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(1) Foliage Bed, raised with access to hydrant water: First prize, the H. H. Harding premium, $5.00; second prize, the C. A. Stewart premium, one dozen photographs, $4.50; third prize, the Walter Har- rington premium, a nice book, $1.50. Judges: Mesdames Robt. Moore, E. O'Keefe, Byron Morgan, of the Monday Reading Club.
(2) Foliage Bed, raised without hydrant water: First prize, the Central National Bank premium, $5.00; second prize, the Tom and Ed. Hall premium, shoes to the amount of $3.50; third prize, the Howen- stein & Calhoon premium, framed picture, $2.00. Judges: Mesdames H. H. Harding, D. R. Goucher, A. M. Drake of the Shakespeare Club.
Vine Culture-The features that were considered by the judges of vines were, luxuriance of growth, artistic arrangement of planting and training upon verandas, outbuildings, fence posts, etc., or the success- ful screening of back yards and other unsightly objects.
(1) Vines, raised with access to hydrant water: First prize, the First National Bank premium, $5.00; second prize, the VanHoose pre- mium, one-half dozen photographs, $2.50; third prize, the S. B. Gris- wold premium, $2.00. Judges: Mesdames P. J. McNerney, C. B. Stickney, Rosine Crocker, of the Tourist Club.
(2) Vines, raised without hydrant water: First prize, the Bank of Carthage premium, $5.00; second prize, the F. D. Porter premium, $2.50; third prize, the H. P. Hall premium, a gold ring, $2.00. Judges: Mesdames Frank Folger, H. L. Mosley and J. W. Gray, of the Up-to-Date Club.
Boy's Vegetable Garden-The garden occupied an area of two square rods and the judges will consider not only the care of the ground, practical and faithful attention to duty, but also the quantity and value and quality of the product.
(1) Vegetable Garden, raised with access to hydrant water: First prize, the Carthage Evening Press one year's subscription, $5.00; also the W. C. Thomas premium, $2.00.
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Lawn Contest-(1) Yards having frontage of two hundred feet or more: $10.00 in money or pieces of statuary or other ornaments of equal value; the Rocking Chair Club. Judges: T. B. Tuttle, J. D. Clarkson and James Spence.
(2) Yards having one hundred feet frontage and less than two hun- dred feet: $8.00 in money or statuary as above; the Alpha Club. Judges: Miss Anna Taylor and Mrs. T. R. Payne.
(3) Yards having frontage of less than one hundred feet: $6.00 in money or statuary as above; the Century Club. Judges: A. H. Langhead, Hoyt Gierhart and David King.
In addition to the above, $100.00 was contributed by the citizens to be used for special prize contests, which could not be included in the above general classification, and some five hundred school children com- peted for some of the prizes.
ARBOR DAY, 1903
The Carthage schools had many times observed Arbor day, but never more enthusiastically than on April 12, 1903.
On account of the great interest taken in the prize contest for 1902 and the offerings for 1903, there was a great desire to beautify the school yards and in 1903 Hon. M. E. Benton, then the congressional rep- resentative of this district, sent to the Carthage schools from the United States botanical gardens at Washington, forty-five trees of various kinds. and these were planted by the pupils after the rendering of an ap- propriate program.
CARTHAGE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI
We present here a list of the graduates of the Carthage High School. beginning with the first class in 1878. Carthage has every reason to be proud of her High School graduates, as we find among them the names of many men and women who have achieved success in the world, among them statesmen, who have filled prominent places in this and other states, and financiers who today are helping to mold the commercial des- tinies of the county. Many of them have attained great prominence in the teaching profession. Kansas City has many times, in the past twenty years, shown her confidence in the Carthage schools by drawing from her excellent corps of instructors to fill responsible places in the schools of that city. Twenty graduates of the Carthage schools have been thus honored by the Kansas City Board of Education.
In the annual literary contest at Yale College in 1900, a Carthage young man won first prize in the competition for the writing of the best original poem, Charles A. Kellogg, a former student of the Car- thage schools, carrying off the high honor. Mr. Kellogg's style was easy and graceful, his diction pure and his thoughts were charmingly ex- pressed.
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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Class of 1878: Frank Pierce, Ed. C. Crow, Louie Brown, Eva I. McConnell, Florence C. Parkell, Nettie Beasley and Fannie West.
