Prairie Du Sac High School - Prairie Pride Yearbook (Prairie Du Sac, WI)

Text from Pages 1 - 96 of the 1904 volume:

(Class Annual jMtJcccci� . Press ok Giegerich Just Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin DEDICATION T O ALL FRIENDS OF THE PRAIRIE DU SAC HIGH SCHOOL THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED The moral to be drawn from America by every nation is this: ‘Seek ye first the education of the people, and all other political blessings will be added unto you.’ The quarrels of party, the game of politics, this or that measure of reform, are but surface affairs of little moment. The education of the people is the real underlying work for earnest men, who would best serve their country.” Andrew Carnegie. I BOARD OF EDUCATION H. V. Pack, Secretary. W. C. Cook, President. Geo. Schnku.er, Treasurer. John Dixon, Principal of Schools I HIGH SCHOOL CEUA AsTLE, First Asst. Latin and English. ASSISTANTS Anna M. Schnellkr, Second Asst. History and German. IyOUISK BAILEY. Makik Merkel. Jennie Baker. Kathleen Bampman. I ENGLISH FOUR YEARS COURSE FIRST YEAR FIRST TERM Algebra Physical Geography Composition Literary Readings SECOND TERM Algebra Physical Geograhpy Composition Literary Readings The work in composition shall cover the essentials of English including such study of grammar as is necessary. THIRD TERM Algebra Botany Composition Literary Readings FIRST TERM Expressive Reading Botany History of Uuited States Literary Readings FIRST TERM Geometry History Political Economy Literary Readings FIRST TERM Psychology Physics Literature Literary Readings SECOND YEAR SECOND TERM Bookkeeping or Arithmetic Physiology History of United States Literary Readings THIRD YEAR SECOND TERM Geometry History Advanced Composition Literary Readings THIRD TERM Constitutions Physiology Constitutional History of United States Literary Readings THIRD TERM Geometry History Advanced Composition Literary Readings EOURTH YEAR SECOND TERM THIRD TERM Theory and Art of Teachiug Review Arithmetic and Physics Physics ««mmar Literature Literary Readings Literature Literary Readiuge GENERAL SCIENCE FOUR YEARS COURSE riRST YEAR FIRST TERM Algebra Physical Geography Composition Literary Readings SECOND TERM Algebra Physical Geograbpv Composition Literary Readings The work in composition shall cover the essentials of English including such study of grammar as is necessary. THIRD TERM Algebra Botany Com position Literary Readings SECOND YEAR FIRST TERM Expressive Reading Botany History of United States Literary Readings SECOND TERM Bookkeeping or Arithmetic Physiology History of United States Literary Readings THIRD YEAR THIRD TERM Constitutions Physiology Constitutional History of United States Literary Readings FIRST TERM German Geometry History Literary Readings SECOND TERM German Geometry History Literary Readings THIRD TERM German Geometry History Review Arithmetic and Grammar FOURTH YEAR FIRST TERM German Literature Physics Literary Readings SECOND TERM German Literature Physics Theory and Art of Teachi THIRD TERM German Literature Physics Literary Readitigs MODERN CLASSICAL FOUR FIRST TERM Latin Algebra Physical Geography Literary Readings FIRST TERM Latin Geometrv History of United States Literary Readings FIRST TERM Latin German History Literary Readings FIRST TERM Latin German Physics Literary Readings YEARS COURSE fIRST YEAR SECOND TERM Latin Algebra Physical Geography Literary Readings SECOND YEA SECOND TERM Latin Geometry History of United States Literary Readings THIRD YEAR SECOND TERM Latin German History Literary Readings FOURTH Y E A I THIRD TERM Latin Algebra Composition Literary Readings R THIRD TERM Latin Geometry Constitutional History of United States Constitutions THIRD TERM Latiu German History Review Arithmetic and Grammar SECOND TERM THIRD TERM Latin Latin German German Physics Physics Theory and Art of Teaching Literary Readings Philip Conrad Meyer Katherine Margaret Kyan George Valentine Accola Alta Ethel Teel Kenneth Lyle Premo Edwin Gilbert Gasser Mazie Bushnell Key ear Lilah Elizabeth Keysar Flora Frances Huehler Cora Edna Thomson Page William Joseph Ganser Lena Verena Hatz Angelo Class, Special Student, Illustrator of Annual COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Vocal Music........................................Quartette Ed. Buehler, Casper Accola, John Accola, Bert McCoy Invocation...............................Rev. W. J. Hillman Welcome.............................................Katharine Ryan Class History..................................Philip Meyer Piano Solo..........................................“Boute-en Train” Flora Buehler The Prairie of the Sacs.......................Kenneth Premo Helen Keller.............................................Lena Hatz • Vocal Music.............................................Duet Gertrude Ragatz, Aurelia Nichols Russia and Japan...............................William Ganser Our Alumni..............................................Mazie Keysar Words of the Oracle................................Alta Teel Cornet Solo........................................W. P. Just Accompaniment Mrs. W. P. Just Andrew Carnegie.........................................Edwin Gasser Senior Advice..........................................George Accola Junior Response.........................................Harry Cook T , , , . I Ruth Hutchins Instrumental Duet...................................„ , t Bessie Bundy Class Poem...............................................Cora Page A Final Word............................................Lilah Keysar Presentation of Diplomas............Wm. Cook, Pres, of Board Class Song..........................(Words by Plora Buehler) Benediction..............................Rev. A. S. Phelps CLASS ROLL George Valentine Accola Katharine Margaret Ryan Philip Conrad Meyer Alta Ethel Teel William Joseph Ganser Lena Verena Hatz Kenneth L,yle Premo Lilah Elizabeth Keysar Edwin Gilbert Gasser Mazie Bushnell Keysar Flora Frances Buehler Cora Edna Thomson Page Motto.......................“Push” Flower........................Rose Colors...............Blue and Gold OFFICERS President.................................................Philip Meyer Secretary......................................P'LORA Buehler Treasurer...................................................Geo. Accola WELCOME Kind Friends: To me has been given the pleasure of welcoming you to the Graduation Exercises of the Class of 1904. We are glad to be here and are glad to see you here. For four years and more we have been striving toward this the sweetest, happiest triumph our lives have thus far known. Our purpose has become a reality, and this moment in your presence we take the last step forward and reach the goal. Far back even in the grades, and again with increasing vividness in the earlier High School days we dreamed the dream of the night which should be our Commencement. Now it is here and we are happy, yet as we step from among our classmates to take our part in the program of tonight the emotion we feel is not all of joy—even as sweet music oft contains an undertone of sadness. It is pleasant to know that all over this great state and greater nation, in this beautiful month of June, hundreds, and thousands of High Schools are having their Commencements, and boys and girls, young men and young women are complet- ing carefully organized courses of study, thus laying the found- ation for more effective citizenship and service. We are proud to be among those who have done this work to completion. During the High School course the Class of 1904 labored diligently with persistent effort, never faltering in its purpose, but borne onward with the determination to accomplish its aim and achieve the goal of its ambition. There have been times when the work was heavy and the end seemed far, but we went on, mastering the difficulties as best we could, each thing mastered adding to our power to achieve yet other victories, until the path was clear and we are here glorying in our achievement and wel- coming you to this our celebration. We think of you not as mere onlookers but as those who have a part with us here to- night, for without the support of our citizens our High School could not have existed, and without the support, interest, and sympathy that has made for us this opportunity we should have forever missed this advantage and happiness which is ours. No boy or girl is fairly equipped for life without at least a High School education. Emerson tells us that. “The true test of a civilization is not the cities nor the census, not the size of crops, but the kind of men and women a country turns out.” To improve civilization and to spread culture there must be the means of popular education, and there must be the recognition of the value to be gained by spending the time and money necessary to get that education. The High School life does not consist in the mere learning of books. It is a training in character, and embraces all the larger life in the great outside world of action and affairs. It has its difficulties and its pleasures, its disappointments and its successes, its dark days and its bright ones, its anxieties and its hopes. It has its work-a-day life and its social life. It trains us to work together, to give and take in kindness, to guide and control our impulses, and to find out what we are and what we may hope to become. With these thoughts in mind we look back over our work, seeing perhaps even more clearly than when in its midst, the larger meaning of that which we tried to do. And now with the hope that you may enjoy with us the program we have prepared, once again I bid you a sincere and cordial welcome to this the closing hour of our High School career and the Commencement of the Class of 1904. Katharine Ryan. CLASS HISTORY In one sense a history of the Class of 1904 seems unneces- sary, even superfluous. Its unusual abilities were so early ap- parent, its merits so obvious, and its reputation so well estab- lished in every branch of High School work, that at the present time a written record cannot be especially interesting; but in the years to come when we might else be forgotten, its history may serve as a model for the inspiration of youthful minds to a higher excellence, even as it has been an incentive during the past three years to all conscientious workers in our High School. We are all well aware that size does not necessarily add to the honor of any class, (as could be well illustrated by certain others which me might mention),—however, it is interesting to know that our now small class of twelve members was larger than any preceding Freshman Division. Of the original twenty- one members, ten dropped out the first three years, while one was added the fourth. Catherine Ryan, having noted the medi- ocrity of the present Junior Class, as compared with the un- common brilliancy of the Seniors, by dint of conscientious ex- ertions, earned a proud membership in our august body. Hers was truly a striking illustration of the old adage, “Birds of a feather flock together.” Everyone knows that it is a custom in our High Schools to use Freshmen as a sort of outlet valve, through which the more advanced students can give vent to their wit and humor. But in the Fall of 1900 the Upper-Class pupils found that they were without a subject, for the Freshman Class of that year was a superior sort, that took up its new duties w'ith an ease and nat- uralness that admitted of no criticism. Instead, upon hearing us at our first recitations, the manner of these privileged persons was one of suppressed admiration; and, as