The Greentown Gem - 1912-09-09

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Nineteenth Year. 	 Greentown, Indiana, 1110.1,-; y, September 9, 1912.
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110 1 [ 1.1 ° F iln" PTIF ripe
I ti • is mss- -
iu a log shanty northwest of t ; reel,
- town. This was in the year N48- 9
and it was fitted out by subscription
for this one year. lu the year 1853
Liberty township was supplied with
a public school. This was held in
a hued- log structure, which was
afterward supplanted by a frame
structure,--- cue square east of the
tional the ethic, In the eonstraeti011 of this building cparemseen tth sec hDououl kgarirnd/ LCidhao, r aanl dp rlaotpeer rbtye-, • 	 to echo and there wi .- rB9e- trehec, d hA oy. eDa. r 1s. 9 1Tg2o , i d wtaheye h, nalet. x Swte hep utleonmo- k by seatror ldniems, te4o, 2 ! 2 l. ac. l. mo ibn. s e; o o ufafs‘ neesddtme g5ee5rlna. 0tv,, 0e 30l, 0 e2 bat4rri scc koa, rf s 5c 0ou0ft esrce'h1co'tleoledl mbinua iil1nd8 7ipn6, agr toa . tfo affo ctuhores trp oorofem s$ e3sn,, t0w o0al0ds.
ackward over the past, which has The gymnasium will have a cem- a unt at that time was coasidered the
pped away with unsuspecting ent floor r. s \ y ell as other apartments finest building in the county outside
rapidity, and then we close our eyes of the basi'llient story. the county seat. Little did they
upon the scene that seems to be so The mein construction is iu the lraetaelri. ze what would happen 36 years
unreal.
visWione sotne pth feo rtowmarodr raonwd, fwohcuetsh oeur ri to bfby Ka gnoedknso e" mrfa o! , c aonndtr tah4ctetuo crrga " Rr- p" ue4fn uStsPe uSr rmwgeiottnrhkt piiIin„ tihaese yde ar. 1$ 95, t, hwisn bsubiilpd, in bgy w thase
pbrea fcitfitcya ol re xaanm'hupnled roefd t hyee aprass. tB, wy ea mel aSteyrciaaml hoares . a Tlrielea dnyo noc- acrarsiivoanle odf rGefraarrem. een taodWditni'oTnS wCahso boul iblto taor dit, iann tdh ea
strike a mac, for thefuture: It is as much delay, and the work seems to The year following, the frame
aeourate as the best scientific obser- advance very slowly to those who structure was removed to make
vatious can make it. do not und. dstand the situation. room for the two- story brick-. ad- • ditiou, which completed the school The history whieh we make in tP
Glad- Mown today, will tell the future newe nbduiinldgi. n tgh, sec hcooumi wP liellt Iobeli h" ef- ldt ia, s, structure as it stands today, and
hgeomws Leal' w e wghuiecshs ( eId'" ' t'' h ea fptreor b" l, e umsu oarl in the, , o , l dtoo bku ildings. All the whFircohm w 1i8ll9 b7e t od i1s9m0a0n tthleed s cinh o1o9l1s 3w. ere
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schools, w'''"`` " l's in ' rili ' gi so overcrowded that children could
how tion
groat
s.
Wes the error of our cat-wwillbe:
disn' ksed this afternoon for
c attend but a half day. One section
the corner sieve laving et- relfllellies. lin the forenoon and one in the afte- c-site
in tin- south part of Greeutown, all; basement, 10 ft. ceiling; gym-is
one of the . proudest events . that uasium, 15 foot ceiling supported by
nos coaie to us sines the days of the steel beams and columns, inside di-log
cabin and the crocklag fireplace. mensious 56x40 ft., cement floor and
balcony; room for domestic science
northwest corner; • room for manual
training and . agricultural depart-ment,
southeast corner; lockers and
shower room, in southwest corner,
with two stairway entrances to the
LAYIN6 CORNER STON 	 E 	 e
, length of building. .
,
I Second floor - has gent... , ossenikly p• ivEN
YEARS
- room, two class rooms, Iwo recita- [,, 0 r
NEW SCHOOL Blili. DINCI izi,:-::::):'," zi::-:::, 3.:;:: 7(: 14iirtil': . ‘' p i Acc picTnpv
orridors. The walls are laid up in' two ULMUO 11101U1I1
•
I shades of brick with black mortar,
The New Structure Will Mu. .,, iirty Rooms For( til" iiiits'ehde_ Ti) pr"" paneled windows
Various Educational Purposes When 1 	
d iu sto. ne coping entirely
i around the building giving a massive ' rile Same Will lie Needed. federal effect of architecture. All I Alumni, Who They Are
fitted with fire escapes. .1d What They Are Now
Early School History. 	 I) oing— In Business.