Class of 1879: Chas. J. Dickey, Ora M. Brummett, Nannie Dinsmore, Aura B. Speece and Ellen M. Chase.
Class of 1880: Olivia Seaman, Carrie Dittoe, Aaria Jenkins, Olive Dale, Carrie Farwell, Ella Harrison, Kate M. Allen and Belle Crandall.
Class of 1881: Edith Easton, Clara Hout, Emma Campbell, Sallie Pixlee, Abbie Speece, Anna Pool, Nellie Wakefield, Minnie Dinsmore,
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Maud Reid, Fannie Bliss, Beulah Pendleton, George Guinn, Thomas McCune, Joseph Roberts and Ben Brown.
Class of 1882: Anna White, Cora Fisher, Genevieve Rawson, Adele Stephenson, Margaret Loyd and Hal. Wardin.
Class of 1883: Hattie Reece, Etta C. Seawell, Kittie Platt, Jennie M. Bliss, Salome Stanton and Adele Van Natter.
Class of 1884: Cella Wilber, Bird Betts, Minnie Gates, Rosalie Squire, Ella Yancey, Ella Speer, Hattie McLees, Lena Harrison, Lida Clark and James Bridges.
Class of 1885: Ollie Thomas, Flora G. Riley, Mary Sheffield, Mabel Reid, Clara Keyes, Laura R. Jennison, Fannie Wells, Anna Gray, May Embree, Irene Cunningham, Mary Twitchell, Bessie Rose, Gussie E. Parke and Nettie Schooler.
Class of 1886: Effie Blair, Mattie Butler, Ella Bryan, Sallie Floyd, Ida Gray, Anna Hough, Ada Mitchell, May Murphy, Lizzie Pool, Walter Boyer, Ida Putnam, Lottie Putnam, Ida Rombauer, Myrta Steinmetz, Ina Turner, Lula Twitchell, Nellie E. Wilson, Loula Van Neman, Stella Hodshier and Mord Bogie.
Class of 1887: Susie Buchanan, Mensa Carlson, Walter Carver,
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Mattie Coffin, Gertie Child, Aliee De Vore, Lutie De Vore, Myrtle Fugitt, Edgar Irwin, Carrie Jennison, Lutie Lindsey, Bessie Mason, Ida Mix, Mabel Nanson, Lula O'Keefe, Ida Pensinger, Sidney Redding, Allie Rhoades, Hattie Smith, William Turner, Lewis Knight, Laura Laxon, Cora Tyree, Hattie Vermillion and Arthur Webster.
Class of 1888: Gertrude Burge, Pearl Colby, Helen Coe, Stella Fugitt, Ada Garland, Matie Gleason, Hester Gray, Frank Greenwood, Louis Heckathorn, Frank Hendrick, Grace Howenstein, Herbert Kellogg, Clara Riley, Ard Smith, George Whitsett, George Wheeler, and Guy Wells.
Class of 1889: Alice Bistline, Milcie Bartlett, Nellie Carlson, Jessie Catron, Darwin Clark, Daisy Dacey, Ed. Fugitt, Harry Fenner, Ed. Gray, Emma Green, Gertrude Green, Edga Hottel, Gus Hout, Carrie Jenks, Daisy Kellar, May King, Cora Lake, Bessie Leidy, Agnes McCarthy, Daisy Reid, Mattie Rombauer, Guy Smith, Inez Spence, Myrtle Thomas, Claude Warner, Nita Wittich, Georgia Wood, Frank Woodward and Anna Yancey.
Class of 1890: Nell Betts, William Boon, Lew Brown, Carl Bryan, Edith Kerr, May McGuire, Tessa McCarthy, Mary McCartey, Charles Byers, Ora Cupp, Nettie Franks, Frank Haines, Nannie Halcomb, Frank Harker, Jessie Harker, Fred Hodson, Mary Hoff, Alonzo Johnson, Cora Mayerhoff, Robert Ornduff, Nellie Potter, Mabel Putnam, Lydia Rader, Jennie Redding, Wilfrid Robbins, Nell Spence, Kate Vert, Nona Wal- worth and Cora Westerfield.
