue-Eyed Princess____________________________________Mate Giddings Princess OTIate-------------------------------------------- Helen Morin Princess O’Blonde------------------------------_--------Josephine Snapp ---- ------o----------- Little drops of water Frozen on the walk, Make the naughty adjectives In the people’s talk. -----------o----------- “Shall I brain him,” cried the hazer, And the victim fled; “You can't, it’s a Freshman, Just hit him on the head. -----------o----------- Sweet little Emily Rose, Was tired and about to repose; But her sister, named Claire, Put a tack on the chair; and Sweet little Emily rose. -----------o----------- He was shockingly short on lingerie. And when asked to dine; He wrote, “Regrets—for I'm detained By a wash out on the line.” 105 M F.DLEY WOULDN’T IT SEEM STRANGE IF The kids didn't skip The assembly room was ever quiet George didn’t come to see Marvin The girls didn't wear rats The boys never smoked Whitlock came to school regularly We didn't have a hospital The teachers should smile Bryan quit acting like a girl Robinson got a shave School was a real pleasure Doug should come back to school Van Frank wasn’t crazy Marguerite should lose “Bill ” All seniors would graduate The girls would stop knocking M. Moore should land a beaux You could tell the Fox twins apart Washington would come back to life The kids never cheated Geometry wasn't hard A bluff didn't count Cal counld’t Swallow Margaret wasn't a citizen Moore would ever fight “F meant fine and “P” meant perfect Lew wasn't a Bishop Satin was a pi pi Jackson wasn’t windy Leonard wasn’t “tough ” ■ ----------o---------- LATIN! All are dead who wrote it; All arc dead who spoke it; All will die who learn it; Blessed death, they earn it! 1IN DANVILLE ’00 You may think it’s very fine, And quite romantic, too, To stand upon a High School stage And talk an hour or two. But I can tell you one and all, Which ever way you view it, To study for a “big debate,” It takes some time to do it. The saying is as true as old, “Who wins a name must buy it;” If you don’t credit what I say, Why just come on and try it. -----------o---------- Of all the green wards of tongue or pen, The greatest are these 1310. -----------o---------- A charming young lady named Ginter, Got married in Hoopeston last winter. Her man’s name was Wood And now as they should, The Woods have a cute little “Splinter -----------o---------- Words by “Johnny.” Music by “Chuck:-Oh! Helene is a pretty girl, Oh! Helene is a dandy. Anti she looks as sweet to me As a nice big piece of candy. -----------o---------- Owen Moore came to town one day, Owin’ more than he could pay; Owen Moore went home that night, Owin’ more. -------------o----------- Little F’s in Geometry, Little “Chem” exam., Make the little report card, The worst thing in the land. 107 MEDLEY The Optimist. “Examination Anticipation No preparation Some blufferation Realization.” The Pessimist. “Examination M uch preparation No recreation Nervous prostration Humiliation.” -----------o------------ It need occasion no surprise That here this verse we place— You see it’s just the proper size To help fill up this space. -----------o------------ A man with the brightest red hair Once said to a young maiden fair: “For you I would die,” She said: “If you try, Dye slowly but surely that hair.” -----------o------------ Lives of Cicero remind us We can make our lives sublime, And by asking silly questions Take up all the teacher’s time. -----------o------------ Mary had a little lamb. It fell into the brook; Mary cried, “What shall I do?” The lamb said. “Get the hook.” -----------o------------ 'lie Watch on the Rhine must have been German silver.” 108 DANVILLE 00 In the Garden of Love. Frances:—“If you love me as much as I do you, you would stop smoking if I asked you to.” John:—“Yes, but if you love me as much as you ought to love me, if I love you enough to stop smoking when you ask me to; you wouldn't ask me to stop smoking.” ---------o--------- North Robinson street. 11 ::50 p. m., Sunday:—“Ralph you are the light of my life.” A voice from upstairs:—“May. put out the light and go to bed. ---------o--------- Ralph Y.:—“You are the breath of my life.” Ruth:—“Hold your breath a minute.” ---------o--------- Old Maid—(entering the music store)—“Have you ‘Kissed Me in the Moonlight?’ ” Clerk:—“Er—no, I guess it must have been the other clerk.” ------- _o--------- “When a girl screams and throws her arms around you. it is hard to tell whether she loves you or is scared,” says Swallow, and he’s Iliad experience. ---------o--------- A Love Story. Chapter I:—Maid one. Chapter IT :—Maid won. Chapter III:—Made one. ---------o--------- Chink:—‘“What are kisses good for anyhow ?” Morgan:—“For their face value to me.” ---------o--------- Father—“How is it that I find you kissing my daughter? Answer me, sir; How is it?” Jonesy—“Fine, sir, fine.” ---------o--------- •}l pip 3A M|A S,}El[l ptlE ‘UMOpapiSdn qOOC| stqt tun} p noX A au ( 3 payiuosjad X}isoun: ‘jjiS e a q[ }snf sieqjL ion MEDLEY He—“The hoys say I'm getting to he a regular hear.” She—“Indeed.” It—“Say, sis, ask h im whether he growls or hugs.” ----------o---------- Marion—“I love you.” Nellie—“Then say something nice and sweet.” Marion—“Iloney, Molasses.” ----------o---------- Found in Jake’s book in Mildred’s hand writing: “Pigs like pumpkins, Cows like squash; I love you, I do, By Gosh.” ----------o---------- At the beginning of this semester did you notice Supple’s actions towards the girl with the calico eyebrows, and the gingham ears, of 13-3 the; 6th hour. Her name is Frances too. I guess she thinks John the gum drop kid with the sticky front. ’’That is parcgorically speaking of trivial affairs in unsophisticated terms.” How about it Shorty? ----------o---------- hitlock gets excited when waiting on an unusually good looking girl and stammering, says, “Steak, or tea.” ----------o---------- We call Minneapolis, Minn.; Why not call Annapolis, Ann? If you can’t tell the reason why, I’ll bet Topeka, Kan. ----------o---------- ITc