Edwardsville High School - Tiger Yearbook (Edwardsville, IL)

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TTMTE TIfiEl CHAPTERS Chapter I Administration Chapter 11 Senior Album Chapter III Underclassmen Chapter IV Sports Chapter V Organizations Chapter VI Features

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 TIME TINS EM THIRD COURT HOUSE IN EDWARDSVILLE This building, although the third court house of Madison County, was the first one of a substantial and more expensive type. Its construction was brought about chiefly through the efforts of the late Judge Eaton, who became a strong advocate of a new building after the accidental loss of some valuable papers as a result of the inadequacy of the court house then in use, a two-story brick structure. The original building, consisting of the larger part in the center of the picture, was completed in 1857 at a cost of approximately thirty-five thousand dollars. The smaller portion on the right was added some years later. EIGHT

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 TIME TflffiEire. THE CENTENNIAL MONUMENT This beautiful monument, which stands in the City Park, was given to Madison County by the State of Illinois during the Govern-ship of Charles S. Deneen to commemorate a century of achievement in the County. It was dedicated on September 16, 1912, by the Governor. This statue was chisled from solid Georgia marble and weighs about thirty tons. Its designer and sculpturer was Charles J. Mulligan of Chicago, who built it in the form of four figures representing Progress. grouped about the center. The cost of tin construction was met by a five thousand dollar appropriation by the State Legislature, brought about by the plea of several of the leading Edwardsville citizens at the time.