Class of 1891: Joshua Baker, Frank Ross, Edna Beard, Nellie Clark. Byrd Cunningham, Olive Folger, Edith Hampton, Edith Harker, Lula Hay, Bertha Leidy, Nellie McCartey, Dollie Waller, Dalco Botenfield, Roy Webster, Lucy Buchanan, Stella Colley, Maud Dresse, Emma Han- son, Lillie Hampton, Gertie Haughawout, Edna Kincaid, Byrd Morgan, Josie Wade and Jno. C. Brown.
Class of 1893: Frank Gleason, Chas. Knight, Frank Moore, Dell Rockhold, Fred Waters, Winnifred Bryan. (a short time), Lee Cate, Fannie Gray, Minnie Havens, Nellie Jackson, Walter Gray, Carl Lehnard, John O'Keefe, Chas. Scafe, Perry Webster, Elsa Woodward, Laura Foland, Mabel Hamilton, Grace Hutcheson, Lizzie Peiffer, Mabel Riley, Lena Ross, Lora Rose and Emma Wallace.
Class of 1894: Clarence Baker, Leigh Hodges, Robt. Sloan, Alice Benedict, Orrena Crabtree, Lula Freed, Leta Gray, Nora Johnson, Mary Kiskaddon, Nora McCarthy, Emily Newell, Hattie Perry, Adda Sap- pington, Harry Blair, Benton Perry, Lillian Baker, Anna Berry, Lula Emry, Gertrude Fugitt, Maggie Hughes, Hattie Judd, Mollie Lake, Nell Mix, Hessie Ornduff, Gertrude Post. Anna Thompson and Ina Tuttle.
Class of 1895: Lucius Berthe, Frank Bishop, John C. Brown, Herman Bryan, Harry Clark, Arthur Coffin, Henry S. Cowgill, J. Del- bert Davis, Martin Fry, Robert C. Grissom, Allen McReynolds, James P. Newell, Albert M. Wise, Charles P. Wood, Emily Valentine, Adah Turner, Mertie Smith, Serena Russum, Minnie L. Amsden, Nina Bart- lett, Elva Benedict, Mabel Clack, Jessie M. Caffee, Carlotta E. Coulter,
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Maud G. Cupp, Laura Dunn, Florence Fabyan (a short time), Pearl Galentine, Minnie B. Gladden, Bertha Harker, Marcia C. Johnstone, Lizzie McCormick, Jessie Miller, Georgia Radcliff, Georgia A. Rader and Anna Rathbuu.
Class of 1896: Frank Coffin, Reuben Fugitt, Westley Halliburton, John W. McReynolds, Harry Smith, Thos. Boggess, Walter Arthur, Jas. Reid, Chas. Fry, May Atherton, Clara Benedict, Nellie Baynham, Linnie Baker, Viola Bistline, Clara Bliss, Bertha Clark, Lena Confrey, Stella Conard, Alta Cannon, Blanche Dale, Rosine Deutsch, Olive Fugitt, Edna Gladden, Melva Gladden, Melva Hughes, Mattie Hurst, Bessie Lundy, Nona Platt, Lizzie Russum, Hattie Sewall, Ollie Sleight, Lula Stanley, Mayme Viernow, Gertrude Wood, Clara McReynolds, Elizabeth Hill, Bessie Baker (a short time) and Mabel Cushman.
Class of 1897: Lida Aholtz, Carrie Barrett, Julia Clark, Myrtle Collier, Cara Fleck, Jessie Ground, Nina Hout, Emma Knell, Vena Monroe, Lila Oldham, Anna Smith, Amy Vinson, Allen Schooler, Bessie Baldwin, Sallie Boon, Iva Cook, Edna Freed, Alice Gladden, Sibyl Hodges, Pauline Kirke, Kate Mccarthy, Maud Murdock, Mayme Reid, Grace Smith, Denzil Coe, Robert Smith and Nat Wright.
Class of 1898: Oscar Emerson, Grace Bush, Maud Dixon, Edna Emry, Bertha Green, Ethel Hobbs, Alta Jacobs, Daisy Kreider, Pearl Norris, Clara Pratt, Rena Prigmore, Winnifred Whitsett, Herbert Peiffer, May Bradford, Lora Eaker, Nellie Elliott, Bessie Hunt, Effie Hurst, Etta Jennison, Grace McCarthy, Anna Newell, Isabel Perkins, Mabel Wood and Alta Walker.
