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

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Ft. Dodge, Iowa. May 9, 1929. Dear Alumni of D. C. H. S.: Another commencement time is drawing near, and no doubt all other alumni as well as myself, have been looking forward to receiving the 1929 Alumni Annual. Upon receipt of a letter from the Editor-in4Chief this week, I was thrilled by the thought that our annuals were ready for us, and that the letter must be a reminder to please re- mit. Upon investigating, however, I found instead, a request for a contribution to its pages. This finds me rather at a loss to know what to write. If I lived in the far west, or in the east, or some other remote section of the country, as do some of our alumni I might tell you of the delight- ful climate of California, the great industries of the east. But located as I am within ninety miles of the home town, with conditions, atmospheric and otherwise, much the same here as there, I fear. there is little of interest to write. However, I will say for myself, and I believe, for all other aluml living at a distance, that we en- joy the annual and appreciate the tireless efforts of those at home in keeping up this good work. For some of us it is the only time that we hear from many of our old school friends. It is with great interest that we read of the success of those who have gone-out from our Alma Mater into fields of service, be the calling great or small. It is 'gratifying indeed to see how the list of alumni grows-over three hundred now, I believe. and to find so many sons and daughters of early graduates among the number. Ft. Dodge has been our home now for eighteen years. We have always found it a pleasant place in which to live, and while it is not a large city- about 27,000 inhabitants-it is one of the fines-t of its size anywhere. We have a fine system of public schools, also a two year Junior College, which is fully accredited. This year we will graduate ten students from the college, and one hundred seventy from high school. The leading lndustry of Fort Dodge is the man- ufacture of gypsum products. such as plaster, plas- ter board, fi-re proof partition blocks, etc. Large deposits of gypsum rock are found here, and there are fine large mills engaged in its manufactu-re. Fort Dodge has been known as the Gypsum City as it is the largest producer of gypsum products in the world. ' Situated on the Des Moines River, there are many scenic spots and delightful drives in and near Fort Dodge. To tae south is the beautiful Dolllve-r Memorial Park, named for the late Senator J. P. Dolliver. Here are found deep ravines, lime stone and ciopperas beds, Woodman's Hollow, Bone- yard I-lollow , and the picturesque Prai-rie Creek. Not far from here is Wild Cat Cave. If any of you are planning a short motor trip this summer, we invite you to come to Fort Dodge. With greetings to you all, and good wishes for our Alma Mater. . Sincerely Yours. Ada Hallowell Rule '99. Dow Citq Alumni Annual 43 Clark, S. D., May 1st, 1929 Dear Alumni: If I didn't enjoy the Annual so much every year. I'n1 afraid I Would' object 'to writing this letter, as Mr. Walters requested, but lt ls so nice for 'the older members to be able to receive an annual and keep track of their classes as they soon drift so far apart. So I believe we should do our bit to help those that have the responsibility of printing the annual. We live in Dakota on a 480-acre farm, and it keeps us very busy but we farm much bigger farms here than they do there. We have prospects for a very good crop this year, if we have plenty of rain and sunshine. We are all well and happy, we have the nicest size family, two boys and two girls and of course we think they are some of Dakota's best kiddies. This country is very pretty. very level and lots of trees, lakes everything a person could wish for to have a nice home. This country is changing as every land changes. They do not raise as much small grain now, they are growing more corn and diversifying their farming. M-ost every farmer owns a tractor as the land is so level they can use them with such good advantage. In the fall we have thirtylone days of sport for the men, hunting pheasants wealthy men from many cities come to this country to spend their vacation. hunting, fishingand bathing They are killing off so many pheasants that they will be more strict with their laws. Wexget many fish, in the spring but we don't cane for them later in the season. We have one lake called Medicine Dake, it is peculiar, many people go there to bathe, for skin diseases they believe it heals 'many diseases it ha so many different minerals that vegetation will not grow around it. Your body has a white subsance all over lt after bathing. There are several alumni peoplehere around Clark, Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Charles McHenry, Hudson McHenry Joe and myself. We all live within ten miles of each other and there are so many people here that we have heard of from down there, that we could have,a real Iowa celebration some time. ' The Black Hills is a beautiful place. Sometime when you plan a trip, you just take the trail to the Black Hills and I know you will think it worth while. We were there three years ago and such nice scenery. I never imagined it so pretty and when you get that far just go east awhile until you come to a sign Clark then call Joe Smlth's resl- dence and see what a welcome you will get as we are always more than glad to see anybody from home. Well in closing I don't think this letter is worth printing but if you have extra space you can fill ln with it. We are both planning on coming home for' the alumni banquet and are hoping to see a big crowd. I do hope the biggest banquet we have ever had. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Joseph R. Smith.

