Lutesville High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Lutesville, MO)

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o • o • BASKET-BALL BOYS Mr. Myers, Coach Bryan Zimmerman, center Robert Kinder. right forward Frank Phelps, left forward Emmerson Eaker. substitute Clarence Miller, right guard William Butler, left guard THE SCORE OF THE BOYS’ TEAM Team. 1916- 1917—Blodgett ...... Frederlcktown ... Hickory Grove .. Advance ........ Frederlcktown ... Jackson ........ All-Stars (town) 1917- 1918—Blodgett ,..... Fredericktown ... Morley ......... Whitewater ..... Fredericktown ... 1919— Fredericktown . I.utesville. 44 17 10 11 21 12 38 23 16 15 24 Opponents i 3 14 12 24 60 18 17 14 17 22 33 Won by forfeit The History of Our Athletics The Lutesville High School organized a basket-ball team in the year 1915 under thi supervision of Mr. Abernathy, then principal. Goals were erected and the boys, many of whom are now in France, were given the rudiments of basket-ball playing. They played no match games that year excepting with Will Mayfield College. The following year Mr. Myers assumed the prlnclpalship of the school and organized a new team. The courts were plotted, plowed and flattened by the boys, thus forming an ideal court. The team during that year played more match games than before or since. In 1917 the team rented Drum s Hall and equipped it so that they had a very nice indoor court. The first of the year the team was supervised by Mr. Masters, who. before the end of the semester, had Joined the army, and before the end of the year, had landed in France. The remainder of the year Mr. Myers was coach. This year we have played but little because of the numerous obstacles we have en- countered. as doubtless other schools have encountered, also. The team was in splendid condition and all the boys are good athletes.

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President’s Address THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL occupies a position which is both unique and import- ant. I nique because it occupies a position different essentially from other institu- tions of learning: and important because it is the only source of higher education within the reach of everybody. The high school differs materially from the old-time academy. The primary duty of the academy was to prepare for college, that of the high school to prepare for life. When we come to consider that only two per cent of the high- school students go to college, while the other ninety-eight per cent receive no further training than the high school gives, we are enabled to realize the tremendous importance of this institution. It has long been a recognized fact that if the people are to be educated the schools must be taken to them. If we wait for them to go to the schools, the great majority of them will never go. That is to say, if the people in a certain community have no high school, expect to send their children away from the home community for their education, those who go will be the exception and those who do not go will be the rule. For every one that goes there will be a hundred who will not go. The conclusion is plainly to be seen that every township in the United States should maintain a high school. Another thing that suggests itself as a corrolary to that proposition above is that the institu- tions of this kind foster and develop wholesome recreation and proper amusement. These things are absolutely indispensable to a progressive community. ‘Some people ask why are the young people rushing away from the small towns and rural neighborhoods. The answer is plain. They are seeking something that the country cannot give. Now. psychologists tell us that play is as necessary to a human being as work. In fact, they say that if he does not have the proper recreation he cannot do proper work. Young peo- ple must have some place to go. If they do not have a good place to go they will go to some place not so good. If they do not have wholesome amusement they may seek that of a nature which is not so wholesome. Imagine for one Instant if the town of Lutesville had four or live public tennis courts, golf links, some amusement in the form of a moving- picture show or opera how much pleasanter it would be for the young people. The school develops an appreciation for refined recreation. The high schools are also professional schools. Many excellent teachers receive their only training here. Numerous bookkeepers and stenographers are now prepared for their vocation, not in the expensive business college in the far off city, but in the little high school of their home town. The high school is reaching out its hand and endeavoring to give each future citizen of the republic that education which will enable him to make the best of life. So universal is high-school education becoming that they are now affection- ately spoken of as the people's college. 1 have discussed at length the merits of this institution, let us glance for a moment at its defects. The chief of these are. that the schools of today are not sufficient tech- nically. Each high school should have its manual training, carpenter work, and cabinet maker, its forge where blaoksmithing can be learned, as well as a good course in do- mestic science for girls. The literary work of the high school should be of that kind which will foster Christian character, intense patriotism and a wide spirit of philan- thropy. In short the mission of the high school is to train the body of the youth so it will vibrate with the red blooded desire for action. It is to fill his mind with a youthful knowledge which the experience of the race has proved to be beneficial and to establish a character founded on a rock against which the storms of evil will beat in vain. In the words of Aristotle, It develops the highest excellency of body, mind and soul. Class of Nineteen and Nineteen, we stand at the parting of the ways. Yet a little while and our high school days will be history. They will not be numbered among the things that are but the things that have been. The days of childhood now seem a far off dream, while the broad tableland of manhood and womanhood stretch out before us. The amateur world of the school to the pulsating world of humanty. It is a time of sadness and a time of gladness, a time of gladness when we think of work well done, of tasks fully completed and of a past stained with no action that can give us any remorse of conscience. Rut a time of sadness when we think of our former friends and classmates who are separated from us by the great ocean itself and some by that greater ocean which separates life and death. Standing on the dividing line tonight full of hope for the future, with profound gratitude to the many friends of our childhood and youth we pass from the protected vista of our young days to the broad avenue of manhood and womanhood. ROBERT KINDER.

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 o o The Old Lutesville and the New LUTESVILLE is situated on the west side of Crooked Creek, about a half mile from Marble Hill. It was laid out as a town in 1853 by Eli Lutes, in whose honor the place was named. In order to secure a station on the Belmont Branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, Mr. Lutes gave to the railroad company ten acres of ground for station purposes, the right-of-railway through the town, and one-third of the lots. The first passenger train passed through here August 29, 1868. Then there was only four or five houses. The first school was taught by Ex-Congressman R. Smith in a small frame build- ing. The school house was situated where the residence of Mr. Henry Lutes now stands. The first merchant in town was C. E. Rowe, who began business in a small box house, and continued until the time of his death. Eli Lutes was also one of the early merchants. The first Mayor of the town was F. S. Frautwein. In 1910 there were five general stores and the usual number of smaller business establishments. Also one stave factory, which had been in operation for years, and a flour mill. The Bollinger County Bank, with a capital of $25,000, was incorporated in 1891, and the Peoples Bank of Lutesville with a capital of $12,000 was incorporated in 1903. There are three churches in the town, namely: The Southern Methodist, which was erected in 1872, the Northern Methodist in 1894, and the Presbyterian in 1905. There are now five general stores, two garages, two hotels, Home Bakery, variety store, livery barn, flour mill, saw mill, and a clay mill, which was erected in 1918. The school grew very rapidly and four years of high-school work was approved in 1917. There are one hundred and forty residences in the town and the present popula- tion is about six hundred.