Class of 1899: Curtis Betts, Adelia Augusta Bradford, Francis Herbert Kilburn, Urling C. Coe, Elizabeth C. Coffeen, Josie Collier, Lloyd Cowgill, Leo Warner McNerney, Clinton Daugherty, Margaret Edith Davis, Irene Francis Newland, Nellie Grace Porter, Mary Annette Probert, Nannie B. Rankin, Ina Blanche Fugitt, Wilbur G. Garlinger, Alta Catherine Smith, Garland Greever, Ethel A. Grove, Eva L. Grove, Effie Surrilda Sterrett, Gertrude Pearl Harker, Margaret Josephine Henley, Myrtle A. Jennison, Jeannette C. Kellogg, Verna Brinkley, Edna M. Kinman, Anna Daisy Kyle, Mable Byrde Lundy, Mae Magoffin, Carl F. Cupp, Ethel M. Mix, Emma Etta Myers, Orlena W. Elliot, John C. Emerson, Leslie B. Emry, Alfred Finke, Charles E. Russum, Maud V. Sappington, John J. Gauss, Ada Z. Stanley, Fannie J. Stebbins, Ruth Stebbins, Dorothy Hampton, Hirrel Stevens, Hettie Symons, Edward Elmer Tappenden, Alice E. Hough, Jessie Pearl Houston, Edith Ivey, Mary L. Jackson, Nellie V. Henry, M. Gertrude Terry, Kate Twitchell, Ida May Wetherell and Bessie Viola Wilson.
Class of 1900: Georgina Adams, Clara M. Bistline, Mattie Frances Black, Eva Bowen, Addie Burr, Maude A. Clark (a short time), Cecil I. Cragin, Leona I. Dodwell, Byrde V. Elliott, Mabel L. Essley, Thaddeus R. Givens, John W. Gray, Edyth W. Harrison (a year), Minnie M. Hiatt, Beulah A. Hill, Alma Bertha Hornish, Charles Ned Houck, Clara Huntly, M. Grace Jennison, Anna Thressa Johnson, Clara L. Kesweter, Edna Kuhn, Fannie Mertins, John Carroll Miles, Jennie Perry, Nellie
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Katherine Quinn, James Edwin Ray, Mary G. St. John, H. Elizabeth Schooler, George Harold Schooler, Albert Hugh Smith, Laura B. Tullis, Nora E. Weeks, Mary J. White, Cynthia M. Yancy and Jenness T. Wal- lace.
Class of 1901: Myra Amsden, Hamden C. Armstrong, Nella Baker, Blanche Bartlett, Katharine Olive Betts, Anna E. Bradford, Tress Brink- ley, Jesse Leigh Burton, Flora Claire Caffee (a year), Earl Clark, Clara Cecil Coffeein, Gertrude Irene Driesback, Rosa Ledbetter, Nellie McCor- miek, Cecil McNerney, Helen Brayton Miller, Coila Von Trout Myers, Ruby Hazelton Norris, Gertrude Pensinger, Mattie Bettie Piercy, Mabel Jane Platt, Fannie Price, Bessie Putnam, Harry A. Pyle, Robt. J. Eads, Edith Ione Elliott, Walter B. Galentine, Lizzie Gilbreath, Una Hankla, T. Bond Haughawout, Jr., Eleanor Henley, Neva Houck, Lillian M. Jack- son, Susie Kilbourn, Lulu Isabelle Kilgore, Florence Burr Knepper, Grace Koontz, Ben D. Reynolds, M. Lena Riddle, Mollie Frances Rob- erts, Cora Lee Shanks, Nannie Snell, Bertha Spencer, Hattie Stemmons, Effie D. Stephens, Anna Laura Wetherell, Alice Emily Wetherell, Olive Williams, Ethel Whitney (a year) and Wm. W. Wright.
