Glenham High School - Eagle Yearbook (Glenham, SD)

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. Q B-L: . Q - . Q. .,.,.g..-.sg -e----Q -Q--ogov .,'5g? 180 'J I N xt ,...-. ,......e...., t,1f..i-1? . if . .1 7, ,Y S .,.., A3 . -.-. The fire, dwhich burned six buildings from the -west side of main street took place in June 1925. The buildings being burned ,were the Post doffice, the IOOF hall, a store owned by Cody Schlomer, the IGA store, the pool hall, and a building owned by Mr. Gi Gulllckson. The same year saw the erection of new fire proof buildings to replace those which had been, destroyed by the nfire., The cause of the fire was never determined, and will no doubt always remain a mystery, A large modern garage, was also erected byJake Salsziedler and Frank Vojta. ' A o ,B The present, modern brick schepl building was erected in 1926-27. A new German Lutheran Church was also built .in During the depression pof' recent years, all of the stores, with the exception of the IGA store, the meat mar- ket and the hardware store have closed their fpdoors. The Glenham State Bank, and the Lumber Yard have false closed their bus1nesses.In November of 1956, the mill wasdestroyed by a fire. 4 - SOmC'1htBP8Bt1Hg''h1StOTiBSH'h8VB been connected with many of the houses of the town, The ehouse new occupied by the Lloyd Engebretson family, was a part of the Hardware store which was movedf from Evarts. ,The house owned by Mr, and Mrs. A. M. McKinnon was at one ftime a hotel, owned by G. B. Thomas, which they had in connection with a store. This hotel was situated on the west side of theBr0rby im- oliment shop. After the erection of the present hotel in 1910 by Mr. Elliot, this building was no longer used for a hotel. The house now occupied by the Pernie Brown family is considered about the oldest house in this territory, be- ing moved from Old Le Beau to Bangor, and from Bangor to Glenham. This house was owned by Mr. Shawl, owner of one of the first stores in Glenham, The house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gust Brorby, which was moved up from Evarts, also served at one time as one of the two restaurants previously mentioned. o' Q e e B 1 eThe above information was gathered chiefly through the cooperation of Mr. A. M. McKinnon who was one of the' first settlers in the town and who is at the present H time the town postmaster. - e e - . 'K r we 4+ ---ar-M' ul Y U 'S ,

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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

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lr , gms, , at Q. ,1 d 'H fe f Q 4 r' ' r' , , , IN K.cCQUi:'.M H H y T'would be strange indeed if we were to send off the seniors with no especial bit of consideration given them above the rest of the classes in-school. Therefore, we, the Juniors, do hereby ,dedicate our bit to the memory of those who precede us, and are they not deserving? l Believing that the most we are able to do sfor the upper-classmen is to let them know whatf we think of then, we raise a votive shaft in their honor built of fragments of character-sketches and a type of epersanality analysis Certainly it should not be amiss for us to do this for them. A man should not judge h1mself,' for he, in so doing, will be either too harsh or too easy with himself. .And yet, the business world ,requires that would-be, Job holders furnish judgments, or references, -of themselves by others. So you see, a character analysis is not without its value. However, we hope that you will pardon our seriousness. This was intended as a kind of light-hearted goodbye to' those with whom we have chummed for so long. We'l1 not pick them apart nor .look too closely into their affairs, for after all, a person is entitled to some privacy, but we will remember them by bits of information that they have voluntarily given. For instance, no one, ,being reticent concerning their hobbies, ambitions, mottoes, and nicknames we have procured all these in due style. d 5 H Our nTen pretty girls in the old village schoolu happen to be half boys this time so we will change our tune a little. However, Wladles before gentsn they say, so we'll begin with one of the fairer sex. We find, from Eileen Hagen, a motto which tells us that nGood things come in small packages,W and that Uwash- ing and Wiping dishesu is a delightful hobby. She is known by a variety of nicknames such as: UJunlor,U WSmall thing,W URunt,n ,and-so-on, and her most ambitious ambition is to Herow up.N, Ellen Espeland holds before herself the motto bespeaking a great deal of ambition which 1s'nTo make the best bettern and shes likes very much to spend her spare time WMak1ng candy,N and Uwrlting poetry in her sleep.n She was frequently called uCharley,n last year by a certain individual and as no one calls her anything but Ellen this year the nickname is a problem. However, UCharley,n or Ellen Hnwants to be either a history teacher or a surgical nurse. ' cObserv1ng, the boys for a while, Cbecause variety is the spice of lifel, we see that Russell believes in WBasket ball or bust,U and he is intimately known as NHans.U His hobby is traveling and his ambition nNever to be married.W c3935 f