smuggled in some open work; Avoided paying duty, And then he boasted to his clerk About his peekabooy. ----------o---------- Why is Mrs. Palmer’s mince meat like Adam in the tree picking an apple? Why! Because they were put up by a woman. no DANVILLE ’0!) “To Caesar.” “With head so big, and feet so small, The noblest Roman of them all.” ---------o---------- Farmer:—“I want to get copies of your paper for a week back.” Editor:—“Wouldn’t a porous plaster do you more good?” ---------o---------- WISE OR OTHERWISE. Conron:—“Do you think electric lights grow on trees?” Wolford:—Sure, on the electric plant.” ---------o---------- A Geometrical Proof. Axiom 1:—Nothing is better than a good lesson. Axiom II:—A poor lesson is better than nothing. “Therefore a poor lesson is better than a good one.” ----------o---------- “Mother, mother, mother, turn the hose on me,” sang little Willie as his mother was dressing him one morning. “What do you mean?” she asked. “You’ve put my stockings on wrong side out,” he replied. ----------o---------- Lady—(at jeweler's):—“Is this diamond genuine?” Jeweler:—“As genuine as your own hair, madam.” Lady:—“Let me see something else.” History Teacher:—“What makes the tower of Pisa lean?” Student:—“It was built in a time of famine.” ---------o--------- P. Elliott:—“The teacher sent me home “cause I was the only one that could answer a question.” Mr. Elliott:—“Absurd! What was the question?” Page:—“Who put the bent pin on the teacher’s chair?” ---------o--------- Teacher:—“Eddie, why are you scratching your head? Eddie Allen:—“Because I’m the only one who knows where it itches.” i MEDLEY Johns (to Conron) :—“Did you ever go to see a girl, when it seemed as if cracked ice must have been on all the chairs?” Conron:—“Only once, that was enough.” ---------o---------- There’s no game like hockey, it never gets stale, because it’s always on ice. ---------o---------- Pat:—“Did you hear about Murphy? He had a serious operation performed.” Mike:—“Did he? What was it?” Pat:—“He cut out his booze.” Teacher:—“Now, Willie, what was Washington’s Farewell Address? Willie:—“Heaven.” Little Tough:—“Don't you work in the restaurant any more Chris?” ----------o---------- “Did you ever see a pig wash?” “No. but I’ve seen a pig-iron.” ----------o--------- Zoo Keeper:—“Did you see my blackfaced antelope?” Hartshorn:—“No! With whom did your blackfaced aunt elope?” ----------o--------- Freshman (to Senior):—Is advanced arithmetic hard?” Senior:—“Well. T should say it is hard. Let me give you a problem. Freshman:—“I’ll bet I can solve it.” Senior:—“If it takes forty-seven yards of calico to make an elephant a night-shirt, how long will it take a cockroach with a wooden leg, to mash a bushel of potatoes.” Freshman:—“Gee! a fellow has to have geometry before he can take advanced arithmetic.” ----------o--------- Johnny:—“Percy, I’ll give you a quarter if you’ll get me a lock of your sister’s hair.” Percy:—“Give me a dollar and I’ll give you the whole thing. T know where she hangs it.” 112 DANVILLE ’00 Ah! Freshmen green, who enter High, the cause of ridicule At you, we laugh, and wonder why you come to our High School,, You say to learn, which is of course the truth, that's known to all. But does, this rule apply, we ask, to Freshmen of last Fall? Your year of babyhood, we know is soon passed by, by all, And into Sophs, you train yourselves with nerve and High School ‘gall. But studies now, no more to you, are “cinches” which you like, Instead the midnight oil burns way late and Sophs begin to hike. But then there comes a time when haughty Juniors you will be. And so you're in a place you find the best of the three. Still better times are on their way, and your ambitions rise For next you will be Seniors, so dignified and wise. And then, you reach the final step, the end of four short years, The time has come, for you to leave perhaps in joy or “tears??” So when you have gone out into the world and your own way, you must fight. Just think back of good times you had when you worked for the Maroon and White. PAUL BRYAN, 0!). ■o (In Physics Laboratory.) Mr. Mann:—“Mr. Southworth, Mr. Jones will work the “dark room” experiment with you.” Southworth:—“Esther Schatz hasn't performed this experiment yet.” Mr. Mann:—“All right, you can get her to work it with you, if you choose.” ----------o----------- Professor:—“1 understand you are from one of the earliest famiPes.” Freshman :—“Yes, my father was a milkman.” ----------o----------- Did you ever see a buck saw, buck? ----------o----------- The Spectacular Race. Onion made a strong finish. Rubber broke in the stretch, And Cabbage won by a head. 113 MEDLEY Flasher:—“Johnny 1 believe you are the worst boy in the country.” Johnny (politely) :— I may be the worst boy in the country, but there are meaner boys iin the city than 1 am. Brown walked across the assembly, we were saved from utter darkness only by the appearance of Red Shawhan through the south door. ----------o---------- Little Johnnie:—“Say Pa.” Father:—“Well, what is it Johnnie?” Johnnie:—“Can the Lord do anything that he wants to?” Father:—“Why; certainly the Lord can do anything he wants to. Johnnie:—“Then could he make a chunk so big he couldn’t lift it? A noise like Johnnie going through the front door. ----------o-------- Mrs. Meek—(In American History, reading some senior examination papers) :—“English as she is butchered, in other words canned English.” ----------o-------- Teacher:—“Who was the first man?” Fresh Freshman:—“Washington; He was first in war, first in— Teacher:—“No, no; Adam was the first man. Freshman:—“Oh! If you are talking of foreigners, I suppose he was.” ----------o-------- Teacher:—“Have you any questions on the lesson today? Jones:—“Yes; where is it?” ----------o-------- Teacher:—“Correct this sentence! The liquor that the man bought was soon drank.” Wise Kid:—“The man, who bought the liquor, was soon drunk. ----------o-------- Young Lady Passenger:—“‘Will you please tell me how long we stop at the next station?” Conductor:—“From