Ringgold County IAGenWeb Project ~ Mount Ayr Community High School ~ 1915 Ayrian

Transcriber's Note: Pedagogy is the science and art of teaching and educational methods.

Domestic science, music, drawing and manual training will be given in all high school grades.

Pupils who have been attending other high schools and desire to make a change, will be admitted to our high school without an examination. All credits made in other high schools will be accepted.

Mount Ayr has one of the best schools in the State. Mount Ayr has no saloon, pool hall, or other institution which tends to weaken the morals of her people. Mount Ayr has four fine churches. Mount Ayr homes are open to the nonresident pupils. Mount Ayr offers the best environment in this part of the State.

For further information write to the City Superintendent of Schools.
Mount Ayr, Iowa

W.H. Fasold, Superintendent.

George S. Allyn, President of the Board.

Class of 1915

    Mel Hickerson - President
    Troy Holloway - Vice-President
    Glayds Thompson - Secretary-Treasurer

        Motto: "Aim ever at the best."
        Colors: Pink and Green
        Pink Rose

Class Song

    As the spring returns and the time draws nigh,
        When from schoolmates we must part,
    Then we think of the days we say good-by,
        With a sigh in each loyal heart;
    Though to part from our friends of these perfect days,
        Brings grief to each heaving heart,
    Still 'tis written in life's laws with bright, flaming rays,
        That dear friends must meet and part.

    Soon now will end all our dear school days,
        Not the end of a journey this,
    But we start on life's way lit with love's bright ray,
        To the goal that we ran our miles,
    And memory has painted those perfect days
        In colors that can not fade,
    And the thought that shall ever cheer our way
        Is the thought of the friends we've made.

E. H. M. S. '15.

Class History

WHY these fifty or more girls and boys came to the high school one morning in the fall of 1911 would be hard to tell. But suffice it to say, they came. They joyously received their Latin primers and were introduced to the mysteries of amo, amas, amat. As is always the case, some studied, some pretended to study and some made no attempt to walk in the path of knowledge. So when our class came together many were missing from our ranks.

Our sophomore year was spent in Simpson college over Simpson's store, with the opera house as the assembly room. Upon Mel Hickerson was placed the burden of seeing that we behaved. Because he performed the duties thrust upon him so well he has filled the office of class president during our junior and senior years also. Sophomore days were indeed happy days and many good times were enjoyed, which can never be forgotten.

The next year they called us juniors and that was the year of the publication of the first Ayrian of the Mount Ayr High School, under the efficient editorship of Mel Hickerson. Though we studied industriously we were always in for fun. One evening we all dressed up in our oldest clothes and had a hard times party at Elva's. Even when the thermometer said it was too cold for juniors to wander over the country we rode out to Ned's on a hayrack, returning early the next morning. Good Saint Valentine's birthday we celebrated by a party with the sophomores (and what wonders dared to come) in the club room. One evening in the spring we journeyed to the woods for a weinie roast, lest the rains descended and beat upon these juniors and they hastened home. As a climax to all of these good times we entertained the seniors at a farewell reception in the basement of the Christian church.

Next we are seniors and though we have many cares and responsibilities we are not less merry than before. The boys entertained the rest of the class and the teachers at the home of Maurice Tennant. And say, those boys can make things go when they want to. Many more parties were held but we'll have to ask the seniors about these as my space here is limited.

Class Poem

     We are seniors they declare.
     They advise us to beware.
     What we say and what we do.
     They all tell us to be wise,
     Then are struck dumb with surprise

When we laugh.

     But though may be life's ways
     Memories of bygone days
     Time or care can not destroy,
     When alone of huge bereaved
     Thoughts will come of scenes we left

Long ago.

     And the way will brighter seem
     As we sit at home and dream -
     Dream of Games that came and past,
     Then resolve to try once more,
     Harder then we did before,

To succeed.

     Then our journey on through life
     With its pleasures and its strife.
     We must each of us pursue
     But to colors black and blue
     Class of fifteen will still be true

To the end.

G. E. D.

We could not leave the high school without doing a little for those who have chose to work for us as we presented the school with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. On Senior Day with proper exercises we took down the pennant of Class of 1914 and placed our own emblem of pink and green over the stage.

We are now looking forward to our graduation day when we must leave teachers and friends in Mount Ayr High. What the future work may be we can not tell but if we live up to our motto, "Aim ever at the best," our lives will not be a failure.

Class of 1916

Harry Spurrier - President
Mary Buck - Treasurer
Colors - Black and Gold
Motto: "Perseverance"

Class History

NOW we have nearly finished our third year of our high school life, for we are juniors. Yet there is nothing by which you could tell us from seniors, and you might sometimes mistake us for sophomores, judging from our appearance, but nevertheless, we are juniors and fully aware of the fact.

It has not been a very long time since we were freshmen, and yet in that short time we have improved wonderfully along all lines. When freshmen we went to the opera house for assembly and over Simpson's store for recitation and thus we began our high school career. Then the next year we started as sophomores in the new school building and everything along all lines was taken up with a vim. Many parties were held at different places, the most notable of which was the one in Timby Hall with the juniors.

