Sauk City High School - Sauk Log Yearbook (Sauk City, WI)

Text from Pages 1 - 90 of the 1907 volume:

Commencement Annual Published by The SENIOR CLASS of tbe Sauk City High School Sauk City. Wisconsin 1907 Printed by The REEDSBURG TIMES Reedsburg. Vi8. tbe patrons of tbe $auk City Public Schools tbrougb tobose generosity our schools bane been so liberally assisteD in tbeir ontoarD progress, tbe e D i t o r s respectfully DcDicatc tbis book. 6oarti of education ROBERT BUERKI Director ROBERT HOMBERGER Clerk CHAS. SCHLUNGBAUM T reasurer Courses of tulip of the Sauk City High School ENGLISH COURSE FIRST YEAR First Semester— Second Semester— Algebra Algebra Physical Geography Yi Botany Vi English English Literary Reading Literary Reading SECOND YEAR Botany Vi Physiology Ancient History Ancient History Arithmetic Constitution English English THIRD YEAR Geometry Geometry Medieval History English History Economics Rhetoric English English FOURTH YEAR Physics Physics American History Americau History Advanced Algebra Theory and Art English English GERMAN COURSE First two years same as English Course THIRD YEAR First Semester— Second Semester— Geometry Geometry Medieval History English History German German English English FOURTH YEAR Physics American History German Literature Physics American History German Advanced Algebra U)tgb School tErarbcrs M. T BUCKLEY Principal (Sratic Cracbrrs MISS IDA GIEGERICH Intermediate Department MISS LILLIAN HUTTER Primary Department Class (Drgan attons Officers of the Senior Class President .... Robert M. Rieser Vice President ... Walter Truckenbrodt Secretary ..... Annette Lang 1 reasurer .... Lynda Homberger Officers of the Junior Class President .... Katherine Hahn Vice President .... George Just Secretary - Mamie Meyer Treasurer ..... Ralph Derleth Officers of the Sophomore Cl ass President - - - Della Woerth Vice President - - - Arthur Lemm Secretary - - - Alma Becker Treasurer - - - Rosa Lueth Officers of the Freshman Class President ... Rebecca Von Grueningen Vice President .... Louis Ziemke Secretary .... Joseph Coenen Treasurer .... irma Schlungbaum f Commmcemrnt -Program Overture Grand March Orchestra Entrance of Class Solo I (a.) “Thine for Life” — Mascheroni I , — I (b.) “Absent -Metcalf f L E Weiland Our Foremothers America, Mistress of the Sea Purity in Politics Annette Lang Eugene Reif Robert M. Rieser Instrumental Duet - The Misses Naffz and Truckenbrodt Forestry in Wisconsin - - Walter Truckenbrodt Our School—Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow Lynda Homberger Music, “Bridal Chorus”—Arr. from “The Rose Maiden”— by Cowens Quartette—Mrs. W. C. Schorer, Mrs. O. Hahn, Mr. L. E. Weiland, Mr. A. Marquardt Presentation of Diplomas Farewell Waltz M. T. Buckley Orchestra Class Motto—“Rank is our aim.” Class Color -Azure Blue and Silver. Floral Emblem—Lily of the Valley. € ttr JForemotJjrrs ANNETTE LANG AF ur foremothers ! What sweetness does the name mother in any of its relations bring to the human mind ! We should repeat again and again that word It tells of sacrifices from the dawn of history when woman was sister to the brute —the mere slave of man—to this time when she is a monarch in her own home. Fore-Mothers ! that word has meaning high minded, sin- cere, active, self-sacrificing. Repeat it to-day and do it reverence. The churches do honor to their saints; the great nations do honor to their heroes; let the world to-day pledge its love to her who is a hero and a saint in all ages and all nations. It is her right for to-day the world lives in all her grandeur and all her hopes thru the influence of womanhood. Our fore-mothers! There is no history more painful to read, more pathetic, than the history of woman from the time when she was a slave—a clod of the earth—until now when she has taken her place the equal of her more fortunate brother in nearly all nations. In pre-christian civilization woman was without honor or rights. The intellectual centres of Rome and Greece did not acknowledge her. A low estimate was placed on woman as an essential element of their civilization. They did not at- tempt to enrich or elevate womanhood, and for this defect not all the victories achieved by their legions, not all the wealth gathered by the proconsuls from the countries of the world could make a compensation. A Roman citizen—a proud title this in olden days; the nation owned none prouder. But the government of Rome was a government of the men, by the men and for the men, and a reflection of this thought was found in her laws. Woman’s tender influence was lost to the nation. Grecian woman, and especially the Athenian woman, was more to be pitied. The brave Athenian warrior did not esteem or respect his wife. She was shut out from social life. She was prisoner in her own home. Her very life was at the caprice of her husband. Her children were torn from her arms at a tender age to become the property of the state. Man was a law unto himself. He was without love, and with- out love the family was impossible, or became impossible in our ancient civilization. The family is the source of society; the wife is the source of the family. If the source of the family is despised and degraded was it any wonder that these nations of Southern Europe soon decayed ? Was it any won- der that after four centuries of impurity, immorality, and riotous living that righteousness should assert itself? Is there any wonder that the time came when a new world and a new civilization should be born? Then came a time when God’s designs became apparent. Even as the storm cloud bursts forth and sweeps the earth in its relentless force—so from the fastness of the North came forth dreadful hordes of men—men without mercy—men without history or written language and they came, Goth and Visigoths, Huns and Vandals, onward sweeping carrying destruction in their hands. Rome went down before them. All her glory departed, and so the civili- zation of Greece and Rome was completely destroyed at the close of the 5th century. 4000 years of work had to be done over again. But this new civilization was to permit woman’s love to reign supreme. The history of Christendom furnishes illustrations abundant of the noble and effective part which Christian women have played in this regenerative work. For centuries her work was done in epochs of barbarism, lawlessness, uncultured natural childhood; or general luxury and relaxation of morals. In such eras manly virtue was rare, ever ready to lose what had been gained. But the mother at home was not so ready to give up the best that was in life in these dark ages. Her gentle purifying influence went out to sanctify and redeem society. The highest in the lower order touches the superior in the next above it. So the individual woman’s influence mellowed the character of the family, and the hope of humanity lies in the sanctity of the family. Woman’s part has been a various and dignified one. As the family life became strict woman’s influence was increased. It was then that woman placed her name high on the roll of honor. From these retreats the gentle, purifying, refining, influences of woman went forth. Some by their boundless munificence and magnanimous counsels have been worthy helpmates of rulers in their undertakings. Others like the two Elizabeths, and Margaret of Scotland, in the middle ages have been, as queens, the mothers and examples of nations. God has so ordained that woman should be the indispensable companion of man in all his work. The Apostles had the holy women as companions. The names of Abraham and Sara, of Isaac and Rebecca, Ferdinand and Isabella, are indissolubly associated in glory. With the dawn of modern times woman became more and more emancipated. Historians tell us that during this period woman has been greatly elevated and enobled and that she should be grateful to man for this advancement. Historians do her an injustice. Nobility of character is an inward growth, and can be conferred by no man or set of men. Her fight for liberty and recognition has been a hard fight. She waged it herself and won. She merits the gratitude of the entire world, for what she has accomplished for herself, for home and society. When General Halofernes was sent by the Assyrian king to subdue all nations and forego their national existence, it was a woman who stopped his onward march. The inspired writer in describing this patriotic act said: “Thou art the glory of Jerusalem; thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honor of our people ’’ Judith was not the only woman who did great things for the people, and the words of Scripture were meant in a higher, nobler sense for all women of all ages in the onward march of progress. Never has the position of woman changed more radically than since 1800. She is a part in the body politic. In certain states she is a recognized voter with full rights of citizenship. Does she not also receive in those states the same protection as to property and in the administration of the law as man has ? Everywhere the justice of this re-arrangement of rights has been accepted. In many places there are movements on foot looking to the early passage of laws which make woman a citizen in the enjoyment of the fullest rights contemplated under the original declaration of our liberties. Having a vote woman will be able to help her unfortunate sisters, to rescue the government of the cities from corruption and to take an active part in the reformation of those man made laws legalizing vice in all forms, in the upbuilding of juster ideals for both men and women. Woman must labor incessantly that the home should be an abode of virture and high ideals. With undying tenacity she should combat all laws leading to its dissolution, thereby protecting innocent children and herself against the lawless- ness of man and the perversity of the human heart. The breaking up of families is one of our great sources of national weakness. It tends to unfaithfulness, it is injurious to the care and education of children; it gives occasion to the break- ing up of domestic society; it lessens and degrades the dignity of woman; it springs from corrupt morals of nations. We are in an age of material progress. Great economic questions are to be settled, and must be settled right. Pro- gress along all lines to higher ideals is of divine ordering. Human stagnation provoked God’s anger is the lesson of the parable of the talents. In the solution of those problems, both economic and moral, woman has her place. She can not stand isolated from it. Her place is in the world as well as in the home. In the world when her love and refine- ment can render it a service. Let her embrace every oppor- tunity to work for further victories, for mind over matter, for virtue over immorality, for justice over injustice. To hold the world to truth woman must be in it. To do this woman realizes her birthright and gives to the world the influence of one. “So mild, so merciful, so strong, so good, So patient, peaceful, loyal, loving, pure.” 