Glenham High School - Eagle Yearbook (Glenham, SD)

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' n EES L TOWN H l,,STOfkY l Many years before the present site of Glenham was laid there was located, about fourteen miles south,a town known as Evarts.' It was at ,that time quite large, but lt had a reputation of being a rough town.l It was one of the great- est shipping points in the United States. w', 'l ..- A r In nineteen hundred the railroad bed was moved out from Bowdle to its present location, and the town of Evarts was broken up. Many .of the. buildings were taken to Mobridge and Glenham, whose site 'was laid at that time. The houses now occupied 'by Jake Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Gust Brorby, and part of the house owned by the McKinnon sisters were moved to Glenham from Evarts. we :, . L One of the first stores of sdlenham was moved from Old Le Beau to Bangor, and from Bangoh to Gienham. It was owned by a Mr. Shawl. At the beginning the front of the store was used for a Post Office. e The first church of Glenham was established by the Methodists, however it proved unsuccessful, and after a few few years it broke up. The Presbyterian church then came and founded the first permanent' church for the towns The flrst school house was a part of Elversons' house located on the northwest part of 'town. Later the school house, a white frame building, from Evarts was moved to Glenham. In the yearsr from 1908-10, Glenham was much larger than it is at the present day. It then consisted of five stores, two butcher shops, a drug store, a hardware store, two restaurants, a hotel, a bank, an ice cream parlor, two saloons, a pool hall, a livery barn, tee blacksmith shops a nmlll, two elevators, and Q lumber yard e George Lease, and Mr. Stewart had printed a weekly paper in Evarts known as-NTho Evarts Journal.N At the time that Evarts broke up these men moved their paper from there to Glenham, changing the name of the paper from WThe Evarts Journal to uTh6 Glenham Journal.H A few years later these men sold out their interests in the paper to a MrsKane,who edited the lpaper for two years. He-then obtained awpesi- tion as editor of,a paper in Minnesota, and 1 Uwhe Glenham Jonrnalu went out of existance. The year l9l4,' sam the. first four-year high school course introduced. 'Th8'f1P8t commencement exercises taking place May 15, 1918. Those .graduating .in this class were Susie and Helen Vail. r In 1919, the year following the close of the war, the electric light system was put in the city, to take the piauetof the old gasoline system which had been used up to B mee X ' Y ' 61 ' s.?,m gf -+2 ta u ea