Class of 1902: M. Florence Anderson, Ethel Edith Barratt, Bernice Bell, Herbert F. Benedict, Beulah Benton Besse, Berdie May Bradbury, Cora Bradfield, Edith L. Brinkerhoff, Guyon O. Carns, May Clarkson, Pansy B. Clifton, Montelle G. Coe, M. Edna Cooper, Ethel Leah Cupp, Irene A. Cushman, Alice Doran, Lulu Ehlers, Murray Burke Elliott, Charles I. Elting, Pearl Odessa Emerson, Mayme E. Emery, George B. Fugitt, Jennie Goldstein, Audrey A. Hale, Nell H. Hamilton, Helen Marie Hedrick, Katherine Henley, Zoe M. Hiatt, Mary Hille, Jessie Z. Johnson, Nell Tresseder Lanyon, Fannie L. Magill, Hattie Mccarthy, Louise McCarthy, Bernice Neale McNerny, Wallace W. Mc Williams, Julia Newell, Frances M. Pinney, Janie Rogers, Elba Seymour, Grace P. Shelton, Mae Smith, Lydia Weil, May Wheeler, Essie Williams and Bertha May Zeigler.
Class of 1903: Jennie Adams, Gertrude Armitage, Etta Burch, Olive Boland, Walter Bailey, Daisy Bradbury, Laura Clark, Faye Cor- win, Pearl Cupp, Pearl Coffinbury, Ada Dexter, Ethel Eaker, Harry Elliott, Anna Farrar, Edna Givens, Marian Glenn, Lillian Gould, Pearl Hampton, Eunice Knepper, Raymond McCoy, Jean McClurg, Susie Mc Coy, Bertha Mooneyham, John Pickett, Eunice Platt, Carlyle Pratt, Vic- tor Russum, Edith Scott, Sallie Schooler, Virginia Sayler, Faye Smith, Rosa Strauss, Earl Sterritt, Savannah Stith, Jessie Stemmons, Josie Stuckey, Edgar Vance, Lulu Vaughn, Harry Waters, Bettie Wetherell, Clyde Whitlock and Louis Winkler.
Class of 1904: Nellie Ayre, Olive Black, Edith Black, Ennis Bratton, Harvey Castor, Mary Campbell, Nina Confer, Belle Davison, Marguerite Dinsmore, Irwin French, Harvey Cobel, Beatrice Griffith, Myrtle Ha- worth, Mamie Haines, Mabel Hefley, Marguerite Hille, Walter Hough, Ruby Jennison, Ella Johnson, Neva Kitching, May Lanyon, Myra Moore, Roy Morrow, Alice Norton, Jess Payne, Ethel Pickett, Mary Schooler, Lucille Snyder, Orie Snyder, Walter Stemmons, Harvey Stevenson,
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Elizabeth Stone, Adele Wallace, Glenn Whitlock, Helen White and Mabel Young.
Class of 1905: Minnie Ale, Estelle Bartlett, Ida Beattie, Bessie Breeze, Ethel Brock, Gladys Campbell, Florence Campbell, Pearl Cramer, Frances Cuchman, Leona Deemer, Raymond Dennis, Ethel Faskin, Irma Gilmore, Jenny Grigg, Phillip Hardman, Mabel Higgon, Claude Huntley, Myrtle Irwin, Eula Jennison, Dwight Kellogg, Frances Lane, Ella McLees, Hazel Messenger, Ethel Orr, Florence Russum, Imogene Slade, Herman Thym, Bert Waters, Dwight Wetherell, Ruth Whitney, Don Williams, Frossard Wilson, Kitty Wolf and Lena White.
Class of 1906: Mills Anderson, Ira Buergey, Carl Barnes, Fanny Baker, Inez Benedict, Ruth Clark, Fred Clark, Hattie Davison, Esther Dreisbach, Faye Emory, Minnie Fergerson, Carrie Heathcoat, Bertha Harbison, Esther Hinkle, Agnes Hines, May Hussey, Mayde Jay, Louis Keepers, Raymond Leggett, Don McCubbin, Edgar Maxwell, Matilda McGownd, Evah Spencer, Lorraine St. John, Kate Smith and Frank Williams.
Class of 1907: Raymond Baker, Libbie Barcroft, Floyd Birkhead, Ray Benna, Cora Fisher, Gladys Calloway, Russell Custis, Earl Confer, Herman Cohen, Helen Connelly, Lucille Chapman, John Carter, Walter Clemmens, Norine Forsythe, Carroll Faust, Fred Geisert, Nelle Griggs, Robert Hodson, Lua Holiday, Maud Hiatt, Pearl Hockett, Jennie Jack- son, Edith Jay, Roy Legg, Irwin Miles, Myrtle Mason, Jessie Magers, Harry Milton, Helen McGregor, Ada McReynolds, Annie O'Bannon, Rose Oratt, Pearl Pickett, Ida Smith, Effie Smith, Charles Stemmons, Walter Stickney, Addie Schooler, Dell Shell, Marva Thompson, Merrill Stuckey, Emma Whitfield, Amelia Wetherell, Regina Weil and Eural Wilbur.