MANUAL , TRAINI% P. 13
ream el the 11' 1411re and EAView of 1 he Past— An
dueational gala . Day For All G reentown And
Liberty Township. School News of To- day.
ay SLC; otl ■ . Laois-ot
elopies an elevated The hullo . tie is i29271 feet over t • 	 e
win', rented, It) take ' It' tic K v.; airs. Georgia Friermood-creased
attendance. In I9o3 a three
room one story frame building was
erected and has since been used by
primary and second grades.
School Fires.
The serious school tires of record
are, the burning of the . Dunkard
church while it was being used by
the grades. A threatened destruc-tion
of the high school building was
on the evening of March 19, 1903,
when the trash barrel under the
stairway took fire, burned a hole
through the floor and had the build-ing
full of smoke when discovered.
Liberty Township Teachers.
Greentown:— High school, .1. H.
Brackemyre, Supt.; D. Morrell
Moore, Prin.; Osie M. Ramsey, 1st
assistant; Everett Singer, 2nd assist-ant;
Georgina Wootou, Art; Helen
Waters, Music. Grades 7 & 8, Omer
Wooldridge. Grades 5 & 6, Olen
Brunk. Grade 4, Zoa Devore. Grade
3, Garnet Spencer. Grade 2, Clova
Mills. Grade 1, Olive E. Turner.
District No. 2. . ( Miller) Omen 0.
Schaaf.
District No. 3. ( White) Edward S.
Lindley.
• District No. 4.
Shepard, Indiana Harbor, wife of
school superiutendeut; Mrs. Elsie
Fay- Wooters, Greentown, clerk in
Kokomo Department Store; Malissa
Powell- Rider, deceased.
Oren A.
Sloan.
District No. 7. 1 Lela
Davis.
District No. 8. ( L
Locke.
District No. 9. ( Ric ) Cleo
Daily.
Course of Study, 1912- 13.
First Year— literature and Com-position.
Latin or German, Algebra,
Botany.
Second year— Literature and Com-position,
Latin, Algebra and Clinom-etry
34 year each, Agrktleure, Hist.
of Greece and Heine. ar
Third Year— Literature and Com-position,
Latin or Geol.'', Geom-etry,
Agriculture, Mediaeval and
Modern History.
Fourth Year— Liteture and Eng.
Grammar, Latin, German ur Physics,
Arithmetic and Physical Geography
jl year each, History and Civics of
U. S., Civics of Ind.
General Subjects — Sewing, Art,
Music.
evuo)
■ 105111-
first class to graduate from
thc ireentowu _ High School-- now
the • iberty Township High School—
was ' hat of 1902. The commission
was raided lb the fall of 1901. At
that time, the school authorities
woe y1 hard to be able to put out a
gra,' „ Um; class.
first class was instructed by
- Dickey, Supt.; C. H. Stanley,
Priv ; Miss Clara Seaman, Ain't
Prim.. There were four members of
the • iss, Misses Mary Carter, Elsie
Pao icorgia Friermood, aud Malissa
Poa- I.
.7i- ionic- L.,: of the Alumni, their
orr . s bincs, and vocations and
1,4 ■ • are follows:
Class of 1903.
: lira. Geneva Mayer, Sioux City,
fa., wife of veterinary surgeon; Mrs.
Esther Houghton- Holliday, Green-town,
wife of grain dealer; Mrs.
• Stella David- Eltzroth, North Grove,
wife of farmer; Pearl Hutto, farm
near Kokomo; Byron Peters, Green-town,
student at I. U. Teachers-
H.•. Dickey, E. Shepard and
Mho Nettie Bryant.
Class of 1904.
Mrs. Roxie Carter- McCauley,
Tyrlin, Okla., wife of farmer; Ed-ward
Lindley, Greentown, school
teacher; Burl Fisher, Peru, farmer;
Melvin Groves, Greentown, school
teacher. Teachers— H. E. Shepard,
Miss Nellie Kern, Miss Effa
son.
Class of 1905.
Miss Amanda Stone, Kokomo,
stenographer; Mrs. Bertha Menden-hall-
Lindley, wife of set mol teacher;
.1( 011 Speck, Fairview, Mich., school
teacher; John Carter, Greentown,
Gem office; Miss Minnie Hostetler,
TO'!- i. ' time operator; Floyd Wood-worth,
Newcastle, Ind., Maxwell-
Fir, , cne - Motor Co.; Mrs. Goldie
Mere- Breedlove, Richmond; Mrs.
Conde Covalt- Morton, Brooklyn, N.
Y. Faculty— W. W. Mershon, Miss
Nellie Kern, Mrs. Nellie Mershon.