two to two, to two two.” Young Lady to her Friend:—“I wonder if he thinks he’s the whistle?” ----------o-------- Teacher:—“What animal lives on the least nourishment?” Myers:—“The moth, it eats holes.” lit DANVILI.E 'On Bryan:—“Guess I'll have to change these cuffs.” C. Cooper:— Been working in physics lab.? Bryan:—“No; I just came down from an English exam.” o Farmer:—“I've seen snow three feet deep around here.” H. S. Boy:— That's nothing. I've seen it over my head.” Farmer:—“O, g‘long, 1 don't believe it. When?” H. S. Boy:—“Just look up any time it snows and you will see it over your head.” •o- dark. Teacher:—“What are some of the characteristics of Ichabod Crane?” Wise Kid:—“He was so superstitious he was ‘fraid to go home in the o-1 Teacher, (discussing the Lady of the Lake):— What is a copse? Runyan :—“A policeman.” ----------o--------- Stranger:— I noticed your advertisement for a man to retail canaries.” Professor:— ‘Looking for a job?” Stranger:—“Xo, I merely wanted to know how the canaries lost their tails.” ----------o--------- Sackett:—“How would you catch a bug?” McCord:—“Sack-it. ----------o--------- Lives of Freshmen should remind us, I That in life, sometimes we are very green, t And mistakes are our greatest blunders, For things are done which should not 'be seen. ----------o--------- Parent:— This repoit card is very unsatisfactory, Ralph.” R. Moore:—“Yes sir; I told the principal that you wouldn't like it, but he wouldn’t change it.” ----------o--------- Professor:—“What is the d:fference between a fort and a fortress.” Boy:—“Oh, I suppose a fortress is harder to silence than a fort,” nr, M K1II.KY Lives of Hunkers all remind us We may flunk while we are here, And, departing leave 'behind us “Goose eggs” on the register. ----------o-------- Junior:— Say kid I can prove to you that a piece of lined paper is a lazy dog.” Freshman:—“Let me hear you do it.” Junior (producing a piece of ruled ink paper) :— Isn't this piece of paper an ink lined plane?” Freshman:—“Why, certainly it is.” Junior:—“Well, isn’t an inclined plane a slope up?” Freshman :—“I guess it is.” Junior:—“Isn’t a slow pup a lazy dog?” Freshman—“Well, I guess you are righj ; ‘Gee,’ 1 wish 1 took geometry.” ----------o-------- A German farmer lost his horse and sent the following “ad” to an editor to he inserted in his newspaper: “One night the udder day about a week ago last month I heard a noise by the frunt middle of der back yard, which did not used to been. So jumps me der ped oud und runs me by der door to und ven I secs I finds my grey iron horse tied loose runnin’ mit der stable away. Who ever prings him pack once already yet pays me fife reward still.” Little Willie:—“Mamma did you marry an Ind:an?” Mother:—“No, son.” Little Willie:—“Then why are all those scalps on your dressing table ?” ----------o--------- Lawyer:—“‘Do you solemnly swear that you know more than half this jury ?” Witness:—“Yes and now that I have had a good look at them, I’ll swear that I know more than all of them together.” ----------o--------- “What kind of fruit would be represented if Shawhan sat on a donkey?” “A pair,” nr, DANVILLE 'Oil Scientists have discovered that women tell less in February than any month in the year. Only twenty-nine days last year. ---------o--------- Skadden:—“Why is a bald head like heaven?” Pemberton:—“I don’t know, why is it?” Skadden:—Because it is a bright and shining spot, and there is no parting there.” ---------o--------- English Teacher (discussing moonlight scene in “Last of the Mohicans ) :—“Margaruite where have you experienced that same scene?” ---------o--------- Teacher:—“How far would you have to lower the temperature until Iodine becomes a solid?” Josephine Jones:—“Until it freezes.” Hostess:—“Do you feel like a cup of tea? Guest:— Do I look like a cup of tea?” ----------o-------- Teacher in Physical Geography:—“Why should I represent the earth by my hat?” Wise Freshman :—Because it is inhabited. ----------o-------- Willie:—“Come here cjtiick! There’s a boy been fighting my brother for the last half hour.” Policeman:—“Why didn’t you tell me before?” Willie:—“’Cause brother was getting the best of him till a few minutes ago. ----------o-------- Teacher:—“What is the largest river in Italy, Leo? Leo:—“The—The—The—” Leo’s Sister:—“Say Po, Leo.” Leo, (brightly):—‘“Sapolio.” ----------o-------- Freshman: “Are you going to work this summer just for fun.” Senior: “No, just for funds.” 117 MEDLEY THE PRINCIPAL. (With apologies to H. W. Longfellow.) Under the spreading High School roof, The principal Smith we find; Z. M. Smith, a wonderful man is he, And doubtless, the only one of his kind. But the knowledge that's within that head Is stronger than many iron bands And lo, his brow is furrowed deep, For he worketh for all that he can. lie stares the student body in the face And there is nothing that he fears, For he’s labored hard, and labored long Since lie’s been with us four years. Working, planning and advising Quietly through life he goes; Each morning sees his work begun, Each evening sees it’s close. Year in, year out from morn till night, He works so long and hard; And then, alas, all that most students care for him Is to receive a passing card. -----------o--------- Physics Teacher (explaining principle of radiometer):—“Now you see lamp black is a good absorber of heat.” Helen Orlea:—“Is that the reason negroes can work so much better in the sun than white people?” -----------o--------- Matthews to Cooper: “You are not much?” Cooper: “That may be to, but I look good to me.” For Your Picnics and Social Gatherings, Order Your Ice Cream of Us— Royal Ice Cream Company 102 South St., Danville, 111. TELEPHONE 281 118 DANVILLE ’09 Instructor in Theology: “VVliat are the first four words that God said before the creation?” Bright Senior (thinking of let there he light) : “Let there be a periodic disturbance in the medium which is supposed to ex:st between the molecules everywhere in space.” -----------o----------- Mr. Mann: “Miss Schatz, how would you