'fi- flmertta, Jflfltstress of tbe S ea EUGENE REIF tphe present status of society requires each nation to seek some means of protecting its citizens, its commerce, and its possessions. The growing need of a great and strong naval fleet is becoming a question of vast importance to the mighty maritime powers of to-day, and they are now improv- ing and building battle-ships, cruisers, and submarines, which will mould the destinies of those nations in the future. France is greatly interested in the tiny submarine boat. Altho not yet completely perfected, the work is being vigor- ously pushed forward, to get it in working condition in time of war. The future military powers of Russia and Japan are destined to be great, while the marked growth of the United States naval power is but small when compared to the vast naval power of Great Britain. The great sea struggle between Russia and Japan has aroused the world, which had lain idle, and neglected the building of ships of war, wherein lay the fate of a nation. The immense commerce which is being carried on by the United States amounts to $1,500,000,000 annually whose safe protection can only be secured thru the influence of a large sea fleet. In the United States, we find elements of power:—a vigorous population and material resources without parallel in history, together with conditions never yet equalled—maritime frontiers, vast material interests, which demand the growth of our power upon the sea. The population of the United States is increasing twice as rapidly as the population of Germany, and three times as rapidly as the population of Great Britain, while the richness of the soil could support a population equal to the present population of the earth, without taxing the soil beyond the degree now existing in Europe. In the United States, two and one-half times as much is spent for education as in Germany and England, who stand at the top of the list in Europe. Altho the Civil War involved but 16.000 men at its beginning the numbers of men involved at its close exceeded twice the hordes of Xerxes. Our campaigns have no parallel. There are five- hundred cases where the losses in single regiments in single engagements exceeded the losses of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, and two-hundred and fifty cases where the record exceeded those of the German army, in the war with France. For vigor in naval warfare, no such record exists in the world as that of the American Navy. In the war of 1812, when the English Navy was at its zenith, and after having counted an unbroken record of two-hundred victories, with European foes, and a force exceeding the American forces seven times, eighteen battles were fought, and fifteen battles were won by the American ships, with only one-sixth of the English losses. In the Spanish American War the American Navy again broke the world’s record in the two great sea fights at Santiago, and Manila. The American Navy stands alone of all the navies of the earth. It has never known defeat. Besides the vigorous population that the United States possesses, the richness of the soil from the Atlantic to the Pacific produces one-eighth of the world’s food stuffs, eight- tenths of the world’s articles of clothing, and holds beneath the surface one-third of the world’s known mineral deposits. America is the store-house, and work-shop of the world. The United States has 17,000 miles of coast line upon which are built innumerable cities whose protection is secured by fortifications, and mines, which are but of little importance to a determined commander of a large fleet. The only means of protection of all this property, of all these many happy homes, which are but a trifle when compared to the inland prosperity, lies in a strong navy. Taking into consideration the naval requirements, and the length of coast line, the United States Navy should be the largest in the world. During a European war only a strong navy can insure the safety of American citizens, and keep ourselves independent of any European turmoil. With America’s vast, growing commerce, and great pro- duction of manufactured articles, more than England, Ger- many and France combined, our foreign markets are becom- ing a subject of supreme importance. The new markets of undeveloped lands, where all countries may have an equal opportunity, and competition always reigns between the larger nations, the security of a nation’s interest can only rest upon the nation’s fleet. China will be the new market of America, being situated midway between Europe and the Orient, with the productive Mississippi River Valley, which merely invites the Orient by way of the Panama Canal. The opening up of China should be different than the opening up of India, and Africa with the slothful population, or that of the American continent with few resources, for which many wars were fought in order to reap the benefits of the country. The European powers will make an inevitable step toward the seizure of China. The rights of America in an equal share of trade with China, can only be safeguarded by building, and maintaining a strong fleet in the far east. A country, as Amer- ica, making such rapid strides in commerce, whose interests can be affected in any quarter of the globe, must depend upon the size of her fleets, which should be the largest in the world. Thus taking into consideration our enormous influence on the outside world, protection of our commerce, safe-guard- ing of our foreign and new markets, which are greater than those of any other nation, by which the exact size of a navy should beestimated. America according to her needs should have a navy equal to the combined navies of the world. European trouble arising in South America, may only be stopped by enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, and sending as big a fleet to South America as Europe can. The United States possessions; Hawaii the Philippines and Alaska, are under the direct protection of our glorious United States. It would be a blot on American history to see the 10,000,000 of helpless people now committed under our charge, to pass under the yoke of any European power. The Monroe Doc- trine has already crossed the Pacific Ocean, covering the Philippine Archipelago 8,000 miles distant. How can a nation of action, such as the United States, protect her help- less citizens except thru a strong Navy ? The resources of the United States are so stupendous, that if our navy equalled the combined navies of the earth, the American tax payer would not even be conscious of the slightest burden. Our shipyards have already the required capacity of building. Why then should our country lie idle and be in time devoured by our European foes ? The Ameri- can Navy increased to the size of the combined navies of the earth, could bring on peace in any quarter of the globe. War injuring the British Empire, with which we have $800,000,000 annual commerce would injure us, and likewise with any other European country. Let there be but one supreme power, to keep the world in a continued reign of peade, and let that country be America. United States ranks but fourth in naval supremacy, having 550,000 tons of warship displacement, while England has more than three times the naval force of America. At the present rate of increase of the American Navy, the United States would overtake the British Empire in about 1930 when our annual appropriation for new ships would be $170,000,000. It is the only means of protection of our great annual com- merce, our citizens both in America, and foreign countries, and our possesions, whose people are left helpless, that America should maintain the largest and most powerful navy on the globe. •Purttp tn -Politics ROB'T M. RIESER Che sun of the twentieth century had risen, prosperity had made immense strides, our constitution had entirely withstood the changes in our social and political methods for over a century and our advancement seemed to have been unparalleled. We were the all powerful nation of the world. We stood as a Gibraltar of righteousness, utterly impenetrable by graft and corruption, an example to all the nations of the globe, probably so prominently and eminently so, as to partly cause Russia’s awakening. But was not Rome once powerful, was not her mighty arm felt to almost every quarter of the known world. What, is she, what is left of her power ? The lost and forgotten fragments of a once prosperous nation. What caused this ? Corruption, greed, slavery and money. Many of her heroes, whose statues and busts decorated her national government chambers, were forced to be witnesses of legislation and discussions, which in their time would have meant death to the man who attempted it. We find laws existing, which were favorable to few, whose money had secured, either favorable men to make laws for them, or else they bot the representatives of the common people, to whom a hundred dollars were more than just government, who only loved money and riches because they saw the privileges of the fabulously rich of the empire. However corruption cannot rule forever, the rich man cannot prosper without the good support of his inferiors, a country cannot advance that is an instrument of slavery, and so we find Rome lost her heroic support, for as Goldsmith says: “Princes and lords may flourish and decay A breath can make them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied,” and without her power, her dependencies fell off one by one until now we find merely ruins of her prominence. As Rome fell, so also did Greece, Egypt and other ancient nations In modern times ambition has led to fall as in the case of Napoleon and to-day we find France at the verge of ruin. If such examples existed with causes almost identical to existing conditions to-day, is not the perpetuity of our nation threatened? It shows that corruption is deeply rooted in our ranks. This was not discovered however until graft had made such strides, that its work became plain and more bold, more risky, until it affected the general welfare to such an extent as to demand investigation. Then began those interesting trials, those long tiresome lawsuits, which exposed, that, altho the green foliage of prosperity seemed to prosper, beneath it lay an abyss in which all the horrors of shamefulness brooded, planned and worked, and that instead of the verdure living upon what was below it, that which was below it, extended its roots into it and was sapping its life blood. Did this begin after nineteen hundred? After the Civil War ? No, political parties existed before then, it began with Jefferson, Monroe and others but in those early days, immediately after they were freed of a tyranny, noble men like Clay, Webster and Calhounn seriously hampered all ideals not for the general welfare. But as prosperity grew, as our power increased, as our prominence began to tower above that of all other nations, grafters began to flourish unnoticed, until they rose in prominence, to threaten our nation and were beginning to be dimly visible in the shade of our rank, but the mad rush for wealth allowed these grafters to flourish, for as yet their influence was not felt. These dark forms became more and more distinguishable, their crests rose boldly into the sunlight and threatened to bring their nation to destruction. This boldness however opened the eyes, dazed, by the glitter of gold, and a wave of reform started to move, but resistance was so stubborn, bribery so powerful, that up to this time but little progress was made. How could this corruption exist, is the question. The answer is simple, yet logical, every man wanted more honor or prominence, get it by fair or foul means he would have it, and so candidates fell easy prey to the large corporations, who thru their employees, controlled elections and who contributed, liberally to the campaign funds. After such a man is elected he will either have to become a tool for the corporation which elected him or his re-election is doubtful, yes, even impossible. This amply illustrates how corrupt our nation is, how corporations, trusts and monopolies control our government and that if corruption keeps on progressing, the next step will be the selling of our people’s freedom and rights. Now let us take a scrutinous examination of corruption brot on by parties and corporations in general. For this we need only refer to the way campaigns are supported and carried on, a very good example of which was our last presi- dential election especially on the side of the Democrats, the Republican candidate being so popular that opposition would have been fruitless. The Democrats were in the minority for a number of years, yet Democrary was supported by financial giants as Hill and Gorman as individuals and Tammany society as a body. These liberally contributed to the campaigns and especially towards the nomination of a