Class of 1908: Etta Allison, Ralph Besse, Pearl Boland, Lorenia Briggle, Wylie Bromley, Gordon Butte, George Cochran, Orla Confer, Lewis Davison, Pearl Ehlers, Mabel Elliott, Clarence Griffith, John Halliburton, Sidney Hardaway, Rebekah Harris, Cecil Hayes, Maud Hayes, Martha Johnson, Sylvia Judd, Helen Lang, Delia Langston, Elizabeth Lyendecker, Grace McGregor, Emma Miller, Genevieve Moses, Ethel Norton, Eugenia Patton, Fay Pfifer, Bessie Platt, Cora Potter, Myrtle Ozias, Romaine Roach, Ward Schrantz, Vaneta Shuler, Effie Smith, Eugene Steinmetz, Herbert Turner and Henry Viser.
Class of 1909: Rex Ashbrook, Ross Burt, Loneta Bigger, May Brown, Merrill Blair, Cora Hendrick, Bernice Henley, Mary Hunt, Jeanette Ingraham, Wesley Johnson, Irma Keepers, Irma Kelley, Hazel Griffith, Blanche McNerney, Bertie Moore, Eva McCullom, W. T. Mor- row, Lee Platt, Elizabeth Pritchard, Pauline Roach, James Rider, Ruth Stemmons, Allan Stemmons, Lawrence Smith, Edith Sayler, Hazel Saulisbury, Rosina Smith, Ruth Thomas, George Taaffe and Bertha Woodside.
Class of 1910: Hazel Allen, Edith Barnes, Frank Birkhead, Hazel Bowsher, Bertha Brown, Vincil Burriss, Mary Burt, Anna Campbell, Cleo Comer, Helen Cornell, Ada Covert, Ruth Faust, Clela Finch, Vol. 1-35
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Nelle Fitzer, Chris Geisert, Nicholas Geisert, Edsil Gordon, Laurence Gray, Fay Grimm, Ethel Gunter, Louise Halliburton, Ethel Harris, Helen Harrison, Faye Head, Joe Johnston, Oscar Lehman, Carl Lus- combe, Harold Mattenlee, Esther McCaughtry, Helen McReynolds, Ros- coe Miles, Jeffries Miller, Samuel Norton, Ida Prickett, Amy Porter, Marion Shannon, Genevieve Slade, Will Stagg, Harry Steele, Lula Swartz, Carl Tucker, Mignonette Uhl, Leslie von Gremp and Herbert Wolcott.
Class of 1911: Olive McNerney, Myrtle Dennis, Roy Coplen, Ernestine Jacobs, Lucille Moore, Clay Boswell, George Brown, Harriet Brown, Ria Buntin, Lacie Caffee, Geneva Campbell, Wallace Campbell, Josephte Casavan, Lois Chamberlain, Emil Cohen, Claude Crotsenburg, Arthur Custis, Mary Daugherty, May Dean, Walter Delp, Fern Dres- bach, Ben Geisert, Naum Gibbel, Ruth Goldstein, Helen Gould, Grace Guild, Melsin Hall, Ethel Hancock, Gladys Hewitt, Dailey Hill, Edna Hockett, Irvin House, Lucille Jenks, Clell Johnson, Ellen Johnson. Florence Kenaston, Merritt Ketcham, Helen Leggett, Geneva Moore, Agnes Moses, Josie Motley, Veva Nichols, Orlin Pyle, Harry Rollins, Katy Schrantz, Julia Stickney, Margaret Tralle, Bessie Tribe, Chester Vance, Anna Walz, Olga Weil, Winifred Wetherell, Fanny Wild, Jakie Wild and Lena Winkler.
THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
As mentioned in a previous article, a library was organized in Carthage during the seventies and was greatly used by the early citizens of the county seat. The splendid school system, the many literary so- cieties, and the general air of culture which has always pervaded Car- thage, were the natural outgrowth of the literary tastes of the men and women who in its early day gave it the well deserved name of "the Queen City."
