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H. HERBERT RATCLIFF, A.B., Science and Agriculture, 1905-07.
LESLIE E. REES, A.B., Greek and Lat- in, 1904-05.
BESS M. REITZEL, A.B., Professor of Home Economics, 1925-27.
MRS. BONNIE BAIRD REPLOGLE, Voice, Piano and History of Music, 1908- 10.
F. G. REPLOGLE, B.Accts., Principal of Commercial Department, 1915-17.
VIVIAN RETZLAFF, M.A., Professor of Modern Languages, 1929-31.
BERTHA ANN REUTER, A.M., Pro- fessor of History, 1916-17.
EDNA M. ROBINSON, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of English, 1917-1919.
WILLIAM A. ROBINSON, A.B., M.Acc'ts, Principal of Commercial De- partment. Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Shorthand and Typewriting, 1915.
MIRIAM ROSE, Voice, Theory and Chorus Work, 1904.
MIRIAM ROSECRANS, Instructor in Latin, 1918.
ELLA E. RUEBHAUSEN, B.S., Ph.D., Professor and Head of Modern Language Department, 1917-19.
RACHAEL SANDERS, B.S., Instructor in Domestic Science, 1919.
JENNIE SELLERS, Preceptress, 1910.
WENTWORTH SHARER, A.B., Direc- tor of Athletics, 1919.
SAMUEL H. SHERFEY, A.B., Biology, 1906-10.
EARL E. SHERFF, A.B., Science, 1907- 08.
DOROTHY M. SHERRICK, A.B., In- structor in Voice, 1922.
MARVIN MANAN SHERRICK, A.M., Litt. D., L.H.D., Registrar and Professor of Philosophy, 1906-22.
ARTHUR W. SHIVELY, M.A., Dean and Professor of Education, 1928-32.
GLADYS S. SHIVELY, M.A., Instruc- tor in Education, 1928-32.
LEVI S. SHIVELY, A.M., Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Mathematics and Phy- sics. President, 1918-21.
SARAH S. SHUTT, Instructor in Short- hand and Typewriting, 1918.
FLORENCE M. SHUTTS, Instructor in Music, 1918-19.
ANDREW N. SMITH, B.S., Dean of Men and Professor of Agriculture, 1924.
W. HARLAN SMITH, A.B., Instructor in Algebra, 1919.
ELIZABETH SNIDER, Expression, 1909.
FRED E. SORRENSON, A.B., Expres- sion and English, 1913.
ADALINE STANLEY, A.B., A.M., Pro- fessor of English, 1919.
D. A. STOUFFER, Coach, 1914-16.
M. E. STOUFFER, Instructor in Pen- manship, 1916-17.
J. EMMERT STOVER, A.B., B.D., In- structor in Voice and Glee Clubs and Librarian, 1926-27.
WILBUR BRENNER STOVER, A.B., D.D., Professor of Missions, 1921.
GROVER T. STROH, Instructor of Voice and Glee Club, 1925.
HARVEY P. SWARTZ, Physical Direc- tor, 1914.
LOLA SWIFT, United States History, 1909.
OLIVE SWIFT, Orthography, 1910.
AMMON SWOPE, A.B., Mathematics and Physics, 1912.
CHARLES V. TAYLOR, Penmanship, 1908-09.
FAY TIETSWORTH, Elocution and Physical Culture, 1905-06.
AMY TROUT, A.B., Mathematics, Physics and Latin, 1914-15.
C. O. VAN ANTWERP, B.A., Athletic Coach and Director of Physical Educa- tion, 1927-29.
JAMES F. VAN ANTWERP, A.B., Athletic Coach and Director of Physical Education; Assistant Instructor in Phy- sics, 1924.
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IRENE VAN DYKE, A.B., Instructor in Public Speaking, 1917-19.
B. F. WAMPLER, Instructor in Voice, 1919.
DAVID F. WARNER, Arithmetic and Grammar, 1909.
GEORGE H. WARWICK, M.S., M.Di., Dean of the Department of Agriculture, 1925-32.
FORREST L. WELLER, M.A., Profes- sor of History and Sociology, 1928-32.