Then this year opened our third year, the busiest year in the high school life. We stand twenty-nine strong and hope to keep that number all through our senior year.

Soon our days as juniors will be over and then next year when we assemble we will be the highest class in the school, seniors, those whom the other classes can and will look up to and then we will be opening the road to failure or success for our life's battle which will then be beginning in reality.

Class of 1917

Frank Keating - President
X. T. Prentis - Treasurer
Colors - Blue and Gold

CLASS ROLL

Clive Ketch		Wallace Buck
Ruth Flynn		Nellie Chance
Sammie Rhoades		Vera Jagger
Caryl Williams		Helyn Gleason
Belle Sconce		Irma Holden
Grace Duncan		Pauline Stephenson
Gladys Tennant		Elma Dille
Otto Haley		Blanche Long
Mary Tracy		Harry Main
Clara Denny		X. T. Prentis
Stella Wright		Frank Keating
Alta Main		John Pow
Reba Roberts		Bernice Main
Susie Timby		Ernest Sawyer
Minnie Strobel		Homer Main
Ruth Wooster		Marie Moore
Irene Williams		Roger Darrow
George Irving		Minnie Clemmons
John Reynard		Alvis Spencer
Ruby Sullivan		Marie Goodwin
Loren McCandless

History of the Class of 1917

THE kind-hearted, liberal, magnanimous seniors and jolly, care-free juniors have for the last semester been bestowing their pitying glances upon us. Since we as sophomores consider it our duty to dispel the ignorance that lies about the minds of our fellow students, whenever the use of our partially-grown minds makes this possible, we humbly beseech the all-prevailing, great seniors and juniors to attempt this kindly tendered explanation, for we believe, as the poet that a "little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men" and do not aim to become innocent of all foolish thoughts and practices nor to reach that stage of brain ossification which is the goal of every junior's and senior's ambition.

We have laid aside our freshman nursing bottles with a regretful sigh for vanished joys; but the great final separation came in that final spasm, when we rolled out as sophomores in the unutterable relief of the wearied faculty. And now we, with sophomoric pride, glance back at the lonely crowd of verdant freshies, trying in vain to fill the seats of their illustrious predecessors. At the beginning of the year our fingers did the spring-tooth harrow set three inches from our scalps, and the distance has not been lessened more than three eighths of an inch, but this record has been up at the expense of many picture shows and parties, also we have found it difficult to persuade the teachers that we are sophomores.

It has also been our custom to crow gently when in luck, and so we may well do it now as we hold the athletic championship of M.A. H. S., won at the last track meet in 1914.

We were a green bunch when we entered (amen). No one (except ourselves) thought that any good could come from us, yet despite our appearances we have contributed very largely to every branch of high school life until now we can say, "How great are we." Athletes, students, social guys, all sorts of folks are found within our class. That we may never swerve in our devotion to old M. A. H. and that we may never place class interests over hers is the sincere desire of every member of the class of 1917.

A Little Elucidation

Wallace Buck -- "In her steps."

Nellie Chance -- "It would talk, how it talked!"

Minnie Clemmons -- "Passive periphrastics, is specialty."

Roger Darrow -- "Time was when a man lost his brains he died."

Clara Denny -- "Nine days wonder."

Elma Dille -- "The world knows nothing of it wisest folk."

Grace Duncan -- "What would this head do if I were lost?"

Ruth Flynn -- "It's Irish you know."

Helyn Geason -- "Mount Ayr's handy speaker and encyclopedia of universal literature, in two volumes. Price $1.37."

Marie Goodwin -- "Sure, anybody will do."

Otto Haley -- "And yet there never was a minute when Otto Haley wasn't in it."

Raymond Hickerson -- "The plain, rough hero turned a crafty knave."

Irma Holden -- "As smart as they get."

George Irving -- "I ain't got no head for figgers nohow."

Frank Keating -- "A steam engine in trousers."

Clive Ketch -- "Why may not this be the skull of an editor in chief!"

Blanche Long -- "I really feel as though some one was looking at me."

Homer Main -- "Gimme a cent, I want to look tough."

Harry Main -- "A grain of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff."

Alta Main -- "And some have greatness thrust upon them."

Bernice Main -- "Such stuff as dreams are made of."

Loren McCandless -- "Perhaps he's sick, in love, of hath not dined."

Marie Moore -- "Innocents abroad."

John Poor -- "Oh, the descent of man."

X. T. Prentis -- "Vacant room to let, upper story, gas and modern improvements."

John Reynard --

Reba Roberts -- "God pities the children."

Ernest Sawyer -- "A babe, lusty and like to live."

Belle Sconce -- "A winner."

Avis Spencer -- "An educated maiden."

Pauline Stephenson -- "Amo, amus, amat."

Ruby Sullivan -- "Hurrah for the Emeral Isle."