Early in the last decade the club women of Carthage-and their in- fluence, like that of Caesar's, equalled a legion's,-began to agitate the matter of building and maintaining a free public library. The matter was put in form by a largely signed petition to the City Council, asking that the proposition of voting a tax for library purposes be submitted to the people. The matter was submitted to the voters in the spring of 1902 and the vote on the proposition was an overwhelming majority for the public library; 837 votes were cast in favor of the library tax and only 94 against it.
Andrew Carnegie, the great steel king, who has done so much for the libraries of the county, donated $25,000 toward the construction of the building. The following gentlemen were appointed by the mayor as the first Library Board, and they supervised the building of the library, which is most complete in its equipment, and selected the list of books and periodicals which were placed in it: President, W. K. Caffee : vice president, W. L. Calhoun; secretary, A. F. Lewis; and W. S. Crane.
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C. O. Harrington, E. O. Keefe, W. R. Logan, Samuel McReynolds and P. Davey. The library was completed and opened to the public in 1904.
In order that the reader may form an idea of the popularity of this great institution and the extent that it is used by the people of Carthage, we cite the following extracts from the report of the librarian for 1910:
Books donated by citizens of Carthage. 252
Books donated by United States government; reports, scientific
works, etc. 368
Books purchased 620
Number of books in library, December 31, 1910. 6,819
Number of people using the library 4,235
Total circulation for the year 30,850
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The Carthage library works in harmony with the public school sys- tem and, in addition to the above, furnished to the public schools a well- selected list of reference books, especially suited to child study, which have been in the hands of the teachers for use of the pupils of the school.
EASTERN STAR AND ITS SILVER ANNIVERSARY
On December 12, 1900, Eminence Chapter, No. 93, Order of the Eastern Star, celebrated the twenty-fifth year of its existence with an appropriate celebration. December 12th was not the exact twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of this lodge, but was chosen as a more appropriate time for the celebration because it was at the close of the year, and terminated a most successful year of lodge work and influence.
The exercises of the evening were concluded with a banquet which was presided over by the worshipful matron, Mrs. C. T. Stevens, who,
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on taking the seat as toast master, at the head of the table, made a most pleasing address and bid all around the festal board a hearty welcome.
The following toasts were responded to: "Our Helpmates, " Justice Woodward; "The Eastern Star Goat," Mrs. Craig; "The Relation of the Eastern Star to Masonry," Rev. Daniel King; "The Ladies in General," W. B. Saylor; "Men in General," Mrs. Mary Flower ; "Our Guests, " Mrs. Elreed.
Mrs. Flower's address was both witty and spicy, and was punc- tuated with shouts of laughter, and round after round of applause. Concluding Mrs. Flower said: "Here's to men, they fill our hearts, they pay our dues and come to our banquets!" The responses of both Mrs. Craig on the "Lodge Goat" and Mrs. Elreed on "Our Guests" were also well received, each handling her subject in a manner which showed the speaker well chosen for the subject.
THE M. W. A. LOG ROLLING
The Inter State Log Rolling Association held its annual log rolling in Carthage, September 9, 1902, and was well attended, although the opening of the state Democratic campaign at Joplin drew some from the attendance. Hon. John Sullivan, of Kansas City, was the orator of the day and delivered a masterful address covering the various phases of fraternal insurance.
In the competitive drills, four camp teams entered for competition for the state prize (Class A), and the foresters of Kansas City Camp, No. 2002, carried off the money, $150. In Class B, open to drill teams not having previously won a state prize, Springfield carried off the prize, $100.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
At the session of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, in October, 1900, for the purpose of bringing the lodges closer in touch with each other and thereby creating a warmer feeling among the members of this great fraternity the state was devided into sixteen Pythian districts, and the members of the order were asked to organize Pythian district associations. Jasper county was placed in the twelfth district and, on account of its having so large a Pythian population, it was looked upon as the center of activity. Fraternal Lodge, No. 14, of Carthage, the mother lodge in southwest Missouri, took the initiative in the matter and invited the several lodges to send representatives to Carthage on February 22, 1901, and assist in the formation of a district assembly. Two hundred Knights from all over southwest Missouri accepted the in- vitation and met with the Carthage Pythians on the natal day and were most royally entertained.
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