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The present city park at Main and Main Cross Streets was a hitching yard. There they tied their horses. Across the street the 1828 courthouse was being razed. A new two-story, towered court- house was being planned.
The town's population had doubled again ! From its 1,294 residents of 1873 the figure rose to 2,512 in the 1880 census.
The George S. Staley mill was big business then. Every day it turned out 100 barrels of flour and 50 barrels of meal.
Harvey Crozier came to town and opened a large grocery at First and Smith Streets. A fine confectionery was started on Main by William Dietz.
There still were vacant lots on Main Street. They were popular meeting places for boys playing marbles and men holding political rallies.
The town had crept westward and extended to Plum Street. There, on the southwest corner, was built a two-story brick college with a tower. It was the new home of the Southern Illinois Normal School and Commercial College.
The school had been burned out ear- lier when a fire swept the Brockett build- ing on Main Street.
CARMI WATER MILLS a . Skalayant in Grain Flour E .. CARMI ILL
The town made progress through the decade with mayors named Orlando Bur- rell, George Wissinger, Frank E. Hay, Dr. John M. Minick and Simon Grant.
Carmi was a rough town in those days, especially on Saturday night. Saloons were crowded and fights were frequent on the streets. The Dollar Courier reported a general free-for-all one Saturday night with 50 men engaged in combat. Police were overpowered and no arrests were per- mitted.
The newspaper reported that a burg- lar reached into Tom Ary's sleeping room and pulled out a vest. In the pockets he found $50 and Ary's false teeth. The vest and teeth were found hanging on a tree north of the railroad shops several days later.
The 1880's closed with C. S. Conger being elected circuit judge and James R. Williams going to Congress.
JUDGE C. S. CONGER
CONGRESSMAN JAMES R. WILLIAMS
This home and general store of Mrs. Mary Shannon Williams' father, Albert R. Shannon, was replaced by the Victorian residence of Con- gressman and Mrs. James R. Williams. It Is now occupied by Mrs. Robert Ready Williams.
The Byrd L. Patrick family lived in this house on Main Street, close to the present site of the Carmi Theatre. This picture was taken in 1888. The house was moved to Robinson Street and is now the Archer Apartments.
John D. Martin's large residence was on Court Square.
Residence of George E. Staley, the miller.
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Remember the days of the dill' pickle barrei? And the hoarhound candy in glass jars? And the cracker barrel and pot-bellied stove? And old Dobbin pulling the dellvery wagon? You could see them all at Harvey Crozler's New York Grocery Store, top right, at Smith and First Streets back in the 1880's. Driving the wagon is Everett M. Robinson. Facing the wagon is Henry Stockhowe. To the right of Stockhowe is Fred Barth. Center, right, the Ziegler and Reinwald stave factory, a big industry here in the eighties and nineties. Second man on left is George Schauberger, father of Mrs. Laurence Boehringer. Bottom right, the Ziegler and Rein- wald sawmill. Second from ieft, behind wagon, is Frank Leathers. At right, man standing in wagon in shirt sleeves is Ike Leathers. On far right is Enos Leathers. Second from right, Granville McMurray.
Ah, those wonderful nineties!
"All, all are gone, the old familiar faces."
T HE PEANUT roaster chuffed in front of William Dietz's Main Street Confectionery. The toy clown on it bobbed up and down.
A caisson with a Civil War cannon stood in front of the Fireproof Building.
A dashing young doctor from Austra- lia, William Brimble-Combe, made his rounds in a fancy buggy, pulled by a black horse named Joe Lee.
Fred Bair, Ed Mead, Miss Stella Schoemann and many others sped up and down the dusty streets on bicycles.
"Kid" Hacker wore a sandwich board advertising Coca-Cola in front of Dietz's.
It was a colorful, gracious, delightful decade; the days of the Gibson Girl with pompadour hair-do, puffed sleeves and bil- lowing skirts.
Oh, the Nineties were gay, all right! Dances and kissing games became popular. Women started using face powder; colors and bright prints for dresses; large brooches and lavaliers.
In tune with the times, men wore striped and checked suits, gaudy ties, fancy vests, heavy watch chains, mus- taches and derby hats.