dry sulphuric acid?” Irene: “Apply heat.” ------€ � • JOE J XT ELL Photo by Wamsley. Joe’s gladsome smile has placed him in the humorous department but we feel that perhaps he is not receiving his just dues; for many are the beautiful and appropriate drawings which have sprung from his pen fpr our benefit. He was at one time a student in our school and has apparently never lost interest in its doings. Each year his aid is counted upon for making the art and cartoon work of this book what it should be. The editing staff wishes to take this means of giving expression of its most sincere gratitude toward him for the efficient service which he has rendered 119 M KDI.KY f p §i. th ®nnk nf Spuplatuma CHAPTER 1. In response to ye instigation of unprecedented arrangements a certain conglomeration of ye male students under ye title of ye Debating Team betook themselves with ye fire of ambition and rivalry consuming their breasts, singly and collectively, unto ye “crazy” town of Kankakee. There they promiscously and spontaneously wrangled over ye much mooted question of labor affiliations. Whereas, when ye dice were thrown for rendering ye victory to those victorious (were the dice loaded?) it so transpired that ye aforesaid conglomeration suffered defeat with ye honors of warfare and ye colors floating to the breezes. Ye contestants therefore returned unto their respective parental domiciles overburdened with chagrin and experience. “Muff sed.” CHAPTER 2. Having a certain keen hunger for revenge and being satiated with ye desire for a, transcendent victory, ye negotiations were sealed whereby it became agreed that ye aspirant youths of yon Urbana town should meander hither, near ye time of ye Ides of March, to pit their forensic talents against the pre-eminent ability of our institution of learning. Pending ye arrival of ye approaching contest there were certain vociferous demonstrations practiced oil various mornings previous, which noises must perforce aid greatly in obtaining ye ascendancy, and also an immense audience. Upon this momentous occasion ye foredained was accomplished and ye plenteousness of rooting was conspicuous. Ye “pittance” of ye oratorical and constructive argumentative forces was duly subjected to ye mercy of ye most honorable judges. Since in the course of human events it always becomes necessary for ye contestants to suffer defeat at some time, ye preponderance of supposition on ye part of ye most honorable judges was construed in behalf of ye debaters of D. IT. S. Yon “Urbanites” departed in good condition of spirits (?), consoling themselves with ye fact that “the paths of glory lead but to the grave.” Herein ends ye chronicle of competitive events as perceived by us. It is truly hoped that coming events of like nature will throw off the octopus tenacles of one defeat and one victory, in favor of the latter. It is further desired that in future years a wholly victorious team of ye forensic contestants will be developed to uphold ye honors of ye High School of Danville. 120 EDITOR. DANVILLE fOO 121 MAY, 1908. sl m 1. May Day; no school in the afternoon; Central Illinois track and field meet; Danville wins, fourteen points. 2. Cal Swallow gives his declamation; announcement of preliminaries for Seniors. 5. George Webb delivers an oration; Lit-ery societies choose contestants for annual contest. 6. For the fourth time Southworth gives his spiel on. immigration; preliminary Physics examination. 7. Practice of songs and yells for the county oratorical contest and the county meet, led by Ross Allen Baker. 5 A Y T.l-rtflftft'f Soc.fc-T.s-S CmOOS CONttSTAHtb run A� (M AL Cor test 8. Danville wins the county oratorical contest. 9. (Saturday) Danville High School wins from Champaign High School in a ten inning game, with a score of 5 to 4; Danville High School wins county meet by 67 points; Ilildegarde seen with an out-of-town guy, Wakeley much excited. 10. Jubilee over three victories won in less than twenty-four hours; lively assembly the second hour; Loutzenhizer arouses the sympathy of the girls. 11. Senior semi-finals over; Senior pins quoted at 96. 12. Warm weather begins; nothing doing. 13. Forty-five minutes of singing led by Mr. Mercer; begin American History review; Eastern Illinois meet; Southworth wins first place in Eastern Illinois oratorical contest; Ruth McCracken, “Gee ! ain’t he a swell kid.” A rumor that all Seirors must make 75 per cent, on the finals. Tafr 0 KTO � Cac C Jl TfST DANVILLE '•)!) Exhibit from the studio of Miss Nellie F. McIntosh, 9 19 North Walnut Street, DANVILLE, ILLINOIS. ( ORIGINAL DESIGNS in both conventional and realistic treatment. Classes Tues-days, Fridays and Saturdays. Terms 75 cents a lesson or $7.00 per term of ten lessons. Orders promptly executed, ffl China firing done. J You are cordially invited to visited the Audio and see the work. Phone 860. CHILSON WEBSTER Dry Cleaners and Dyers We make a specialty of Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing Ladies' and Gentlemen’s Fine Clothing. YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL AND INSPECT OUR PLANT. Goods Called for and Delivered. Phone 2019 220 W. MAIN STREET, DANVILLE, ILL. 123 MEDI.KV 14. Another slump in the Senior pin market, quoted at 82 1-2, prospects of getting lower before June 12th : practice for the concert to he given at the Kimber M. E. church; who was the Senior that made 10 per cent on the final examination in Geometry? M. A. 15. Sophomore party at Edwards’; Fred Alles butts in and escorts M. Moore home. 10. Interscholastic meet at Champaign, Danville gets honorable mention in two events. 18. More practice for the concert. 10. One hundred twenty-five pupils absent on account of a little mist, too bad that they missed school. 20. Singing in assembly; Forest Holmes wears his light trousers, didn't they clean nicely. 21. Concert at Kimber M. E. church, number present including those that sang, one hundred and twenty three. 