the years progressed and we remained untripped by the wily snares of our Mathemat- ical Instructor, and unbewildered by the endless variety of our literary work, they became astonised in such measure as to ap- proach awe. “Surely,” they exclaimed, “never class spake as this class!” Being such a remarkable collection of individuals, our ser- vices were, of course, in great demand. If the Debating Society was in need of strong, forceful debaters, plenty of material was found in our ranks. When particularly finished musicians were necessary, who so fit as several of our members? When any of the literary organizations required great executive ability1', must have a constitution organized and drawn up, or a program pre- pared, where could they find more competent helpers than in the ranks of the usually despised Freshman Class! When a search was made for efficient officers to guard the interests of these societies, where could more zealous ones be obtained than from the Class of 1904! Such has been our glorious record, and aside from all this, we also helped to develop a pleasant social atmosphere. To- gether with the Class of 1903, we began our series of inter-class parties, which were to last until the graduation of the latter, and which stood out as the jolliest functions of the entire school. Perhaps much of their interest was due to the pathetically ineffectual efforts of the rest of the school to interrupt and mar them. The fright of these disturbers, as they fled panic-stricken before the sure and close pursuit of the mighty classmen of 1903 and ’04 can be somewhat imagined from the fact that for days afterward, certain of these marauders wore a weary, hunted look, and evidences of nervous prostration prevailed, when broken windows, red-pepper, obstructed chimney tops, mis- placed steps, etc., happened to be unkindly mentioned in their hearing. Thus our school-life went on through the Sophomore and Junior years, characterized only by a still further strength- ening of our unusual mental capacity, the manifestations of which our teachers delighted to point out to astonished visitors. Then came the long looked for event of our High School career,—our entrance into the mystic realms of the Senior year and the enjoyment of its unlimited privileges. Now the honors and cares of this victorious year have passed away, leaving in their wake mixed feelings of joy and regret. Naturally we are glad to see our work finished and complete, but we also feel in the words of George Eliot,—“ 'Tis grievous parting with good company.” As we go forth to join the Alumni of the Prairie du Sac High School,—with the assurance that we leave “one of the few immortal names that were not born to die,” we hope that the Class of 1905 may awake and shoulder its coming yoke in as conscientious, if not in as capable a manner as the Class of 1904! Philip Meyer. J HELEN KELLER Helen Keller is one of the most wonderful personalities of the age and her name is a synonym for the mastery of all but impossible obstacles. Unable to see, and unable to hear, she has through the sense of touch alone, attained to a degree of mental culture that is marvelous. She was born in a vine-covered cottage in Tuscumbria, Alabama, June 27, 1880. Her father was clever, hospitable, loving, indulgent, and devoted to his home. “To describe my mother,” she writes, is like attempting to put into words the fragrance of a flower or the smile on a beloved face.” The beginning of Helen’s life was simple. “I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.” At the age of nineteen months she was taken ill with a fever which deprived lier of both sight and hearing. In this world of silence and darkness she dwelt until her seventh year, when Miss Sullivan, her teacher, came and by love and genius let some intellectual sunlight into her life. It is hard to imagine the mental condition of such a pupil. Sight and sound did not ex- ist for her. They had never existed for her save as a vague baby memory. The blue of the sky, the beautiful birds and flowers and landscapes, the murmur of waters, the ringing of bells, the rich melody of voices in song, she could never know. Her first lessons consisted in the slow and laborious mastery of the fact that certain raised forms of metal which we call letters stood for the idea of a certain thing, as an apple, which she could touch and taste and smell. She was drilled in this until she always thought of that particular object when her fingers came in contact with that special kind of roughness. Later she learned to prick the same name in paper by means of metal guides, to turn the paper over and by means of the little pro- jections to read her own writing. Her knowledge of words grew with her knowledge of things and ideas and was a part of that knowledge. She w as delighted beyond all description when she found that she was learning to communicate with others, and plied her teacher with ceaseless questions. In the case of a fork she was not content to know merely the name, but pointed to the tines, handle, decorations, and must know what move- ment of the fingers stood for the different parts. At times, when a child she gave vent to her anger at her inability to ex- press herself, in violent outbursts of passion; but years and cul- ture have changed her, and made of her a sensible, original, good-humored young woman of endless patience. She studied with Miss Sullivan, attended Perkins institute, then a Cambridge preparatory school, and finally finished her preparation for college under the tutorship of a Mr. Keith. In the fall of 1900 she entered Radcliffe College at Cambridge, Mass, and on the twenty-eighth of this month she will graduate from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. On the day before graduation she will celebrate her twenty-fourth birthday. In Radcliffe she has competed successfully with girls who can see and hear. Miss Sullivan attends recitations with her and interprets to her the instructions given there. She found Mathematics both uninteresting and difficult. Geometry was especially confusing as she could not see the geometrical figures, and the only way she could represent them to her mind was by means of a cushion on which straight and curved wires took the place of the ordinary drawings. She is a lover of literature and, besides her unusual mastery of English, has a knowledge of German, French, and Latin which gives her access to the literatures of those languages so far as they have been put into type for the blind. Miss Keller did the same work as the other students and passed the same examinations. The exam- ination questions were put in Braille type, and in the presence of the Dean of the College she took the questions and wrote her answers with an ordinary typewriter. Miss Sullivan was not present at these examinations, and there was no possibility of Miss Keller’s receiving any assistance of any kind whatever. During her career at college she wrote “The Story of My Life,” one of the most interesting of books. She is an artist in expression, and shrinks from no labor necessary to the per- fecting of her work. At first she writes in Braille, the system of raised letters by which the blind read, then transfers it to the typewriter. After that Miss Sullivan reads it into her hand. It passes through her hands five times before she is satisfied with it. She is a worker and an optimist. She is a thinker and a lover of books. Her fondness for poetry, and the poetic trend of her thought has led some to believe she will become a writer of poetry. She cannot see at all. She cannot tell light from darkness except by the difference in the warmth. She has tried very hard to learn to speak but with small success, although her intimate friends can understand her. Sometimes she places her fingers on her friend’s lips and throat and by the muscular mo- tion interprets the words. But whoever can, speaks or reads into her hand by spelling the words with the fingers. We can best close this brief record of her life and genius by a quotation from her own words: “Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation infolds me like a cold, white, mist as I sit alone and wait at Life’s shut gate. Beyond, there is light and music and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, inexorable, bars the way. Fain would I ques- tion his imperious decree; for my heart is still undisciplined and passionate: but my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words that rise to my lips, and they fall back into my heart like un- shed tears. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes Hope with sweet, sad smile and whispers, ‘There is joy in self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.” Lena Hatz. RUSSIA AND JAPAN During the last few months the eyes of all the world have been focused on the far East—on Russia and Japan. These countries are no longer isolated. They are but beyond the horizon, for steam and steel and electricity have drawn them into commercial union with their world neighbors, even with ourselves. Without assuming to understand or explain the strategies of war or the moral questions involved I shall endeavor to state a few faCts of interest concerning these countries and their people. Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia—where and what are they? What caused this war and what are the conditions under which it is being waged? Japan is a land of mountains and of gardens. It is an island empire more than a thousand miles long but less in size than three times the area of Wisconsin. If placed upon the United States the four chief islands which compose it would ex- tend from central Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. Its central, most productive and populous part is about as far north as the state of Missouri, and is similar to it in area. The empire com- prises more than three thousand islands, the most southerly of which is the large island of Formosa, one-fourth the size of Wisconsin, lying in the same latitude as Cuba and Hawaii and due north a short distance from Manila and the Philippines. This island was gained from China in 1895 and lies more than one thousand miles southwest from the main center of Japan. The two greatest cities of Japan are Tokio and Yokohama. These are about as far apart as Madison and Milwaukee, lie just a little farther south than our own Washington, St. Louis and San Francisco, and are just five thousand miles west from the latter city. Tokio, the capital, is nearly as large as Chicago, and Yokohama, the great commercial center, is about two- thirds the size of Milwaukee. Since the country is so moun- tainous only about one-eighth is capable of cultivation and this supports a population of about 44,000,000. The plains, though comparatively small, are very fertile and the mountains are magnificently wooded to their summits. The climate is moist and very similar to that of the southern half of our Atlantic coast states. The farms are small, usually from one to four acres. Though they raise wheat and millet, their great pro- ducts are silk, tea and rice. The island of Formosa produces 6,000,000 pounds of camphor a year and controls the world’s trade in this article. Japan has splendid harbors, and three- fourths of its foreign trade is with the United States. They have the American system of public schools, and are a highly educated race. There are more than 5000 miles of railroads traversing the islands in all directions. Japan is rich in water-power so that even the small country towns have elcdlric lights, and all through the country are the tele- phone