Dow City High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Dow City, IA)

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fo Dow Citq Alumni Annual Alpena, S. D.. 1 April 28, 1929. To All the Dear Friends and Alumni of the Dow City High School: When William Walters, editor-in-chief of the alumni annual for 1929, wrote asking me for a con- tribution I thought, Well I simply can't write any- thing worth while. Then I thought of the many letters and all the news which I have read and en- joyed through the annual these many years and I missed it the year it was not published. so I am writing from the heart tonight when I say Thank You to everyone who hasmade the Dow City Alumni Annual possible from year to year. First of all I want to send greetings and very best wishes to the Class of 1929 and welcome you to our Alumni Association. ' Next I want to send greetings to all the mem- bers of my old Class of 1907. So fa-r as I know our ranks have not been broken by death. As I think of each one and call you by name I think of the many happy and busy times we had together in our old high as lt used to be. Then my mind wanders to our dear Miss Newman and Professor Kies and I wish very much that I could see you all and talk of high school days. I should have liked to have seen Daisy Robinson Householder when she was visiting in Dow City this spring. .Since graduating in 1907 .I have taught school for seven years ln Iowa, 'South Dakota and o.ne year in Idaho. . I came to South Dakota with my folks about eighteen years ago and have resided in Dell Rapids, Bradley and Alpena. I think South Dakota a great state with its wonderful climate and vast resources. 'I love my home and spend a great deal of time in lt. My husband and I take great comfort and delight ln our small daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born last September. We spend quite a lot of time doing church work, singing in the choir, teac-hing classes in the Sunday School and I have had a class the past two years in the Week Day Religious School. X Our town is la small one, but we like. the people and have spent many happy, busy and interesting days here. I often wonder about Mrs Heath and Mrs. Royce. Surely would like to hear from them or about them some timej They were very good to me when I stayed in thelr home when I first started to. high school. Many pleasant faces pass before me as I think 'ol' those high school days and there are many peo le D I could thank for making my life better and happier. Perhaps some day I may be able to attend one of the alumni banquets and meet many of you face to face. With apologies to Wi'liam D. Nesbit I can't help but write these words as they come to my mindz' ' Your school and my school! ' I And. oh how much lt means, In your life and my life, To recall our school day scenes. - ' Q With the very best of wishes to you all and your families, I remain ever true to our old Alma Mater. . , Sincerely, Alfreda Gloe Page '07. Waterloo, Iowa, April 29, 1929. Dear Editor: ' , My experience as a writer is rather limited, so I hope you will not be disappointed if this letter doesn't come up to your expectations. You cannot expect a very great manuscript from a dumb sock like me. You asked me to 'give an account of my- self for the past few years. Here is the confession: I have spent the greater part of my time since leaving high school, at Iowa State College studying a mechanical engineering course. As a college, I can- not recommend Iowa State too highly. At present Dow 'City hasta good representation there, and I hope some of the Class of '29 will enter next fall. I con- sider my time at Iowa State well spent. ' I have not been fortunate enough to spend all of my time in college, but have had to drop out sev- eral times on account of being broke. I am out again this spring quarter. H-owever, I will return to school again next fall. and if some professor doesn't interfere I will get my degree next spring. At present If am working in the engineering depart- ment of the John Deere Tra.ctor Co. and find the work very lIlt8 6S'l'.l1Il2 and agreeable. If a person doesn't do much, lt does not take him long to account for- what he -has done. I have accounted -for all I have done since I left Dow City in a few sentences. l I would like to attend the Alumni banquet this spring, but I'm afraid i-t will be an impossibility. Be sure to send me an annual. ,The annual and a chain letter which our class has, is about the only means I have of finding out what D. C. H. S. Alumni are doing. ' ' Extending my heartiest congratulations to the Class of '29, and wishing you all the best of luck, I remain. X Q A Yours Very Truly, I M Merlin Hansen. 503 W. First Street, -...., Gravity, Iowa, , April 22, 1929. Dear Al'umni 'and Friends: I will try and do my little part for the annual thisyear as the editor asked for a letter. Since women who do work, not as maids but as wives and mothers, are not recognized by U. S. cen- sus as being occupied one sometimes feels that a farmer's wife hasn't anything to do or write about. I' think though there ls much to be done. We live on a 'rented two hundred acre farm eight miles northwest of Gravity, and are about twenty miles from the state line of Missouri. How- ever we were not far enough south to escape' the cold winter and snow. The seasons here are about two weeks earlier than in central Iowa, this is especially notlceablefin the tall. This spring there doesn't seem to be any beginning for field work still one inust he able to look beyond the dark days when the rain comes ,down endlessly and see the loveliness just waiting to come.