Class of 1906.
Mrs. Collie Hiatt- Hutchison,
Noblesville; Everett Lindley, Wa-basli,
farmer; Mrs. Anna Green-street-
Miller, Sycamore, wife of
farmer; Guy Peters, Greentown,
student in I. U.; Horace Johnson,
Greentown, farmer; Florence Frier-mood,
Kokomo, school teacher; Ray
Melton, Greentown, tWe Gem ; Minnie
Parson, Greentorrn, I sclifml teacher;
Evalyn Dawson, Otterbein, Ind.,
ni- iiager grocery store. Faculty
same as preceding year.
Class of 1907.
Mrs. Vera Hamer- Mast, Green-to•
n; Ethel Jenkins, Greentown;
Garai' Woods, Greentown, News
auu Confectionery business. Faculty
— 4 E. Hildebrand, Morton Lamb,
Miss Gertrude Nagle.
nce T
The New Building.
The new school building in di-mensions
is 71 feet wide and 129
set and 6 inches long. It will have
two full stories above the basement
" story, which ' hies six feet above the
ground, thus affording ample light
for the same. The two upper stories
for school purposes, are of the latest
architectural design, and the colored
brick and sawed stone trimmings
will have a finished appearance
second to pone.
In the building there will be thirty
rooms, study, recitation, assembly,
bath and toilet, with heating and
' ventilating equipment throughout.
Not all these rooms will be finished
under the present contract, but will
be provided for when necessity de-mands
additional facilities, such as
manual training and • domestic
science.
asseth
gyInnaSillin; coal room in north east
corner, for three cars of coal; furuace
room, warm air room, fan room,
engine and 1) 111111, room, driven well
141 feet deep, compression tank for
water system, sanitary and modern
toilets for boys and girls.
omplete fire proof arrangement
is provided around furnace room,
fan room, pump and engine room,
and warm air room, by concrete
floors over each such apartment,
rendering the building safe from any
possible fire from any comimstion
about the warming system. -
A corridor runs full length of the
basement from two outside entrances.
Fifteen rooms in all in basement,
cement floors, walls. unplastered.
On first floor are three entrances,
one side or main entrance and two
side entrances, seven class rooms,
private office room, corridor full
I kin wremembir mi skule
plaien bookie in der spryugtime, but
hey Imo wreckerlection uv standun
on win' foote neer de blakbourd.
De ole fashun kornir stoat' wuz er
big howldq eIr' a blok uv oake.
A skule mis wid er hande bel,
allus rnaide god, kauze us bois ker-ried
booth watur au wad.
Mi den in klozed today ez lunge az
de bands plaize.
Class of 1908.
Anna Jenkins, Greentown, clerk
in postoffice; Bernard Powell, Jer-ome,
farmer; Lovina Smeltzer, Ko-komo,
stenographer ; Howard H imes,
Newcastle, merchant tailor; Mrs.
Golda Wright- Condon, Nashville,
Ind., wife of farmer; Lois Ellis,
Greentown; Glen DeLong, Minne-sota,
agent; Robert Brown, Marion,
electrician ; Madge Dawson, Frank-fort,
school teacher. Faculty— L E.
Hildebrand, Mort Lamb, Miss Eva
Newsom.
Class of 1909.
Alonzo Petty, Oreentowu, student
at U.; Glen Brunk, Greentown,
school teacher; Ralph Miller, Jer-u"
Ie canna- u :
sou, Greentown, wife of farml
Mrs. Merle Powell - MeGonigal,
Greentowu, wife of horse dealer;
Halite Symons, Greentowu, Gem
office; Claude Ogle, Greencastle,
student DePauw University; Mrs.
Celesta Mast- Moss, Greeutown, wile
of farmer; Omer Loop, Greentowu,
student I. U.; Daisy Arnett, Green-town;
Oman Schaaf., Greentowu.
school teacher; Vernon Peters,
Sharpsville, furniture business;
Minnie Wyrick, Greeutown; Her-shel
Ellis, Tipton, newspaper work ;
Marie Rinehart, Russiaville; Lake
Himes, Greentowu, student Purdue
University; Georgina Wootou,
Greentown, art teacher; Norville
Lindley, Jerome, school teacher and
musician; Charles Clark, Greentown,
Haynes Automobile Co., Kokomo;
Robert Ellis, Jerome, fanner. Facul-ty—
L. S. Roberts, Claude Pauley,
MissiiCioldie Moore.
A RECORD Uf
Due To Many Loyal Business
Men and Hundreds
of Subscribers.
Having last week started on its
nineteenth year, the Greentown
Gem has proven to be one of the
permanent staying kind. A record
of success is necessarily due- to the
support of many loyal business nom
and hundreds of faithful subsevitiers.