and the telegraph. In Tokio alone are sixteen daily papers and of the 480 dailies in the empire two have a daily circulation of 100,000 and 145,000. The government is repre- sentative and good. The people are a hardy, courageous, ener- getic race, rather small, dark and closely built, and noted for their cheerfulness and politeness. Their remarkable taste and skill are shown in the fine lacquer work, dainty porcelain, elabor- ate bronzes and many articles of ornament which they ship to all parts of the world. The Korea is a peninsula bounded on the east by the Sea of Japan, on the west by the Yellow Sea, and separated from Manchuria at the northwest by the now famous Yalu river. It is due west of Japan and juts out into the sea much like our own state of Florida and is about one and one-half times the size of that sate. It is largely an agricultural country though it exports nearly $3,000,000 in gold every year and has extensive forests. The people are much like the Chinese in appearance and character and are not attractive. Until recent years it has been under control of China but its activities are largely managed by Japan and it is being rapidly opened to commerce. Manchuria is a province of China lying northwest of Korea and Japan and is just six and one-half times as large as Wisconsin. It is a grazing and farming country, and one of our best Eastern customers. Midway between Seoul, the capital of Korea on the east, and Peking, the capital of China on the west, occupying the southern point of Manchuria lies Port Arthur, the com- manding naval and commercial port of all this region. To the west, north and east of the northern half of Man- churia is Siberia, Siberia and Russia, land of unimagined dis- tances and unpronounceable names, land of the Czar and the Nihilist, vast, mysterious, merciless, reaching from the Pacific half around the world to the inlets of the Atlantic and ever demanding more! It includes more than one-half of Europe and added to this more than one-third of Asia, eight and one- half millions of square miles. The main body of the empire lies north of the 49th parallel which is the parallel that forms the northern boundry of the United States, but it also has great reaches of territory extending as far to the south as the middle of the United States—to the Ohio river and the city of St. Louis. St. Petersburg, its capital, is 1050 miles farther north than St. Paul, and yet is eight times as large as that city, or four times the size of Milwaukee. The population is 141,000,000, and thequanti- ty and variety of its material wealth of mines, and forests and farms is beyond estimate. It’s wheat crop ranks next to ours and it raises twice as much rye as wheat. Nearly 800,000,000 pounds of clean cotton fiber are produced in Russia Central Asia every year. In all this vast land there are only ninety daily newspapers, and ninety per cent, of the people can neither read nor write. The nobility, however, are highly educated and include many of the keenest diplomats, statesmen and soldiers to be found in the world. In less than five centuries Russia has advanced from the ownership of 1-250 to that of 1—6 of the land surface of the earth. Her “earth-hunger” is insatiable. The attempt to absorb Manchuria and Korea caused the present war. Nearly 50 years ago Russia used her influence to force the Anglo-French allies from Peking and demanded and secured from China as her reward a large strip of territory fronting the Pacific and extending east of Manchuria down to Korea. Here she built the Port of Vladivostok facing Japan. A little later she forced Japan to give up the island of Saghalien to the northward. In 1885 China and Japan agreed to with- draw their troops from Korea and leave it independent. The next year Russia appeared on the scene but was forced by Eng- land to withdraw. Then the Czar ordered the building of the great Siberian railroad. The shortest route to Vladivostok lay across northern Manchuria. In 1893 Russia secured the right to this route from China, and has since completed the R. R. of 5800 miles to Vladivostok and of 6000 miles to Port Arthur. In 1894 China and Japan came to arms over Korea, and Japan was victorious. Japan obtained Port Arthur. Russia, backed by France and Germany forced her to give it up, and in 1897 a Russian squadron appeared in the harbor and soon controlled it by a lease from China. In 1900 during the Boxer outbreak Russian soldiers occupied Manchuria. They are there yet, and across it from west to east and from this to the south like a greai capital “T” lie the Russian railroads. Russia has spent $300,000,000 there and is there to stay. Japan already feels the shadow of the Russian Bear across her island empire, one giant paw is now raised over Korea, and one step more would mean the annihilation of Japan. The Japanese army numbers 600,000 men, the Russian 1,700,000,— Japan could could call out 1,000,000, Russia could easily call out 4,000,000. The Russian navy though scattered is twice that of Japan. Japan is fighting for life and for commercial rights in Korea and China. Russia is fighting for the control of Korea, Manchuria and ultimately for influence at Peking, and the mastery of China. Following the pathway of centuries Russia knows no other policy. For Japan there is no other way than to fight and her only time is now. The “Open-door” creaks on its hinges and the world, all alert, watches the con- flict day by day. William Ganser. OUR ALUMNI The cycling months have brought to us another Commence- ment season. This naturally calls to mind thoughts of similar occasions and of the many young men and women who, having completed the work of our High School, have passed before us, “out of school life into life’s school.” Many of our prede- cessors, fearing that their names might perish from record and recollection, left them carved in the desks, so to us they are not entire strangers. Even the books we have been using dur- ing the past four years furnish constant reminders of those who have gone before. Since the organization of our High School in 1884, thirteen classes have been graduated from this institution. The total enrollment of these thirteen classes is seventy-six, and the class of 1904 which is the second class in point of numbers will add twelve numbers to the Alumni. Twenty of these young people have felt it their mission in life to teach in the public schools, eight have become farmers, eight young ladies decided to help another bear life’s burden, seven of the young men follow- ed their good example, and if it is really true that, “Coming events cast their shadows before,” ere next Commencement rolls ’round others will have joined the happy throng. Eleven of the girls are living at home, some doing dress- making, some studying music, and all, no doubt filling to a greater or less extent that so necessary and often thankless place of the doer of little things. It is rumored that some of these are occupied with a “trousseau” or at least “an old maid’s trunk.” To the rest we -would say, “Patience, ‘They also serve who only stand and wait.’ ” That our High School has been an influence for good can- not be doubted. Of the Alumni five have graduated from the Wisconsin University, two are college graduates, five have Normal School diplomas, one completed a course in a business college, four attended higher institutions of learning for a short time, and ten are now in college or University carrying to completion the work begun in the Prairie du Sac High School. We feel that we have a right to be proud of such a record. Class of '91. The three members of the class of ’91 were remarkable for their industry and earnestness. They realized fully their responsibility as the first graduates and tried to show by their efforts that they were true to their motto—“Onward and Upward.” Class of 92. In the class of ’92 Arthur Cole deserves honorable mention, being the first boy to graduate and the only one for three years. The two girls of this class were known among their schoolmates as “Adtion and Readtion—equal and opposite in direction” because of the length of one and the breadth of the other. In ’93 the course was cut down to three years, and the two graduates of this year returned to school the following year and completed the four years’ course. Class of '94. Of the class of ’94 every member attended the Whitewater Normal and all but one completed the work there. This one decided to take up pradlical work in domestic science. The young man of this class graduated later at the State University and is now Principal of the Dodgeville High School. Class of '95. Two modest maids who were always good composed the class of ’95. One is noted for her sweet voice and the other for her industry. Class of'96. What the class of ’96 lacked in quantity it made up in quality, and true to its motto its members have Rowed, not drifted on life’s sea.” The young man entered the field of politics and the young lady is a Milwaukee teacher. Class of'97. Of the class of ’97 three are graduates of higher institutions. One of the young men completes the Law course at Madison this month—a distindlion which no other Prairie du Sac boy can claim. This class thoroughly believed in “Fuller knowledge, higher life.” Class of '98. The class of ’98 has certainly been guided by its motto “Depth not superficial knowledge,” for have not these two dug down to the depths! One member is now an eledtrical engineer,—the other is “digging” away at the Wisconsin Uni- versity after having taught school for sometime. Class of'99. The class of ’99 can boast of having the largest number of boys. At this time the “Bachelor Boys” and “Old Maids” clubs flourished, so the boys and girls were not as friendly as they might have been. Two of the girls were known as the “gigglers,” one of them is now a fine musician and the other graduates from college next year. One of the young men has won athletic honors elsewhere, as well as here, is now on the editorial staff of the Harvard Lampoon, and grad- uates from Harvard with the class of 1905. Class of 1900. The “Noughty noughts” have the honor of being the largest class ever graduated from our High School, also, for having more disputes over class motto and flower than than any other class. Seven of them were teachers but only two have persevered. One young lady became the printer’s angel” for life. Class of '01. The class of 1901 were Seniors when we were Freshmen and served us as a model in that first impressionable year. To us they were the incarnation of knowledge, and as such we hold them responsible for many blunders made by us before reaching our Senior year. Class of '02. The class of 1902 has not a drone in its ranks and must surely win success although this is the class whose work in the laboratory produced nothing great except explosions. Class of '03. There are so many things to mention in tell- ing you of the class of 1903, that we can only state a few. Many of them considered it their mission to serve as a warning to the class that was to follow, so they selected a death head for their class pin. The bust of Lincoln which they so magnani- mously decided to donate for the adornment of our High School room has been slow in coming and, we learn, has been changed in the process to a beautiful view of the Tiber which will soon be seen upon our High School walls. With four teachers, an embryo housekeeper, an amateur printer, a prospective electri- cian, and an accomplished musician in their ranks, honor and fame must eventually crown their efforts. Still, to them came a sorrow deeper and darker than any other class