William Dietz' peanut roaster in 1896.
Ratcliff Inn was old in 1897. It had been standing for 69 years in this picture. Adjoining to right is A. Willis, photographer. Next is Stinson Bros. store.
Miss Stella Schoemann riding a bicycle on Church Street in 1896.
Kid Hacker advertising Coca-Cola in front of the Dietz restaurant in 1896.
Best-seller novels became popular. People avidly read "The Prisoner of Zenda," "Trilby," "Quo Vadis," and "When Knighthood Was in Flower."
The town continued growing, with 2,755 residents in 1890. During the decade the mayors were Simon Grant, owner of a brickyard; George Wheatcroft, sawmill owner; Attorney Jasper Partridge, George Ziegler, manufacturer of staves, barrels and lumber; Harvey H. Crozier, merchant and grain dealer.
It was an era of lively tunes, at home, on the street and in the theater. Young and old liked to gather in the parlor around the reed organ and sing "Bicycle Built for Two," "After the Ball," "Sweet Marie," "Ta-ra-ra-ra Boom de-ay," "The Bowery," "Sidewalks of New York," and "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight."
Ed Mead on a wheel on Church Street in 1896.
Civil War cannon in front of Fireproof Building at Main and Main Cross Streets.
Fred Bair bicycling on Main. Residence on left was that of W. R. Archer; right, Joe F. Williams.
Horse and buggy doctor of the 1890's. Dr. William Brimble-Combe, who came from Australia, slts In his buggy behind Joe Lee on the river bank near the iron bridge.
William Jennings Bryan as he appeared in Carmi in 1896.
Charles P. Berry bought the Carmi Courier. Wust and Faulkner built the first electric light plant. Two new banks were organized-the First National, headed by James A. Miller, and the Farmers and Merchants, with William R. Cochran as president.
The Methodists and Presbyterians built new churches and Mrs. Morris Blas- ker organized the Home Culture Circle at her home on West Main Street.
Surrey with the fringe on top - and old Dobbin doesn't mind the muddy road as he clip-clops toward the East Main Street bridge in Carmi.
Orlando Burrell, sheriff, county judge, Congressman, mayor.
In a political upset, Orlando Burrell, former sheriff, county judge and mayor, defeated James R. Williams for Congress in 1895, but Williams staged a comeback in 1899 and went on to national prom- inence.
William Jennings Bryan came cam- paigning in 1896. He spoke on a flag- draped platform near the depot and was photographed on the street with numerous Carmi people.
The streets were still muddy or dusty, depending on the weather.
Shoppers thronged to the stores own- ed by L. Haas, Morris Blasker, Stinson Brothers and A. Schoemann. For fancy groceries they went to J. J. Birdsong, Witt- mer and Machenheimer, Stockhowe's New York Grocery and B. L. Patrick's. T. W. Brown had a busy meat market on Main, where the Hirsch store now stands, and on the Standard Oil corner we now know stood the fenced-in residence of the J. F. Williams family.
Will Rice had a thriving tobacco bus- iness. W. A. Ball opened his drug store on Church Street, close to a rising young den- tist, Dr. A. S. Rudolph.
The Kerney and Stinnett mill was a big business on the river front and Steven Eckerle's brick and tile works was boom- ing.
"Remember the Maine!" was the cry in 1898 when America went to war with Spain, and once more Carmi men answered the call to the colors.
Fun at Dietz's in 1895. Oh, that was the place to go 70 years ago! Posing clockwise, Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Crebs, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Crebs, Stella Haas and her brother, Erwin, Miss Molly Stewart, Joe Williams. The woman left center is unidentified.
