Sutton High School - Mustang Yearbook (Sutton, NE)

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It is no use to grumble and complain, l9l2 O, see the sweet girl graduate, In purple and brand-new gown, Stand radiant forth to agitate The High School and the town. It is just as easy and cheap to rejoice, When God sorts out the weather and sends rain- Why, rain's my choice. -James lVhitcomb Riley. Do not look for wrong and evil, You will find them if you dog As you measure for your neighbor, She knows she's just the sweetest thing He will measure back to you. Of this Season of the year, ' Look for goodness, look for gladness, And expects to make the whole world ring You Wm meet them all the While. Wblth Woman and Her Sphere. If you bring an Smiling Visage ABOUT 1917 Behold the sweet girl graduate, Arrayed in kitchen gown, Her sleeves above the elbows rolled Her back hair tumbling down. And hear the words she's uttering- You, Jimmy! come and dance The baby while I go and patch Your papa's other pants! To the glass, you meet a smile. A -Alice Carey. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.-Horace Mann. As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. -Alexander Pope. Not failure, but low aim is crime. Exchange. --Jame.s Russell Lowell.

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secure the state appropriation, school had to be I-IISTGRY OF THE SUTTQN SCI-IDGLS All things great and .small have their beginnings. Our Sutton High School of today came from a very small beginning. A very few families, perhaps six in number, among the early settlers of Sutton felt the need of a school for their young people. Looking about they found a sn-all building called the Owen Mines Building standing about where the brick hotel is now located, but were unable to find a teacher. Hearing of a young man who was coming from the east to live here. with his parents, they wrote urging him to take the school. Thus upon his arrival here, William L. Weed, a young man of sixteen, signed the contract, took the teacheris county examination and began school the following Monday, January 20, 1872. In order to taught three months prior to April iirst, thus necessi- tating eight hours a day for six days in the week. There was an enrollment of about fourteen, among whom well known here were, Harry Clark, Allie Clark and Ella Steinmitz. The building had no accommodations whatever in the way of desks, etc. Wood for the stove was cut by the teacher and older boys. On account of the long hours, the classes- recited seve.ral times a day and there were two recesses each morning and afternoon. Sutton's First Public School. The Indians made. the grove their camping place when on their hunting trips and occassionally the scholars were startled at the sight of an Indian's face peering in at them through the window.