22. Freshmen against Grades in dual meet, score Freshmen 04, Grades 14. Last issue of Maroon and White this year. Miss Chester ill. Very warm. 20. Bunch ski]) and go swimming. Fritz does spectacular stunt. What made Chris and Pankey so sick? Senior classes over. 27. Senior exams begin. Algebra four. Special singing by Mr. Mercer. 28. More Senior exams. George and Marvin race down Ellsworth park hill; stake being a kiss to lie delivered at once. Mrs. Meeks: “Howard Burchit, your branch of industry has wilted, I hope the bugs 124 Danville ’on J. EDWARD WAMSLEY Ptutinjntplm 1909 MEDLEY WE RECOMMEND HIS WORK 208 N. Vermilion Street, Danville, 111. Harry Yeazelle Mercer (Irarlipr of 34 North Vermilion Street, Danville, Illinois MEDLEY haven't gotten it and that it will revive. It is a shame to let such good talent go to waste. 2!). Singing by Girls’ Chorus. 30. Freshmen and Sophomores hayrack to Alvin, Dutch protects Freshman grub. Wasn’t windy Jackson a sport. Johns, Con-ron, Cessna, Ryan, Barrick, and Burchit take a tie ticket to Alvin. The Sopohomes took advantage of their lenient chaperons, Lelia Edwards and Mr. Sackett. JUNE. 1. Upon nearing the school house one could hear the weeping and wailing of the “ought to be Seniors.” Senior pins as low as 62 1-2, and the market flooded at that. Mrs. Meeks, with a sigh, after reading __ flX TKC MILt PCST - some of the Senior examination papers to the class, “English as she is butchered; in other words canned English.” 2. A coming lawyer passing Albright's drug store: “Let’s go in and see what this Denver mud is for.” Bright return from bystander: “Why for sale of course.” ' ia — A ' C—ti . 3. Senior Class Day exercises. Very warm weather, onions grow strong yet they cannot get out of bed. 4. Rev. Scoville addresses assembly. 5. Last day of recitations. No study in assembly. Exemption lists posted. 6. Senior picnic. Juniors decorate for the Baccalaureate. 7. (Sunday) Baccalaureate. 8. Examinations begin. ??—? ? ?:;:; ?? 9-10. More exams. ??? !!!! ?! DANVILLE 00 Vermilion County Telephone Company Toll lines conned with the Central Union Telephone Co. and A. T. T. Co., and reach all the principal cities in 36 states. They are used by all successful business men. Don’t travel; it is cheaper and safer to telephone. A Few of the Many High School Graduates Who Chose the Business College Path Miss Rosa Outland Codie Ferguson Miss Nellie Haworth D. B. Holmes Take a Summer Course With Us— BROWN’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, DANVILLE, ILL. 127 MEDLKY 11. No school. 12. Grade cards distributed. School out for the term. : i L vennmtJ Lists I06TEC- SEPTEMBER. 8. School opens. Largest number ever enrolled. 9. Regular study begins. Football practice. Hair cutting starts. Ws, 13ecrms,_____ 10. Hair cutting continued. Some disgusted with school. 11. Sophomores elect class officers. Forest Holmes tells a certain teacher that lie has stopped smoking. 14. Some few people begin to study. Culver student presents C. V. with a tonic. 15. Freshmen ’boys called down for entering Assembly before the ringing of the bell. Seniors elect class officers. SiTe •� «� T- 1U8 DANVILLE ’0!) Meis Bros. Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dry Goods Carpets, Cloaks, Millinery House Furnishings Corner Main and Hazel Sts., Danville, 111. Dont Make Your Wife Pump and Carry Water Let us furnish Filtered Water direct into the house and save your wife many steps For Prices call on • Danville Water Co. MEDLEY 18. Sophomore party, also a party on Jackson street, various stunts done with nine bottles. 21. German club elects officers. Teacher: W hat is the feminine of stag? Little Tough:— Tea party.” Tickets out for first foot ball game. A nrschevious youth presents Assembly with a black cat. -Wittes -rnt'.____ £v OKtf 0j - 23. Music in Assembly room led by Miss White. Why is a rooster? 24. Yell practice after school led by Mr. Bramer. 25. Senior class party, June class party, and Sophomore class party. First yelling of the season in the Assembly. 20. Football game, Danville 28 to Champaign’s 0. Jonesy gets agitated during v’iSi'i the game. Cl, -p ( 27. Rain at last. rorest. ■=- s Tsrckcs ive 28. Football victory celebrated by yell- •s-roppeo sMOKm i- ing in Assembly. 2!). A Freshman is applauded for walking up the Assembly platform steps. 30. Singing led by Mrs. White. Reva llofT sings for students. Glee club proposed. OCTOBER. 1. School almost one ninth over. 2. Quizzes in Physics and Chemistry. 3. Danville w-ins from Tuscola 0 to 0. 5. Glee club organizes. (i. Redden leaves school. Mabin gone, Ol i , Mann coaches team. n M . N Jg+ 'Ttu.o Tofteyr_ C|60 St - MARviH- 7. Singing in Assembly. Music by Margaret Weber. 8. Monthly grades posted. Reckon T didn't do so bad, I got only two F’s. 9. First practice of Glee club, where Bryan is conspicuous. 10. Urbana defeats Danville in a fast game, 10 to 0. 12. First issue of Maroon and White. 14. Singing in Assembly. 15. First Glee Club practice. 10. Teacher’s meeting at Champaign. No school. 1!). The writer of the October calendar didn’t tend to business so we have nothing today. l.TO DANVILLE '(W ENGRAVINGS For College and School Publications a Specialty Stafford ------------ 5- Engraving Company Artists, Engravers, Electrotypers CENTURY BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS No contract too big for our large and complete plant and none too small to receive the most careful attention. The engravings for the Medley were made by us. Specimens of our beautiful color work free. Telephone 352 Established 1876 The Piano House of Danville WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BENJAMIN Temple of Music Pianos to rent—rent applied on purchase. Tuning and repairing a specialty. 30-32 N. VERMILION ST., DANVILLE, ILL. 181 MEDLEY 20. Ruby Craig visits school. 21. Mrs. White gives piano solo for Assembly. 22. Bryan forgets his duty as calendar writer for this month again. 2:1. A dull da)'. 24. Special car with foot hall delegation to Uihana, defeated 36 to 0. .26. High School library opened. 27. Concert at noon in room two by Donald Swaim and Walter Martens. 