Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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To Editor of Annual: You ask me to write a letter for the Year Book. Do you want it for the profound wisdom that may spill from my typewriter, or simply for “filling in” matter? It seems to me that after hearing my grumbling for so long you would leave me in retire¬ ment and spare your readers. Or is it for old times sake? The past never was as good as the present. Do you know that the longer I go the more firmly I am settled in the conviction that young people are prone to cheat themselves by looking back to what they might have done, or depend upon the sweet bye and bye to make good. Are you doing all you ought this very day to catch every opportunity in school and out? Did you ever stop to consider that any pupil with as much brains as a sap-suck er can “work” the teacher, and that it takes less yet to fool the superintendent? But after both are gone and out of your way what have you to show for your own well being in the future? Then often the boy or girl who trifles with their school work, at home allows mother to wash the dishes or carry in the coal. Do you remember what Prof. Hollister said about side-shows and the main circus? Well, that is what I am trying to say. Keep yourself clean and improve every chance to put a good head on yourself; the rest will take care of itself. Ever your friend, Livingston, Montana, April 17, 1912. B. A. Winans.

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Freshman Glass. Colors Crimson and Gray Flower Sweet Pea Class Officers President—Clay Hayden Vice-President—Mattie Hayden Secretary—Irene Nelson Treasurer—Pauline Nichols Class Historian—Ralph Beaver Ralph Beaver Ethel Bennett Aimee Bigelow Florence Bright Ethel Clark Henry Conrad Mabel Cremer Robert Dennis Clara Dixon Susie Dunn Harding Fedde Joseph Fingerhut Margaret Greenawalt Class Roll Ruth Hanson Clay Hayden Mattie Hayden Bernice Hicks Mae Hunt Mae Jones Irene Lunt Fred Mel by Irene Nelson Margaret Nelson Pauline Nichols Alfred Purkey Catherine Peterson Lucile Peterson Bernard Renstrom Marie Seavey Ruby Shaffer Leonard Smith Charles Stevens Mildred Storrs Philip Sweet Eva Turrell Earl Violet Harold Wicks