man who would particularly favor their interests, such a man was Alton B. Parker, and so at the Democratic convention at St. Louis in 1904, with all the opposition of honest men like Bryant of Nebraska and Littlemann of Maine, the “interests” succeeded in nominating Parker against the will of the com- mon people, one of the causes of the unanimous defeat of the Democrats. As we go from large to small, from the national govern- ment to municipal government we find that the presence of graft becomes more and more prominent. Since our state will be of supreme interest to us, let us examine its standing in regard to graft, we find that it is not entirely clean, that the railroads chiefly have influenced legislation and party platforms so that investigation was averted till popular clamor has finally persuaded all grafters to give in or be forced to, hence reduction of passenger rates. As we come to our large cities, we find them infested with graft and corruption, in the hands of greed, and en- veloped in darkness. What is the cause of this ? The answer is money and ignorance of the working class, which con- stitutes the greater portion of the population of our cities, and a further fact is. that these people, being foreigners, are ignorant of our laws and institutions and so are easy prey to the corporations who probably buy votes even as cheap as fifty cents each, thus getting an administration favorable to them. So we find our cities to be controlled by corporations, as Transit companies, Street railways, Packing companies, etc.. these places are the scenes of hair raising incidents. Take for instance, Packingtown, as shown to us by Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle”, who in letters of blood and words of thunder con- demns the Packing industries, who charges and contaminates the Packers with inhuman deeds, who shows how offenders of the law are treated, how judges of the courts are the machines by which these corporations keep down and check the unions, who tend to better existing conditions, how government laws are freely violated and inspectors freely and easily bribed, as was done by the south in the fifties, and what was the result, a war. This may not have to be the extreme taken in this case, but it ought to go so far as prosecuting and unconditionally imprisoning any violators of our laws and any government officials bribed to hide facts. Corruption to a great extent is due to bosses in the cities. By bosses are meant men who by their influence either thru intellectual superiority or financial greatness control certain districts and elect men which favor them. Let us examine the work of some of the bosses in our largest cities, as New York for instance. New York, the metropolis of our nation is the seat of uncounted breaches and violations of the laws. This has been the case in New York, ever since i860, we find that purity in politics was out of question there, and we find that in the long sway of the fire and life insurance companies, some of our nations greatest boodlers and swindleas, the Tammany society and the New York Police, that bribery corruption and bossism walked o’er the heads of the power- less rabble, until finally a man appeared, as if from Paradise, whose tiger eye saw into all violations of the laws and opposed them at the next election, but this time the rabble awoke and in spite of the most desperate efforts to dislodge this champion of righteousness, Jerome was elected under the fire of the cannon of Wall Street. Baltimore, was the seat of uncounted dishonorable appliances in the hands of Democrats and Republican leaders as Gorman and Aldrichs, who sold franchises to street rail- ways, bought votes at wholesale which turned out retail profits in the face of the bitterest opposition. Chicago, probably the most intricate and darkest political center of our nation and has been subject to volumes of graft and corruption, which in its rapid growth had grown unnoticed. We find that government laws and officers are alike outwitted by the great inventions of man, especially in chemistry, and we find that purity is one of the last things the packers look for, money, holding the head of the list. Milwaukee, the metropolis of Wisconsin has also for long years been the scene of much graft under the leadership of Rose and his faction, and we find also that District Attorney McGovern, by trying to uphold the law was almost deprived of his office by the grafters, had not the people fought and followed New York’s example. Then we must also pass to unfortunate San Francisco, whose misfortunes in the last year, have been terrible, but probably to her advantage in the end, for among the broken fragments of old splendor, she finds the schemes of the grafters, secret treasuries and depositories of her money, and the grafters themselves, and so as she is gradually up- lifted, her political system also ascends the heights of re- formation. Now as Bossism, is one of the reasons of corruption in our cities, let us examine the character of some of them. We find the bosses to be of a winning nature, talkative and smooth, for they are generally good lawyers. These men, when in conversation with you, seem to be the most honest men God has allowed to exist, they inform you of the exist- ance of graft among the constituents of the other party until they have won your vote. Bosses rise, as great men rise, they rise as La Follette rose, for he is a boss, as they become influential they make use of their influence either for just or unjust purposes. When once their power is known to capitalists, their race is won, they are the rulers, their influence wins votes and what their influence and power can’t do, money can. Among the important grafters or bosses of the present day we find Ruef of San Francisco, probably one of the greatest and shrewdest of our grafters, whose principles had probably not been found out, whose misdemeanors not dis- covered had it not been for recklessness of Mayor Smitz. Murphy, another beacon light of graft, a personification of Tammany, showed his power and that of bossism when, at the Democratic national convention, he backed by the money of Hill, forced the convention to nominate Parker against the protest of Bryan. Weaver, probably the slyest of all Bosses, rules over Philadelphia, donned the gart of reformation, so gaudily colored, that he was elected mayor, while he secretly con- spiring, where he could next make money. This was lately proven, when it was discovered that he was again at the head of his faction. Then we come to Gorman, the tool whereby the “inter- ests” got desired legislation, he of all bosses, is the one who has the greatest stains upon his career, being accused and found guilty of having sold, outrightly, franchises to street railways, in Baltimore to have sold canal courses to cor- porations and to have made a wholesale bribery of votes at every election and in Congress to have opposed all measures for the general welfare, and upheld individual or sectional measures. As there are individuals, so also there are groups of grafters, known as trusts or corporations. Among these we find the Railroads, Standard Oil Company, Steel Trust, Beef, Coal and Gas Trusts. A thorough discussion of all the deeds of which these various combinations have been accused of, is impossible, as it would take volumns to describe all, but the railroads support these trusts by rebates, thus giving these trusts a chance to sell goods cheaper until competition is destroyed, then they have the consumer at their mercy, depriving him of his hard earned dollars. What will be the result when this has been done, what will follow? It will follow, that panics will arise, fights between trusts will occur, until one man or one faction will rule supreme, without opposition, a temporal Deity, the last stone of our arch is layed, we are again at the bottom. These are sufficient illustrations of corruptions, of bossism, of graft, of misuse of wealth, of illegal control, to bring to the mind of a nation of intellectual abilities like this, a fear of the future, a hope of reform should cause an awakening. But how can we remedy, how can we improve existing conditions ? That is the question, a question which should make us sulk and think as Achilles did in his tent, or as the great Napolean did, and then with one, general plan, to overwhelm all resistance and with the unanimons support of all, let this nation free itself of a serpant as great and as hideous as the one which Beowulf overpowered. It is easy to build air castles, but what are some remedies? I will name a few, first, our nation must awake, the veil of darkness must leave our eyes, second, we must become more familiar with current events, third, we must deny ourselves, the desire to become fabulously rich. I know it is a passion as hard to control, as love, and when it once has gotten a hold of a person, either by inheritance or present ambition, let us forget it, and think that the pleasures of this life are short and few, those of eternity long and many, and that altho our first duty be to God, the second should be to support our nation and then such other ambitions and passions which are necessary in securing the first two. And so if our nation is corrupt, if we no longer have been like John Adams, who could not be bought by English gold, if we have forgotten that energectic spirt of liberty, which is dormant in our veins, coloring our face, if the miser's look seems to be predominant, let us change. Let us reform as many men of worse habits have done, and walk hand in hand with the Goddess of Purity and Liberty, for which our fore- fathers fought and fell, towards that port where we once must give account for our actions, and when we reach it, let us be able to say we have done our duty, and attempted at least to restore to our posterity what we received of our predecessors—“Purity in Politics.” JForestrp tn MUtsconsta WALTER TRUCKENBRODT -Jporestry is the proper management of forests, to obtain Jl successive crops of timber, and as lumbering has built up our villages, towns and cities, it is classed as one of the greatast industries of Wisconsin. The northern half of this state is still covered with large and unbroken tracts of forests, and these together with the many lakes, rivers and streams that abound here, make Wis- consin one of the foremost lumbering regions, for the lumber- men are able to float the logs from these woods where they are cut, to some city where they are sawed into lumber. Forests are not only useful for furnishing lumber, but they also regulate and preserve stream flow by acting as a great sponge for holding moisture and giving it off gradually, thus saving the country from disastrous floods at one season and low water at another. If any one of us would take a walk into the forest in the early part of the spring, we would find the snow melting slow- ly, when it has long disappeared in the open country The cause of this is, that the forest shades the ground and the snow from the melting and drying action of the sun. The melting snow in the forest gradually works its way thru the soil and is often carried by the roots to some underground channel, where it appears weeks or months later in the form of springs or streams. These streams in the forested regions have an even flow, while those rising in regions where the forests are de- stroyed, cause violent floods in the spring when the snow is melting and dry up in the hot months when they are most needed. The forests also act as windbreaks by protecting the ground from the drying action of the wind, and the earth from washing away, thus maintaing a storage layer into which rain and snow water soak to be stored up for dry seasons. These facts just mentioned go to prove how useful forests are, but few people realize this and every year thousands of acres are destroyed by lumbermen, by fire and by insects. If the forest destruction is allowed to