28. Assembly favored with a selection by Mrs. White’s music classes. 29. Cast for Medley play selected. 30. Senior party at Marion Dull’s. German club entertained by Miss Miller. Freshmen and Sophomores have parties, of course. ’ 31. Danville 6 to Hoopeston 9, in a fast and exciting game. NOVEMBER. 2. Practice for Medley play begins. 3. Election held in American History class. Debs gets two votes. Here’s joy to the happy, and joy to the sad. And to all who find life sorrowful and drear; For the cause of it all is soon readily explained As monthly grades so solemnly appear. Monthly grades are posted. Football game. Hoopeston 22 to Dan- ville 0. School given 9. Reception given to parents of High pupils. 10. Refreshments, left over from the 9th, to the pupils. 11. Special music for the Assembly. 12. Helen Cook visits school. I Y IS ? % ebecaussr,£ IT — ita.FPTIotl C|iltn TO lYftf NTS - 13. Maroon and White out. Several leave for Chicago to attend Chicago-Princeton game. 14. Cross country race at West Lafayette, Danville- 15 to West Lafayette 16. Football, Danville 5 to Kingman 5. DANVILLE 00 GEO. R. TILTON Lawyer 710 711 Baum Bldg., Danville, 111. Phone 279 ORWIN V. SHAFFER Teacher of Piano Studio, 34 North Vermilion St. Phone 470. Danville, 111. Study Hard, Boys, and come to DR. W. H. STEPHENS to get your TEETH fixed, 20 4 N.Vermilion DR. J. M. CLOYD Dentist 404-405 Baum Bldg. Danville, III. Hours: 8-5 All work guaranteed We sell only the ,f)est “Bates Street” Shirts Knapp Felt Hats Square-Deal Guaranteed Hose Lewis’ Underwear Arrow Collars Haber- DEUTSCH v U° dashery _ Vermilion Hals BROS. S,reel Arthur Esslinger THE DRUGGIST Prescriptions A Specialty FINE PERFUMES Cor. Main and Jackson Sts. DANVILLE .-. .'. ILLINOIS Greetings for the Class of 1909 DR. C. B. CLINE Specialist Chronic Diseases of Both Sexes 114 E. Main St. Danville, Illinois H. L. WILLIAMS Grocer C. W. HICKMAN, D. D. S. Dentist 136 Vermilion Street, Danville, 111. Phone 148. Ground floor office PALMER NATIONAL BANK OF DANVILLE. ILLINOIS CAPITAL, $160,000; SURPLUS, $100,000 M. J. Wolford President Thos. Conron Vice-Pres. H. Bahls Cashier J. E. Walker, Ass’l Cash’r DIRECTORS C. J. Palmer, Edwin Winter, Willy Fowler, C. U. Feld-kamp, H. W. Morehouse, A. L. Webster, Thos. Conron, M. J. Wolford, H. Bahls 133 MEDLEY 16. After supper practice for the Medley play. 17. Pennies thrown in Assembly the 2d hour. Donald Johns is the instigator of the affair. 18. Two spasms by Marvin Medlar. Special music by Alice Sinzabaugh and Madge Olmsted. 1!). Half Semester cards given out. 20. No school. Teachers meeting at Cham- paign. 21. Cross Country race at Ellsworth Park, Danville 11 to West Lafayette 14. Part of American History class goes to Circuit court. 25. Invitations out for Junior-Senior reception. 24. Full dress rehearsal of Senior play. 25. Senior play, “Higbee of Harvard,” given; decided success, lian-cjuet by the cast and stage “huskies” after the performance. All out for vacation. 30. Practice begins on the coming attraction, “Nathan Hale.” “All’s well that ends well.” DECEMBER. 1. The school mourns the loss of Sleepy Holmes. 2. Foot ball pictures taken after school; as usual there is a bunch of “Willies” trying to get their mugs in it. 3. Monthly grades posted. 4. Junior-Senior reception; Miss Chester to Marion Ferris, “It’s my turn next,” Donald Swaim promptly responds----------embarrassment. 7. Indolent pupils begin to count the days before the Christmas vacation. 8. Night practice of Nathan Hale cast. 1). Music rendered by Miss White’s “beauty chorus. 10. George gets oflf from work and comes to see his dear (?) Marvin. 11. Mr. Keeslar speaks to the American History class. Preliminary debate after school. 14. Mr. Jewell directs pupils in the art of sending Christmas presents through the mail. 15. Six more days of school before vacation. 16. George again visits Marvin. Great commotion in Assembly. 17. Margaret Paisley falls from grace (sent from Assembly). Dress rehearsal of Nathan Hale. 18. Nathan Hale given. A great success. 21. A quiet and uneventful day. 22. Ruth Miller begins here favorite study, Geometry three. 23. Music by High School orchestra; girls’ chorus sings. School closes for Christmas vacation. J34 DANVILLE '«!) Ladies’ Tailoring GRADUATION GOWNS A SPECIALTY Mary Frances McCabe 215-17 BAUM BLDG. PHONE 963 DANVILLE, ILL. DON’T SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY Save Part for a Rainy Day • The Fidelity Investment Building Association At 107 North Vermilion m J. W. WEBSTER PAYS COMPOUND INTEREST Secretary Commencement 7 Flowers Vermilion Smith's, lh£ Florists O! O! O! YOU OT-TO TRADE WITH OTTO, Clothier 203 East Main Street, Danville, Illinois If It’s from Fisher’s It’s Good ALBRIGHT IS ALL RIGHT FOR • Drugs • Frank S. Fisher Lyric Bldg. Open All Night. Jeweler NOTICE—STUDENTS AND READERS Buy Your SHOES At The Progress Shoe Store 19 N. Vermilion St., Danville, 111. 117 EAST MAIN They carry a fine line and all the best makes. The Committee. 135 MEDLEY JANUARY, 1909. I. Back in school again after two weeks of enjoyment. Beginning a new year. Only fifteen more clays of this Semester. 5. Reserved scats arc now on sale in the “Hospital” with very few seats remaining, prices moderate and terms easy. (� . Music, and special numbers by Bertha Law and Harriet Pruts- man. 7. Colder in Assembly room than out of doors. No Geometry three recitation, some one raised the window and let in too much fresh air. 8. Nothin’ doin', classes dull and teachers grouchy. 11. Very snowy, splendid “bob weather. 12. Everybody cramming for exams. 13. No music today. Meeting of Seniors concerning pictures and invitations. 14. Senior “bob, very small crowd. 15. Another bob by the elite. ’Tis said some people got “stung,” whatever that is. Dan seems to have lost Ethel. 18. Review in all classes. Exams soon. 19. Note books and collections (?) handed in for American History. 