RUSSELL WELLER, Manual Arts, 1927
JOHN B. WHITE, A.M., Professor of History, and Principal of Academy, 1918- 22.
MISS RUTH WHITEHEAD, M.Accts., Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewrit- ing, 1904.
GROVER L. WINE, B.A., B.D., Pastor of Mount Morris Church of the Brethren and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, 1922-28.
JANE WINGARD, B.A., Critic Teacher, 1925-31.
MRS. IRA WINGERT, Oil, Water Color, Pastel and Pyrography, 1904-07.
J. RUSSEL WINSLOW, B.S., Professor of Chemistry, 1920.
ALMA WISE, Preceptress, 1913.
JOHN WOODARD, B.S., in Agr., M.A., Professor of Agriculture, 1918-19.
M. VELN YEAW, Elocution and Physi- cal Culture, 1904.
PAUL J. YOE, B.S., Instructor in Me- chanical Drawing, 1928.
MRS. NETTIE YOUNG, Preceptress, 1907-09.
MILO D. ZIMMERMAN, A.B., Instruc- tor in Mathematics and Latin, 1920.
MILDRED T. ZOLLER, Instructor in Voice; Director of Women's and Men's Glee Clubs; Director of Girls' Athletics, 1923-25.
Chapter 7 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
A S mentioned already in this vol- ume, the first settlers of Mount Morris Township were deeply interested in the cause of education, and were determined that their chil- dren should not want for educational privileges. In conformity with these views, Messrs. Hitt and Swingley en- gaged A. Quinby Allen to accompany them west, when they returned for their families in 1837. Soon after they established a school, with Mr. Allen as teacher, in an old log-house which they erected in the grove about eighty rods southwest of the former residence of D. J. Pinckney, later known as the Lohafer home. This house was torn down many years ago. It was the first school in this section of the country, and was called the Pine Creek Gram- mar School, under which rather pre- tentious title it was the first step to- ward the founding of Rock River Seminary.
The pupils in this school numbered twenty-six, among whom were Marga- ret C. Hitt, John W. Hitt, George Hitt, Andrew W. Hitt, Joseph Hitt, John Hitt, Robert S. Hitt, Robert R. Hitt, Martin R. M. Wallace, Elizabeth Reynolds, Caroline M. Reynolds, Ann E. Ankney, Urilla Swingley, John H. Swingley, Upton Swingley, Augustus H. Ankney, Ann M. Ankney, Clinton Helm, James C. T. Phelps, James Reynolds, the Wor- den boys, Richard McClain's children, Nathaniel A. Ankney and Peter House- holder. The school continued under the direction of Mr. Allen for nearly a year, during which time the scheme of locat- ing the Rock River Seminary here was accomplished. As is noted elsewhere, the first term of the seminary opened in November, 1840. In the spring of 1841, the Pine Creek Grammar School was taken under the wing of the seminary,
being conducted under the management of Mrs. Fannie Russell, as the primary department of that institution. For some reason it was discontinued in
A. QUINBY ALLEN, teacher, surveyor and auctioneer, taught the first public school opened in Mount Morris. It was known as the Pine Creek Grammar School and was the nucleus from which Rock River Seminary was established. He was the son of Capt. Isaac and Mary Allen, and was born Oct. 4, 1814, at Little Britain, Pa. He came to Mount Morris in 1838 and taught school until 1841 when he returned to the east and was married to
Elizabeth Swingley, daughter of Michael Swingley. They came to Mount Morris in 1845 and became the parents of seven children as follows: Samuel, Mary (Mrs. Menzo Keith), Emma J. (Mrs. Will Cosgrove), Lydia W., Robert Q., Ed- win J. and Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert Mc- Clure). Mr. Allen became a very promi- nent citizen of Mount Morris and for 18 years served as County Surveyor of Ogle County. He passed away in 1883 at the age of 69 and Mrs. Allen died March 19, 1900, aged 77 years.
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THIS frame building was the first public school house in Mount Morris. It was built about the year 1845 and used until the present stone building was erected in 1868. It was later used for many years as a residence by Wm. H. Miller, who tore it down in 1900 to make way for a new home.