In the old Opera House in 1898. These civic leaders presented a play, "The Destrick Schul," for the Home Culture Circle in it's efforts to raise money to start a public library. The old Opera House was on the second floor of what is now the Carmi Furniture Store. Pictured left to right are, bottom row: Will Tully, Bob Silliman, Ira Funkhouser, Dr. Daniel Berry, George Meridith, Will Smith and Dr. Berry Crebs. Second row: Mrs. Albert Schoemann, Mrs. Mark Blasker, Mrs. Tom Poynton, Mrs. George Meridith, Mrs. Tom Hutchins, Mrs. Perry White, Mrs. Ira Funkhouser and Mrs. Ratcliff Webb. Third row: Mrs. Dave Rickenbach, Miss Laura Stinnett, Miss Ira Clayton, T. W. Hall, Mrs. Sophia Miller, Mrs. W. C. Smith, A. L. Patrick, Mrs. R. E. Pearce, Bradford Powell and Miss Jane Craw. Fourth row: Mrs. Felix Viskniskki, Sheriff Tom Hutchins, Mrs. Tom Hall, Mrs. Burnett and Mrs. P. A. Pearce. Top row: John Crebs, Mr. Burnett and Dave K. Rickenbach.
The turn of the century .
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HE OLD century ended on Sunday.
Carmi people held watch parties and church services as they bid farewell to the 1800's. Church bells rang in an era of peace and gracious living.
Lowry Hay, James Ratcliff and the other pioneers of 1816 would have rubbed their eyes in astonishment if they could have seen "their town" 84 years later.
Carmi's population had risen to 2,939! Life was pleasant and serene. Food was abundant, inexpensive and good. Business was booming. Carmi was the trade center for a large area.
In the first decade of the new cen- tury, two new banks were opened - The National Bank of Carmi in 1900 with John M. Crebs as president and the White County Bank in 1904, headed by Frank E. Pomeroy.
Durable, dependable old Orlando Bur- rell was mayor again at 75 and he served until he was 81. Under his administrations Main Street was paved with cobblestones from Main Cross to Church. Tom Poynton poured many concrete sidewalks to replace board walks.
Electric arc lights flickered at night. By day the drays, wagons and buggies clattered over the cobblestones. Hitching racks, blacksmith shops and livery stables were busy places.
The horse was king. Harness shops, sales stables, feed stores were open early and late. All over town residents had their own stables and carriage houses. Buggies
could be bought for as little as $60. Some bought carriages costing as much as $400, with rubber tires and graceful oil lamps.
The 1900's arrived with people sing- ing "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now," "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Carmi people were reading "The Virginian," "Alice of Old Vincennes" and "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come."
Men started shaving off their mus- taches and beards. Gillette invented the safety razor.
Dressmaking was big business and so was the millinery trade. Women wore fancy lace and scrim dust ruffles to pro- tect their dresses. Waists and sleeves fit- ted tightly.
It was a decade of great events nation- ally. The Wright brothers proved that an airplane would fly. A one-cylinder Packard crossed the continent in 61 days. President Mckinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt came to power.
"Motormania" hit the country. A Reo auto could be bought for $650 and Ransom E. Olds planned to build 430 one year. The two-cylinder Maxwell runabout was an immediate hit.
On the river bank near the bridge Joseph Weigant's mill ground busily away. West of there, where the Rice Motor Com- pany now operates, James Cullison's gen- eral store was taking in poultry and eggs in trade.
Bernard Haen and his young partner Ernest Wehrle had a bakery on Brick (Church) Street and the Jahlreiss bakery was operating on Main.
Gone are the drudging women-they sing and smile instead,
And the cruel song of the whetstone, like the ghost of the past is dead;
The wheat is ripe in the upland, and the hay is snug in the mow,
And the only song as the days go by is the purr of the combine now.
'Way back; there's where I'd love to be, Shet of each lesson and hateful rule,
When the whole round world was as sweet to me As the big ripe apple I brung to school.
Party time on Stewart Street. The Albert Schoemann home at Third and Stewart Streets was a social center in the 1890's. This picture of young people there was taken in 1892.
Jack Cross was running a restaurant at Main and Walnut (where the First National Bank now stands) and next door was Hugh Trammell's barber shop. Jasper Dale's Drug Store was where the Shoe Mart now stands, and the Halk Auto loca- tion then was Schumaker's clothing store. East of that was the popular confectionery of William Dietz, now busier than ever as King's Confectionery.
Lee Rose had a barber shop next to Dietz, and where Sam Ziegler now does business was Blasker's Dry Goods Store.