20. Ralph Yeager sitting in front seat in American History class:— “Say, Mrs. Meeks, where shall I write on that test tomorrow?” Mrs. Meeks, “At that table, do any of you know where I can get a high chair? Freshmen bob. 21. Lovely test on Government, in American History! 22. Exemption lists were posted, some people were slightly angered. Schedule for exams posted. 25-26-27. Examinations, a joy to all (?). 28. Report cards given out. (her 33 per cent, of the pupils failed, among them were several Seniors! 29. No school, teachers’ institute. 136 DANVILLE ’09 JOHN A. HALLINEN Tailor and Haberdasher TERMS CASH 114 N. VERMILION ST. ♦)---M AY1S--(♦ CONFECTIONERY THE HOLLAND Soda, Candies, Cigars TELEPHONE 567 Commencement Flowers WE TREAT YOU RIGHT v'l Willius Vy | Th Florist | PHONE 17G. DANVILLE, ILL. 134 North Vermilion Street Cavanaugh Meyer The Young Lady ----and-- The Young Man SHOE STORE 18 N. VERMILION STREET Qpuagl? do. (Elttraiut STEKI, ENGKAVI'IRS ittamtfarturiurt JrutplprgtttTn H4-rilt rhillrr HiUu(Elmaxui 137 MEIM.EY FEBRUARY. 1. Mr. Smith makes special announcement for tliose afflicted with deafness. evv Semester beginning. 2. “Wee” Freshmen unable to find the way out of the building. Beth Swarthout and Arthur Butler, of '05, visit school. 3. Mr. Smith gives account of his past life which is sufficient to inspire the most vacillating. 4. Watch for the new candidates for the hospital. 5. Reception for D. H. S. students, and those of Browns’ Business college, at the First M. E. church. (5. Anyone desiring knowledge in the art of posing inquire of “Prof.” Catlett. 8. The great problem to be solved in Advance Arithmetic class: who is the smartest? 10. All so studious that there is not even time for opening exercises. 11. Championship basketball game. Seniors and Sophomores show Juniors and Freshies how to win. Some unfortunate “wee ones” are compelled to have a hair cut. , 12. Miss Robey entertains the German club. Sophomore party. 15. Many Seniors are greatly relieved after the second final in Physics one. They also seem to be more brilliant now. 138 DANVILLE ’00 WHITE KITCHEN “Eat Place” Quick Lunch Best Coffee Opposite Aetna House 53 N. Vermilion Street WE ARE HEADQUARTERS The largest Flags, Pennants and in city for... Decoratjve Material of All Kinds, at GASTHOFF’S c °ver 21 , _ S. Vermilion Street Member Illinois Society of Engineers FRANK PAYNE Civil Engineer 417-18-19 BRIDGETT BLDG. READERS: HELP THE FELLOWS NEXT YEAR WITH AN “AD” Call on C. SCHATZ The Grocer Phone 537 405 E. Main St. THEO. HULCE, Supt. L. D. GASS, President. HENRY HULCE, Sec’y-Treas’r Danville Buggy Co. Repairs and Rubber Tires Phone 485 Cor. Van Buren St. and Washington Ave. 130 m Enr.EV 16. Another teacher. Miss Wolfen'berger, is added to the Faculty. Miss Chester doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish between the “young foxes.” 17. Rev. Dancey gives a short address on the subject of cheating. Nothing like that in our school. 18. Everything rather dull before the great event of tomorrow. If). One of the best plays of the season. “Tommy’s Wife,” is given in the High School Assembly. TmTw WT 22. Miss Ruth McCracken entertains the Senior class; The members of the Faculty are special guests. 23. Nothing of importance to-day. 24. Rev. S. S. Jones gives an interesting address. 26. Senior girls defeat the Freshmen at basketball by a score of 9 to 3. MARCH. 1. At the first signs of spring, some of the athletes are trying their different stunts. 3. For the first time this Semester we have Assembly singing with orchestra accompaniment. 4. Too busy to celebrate in honor of the new President for everyone is thinking of his monthly grades. 5. Debating team forced to suffer defeat at Kankakee. 8. Certainly is “blue Monday” after our defeat. 9. B. A. A. elects a track manager who expects to begin practice very soon. 140 DANVILLE ’Of Henry J. Bahls Have Your PICTURES FRAMED Save your Pictures, Diplomas, Mottoes and Certificates by having them framed. We give our customers the best possi ble workmanship, the highest grade mouldings, the largest assortments of mouldings to select from, the finest glass made. Prices reasonable. SHEARER ART SHOP 133 North Vermilion SHOES 111 East Main Webster Grocer Co. Wholesale Grocers... DANVILLE, ILLINOIS Plaza Hotel First Class Watch Repairing Fine Engraving JEWELRY JI3 yjEXMILZOJV jSt. DANVILLE. ILLINOIS We Want To Talk It Over with you before you buy your GRADUATION CLOTHES and FURNISHING GOODS Ries Strauss Co. The Home of HART SCHAFFNER and MARX CLOTHES FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS Danville Floral Co. H. A. DUBUIS A. C. BYERLY Sporting Goods of All Kinds Bicycles, Fishing Tackle 311-317 N. Vermilion St. tlr 149 N. VERMILION ST. DANVILLE . ILLINOIS MEDLEY 10. “Parents’ day” to-day. Literary societies choose contestants for the annual contest to be held in May. 11. Senior play anticipated. 12. Our most eloquent orators show the Urbana fellows what it is to debate, and incidentally get some pointers themselves. 13. The Senior and Sophomore girls for the second time succeeded in defeating the Juniors and Freshmen at basketball. Who will get the championship? 15. Track work begins to-day. All athletes are asked to report for practice. 1 . Upon the resignation of the '()!) class president, Fra Jones, Beryl Jones is chosen to guide us through remainder of our High School life. 17. St. Patrick’s Day; From the green worn, we must have several Irish students. “Say Kid, is snoring sheet music?” 18. Subscription blanks passed out for the Medley. All the live ones subscribed; from the number of subscribers there must be several dead ones in school. 1!). Seniors are compelled to suffer defeat at hands of the proud Juniors by a score of 18 to 7. But Basket Ball season isn’t over yet. 22. The DePauw Glee Club gives several delightful selections in the H. S. Assembly. Professor Rufus Barnard VonKleinsnied of DePauw addresses Assembly. Mr. S. C. Sayers visits school; Also Inez Gass. 24. Singing in the Assembly by Mrs. White. Conron:—“Why do you carry her picture in your watch?” Wolford:—“Because she is bound to love me in time, besides that puts a woman in the case.” 25. Mrs. H. Y. Mercer beg:ns the direction of the Semi-chorus. 