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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

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14 Dow Cihg Alumni Annual Weston, Neb., May 7, 1929. Dear Alumnl Members: When I received Mr. Walters' request that I write to the annual I wondered what I could say that would be of any interest to others. I do wlsh to eictend my congratulations to the Class of '29. 'llhougfhts of their Commencement bring back the memory of my own eight years ago. How slowly time seemed to drag by when were tempted away from the class room. Now we find the duties of home and family involved upon us and we wonder w'here the time has gone. We are located about fifty miles west of Omaha ln a very beautiful part of the state. Our highways are good and we have a wonderful trip back to Iowa. The school here ls rather small but there are stlll the numerous school activities. The basket ball team played some good games and last fall the high school gave the operetta Polished Pebbles. I wonder how many of my classmates and others remember the hours of practice we put on lt bask home. Yes, it stlll seems home to a certain ex- tent even though we do build our homes in different parts of the country. We are going to spend this summer ln Iowa and both Cecll and I are looking forward to attending the banquet and renewing friendslhlps that were established during our school days. Slncerely,. Bernice Jackson Talcott '21. Alumni News Items Dorothy Mae Thomas '28 was unlted ln marriage to Glenn R. Cook. July 8 at the M. E. Church ln Dow Clty Tsliy are resldlng ln Councl Bluffs. atherlne Fredrlckson '28, ls a student at Des Moines Unlverslti where she ls taking a grlmary course. Marie 'ggers '26, became the rlde of Fred Kruse of ggnlson, Fe ruary 26th. They are llvlng on a farm near n son. Irma Tggvn '27tattended Pasadena Junior Cpllege ln Callforna e gas year. On June 8th lss Norene Allen '27, was united ln mar- riage to Amherst Anderson '25, at T. E. Allen home. An y ls teaxhlng ln the McCook hlgh school at which place they are making their home. dllrollix Poltevln '28 ls attending Simpson College at In- ano a. Thos. Rule, 26 and wlfe are the proud parents of a baby girl. Mabel '28 and Ruth Scott. '28 and Robert Sharp '26 Bernice Bremser '26 and Donald Allen '27 attended owa State at Ames the past year. Mlss Fern James '27 ls planning to teach ln Arizona next year. January 28th Ruth Eggers '27 was married to Richard Schultz of Arlon. The young couple are making their home on a farm near Arlon. The following Alumni are teaching in the rural schools about Dow Clty. Loverna Coleman '28, Wana Anderson '27 Vlvlan Marr '27, Lura Winn '28, Marie Eggers '27 Martha Best '27 and Marie Mayths '27. Mabel Egfgers '27 was united ln marriage to Herman -Carstens o Ida Grove on October 24, they are llvlng with his folks. Genevlve Blrkhofer '26 was married ln Denison on Feb- ruary 12, to Ernest Buff from Mlssourl. They are mak- ing heir home ln Oklahoma. Jullan Pearsall '24 recently underwent an operation for anoendlcltls at the Carrol Hospital. Flora Aberhardt of '24 ls now employed at the Dr. J. V. Walvord home ln New York Clty. Inez Nlchelson '24 has undergone an operation ln Council Bluffs and Rochester. It ls with a great deal of regret that we chronicle the Pearl Blrkhofer Tech. '24 and husband. The llttle one the death of the infant daughter. Margerle Ann, of was born January 2. '29 and lived but a few hours. Nelson Thomas '25 ls employed ln Chicago. Eldered of '25 ls employed by the Western Unlon Telegraph Company. Leota Tripp '25, Francis Judd '25, Mary Carson '25 Bethel Wlght Newoom '25 Mildred Remls 24 are num- bered among our rural teachers. Relatives of Neva Crandall Doser have received the announcement of the engagement of her daughter Lots. the wedding to be an event of the early summer, Neva's :son J. E. ls a. member of the 1929 graduatlng class at Atascerado. California, where the family resldes. Neva graduated ln the class of 1905 from D. C. H. Friends of Rena Brake McBride of class of '06 will be sorry to hear that her husband L. E. McBride has been ln poor health and was confined to a hospital for a time He ls reported to be able to be at his work again. Stel a Butler Collier '06 arrived from New York City recently and ls vlsltlng her mother Mrs. Dan Butler near Arlon. She expects to go to South America soon to join her companion. Mabel Sharp Haworth '06 has purchased the farm south of town onnerly owned by her father, Brlnton Sharp. She moved there with her 3 children last leer. