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

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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

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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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12 Dow Citu Alumni Annual thirty miles east of Los Angeles. This must have been the route for your letter. Dow City to Omaha by mall train: Omaha to Oakland, California who alr port for San Francico Bay cltiesg Berekeley is one of the cltlesl by air mail, Oakland to Berkeley by train, through the Berkeley post office forwarding department for re-addressing, back to Oakland or over the Bay to San Francisco by train and boat, down to Los Angeles 1500 milesj by air mall, out to Pomona by train and then to me by the carrier for residence delivery. Three days for such a trip when one day is Sunday ls surely very rapid transit, don't you agree? Well, anyway, the reqest is nere and lt has precipitated such a flood of pleasant mem- ories about my boyhood associations in Dow City, that I am at a sheer loss as to the place to begin and I also feel the lack of the sense of relative lm- portance of the memories as t-hey panorama before my mlnd's eye. 'Such great, GREAT, changes--children have become mnddle aged adults and assumed tne re- sponlbllltnes of homes, tamllies and private and public enterprises, the middle aged and active have passed to tne Great Beyond or they are impotent and retired because of age, a generation ot young people and children have been born and play upon the old spot-no, not the same old spot, for even the contour of the landscape has been c-hanged fthe old river dredged and its course changed, highways changed to new locations, old landmarks like bridges, trees and houses goneg new bridges, fine trees and modern homes and lnstltutlons in their placesl ln the past thirty-five years thirty-three of which have flltted past since my class graduated from the old four room frame structure we knew as the high school, the grammar school, the whole school. l could hardly believe my eyes when I visited old Dow City seven years ago and looked upon the new brick school building and the trees, the trees! l on the school ground, in the 'city park and around the town ln gene-ral. I just had not taken the growth of trees into my consxd- eratlon prior to the visit. To you who llve among these constantly changing surroundings the changes are not so apparent or not until they are mentioned Human nature take evolution for granted and they should, they must, what else can human be?ngs do? The short time near the new lnew to mej band stand with some of the old friends and high school graduates in the city park with my mother and me seven years ago on our visit, I have recalled with much pleasure upon many occasions. I wish I could enjoy another such. How silly! I ramble on -but the memories come in floods and the faces- Asa Dow, your mother, George and Thomas Rae, Clair Butterwort-h, Ben Heath, Rena and Vera Dow, Aunt Maggie Talcbtt and her Bennie and Wil. son, Mott McHenry, Uncle Morris and Aunt Mary Mc-Henry, Dr. Evans, Don Talcott, Fred Butler, Robert Bell, Henry Bell, May Bell, George Brake, Harry Huntington Starr Goddad and-on and on and on! All gone! With man-y, many, many others. I think of whole families broken and gone-Bell, Howorth, Rae, Talcott, Vore, Hammond. Scott. Riddle, Baber. McHenry-and on. and on, again! Isn't lt appalling what is wrought in the span of years? But, the end of the sheet. The best of wishes to you and old friends. Guy V. Waley, '96. 587 Vinton Avenue. Detroit, Mich., April 30, 1929. Mrs. D. E. Bremser, Dow City, Iowa. Dear Alma: Yours via air mail at hand, though two days is not such swift flying after all ls it? My greetings to the Dow City Alumni this time come from the Hub of the Automobile World. Thi-x ls my second year of teaching ln Detroit: and though I have not yet become personally acquaint- ed with Henry Ford nor with the General Motors, I have found most delightful people here. My work is ln Southeastern High school over on the east side. near Belle Isle in the Detroit river. This island has been made into a most beautiful city park connected by a splendid bridge with the clty proper. Michigan is very progressive along educational lines and every Detroiter feels that he is a joint owner in Michigan University. This makes school conditions of the best. I wish I might bring each one of you some of the beautiful wild flowers in our woods just nowg the hepatica, the wee May flower, and the fragrant trailing arbfutus. I do wish the best of success for the coming year for each and all of the Alumni, old and new. Sincerely, Jean W. Rae, 2619 Cass Avenue. Tynsborough, Mass. May 8, 1929. Dear Alumni of D. C. H. S.: I send greetings to one and all. I welcome with all the other members of the Association the Class of 1929. I am about to complete my fourth year's work In Boston University School of Theology. I have enjoyed my experience ln the East very much. Among the many places of interest which I have visited are the Bunker Hill Monument, Lexington Commons, Concord and the Concord Bridge, Ply- mouth Rock, the Old North Church, Provincetown and the White Mountains, If you ever have the opportunity to travel in the eastern part of our country I think you will find it well worth your while to do so. I am now the pastor of a Congregational chu-rch in this small New England village. I expect to leave here within a few months and make my way westward to take up my work in my chosen pro- fesslon. I wish it were possible for me to attend the Alumni banquet but since it is not, I wish those of you who can attend the very happiest evening of fellowship. Sincerely, Lauren D. Thomas, '18