had ever known, for two of their number smiling and joyous lost some- where their way and did not return— ‘ ‘ I cannot say and I will not say That they are dead—they are just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand They have wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be since they linger there, Think of them still as the same, I say:— They are not dead—they are just away.” Mazie Kkysar. ANDREW CARNEGIE On the shore of Dornoch Firth, in the extreme north of Scotland, stands a famous fortress and castle called Skibo. For more than seven hundred years it has stood there, and about it cling the mystery and halo of legend and romance. Side by side from its towers float the Star Spangled Banner and the Union Jack. Within, from its historic hall rises a staircase of white Sicilian marble, and around it are the wide acres of a well kept park. This is the Scottish home of Andrew Carnegie, the “Iron King.” The life of this man is more like a page from the Arabian Nights than a sober statement of fadts. He started at twenty cents per day. His daily income is now $40,000. During his first year of hard labor at the age of twelve he earned $62—now his yearly income is about $13,000,000, and this was achieved not by speculation but by legitimate business. His father, a master weaver in Dunfernline, Scotland, was driven out of busi- ness by the invention of the steam loom, and emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1848 when Andrew was a little white haired lad of eleven. Poverty forced the boy to leave school at the age of twelve to go to work in a cotton factory. Here he slaved from dark to dark, with only forty minutes for dinner, at hard labor for nearly a year. At thirteen he fired an engine in a small factory, still at the old wage of twenty cents per day. Then when the hard work had about broken him down, he got a place as tele- graph messenger at $3.00 per week. He was now fourteen. He later spoke of his place in the telegraph office as his “first glympse of paradise.” The death of his father now left him as the sole support of his mother and younger brother. He had not been in the office a month, when he began to study telegraphy, and mastered it so thoroughly that at sixteen he was made operator at $300 per year. There was no half-heartedness or indolence in his work. Everything he worked at he did better than his older and more experienced companions. In his work as operator he came in contadt with the principal business men of the city. Mr. Thomas A. Scott, Supt. of the Pittsburgh Div. of the Pa. R. R. sent most of his messages through him, and, noting his excellent business qualities of accuracy, industry and good sense, offered him an advance of $10 per month to go with him. He went, and later became his private secretary. He mastered every de- tail of his work. In 1861, at the opening of the Civil War, Carnegie was twenty-four. Mr. Scott became Asst. Secretary of War, and he placed Carnegie in charge of military roads and telegraph lines. He was present at several battles and gave excellent sen-ice to the War Department at Washington. The strain however told on him so heavily that he finally had to give up all work for some months. Carnegie’s first investment was made on the advice of Mr. Scott. He bought 10 shares of Adams Express Co. stock for $600. This paid 1 % a month. He and his mother mortgaged their home to buy it. In 1862 Mr. Scott became Vice President of the Pa. R. R. and Carnegie was made Superintendent. This was late in 1862. He was now twenty-five and well started on his career, though as yet earning but $50 per month. His next investment was in the sleeping car. Meeting the inventor, he saw at once the splendid possibilities in the idea, laid it before Mr. Scott, secured an interest in two trial cars, and borrowed $217.50 to make his first payment. At twenty-seven he made a very fortunate investment in oil lands and made money. While R. R. Supt., he saw the necessity of iron bridges, got forty men interested, formed a syndicate, built a great iron bridge across the Ohio, and later many others. He resigned his place as R. R. Div. Supt. to devote all his energy to the development of the iron industry. He was now about thirty years old. He went to Europe, mastered the Bessemer process of steel manufacture, and introdued it into this country in 1868. He built the vast Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Homestead, and was principal owner of this and other large plants as Carnegie, Phipp Co. He went 700 and 9Q0 miles away on the shores of the Great Lakes to get his ore properties and built a fleet of steamers on the Lakes, and a rail- road 425 miles long, to carry the ore down to his works at Pittsburgh. He absorbed the Homestead Steel Co. and by 1888 possessed seven great steel works, vast coal fields, irod mines, railways, docks and fleets of steamers. This in twenty years. Then for thirteen years more he continued the expansion of his already tremendous interests, and in 1901 retired from business, having received as his price from the U. S. Steel Corporation $250,000,000 worth of bonds bearing interest at 5 % per annum. He now spends part of his time in Skibo Castle and part in his New York City home. His family consists of himself, and his wife and daughter. He is a golf player, a fisherman, a good sailor, a lover of travel and books, and very fond of music. Personally he is about 5 feet 6 inches in height, eredt, with keen grey eyes, large head, and powerful jaw. He is not arrogant, has no private car, is shrewd in his estimates of men, has intense convictions and speaks his mind vigorously and without fear. Since his retirement from business he has given more than $100,000,000 to libraries, art galleries, hero funds, etc., and in our own state many a splendid library exists as an evidence of his generosity and business ability. Such is the brief record of a man who made his chance and then used it, who loved honest work and did it, and who is known the world over for his patriotism, genial humor, gener- osity, and common sense. Edwin Gassek. THE WORDS OF THE ORACLE Pondering deeply over the future of the worthiest Senior Class that the Prairie du Sac High School has ever sent into the world and wondering what such brilliant young people would be doing in after years, my footsteps led me unwittingly into a magnificent grove. As I wandered along I suddenly realized that I was in a strange place, and was astonished to behold just a few feet in front of me a cloud of smoke rising from among the bushes that were packed quite closely together. I seemed powerless to retrace my steps and before I could regain even a little of mv wonted self possession to my dismay found myself in the midst of the smoke. I then discovered that it was differ- ent from any smoke I had ever seen or smelled. It was very fragrant and gaye me a delicious feeling of expectancy. Sud- denly a hand reached forth and drew me into a dimly lighted apartment, where, in the semi-darkness my eyes could barely distinguish a figure—in semblance a woman, yet shorn of all physical beauty. When I could discern a little more clearly what was around me, I saw that the smoke that had made the cloud outside issued from a cleft in some rocks at the side of the apartment. This frightened me still more than I had been at first. Seeing my terror, a not unkindly, though sepulchral voice, said, “Fear not, I am one of the twenty-two divinely appointed by Apollo. My power lies in the interpretation of thought, and the gift of prophecy. I divined your desires as you entered the grove some miles back. You would know the future of your classmates!” Without waiting for me to reply she turned, and quickly scan- ning crevice after crevice in the stone walls about her, pointed to the highest shelf of all, and suddenly above it glowed in flaming letters of blue and gold, “P. D. S. ’04.” Fumbling a moment, she carefully drew forth twelve leaves of heavy parchment upon which were written inscriptions in Greek. Breathlessly I waited, not daring to utter a word for fear I should lose some thing from those pages that would mean so much to me and to my fellow-classmates. Yours first,” she said. I waited anxiously. Was it com- passion that seemed to soften the dry and shrivelled features as she read, “Single-blessedness,”—and then in a brighter tone, “yet not unhappy. At the World’s Fair which will be held at Berlin in 1925, you will be elected International President of Women’s Clubs, an honor that has never before been conferred upon any woman.” Grasping the next leaf her face resumed its original blank expression and her tone as she read was once more a deep monotone. “The President and Treasurer of this class are in- separable even in prophecy. They complete a course of study at the Wisconsin State University together, and later a Com- mercial Course at a first class business college. Miss Teel on her way back from Berlin will find them well established in an immense dry-goods store at 621 Broadway, New York City. By this time I was even more intensely interested, my eyes were riveted upon those inscriptions, and I dared not move or make a sound. The figure slowly took up the third sheet of parchment: hesitating a moment,, she questioned, “You know of the little mining town of La Rue near your village?” I nodded wonder- ingly and she went on, “Like wild fire it will spring up into a great city, and there you will find Edwin Gasser as President of the La Lue National Bank, honored and trusted by all his fel- low townsmen. In 1912 while learning the banking business in Chicago, he marries the banker’s daughter and the next year they settle in La Rue and own the handsomest residence in the city. And now I began to feel that the unusual brightness of the Class of 1904 was doing much more than it had promised dur- ing its remarkable High School career. I was roused from my short reverie by the rustling of the parchment and a warning look which sent cold shivers through me and I knew I must leave my dreaming until later if I would gain the knowledge I wanted so much. Taking the next leaf in her hand the Oracle read slowly and in deep hollow tones,—“On the 6th of January 1910. Miss Flora Buehler will appear in the Opera House at Madison, Wis. with the ‘San Francisco Ideal Orchestra,’ as pianist. This will be her first tour after finishing her musical studies in Italy under the greatest masters of the age.” She took the next page without pausing and read, Your poetess will teach school for two years, graduate from Vassar College, in 1910, issue two popular novels and a book of poems in dialedt in 1911, and in 1912 will become the wife of a leading Wisconsin jeweler.” Turning the page she continued, “Lilah will be a successful teacher in fhe public schools for about three years, and after graduating from Milwaukee Downer College will become a special teacher of Domestic Science. Instead of teaching this work in schools, she -will organize private classes and raise the ideal of young ladies throughout the state of Wisconsin until the majority of them will realize the glory and satifadtion of knowing how to take charge of the homes that are awaiting them.” Looking up with an earnest expression, the Oracle commented, “Hers is the noblest work of all and the most need- ed,” then turned the next page and continued the translation rapidly and with apparent satisfaction. Kenneth Premo in about fifteen years will be known as a political speaker of national fame.” “Katharine wrill go on the stage after four years in the Boston School of Oratory.” William Ganser will try