Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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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

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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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11.111 .... Clan' of 1905 lt-lit in Right: I'mertli.i 1I1l.iekwelder1 cil1.lPl1L11l, lllanclie riliristyj tltyton. Mayine tXX'illi.nn-1 Herrick, Nelle lbrownl Yilex, ,Xrtbur Y. Iloog, 1-tlitlw Hiintlerj Andres, Hattie Sitton, Grace 1Acteel Viliite, Violet lfioodalll Cilinlt. large school rooms on each floor except the third where there are only two. The other side being occupied by an elegant 11.111 sixty feet long by thirty-eight feet wide. Thar is the plan in the lsflxllln 5L'I1lKJl5 NYU LXVQT YISIICLl .... There are little dressing rooms for each teacher also and an ollice for the principal in the second H li A13llYL' portion ol' letter written by one of the first teachers in Litchfield tells of school erected in 1867 in 1,itcbtield.j As a result of this expansion of the plans and the de1ay in carrying them out, the district school and the ward schools were abandoned for three years. A num- ber of private schools were opened during this interval, among them those of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Collidge, Richard Young, and R. Hagleson. On April 1, 1872, before it was entirely paid for, the school house burned. The destruction of the building had brought the term of 1871-72 to an untimely close, but rooms were rented in various parts ofthe city for the term of 1872-73. The 'liwenty-three