Gladys Tennant -- "I don't know."

Mary Tracy -- "Neither do I."

Susie Timby -- "Sure, he's got a car now."

Irene Williams -- "Much study is a weariness of the flesh."

Ruth Wooster -- "An artist of note."

Caryl Williams -- "I'll go if Stella does."

Stella Wright -- I'll go of Caryl does."

Aim of the sophomore representative: "If you see a head above the rift -- hit it."

Class of 1918

President - Margaret Spurrier
Secretary and Treasurer - Wayne Hickerson

CLASS ROLL

Emlin Smith		Raymond Bretz
Alvin Swanson		Ernest Moffatt
Mabel Butler		Julia Reger
Deva Butler		Wayne Hickerson
Lo Thompson		Aurelia Lawhead
Nellie Weiser		Marie Bastow
Blanche Dowling		Lyle Spencer
Roy Barkoff		Gladys Jacobs
Fern Guthrie		Ora Barkhoff
Emery Schlapia		Edna Bowman
Ethel Wyler		Claire Gleason
Mace German		Donald Ross
Margaret Spurrier		Grace Roberts
Lee Kelley		Warren Hughes
Alta Kirby		Verda Bellamy
Portia Parker

Class History

IN the fall of 1914 we came into our first year in the high school. It seemed at first that we were progressing very rapidly along life's pathway, but how much nobler and wiser did the upper class men look as we came into the great assembly room. And the Prof., as his voice boomed out above our heads seemed like some monarch.

But now that we have had a little more experience we are not so verdant and see things more nearly as they really are. The upper class men seem no more than freshmen grown a little and we are really not afraid to smile when the Prof. cracks a very witty joke.

We have progressed fairly well in our studies, so we think, and have had our gay, social times along with the rest of the classes. We have had a few parties, a few more picnics and even one cold, damp night we had a weinie roast. The weinie roast was the best of all, however, and even the teachers were sick from the effects of too much pop.

And now as our first year in the high school is almost finished we feel that we may look back with pride at our mark and although it is not a very large one as yet we hope that by "adopting nothing but adapting everything" to be able to be a great Sophomore class next year.

AS a continuation of the history of our organized literary work begun in the first volume of the Ayrian:

When school convened in the fall of 1914 it was thought that to keep the same organized societies, Orio and Montrose, would be advisable. This was approved by the faculty and a part of the students but the majority of the pupils wanted a change as some people sometimes do. So very soon after school had begun in earnest the senior and junior classes went together to secure a petition for a change. A majority was received in a short time and the plans submitted to the faculty for approval.

They soon approved of it and two new societies, one for the girls and one for the boys were formed. In a few days the two societies organized and chose names. The girls chose "Alcott," the name of the great author, Louisa May Alcott, and the boys "Junto" from the name of the society for the promotion of literary work in Benjamin Franklin's time.

The Alcotts gave the first program and in two weeks the Juntos gave their first and so on throughout the school year the programs have been held.

These various programs are educational as well as entertaining, being sometimes plays and at other times miscellaneous and the best program of all was given by the Juntos when they tried Raymond Hickerson for attempting to blow up the school building.

Alcott Society

First Semester		Second Semester
President - Eva Wood		President - Eva Wood
Vice President - Edna Wright		Vice President - Margaret Spurrier
Secretary - Grace Darrow		Secretary - Susie Timby

Soon our school days will be over

Soon we'll mingle with the throng,

And though life is short and fleeting

Time is not too swift for song.

So we banded us together

With our songs to lighten strife,

And the motto we have chosen;

"Not for school but for life."

Chorus:

With the Alcotts will be seen

True to colors, white and green

Though we're in for fun

Our work we'll never shun,

Alcotts of the Mount Ayr High.

YELL

Zip, boom, bah!
Zip, boom, bah!
Alcotts! Alcotts!
Rah! rah! rah!

Junto Society

OFFICERS

First Semester		Second Semester
President - Harry Spurrier		President - Harry Spurrier
Vice President - Ernest Tennant		Vice President - Earl Horne
Secretary - Murice White		Secretary - Murice White

Chairman of program committee - J. Mel Hickerson

ROLL

Arthur Keating		Maurice Tennant
Cloyd Drake		Harry Spurrier
Clive Ketch		Mel Hickerson
Ernest Moffatt		Ernest Tennant
Raymond Harrold		John Raymond
Roger Darrow		Murice White
Everett Galloway		Troy Holloway
Earl Horne		Frank Keating
John Poor		Vere Wallace
Emlin Smith		Dwight Carson
Raymond Hickerson		Roe Main
Warren Hughes		Charles Simpson
Raymond Bretz		X. T. Prentis
Wayne Hickerson		Todd Evans
Lyle Spurrier

"Music touches ever key of memory
And stirs all the hidden springs of sorrow and of joy,
We love it for what it makes us forget,
And for what it makes us remember."

