Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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Clan' of 1906 FRONT ROVV: Left to Right: Jennie Carrico, Frances Keese, Rachel Ogle, Grace Cwoosterj Montgomery, Eva QI-Iooperj Richards. SECOND ROXV: Ivy Qjudgej Roberts, Lillian Goodall, Ross Griswold, Bella Turk, Stella fRobertsj Hughes, Florence Cl-Iooperj Anderson, Frances CMacklerj Kniery. BACK ROXV: Columbus King, Stella flileinbeckj Blank, Elkin Turk, Elsie Stiefel, Lester lfizvell, Anna QTuttlcJ Kniery, Ina fMyersJ Gorin. city council received insurance for the loss and replaced the school with another of the same dimensions and general plan. The new school was occupied in Septem- ber, 1873. By 1881 the primary pupils numbered greater than the seats in the schools and the pupils of Room Five were transferred to the Baptist Church. During the same year George L. Zink advertised that if a class of not less than twenty persons would provide a suitable room, fit it up, and pay all the expenses, he would teach them in a night school of two or three nights in each week during the winter free of charge. He offered to teach the principal rules of arithmetic with an occasional lecture on the laws of ordinary Twenty-four

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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

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Class 0 1907 FRONT RUXY: Left to Right: lflorencc Clfcnnesscyj Iiriedland, Bessie fllallj lfthell, Leonard Acree, Mary O'Brien, Faye Cratty. SLCOND ROW: Bessie qSlackJ Willis, Margaret Motherway, Orrin Whiteman, Walter Sawyer, Frances Smith, Pearl QTippetJ Mattcs. STANDING: Ray E. Sanders, Harold Kessinger, Merritte Johnson, Benjamin Crockett, Mitchell Sanders. business. His school was for the benefit of young men, and boys who could not attend the public schools. By 1882 the new school building was no longer large enough to accommodate all the pupils, and the Baptist Church, east of the City Park, was used for classes in the fifth and sixth grades. In 1884 the Second Ward school with four rooms was erected. The school population still increased so that in 1888 an election was called and the people voted to erect a school building just north of Madison Park. Expansion of the city and an in- crease in population forced the erection in 1899 of a new six-room building at Tyler Avenue and South Chestnut Street. The same year it became necessary to rent rooms. The Kunz Building at the corner of Madison and Edwards Streets was used for the eighth grade. Later the eighth grade was moved to the Lange Building on West Union, then to the Sinclair- Baker building on East Union Avenue, and then to the Updike or Cratty resi- dence on East Union Avenue, the present site of White House Filling Station and the lot to the north of it. Twenty-five