continue in the way it has at present, a timber famine will be the result. Such a famine can, however, be prevented, if steps are taken in time, to re- place the cut down forests, but if the famine once occurs there is no way of relieving it, and we must patiently wait until the young trees that have or will be planted are mature. Forests can also be preserved if the dead wood and slash lying around in the forest is piled up and burned, for on account of this slash many forest fires have originated and killed millions of acres of trees. These fires occur mostly thru the carelessness of lumbermen, for nearly all the forests in this state and in the United States were free from fire until lumbering began. The farmers and lumbermen generally burn the slash in the dry seasons and no care is taken and finally when a wind arises the fire spreads so rapidly that it cannot be extinguished, and where large tracts of the most wonderful forest once stood, there are now millions of acres of burned stumps and dead timber. Still other ways of start- ing fires are due to railroads and their employes. Sparks thrown from an engine when a heavy wind is blowing, proceed thru a forested country and during dry weather are always sure to start fire. Section crews in burning ties and rubbish are also apt to let the flames escape into the forest. There are also a few instances of lightning causing fire. Whenever such a fire sweeps over the country forests are destroyed for- ever, especially the young growth, on which the future of the forest depends. If, however, the forests are clear from slash and brush, the fire seldom does great harm. Whenever a tract of land is forested, care should be taken to remove all the dead wood before planting the young trees, for the broken down trees and slash are highly inflammable under the hot sun of summer, and fire is apt to break out and kill all these young trees. On account of the large losses yearly by fire, the state forestry law has been passed which provides that the state forester shall also be fire-warden, and that he can appoint one or two town fire-warden, for those towns in which he sees fit. These fire wardens have the power of calling upon any citizen to help them fight forest fires, and they can forbid settlers from burning slash during a dry season. Many forests have been destroyed in the last hundred years and people then thought the forests were inexhaustible, but this is not the case and we must see what can be done in the future to save the few forests that remain. In northern Wisconsin especially in Oneida, Vilas and Iron counties the state has one of the most beautiful lake regions in United States. Many people go there yearly to hunt, fish and camp. These beautiful places would probably not remain if the forests surrounding the lakes, would be cut down, and the beauty of the lakes would be marred by cut shores, but since these for- ests are near the headwaters of many of the important streams, the State Board of Forestry have set them aside as reserves. No land, however, is set aside for reserves or held under forest that is more suitable for agricultural purposes, and the land in Wisconsin that is to be set aside for reserves, is first exam- ined and if it is suitable for farming it is sold and the money that it brings is used to buy land that is only fit for forestry. The State Board of Forestry add to the forest reserves yearly. In 1905 all the state lands north of town 33 were added and in 1906 another bill was passed adding 200,000 acres more. The forestry law also provides that the State Board of Forestry shall visit certain places that are of interest to the state, and examine these to see if they are fit for parks. After this law was passed the legislature passed a law providing that the governor shall appoint a commission of three to see if Devil’s Lake and the Dells of Wisconsin should be made state parks. Most people do not appreciate these reserves, but if the time ever comes when forests are all destroyed, then these reserves will be of interest to all. The preservation of our forests depend mostly upon a group of professional foresters who in the last few years have graduated from our schools of forestry, and are now in the forests employed by government or by private owners, such as manufacturers of furniture, who realize that if no steps are taken to preserve forests they will soon be exhausted. The work of these foresters is to select the mature timber, and preserve the young trees until they are mature. Other large corporations are beginning to consider the subject of forestry, for all the large paper mills, lumber, furni- ture and leather companies are dependent upon forests for their raw material, either for logs, pulpwood or bark. These companies are also more or less dependent upon water power for running their machinery and they therefore ought to own large tracts of timberland on head-waters of the important streams from which they receive their power, so that they can depend upon an even and constant flow of water thruout the year. These corporations if they intend to carry on their business in the future must also provide for a sure supply of raw material and therefore they ought to have their own timberland so as to be sure of getting this material from year to year, and a forester ought to be provided for, who studies the rate of growth of trees, how much wood can be cut yearly and how large an area must be planted so that when the old trees are cut down the young ones are mature. The railroad companies use millions of ties, bridge timbers and car material yearly and hence they consider the subject of forestry and many of them have already bought large tracts of forests to be sure of a good supply, when other forests are exhausted. Individuals also take better care of their forests, and they no longer destroy the young and limby trees but allow them to stand for seeding purposes. The individuals receive a large income yearly from their forests, and they never think of allowing' any contractor to take all the trees at one time, but make him take only the mature timber. Some individuals cut down their forests as fast as possible because many town assessors tax the timberland owners very heavily and they are therefore forced to cut down the timber, so as to reduce the taxes. This is not right for a town to do, for in order to be just and to encourage the owners to let their timber grow until it is mature, and then cut it, there should simply be a tax on the land and none on the timber until it is cut. Thus we see the need of our forests. What the result would be, if our forests were allowed to be cut down as in the past, is clear. Therefore it is for us to give a helping hand wherever it is demanded, and to help the small force of men that are already supporting the forestry movement in this state, for they realize the need of forest protection and do all that is in their power to preserve them. They are already working in the forests, so that we may enjoy nature around us, and therefore if we do our duty towards this movement, our state will be among the foremost of the United States. ©ttr cbool- fSterbap, Co bap, Contorroto LYNDA HOMBERGER “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer’d the laboring swain. Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delay’d; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease. Seats of my youth, where every sport could please — How often have I loiter’d o’er the green, Where humble happiness endear’d each scene! How often have I paus’d on every charm, The shelter’d cot, the cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these. With sweet succession, taught e’en toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thv charms—and these thy charms are yet!’’ In the midst of verdant hills, on the banks of the crystal stream hastening through a vast expanse of rolling plains covered with golden grain nodding in the breeze nestles our own dear little village. What a charming, what a delightful home! Our forefathers fully realized that this was an ideal spot for a quiet and secluded home; that nature’s art gallery on the east presented ample material for the poet, the artist, and the educator; and that the virgin soil on the west insured success for the laboring swain. So building a few rude cabins in the forest around them with the smoke of the pioneer’s cabin curling upward to unite with that from the Indian’s wigwam, they formed the nucleus of our now beauti- ful village. These hardy men and women contending with the hard- ships of pioneer life and the dangers of the lurking Indian did not forget what their parents had taught them in their child- hood days. To them then, as to us now, a good moral character and a good education were the highest ideals. They strove to attain them by developing first the moral side of the character and therefore established the church, a place where the villagers might worship their God in peace and thus gain the reward of the righteous. Though the church to them was foremost, they fully realized, that for the growth of a nation a further free and liberal education was a necessity. The school resulted. The development of this speaks for itself—first a low, one-roomed building with bare walls, destitute of all beauty and comforts, its floor of roughewn boards—now a large and commodious public edifice of which we are all proud. Let us, for a moment, turn to the products which have gone forth from within these walls. Can we not find them scattered here and there, throughout our country, and may we not feel proud of them! Although they had to labor under difficulties and contend with numerous hardships, did they not reach their goal and now look back with reverence to that little schoolhouse in their beloved and quaint village, which to them, now out in the tumult of life, seems secluded, yea, at times almost forgotten! Nevertheless, they turn back with a feeling of gratitude and always find sweet repose and con- tent in the nook where they received their early education. Let us for a moment brush away the cobwebs of time that hang in Memory’s Hall and summon up to our mind such reminiscences as will be of interest to all, both young and old. What can be of more interest than our school! Have not all of us here, spent part of our life among the books in the schoolroom ? Do we not look back to these days with pleasure, with gratitude, and with thanksgiving ? But as we did not all attend school at the same time, and as time, as a matter of course, brings many changes, —let us look at the school of the past, the school of the present, and if possible draw conclusions as to the school of the future. Tradition tells us that there was a school here as early as 1841, that it was taught by a male teacher at certain in- tervals, but as there were only a few pupils at the time, the teacher soon left, being unable to maintain himself. We have, however, no documentary evidences of this, it being only handed down to us by word of mouth. But is this not a characteristic of the growth of all things ? Do we not only guess at the early history of the Romans, of the English, of the American Indians ? The same is true of the early history of our school. It is shrouded in mystery. We can only form vain conjectures concerning its infant days and thus satisfy our curiosity. We can only gather facts since 1847, when minutes of the different meetings were kept which are still in our possession. In looking these over, it is found that at a meeting held during this year, it was voted to plaster the schoolhouse, and make such other repairs as were necessary. This tends to confirm what tradition tells us, for had the school not been built and used several years before this, it would have been unnecessary to repair it. So we may for the present, at least until we obtain further information, go on with the impression that our present school was founded more than three