The music this year has been a grand success. Several new organizations have been formed, such as the Girls' Glee Club, Male Quartet and the Mount Ayr High school Band, while the orchestra was organized again this year. All the students have shown an interest in the organizations and have done their duty toward promoting the work. The advancement is due to the excellent leadership of the teacher, Miss Vera Hart, who has made the organizations the best and strongest Mount Ayr has ever had.

One of the best organizations is the Girls' Glee Club which was organized last September and which has been doing excellent work. The school has been entertained in chapel and at other times by the Glee Club.
The selections which have been used were of high standard and have been appreciated by all.

Last but not least comes Mount Ayr's famous High School Band, the greatest of anything of its kind which is now on history. It fills the atmosphere with beeeautifullll, harmonizing, discordant tones and it is guaranteed to move the largest, absolutely largest, crowd of people anywhere. This band, our band, is the greatest yet and we do not hesitatte to say that there can never be found another just like it.

First there is Hicky, cornetist so fine,
The Holloway's clarinet comes right in line;
Then comes Bric on a big baritone,
And Haley next on a slide trombone.
Fat is last on a big bass drum,
But after all -- the band's not so bum.

Editor's note: The staff held a lengthy and zealous debate as to whether this should go in the music or joke department but it was finally decided that the boys made tones, therefore it was music, and so you see the band in the music department.

ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

President -- W. H. Fasold
Vice President -- Maurice Tennant
Secretary -- Grace Darrow
Treasurer -- Gladys Thompson

All of the athletics of our school are run under the supervision of our athletic association, which in turn is under the State Athletic association. This makes rather stringent rules at times but they are all for the good of the students and the school. Prof. N. E. Schupbach who was the boys' athletic coach last year also superintended the girls this year and the result was that we had a winning girls' team.

Frank Keating -- Forward
Roe Main -- Guard
Burl Davis -- Guard & Forward
Everett Galloway -- Forward
Don Smith -- Guard Harry Spurrier -- Center
Vere Wallace -- Forward

The 1914 - 1915 Season

	Mount Ayr	Opponents
Alumni Game	9	10
Ellston at Mount Ayr	10	13
Ellston at Ellston	13	17
Grant City at Mount Ayr	24	26
Humeston at Mount Ayr	34	0
Diagonal at Mount Ayr	51	5
Blockton at Mount Ayr	25	8

THE TEAM

Roe Main '16 -- Captain and Guard

Vere Wallace '16

"Vere" never played until this year but after the first evening's practice the coach saw a future player in his mall but well developed body and proceeded to push him to the front. Was one of the best boosters on the team and made good until outside influences turned his mind into other channels.

Donald Smith '16

"Don" usually played one half of each game, sometimes because of his exceptional ability and occasionally because of his inability. Was a sort of concentrated energy machine and whenhe once started always arrived at the objective point. Large and strong he never tired and was one of the best endurance men on the team.

Burl Davis '16 -- Guard

"Burl" was one of the fastest little players Mount Ayr has ever produced. Though small in stature his arms in motion resembled a windmill wheel and he never failed to worry his opponent. Was well liked and jolly. His first year on the team and one played to his credit. If he only had another year would become a "child wonder."

Harry Spurrier '16 -- Center

"Heck" was the only player who stood in the ring throughout the season. It has been said of some fellows that they are "tall and awkward" but not so of Heckwhen on the basket ball floor. Utilized every minute ans eemed to be everywhere at once. He quite often dropped the ball through the goal even though his place was in the center.

Everett Galloway '17 -- Forward

"Galloway" started to practice the first of the term and soon became a promising player. A fast mover and a sure shot at the goals. Good in a critical place and makes every move count. Was laid off for a time at the last of the season but has a brilliant prospect before him.

Frank Keating '17 -- Forward

"Pete" was a sure shot at the goals and always played a good game. Was a great fellow to attend strictly to his own business and play the game stealing a throw when the opportunity offered. Has a good physique and played with the best of them. But even at that as he has two years yet, "the best is yet to come."

WHEN the basket ball squad responded to the call of the coach they started on that long grind which was to make a name for the team. The men were determined and enthusiastic and with the unrivaled support given them by the Mount Ayr High boosters they made this season a success. Out of the five teams they played they were only forced to tip their hats to two of them.

After a few weeks if steady training and hard practice the team arranged a game with Diagonal H. S. The game was "fast and furious," as the result, Mount Ayr 51 to Diagonal 5, shows. A record of the most field goals thrown on our gym floor was made by Spurrier who succeeded in caging fourteen.

The next games were with the Ellston bunch, one game at home and the other at Ellston. The team lost both of these games, but the games were about as fast as any which have ever been played on the courts. The results were ten to thirteen and fourteen to seventeen.

Our next game with Grant City and owing to the fact that no outside man could be secured a Grant City man was "on the job." The game was cleanly played but the referee became embarrassed in the presence of so many ladies and could not keep his wits together. The game ended in defeat for the home team by a score of twenty-four to twenty-six.

