Farmington High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Farmington, IL)

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FARMINGTON GROWS UP From horses plodd1ng along pullrng wagons over deep muddy ruts to b1g shrny automo brles wh1zz1ng down paved hlghways Front a nrght at home around the kerosene lamp W1th the famrly to an evenrng spent at home watchrng a wrestlrng match over televrsron Yes lrfe rn Farmlngton certalnly has changed durrng the past hfty years The bu1ld1ngs rn the mam busrness sect1on have not changed much except for a new front here and there and many remodeled 1n terrors The buslnesses have changed hands several trmes wtth the result that each burld mg has a hrstory of 1ts own Of course there were no garages or gasol1ne tatlons back ln 1900 but they qulckly came 1n and replacea the buggy shops and blacksm1th shops as the horseless carnage came 1n and replaced the horse and buggy The general stores flourrshed 1n 1900 but they branched out rnto the super market the grocery tore the frurt store and dry goods e tablrshments The res1dence sectrons have changed con slderably wrth many new sectlons of town be mg added on durrng the last half century The town started expand1ng West but the d1rect1on was changed to northeast and south New srdewalks roads and shrubbery have helped At Mud Pomt of Century F Farmrngton l'l1gh School at the m1d pornt of thrs century has had a total of 1945 grad uates 137 of these graduatlng pr1or to 1900 and 1808 graduatrng smce then ln th1s year of 1950 approxrmately srxty ome students w1ll graduate from F C H S whxle rn 1900 twenty l1Ve enrolled at the be g1nn1ng of the year and elght graduated Also rn 1900 ten junrors seven sophomores and twenty one freshmen completed the year Thls year approxtmately 50 1un1ors 79 sopho mores and 89 freshmen w1ll complete the year At the turn of the century tho e wantmg to secure an educatron could do so for very lrttle money TUITION was S2 00 a month or S16 00 a year At the present trme 1t IS S250 a year Farmrngton Communlty 1-lrgh School rn 1900 was located where the Chapman school IS today The entlre student body of the hlgh school was placed rn one large room wrth the freshmen occupying the frrst three rows sophomores next two rows and the Junlors the two m1ddle rows and the SGHIOYS the last row next to the wxndows Tne students were requlred to carry the same number of sub1ects that are requlred at complete the change and to QIVG Farmrngton a more modern appearance The lrves of the people themselves have been greatly changed Occupatrons entertaln ment and rnterests have all changed Farmlngton boasted of several factorres through the years These factor1es employed some of the men but the greater ma1or1ty of them were m1ners and farmers There are four mam group today factory workers mer chants m1ners and farmers Farmrngton also offered 1ts resrdents a w1de vartety of amusements Farmlngton has sported many dlfferent movre houses and a few opera houses rn 1ts days Of course for a lrttle less culture there have always been tav erns and saloons to keep the populace 1n good sprrrts The show houses however decreased rn number as the automoblle led many res1 dents to entertalnment rn the larger c1t1es It wrll be rnterestmg for us youngsters to look back rn the year 2000 when we become a lrttle older and see how much Farmmgton wrll have changed ln the years 1950 to 2000 Wrll the changes brought about by the machrne age compare wrth the changes to come durlng the atomrc age? Perhaps and then agam maybe there wont be a Farmrngton C H S Has 1 945 Graduated the present trme that number belng four The subyects drd not vary to a great extent they drd not have foretgn languages but they d1d have Engh h algebra geometry and scrence The last srx weeks was devoted to a very 1n tensrve study of astronomy and Amerlcan Hxstory There were no clubs at th1s txme but a muslc teacher from Canton came once a week and trme was allowed for s1ng1ng Track was the predomrnatmg sport and Farmlngtons track team was rated very hrgh at thrs trme Very lrttle football was played and Farmlng tons brg game of the year was played on Thanksgrvrng Day when the Farmers met the Elmwood team Instead of havlng assembly programs as we do now the class of 1900 put on therr own programs Every Frlday afternoon was de voted to puttlng on short skrts and slnglng At commencement tfme out of the twenty f1ve senrors who had enrolled wlth the Class of 1900 erght graduated S1nce 1t was such a small class each one gave an oratlon on the prog am Because of the burnlng of the school the commencement exerclses were held 1n the burldlng where the Negley Hardware Store stands today Dage 15 . , . . , ' , . . . , , 1 . as . , - - ' 1 1 1 . , ' . 0 . . .1 . . , 1 - - 1 I - . . 1 1 1 , . . . ' 1 0 A . . . -P 1 1 .1 . ' . 4 1 . - 1 - f . . - 1 - I 1 - ' ' 1 1 ' f I 1 , ' .ci . , . 0 1 1 1 - I - . . C . Q . . . ., - 1 ' ' . , 1 1 1 1 1 -1 ' , . - l 1 , e .J , . . . I 1 1 1 I . . . -. I ' 1 1 , . 1 , . 1 w A . , , ,

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Those Farmers Drovtng that the1r outstandtng record a year ago was no fluke tho e Farmers contlnued thetr w1nn1ng way to have another sensa ttonal season rn football ID 49 lt was the thlrd undefeated season for F C H S 1n the last flV9 years Durtng tho e TIVG years F C H S teams lost only two game and hed one Very few teams tn the state can match that record The Farmers were really pressed ln onlv two games th1s year the Washlngton game and the Canton game ln the other games the Farmers walked all over thexr opponents The Farmers started out the season by trounc1ng Tremont 26 to U The team may have looked ragged but they outcla sed the Turks Then came the Washtngton game Our players had mo t of the breaks and came out on top 24 to l3 The next game was a 24 to U vxctory over a sure Morton eleven whlch wa followed by an easy 33 to 13 Wln over Ch1ll1 cothe The Farmers were really rolhng now and a h1ghly touted Lewtstown team tnvaded Farmmgton Would the wmnmg streak be broken? Once agam the Farmers rose to the occaslon and defeated the lnd1ans by a score of 20 to U A l9 to 0 vtctory over Eureka and a 38 to 12 vm over Dunlap came next assurtng the Farr ers of the lll1o crown The quest1on that was now IH everybodys m1nd was Could the Farmers shp past Can ton for an undefeated season or would they dc as they had done IH the past two years? lt was a terr1f1c battle and the Farmers thrllled thousands when they stalled on a last m nute Canton rally and ended a great eason by beattng Canton 18 to 14 Page 17 Coach Walter Grebe Assrstant Coach Cec11 Stmson Managers Pat Threw Allen Strong Gene Ro and Don Schoonover entors were valuable llne substltutes