score years ago. Some of the men who were foremost in bringing the school to the front again in 1847 were Jos. Lester, Jonathan Hatch, C. Bates, C. Halasz and J. A. Patridge. May their memory be ever highly respected! The first schoolhouse was open to all religious denominations on Sunday. This shows the real sentiment of the people. One denomination was granted the same rights as any other one, their only object in view being to provide some place to serve God, their great Helper out in the wilderness. A winter school of four months was taught by a male teacher. In order to defray the entire expenses for the year, a tax of fifty dollars was levied. Compare this with the school taxes of to-day! Certainly everybody would welcome that rate of taxation again. But it was not the fate of the people to enjoy these taxes long, for soon these fifty dollars had to be changed to hundreds and hundreds of dollars, for the people realized that, in order to make their school a suc- cess. free access to money had to be had. They did make a great success out of it, so that to-day we can feel proud of the fruits our coin has borne. It is interesting to note that Order No. 1 paid out by the treasurer was to John Russel for $24. This was to pay for his first month’s salary as teacher, for fuel, and for a bench! What would the teachers of to-day say if they would be offered such a salary ? We can all imagine the result. These things took place during the early history of the existence of our school, but soon the people saw that in order to reap any benefit from the school and give the ninety-seven pupils attending it the fundamentals of education, a longer term must be taught during the year- So the term was changed from four months to five, then to seven and back again to six. It was also found that it was impossible for one teacher to instruct all the pupils properly, therefore one male teacher, Mr. Pound, and one female teacher. Miss Bates, were employed in 1851. The schoolhouse, which was valued at $500, was now found too small to accommodate all the pupils, so that in 1852 an addition was built to it. It was also during this year that the first three months of German instruction was given, from whence this gradually increased and improved until at the present time our school stands amongst the leading ones in this line in the State. The first ten dollars were also raised for a library. Ten dollars worth of books was the beginning of our present library of over twelve hundred volumes of valuable English and German literature. This was the seed which was certainly sown on fertile soil, as “Reading maketh a full man.” Not only did our forefathers struggle for the bare school- room and grounds, but they early saw that it was for the pupil’s benefit to have pleasant environments, and so we find Mr. Halasz proposing to set out twenty shade trees on the school grounds. This was the beginning of the beautiful oaks, elms, and ashes now surrounding our school. The robin, the thrush, the sparrow, all carol merrily from the wayside elm. These fair ranks of trees are the verdant roof for the playing children. Here they skip merrily to and fro in their play shaded from the burning rays of the sun. Im- provements were made in all directions, people were wide awake. One of these was the erection of a woodshed. We can all remember this remarkable edifice, as it was only a few years ago that its majestic walls were torn down! Globes and maps to the amount of thirty dollars were pur- chased, and not one year was passed by without the appro- priation of from twenty-five to thirty dollars for library pur- poses. But one want of the school was not satisfied until several years later. This was a well. In order to quench the thirst of the scholars, one dollar was paid to Mr. Seeman, living where the Crusius home now stands, for the use of his well during the school year, which had now been extended to eleven months. The old schoolhouse had now become so old and dilap- idated, that in 1861 it was decided to build a new one of white brick, 35x63, 14, and the following year it was dedicated to educational interests, Mr. F. G. J. Lueders being the principal speaker on that occasion, This building will be recognized as the one now occupied by the Primary Depart- ment. The old schoolhouse was also occupied until the erec- tion of an additional building in 1872, when part of it was sold to Mr. Clement and is now used as a storeroom and the other part to Mr. Williams and is now used as a machine shop. What fond recollections come up to the older students’ minds when they gaze upon these ruins! The scene of many pleasures and alas! of many pains. The school library, being greatly assisted by taxes levied yearly for it, had so grown until it now consisted of about 272 volumes. This was not deposited in the school building as it is at the present time, but was moved about almost every year from public to private and from private to public buildings, the librarian being elected from the district the same as any other school officer. In 1862, when the school consisted of about two hundred pupils, one of the most eminent teachers, Mr. C. F. Viehahn, became the principal instructor in our school, assisted by the Misses Fanny Baxter and Bertha Luening. After eight very successful years of teaching, Mr. Viebahn was elected county superintendent. He was immediately succeeded by Mr. Studer and then by Wm. F. Bundy, both of whom were very competent teachers. Some of our Sauk City people, as Mr. John Meyer, Mr. Robert Buerki, Mrs. Hiddessen, Mrs. Grueningen, Mr. Homberger, Mrs. Henry Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Schlungbaum, and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hahn, probably remember these men as their old teachers in that dear little schoolhouse. Additional school buildings were again erected in 1872 and 1874 of frame on the ground now occupied by the tennis and basket ball courts. It consisted of two rooms, one used for the primary department and the other for the inter- mediate. There had always been a pond on the northern part of the school ground, which was now filled up to obtain a better school yard more adapted to the playing of games, and also adding to the beauty of the grounds. Oh the days of that pond! How many a culprit skated on forbidden ice, how many a pupil had to go home with wet clothes, with a reprimand from the teacher, and an additional one from the parents! The school had by this time, 1877, greatly improved, in fact so much that ideas of establishing a high school were taking root. A committee consisting of J. B. Quimby, Her- man Muehlberg and Philip Hoefer was appointed to see whether a free high school could be established and whether it would be of benefit to the district, also to investigate all the laws pertaining to free high schools, which had recently been en- acted by the legislature. After proper consideration, it was decided to found such a school and have it occupy the north room of the white brick building. At the same time it was resolved to introduce free text books and change the school year to nine months. The first high school teacher was Mr. Bundy, who was to have charge of the high school instruction and supervise the lower departments, which were taught by the Misses Teichman, Trautman, Theile, Schumm, Keitel, Thiele, and Mr. Frank Roll at different times. The first class which graduated from the three years’ course consisted of the Misses Ida Merk, Lina Schumm, Clara Thiele and Mamie Willis. But what a commencement this was compared with that of to-day! Clad in white princess gowns lavishly trimmed with pearl buttons, the young ladies read their essays on school picnic day from the pavilion to the assembled mul- titude. Praise to Mr. Bundy for his honorable work! In 1880 this worthy gentleman was succeeded by Mr. Wiswall, who taught here five years, then becoming county superintendent. He was succeeded by Mr. C. F. Ninman of Watertown, who was assisted part of the time by the Misses Fischer, Grotophorst, Clement, Tausend, Helen Merk and Schweppe, But we must not think that school life went on day after day without a change. No, not for one minute! Improvements were being made now as before and after this, whenever they were found necessary. Two unabridged Webster’s dictionaries and a barometer were purchased, the teachers’ programs were so changed that at least two hours a week might be spent in teaching singing. German song books, which are still used, were bought. Music, the most universal as well as the most exclusive of languages, was needed to complete the daily program. In 1890 another very capable teacher became principal of our High School. This was Mr. J. S. Roeseler. What does not Sauk City owe to this man! It is certainly beyond our poor power to thank him and fully appreciate his works as we ought to. It is he who laid a firm foundation for our present school and brought it to where it to-day stands. When Mr. Roeseler first came here, Miss Tausend was primary teacher, Miss Runge intermediate, and Mr. Tarnutzer grammar teacher. Miss Runge also taught High School German while the rest of the High School studies were taught by the principal. Two recitations were thus carried on in the same room at the same time, which was very inconvenient for the class supposed to study during that time. Besides teaching all day and supervising the lower departments, Mr. Roeseler opened an evening school for outside people and seniors, teaching them grammar and political geography. After a very successful year, Mr. Roeseler refused to stay uuless a new schoolhouse be built and an assistant be given him for the entire day. Miss Eugenia Naffz was accordingly appointed assistant and it was decided to build a red brick veneered building. A building committee consisting of Messrs. Lodde, Ninman and Homberger was appointed to supervise the building and remove the frame schoolhouse, which was accordingly sold to Mr. Siebecker and is now occupied as two residences, one by Mr. Keller and one by Mr. Hofer, near the Reformed Church. The fall term of this year had to be spent in the old school buildings as the new one was not ready for use until New Year. This year the four years’ course was drawn up by Mr. Roesler, adopted by the board, and approved by the State Superinten- dent. At the end of the winter term our High School was placed on the accredited list of the U. W. as recommended by the U. W. inspector for all courses except the Ancient and Modern Classical. This placed our school above the Spring Green, Prairie du Sac and Reedsburg High Schools, being surpassed only by the Baraboo High School. The following year the school year was shortened from ten to nine months which it has ever since remained. The fifth year Mr. Roeseler, accepting his unanimous election by both parties as county superintendent, resigned his position to the sorrow of his many friends in Sauk City. He was succeeded by Mr. Schulz and then by Mr. Lueders. A memorable event of the year 1896 was the bequest of $2000 to the school by Mr. C. Deininger. This was to be put at interest and one-half of the yearly interest to be spent in presenting the pupils in good standing with some valuable gift on the date of the donor’s birth, April 2. The other half was to be spent in buying books or school apparatus as would be seen fit by the trustees. We cannot comprehend what this fund has already done. Every year each pupil gets a book and the other half is always spent very advantage- ously. The piano was partly paid for with this money, apparatus was bought, closets for apparatus and books were built, reference books were purchased, encyclopedias, maps and numerous other things, sometimes only trifles, but it is the drop that makes the sea. Mr. Lueders was succeeded by J. E. Phillips in 1899 and later on by Mr. Mutch and Mr. Brandt. All of these men were excellent types of teachers, through their combined efforts the school