Then came our great game with Humeston which resulted in the only shutout game ever witnessed in Mount Ayr. The visitors couldn't find the ball and consequently were beaten by a score of thirty-four to nothing.

Last of all and best of all was our great game with that very confident bunch from Blockton, Iowa, U. S. A. Last seaons we took them to it to the tune of 47 to 4 and this year they expected to literally wipe us off the map but they calculated wrong. They were a pretty husky looking bunch and out-weighed us as a team but when it came to working on the floor they simply were not in it at all. Our boys had the game from the beginning but Blockton doggedly hung on with the result that they got eight points while Mount Ayr walked away with twenty-five. We hope that we didn't hurt Blockton's feelings in any way and that we will be able to "clean them up" next year. THis game ended our '14-'15 basket ball season. Here's to the team of 1916.

THE TEAM

Forwards

Gladys Thompson -- Always sure at the goal, always there with the ball.

Gladys Stuck -- Watch those long distance goals.

Jumping Centers

Rhea Beasley -- Rather play basket ball than eat.

Marie Goodwin -- No one has ever outjumped "Goody."

Second Centers

Aurelia Lawhead -- She knows the game all right.

Georgia Reger -- She can sure get around over the floor.

Guards

Grace Darrow -- Snappy and accurate. Makes a fine captain.

Eva Beasley -- Cool-headed, fast and always "plays for the ball."

THE basket ball season at Mount Ayr High opened rather late this year on account of delay in repair work upon the gymnasium. By the time that the Mount Ayr teams began to practice most of the neighboring H. S. teams had their schedules made out and were playing games regularly. Then, by the time the Mount Ayr teams had received practice and were ready to play, only a few games were secured until the roads were in such a condition as to be scarcely traveled at all, and on account of the excellent C. B. & Q. railway connections the basket ball season for the Mount Ayr girls closed with only four games with other high schools and two or thre interclass games.

Even if our team was not tried out much in games with other high schools we think we can truly class it as one of the first in this part of the State. We owe this position to our coach, Prof. Schupbach, how has been a dandy good coach, giving the girls a thorough knowledge of basket ball as well as teaching them to play a fast game. The games played by our teams this year were spoken of by everyone as being the swiftest games ever played on Mount Ayr's court.

We must also attribute a goodly share of parise to Mrs. Schuphach, who has a great interest in basket ball and has been at nearly every practice and ably assisted us in learning the game.

The girls have taken a greater interest in basket ball this year than ever before and there was scarcely ever a practice without fifteen or twenty girls out. A majority of the team girls are leaving school this year as seniors but with the excellent coaching received and also the excellent material, Mount Ayr ought to put out the best team ever next year.

Games Played

Knowlton at Mount Ayr	15	6
Ellston at Ellston	9	9
Grant City at Mount Ayr	11	9
Grant City at Mount Ayr	13	9

The 1914 Field Meet

THE spring season opened with little or no interest in field sports until Maurice Keating took the responsibility of having an inter-class field meet. He was appointed manager and it was not long until it was evident from the manner in which the boys were spending their spare moments that something was to be staged in the form of athletics.

On Friday, May 5, the classes assembled on the track to compete for the finals which were to take place the following Monday.

The final meet was a great success in every way. Owing to the fact that McQuigg refereed there was no wrangling over decisions and everything moved with system. The freshmen had the greatest number of stars, and hence it was not surprising that they walked off with forty-five points. The other classes stood as follows: Post graduates 31, seniors 30, sophomores 24, juniors 13. No awards were offered to the winner.

The Meet

Event	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Record

Low Hurdles	M. Keating	Haley			30 3-4

Relay	Freshmen	Sophomore	Seniors	Juniors	1' 53 2-5"

Pole Vault	H. Main	M. Keating	Davis	F. Keating	8' 4"

50 yd. Dash	M. Keating	Haley	Davis	F. Keating	6 2-5"

100 yd. dash	Prentis	M. Keating	Davis	Simpson	12"

Broad Jump	McAninch	M. Keating	Harrold	Galloway	15' 8 3/4"

High Hurdles	F. Keating	M. Keating			20 3-5

H. M. Run	R. Main	Prentis	Spurrier	Holloway	2' 32"

H. M. Walk	Prentis	Spurrier	Carson	Smith	none kept

High Jump	McAninch	Spurrier	M. Keating		4:11 1-2

Shot Put	McAninch	Drake

Discus

A Narrow Escape

IT WAS late one evening, just after the delayed freight had pulled out of the union switch yards, at Elkville, and was gliding slowly down the long incline to the river,when the young telegraph operator was startled by hearing the telegraph instrument begin a series of clicks to which he was listening in the wildest excitement. And indeed he had a gaood cause for excitement for did the telegram not say that November 4 had just passed West City at about sixty miles an hour and now had a stright run to Elkville and was not the fast mail due in Elkville about that time that Number 4 would arrive?