1843. The sessions were held in the basement, in one part of which was the culinary department of the seminary.
For several years after the discon- tinuance of the primary department of the seminary, private schools, generally of a short duration, were conducted at different houses in the village. Mrs. Ellen Trine remembered of having at- tended school at five different places. One was in an old house, then owned by Mrs. Fellows, on Main Street. This was a select school taught by a Miss Bennett. There was another select school taught by Mrs. Stuff, the wife of a Methodist minister, on the lower floor of the old Masonic Hall, on Wesley Street. The other three which Mrs. Trine attended were the ones in Daniel Eversole's house, the Crofts school, and the district school in the old house torn down by W. H. Miller. Further men- tion is made of these three.
Another school of which some of our older citizens had a slight memory was one taught by a Miss Franklinberry and held in the basement of Blair's Hotel. Henry Sharer remembers a small frame building, standing just west of Blair's Hotel, in which a school was taught at an early day. A. Quinby Allen taught
school in a house during the winter of 1845-'46. Probably a number of other private schools were conducted during the forties and fifties, but little can be learned concerning them.
After the primary department of the seminary had been closed, one of the first schools to start up for the enlight- enment of the juvenile portion of Mount Morris was held in the main part of the old residence which stood across the street south of the Village Hall and which was used for many years as a residence by Daniel Eversole, on the corner of McKendrie and Center Streets. In this old house school was held for about two years, during which time the following were among the teachers: L. Bell, Major Woodcock and his sister Miss Sarah Woodcock, and James Ransom. There were probably twelve or fifteen pupils in attendance, among whom were N. A. Ankney and Mrs. Ellen Trine. The old house was also used for a number of years as a wagon-shop, and an upstairs room fre- quently served the Odd Fellows as a lodge-room.
Probably the first school supported by the regular means of taxation was that held in a house on Main Street. Later
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it was occupied as a residence by Wil- liam H. Miller, who tore it down in the spring of 1900 to make room for a new residence. The information concerning the old house is exceedingly obscure, and the little which could be found was gleaned from a score of sources, and may contain some errors. As nearly as can be ascertained, the house was built especially for school purposes either in 1845 or 1846, only a few years after the building of the McFarland house, mention of which is made else- where. The building was quite long and narrow, and was divided by a light board partition into two equal apart- ments, one for the younger and one for the more advanced pupils. Here it was that many early citizens of Mount Mor- ris gained their education and spent many pleasant hours of their early lives,
"Some upon their books intent,
But more on furtive mischief bent."
The latter part of the quotation was true to a great extent if credit can be given to the laughable stories now re- lated by many of the former pupils. The school continued in the rather ham- pered quarters afforded by the old
house for probably over a score of years. The rooms were very much crowded at the last, so much so that in the summer time visitors would be as- tonished to find boys sitting on the stove for want of better seats.
Thomas C. Williams was one of the mischievous boys who attended the school; and one day, probably for amusement during some tiresome hour, he copied the names of every pupil at- tending at that time into his spelling book, one name along the inside margin of each page. With the exception of three or four all of the names are easily legible, and are as follows: Frank Mumma, William McCoy, William H. Miller, William Newcomer, Arthur Newcomer, Harley Hedges, Benj. Hedges, Milton Neff, David McCoy, Lewis Davis, Frank Knodle, Edwin Al- len, Samuel Rohrer, Edwin Newcomer, Merritt Pinckney, John Warburton, Edwin Knodle, Frank Baker, Douglas Hedges, Charles Knodle, James Wertz, C. Farwell, Frank Black, Ortho Davis, Clayton Startzman, Ed. Startzman, Cal- vin Middlekauff, David Warburton, John McCosh, Scott McCosh, Melvin. Knodle, Ed. Sharp, "Den" Householder,
THIS old house, which formerly stood on the corner south of the Village Hall, was used for a school house for several years in the early forties before any public school build- ing had been erected. It was used as a residence for many years by Daniel Eversole.
