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The 1916 Graphic

Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
Registrar for Daniel McMillan Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.1916

Stronghurst Graphic, June 1, 1916

GRADUATION-1916 STYLE: Diplomas, certifying that the recipients had successfully completed the prescribed course of study in the Stronghurst High School were presented to a class of 16, consisting of 6 boys and 10 girls, at the United Presbyterian Church last Monday evening. Those who have passed from the ranks of students to those of alumni are as follows: Harold Fordyce, Ed Logan, Lester Herndon, George Kern, Glenn McElhinney, Estel Mudd, Dorothy Bainter, Ruth Brooks, Grace Chandler, Alice Chant, Grace Ingerson, Ruth Milligan, Nellie Moreland, Marie Marrow, Helen Morse and Ethel Schierbaum.

After a piano prelude by Miss Evelyn Fort and the invocation by Rev. A.Jaggers, Mis testament of the class of 1916. Miss Ethel Schierbaum then lifted the veil which hides the future revealing the life of various members of the class engaged in their chosen vocation in life ten years hence.

After a musical selection rendered by a class quartette consisting of Glenn McElhinney, Lester Herndon, Estel Mudd and Ed Logan, Supt. Pope introduced Prof. Andrews of Monmouth College who inspired both the class and the audience. Following that Miss Marie Davidson favored the audience with a vocal solo after which Supt. Pope presented the diplomas. The audience and class were dismissed by Rev. K.R.Anderson giving the benediction.

CELEBRATES MEMORIAL DAY: Beginning last Sabbath evening the town gathered at the M.E.Church to listen to a patriotic sermon by Rev. C. H. Shipplett of the Christian Church. On the afternoon of Memorial Day, citizens gathered at the village cemetery where appropriate exercises were held and garlands of flowers were laid upon the graves of soldiers by a company of little girls. The day was ideal; wreaths and garlands had been prepared by the ladies from flowers brought during the forenoon to the Municipal Restroom and a procession was formed at the village park led by the village band. Little girls dressed in white and carrying wreaths, flags, and baskets of flowers followed them with citizens by foot, automobile, and carriages. An automobile was provided for the few remaining old soldiers of the community.

At the cemetery a number of short recitations, songs, and preceded the march of little girls disturbing the flowers under the direction of Miss Mary Morgan. Rev. Shipplett led the assemblage in prayer and the band followed with an appropriate number. Master of ceremonies,

A.S.McElhinney, introduced Rev. K.R.Anderson who was the orator for the afternoon. After another band selection, the audience was dismissed with the benediction by Rev.A.Jaggers.

1891 Graphic: The first year's work closed at the Stronghurst High School. Efforts were being made to organize a Driving Park Association for Stronghurst. A Nauvoo man was advertising for 1000 pickers to work in his strawberry fields. Decoration Day was observed at Olena with an immense crowd attending.

FIRST IN SPELLING: The second annual spelling contest for the pupils in the grades in the Henderson County schools was held at Gladstone. Representatives from seven townships competed for first place. A list of 200 words taken from the state course of study and from Cavins'

Speller and Manual of Pronunciation was pronounced with first prize, a gold medal, won by Ruth Fordyce from Stronghurst Township. Second prize, a bronze medal was claimed by Margaretta Moody, representing Bald Bluff Township, and third prize, a silver medal, going to Maurine Perrine of Raritan Township. Others participating were Ruth Forward-Gladstone Township; Eva Gibb-Biggsville Township; Harold McCartney-Oquawka Township; and Gladys Mathers-Media Township.

GRADUATION-1916 STYLE: Diplomas, certifying that the recipients had successfully completed the prescribed course of study in the Stronghurst High School were presented to a class of 16, consisting of 6 boys and 10 girls, at the United Presbyterian Church last Monday evening. Those who have passed from the ranks of students to those of alumni are as follows: Harold Fordyce, Ed Logan, Lester Herndon, George Kern, Glenn McElhinney, Estel Mudd, Dorothy Bainter, Ruth Brooks, Grace Chandler, Alice Chant, Grace Ingerson, Ruth Milligan, Nellie Moreland, Marie Marrow, Helen Morse and Ethel Schierbaum.

After a piano prelude by Miss Evelyn Fort and the invocation by Rev. A.Jaggers, Miss Alice Chant stepped forward and read the last will and testament of the class of 1916.

Miss Ethel Schierbaum then lifted the veil which hides the future revealing the life of various members of the class engaged in their chosen vocation in life ten years hence.

