Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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L BOOSTERS Boost your town, boost your friend, Boost the school that you attend. Boost the street on which you're dwelling Boost the team and keep on yelling, Boost the people round about you They can't get along without you, But success will quickly find them If they find that you're behind them, Boost for every forward movement, Boost for every new improvement, Boost the man for whom you labor, Boost the stranger and the neighbor. Cease to be a chronic knocker. Cease to be a progress blocker. If you'd make your own school better Boost it to the final letter. V B. A. Booster

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The industrial survey of the Chamber of Commerce, which is now being made, will show a pay roll of at least 38,000,000 a year from our industrial sources. With an increased pay roll from railway improvements within the next eighteen months, the total easily will be swelled to S10,0000,000. Already the aver- age wage is? higher than the average city of our size, but a re- quirement of skill is also demanded, indicating a wholesome and permanent industrial activity. ' We make articles of national consumption. Many of our products may be found in homes in every large city of the coun- try. The phonograph, no longer a luxury but a household nec- essity, broadcasts its music in hundreds of thousands of homes. Our refrigeratorsfkeep healthy and clean a large part of the food of the nation. Peru-made steam tractors till tens of thousands of acres from coast to coast. Shipping boxes, made in our city, envelop millions of cubic feet of merchandise. Our electrical porcelain bases and fittings are used in every large city in its buildings. Baskets by the hundreds of thousands are carried by the women of the nation. Furniture, underwear, kitchen cabi- nets, in fact a dozen other things made in Peru are used and well known the nation over. Peru-printed stationery is distributed to every civilized country in the world by the largest and most ef- ficient plant of its kind in the world. The winter quarters of the American Circus Corporation have been advertised to countless millions of American people and thousands of persons, who have seen their large circuses elsewhere, visit the winter quarters here each winter. Frances Slocum entered the pages of the United States his- tory when, as a child, she was carried away by Indians, from her home in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. She lived just east of Peru and a monument by her descendants marks her last resting place. The Miamis and other powerful Indian tribes covered our grounds with their wigwams, and traceable sites are yet to be seen nearby. Peru is a wonder city, with its beautiful winding, river, well planned streets, massive public buildings and many summer re- sorts within easy driving distance. And she will continue to grow more important in manufacture, in transportation and in busi- ness just as we work together as citizens with a true confidence in her future and the blessings of a truly cooperative community L. E. DEUBLE, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. spirit.

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