Ottumwa High School - Argus Yearbook (Ottumwa, IA)

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E F A C E P R “To the learned reader of the English language; We present our plans, reasons, and dearest hopes.” OOD BOOKS ARE TRUE FRIENDS. THUS IN THE WORDS OF FRANCIS BACON WE GIVE TO YOU A BOOK. A BOOK. WHOSE CHAPTERS, WE HOPE, WILL BRING TO YOU THE PLEASANT MEMORIES OF THE YEAR JUST PAST. AS YOU LOOK OVER THE WALL OF YESTERDAY TO SEE THE GARDEN IN WHICH WE HAVE WORKED AND PLAY- ED. WE WANT YOU TO SEE NOT ALONE THE FALLING OF THE AUTUMN LEAVES BUT ALSO THE FIRST GREEN BUDS OF SPRING. FOR THESE REASONS. WE GIVE TO YOU A BOOK—A FRIEND. A FRIEND. TO WHOM YOU MAY GO NOT ONLY TO-DAY, BUT TO-MORROW. A FRIEND, WHO WILL SIT BY THE FIRE WITH YOU AND LEAD YOU DOWN THE WIND- ING ROAD OF YESTER-YEAR. A FRIEND WITH WHOM YOU MAY RECALL THE TEARS AND HEART-ACHES WHICH LED TO JOYS, WHICH WE HAD NOT DARED TO VISION. ALL PAST. TIS TRUE WE'VE GROWN ONE YEAR OLDER, BUT WE'VE GAINED A YEAR OF KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND CHARACTER. ALL OF WHICH WE NEED TO GUIDE US ON- WARD TOWARD TOMORROW. AND YET, BECAUSE OF PLEASURE, FRIENDSHIPS, AND GOOD TIMES, WE WANT A REMINDER OF THE PAST—THIS BOOK—THIS FRIEND. MAYBE BEST EXPRESSED IN THE WORDS OF CARLYLE WHEN HE SAID,—

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--------THIS VOLUME-------- THE THIRTY-FOURTH OF THE SERIES, WAS DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY JAHN OLLIER AND PRINTED BY THE OTTUMWA STAMP WORKS. THE TITLE PAGE WAS COMPOSED BY HAND BY J. M. BUNDSCHO, AND THE INCIDEN- TAL DECORATION WAS EXECUT- ED BY JOE W. TILLOT- S O N EIGHT HUNDRED COPIES HA VE BEEN PRINTED FOR PRIVATELY SUBSCRIBED DISTRIBUTION, OF WHICH THIS IS AUTHENTICALLY NO t° -

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“In a book lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past; when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.” AND SO WE TAKE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING OUR CONTENTS EXE CUTIVE AT H LET ICS