teaching for a while after gradu- ation, will become deeply interested in science, will invent an improved steam plow, then go back to farming, and finally edit a magazine on Agriculture.” And now I noticed that the smoke was growing more dense and the figure gradually becoming more indistindl. I feared that this might be all I was to hear, but the voice went on in a faraway tone, “Lena Hatz, who was the conscience of this class will become the wife of an Evangelical minister. To him her services will be invaluable.” “Mazie Keysar,” and here I had to strain my ears to catch the sound, “will be a governess in the family of the Governor of Michigan.” The smoke rolled so thick I could no longer see but I heard these muttered words, “Angelo Clas, illustrator of Collier’s Weekly,” and suddenly I found myself once more in the bush- es, so amazed and excited I could scarcely move. My head swam and I knew no more until I awoke to consciousness in my own home, when I hastened to write an exacfl account of the prophecy it had been my favored lot to hear. Alta Teel. CLASS SONG We’re gathered now, my dear classmates, To sing our parting song; The happy fleeting High School days, Are now forever gone. Four years we’ve been companions, Soon now we all must part, The separation sadness brings To one and all our hearts. Chorus— Then let us now the praises sing Of dear Prairie du Sac; Of days that never knew a care, And never can come back. Now we must sever, dear classmates, We’ve gained the vidtory; To under classmen, now we leave Our duties all to thee. Be faithful always to our school, And spread her fame abroad, By right maintain her high standard, Her glories ever laud. Chorus— Then let us now the praises sing Of dear Prairie du Sac; Of days that never knew a care, And never can come back. The school bell still will gaily call, But it’s for us no more, For to the future now we go As others have before. Let’s all “Push” nobly to the front And ever all be true To sweetest mem’ries of our school, To the old gold and blue. Chorus— And now to High School days, “Farewell,” A kind farewell to you; To Juniors, Freshmen, and Soph’mores, To friends and teachers true. FLora Buehlkr. JUST P O R PUN How would it strike you to see:— Premo with curly hair? Gasser with a constant grin? Lilah without a pompadour? Alta keeping perfectly still? Ganser flirting? Flora creating a disturbance? George making “goo-goos?” Kate with one study? Lena cutting capers? Mazie without her tongue twisted? Phil with a girl on the back seat? Cora with a pug nose? Angelo without “Milwaukee”? Oh heavens! what have we here?”—Juniors. “A town that boasts of such inhabitants as we, Can never lack for good society.”—Seniors. % Here’s to the Freshmen Species well known; Told by their color Everywhere shown; Verdant and noisy, Awkward—’tis said; Brain swelled to twice its size In each small head. Something deteriorated Brain twice as big; Some much degenerated Each one a prig; Once little Freshies, Now Sophomores, Tongues always noisy, Horrid little bores. “So easy to gain, so hard to pay.”—Detention!! “These are ofttimes better than they seem.”—Faculty. “Nothing but leaves.”—Our Annual. -s? -£ “And still we gazed, and still the wonder grew, That such small heads could carry all they new.” —Sophomores. « - “At their grand voice pale mortals stand aghast; And startled nature trembles with the blast.” —Seniors 1904. SENIOR ADVICE Most youthful, gay, and unsophisticated Juniors:—Listen closely that you may hear and profit by the counsel and the warnings which through me, the wise and mighty Class of 1904 is about to bestow upon you. To have had such a class as ours as a model for three long years and then to be suddenly deprived of it is a calamity indeed; we know not how you can go on. But, Juniors, you have been fortunate, very fortunate. Never in the history of the Prairie du Sac High School has such a class been graduated, and for three years our daily example has been ever before you. May Heaven help you when we are gone! From daily contadt and association with such a class you should have learned to stand alone, and it has pained us greatly to see and know that much of our inspiring influence has been wdiolly lost upon you because of your youth and inability to comprehend or to appreciate the blessings that were yours. Dearly beloved Juniors, you know not how often as we watched you toil and struggle and flounder through the mazes of Geometry, deep sorrow has come to our great Senior hearts as we thought, “Why, oh why, did not that Junior Class profit by the work they saw us do in Geometry! How easy it might have been for them now, and what a different look and atmos- phere would hover’round their recitations and their faces!” Our hearts ache with sympathy for you as we think of your at- tempting to digest the combination of Geometry and Physics to the tune of “One More Year.” We know that we are leaving you at the tender age when you need us most, but the world wants us so much that we can- not stay. We hope that you will take with you these few valu- able words, ponder deeply upon them, and benefit thereby. It is the last thing we can do for you, so it is hard to know where to begin. As a class you especially need to cultivate interest in your work if you hope to succeed as we have done. Also rub off a little of your shyness. Had it not been for our Poet-Laureate, the Class of 1904 could have proudly boasted that it had no shy member. This is one of the great secrets of our success; one which we have guarded carefully until now. Think how much we love you! Follow our example in that respedt and surpass it if you can. We are pleased to note that your Bloomer Team has already made a start in this direction, though their practice hours are as yet only at dusk and dawn. There is one of your number who should cultivate constant- ly the spirit of generosity, for her inclination to always take just a little more (Moore) has already shown its bad effecft upon some of her classmates. Lloyd must learn to talk so that he can be heard and to smile occasionally. Walter must stop growing so rapidly. Elsa must add at least six inches to her height if she would not be mistaken for a Freshman. Milton must occasionally get on Detention, for we have heard that ‘The Good die young.” Harry has a record of which he may justly be proud. He might almost be taken for a Senior, for he has stood at the head of his Latin class all year. Libbie should assiduously cultivate more of the spirit of investigation, and it would be a great help to all of you if you would study carefully a few of the works of Mark Twain and Bill Nye to learn what a joke means and how to find the point. I will illus- trate my meaning in this case by giving you a joke. See if you can find the point. Our Baseball Team won a splendid vi 5tory at Mazomanie a few weeks ago—no; wait a few moments, that isn’t the joke!—and in honor of that vi 5tory was presented with a box of delicious bon-bons. A feast was planned for the noon hour, but by that time the box had taken wings, or feet, and disappeared. The Captain ordered a general search, but all in vain—the box could not be found. Now, that was a joke wasn’t it! The Juniors pitied and stormed by turns, until at last a Junior girl, whose tender heart must have been near breaking, revealed the hiding-place because she didn’t know a joke from the real thing. I am sorry that my time is limited—there is so much more that I ought to say, but the hour forbids. We leave you now to the tender care of Mr. Dixon. We know that he will realize fully what a model you have lost and judge your actions next year more leniently because he will know something of the sor- row that is in your hearts. Recall our example often and follow it as closely as you can. Of course you can never hope to equal us but the nearer you approach our standard the nearer you will be to perfection. And ever be thankful that it was your good fortune to be fol- lowers of such a class as this of 1904. George V. Accola. JUNIOR RESPONSE Most worthy, most mighty, most reverend, and most dis- appointing Seniors:— With deepest awe and reverence have we listened to your weighty words of admonition and advice. As your stream of eloquence poured forth we were reminded of Shakespeare’s Bassanio, who said, “Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them and when you have them they are not worth the search.” Your fair words of wisdom come late. You cannot undo the works of the past by one sermon no matter how wise. Through you, however, the Juniors of 1904 have arrived much earlier than most Juniors at the age of Discrimination and Dis- cretion. Three years have come and gone since we as un- sophisticated “Freshmen,” not knowing, and not knowing that we did not know, first made our faltering entrance into the High School world. Three years have we had you before us. We were your willing followers. From you we expected much. Have our expe 5tations been fulfilled? No; but your influence has not been lost and at times your inspiration has been great. We have marvelled at your persistence in Detention’s silent hours and have wondered that your interest should always be compound interest computed after four o’clock. In this we dare not hope to equal you. We bow to your superiority and promise that your faithful example shall not be lost. By your profound interest in Junior Geometry you have convinced us that you are not wholly a self-centered class as we were sometimes led to believe. Though we have often feared that this unselfish quality in you accounted for a few 60’s and 70’s in your own ranks, it has gratified us exceedingly to know that through us as missionaries the mysteries of geometry have at last been made clear to you. We feel that our hard digging for clear demonstrations was well worth while. It makes my heart happy as I think of a time in the far distant future when I shall hear some of you say. “If it had not been for the 1904 Junior geometry class back in the old High School I should never have understood that, 'A straight line is the shortest distance between two points.’ ” Then too, we shall always remember the military precision with which you Senior young men inspired the awe-stricken hearts of the Juniors as with measured step and hammering tread you pounded your way from class-room and “Lab.” Surely dear old Bobby Burns must have meant you when he said, “O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as ithers see us.” If time would allow me, I could use the remainder of the evening in pointing out to you the many individual beacon lights that will serve us in some cases as a guide to our future conduci, in others as a glaring warning, but I have only a few moments more, so I fear I shall have to disappoint some of you and leave unsaid much that I should like to say. In the St. Cecelia of your class, who has never failed us at the piano, we have found a good model of devotion to duty, of willingness and service. We shall not forget her. And Ken- neth with his music inspired soul has taught us to appreciate even the most classical flights by his devotion to, “I was seeing Nellie home.” We cannot tell you how we shall miss your “King of Argument.” Since he must leave us that cherished motto of his will ever keep him in our memory,—“Though you must swear that black is white, stick to your own opinion; in spite of reason, of textbooks, yea, of the universe.” And now “a feeling of sadness comes o’er me that is somewhat akin to pain,” —oh! whither shall our Junior girls turn when your poetess no longer furnishes the latest fads in hairdressing; when Katherine with her fetching hats and tilted head is gone; when William’s tender smile does not appear each morning! How lost we shall all be without Edwin’s smooth hair, high collar and sober face, Lilah’s little pout, Alta’s athletic tendencies, Lena’s devout deaconess doctrines, Mazie’s settled conviction that domestic science and agriculture should be added to the school curricu- lum, and the innocence depicted upon the brow of your worthy President when the siren Mischief lurked within the Senior precincts. Ah me! I fear we have failed to appreciate tile blessing of such a Senior class until the eleventh hour, but now let me thank you from the depths of our J unior hearts for all you have been to us. Seniors we shall miss you, but are glad to take your places. You have heard that every age should profit by the experience of the preceding; so should it be with classes, and when next Commencement night arrives in all its splendor, when the brilliant “Class of 1905“ shall have said its “Final Word,” the citizens of Prairie du Sac, speaking from the ful- ness of their hearts as they proudly gaze upon us, shall say, “This was a class, whence cometh such another!” Harry W. Cook, ’05. CLASS POEM Dere's a somethin’ in ma bein’ Keeps a rollin’ an’ a rollin’; An’ a beatin’ ’gainst ma bosom Lak de white caps o’ de sea. An’ de others o’ ma classes What’s all dat’s wise an knowin’, Say its dat “finest frenzy” Dat’s a gettin’ hold o’ me. Say it takes you in tie springtime When de flow’rs is bloomin’ gay, An’ de silver-noted birdlings Singin’ melodies all day. So it’s tuk me, soul an’ body, An’ it seems I must let free All de joyful thoughts an' mem’ries Dat come surgin’ over me. Dev’s some thinks as fun strikes deeper Dan e’en pathos’ tender strain; But to me dere’s nothin’ sweeter Dan de thoughts dat gives us pain; But dere’s two sides to ebry nature, An’ I’ll do de best I can To set off in fun an’ sadness All de members of ma clan. As a class we all was faithful, Did our duty lak we ought; Set a pattern for de Juniors, When as Seniors grand we walk’d Through a maze o’ solid learnin’, Through our Physics an our Art, An’ our Grammar, Burns, an’ Milton, (He so dear to ebry heart.) L,ak we walked on beds o’ roses, Nebber stumbled, nebber fell, Glided through some hot discussions Jes’ lak strollin’ through a dell Full o’ bloomin’, bright Spring flow’rs, ’Stead o' lessons, hard an’ deep; An’ the mem’ry o' our vidt’ries Comes a nigh to make me weep. For we re passin' from de ol days, From de friends we love so dear, From our teachers an' our classmates, To a world dat's ofttimes drear; Treatin’ coldly dem dat serve her. Chillin' hopes an' dre-ams fair; Still we’s shore dat all in our class Will succeed, no matter where. Yet it brings a sight o' longin’. An’ a tear we can’t keep back When we think an’ talk o’ leavin For de ol’ world’s din an hack All de dizzy, quiverin’ pleasures, All de frens an’ loves an’ cares O’ our joyous, rompin' school days, (Not without deir share o’ tears.) Somehow Phil, who looks so solemn Found sech funny things to say, Dat you shook wif silent laughter More dan fifty times a day; But he's alius so surprisin’— An’ under dis outside shell Dere’s a brain dat’s good fo’ somethin’, Fo’ he tuk to learnin’—well— Lak it wasn’t a speck o’ trouble; So we made him President, But den William’s most up with him With a will dat won't be bent ’Neath a deal o’ work an crammin’, ’Neath a deal o’ notes an such, For he’s goin’ to be a teacher; An’ although it beats de Dutch How dat boy complains o us town folks, Still we lak him just de same, An’ we hope he’ll treat heaps better All de chilluns he strives to tame An’ to guide in his way o learnin ; An’ den when dat job is done, May he win de sweet girl Freshie Dat he wants for his school ob one! Den dere’s Kate wif eyes a dancin An' her heart a beatin time, When she hears in accents solemn Dat she's passed her ninety-nine O' de studies which she carried: An' dey didn't kill her quite. For you see she s here amongst us Wif a “Welcome ' speech to-night. Now tho' Kenneth 's short an' stubby, He will pass the muster good. For he's tough as toughest leather Or a stick o’ willow wood; An’ he’ll stand a deal o‘ quizzin', Or detentions, tests an' such. Wif a face jest like a deacon's An’ a look—“Oh I don’t care much.'' Next comes George who's alius good-natured, An’ de well known sage ob school; No one dared doubt his opinion For he’d sho’ think, “Hear dat fool!” Oh! When dere’s a Grammar sentence Lak, “She gave to him a kiss;” How can 1905’s discuss it Wifout, “Now, to diagram this?” Now tho’ Edwin looks so sober. Yet he suits us all to a T; For de calmest nature he has, From de troubles we have—free. An’ dere’s Lena who’s so prudent Dat she can’t a Nickel spare; If we dare to ask her for one, You should see de blushes rare. Den dere’s Mazie an dere’s Lilah Who are both well known to you; Dey are alius seen together, Though deir friends are not a few; An’ we hope dat in de future Where eber our lots are cast, We may often meet together For to talk o' times dat’s past. An’ we’ve Alta from de prairie, Well,—she came down here to board; ’Spite perplexities an’ trials, She has passed de tiresome horde O’ exams an' tests an’ quizzes, Dat wif open tuoufs an' wide Stri 5tly guard de doors ob learuin’. Temptin’ you to stay outside. Den our Flora, dear an' dainty, She so faithlul an’ so true; All de year she played de music, An’ we love her—yes we do. Also Angelo our Special, We do thank wif fullest heart; For despite, Now in Milwaukee,’ Our “Class Annual” shows his art. An’ as I too am a Senior, I have done be best I can To set off in fun an' sadness All de members o’ ma clan; But befo’ we end dis story, It is surely justly due Dat some words ob tender tribute We should pay our teachers true. In our joys an’ in our sorrows, Thro’ discouragements a score, Our Professor has been patient, Could we eber lub one more! A harsh word he nebber gave us. Den he laughed our fears away, An’ it’s through his tireless efforts We have reached this goal to-day. An’ de other High School teachers, De ones dat we troubled most; ? We leave them wif heart sick longin s An' good wishes by de host. We’d not care to stand in deir shoes Or instructors eber be, ’Cept to perfect little angels, Like de class we used to be. But oh dear! I’m well nigh weepin', A big tear is flowin’ sho’, For I soon must leave de ol times An’ it is so hard to go. Oh! it seems I can t control ’em, Dese regrets I feel so sore, ’Cause in me dey find expression Fo’ de whole class—1904! Cora K. T. Page. THE PRAIRIE OP THE SACS As we look out upon this beautiful village of ours and the magnificent surroundings that Nature has so bountifully lavished upon us, it is hard for the younger generation at least, to realize that until the year 1838 all this was inhabited by the Sac Indian; that his wigwams were scattered throughout this prairie; his canoes went noiselessly up and down the winding Wisconsin; that this was his stream, his bluffs, and his land. Let us think for a few moments of Sauk County without its white men and their habitations, and imagine if we can what the Red man lost when the march of civilization pushed him westward. First there was the prairie of about sixty square miles sur- rounded by high bluffs covered with the beautiful silvery birch, which furnished materials for his canoe, the oak, the stately poplar, the pine with its dark evergreen branches contrasting so vividly with the snows of winter, maples gorgeous in their autumn tints, the graceful elm, the fragrant cedar, the bass- wood, and shrubs of every sort, from the witchhazel growing near the spring, dogwood with its feathery blossoms and its glistening red berries, the woodbine and the bitter sweet, to the little wintergreen with its sweet berries, growing at the foot of the pines. The Potsdam sandstone of which the sides of the bluffs are partly composed, contains numerous caverns, affording homes for wild animals, and nesting places for some of the birds that made the forests ring with their sweet music. There were partridges, pigeons, quail, prairie chickens, ducks, geese, squir- rels, rabbits, gophers, chipmunks, raccoons, deer, bears, wild- cats, wolves, foxes, badgers and woodchucks. To Lo the poor Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind,” this must have been the ideal of his future Happy Hunting Ground.” In the spring and summer wild flowers bloomed in pro- fusion, and there was the picturesque beauty of the Baraboo Bluffs with the grandeur of the scenery of Devils Lake, which now draws tourists from all over the country; Pine Hollow, where in early spring before the frost is all out of the ground, may be found that dainty and fragrant little flower, the trailing arbutus; Skillet Falls, which are now the scene of many a pic- nic; and standing about midway of the prairie is the grand old isolated rock, known as Johnson’s Bluff, giving a full view from its summit of the entire prairie. Amidst all this grandeur roamed the Red man in his proud independence. His wants were few and simple, and their gratification was near at hand. He knew every foot of his ground, where to find the best fish and game, and the haunts of the wild beasts which supplied him with clothing, shelter, food, and medicine. Here the Sac Indians, a branch of the Algon- quins, built their villages, raised their maize, made their Indian mounds for the burial of their dead, hunted and fished, and were monarchs of all they surveyed. One Indian village was where Sauk City now stands; some of the mounds are still to be seen at Stone’s Pocket; farmers of Prairie du Sac often find arrows of stone and copper in their fields and meadows. An Indian trail crossed our Prairie in its course from Prairie du Chien to Portage, and the path was deep- ly worn. But in 1838 after the treaty with the Winnebagoes for land north of the Wisconsin was ratified, White men began to push into the valley with the intention of settling. Berry Haney, Jonathan Taylor, and Solomon Shore marked out claims; that of Haney was on the spot where Sauk City has since been built. Gradually the Indian was driven from his favorite haunts, west- ward and ever westward into remoter forests, and to parts where the White man does not wish to go. No wonder he hated the race that recognized no rights of the Indian, that deprived him of his home and of his lands, felled his trees, dammed his streams, drove his game from its accustomed places, and left him to poverty and distress. He fought long and hard for his home, and his beautiful prairie paradise, but in the end the White man conquered, and slowly and sadly the Red man and his wigwam vanished from the place he loved. The first man to turn the virgin soil was “Uncle Billy Johnson,” who did the first plowing with the rude breaking plow which has always stood in front of the old log cabin on the Johnson farm. Oxen did duty instead of horses. Sauk Prairie has been to Sauk County what the nursery is to the orchard, and now the ox-team is a thing of the past, the gang plow has taken the place of the old wooden beam, and we have the steam roller mill instead of the giant coffee mill with which “Uncle Billie” ground corn for his neighbors. Our rivers are spanned by bridges of stone and iron, strong enough to carry safely our powerful engines. The smoke stack and the chimney are seen in place of the wigwams and the council fire, and there are fertile fields where once the Indian with his rude im- plements cultivated his maize. Fine residences, churches busi- ness blocks, and school houses furnish a striking contrast to the