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w mm, q g Dow Citq Alumni Annual 9 At the game the Santa Clara section fired a 2'1-gun salute with a toy pistol and sang the Corn Song for him. We attend all the football games we can get to handily being at the California vs. S-tanford game of 100,000 people and the Southern California vs. California of 65,000 and the Stanford vs. Washing- ton game of 50,000. We are only flfty miles from Frisco and forty- two from Oakland and thlrtysseven from the coast and llve ln the center of the Bay district and so we go plenty and can enjoy the wonders of California. I have been on the fire department since 1920. We have two little boys, Ad and Theron, 5 and 3 respectively and Elbert Goodard who graduated from San Jose N. S. last June. Elbert at the pres- ent time is recovering from a bad auto accident. Say Billy: How many of the boys of our time do you -suppose remember the football game we played with Misouri Valley H. S. and they run In Pip Cools of Nebraska and that big giant from Fort Dodge that run over Professor Kles and knocked him goofy. We sure did take some beating that day. But we will never forget that game we played with Coon Rapids that ended 5 to outweighed 0 in defeat. As you know we were about twenty to the man but we put up a whale of a game and had all the crowd with us. If you remember at about that time we trimmed Denison in nearly everything. track, football, and baseball, and even the girls cnould Out Razz? fthem. Of course we could talk all day recalling the Old Times and H. S. events and then not tell half. Nette and I send Greetings to the Class of 1929. Also our best wishes to the classes of 1906 and 1907 and Professor Kies and Mrs. Watson nee Miss Newman. Your old classmates '06'. R. H. Flshel. Letters From Our Alumni Willard, Col-orado, April 12, 1929. Dear Mr. Walters: I am very glad to send greetings to the Class of 1929 and would like to be at t-he graduation if I can find it possible. There lsn't much to tell about myself except that I have been science instructor and coach of the Willard High School for the past two years. My boy.s basket ball team won the county championship cup last year and the county tournament cup this year, w-hile my girls' team won the position of run- nerslup in the county for both years. It makes a fellow feel that he has accomplished something after all. I can remember the time when I used to wonder what a teacher did with their spare time and now I have found out. What I thouglht would be an easy poslt'on has turned out to be one of t-he most nerv-e-racklng jobs I ever tackled. The teacher doesn't have any spare time to waste. Almost everv evening is spent in some klnd of school activity and the work never seems to be done. The worst feeling comes when your team has tied for the county cham- pionship and then an extra period has to be played. One walks around ln circles with a sick feeling ill the region of his stomach. But the contact with youth makes it all worth while. There is no product of nature that is more interesting than the growing high school boy or glrl. Each has his or her individual differences that makes what they are. I've learned more about the reasons I had for disliklng teachers than I could have in any other way. For the benefit of the Class of 1922 and the Alumni Directory, I am announcing that I wlll be at North Bend, Nebraska, as coach and instructor for the coming year. Success to the graduating Class of 1929. Lynn D. Talcott, '22. . Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, April 16. 1929. Dear Willie: When I received your letter and discovered its contents, I wondered why you should select me from Class of '14, to contribute to the annual. Surely there must be otlfers from the class whose exper- ience since graduation, are much more thrilling to relate. But since I have done very little for the alumni fend pemhaps that is the very reason I have been askedll shall not refuse your request. When I ,realize that it was thirteen years ago I came to Omaha to become a shining light, it seems impossible yet many thing have happened since then. I left Dow City in the fall of 1916. entering Van Sant's School of Business and after finishing the course, took my first stenograpohic position with the Bell Telephone Company. From there I was trans- ferred to the Western Electric Company where I remained for three years. Looking for new fields I procured a position with the K-B Printing Company and was employed there until, as you remember, Bernice was taken from us during the flu epidemic, following the World War. I went back to Dow City where I remained for a month or more and upon my return to Omaha was married to Walter Finch, pur- chasing agent for Swlift and company. Many joys have come to us as well as sorrows and we have felt life, thus far, has been kind. We have two children, a girl and boy, of whom we are very proud we have many friends and ac- quaintances: and good health has now come to us all and surely this should be ample. It is most fitting, I presme at this time. to send my best wishes to the Class of 1929 and, as I have a nephew, George Alexander, graduating, I am the more serious in wrlshing them well. To my own Class of 1914, as well as the entire alumni I send greetings. Sincerely, Besse Alexander Finch, '14, 3060 So. 31st St eet.