has been able to retain its position so nobly acquired by Mr. J. S. Roeseler. Previous to 1899, there had been only one assistant to aid the principal, but now the district was compelled to engage a second assistant or lose High School aid. Miss Merk, who had hitherto taught the Grammar Department, was promoted to this position and has held it ever since. What has she not accomplished, what have her busy hands not attained ? What strong classes in History, in German has she sent forth from her threshold! Thanks, thanks be unto her! Our present force of teachers is certainly as perfect as we may ever hope to obtain. Miss Hutter, Miss Giegerich, Miss Laws—do they not stand as models, may we not feel proud of these women who are so earnestly striving to mold the minds of the children of Sauk City ? Our High School teachers, Mr. Buckley, Miss Merk, Mr. Weiland—oh. how our hearts ache at this parting! What a pleasant year have we spent together; but ah, how short—but yesterday we met; to-day we stand here bidding farewell to our teachers, fare- well to our schoolmates, and farewell to our friends; to-mor- row—where shall we be, where shall the wind waft us? Shall we ever be able to be together once more as we have been until now? Let us not think of it, let us go on with a brave heart, for there is One who will lead us through all our sorrows and troubles until at last we shall stand upon firm ground. The past and present history of our school has been so bright, that it is beyond doubt that its future will be the same. Are there any facts which tend to confirm the con- trary? Decidedly no! Look at the men and women who have been students here—doctors, both male and female, lawyers, great debaters, judges, noted architects, presidents of large companies, lieutenants in the U. S. Navy, iustructors in colleges, besides the great number of noted High School teachers! Look at the teachers we have had and still have in our school, graduates from Universities and Normal Schools who graduated with general and special honors! Does this not present ample material for us to see that the future of our school is destined to grow and become one of the most important in our state ? Oh that our school may re- main a success for all time and a pride for the people of Sauk City are the sincere wishes of the Class of 1907. tblettcs tn tbe Ifeaufe Ctt Schools ARTHUR KUONI 09 jft aseball seems to be the favorite 'out door sport of the Sauk City High School. This is well shown by the success in the games of the last few years. Although our material is seldom of the best when the practice begins, still by the time our team meets its opponents the captain and manager have generally developed material sufficient for a fair showing in a game. Conceit and over-estimation seldom enter our ranks, and practice is kept up throughout the entire season, developing better played games in each succeeding game. Last year’s team, although seemingly weak, made a good showing when compared with other teams, and left a record seldom enjoyed by our teams in previous years, except during the time of the Banner Team with the Wuerth and Stocker battery. The team played five important games of which three were won and two lost. This result was mainly due to poor weather and the bad health of the pitcher. The team has in the past lacked good pitchers, but now they are of first-class material. Infield was always strong, for the in- fielders played since they were in the grades and so have re- mained with us for a number of years. LINE-UP OF THE TEAM OF 1906. Catcher—Edgar Buerki. Pitchers—Ralph Derleth. Eugene Reif. First Base —Casper Schlungbaum. Second Base—Arthur Kuoni. Third Base—George Derleth, Ralph Derleth. Short Stop —Walter Truckenbrodt. Left Fielder—Robert Rieser. Center Fielder—William Hahn. Right Fielder—Lucius Kuoni. RECORD OF THE GAMES OF 1906. Apr. 28—Sauk City vs. Black Earth at Black Earth.5-6 May 5—Sauk City vs. Prairie du Sac at Prairie du Sac..8-7 May 12—Sauk City vs. Black Earth at Sauk City....8-6 May 19—Sauk City vs. Mazomanie at Mazomanie......10-5 May 26—Sauk City vs. Mazomanie at Sauk City.....5-11 Indications now are that we shall have a fair team this year, sufficiently strong to take a good standing against the teams of our neighborhood. The schedule of this year’s games is as follows, with possible additions of two or three games, which are not yet definitely arranged. Apr. 27—Sauk City vs. Mazomanie at Mazomanie. May 4—Sauk City vs. Black Earth at Sauk City. May 11—Sauk City vs. Mazomanie at Sauk City. May 18—Sauk City vs. Black Earth at Black Earth. tEbe H,tterarp orietj� of tfje Jfeatife Cttp UjtgJ) g?dbooI OFFICERS President—Walter Von Wald. Vice President Rebecca von Grueningen. Secretary—Erna Ganzlin. Treasurer—George Just. HISTORY The Literary Society of the Sauk City High School was organized in January 1906. During the remainder of the year weekly meetings were held, and some very interesting pro- grams were rendered. At the end of the year, about thirty members had signed the constitution The beginning of this school year witnessed the society take a prominent place in school work. The pro- grams were enriched. Several special programs attracted the attention, not only of the patrons of the school, but of the people of this vicinity. The society assisted in procuring electric lights for the high school, furnished fifteen new chairs for the laboratories and donated five dollars to the fund for the purchase of Sauk county's famous man-rnound. The society year was closed with a declamatory contest. The following program was rendered: Music - - - Schlungbaum’s Orchestra The Lost Word - Ida Franke Helene Thamre - - - - Frieda Meyer Vocal Solo - Mrs. W. C. Schorer In Florida - Minnie Reusch Derrick Sterling ... Katherine Hahn Instrumental Duet - The Misses Thecla and Ella Naffz The Christmas Substitute ... Mamie Meyer For the Honor of the Woods - - Della Woerth Mary Elizabeth - - Rebecca von Grueningen The Death Disk ... Irma Schlungbaum Music - Orchestra DECISION OF THE JUDGES The judges, C. R. Harper of Madison, Principal F. G. Kraege of Mazomanie, and Supt. G. W. Davies rendered a decision as follows: First place, Rebecca von Grueningen. Second place, Irma Schlungbaum. Third place, Ida Franke. Cbe aiumnt ©ut in tljr Worto META MEYER '01 Tin olden times great scholars were graduated from schools. Men, who had spent a lifetime in study and when ready to lay down life’s burden, then and not till then, were they through with learning. Schools of our times can boast of their geniuses. Every school has sent out its celebrities into the world. Sauk City is by no way in the rear. Every year since 1879, has the tree been shaken, the ripe fruit has dropped and scattered to all parts of the globe. Although we are small in number, yet quantity does not count; it is quality. Some of the disciples have entered higher schools of learning. A goodly number entered the normals and have chosen teach- ing as their vocation, to train, develop and awaken the mind of a child of some critical parent. Others entered universities there to become proficient in propounding the right and wrong. Others to lessen the suffering of the sick. Still others have chosen the merchant world, the preparation of drugs, or the handling of the “root of all evil” and many other voca- tions. A few have chosen the clerical field, to direct the lives of those who wish it for the hereafter. Several have decided to work by the sweat of the brow. Last and not least, a vast number of the young ladies, are lending their grace to the culinary arts and bending their wills to a ruler—a man. We could not possibly mention all about the graduates of the Sauk City High School, for time and space will allow only the mention of a few. Miss Helen Merk, who has for many years held a respon- sible position in the Wausau High School, is one of our earliest graduates. She is also a graduate of the University of Wis- consin and is daily climbing the ladder to success. A thought- ful, energetic and sympathetic lady. Only men and women of this kind will succeed. Success crowns all her efforts. Now we will pass over a period of years to the wonderful class of 1896. Truly no class in the history of the school has become as famous as this class. All of the members have different occupations. Mrs. Alma Schlungbaum Diehl, was for many years a suc- cessful teacher and musician. It was during her time of wield- ing the rod, that cupid shot his dart in the form of a soldier, who one day claimed her for his own and took her to his far away camp, there to bend to the stern rule of a soldier and to spread sunshine and happiness along life’s pathway. Miss Ida Giegrich also became a teacher and is instruct- ing the young a fit person for the place. We must agree with the poet who says, Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low—an excellent thing in woman.” Mr. Robert Lachmund graduated from the University of Wisconsin and also from the Agricultural College. He suc- ceeds in whatever he undertakes and has made from a sandy farm, a fresh and flourishing plot. He has done this by ex- plaining his methods and then setting his men to work. Many an old farmer stops and looks on with awe to see the change on that farm. Some exclaim that, “Even with their years of experience they could learn something.” Go forth and stir up the soil and the harvest will come. You plant the seeds and they are taken care of and yield sixty and hundred fold for you. It is in the soil that the best treasures are found. Mr. Edward Schubring graduated from the law course of the University of Wisconsin. He is one of nature’s brightest and shrewdest men. Truly can Sauk City be proud of such a “manly man.” He is always in the right. When in need of legal advice call on Schubring of Madison, where he is located with Jones. Dr. Simon Keller graduated from Rush Medical College. He first located at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, then moved to Sauk City, where he is daily relieving those in pain. Wherever he goes he performs some good deed and the people of Sauk City can be proud of him. He is ever ready to act and lend a helping hand. Mr. Gustave von Grueningen is at the Mission House Seminary at Plymouth, Wisconsin, there to take in knowledge for his life work. Judging from his past life, we are assured of his success. He has always been a comfort, to his down cast fellow-men. This is a true trait of a clerical man. Without it he will not succeed. We can plainly see a bright future open for this young man. We see how he moves large audiences with his eloquence and zeal and how he lends a helping hand here and drops a sympathetic and cheering word there, in this way spreading sunshine everywhere and doing admirable work. Mr. Lucius Clement, another one of this remarkable class, is at present mail clerk. After graduating, he taught school for several years. He enlisted in the Spanish American war and was in active service. After the war he was superin- tendent of schools in Cuba and later a mail clerk in the Phil- ippines. During this time he married. He is ever ready to do his duty thus winning friends wherever he goes. May he prosper as well in the future as he has in the past. Thus we see this class truly is a remarkable class. Other classes may be great, but this was nearer the writer’s time and so she took this as a type class. Mr. Otto Krause, of the class of 1893, needs mention. He is a young man of good business principles. He holds a responsible position as assistant cashier in the Reedsburg Bank. We hope to have more like him. Mr. Alfred Homberger, of the class of 1899, deserves to be mentioned. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1904 and now is instructor of chemistry in the Polytechnic School of Terre Haute, Indiana. He is a young man who will surely make his mark. Miss Emma Krause, graduated in 1898, and after teaching in the Sauk county schools several years, took a course at the Illinois Training School of which she is a graduate nurse; a fit person for the calling. She has, through her cheerfulness, helped many a stricken one bear his burden and in so doing has done untold good. It is the motherly hand placed on a pillow that alleviates the pain and the suffering. It was her lot to do this and she has thereby reaped many thanks and blessings. But we are sorry to state that she abandoned the helping hand to many for only one. Our loss is his gain. For one so young in years as Mr. Walter Hahn, class ’03, to hold such a responsible position as the cashier of a bank, certainly speaks highly of one of our high school boys. It shows that he is capable to fill the place, even though young in years, and as he journeys up life’s flowery path we will ever look for his greater success. He is a graduate of the Capital City Commercial College. Other members may succed and some day their names go down into history. We will at all times look with eager interest for anything that a product of the Sauk City High School may do, that the book of fate has hidden from our sight. We sincerely hope that some good is written there for each and every alumnus, that they may succeed in what they undertake, and wherever they are in whatever clime, that they will always be able to cheer for their Alma Mater. aiumnt of tJ)e Jfeatife Cttj IJngf) fedbool CLASS OF 1879 Ida Merk (Mrs. I. M. Possner).................South Omaha, Neb. Clara Thiele (Mrs. C. Range) ...........................Baraboo Lina Schumm (Mrs. L. Bluemlein)........... New York City, N. Y. Mamie Willis (Mrs. Eddy)...........................Chicago, 111. CLASS 1881 Matilda Tausend (Mrs. J. Urech).......................Milwaukee Eugenie Naffz (Mrs. Eugenie Bruening).. .........Haworth, N. J. •Sophie Runge Helen Merk, Teacher in Wausau High School................Wausau CLASS 1886 Emilie Schumm (Mrs. E. Paginski)...........New York City, N. Y. CLASS 1887 Dora Jud (Mrs. E. Zick) .................................Denzer Victor Lachmund, Estimator in Sash Door business.Chicago, 111. Philip Hoefer, Sash Door Business ............St. Paul, Minn. CLASS 1888 Arthur Buehner, Pattern Maker ........................Milwaukee Julius Merkel, Bridge Builder for the C. M. St. P. R. R. Co. Milwaukee Paul Lampertius, Operator..........................Woodman CLASS 1890 Irma Lachmund, Stenographer ... ...................Milwaukee Marie Merkel, Stenographer ...................Valparaiso, Ind. Eddie Lachmund, Lumber Dealer......................Sauk City Albertina Buerki (Mrs. L. Back).................... Sauk City George Leutscher, Instructor in a University .. .New York City, N. Y. Julia Ferber (Mrs. T. C. Ninman)................ .. .Reedsburg Julia Lampertius, Clerk....................... ....Milwaukee CLASS 1891 Otto Krause, Ass’t Cashier in Reedsburg Bank .........Reedsburg CLASS 1892 Herman Lachmund, Special Student in Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Mary Clement (Mrs. W. G. Correll)...............Spring Green CLASS 1893 Mary Clement (Mrs. W. G. Correll) .. ...........Spring Green Clara Hiddessen (Mrs. J. Steinbrink)................... Baraboo Ernst W. F. Loether (Manufacturer).................Eau Claire Otto Krause, Assis’t Cashier in Reedsburg Bank... ....Reedsburg Gertrude Reusch (Mrs. G. Jones)..................El Paso, Texas Bertilda von Grueningen, Ass’t in High School..............Kiel Aug. Giss, King Advertising Co. San Francisco, Cal. CLASS 1894 ♦Selma Krell (Mrs. W. Thurston) Ed. Steidtman, Farmer.............................Prairie du Sac CLASS 1895 Simon Schoephoester. Anna A. Krause, Teacher in High School ..................Waterford ♦Calvin von Grueningen A. G. Fritsche, Physician Surgeon...................Black Hawk Irma Lachmund, Stenographer..............................Milwaukee Elsie Stocker (Mrs. Wm. D. Siebecker) ......................Wausau J. T. Mueller, Druggist ...............................West Allis Edward Clement, Clerk................................. Reedsburg CLASS 1896 Alma Schlungbaum (Mrs. J. Diehl)...............Fort Monroe, Va. Gustav von Grueningen, Junior, Theological Seminary...Plymouth Edward Schubring, Lawyer................................. Madison Simon Keller, Physician Surgeon .....................Sauk City Lucius Clement, Railroad Mail Clerk........................Chicago Ida Giegerich, Teacher ............................... Sauk City Robert Lachmund, Farmer................................Sauk City CLASS 1897 Fred Mueller, Prin. of High School........................Waunakee Reinard Schumacher, R. R. Mail Clerk ..........Minneapolis, Minn. Nicolas Schumacher, Medical Student............Minneapolis, Minn. Robert Theile, Engineer.....................Buffalo Center, Iowa Leonard Ploetz, Machinist...........................Prairie du Sac CLASS 1898 Amanda Lueckens (Mrs. Wolf).................Charles City, Iowa Emma Krause, Trained Nurse ............................Sauk City Emma Baumgarth .................................... Prairie du Sac Henry Baumgarth, Dentist..................................Chicago, 111. Bruno Lachmund, Chemist...........................St. Louis, Mo. Edward Theile, Miller ......................Buffalo Center, Iowa CLASS 1899 A. W. Homberger, Instructor in Chemistry .....Terre Haute, Ind. Meta Hiddessen, Seamstress...............................Milwaukee Marie Lemm, Stenographer.................................Milwaukee Alfred Loether, Bookkeeper.....................................Eau Claire Helen Williams (Mrs. O. Smidt)..................St. Paul, Minn. CLASS 1900 Lina Truckenbrodt, Teacher.................................Glidden Minna Baumgarth (Mrs. L. Keller)....................Prairie du Sac Marie Wuerth (Mrs. R. Theile)...............Buffalo Center, Iowa Flora Derleth (Mrs. Gartz)................................Chicago, 111. E. G. Von Wald, Clerk ...................................Reedsburg Edgar Meyer, Merchant............................. Sauk City CLASS 1901 Meta Meyer...............................................Sauk city Ida Meng, Compositor ................................Sauk City Tillie 8chlungbaum.......................................Sauk City Howard Clement, Bookkeeper.................... South Bend, Ind. Walter Homberger, Electrician.... .........................Madison CLASS 1902 Helen Wuerth, Clerk........................Buffalo Center, Iowa Hubert Wuerth, Student University of Wisconsin.............Madison Arthur Schubring, Clerk ...................................Madison Elizabeth Giss, Teacher.......................... Kalama, Wash. CLASS 1903 Walter Hahn, Cashier, Bank .............................. Freedom Albert Stocker, Student, University of Wisconsin.......... Madismi Peter Meng, Apprentice .......................................Sauk city Henry Hiddessen, Druggist .............................. Madison Armin Buerki, Salesman........................................Sauk City Verna Clement, teacher...................................Menomonie Lillian Hutter, Teacher..................................Sauk City Clara Clement, Teacher...............................Sauk City Louisa Kirschner (Mrs. H. W. Blankenheim).............Sauk City CLASS 1904 Ema Loh mar, Stenographer................................Milwaukee Clara Lachmund, Student, University of Wisconsin...........Madison Susan Leinenkugel, Teacher...............................Sauk City Martha Derleth, Seamstress .......................... . Madison •Alma Reif Carl O. Hahn, Druggist ...............................West Allis Oswald Homberger, Clerk.................. ......... Milwaukee Stephen Wehner, Student, University of Wis.................Madison Gustav Krause, Student, Beloit College...................Beloit Elsie Krause, Teacher................................... Reedsburg CLASS 1906 Ema Schneider, Stenographer .. Dousman Emma Scheel Richard Merkel, Farmer ..............................Sauk City Walter Mettel, Post Office Clerk ........................Milwaukee Julius Wehner, Salesman ............................Rockford, 111. CLASS 1906 Willie T. Hahn, Stenographer ............................Milwaukee Paul von Grueniuger, Teacher.......................... Sauk City Richard Becker, Student at McDonald’s Business College. Milwaukee Edgar Buerki, Salesman............................... Sauk City Mary F. Hahn, Teacher ............................... Sauk City E. Pearl Babington, Teacher............................... Plain •Deceased mbp tJ)e Jfrotsp JFreslnes Came tO M REBECCA VON GRUENINGEN— “I came to distinguish myself as a great debater.” ERNA GANZLIN— “I came to amuse my friends by playing the piano.” IRMA SCHLUNGBAUM— “Why did I come? To excel in Algebra, of course!” IDA FRANKE- “I would not have come, if I had not fully expected to increase my circle of boy friends.” ELLA WALSER— “I came for the fun of it.” FRIEDA MEYER— “I came to add one more to the class, so that the number would not be an unlucky thirteen.” MINNIE REUSCH— “I came to lavish my smiles upon others.” ROSA FRANK— “I came to show my modesty.’’ JOSEPH COENEN— “I came to get out of hard work.” ELLA METTEL— “Mamma sent me here.” IRMA STEIDTMAN— “I came to be the belle of the class.” NORBERT REIBLE— “I came to show the Seniors what a Freshman can do.” LOUIS ZIEMKE— “They made me come.” WALTER ZIEMKE— “I went with the crowd.’' 0 ©tbers er H0 SENIORS LYNDA HOMBERGER— How doth the little blushing maid employ each shining hour?” ANNA LANG— ‘‘I never dare to sing as good as I can. ” ROBERT RIESER— “In the very May morn of his youth. Rich in exploits and mighty enterprises.” EUGENE REIF— “One great round of ease.” WALTER TRUCKENBRODT - ‘‘Never pokin’ his nose into other people’s affairs.” JUNIORS KATHERINE HAHN “A rosebud set with wilful thorns And sweet as country air could make her.” MAMIE MEYER— “Not forward, but modest as a dove.” RALPH DERLETH— “He gives his thoughts no tongue.” GEORGE JUST— “With all thy faults, we love thee still.” SOPHOMORES DELLA WOERTH - “AH mirth and no madness All good and no badness.” ARTHUR LEMM “All valuable articles are put up in small packages.” ALMA BECKER— “Good temper, like a summer day, sheds a brightness over everything,” WALTER VON WALD “A Longfellow, but no poet.” ROSA LUETH— “Full of wit, but don’t show it a bit.” ARTHUR KUONI— “I am sure, care is an enemy to life.” FRESHMEN ELLA WALSER— “As merry as the day is long.” ROSA FRANK— “Modest, quiet and sweet.” FRIEDA MEYER— “So sweet of temper, that the very stars shine soft upon her.” REBECCA VON GRUENINGEN— ‘‘Sometimes we are frightened by a violent laughter.” IRMA STEIDTMAN— “Of pleasant manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace and friend of humankind.” IDA FRANKE— “She’s pretty to walk with And witty to talk with And pleasant too, to think on.’’ ELLA METTEL— “Hang sorrow ! Let’s be merry.” MINNIE REUSCH— “Nor know we anything so fair As the smile upon her face.” IRMA SCHLUNGBAUM— “Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil o’er books consumed the midnight oil ?” ERNA GANZLIN— When joy and duty clash Let duty go to smash.” LOUIS ZIEMKE— “A noticeable boy with large eyes.” JOSEPH COENEN— ‘‘Only a boy who will be a man If nature goes on with her first great plan.” NORBERT REIBLE— ‘‘His duty was something more than life And he strove to do it well.” THE FACULTY MISS LILLIAN HUTTER- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.” MISS IDA GIEGERICH — ‘‘A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer’s day. MISS GENE LAWS— Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least.” MISS JOSEPHINE MERK— In every gesture dignity and love.” L. E. WEILAND— His life was gentle; and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, This was a man.” M. T. BUCKLEY His grandeur he derived from Heaven alone For he was great ere fortune made him so.” Class happenings Teacher—How far is it from Sauk City to Prairie du Sac ? Alma B—(absently) Oh, I guess about ten miles. j� j� Teacher—Why did Lowell speak of Sir Launfal as a maiden knight ? Walter V. W—Because he was as pretty as a girl. Teacher—What kind of tissues are found in the eyes? Della W—Cartilaginous tissues. j j Teacher—When are words not in good use? Irma Sch—When they are not civilized. j Teacher—What is the alimentary canal, Joe? Joe C—(not paying attention) It is an instinct. ft Bitty of Bear auft City GUSTAV VON GRUENINGEN '96 There are villages large, And villages small, And villages that claim to be cities; But for one my heart longs, For one I sing songs, For the rest I have nothing but pities. Oh! this is my ditty Of dear old Sauk City, A village that’s second to none. Tis a quaint little town, Has won great renown, But fame has not made her feel haughty; For the Swiss and the “Dutch” Never fuss very much With pride, it’s just love, honor and duty. Oh! this is my ditty Of grand old Sauk City, A village that’s second to none. Old Wisconsin glides by, Love light in his eye, (For the river’s in love with her beauty,) As he sings night and day His song seems to say, “I love you my sweetheart, my beauty.” Oh! this is my ditty Of quaint old Sauk City, A village that’s second to none. And the hills and the plain Their longings constrain, Until breezes blow them to action; Then their love they confess Thru perfume and dress, That serves as a charming attraction. Oh! this is my ditty Of famous Sauk City, A village that’s second to none. From the rockbound Atlantic To peaceful Pacific, From Great Lakes to white fields of cotton; Tho far you may roam. There’s none like my home. My village that’ll ne’er be forgotten. Oh! that’s why my ditty Is of pretty Sauk City, A village that’s second to none. Cbc Regent) of tbf Xtterarp On the banks of the Wisconsin, Near the great Black Hawk Lookout, Robert Lachmund, the learned. He the constant knowledge seeker, Stood before the village high school. Called aloud unto its people, Called aloud in mighty accents. And to them he spake in this wise; “Oh my people, Oh my children, I am here to tell you something, Something that will lead you straightway Into the field of broader learning. Ye who yet are young and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature Ponder well these words my children. You may delve in deeds of valor. Know the names of bays and rivers, Know the dwellings of the Eskimos, Know what generals led our armies. Know of all the Four-Lake knowledge But as yet you are but babes Unlearned in more wordly knowledge, Sign your name unto our charter. We will make a constitution Stronger than the mighty oak tree. Weekly we will meet together, Read and speak and sing together. Brave is he who will first sign it. Who is he who will first sign it ?” From the plains of the Wisconsin, From the hills and dells beside it Came the answer of the mighty, Came the families of Meyer and Tuttle, Came the Hutters, Merk, and Buerkies, Came the Beckers, Justs, and Derleths, All the learned of the village, All the learned drawn together Signed their names unto the parchment. Happy was the learned Lachmund, Happy were the high school teachers, Happy were the local alumni. When the thirty braves consented; With a silent nod assented To fix their name unto the charter. Then they talked of other matters, Boasted of their good beginning, Spoke of meetings, where to hold them. Spoke of chairmen of committees. Spoke of ways and means to gather Other people from the highway To the fields of broader knowledge. At nine thirty they departed For their homes within the village. For the plains of the Wisconsin, For the hills and dells beside it. Through the long and weary winter Meetings held they, many of them, And the people of the village Knew not of the recitations, Knew not of the words of wisdom. Which eloquently there were rendered. Then a teacher wise and thoughtful Spake and said unto the members: ‘We will drag the people,” said he, ‘From the homes where they are buried, If we only make our programs Strong in thought and mirth and action.” Then Miss Merk, the German teacher, Ever wakeful, ever watchful, Up she rose and said: ‘O members ! Why is it That your hearts are so afflicted, That you mourn so in this meeting, Let us give a German program. There is Weiland, the sweet musician, There is Linda, Lang and Buerki, With the four a play we’ll give you, That will bring unto the meeting All the people of the village.” Then they advertised their meetings, Without flattering words they told them Of their music, song, and tableaux. When they played the village listened, All the women came to hear them. All the men they came to hear them. From the Madison university Came a stranger, a professor. All their souls were stirred to laughter As they listened to the actors. All their hearts were wrung with pathos As they listened to the music. As the happy evening ended Rose the stranger and spake in this wise: ‘I was thinking as I sat here Of your program, song, and music, I assure you, my dear people That the students of our college Do no better than your pupils.” And the chief made answer saying, ‘We have heard your words of praise, We will think of what you tell us, It is well for us, oh brother That you came so far to see us.” Now, when e’er the society totem Bright and clear shines through the window, Through the windows of the High School You can see the people coming From the highlands and the lowlands, From the valley of the Honey Creek, From the highlands of Roxbury, From our sister village northward. From the homes of our own people. All the people drawn together Drawn to listen to our program. Spring Cljougljts of a JFresbman 0trl REBECCA VON GRUENINGEN I Oh. the avalanche of mud, Muddy mud ! How it rises up to bless us when the trees Begin to bud ! How persistently it scatters over every part of town, Turning everything it spatters to its own dull hue of brown; What a pleasant thing for women On the streets to have to swim in— No matter how they hold their skirts. Its sure to spoil the trimmin’. Who can stand upon the sidewalks And gaze without a shudder At the flood of the mud, mud, mud, Mud, mud, The grimy, slimy, slushy, mushy mud ! II See the ladies with the hats, Stunning hats— Looming up in battlements and Slanting down in flats ! How they flutter, flutter, flutter, At the corner of the street! And the ones who wear them, utter Words as soft as melted butter To the friends they chance to meet, As they flash, flash, flash In a sort of shiny hash, Till you think a flock of blue and green and pink and purple hats Were the hats, hats, hats, Hats, hats, hats— The fearful and the cheerful string of hats 1 Jfamoell isong of a J opbomore Melody—“Good Nigkt DELLA WOERTH '09 I We meet to breathe in soft accord Schoolmates dear, the parting word - Farewell. Where e’er we go, we’ll not forget The friends we now must leave, The joys and sorrows here we met In our thoughts will linger yet— Farewell. II To teachers who have cheered our way Many a dark and weary day Farewell. May you for all your toil and care A rich reward receive— The mind which you unfold and train, A precious gift, the noblest gain— Farewell. Ill And who bright laurels gain this day Happiness shall crown your way— Farewell. But if by trials you feel oppressed Oh yield not to despair ! May Faith and Hop£ then give you rest, Adieu ! God Speed ! Be ever blest. Farewell. Say, Did You Ever Know That 1. “Buerki’s Fashion Center” has been established and has been under the same management for seventeen years. 2. It is known as one of the most progressive retail stores in Sauk county. 3. Its methods are modern, its dealings honest and its policy is to give a ‘‘Square Deal” to everyone. 4. It does a credit as well as a cash business. 5. It always pays the highest price for farm produce. 6. Its motto is “Quality First, Then Price” and seeks to have “The Quality Remembered Long after the Price is Forgotten.” 7. Its Dry Goods and Fancy Goods Line are recog- nized as the best. 8. It operates a complete Millinery Dep t, managed by an experienced trimmer. 9. It is the only store in the “Twin Cities” that has a completely equipped ‘‘Ladies' Rest Room.” 10. Its Leather and Rubber Footwear stock is con- sidered the most complete. 11. It is headquarters for everything in Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Ready-To-Wear Garments. 12. Its patrons are guaranteed courteous and satis- factory treatment at all times by its clerks who always stand ready to show you and make it “Sauk City’s Busiest Store.” Buerki’s Fashion Center habit, Riscbmueller $ Itlcycr SAUK CITY. WISCONSIN The, Best of Everything in Merchandise OUR MOTTO Good Goods at Right Prices You will always find our store tlie cheapest and most satisfactory place to do your trading. Highest Market Price for Produce Get Acquainted With This Label It stands for the “real thing m college clothes. We are exclusively the Collegian store of this town, and you’ll find that these famous garments are the best fitting and altogether the best looking clothes you’ve ever seen. We’ll sell you the handsomest apparel in the land —clothes you’ll feel proud to wear and confident too of the fact “that they are right. Irving Drew Shoes for Women. A complete stock of all sizes always on hand habit, Riscbmueller Meyer E. L. CASE, President CHAS. SCHLUNGBAUM. Vice-President J E BUERKI. Caskier Cbc State Bank Sauk City, lsconsin Capital Stock $10,000.00 How Fortunes Grow In order to accumulate a fortune, it is necessary to take advantage of every legitimate opportunity to earn money. This bank is estab- lished to assist you in building a fortune, it will so care for your money that it is absolutely safe, and you can have it whenever you want it. Join the financial family, make a deposit to-day, every fortune has grown from a bank account. DIRECTORS j Cbas. Scblungbaum I Aug. Graff Robert Buerki E. L. Case J. J. Buro Henry Meyer J. E. Buerki Sauk City Bottling Works Adolph Kauh Prop. ■Manufacturer of ■ , .- «sFine� Carbonated Beverages Sauk City, lsconsin When in need of 1 Lumber, Doors, Windows, Mouldings Wire Fencing, Brick, Sewer Pipe, Ladders Hard or Soft Coal T] Lacbmund Lumber Coal Co. SAUK CITY. WISCONSIN HOMBERGER REUTER Dealers in general merchandise rm The Famous Schoenecker s Boots and Shoes a Specialty Farm Produce Taken in Exchange Give Us a Call We have the Carpets They are the Wear-resisting Richard- sons Superlative Carpets, e offer you the Largest Assortment of Handsome Pat- terns to select from. All Wool Ingrains. 68c per yard, sewing included Heavy Velvet Carpets, beautiful Parlor Patterns at only 89c per yard. All perfectly sewed. rrady to lay. Wm. Dresen Son Wm. Schwenker Proprietor of The New Harness Shop Repairing Promptly Done Harnesses Made to Order. Blankets. Robes and Whips on hand SAUK CITY. WISCONSIN M. Kranzfelder s MILLINERY STORE The latest styles and seasonable millinery SAUK CITY WISCONSIN A. E. Marquardt Druggist Stationery, Books, Fountain Pens and Post Cards Sauk City. 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Carpenters, Contractors and Builders Leading Brand: “TEMPT ATION Try it ! HUSSEL y MEIER Manufacturers of Wagons, Buggies ——and--------- Sleighs Repair Work and Horseshoeing a Specialty Sauk City. W isconsin Manufacturers of all kinds of House Finishings Factory and Office Telephone at Sauk City. Wia. 27 flutter Schroeder --- DEALERS IN - Farm Machinery, Buggies and Carriages Agents for “Badger Gasoline Engines SAUK CITY. WISCONSIN Andrew K.ahn, Jr. JOHN WEILER hardware, Stoves Meat jw Market Tinware Hot Water and Hot Air Furnaces Fresh and Salt Meats Sausages, Etc. Roofing and Spouting a Specialty Telephone 23 Sauk City. W,s. Dr. Fred J. Meyer Leinenkugel Bros. Dentist DRAYMEN Sauk City, Wisconsin SAUK CITY - WISCONSIN Jos. Brilliot Ci very Teed Stable Special Attention Given to Funerals. Weddings, Picnics. Etc. Strictly Up to Date SAUK CITY :: WISCONSIN Dr. S. C. Keller, M. D. 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