What should he do? What could he do? Must he sit there an ssee those two engines crash together before his very eyes and he do nothing to save them? No he could not do that. seizing a red lantern from a near by hook he lit it and rushed down to the last switch,which he threw over and that would let the fast mail into a siding. Then he set the light down and went back to the office to await the coming of the trains.

Finally he heard them coming and rushed out to see if the plan would work. On came the fast mail and on came Number 4 with many passengers. Then it seemed that they must surely come together when with a whirl and a grinding and squeaking of brakes Number 4 came to a stop and the fast mail slid into the siding. Soon the people were alighting and what did the boy see? Surely it couldn't be, yes it was and with a cry he ran into the hands of his mother, who had been on Number 4 and coming to see her boy.

R. O. H. '16

The Ellston Trip

One Saturday afternoon, when the clouds were hanging low and the wind was whistling round the corners, the members of the boys' and girls' basket ball teams met at the schoolhouse to begin their eventful trip to Ellston where they were to clean up the teams there. Finally after much worry and fretting the two bobsleds were gotten out and the loads started with Mr. and Mrs. Perry Stephenson as chaperones and Ralph Wood as referee.

The wind blew with such fury that the roads were swept bare in some places, but in others there were deep drifts.

At first the kids sang but finally they got so that they could no longer stand the noise and the cold together, and as there was no way of getting rid of the cold, they stopped singing and went to cracking exceedingly witty jokes and funny stories with no points whatever.

Finally one team arrived at the destination, and with much groaning the occupants of the sled climbed out and got around the fire where a bright blaze was carckling, and soon felt better and able to play a little ball, but the other load must be waited on. Finally with a swirl and a whirl the team sailed up to the front of the building and that bunch piled out almost frozen stiff except Tommy and Grace who seemed to be quite comfortable.

In a short time they were ready to play and went to the old schoolhouse to dress. The rooms were nice and warm, at least they must have been because there were radiators in the rooms and the windows were pulled down tight.

It was so cold that everyone nearly froze, but they didn't quite, and finally after walking through the snow for about a block they arrived at the gym, if gym it might be called. It was a large barn affair, only much colder, and had boards around the sides for the onlookers; and one thing was sure, there were enough onlookers. The place was packed to overflowing and still they kept coming.

Finally after an eternity, the games were on and over, with the girls' game a tie, and the boys' of Ellston taking the game by a close score.

Then came the long walk to the hotel, after changing clothes in the warm dressing room again, and preparations being made for one load to return home that evening, although a light snow was now falling.

The girls who remained in the city stayed with the girls of the Ellston team and some of the boys did the same, but the rest stayed at the hotel.

Early the next morning the bunch that remained started for home. A light rain was falling, which froze as soon as it lit, and soon the people were covered with a thin coating of ice, so that they were forced to speak once in a while even though they did not wish to, to keep their faces from freezing.

They got to town about noon ready for a feed, and feeling like they wanted no more sleds in theirs, but by the next Monday all were ready for the trip again but it was never taken, although several other trips were taken across country later, but under more favorable conditions.

When the sweet spring sun is shining,
And the birds are calling, too,
Then for all the fields you're pining,
And you wish that school was through;

And you see the cars go racing
With a cloud of dust behind,
And you wish that you were facing
Toward the creek with hook and line.

But then you finally waken
From the dreams you love so well;
By the teacher's voice you're shaken,
And by the darn class bell;

But she never was a man,
And of course she does not know
Of the times a feller can
Have by dreaming so.


O, princely bust -- kingly heir
Of gifts untimely sent --
All yours -- nor lack anywhere
Of draperies toward you lent,
Though of yourself you are quite poor
And frail and weak of everything
That makes you tall and fair,
And stand still, when we sing,
Most favored of the busts and small
In everything except your glasses,
We covet not your office stall,
But rather prize our own, in classes,
The Prof. gives as but Profs. may do,
We count ourhonors thus;
He gave his richest gifts to you,
And then gave you to us, --
O Riley Bust.

ALUMNI

Birth and death year added if known. ~ SRB

1884
Edwind H. Eastman, Superintendent

Laura Laughlin-Richardson, teacher

Marshalltown, Iowa

1886
John H. Richardson, Superintendent

Loren Henry, lawyer (judge)		Globe, Arizona
Nora White-Isabell		Denver, Colorado
Mary Tedford-Spencer		El Paso, Texas
Lula Wilson-Bolton		Paxton, Kansas
Debbie Bastow		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Avis Parson-Rose		Walton, Nebraska

1887
J. W. Wilkerson, Superintendent

Iowa Henry-Jennings		Wewoka, Oklahoma
Bessie Liggett-Kalvey		Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Grant Ross (Deceased)		[1868 - 1892]
Nannie Rabb-Smith		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mary Andrews-Guthridge		Spokane, Washington
Anna Beard-Lawhead		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Tousie DeBois, attorney		South McAllister, Oklahoma

1888

Ada Price-Lee		Othello, Washington
Belle Lawhead-Buchanan		Welda, Kansas
Fannie Nichol, bookstore		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1889