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MRS. FRANCES E. CRAWFORD taught in the public school in Mount Morris for nearly forty years. Her maiden name was Frances Hoverland and she was born July 27, 1842, near Springville, N.Y., and died in Mount Morris, March 13, 1922, aged nearly 80 years. She prepared for teaching and came to Ogle County in 1862, first teaching at Byron and then coming to Mount Morris in 1864. She was principal of the Mount Morris Public School for the next seven years, and it was during this period that the present stone building was erected. She then left Mount Morris for five years, teaching at Egan City and Baileyville, but returned in 1879 and taught continuously in the public school until she retired in 1903. During her many years of continuous teaching, Mrs. Crawford taught many pu- pils who later had their children pass un- der her instruction. In 1873, she married Chas. Crawford, and they adopted a daughter, Cornelia, now wife of Adolph Jindra. Mr. Crawford died April 1, 1925.
George Coffman, Thomas Williams, Ella Funk (Mrs. H. J. Griswold), Alice Pond (Mrs. Knodle, of Aurora), Ida New- comer (Mrs. Knodle), Lottie Rohrer (Mrs. William Newcomer), Ida Pinck- ney (Mrs. Ed. Butt), Eliza Ohr (Mrs. Forbes, of Iowa), Libbie Allen (Mrs. R. D. McClure), Arbanna Middlekauff (Mrs. N. E. Buser), Follie Brayton (Mrs. W. M. Gilbert, State Center, Iowa), Lillie Brayton (Mrs. W. H. Mil- ler), Sarah Ohr (Mrs. Follet), Josie Hays (Mrs. Wise), Laura Neff (first wife of A. S. McCoy), Josie Cheney, Mary Hedges, Lizzie Guy, Susie Typer.
Besides the foregoing list a number of others might be noted: Mattie Middle- kauff, Charles Allen, Mary Allen, Robert Q. Allen, Cashus Crowell, A. W. Bray- ton, John Davis, Solomon Nikirk, Thomas and James Neff, Waldo and George Cheney, Lillie and Jennie Kno- dle, the McCoy and the Stewart boys, and others too numerous to mention.
A complete record of the teachers who taught this school is not obtainable. Among them were A. Quinby Allen, Mr. Streeter, Mr. Shultnee, Mr. Cross, John Page, with Hannah Cheney (who later married Mr. Page) as assistant; Holly Allen (father of Charles H. Al- len), James Allen (a brother of Holly Allen), Enoch Coffman, Miss Sibyl Sammis (later married to Andrew Hitt), Miss Helen Coffman, Miss Hattie Little (Mrs. Samuel Middour), Miss Christina Coffman, Daniel Rohrer, Morris Gaffin, Maggie Fouke, Miss Miles, and the
MRS. FLORENCE E. STEPHENS taught in the public school in Mount Morris for many years, starting in the old frame building on East Main St., and continuing in the new stone building when it was erected in 1868. Her maiden name was Florence E. Hoverland and she was born Oct. 6, 1849, at Springfield, N.Y. In 1865, she came to Mount Morris with her sis- ter, Frances Hoverland (Mrs. Crawford) and the two sisters took charge of the public school. In the early seventies, she married Dr. Benj. G. Stephens, a well- known physician of Mount Morris. There were four children: Frances E. (de- ceased), Dollie, George E., and Hugh E. Mrs. Stephens passed away in 1930 at Kansas City, aged 81 years.
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THIS IS THE WAY the public school building looked in 1900. Note the small frame addition at the rear and the long rows of cordwood on hand for fuel. This building was erected in 1868 at a cost of $10,000.
Misses Frances and Florence Hoverland (who later married Charles Crawford and Dr. B. G. Stephens respectively).
Miss Frances Hoverland took charge of the senior room in 1864, and a little later prevailed upon the school board to allow her to write to the east for her sister, Florence, to take the other room, in place of Miss Miles who could not handle the mischievous urchins. These two ladies continued teaching in the old house until the present stone structure was built. Frances, later Mrs. Craw- ford, had a hand in the teaching of
nearly every boy and girl who went through the school, for the remarkably long period of not less than thirty-five years. Children whose parents were disciplined by her in the old schoolhouse many years later passed under her in- struction. Her sister, Florence (Mrs. Stephens) had almost a parallel record.
