Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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Clary of 1903 TOP ROXV: Left to Right: Dora Bumann, George Cox, Uscar Schalk, Stella Van Sandt, Anna Neuber. N1'X'1' ROXV: Roger Studebaker. lidna Taulbee, Maude Qlirossfieldj Nelson, Mabel lieeman. SICONID RUXY: Nlyrtle ll,.1llL III1 1 Tl Immlxm l wvnv n. Reba lSnellD XVhite. Cie sml' ge O'l1rit 'x1, Glen Beveridge, le 11.1 Qllaxisj Uhlenhop, Hattie gllaineyl Watkins. l'lil1N'l' RK7XY': Mabel llicplingcrl Wils Lll1, Miri. lI11 lil rrlln 'sj Reid I!1n' icr, Virgie Ytillwell. for their successors the next year to make a beginning. The year 1865 was a time of inflated prices and inflated prosperity. The city council, instead of following the design originally chosen, formed a new plan which called for a building costing three times as much. The contract was begun and then abandoned, leaving bare walls with openings unclosed and the roof partly covered. The city council elected in the spring of 1867 took hold of the work and completed it in time to open school the following September. Litchfield. lll.. Sept. 24, 1867 Dear Cousin john: . . . Mr. Blanchard has great hopes of me he says. He called yesterday and said he should look to me for most of the help. He was speaking of the smallness of the salary offered to the lady teachers, and in connection with it he was lament- ing that the board here had not let him choose Twent y-one

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Clan of 1902 FRONT ROXV: Left to Right: Mary QGr.1dyj Neville, Kathryn Motherway, lilizzibetli Ranisey. SVCOND ROW: Mabel Qllosej Zapf, Iidna fSCl1llll1.lCliCfl Russell, Cieneia Lllobertsj McKinney Clara QHolderre.idj Doyle, Lena Qlwlalluryj Parker, Annu Davis, Selma qlirellj Nunnellcy. 'I'HlRl7 ROXV: -Iesse iliuscher, David Oller, Clinton Fcnnessey, Lawrence Xwnuster, Vlfilter Halford, Albert Kane, Roy Fisher. TOP ROVV: -Iessie fliurnerj Case, George Snaxlmif, Harry Handy. l.inna lMasseyl Hulet, Annv Qiilynnj Mast. 1860's the school term was six months, and private schools filled out the three or four additional months of each year. In 1864 the city council determined to erect a two-story brick building to cost not more than twelve thousand dol- lars, for a grammar and a high school building, and the council deemed it ex- pedient to dispense with the grammar school for the term of 1864-65. Since the city council was slow in going to work on the new building, it was left Twenty

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Clan of 1904 STANDING: Left to Right: Merrill White, Lewis jordan, Warren White, George Sihler, Frank McEvoy. SICATICD: Elsie QSchumacherj Allen, Frank Woods, Anna Rasor, Eine fFeltsj Allen, Edna fKitchj Bush, Harry Brokaw, Fred Blankley. SIQATICD: Rosalie Mackler, Fanny fBrokawQ W'hitehouse, Thomas Motherway, Anna fMcFlligottJ Todt. FRONT: Charles Ash, William Concicline. for himself. But school has not yet opened. At the last 21 Hrm in St. Louis failed to supply the seats so here we are, but my salary is going on so Mr. Hood said. I don't think that the building can possibly be finished this week even but I hope it will for it will bring the term so late in summer. They are to have forty weeks. One term till Christmas and then two weeks holidays and an- other vacation along in the spring of a week or so. The school building is vlvguul and as fine as any of the newest public schools in St. Louis. I am unwilling to admit it, but still I will confess it to you. I can see it from my window as I write. It is one square west of here and two north. It is three stories high and containing four Twenty-two