Kate Wilkerson-Wight		Middletown, New York
Olla Beawrd-Sellards		Lordsburg, New Mexico
Albert Sellards		Des Moines, Iowa
Howard McMaster, merchant		Mobile, Misouri
Edward Wall, grocer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Grace Overrocker-Wilson		Galesburg, Illinois
Ora Rider, lawyer		Saint Louis, Missouri
Lucy Mount, teacher		Philippines
Walter Beall, editor		West Union, Iowa
John McClurg, teacher		Preston, Idaho

1890

Esther Lesan-Hoffman		Courtneay, North Dakota
Alice Bastow, milliner		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Clarence Dunning (Deceased)		[1873 - 1905]
Minnie Haymond-Neily		San Antonio, Texas
Etta Ellis-Guyman		Concordia, Missouri
George H. Rains, garage proprietor		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1891

Lillie Woodmansee		Chicago, Illinois
Roy Sullivan, telephone manager		Chicago, Illinois
Shane Duncan, telegrapher		Riceville, Iowa
Mabel Henry (Deceased)		[1872 - 1909]
Otto Horne, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Luther Wall, physician		Alief, Texas

1892

Lloyd Talley, real estate		Winterset, Iowa
Alta Payne-Shepherd		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Jennie Preston-Hayes		Denver, Colorado
Cora Dewey (Deceased)
Clifford Barkey, proprietor movie show		Niagara Falls, New York
Lizzie Hogue-Milligan		Aberdeen, South Dakota
Gertrude Stephens-Rains		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Maud Spence, stenographer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Jennie Henry-Faris		El Reno, Oklahoma

1893

Eva Price-Adams		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Ann Currie, teacher		Chico, California
Sue Johnson-Globe		York, Nebraska
Mamie McMaster-Waugh		Tarkio, Missouri
Ralph Merrill		King City, Missouri
Sue Neeley-Lesan		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Edith Keller-White (Deceased)
Maud Talley-Beall		West Union, Iowa
Nellie Mount-Nichols		El Centro, California
Nat Rider (Deceased)
Grace Nye-Burlingame, stenographer		Des Moines, Iowa

1894

Myrtle Baldwin, teacher		Camas, Montana
H. C. Beard, lawyer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Cora Kipp-Smith		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Homer A. Fuller, lawyer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Anna Todd, teacher		Fort Wayne, Indiana
Pearl Roby-Wentz		Sacramento, California
Mary Knox-Harvey		Des Moines, Iowa

1895

Bernice Holland-Ballou (Deceased)
Edna Henry (Deceased)
Arthur Dunning, farmer		Valley City, North Dakota
Fannie Denney-Higgs, preacher		Chicago, Illinois
Guy Shrimplin, auto agent		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Della Evans-Reger		Wichita, Kansas
Laura Dunning-McCoy		Indianola, Iowa
Stella Clark		Pella, Iowa
Ernest Ewan (Deceased)		[1877 - 1906/07]
James Soles, architect		Juneau, Alaska
Nell Price-Irving		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Walter Berkey, traveling salesman		Humeston, Iowa
Bert Talley, printer		Saint Louis, Missouri
Frank Everett		____, California
Eddie Henderson-Campbell		West Liberty, Iowa
Mamie Hayes-Wadley		Maryville, Missouri
Anna Burke-Howdel		Long Beach, California
Mass Campbell, mail clerk		West Liberty, Iowa
Etta Rodgers (Deceased)		[1876 - 1895]

1896
J. Everett Smith, Superintendent

James W. Beard, mechanic		Saint Joseph, Misouri
Linden Bement, grocer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Martha Irwin, teacher		Portland, Oregon
Lulu Huffman-Houston		New Kirk, Oklahoma
Jane Chance-Crisco		Creston, Iowa
Villa Whitaker, milliner		North Platte, Nebraska
Lula Robinson-Saltzman		Benton Harbor, Michigan
John Smith		_____, Texas
George Hickerson, clerk		New York City
Edith Todd-Hughes		Des Moines, Iowa
Orra Whitaker-Shiller		North Platte, Nebraska
Alice Spence-Ingram		Rosewell, New Mexico
Louie Been		Been, Montana
Etta Case-Ferber		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1897

Earl K. Allyn, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Charles G. Shane, real estate agent		Durant, Oklahoma
Jane E. teacher, teacher		Webb, Iowa
Edith Lila Bickett, teacher		Marshalltown, Iowa
Mary Gorsuch-Brown		Lamoni, Iowa
Rodney Berkey, clerk		Kellerton, Iowa
Eula V. Entsminger		Kniffen, Iowa
Cherra Currie-Dirks		Fort Worth, Texas
Anna Duncan-Beard		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Ida Collins-Ashenhurst		Rosine, Minnesota
Carrie Case-Rogers		Tronta, Iowa
Boyd Rogers, carpenter		Seattle, Washington
Homer D. Wright		Lumber Camp Cohasset, Minnesota
Margaret Gibboney		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1898
J. H. Carter, Superintendent