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Dow Citq Alumni Annual if Our two girls have just finished their third and first year in school and are ready to enjoy their summer vacation. Their greatest attractions be- ing a baby brother and a Shetland pony, who has her ups and downs and many lessons to be learned. One like to think that children are the strongest bonds in a home, though in these days it would al- most seem they are not. But I am writing more particularly of those who have no little ones to bind them. There are-golden opportunities for most of us who live in the country in winter. Hours in which we may lay aside our material work and renew ac- quaintances with the greatest men and women of the world through their writings: hours when we travel in many lands, among many people to learn that the human heart knows much the same long- ings, hopes and ambitions. As I gather eggs and feed little chickens, I pause and look across the country toward the dis- tant town. Hungry calves and lambs call to me but above their songs ring the words of Emerson: Thou true land lord! Sea lord! Air lord Who could be more favored than me of the wide spaces? I should enjoy being with the alumni and the new members this year, but the lat-e season made that thought vanish. X . Wishing the annual and Dow City High school success. Yours Truly. Mrs. Balbina Potter Brady. Mercedes, Texas. I April 30, 1929. Mrs. D. E. Bremser, Dow City, Iowa. Dear Allie: . Your letter by air just received and I'm glad to respond to your request asking for a contributlen t0 our 1929 Annual. It has brought afresh pleasant memories of the dear old school days of long ago and my graduation of '99 and too of 192-4 when I had the pleasure og seeing my daughter, Inez graduate from the dee-I' old school. - I now live in the Magic Valley of South Texas, near the banks of the lower Rio Grande where Uncle Sam meets Mexico, and flowers bloom the year around. the statefy palm branches are ever wafted by the soft cooling breezes of the Gulf of Mexico. In our Magic Valley we have miles and miles of paved roads, lined with palms and ever blooming oleanders and groves of o-ranges, grape- fruit,'beaut1ful fields of waving corn, cotton and vegetables of almost all conceivable variety, cities every few miles with magnificent schools and churches. I now have two doughters in the Edin- burg I.n-dependent High school. This indeed, is as the name applies, Magic Valley, and is a veritable paradise. Ore of our old classmates of '96, A. J. Mc'Ca'l,i': now in the Valley and has spent many years pioneer- ing, the result of which is seen on every hand by the beautiful homes, citrus groves and the develop- ment of our cities throughout the Valley. With our water port at Point Isabelle and air- port at Brownville and 'a massive net work of rail- roads makes our Magic Valley one of the most desir- able places in which to live. Wit-h best wishes to yourself and greetings to all alumni. :Sincerely Yours, Anna Walters Nicholeson. Q 1552 Arthur Ave., W Chicago, Ill Dear Alumni: This is a beautiful morning here ln Chicago. 'Spring has come to the city and made wonderful changes. Long rows of apartment houses lose that stiff, lonesome look as the beautiful sh-rubbery grows to make things look more comfortable and home- like. Street after street of cottages make one real- ize t-hat there really are home lovers in such a big city. Q Of course there are the sort of people one reads about, the slum element, the gunmen, the painted shop girl. the old men and women whose lives haven't been lived as they should have been, and all the other story types: but here in this great city one also finds folks like he knew at home. Really people are the same-there are so many more here that one needs to look at all types instead of pick- ing out one and saying, There's the man of Chi- cago for you. The people I meet-in my work are friendly peo- ple, for the most part they are kind and consider- ate. After one has found the nice people and has made some friends he discovers thart although things are strange and different, home is where one and one's work are. If any of you are ever in Chicago while we are here, come and see us: will go to see Fleld's Mus- eum, tfhe Art Gallery, the Zoos in the big parks, the great Flower Gardens and Conservatories and all the interesting places Chicago boasts of. , , ' il hope the Alumni banquet will be the biggest and best ever this year. Sincerely, Evelyn Buss Nelson, '25. 1552 Arthur Ave., l Pomona, Calif., f April 30, 1929. Mrs. Alma Bnemser, Dow City, Iowa. J Dear Friend Allie: ' Your air-mail letter of request arrived at thiS destination this afternoon. You will possibly be surprised at this address and this delay but t-he address explains t-he delay. I was surprised at the short time your letter was in transit because of the lack of a street address for Berkeley. Your letter CI received it this afternoon about 12:30 o'clock,J is post marked at Dow City, 12:30 p. m. April 29. Pomona is about 500 miles south of Berkeley and