Many interesting reminiscences can be related concerning the old school days in the Miller house. As is invari- ably the case, there were numerous mischievous spirits among the boys and girls, and their pranks are still remem-
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bered by those who were contempora- neous with those "glorious old times." Mrs. Crawford related a story of how two boys determined to have a vacation from study by hiding all day in the loft, which was merely a little cubbyhole, with neither light nor ventilation. When she arrived at the schoolhouse in the morning-a hot summer day-some of the scholars were building a roaring fire in the stove, and, when questioned, significantly put their fingers to their lips and looked toward the loft. She took in the situation at once and helped the joke along by allowing the boys to remain in the loft and keeping up a
HORACE G. KAUFFMAN died in Jan- uary, 1920, at the age of 65 years. He was born July 31, 1855, at Greencastle, Pa., where he attended the public schools. He attended the Pennsylvania State Normal School and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 1876, he became principal of the Mount Morris Public School for a period of three years, then resigned to study law, but returned as principal at Mount Morris from 1884 to 1889. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1893, and located at Oregon to practice law. In 1876 Mr. Kauffman was married to Re- becca Harlan Brice of Sunbury, Pa., who died April 8, 1929. They had one son, Har- lan B. Kauffman, born in Mount Morris in 1891, who died Sept. 14, 1932. Horace and Rebecca Kauffman edited an Ogle County history of two volumes in 1909.
good fire to make a healthy heat in the usually hot apartment above. At noon Mrs. Crawford and her sister went through the form of leaving the school- house by walking heavily to the door and opening and closing it, but remain- ing inside. Imagine the looks on the boys' faces as they slid down from the loft and found them waiting! No fur- ther punishment was deemed necessary.
When Holly Allen was teaching, Ed. Allen, later a successful auctioneer of Mount Morris, was an attendant. One day when about to be punished for some misdemeanor, he made a dash for the door and down the road. The teacher, however, proved the better ath- lete and succeeded in running him down and bringing him back, which caused some entertainment for the school, the nature of which may easily be surmised. C. C. Crowell was a pretty lively scholar, and on more than one occasion had to stand on one leg for punishment. He remembers that one noon the boys knocked off a half dozen yards of plas- tering and threw the chunks about the room until the white dust obscured the view. Penalty-a licking and three weeks in at recess.
The partition between the two rooms was made of loose boards, which the boys could easily remove on special occasions. At the end of every term the school gave an exhibition, when miscellaneous programs were partici- pated in by the scholars, and on such occasions the partition was removed.
Besides being an old schoolhouse, the Miller building had the honor of once serving as a meetinghouse. Immedi- ately, after it was built, the Rev. N. J. Stroh, who was stationed at Oregon, came up every two weeks and preached in it for the Lutherans. The church records are lost, but there is reason to believe that it was used more or less by the Lutherans for a place of worship until the new brick churchhouse, now belonging to the Christian denomina- tion, was built in 1854. Rev. A. A. Trimper preached in the old house and probably Rev. Nicholas Burkett. Later, in the sixties, long after the brick churchhouse had been built, a number of the Lutherans,-Rev. Rufus Smith, Daniel Sprecher, some of the Hedges,
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and others,-became dissatisfied with the progress of affairs in the church and a split occurred, and the bolters started to hold meetings of their own in the old schoolhouse. This branch existed for a time but soon died out.
In 1882, William H. Miller purchased the house, and after residing in it for eighteen years, erected in its place a fine modern residence.
Another old school building was the McFarland house, which stood on Mul- berry Street, and for many years was occupied as a residence by Mrs. Susan Heminger, until the spring of 1900, when it was purchased by Elder D. L. Miller, and torn down to make room for his residence.
