Litchfield High School - Licohi Yearbook (Litchfield, IL)

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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

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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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Clan of 1908 BACK ROW: Left to Right: Edward Gooch, Lester Shumucker, Ira Stiefcl, Chester Weber, Leon Logan, Alva Pricket, William Halford. MIDDLE ROXV: Bernice QRobcrtsj McNamara, Grace fCrattyJ XVheat, Mildred Davis, Catherine fllavisj W'hitlock, Lorraine Weigriffe, Lillian Qzinimcrnianj Weber. FRONT ROW: Frncst Kitcli, Della Litchfield Buel, Lona Machler, Alfred Gregg, The problem of establishing and re- taining a high school in Litchfield has always been one which has caused dissen- sion. Even after the high school had been in operation for a number of years an election was held April 8, 1893 to deter- mine whether the high school should con- tinue. A vote of 887 for and 256 against showed that Litchfield favored contin- uing the school. The North Litchfield Township High School which was organized in June of 1896, opened September 7, 1896 in the rooms on the third floor of the Third Ward school building Qlda Russell Schoolj. In this new type of high school there were four teachers. In the pre- ceding year when the high school was Twenty-six