Sonny Gumberts had a saloon in an old frame building on the site of the pres- ent White County Bank and in the same block was the L. Haas store.
Carmi ladies thronged to Mrs. Kuykendall's millinery shop, where the White County Abstract Company now op- erates, next to the City Park.
It was a decade of fun and frolic. The B.N.K. Club staged shows at the Opera House for the benefit of the Village Im- provement Association. Folks thronged to the White County Fair in their buggies and carriages. The Thursday and Friday Clubs attracted the cream of society.
Nickelodeons drew people to flicker- ing moving picture shows. It was a period of ragtime music and Sousa the march king.
People sang and hummed "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey ?", "The Good Old Summer Time," "Sweet Adeline," "Meet Me in St. Louis," and "Shine On, Harvest Moon."
Attorney F. M. Parish and Claude M. Barnes followed Burrell as mayors. Barnes was a wealthy land owner and merchant.
ROY CLIPPINGER Editor, Congressman, Civic Leader
He pushed the paving of streets and for general improvements.
On May 6, 1909, a 23-year-old news- paperman came to town. Although there were two newspapers here already-the Carmi Times and the White County Demo- crat-Roy Clippinger started the Carmi Tribune in partnership with Lawrence M. Ross.
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Those Easter bonnets! Ladies and little girls knew that the place to go was to Mrs. Kuykendall's millinery shop. It was a popular place in the first decade of this century. The building on Main beside the park now i's occupled by the White County Abstract Company.
Remember the brass lamps on those wonderful Maxwells? Sul in his teens, Matthew Land drives the family auto along & country road.
Clippinger had started setting type at 10 years of age. He worked for the Norris City newspaper owned by his father, A. C. Clippinger, then launched out for himself in Carmi.
A born leader, Clippinger was so in- dustrious he worked day and night. With- in two years he had merged his paper with the Carmi Times. He operated the Tribune- Times until 1929, when it merged with Judge C. S. Conger's White County Demo- crat. Clippinger and Conger were partners for several years in the Carmi Democrat- Tribune. The judge then sold his interest to Clippinger.
Editing the only newspaper in the county seat, Clippinger continually pushed
for Carmi's improvement. He got a bridge built at New Harmony, organized and headed the Greater Weeklies of America, converted his newspaper into a daily and was twice elected to Congress.
When he died Dec. 24, 1962, he left a new Carmi Times, a daily newspaper. He had been an editor here for 53 years and a newspaperman for 66.
As the first decade of the new cen- tury closed, Taft was President, the first model T was catching the public's fancy, the city's population had dropped a little and people were singing two of the most popular songs ever written, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" and "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life."
Washington's birthday party about 1905, in the home of Mrs. Frank E. Hay. Members of the DAR and Thursday Club are identified as, front row sitting, left to right: Mrs. Virginia Malt- by (non-member), Mrs. Claud Barnes, Mrs. John M. Crebs, Mrs. J. W. Maffitt, Mrs. John C. Powell and Mrs. Charles P. Berry. Back row, standing, left to right: Miss Mary J. R. Stewart, Miss Catherine McClintock, Mrs. Berry Crebs, Miss Annie Conger, Miss Molly Stewart and Mrs. Roy E. Pearce.
THE FRIDAY CLUB IN 1906 - La! The ladies were lovely 60 years ago. Back row: Pearl Rice Ziegler, Berniece Schoemann, Evelyn Viskniskki McCave, Kate Pomeroy Wilson, Nellie Boyer Pearce, Grace Caley Dietz and Ella Berry Barnes. Middle row: Emma Smith Boyer, Lena Patrick Conger, Vera Viskniskki, Eileen Tuck Martin, Anna Tente Boyer, Ethel Martin Bullard and Lilly Smith Rich. Front row: Stella Schoemann Singer, Helen Conger Haas and Edna Haas.
Many still Ilving remember the wonderful Innovation, meeting place for courtin' or a Coke; to listen to music amid the palms; to order a cherry phosphate from the wondrous soda fountain.
Peaceful, tuneful, turbulent times
I T WAS A pretty little country town in 1911. Shade trees lined the streets, offering cool comfort on hot and lazy summer days.