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrongbof Waterloo have ta en a baby boy into their home y adoption. Mrs. Armstrong was Olga Wiggins of the Class of '06. A ba y daughter, Elizabeth Anne was born to Alfreda Gloe Page and husband September 3, at Alpena South Dakota. Alfred was a member of the class of '07. Dalsy Robinson Householder '07 of Safford Arizona 'stopped here last winter and was entertained at the Hugh Butterworth home for several days. She had been at ndlanapolis to attend a Legion Auxiliary Convention to which she was a delegate. During her stay here Mr. and Mrs. Butterworth entertained t e members of the class of '07 with their wives and husbands. There were four members absent. Mrs. Grace Chase of '09 will soon move to the home of her brother Horace Thomas to make a home for htm and his infant son. Classmates and friends of Edna Fritz Ahrens '09 will be pleased to learn that she and her husband are suc- cessfully engaged ln the grocery business at New Ulm. Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. William Znbllka and two children are living at Onawa where the former has a nastorate. Mrs. Ziabllkei vggl be remembered as Sylvia McColl of the c ass o ' . Mrs. Roy Calvert of Genoa. Nebr. formerlv Ferns But- ler of class of '09 spent several days at Arlon wlth her mother Mrs. L. C. Butler during the illness and death of her father tn March. Hugh Butterworth '07 ls located at Beatrice, Nebr.. where his family expects to joln htm for a permanent h m afte sch l 1 . o e r oo coses Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wilder have recently purchased a home ln Hanpv Hollow at Omaha. Nebr. Morris was the onlv bov ln the class of '09. Herbert Butterworth of the class of '21 has' recently joined the U. S.Army and ls stationed at Omaha. On Web. 25. occurred the marriave of Ruth Judd '21 to Mr. Theodore Mohr of Chicago. They are residing at 1811 Junewav Terrace. Chicago, Ill. Cecil Talcott '23 and Bernice Jackson Talcott '21 of Weston. Nehr are the proud parents of a son, Marvin Cecil bom November 20. A damrhter. Jane Marllyn was born Oct. 9 to Louis Buss '21 and Faye Acker Buss '22. Helen Jackson who has been teaching ln Rembrant. Iowa was re-elected with a raise in salary. member of the class of '18. A son Eugene came to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson. October 24, Mrs. Anderson was Ruby Keslrnes of the class of '2l. Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Thomas of Tynsboro. Mass ex- pects to vlslt in Dow City this summer. They will com- plete thelr work at the Boston Theological School in June and plan to work ln the Des Moines conference rlm-ine the coming year. Lauren was' a member of the class of '18. Mr. and Mrs. Will Seeman and family moved from Minneapolis to Fargo. N. D. where Mr. Seeman holds the bosltlon of collecting manager over the states of Mon- tana, North and -South Dakota, working for the Wood Bros. Thr-esher Co. Mrs. Seeman will be remembered as Banche Wise of '96. Jennie Talcott Burress '01 ls located near Woodbine. She has four daughters, one teaching, one married, one a Junior and one ln the grades. Miss Bessie Hawk, daughter of Ingy McCall Hawk '00 is attending the University of Minnesota. Catherine Clow, daughter of Svlvla Clow '00 ls now teaching piano at the Omaha University. Luel a Crandall Davls '95 retumed to her home fn Omaha about Mav 1 from a very interesting trip to Wash flngton. D. C. where she acted as page to the past nat- ional officers in the national congress of the D. A. R.. In some localities they have studied what ls known as better vlslon week. Miss Roy Hearty lndorsss this move- ment and being of a progressive turn of mlnd has gone Helen ls a