2fi. Last Basket Ball Game of seaso’n, Senior-Sophomore team defeats the Junior-Freshman team. 2i). Some of the students are working faithfully on the farce. “His Lordship the Burglar,” which is to be given next Friday night. 143 DANVILLE 00 F. M. GUSTIN Livery and Boarding Stables Cabs and Carriages for Funerals Weddings and Calls Furnished on Short Notice . . 33-35 N. WALNUT ST. PHONE 192. DANVILLE, ILL. WEBBER TURNELL Jpuirlrra 22 N. VERMILION STREET DANVILLE-------------ILLINOIS B. L. HOWELL BICYCLES BICYCLES REPAIRED Fishing Tackle Athletic Goods 27 NORTH STREET The Owen Raney Drug Co. 48 VERMILION ST. DANVILLE, ILL. CAPITAL, $200,000.00 SURPLUS, $300,000.00 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY irrmtii National lank OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS -------------------------------- OFFICERS ---------------------------- M E. KING----------------------------------------------- President A. R. SAMUELS Vice-President and Cashier T. E. BRISON________________________________________ Assistant Cashier u:s MKDI.KY 30. Don't lose hope Juniors, for you will be given a grand reception in the near future. 31. Mildred:—“Why do you always kiss me twice? Jake:—“Why, the first kiss makes me feel like another man; and I have to treat the other man. APRIL. 1. Why won’t the desk hell ring? Then Miss Chester takes the extra supply waste paper out of it. 2. Athaneum literary program given. “Your wicked words have touched my kind heart. “Which Fox was which?” 3. The usual crowd of 11. S. students at the afternoon Lyric performance. Robinson:— ‘1 can trace my ancestors back to the Kith century; what do you think of that?” Sanford:—“They traced one of my ancestors to New York once and then they lost track of him, they may get him yet. 4. Practice begins for the second senior play “The Village Post-office.” Fatty Craft still worrying about a date for the big dance the Kith. 5. Deam Dague walks to school with Mildred Mater. Wonder where Jake was?” “Did you notice the little blonde, with bangs, who visited school to-day ?” Johns:—“What do you know about music?” Swallow:—“I know every bar from the Wabash tracks to the square. Did you see the smile on “Fatty’s” face this morning, he surely must have a date for the dance.” 7. The School Board obtains a coach for the track team ; better late than never. M-S DANVILLE ‘on CRAFT’S TRANSFER CO. INTERURBAN STATION PHONE 452 Baggage, Parcels Light Freight Transferee! QUICK DELIVERY DANVILLE, ILLINOIS GAMMEL LEWMAN Okna'ni mth laki'rs 124 N. Vermilion St. Phones 956 and 957 COOK WITH GAS Ten thousand house keepers in Danville now using gas stoves consider them more economical than any other stoves. We can sell the best range made for $ 1 4 Danville Street Ry. Light Co. 4 West Main Street MEDLEY Maroon and White out, an excellent edition. 10. A worthy member of the Senior Class is joined in the holy bonds of matrimony. 12. Cameron says: it isn't half as bad to have the pink-eye; when your lady friend is real considerate and turns out the lights.” 13. Helene Barger gets a date for the dance at last. “Alias, Fatty Craft gets stung.” Maroon and White elects staff for 1009-1910. 14. The sunshine at last. How much wood would a Wood-chuck chuck, if a Wood-chuck would chuck wood? 15. All is well. “'1'he child still lives.” 10.—Matthews:—“1 can't study for thinking of the dance to-night; I’m glad I got that date.” 17. Inter-class meet, won by Freshmen, Mathis somewhat swelled on himself. 19. Between 50 and 100 absent on account of not having, (or forgetting) their vaccination certificate (most forgetting on purpose). 20. City election; a heavy rain; several absences again to-day. 21. Too bad that Matthews beat Morgan to his date for the “Senior-Junior.” 22. Dress rehearsal for the Senior play. 23. Senior play given a great financial success and ’tis hoped a theatrical one. 24. U. of I. Preps clean up D. H. S. in a track and field meet. “Jackson and Cameron get derbys,” Shorty says lie’s agoin’ to get one. H(i DANVILLE 09 FURNAS ICE CREAM A I NY Color or Design—Mousse, Frappe, Fruit Ices, Frozen Punches, Frozen Puddings, Liquid Punches, French and Italian Creams, Plain and Combination Brick, Banquet Roll, Individuals in forms of Flowers, Fruits, Animals, Figures, Etc. ALL FRUIT CREAMS FLAVORED WITH THE FRUIT Telephone 710 Office and Factory 108-110 WASHINGTON AV. 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I am sorry to state that Ferris is fast losing out with the new Junior girl; whose beauty and grace have attracted the attention of most every youth in school. 30. Senior-Junior reception given. The best in the history of the High School. Southworth gets on State Oratorical finals from 1st in preliminary at Dement. Calendar turned over to the humorous editor of the “10 Medley; both of the Foxes, in other words the well known humorus debaters. 148 DANVILLE ' « MATER TRY ...The Tailor... Johnson Drug Store NEXT TIME Clothes Don’t Make the Man, But they Help Make the Successful One. Suits $18 to $50 18 East Main Street YEOMANS SHEDD C. J. BRITTINGHAM Haberdasher Hardware OF ALL KINDS and Hatter DANVILLE :: :: :: ILLINOIS SHIRTS Made To Measure 50 VERMILION ST. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS Capital, $300,000; Surplus Fund, $100,000. Established in 1863. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. C. L. ENGLISH______________ President E. R E. KIMBROUGH______Vice-President L. D. GASS ___________________Cashier C. P. NELSON _______Assistant Cashier ------------------------ DIRECTORS -------------------- D. W. Bell, E. R. E. Kimbrough, John L. Tincher, C. L. English, L. D. Gass, O. A. McFarland i4n MEDLEY To One and All “If you don't receive a roast Do not boast, You don't deserve the brains And the pains It takes to write a verse Bad or worse. And you who get a roast Do not boast, You're not the sweetest gum drop In the shop. We gave YOU folks a place To fill up space.” 150