The player piano became popular and phonographs were all the rage. Ragtime music swept the country, with people sing- ing "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Ballin' the Jack," "Bugle Call Rag," "Lonesome Rag," and "Everybody's Doing It Now."
Carmi young people took up a new dance craze, the fox trot, and they hum- med and sang "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" and "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl." Sweet songs of the times were "Mother Machree," "Little Grey Home in the West," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "After You've Gone," and "The Sweet- heart of Sigma Chi."
Although the population had fallen (to 2,833) for the first time since 1890, business was good and times were prosper- ous.
Into office as mayor in 1911 went Thomas H. Land, owner of farms, a grain business and a dealer in loans. Carmi al- ready had elected descendants of pioneers as mayors. Dr. Elam L. Stewart, elected in 1873, was a grandson of William Stewart who came here in 1816.
Frank E. Hay, elected in 1885, was a son of Daniel Hay, who was one of the founders of the town.
In the 1911 election the people chose the great-grandson of Robert Land, who came from South Carolina and settled on the Big Prairie in 1809, six years before White County was created.
Mayor Land had married Ada C. Mel- rose, of Grayville, and their children were Matthew and Elizabeth (Mrs. J. Robert Smith).
In those serene years before World War I the railroad depot was one of the gathering places of the town. People thronged there to see who left and arrived on trains for St. Louis, Evansville and Chi- cago.
The 1913 flood caused widespread damage and townspeople crowded to the river front to watch the swirling waters.
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WHITE COUNTY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AND MOOSE CARNIVAL, AUGUST 3-8, 1814, CARMI, ILLINOIS
T. W. HAY, PXE(204 ** ROSCOE COCHRAN FRED C, PUNINEY WILLIAM S. HARTAKÝ
COMMITTEE CHARLES & BROWN MARSEL ANCHER KAMAY WH:18
DANIEL MIHENRY HENRY JONES
HOBERT LAND NOAH KUYKENDALL
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The manager of the telephone com- pany, John C. Stokes was elected mayor- and that was the year Carmi's Anti-Saloon League paraded down Main Street, flags flying and a band playing, to protest against the liquor traffic.
Harking back to pioneer days, the town held a White County Centennial Cele- bration and Moose Carnival August 3-8, 1914. The committee included T. W. Hay, president; Roscoe Cochran, Fred C. Punt- ney, Charles G. Brown, Hersel M. Archer, Harry White and William B. Hartwick.
Postcards issued by Kelley Staiger honored early pioneers named Daniel Mc- Henry, Robert Land, Noah Kuykendall, Henry Jones and John Hanna.
On Monday, June 21, soon after dawn, Mrs. Carson Hughes was in her yard on West Main Street close to the iron bridge. She heard a crashing noise, looked up and saw the west span of the bridge collapse and fall into the river. Miss Effie Gray (Mrs. Herbert Bruce) and Charlie Green had just crossed safely when the bridge crashed.
News of the disaster spread fast. Small boats were assembled, then larger ones, to accommodate the public. Business men held conferences with county and city officials. A pontoon bridge was hurriedly built. By Oct. 6 a contract was awarded for a new span, which was dedicated August 8, 1916. It was called the Rainbow Arch bridge, made of 88 tons of steel and 10,000 bags of cement !
It was a time of peace and plenty, but Europe was at war and its influence was felt in Carmi. Farm prices rose and there was a demand for land, horses and mules. U. S. industries boomed.
People started singing an English war song, "Tipperary," and President Woodrow Wilson was trying to keep America out of the war.
All of a sudden, life changed. No long- er were people singing "Pretty Baby," "The Missouri Waltz," and "When You Wore a Tulip." America went to war. Men were drafted. Army camps opened. Now it was "Over There," "You're in the Army Now," "K-k-k-Katy," "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France," and "Hinkey Dinkey Parlez Vous."
Mayor Frank Sibley, just elected, re- signed and left his medical practice to en- ter the army. Ralph Benson became mayor in his place.
Land prices soared. Farmers worked day and night to raise food. Troop trains rolled away from the Carmi depot to the cheers and tears of friends and loved ones.