The old house was built in the spring of 1841 by Samuel McFarland, of Boons- boro, Md., and at the time of its erection Mount Morris was yet in its extreme infancy. Mr. McFarland moved into the house after its completion and resided there with his family for a number of years. In the meantime, a number of other houses were built and immigrants began to come in rapidly from the east. Among the arrivals during the summer after the house was completed was a party in which were Jonathan and Emanuel Knodle, of Boonsboro, Md., who brought with them a complete printing outfit. They rented the north wing of the McFarland house, and there began the publication of the Rock River Register, the first paper printed in Ogle County, a complete account of which is given in the chapter upon the press. After the removal of the printing-office from the house in 1842, the old house is lost sight of for nearly twenty years, but it is naturally supposed that it was simply used as a residence, and occupied by probably a dozen different families for shorter or longer periods. In 1853 it came into the possession of a school- teacher, an old lady by the name of Crofts-Mrs. Emmeline Crofts, mother of the Rev. George W. Crofts, who later had charge of the Congregational church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In about the year 1860, or possibly earlier, Mrs. Crofts started a private school in the front room of the old house, using the remainder of it for living rooms. Owing to the crowded condition of the public
school, then being held in the Miller house, she soon gathered in twenty-five or thirty scholars, mostly among the smaller children, and proceeded to "en- lighten" them. Many of our old citizens received their first instruction under her. Among them were A. W. Brayton, William Stewart, Mrs. John Walker, and a score of others. Mr. Brayton remem- bered her rather novel method of dis- tributing reward cards. The room formerly used as the Register office was used by her as a bedroom, and there on her bed she would spread out the re- ward cards, of which there were some very nice ones for the brightest students, and others not quite so pleasing. After
ALFONZO G. NEWCOMER was principal of the Mount Morris Public School from January to June, 1889, because of the ill- ness of Horace G. Kauffman, who was hired for the position. Prof. Newcomer was the son of Henry F. and Elizabeth Ann (Knodle) Newcomer and was born Sept. 13, 1864, at Mount Morris. He at- tended the Mount Morris Public Schools and Mount Morris College and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Cornell University in 1888. After graduation he taught two years at Knox College, and in 1891 he became professor of English Literature at Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., where he made a fine record. Mr. Newcomer mar- ried Carrie M. Jackson of Oregon in 1887, and they had two children, Erval J. and Mabel. The daughter has been an in- structor at Vassar College for a number of years. Mr. Newcomer died in 1913.
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OLD-TIME SCHOOL PICTURE TAKEN ABOUT THE YEAR 1890: Back row, left to right: Janitor Robert Crosby, Lee Watkins, Roy Householder, Bert Thomas, John Jimmerson, Frank Baker, Joe Granger, Benton Kinsey; second row, Lester Smith, George Schelling, George Toms, Will Myers, Fred Crosby, Luther Potter, Howard Newcomer, Ben Price, Hugh Stephens; third row, Otho Baker, Bert Sprecher, Charley Eshelman, Alvis McCoy, Louis Brayton, Lester Steck, Jim McCoy, Earl Householder, Carl
Cheney; fourth row, Flora Wolf, Nora Fouke, Ivy Watkins, Eliza- beth Griswold, Maud McClure, Maud Knodle, Lulu Koontz, Pearl Williams; fifth row, Anna Easton, Anita Holsinger, Susie Baker, Mae Ankney, Kittie Sprecher, Floy Buser, Jennie Keplinger, Mary McClure; bottom row, Maud Withers, Lulu Kable, Nellie Myers, Emma Plate, Edith Hanstine, Flora Thomas, Pearl Buser, Cora Amick; Prof. T. E. DeButts at left; Miss Alice J. Boone at right.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THE ABOVE PICTURE taken Nov. 21, 1890, was of two classes of the Mount Morris Public School, taught by Mrs. Florence Stephens, who stands at the right. Principal T. E. DeButts stands above at the right and Robert Crosby, who was janitor of the school for many years, stands at the left. The pupils are, from left to right, bottom row, Harry Kable, Chas. Raney, Harvey Kable, Harry Hill, Robert Buser, Joe Smith, Riner Clark, Wm. Fouke; second row, Aida Neff, Nannie Price, Maude Rowe, Lottie
Myers, Grace Granger, Anna Bollinger, Mabel Routzhan, Vinnie Winders; third row, Lulu Rubsamen, Myrtle Miller, Vernie
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