Trivoli Community High School - Memoir Yearbook (Trivoli, IL)

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- -------- -We ----------- has some unusually good material in it. Some of the material was hauled from Chicago in a wagon. Mr. Gillett now occupies the building for a machine room. In November of 1851, Reverend Emory made a deed to the trustees of the church for the property now occupied by the present church. That winter material was cut out and framed for the new church of Trivoli. The men of the community spent much of their time preparing and building until in the summer the building now known as the old church was dedicated. On this very same porch, Mr. Lovejoy made his talk on the Anti-Slavery Act. He was later killed at Alton, Illinois. Reverend Emory continued to preach until 1853, when Trivoli was made a part of the Farmington circuit. In 1865, Trivoli was made the head of a circuit. For sixty years, summer and winter, the people came together to worship at the old church. As the old building was beginning to be shattered, in 1909 it seemed advisable to build a new church. This had to be built to meet new methods and new conditions. Through the efforts of the pastors, Reverends R. N. Graham, Montague, and others, interest was created in the enterprise. A Ladies Aid Society was organized with Mrs. R. F. Graham as president. At the first meeting they pledged to raise five hundred dollars, providing a new church be built. To raise this sum, they had a picnic. At this picnic the men secured subscriptions amount- ing to a little over 331800. In 1910 the old church was sold and plans for a new building were accepted after much trouble. There was no resting of the saw and hammer till the new church was finished from top to basement. In October, 1910, Dr. A, T. Dwinell, with the assistance of the neighboring pastors and the entire community, dedicated the present building. I. P., '25, Page Forty-one

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- ------- --aa .--.--- Long Trousers Hey, Bill! Bill! Come here quick! Jack Wallace, generally admitted the most popular senior at Dillion high school, thus excitedly hailed his friend Bill Warner who was resting on a rustic bench after a strenuous game of tennis. Bill, followed by a group of curious students who had been diverted from their various pursuits by the urgent call, hastened across the street where Jack could now be seen with hands holding his sides and laugh- ing uproaringly. The small crowd now assembled, gazed in wonderment at the strange spectacle before them. A battered old Ford car had drawn up at the curb where the rickety engine with a last feeble sputter fol- lowed by a seemingly revengeful bang! came to an abrupt stop. The sole occupant of the front seat removed his tattered straw hat, and, pushing back a mop of fiery red hair, vigorously wiped the perspiration from his forehead. The lad of gigantic stature standing easily six feet 'tall and boasting an avoirdupois of one hundred-eighty, gazed doubt- fully at the group of hilarious students. This young Hercules, clad in tight fitting knee pants, which caused the onlookers to hold their breath each time he stooped to pick up one of the many bundles of clothing that he was removing from the rear seat of the car, was indeed a fit subject for laughter. His car, a battered muddy, sway-back flivver of the 1910 model, seemed to hang its radiator in red hot shame. Led by Jack, the steadily increasing crowd followed the newcomer to the very door of the principal's oflice. Immediately after, the greatest comic section on legs , as one fellow termed it, having fin- ished his business, had emerged from the door where the crowd quickly surrounded him. Seemingly much excited and Hattered by such un- expected attention, the lad answered as best he could, the questons which were fired at him with machine-gun rapidity. From his answers the knowledge was gleaned that his name was Alexander Washington Berkely, that he had spent all his life on his father's ranch, and that he owned the splendid automobile in which he had so triumphantly arrived. Strangely enough, the fellows feeling that some great joke was in the wind, ceased their laughter and gravely discussed with Alex-1 ander the possibilities of his becoming principal of the high school, for such he declared was his one ambition. Thus, Red, as he was thereafter known, made his initial appearance among the two thousand boys and girls at D. H. S. The next day, Red boldly followed the other freshmen to the class- room. He was shocked to notice that even the smallest fellow in the class, a brown eyed boy whose head barely reached Red's waist when they stood side by side at the black-board, was attired in long trousers. He also awoke suddenly to the fact that the girls after glancing quickly Page Forty-three