Fighting the saloons in 1913-flags waving and bands playing, the drys marched down Main Street April 15, 1913, in a protest against the liquor traffic. Many children joined members of the Anti-Saloon League in the march.
Carmi celebrating and parading on Armistice Day, November 11, 1917.
It was an era of glucose in place of sugar, Khaki and rolled puttees, Liberty loan drives and the disastrous influenza epidemic.
When it was all over, Carmi joined in nation-wide rejoicing. Early in the morn- ing of November 11, 1918, news came of the German surrender.
A parade was organized. That after- noon Main Street was crowded. People cheered and sobbed with joy as they watched the decorated wagons and cars and marching throngs proceed down Main Street.
The happy, tuneful, turbulent, violent decade ended with Tom W. Hall, banker, taking over as mayor.
The roaring twenties . . .
T HEY STILL call it "the Roaring Twenties," but the decade didn't start out that way.
The war songs faded. People adjusted to peace; had a yearning for "the good old days." After their sacrifices in Europe, Americans started singing "Let the Rest of the World Go By," and "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding Into the Land of My Dreams."
In 1920 Carmi's population was the lowest since 1880, down to 2,667. Nobody worried because business was good. Dr. Sibley was mayor again and he was suc- ceeded by W. F. Elliott, auto dealer, and Fred J. Reinwald, feed and grain mer- chant.
People played Mah Jong, listened to radios with horn speakers, read headlines about the Ku Klux Klan and the death of President Harding.
Suddenly, the "good old days" were only a memory. The jazz age dawned! Carmi girls discarded ankle-length skirts and bunchy waists. The flapper appeared with bobbed hair, skirts to the knees and rolled silk hose.
Stately waltzes and polkas gave way to the Charleston and Black Bottom. Ru- dolph Valentino was the Sheik; Colleen Moore played at the Main Theater in "Fla- ming Youth;" Bayleys sold Ford run- abouts for $265.
Sweet, slow songs of 1920 were "Whis- pering," "My Little Margie," and "Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home." Now it was "Yes Sir, That's My Baby," "Dood- ley Doo," and "Jada."
A Kiwanis Club was organized and Attorney Joe A. Pearce was the first pres- ident. Dr. Ray McCallister opened a dental office in Norris City before moving to Carmi.
The worst disaster of the decade came Wednesday, March 18, 1925, when a tor- nado roared across the county, killing 27 and injuring 126. It destroyed 110 houses and took a damage toll of $750,000.
JUDGE C. S. CONGER
That was the year 10,000 people came here to celebrate the opening of the hard road.
The Strand Theater opened with Mae Murray playing in "The Merry Widow." Rebstock Brothers were selling the Star auto. Clara Bow was the "It" girl. Fire swept a block on Main Street. Talking pic- tures thrilled the country.
Daredevil Olson sat on a flagpole high over Main Street. Phil Hanna presided over the hanging of Charlie Birger. Lou Emmerson defeated Len Small for Gover- nor. W. A. Ball opened his Main Street drug store.
The Carmi weekly newspapers mer- ged, with Roy Clippinger and C. S. Conger as partners.
The new age with faster tempo wrought changes in town. With better roads and many, many more autos, the horse and buggy almost vanished. More farm people moved to town. The popula- tion started rising; reached 2,925 by the close of the decade.
This picture was taken at 100th anniversary celebration of the Presbyterian Church, 1927. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Ethel Bee, Miss Enid Lewis, Miss Rose Mary Bee and Mrs. Charles P. Berry; second row: Dr. Berry S. Crebs, R. F. Hurley, Mrs. Charles Gibbs, Mrs. W. A. Ball, Miss Molly Stewart, Robert Finch and Ivan McCallister; third row: Willlam C. Smith, Lillie Campbell, Mrs. Frank C. Sibley, Mrs. W. G. Boyer and Charles Randolph; fourth row: William Ball, John M. Crebs, Zachary Boyer, Henry Lewis, Chauncey Stewart Conger and Joe Fleming Williams. Only six pictured here are still living: Rose Mary Bee, Enid Lewis Thuermer, Mrs. Charles Gibbs, Ivan McCal- Uster and Lillie Campbell Silliman.
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