After a musical selection rendered by a class quartette consisting of Glenn McElhinney, Lester Herndon, Estel Mudd and Ed Logan, Supt. Pope introduced Prof. Andrews of Monmouth College who inspired both the class and the audience. Following that Miss Marie Davidson favored the audience with a vocal solo after which Supt. Pope presented the diplomas. The audience and class were dismissed by Rev. K.R.Anderson giving the benediction.

CELEBRATES MEMORIAL DAY: Beginning last Sabbath evening the town gathered at the M.E.Church to listen to a patriotic sermon by Rev. C.H.Shipplett of the Christian Church. On the afternoon of Memorial Day, citizens gathered at the village cemetery where appropriate exercises were held and garlands of flowers were laid upon the graves of soldiers by a company of little girls.

The day was ideal; wreathes and garlands had been prepared by the ladies from flowers brought during the forenoon to the Municipal Restroom and a procession was formed at the village park led by the village band. Little girls dressed in white and carrying wreaths, flags, and baskets of flowers followed them with citizens by foot, automobile, and carriages . An automobile was provided for the few remaining old soldiers of the community.

At the cemetery a number of short recitations, songs, and preceded the march of little girls disturbing the flowers under the direction of Miss Mary Morgan. Rev. Shipplett led the assemblage in prayer and the band followed with an appropriate number. Master of ceremonies, A.S.McElhinney, introduced Rev. K.R.Anderson who was the orator for the afternoon. After another band selection, the audience was dismissed with the benediction by Rev.A.Jaggers.

1891 Graphic: The first year's work closed at the Stronghurst High School. Efforts were being made to organize a Driving Park Association for Stronghurst. A Nauvoo man was advertising for 1000 pickers to work in his strawberry fields. Decoration Day was observed at Olena with an immense crowd attending.

FIRST IN SPELLING: The second annual spelling contest for the pupils in the grades in the Henderson County schools was held at Gladstone. Representatives from seven townships competed for first place.

A list of 200 words taken from the state course of study and from Cavins' Speller and Manual of Pronunciation was pronounced with first prize, a gold medal, won by Ruth Fordyce from Stronghurst Township. Second prize, a bronze medal was claimed by Margaretta Moody, representing Bald Bluff Township, and third prize, a silver medal, going to Maurine Perrine of Raritan Township. Others participating were Ruth Forward-Gladstone Township; Eva Gibb-Biggsville Township; Harold McCartney-Oquawka Township; and Gladys Mathers-Media Township.

LOCAL AND AREA NEWS: Jasper Logan has rented out his farm between Dallas City and Lomax and moved to the latter village. Arthur Marlatt, the fifteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Marlatt of LaHarpe, was drowned while bathing alone in a creek one half mile north of the city; he was unable to swim and had evidently walked off into a hole washed out during the recent heavy rains and where the water was seven feet deep. The Misses Lucile White and Harriet St.Clair who have spent the past nine months as teachers in the high school have returned to their home in Monmouth.

Mrs. Wesley Rankin, Miss Marie Mudd, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Curry and M.E.Beardsley were in Monmouth attending the May party given by the young ladies of Monmouth College. (The Maypole celebration was a big affair.) A crew is busy removing the wooden shingle roof from the local railway station and replacing it with metal shingles. Preston Plummer, a former Biggsville man and now of Wheatland, Wyo.is one of the delegates from his state to the Republican Convention at Chicago.

H.A.Adair, who has a wide reputation as a breeder of fine stock, shipped a five year old Polled Hereford bull to Cuprum, Idaho. The animal, which weighed 2,670 lbs., was purchased to head the herd of 200 Polled Angus cows owned by A.L.Huntley, one of the most extensive breeders of fine cattle in that state. Mr. Charles Kirby and family ride in a new Case car bought of Henry McCannon. Miss Georgetta Burrell recently closed her term of school in the Marshall district (Pleasant Hill). Earl Campbell of Media has gone to Peoria to work in a paper mill.

In Gladstone, the C.B.&Q. have concluded to have some flowers and shrubs and a small park south of the tracks; they have sodded the ground and will proceed soon.

***OBITUARY***ALFRED SHINGLEDECKER: Alfred Shingledecked died at his home in Gladstone from old age. The deceased, 73 years of age, was born at Fairfield, Pa., 1843. In 1861 he enlisted in the army and was wounded at Mobile, Alabama, while carrying a message to an officer; the horse he was riding was killed. He was soon honorably discharged.

His remains were sent back to Gainsboro, Pa. on the train where he has two brothers and a family living and will be laid to rest in the family burying ground. He was a member of the Monmouth Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. (Union Civil War veterans)