In making mention of the passing
of another birthday; the Gem has
nothing new to offer, save to affirm
the oft repeated declaration, to
print a clean local noWspaper, first,
last and all the time. To keep in
this well chosen c• mrse, mew, -
pleuty of work and no I ex-pense
to us. Should it'bible
at any time to in 1
newspaper, the (
Pe• anlally
elerenio, s,
same great Ameriearta.
one and all, in the same friendly
spirit that we choose for ourselves.
Friendship shall contiuue to float
above the " petty" differences and
mistakes treated on an arbitration
basis.
In a business way, we know no
religious sect or political party. A
Methodist, Christian, Friend or Bap-tist;
A Democrat, Republican, Pro-gressive,
Prohibitionist or what not
are extended the same friendly
business courtesy.
Words cannot express the grati-tude
we owe to all, who have con-tributed
to our business success, and
we shall continue to hope for
another year of general prosperity
for our home town and surrounding
community.
Churches of Greentown.
O
MANY DU YOU KNOW?
St And Think- Hol Quickly
- o Sweet Old Schoolday
Moments Fly.
STARTED T1 ITS
NINETEENTH YEAR
The Greentown Gem Is One
of The Permanent
Staying Kind.
thro
TID, lay 	 t: m - corner
No one can place a conservative es,
tiwate upon the educational pride,
as we listen to the hand play, see
the marching fraternal host and
gaze upon a throng of people that
make up the gala day crowd.
Old ride
Class of 1910. . There are six churches in Green-
Mrs. Clara Swope- Murphy, Green- town, namely: Christian, M. E.,
town, wife of limner; Elmer Singer, United Brethren, Mission Hall, Tab-
Greentown, school teacher; Mrs. ernacle, and Friends. The posters,
Anna Petty- Loop, Greentowu; Gar- respectively, are: Ite. v's. Arlie
net Spencer, Greentown, school Conner, F. A. Hall, S. A. Itellard-teacher;
Mrs. Bessie Kingery- Lord, SOD, and Laura Cook. The Nab,-
West Liberty, wife of farmer; Russell nacje is at pre., 111, With. 011t, 1_,
Mauriug, Clary, salesman • ! -- 1 slur. ' flee Friemhi Church is
Hunsiuger, Greeutown, / Logician; closed.
Mrs. Hazel Fox- Conway, West Lit, —
erty, wife of farmer;. Susette Will Greeutown, farmer; Arthur Carr,
cut., Greentown; Carl Bryant, Greentown, student I. U.; Ray Dot-
West Liberty, farmer; Don Johnson, terer, Kokomo; Lando Lord, West
Greentown, well driller; Florence Liberty, fanner; Harold W are, West
Evans, Greentown; Glen Brown, Liberty, farmer; Lulu .1 0111190D, In-
Deedsville, school teacher; Charles dianapolis. Faculty— John Bracket
Johnson, Greentown, clerk ; Loren mnyre, Frank Bagwell, Murrell Moore.
Eikenberry, Cherubuseo, drug store; Class of 1912.
Ethel Rosier. Faculty— Mort Lamb, Ruth Willeutts, Greentown; Helen
IffreCora Haber, Miss Dana Enloe. Seegar, Greentown, book- keeper;
Class of 1911. Horne Clark, Greentown, garage
Mrs. Laura Mast- Cates, Greentown, man; Roscoe Locke, Greentown,
wife of News and Confectionery farmer; Pauline Locke, Greentowu,
dealer; Lela Davis, Greentown, teacher; Lloyd Mast, Greentown,
school teacher; Jeanette Osborn, de- ass't. tinuer and plumber; () live
ceased; Inez Shrader, Greentowu, Greeutown; Talice Smith,
student Earlharn College; Mrs. Greentown; Almeria Evans, Green-
Maurine Ayres- Eikenberry, Cheru- town, teacher; Elsie Locke, Green-bunco,
wife of druggist; Lewis Jen- town; Susie Melton, Jerome; Robert
kius, Greentown, clerk; Pete Daw- Colescott, Greentown, poultry fan-son,
Otterbein, clerk ; Everett Singer, cier; Carl Brunk, Greentowu, farm-
Greentown, teacher; Riley McClain, er; Clifton Devore, Greentown,
Greentown, garage; Homer North, farmer; Lester Lantz, Plevna, farm-
Plevna, farmer; Charles Hamer, er; Oren Sloan, Plevna, teacher.
Greeutown lumber yard ; Cleo Dailey, Faculty— John Brackemyre, Frank
Greentown, teacher; George Troyer, Bagwell, Miss Knost Georgina
Greentowu, faraier; Weil Troyer, Wootou.