wandering Indian life. The bark canoe, gliding silently through the water, gave way first to rafts laden with lumber for the con- struction of dwelling and business houses. Then came the noisy steamboat, and where the Red men trod in silence, Indian file, often leaving no trail behind, now come the puffing rail- road train, wagons and buggies, bicycles and whizzing automobiles. Today to most of us an Indian is a curiosity, and if it were not for history and the slight traces left behind, we could not believe that this glorious prairie was once the home of the Sacs from which it gets its poetic name Prairie du Sac; but we can faintly imagine what the loss of such a dwelling place must have meant to the race to whom its wild beauty appealed so strongly. Kenneth Premo. View of Prairie du Sac. - V A FINAL WORD Another school year has ended. To most of you the end may not have seemed different from that of other years, but to us it has been vastly different. Hitherto when the last day of school arrived, it was to us but an incident, not an event. We looked forward to attending the Commencement Exercises, were elated at the thought that we were gradually nearing the com- pletion of our High School course, were glad to be free for a long, happy vacation and anticipated the gay return to school in September. This year, all is changed. Now our Commencement is al- most over. Our historian has given you an interesting account of our class career, our fair prophetess has lifted the mystic veil of the future just a little that you might catch a glimpse of the brilliant future of the Class of 1904, and when I have said a final word or so, as we close this program, our career as a class will be ended. In the morning when we awake it will be with the vague sense that something that has been ours is ours no longer. Al- though the dividing line between the then and the now is but the width of one night’s shadow, it marks the end of one epoch of our lives and the beginning of another. We know that we shall find the new epoch very different from the old, although the old must furnish us the foundation for the new. For many of us the education we have now ob- tained will be our only capital as we start out in life, and we shall be indebted to our High School training for whatever of honor and success may come to us. During the past four years our responsibilities have been few. We have faced and mastered many difficulties but our daily tasks have been definitely laid out for us to keep us on- ward toward this cherished goal, and our teachers have ever been near to lend a helping hand when the obstacles were so great that we could not overcome them. Henceforward we must depend upon our own strength, lay plans for ourselves, and shoulder our own resposibilities. Upon the thoroughness with which we have labored the past four years and the power we have gained by that labor, rests much of the possibility for our success now wherever we may go or whatever we may do. As we look into the future our hopes make it bright and we know that if we follow faithfully the motto we have chosen and “Push” forward with a firm, clear purpose and a high ideal ever before us, we shall not fail to win new laurels for the Prairie du Sac High School which we all love so well. And now before we go, we fain would pause a few moments at the parting of the ways to say farewell to many scenes which will soon be naught but a memory. Farewell to Detention which has cost us so many weary hours after school; to Macaulay and to Milton within whose dry and classic line we toiled so painfully and so long. Farewell to our many sad mistakes in Grammar Review, to the very correct maps of Wisconsin which we drew with so much originality, and,—one long farewell to the dear Juniors to whom we have so freely given of our wisdom. We shall greatly miss the happy meetings in the old school building and the pleasant gatherings around the laboratory table performing experiments. We shall miss our teachers and the rest, and I am certain that in the autumn when the school bell sends forth again its merry call, we shall all feel sad when we realize that It is not calling us but others who have taken our places. To the Board of Education we are greatly indebted for the generous means they have furnished us through their deep interest in the duties that our citizens have placed upon them. A school cannot do its best work without a Board of Education that recognizes its various needs and does its best to supply them. Gentlemen, we thank you heartily and we bid you “Farewell.” We cannot word our appreciation of the patient assistance, earnest efforts and deep interest our Instructors have given us throughout our High School days. To those who are with us tonight we sincerely say, “We hope your memory of us may be as pleasant as our memory of you.” Fellow-classmates, we have reached the end toward which we have labored so happily together for the past four years. As a class we now must separate but let us hope that the ties which our association has made are so strong that they will bring us often together and ever keep 11s one in spirit as we go forth to achieve new honors for ourselves and for our school. And now', Schoolmates, Teachers, Citizens, and Board, thanking you for your kind interest in us and our Commence- ment, we, the Class of 1904, bid you “Good-night” and “Good-bye.” Lilah Keysar. JUST FOR PUN Familiar Expressions:— “O Lordv!” 'What? who? why?” $ Little George Honest, The baby of our class, When you try to tease him He always gives you sass. Little Georgie Honest. He’s nice to have about; When he tries to tease you. You better just look out. —Sophomore. But still iu fancy vanquished every maid.”—Angelo. «- $ Innocence abroad.”—Philip. Choicest things come done in smallest parcels.”—Flora. “Her tender age, her form so fair, Her easy motion, her attractive air.”—Mazie. 9 Mi • A face demure but, oh, those eyes!”—Lilah; For she was jes’ a quiet kind.”—Lena. «• Would there were more like her.”—Cora. 9 « ‘Seldom we find such.”—William. 9 ■� 'Unco pack and thick thegithcr :— Mr. D. and “My Wife.” George and Philip. Walter R. and his excuses. Bessie and Gertrude. Milton and Detention. Miss S. and her conscience. Miss A. and her blushes. « 9 Calmly he looks on life.”—George. 'We live but for to love her.”—Katharine. • $ A face like a benediction.”—Edwin. “A jolly good fellow altogether. —Alta. a a a ’Tis passing strange how he will sit and brood and think. ’ —Kenneth. m a « Now my ideal is—well, ask my wife!”—Mr. D. m a How would you diagram this? —G. A-c-1-. - a A Hard-of-hearing Freshie. (In hall after Singing School.) He. (tremblingly) ‘‘Will you need company home? She. “What?” He. (somewhat louder) “Will you need company home?' She. “What?” He. (much louder) “Will you need company home? She. Oh! no; I’ve got to wait for the girls! � - Teacher. “Decline kiss.’ ” Senior girl. “I can t. •� “Say, Miss Astle, aren’t you Guy-ing us. ’ � Pokev. It wearies me to walk For when I move around I have to lift my foot And put it on the ground. —A Sophomore. am What’s in a name? Kroll. a a a “Such was her smile as ancient bards have told.” —Miss Astle. a a a “Generous to a fault, Benign in all; to all. —School Board. HIGH Accola George Buehler Flora Ganser William Gasser Edwin Hatz Lena Keysar Lilah Accola Dora Bickford Charles Cook Ham' Felix Crertrude Gasser Elsa Graves Grace Hatz Sara King Libbie Marquette Delia Avery Frank Bernhardt Leta Cook George Fove Bessie Graff Edna Haskins Alma Hahn Henry Accola Lawrence Baldwin Howard Carpenter Stella SCHOOL ROLL SENIORS Keysar Mazie Meyer Philip Page Cora Premo Kenneth Ryan Katharine Teel Alta JUNIORS Parker Mark Ragatz Arthur Ryan Julia Schellenberger Walter Sprecher Mildred Steuber Milton Tamutzer Lloyd Waffenschmidt Selma Witwen Laura SOPHOMORES Keller Addie Kindschi Alta King Frank Myers Elsie Reuland Walter Steuber Helen Sprague Rosalie ERESHMEN Luetscher Laura Lindsey Martha Page Harry Hatz Hazel Premo Garth Haskins Leslie Ryan Mamie Hill Dora Rischmiller PUla Keller Sena Schoephorster Henry Keller Harry Sprecher John Kindschi Emma Witwen Edna Kindschi Bennie Waite Russell Lotz Alice SPECIAL Clas Angelo Walter Sehellenberger Arthur Ragatz Walter Keuland Russell Waite Charles Bickford Angelo Clas Howard Baldwin Lloyd Tarnutzer Philip Meyer George Accola BASEBALL TEAM 1904 Manager...............George Accola '04 Captain,..............Philip Meyer ’04 Treasurer.........Charles Bickford ’05 Philip Meyer ’04......................................Pitcher George Accola ’04.....................................Catcher Arthur Ragatz ’05................................First Base Charles Bickford ’05.............Second Base and Left Field Angelo Clas......................Second Base and Right Field Russell Waite ’07.....................Right Field and Sub. Howard Baldwin ’07 Wm. Ganser ’04 J................................Thlrd Base Lloyd Tarnutzer ’05.............................Short Stop Walter Reuland ’06 Kenneth Premo ’04 J............................. John Sprecher '07..............................Center Field RECORD OPPONENTS. P. D. S. 1. Prairie du Sac vs. Mazomanie 4 5 2. Prairie du Sac vs. Mazomanie 4 6 3. Prairie du Sac vs. Lodi 10 4. Prairie du Sac vs. Sauk City 7 18 5. Prairie du Sac vs. “Town Team”. 7 8 6. Prairie du Sac vs. Lodi 16 10 7. Prairie du Sac vs. Sumpter 10 16 ALUMNI OF THE PRAIRIE DU SAC HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1891. Persis Bennett (Mrs. Benj. Thomas)..........Greenview, 111. Evelyn Farr (Mrs. A. E. Fey)................Prairie du Sac. Ethel Shull—Teacher,........................New Castle, Pa. Class of 1892. Arthur Cole—Farmer................ Louise Conger (Mrs. O. E. Dietrich). Marie Fischer—Distri 5t Teacher,.... Class of 1894 Bessie Bundy—Music Teacher,...............Prairie du Sac. Nelle Hatz (Mrs. L. H. Stone).............Sumpter, Wis. Cora Schneider—Teacher....................Madison, Wis. Anna Schneller—Teacher,...................Prairie du Sac. Frederick Steuber—Principal of Schools,.Dodgeville, Wis. West Point, Wis. ... Rockford, 111. .. .Sumpter, Wis. Class of 1895. Florence Bickford (Mrs. Geo. Meyer)........Prairie duSac. Nellie Hyland,..............................Delton, Wis. Class of 1896. Bessie Buckley—'Teacher,.................Milwaukee, Wis. Lawrence Steuber—Buttermaker,...............Witwen, Wis. Class of 1897. Ida Hatz—District Teacher,.....................Black Hawk, Wis. Susie Herron—Seamstress,........................Prairie du Sac. Herman Lolir—Farmer...........................Honey Creek, Wis. Wm. Ryan—Senior Law Student,......................Madison, Wis. Alfred Grotophorst—Salesman,....................Prairie du Sac. Class of 1898. Mary Waterbury—Student State University......Madison, Wis. Henry Young—Associate Editor ‘ ‘Western Electrician,” Chicago. Class of 1899. Ella Bickford,.............................Prairie du Sac. Louis Cooper Student Harvard.............Cambridge, Mass. John Accola—Merchant............................Prairie du Sac. Charles Colby—Farmer,......................Prairie du Sac. George Campbell..........................Milwaukee, Wis. Fred Hankwitz,.....................................Beloit, Wis. Kate Herron,...............................Prairie du Sac. Ruth Hutchins—Music Teacher,...............Prairie du Sac. Washington Ochsner—Student State University, Madison, Wis. Ella Schneller—Student Northwestern College, Naperville, 111. Ed ware Steidtmann—Student State University,. .Madison, Wis. Class of 1900. Anna Boehmer,.............................Prairie du Sac. Rose Battmgarth...........................Prairie