Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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SENIOR YEAR BOOK 23 EDITH . HARNEY , SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.

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22 SENIOR YEAR ROOK

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SENIOR YEAH BOOK. 25 BOGUS ISLAMD. Bogus Island is situated about fourteen miles southeast of Momence, in McClellan Township, Newton County, Ind. It is a great hill, covering about thirty acres, situated in a plain, once the bed of Beaver Lake. The hill rises abruptly on the east, north, and south, but gradually slopes westward until it sinks into the level plain beyond. About sixty years ago, a company of robbers and counterfeiters came to the island, having been driven out of their own country because of their desperate deeds. They selected this as a hiding place, because there was no ready means of communicating with the outside world. They were in league with a man named Rankins, as desperate a character as themselves, who kept a tavern near where St. Anne now is, and Rankin sent supplies to the edge of the cape where the Islanders took them in boats to their den, He also passed their money on unsuspecting travelers. The country at this time was very wild, those parts not covered with water being thickly wooded. Their route through the woods was marked by cuttings made by axes in the sides of trees. Many trees yet stand with these marks plainly visible. These robbers were finally found by a party of bee hunters who came from the South in search of bees. These hunters had them arrested and they were taken to a prison in Indiana. The once Beaver Lake is now farmed on a large scale, all the water having been drained out years ago, but Bogus Island remains a huge mound of sand. A few pieces of money and several pieces of ancient pottery and Indian arrows have been found here, which leads us to believe that these counterfeiters were by no means the first inhabitants of the place: JUNIOR, SOPHOMORE AMD FRESHMEN PROGRAM. ==== = The Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen gave a program on Feb. 7, 1902, turning over the receipts to the Seniors to be applied on their year book. If any one thinks that there is a small degree of talent in the High School, it must be because he failed to attend this entertainment. The seniors feel very grateful to the other three classes for the help they have rendered. The financial end of such a proposition as this is always the heavy one. If the Juniors, the Sophies, and Freshies keep on inrproving, by the time they are seniors, they may possibly compare favorably with the class of 1902. The Program Was as Follows: piano duet, RECITATION, VOCAL SOLO, RECITATION, PIANO DUET, MANDOLIN SOLO, RECITATION, VOCAL DUET PIANO SOLO, CHORUS ESTHER GRAY, OLIVE MACHESNEY ANNA TEMPLETON CARRIE SPRY .. INA HESS } VIRGINIA TABLER - ( MARIE WENNERHOLM VARNUM PARISH. ..OLIA CHIPMAM CARRIE SPRY, -} LENOIR P1FER ESTHER GRAY