Montpelier High School - Spartan Yearbook (Montpelier, IN)

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James Whitcomb Riley 1849-1916 James Whitcomb Riley was undoubtedly the most popular American poet of the end of the nineteenth century. He was the poet of the children and of simple sentiment, and he immortalized the rural dialect of his state. Riley was born in Greenfield, Indiana, and always made his home in or near Indianapolis. Some of his best known poems are When the Frost is On the Punkin , The Old Man and Jim , Out to Old Aunt Mary ' s , The Old Swimmin ' Hole , The Raggedy Man , and Little Orphant Annie . Who lives for you and me ' Lives for the world he tries To help — he lives eternally, A good man never dies! A Good Man hy James Whitcomb Riley

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THE 1950 INDIANIAN PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF MONTPELIER HIGH SCHOOL MONTPELIER, INDIANA

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In this hook of simp e rhyme, Spare your scythe, Old Father Time . THE 1950 INDIANIAN Dedication The class of 1950 dedicates this year book to the memory of the beloved Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, in commemoration of his one hundredth anniversary. • Lockerbie Street Residence