du Sac. David Conger—Engraver,...........................Chicago; 111. Cora Hubbard (Mrs. Will Just).............Prairie du Sac. Dorothy Hatz—Distri 5t Teacher,...........Sumpter, Wis. Ernest Haskins—Farmer.....................Sumpter, Wis. Effie Mather,.............................Sumpter, Wis. Clara Merkel,............................Sauk City, Wis. Ardelia Meyer—Teacher,...................Lime Ridge, Wis. George Shell—Machinist.......................Madison, Wis. Otto Sprecher—Bank Clerk................Independence, Wis. Minnie Weirich,..............................Sumpter, Wis. Fred Weaver—Salesman..........................Sharon, Wis. Class op 1901. Alma Buehler (Mrs. Roy Stoddard)...........Prairie du Sac. Cynthia Francis,..........................Prairie du Sac. Emma Hatz—Student Northwestern College,.. . .Napervill, 111. Herman Merkel—Farmer,.....................Sauk City, Wis. Irving Myers—Beekeeper,......................Portage, Wis. Jennie Payne (Mrs. C. Rich)..................Sumpter, Wis. Martha Payne.................................Sumpter, Wis. Anna Ryan—Teacher,........................West Point, Wis. Mabel Stone—Teacher............................Irving, S. D. Class of 1902. Robert Bailey—Stenographer N. W. R. R. Office, Kaukana, Wis. Elsie Baumgarth—District Teacher,....................Eeland, Wis. Lena Boehmer—District Teacher,..................Honey Creek, Wis. Henry Gasner—Mail Carrier,................Prairie du Sac. Albert Gruber—Farmer,.....................Prairie du Sac. Clara Haines—Teacher........................Merrimac, Wis. Charles Hatz—Salesman,....................Prairie du Sac. Margaret Keller—District Teacher,...............Honey Creek, Wis. Katlialeen Lampraan—Primary (Asst.).......Prairie du Sac. Dayton Payne—Farmer...........................Sumpter Wis. Ida Pretch—Teacher..........................Merrimac. Wis. Class of 1903. Mabel Bickford. Edward Fitzgerald—Student Armour Institute...Chicago, 111. Herbert Gross—Teacher,......................Royalton, Wis. F'rank Kendall—Clerk Loan Real Estate Office, Topeca, Kan. F)lzena Meyer—District Teacher............Prairie du Sac. Edward Meyer—District Teacher...........Honey Creek, Wis. Vivian Reynolds—Music Student,.............Reedsburg, Wis. Myrtle Stoddard,..........................Prairie du Sac. Agnes Schluter—Distri 5t Teacher..........Prairie du Sac. Frank Shell. Deceased. t High School Building u. Now we mmt come away. V hat areyou , out of pocket? Jot But mfibodvsj vemust And the caudles down to the socket- Its horrible tadlowy socket f99 I ARE FIT TO LIVE IN Fit fine Feel fine Girdle Gipsy Exclusive Agency for the “137” “121” CRESCO CORSET Fashion Hip “Cannot break at the sides or “137” “171” waist” Straight Front Lulu Nazareth and Ferris Waists for Superb Form Children. Flatz, Accola Co. Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin All The People Are happy When They Are Using E. D. Gruber’s Rockers, Pelt Matresses, Bed Springs, Bed-room Suites, Couches, Dining Room Tables, Chairs, Go Carts, Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. ’PHONE 101 Store and Residence. UNDERTAKING and EMBALMING. E. D. Gruber Prairie du Sac Wisconsin 4 4 4 4 J Prairie du Sac, M. C. MOORE Wisconsin 4 4 4 4 4 4 t 4 4 4 ! 4 4 4 4 4 4 Eor Pine Candies, fruits, Ice-cream, Ice-cream jt 4 4 4 Soda, Choice Tobacco and Cigars go to 4 ' E. J. BUEHLER J ( t PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN J f BUY YOUR ? Hardware, Stoves and Tinware $ or ... . J ) I For Pure Drugs, Toilet Soaps, Perfumes, | 4 .... Go to ... . 4 4 4 J Kendall Drug Company j Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin J 4 A large line of books and fancy stationery on hand 4 RELIABLE SHOES EOR LADIES, MEN AND CHILDREN. That is the kind we keep. Our stock is larger and more complete than ever before in the many new styles, shapes and leathers shown this season. Fine oxfords and slippers for ladies house and street wear in patent leather and vici kid. Our prices are al- ways the lowest on uptodate, pretty shoes. The fol- lowing question was asked a brilliant young army officer. “If given the command of the army, what would you do first?” “See that every soldier was provided with two pair of well-made, well-fitting shoes” was the answer. Now if you want well fit- ting, easy shoes come to us, our prices are always the lowest. Stylish Shoes For Ladies. Qoh Pofranta Vlcl Kid’ dul1 uP’|Pera K� o l year welt, as good as any uull nCgdllld pera, a handsome | $3.00 shoe at.$2.50 dreS88hoe............00 Coli DnwQl Rhio PateIlt Cfl|7 Mice PhinQirn B,ack ViciI D'U® Leather or Vici OOl£ Irildo Ulllbdgu Kid, dull up-1 Kid, a regular $4.00 value at.$3.50 Shoes for Men. Selz Royal Blue Mon’s Perfecto r ™ in all leathers at...$3.50 | or Box Calf, a regular $3.50 shoe $3.00 Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. 4 We always have a complete liue of men’s and boys’ clothing. You will always find the latest weaves made up in the latest styles, patterns that are sure to please you. If you are in need of a suit call on us, get the best and the latest at the lowest price. The Red front Cash Store Schneller, Eelix Company L- Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin f $ t i t JEWEL STEEL RANGES are made as good stoves should be made—to last a long while and do perfect work while they do last. Quality and Economy— That’s It! If it is a genuine Jewel Steel Range, a fuel saver, made in the largest Stove Plant in the World, it will have this trade mark and the makers’ name, “DETROITSTOVE WORKS” cast on it. Don’t accept a substitute you low fuel bills. We sell and recommend Jewels because we know them. We also carry a full line of Hardware, Tinware and Gasoline and Oil Stoves Get our prices before buying elsewhere Repair work neatly and promptly done STODDARD LEIGH PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN $ $ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 •- ..For all the. Reliable News of Sauk County’s Twin Cities as well as Sauk and the adjoin- ing counties you should read .......THE SAUK COUNTY NEWS It’s a non-political, independent, clean, newsy newspaper and the price is only $1.00 A YEAR Our Job Department is equipped with new power presses, new type and other im- proved machinery required in the make-up of a first class printing office. This enables us to turn out high grade work promptly. Give us your next order and be convinced. Our prices are as low as the lowest. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • CONGER-GROTOPHORST CO. j PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN. We take pleasure in offering to the public the most complete stock of General Merchandise in southern Sauk County. It is always thoroughly assorted with all the bright, new and uptodate merchandise. We wish to call your attention particularly to one feature of our business which must appeal to every intelli- gent buyer of goods. The completeness of our stock at all seasons of the year. The advantage of being able to select your wants from the largest stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Carpets, Shoes, Etc. is apparent and need not to be empha- sized. A few of our special lines. O. W. Richardson Superlative Carpets. Broad- head Dress Goods, made at Jamestown, N. J. Cape- land and Ryder Shoes. American Beauty Corsets. Sherwin Williams Paints. Pittsburg Perfect Woven Fences. Prices always the lowest, consistent with values. CONGER-GROTOPHORST COMPANY Prairie du Sac, Wisconsi n For a good hair-cut or shave go to GEORGE E. FEY Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin General Wagon, Carriage Repair Shop Horse-shoeing and Machine Repair Work Chris. Ragatz Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin H. . . GO TO . . . . G. VOGEL Prairie du Sac Wisconsin For Choice Fresh and Salt Meats All Kinds of Sausages Always on Hand General Blacksmith and RepairShop JOHN KOCH, Prop. Plow Repairing and Hand Made Horse Shoes a Specialty PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN -%. � ► - fc. ■ .' %. . Leonard Ploetz DEALER IN Vehicles and Farm Implements Binders, Mowers, Seeders, Drills, Buggies, Road Wagons, Road Machines, Threshing Machines, Binder Twine, Etc. Agent for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. Prairie d u Sac, Wisconsin W. Ii. Tarnutzer A. H. Tarnutzer Tarnutzer Brothers Livery and Sale Stable First Class in Every Respect. Prices Reason- able. Rigs Furnished With or Without Driver. Dray Line in Connection Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin DR. T. HENRY RAGATZ DENTIST PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN J. P. Doll Geo. Doll DOLL BROTHERS —Dealers In «-• Binders, Mowers, Seeders, Drills, Buggies, Road Wagons, Road Machines, Threshing Machines, Binder Twine, Etc. Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin i i 0 1 1 e - 9 I % 1 $ Capital, $25,ooo. Surplus and Profits, $6,ooo THE SAUK BANK Prairie du Sac, - - Wisconsin J. S. TRIPP, President C. I. KINDSCHI, Vice President O. E. STONE, Cashier Transacts a General Banking Business. Accounts of firms, Corporations and Individuals Received on favorable Terms. I Ragatz The Jeweler « i ■ i 1 i § $ I ■ 9 9 i i ■ % i Watches, Clocks, Silverware and Cut Glass Repairing and Optical Work a Specialty Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. “A Diamond is not so Precious as a Tooth.” -DOJf QUIROTE A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH Has often been worth more to a lovely woman than a good many diamonds. DR. JACOB SENTY Makes a successful specialty of saving the natural teeth. His office is conveniently located over Klipstein Bros.’ Furniture Store. Office Hours: 8:30—12 m. 1—5 p.m. PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN. Brittingham Hixon Lumber Co. Dealers In Lumber, Sash, Doors and Building Material A. A. Piller, Local Mgr. PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN W. F. STEUBER MASON CONTRACTOR AND DEALER IN MASON BUILDING MATERIAL CEMENT WORK A SPECIALTY Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 « 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 IF IN NFED OF Furnitur e Carpets, Wall Paper, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines, Glass of all Sizes Go to THE BIG STORE OF KLIPSTEIN BROTHERS We Carry a Full Line of Undertaking Goods and do Embalming Hearse Furnished at Reasonable Price. PRAIRIE DU SAC, WISCONSIN. Mrs. F. Gasser Fine Millinery and Fancy Goods (Established 1888.) Latest Styles in Ladies' and Misses’ Hats Correct Prices toy All Orders Receive Prompt Attention Prairie du Sac Wisconsin ...WHEN IN NEED OF A FINE. Watch or Clock, a nice piece of Jewelry or Silverware a good Fountain Pen or something in the line of Silver Novelties F. S. EBERHART the City Jeweler Optician has a fine and complete line Orders taken for class rings. Watch repairing, fitting glasses and hand en- graving a specialty. .As a side line umbrellas recovered and repaired. Prairie du Sac Machine Shop F. J. REULAND, Prop. . . . Dealer In . . . GASOLINE ENGINES AND EXTRAS Gasoline and Steam Engine Repairing a Specialty Saws Gummed Agency for the Air-Cooled Motor Co. Gasoline Engine 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Prairie du Sac Feed Mill and Electric Light Plant JOHN M. MEISSER PROPRIETOR Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin We always pay the highest market price for Hides, Pelts and Furs J. J. OCHSNER Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin Bring your potatoes and poultry ....to.... R. P. MILLER Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin Patronize our Advertisers