Alice Shriver-Landis		Sullivan, Ohio
Sadie Long-Flynn		Mount Ayr, Iowa
John Todd, railroad conductor		Pocatello, Idaho
Ralph Martin, minister		_____, Illinois
Clyde Putman, lawyer		Des Moines, Iowa
Julia Johnson		_____, Oklahoma
Walter Scott, banker		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lyle Dunning, dentist		Ottumwa, Iowa
Edgar Arnett, merchant		Spokane, Washington
Floyd Patterson, bookkeeper		Denver, Colorado
Owen Schoch, real estate agent		Moscow, Idaho
Ed Faris, medicine agent		Lincoln, Nebraska
Clyde Imus, farmer		_____, Washington
Corwin Gander, clothing store		Kansas City, Kansas
John Beard (Deceased)		[1880 - 1905]
George Tway		Rapid Falls, Idaho

1899
L. H. Maus, Superintendent

Ora Hunter		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Pearl Avans-Bowen		Wichita, Kansas
Susan Scott-Clark
Charles Turner (Deceased)
Curtis Hass, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Doyle Hadley, merchant		Sunnyside, Utah
Nina Saville, merchant		Redding, Iowa
Hugh Bement (Deceased)		[1880 - 1902]
Edith Calhoun-Schmiere		Austin, Illinois
Alice Zwick-Williams		Austin, Texas
Jessie Toothaker (Deceased)

1900

Ross Campbell, physician		Moberly, Missouri
Merle Askren, lawyer		Seattle, Washington
Edna McQuigg, bank clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Dee Case		Coffee, Missouri
Mamie Hern		____, Oklahoma
Anna Miller-Smith		Poplar Bluffs, Missouri
Marjorie Dowling-Freeland		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Robert Askren, painter		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Maud McQuigg		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Katherine Hunter, teacher		Saint Louis, Missouri
Howard Lesan, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Gertrude Preston, clerk		Denver, Colorado

1901
Adam Pickett, Superintendent

Ethel Dunning-Judson		Redfield, Iowa
Therma Finley-Nelson		Kirkman, Iowa
Jessie Shrimplin-Dalton		Warsaw, Indiana
Nona Finley, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Carrie Palmer (Deceased)
Fern Critchfield-Spurrier		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Minnie Wall-Wall		Rockwell City, Iowa
Robert Wight, engineer		Chicago, Illinois
Clifford Imus		_____, Washington
Bertha Beard-Burgess		Mondamin, Iowa
John Faris (Deceased)		[1884 - 1911]
Nora Talley, printer		West Union, Iowa
Clinton Imus		______, Washington
Mattie Miles-Puckett		Boise, Idaho

1902

Tracy Wilson (Deceased)

Ora Anderson		Los Angeles, California
Anna Lineburg-Gridley		Portland, Oregon
John McCord, miner		Fairbanks, Alaska
Florence Snyder-Patterson		Hampton, Iowa
Jessie Tway-Smith		Springfield, Missouri
Ethel Wilkinson-Toombs		Des Moines, Iowa
Maud Henderson, abstractor		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Karr Lesan, bookkeeper		Madera, California
Floy A. Reed, principal H.S.		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lillian Tennant-Peterson		Marshalltown, Iowa
Frank Willey, student		Cedar Falls, Iowa

1903

Clyde Clark, minister

Elton Allyn, fruit grower		Haines City, Florida
Vera Ingram-Mott		Grand Junction, Iowa
Harry Liggett, P. O. clerk		Des Moines, Iowa
Linden H. Berkey, Larkin Co.		Buffalo, New York
Wilbur Kirby, Larkin Co.		Buffalo, New York
Jennie Marsh
Louis Askren, teacher		Marshalltown, Iowa
Bert Lesan (Deceased)		[1882 - 1910]
Wilbur Scott, county auditor		Dupree, South Dakota
Donna May Lewis, teacher		Grand Junction, Colorado
Lydia Wall, teacher		Des Moines, Iowa
		Provo, Utah

1904

Clair G. Allyn, bank clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Fern Beard-Liggett		Des Moines, Iowa
John Bickett, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Willey Calfee, minister		Grand Junction, Colorado
Paul Calhoun, minister		Chicago, Illinois
Roy Castor, fruit grower		Opportunity, Washington
Lena Dunning-Kirby		Buffalo, New York
Laura Hadley, student		Iowa City, Iowa
Sol Miles		Boise, Idaho
Blanche Porter, teacher		Marshalltown, Iowa
Jessie Sawyer, teacher		Tacoma, Washington
Theo Vedder-Evans		Salt Lake City, Utah
Helen Baker, teacher		Gravity, Iowa
Verne Billings		_____, Kansas

1905

Howard Calfee		Dexter, Iowa
Esther Snyder, teacher		Great Falls, Montana
Maggie Beard, teacher		Webb, Iowa
Perry Ellis		Mount Ayr, Iowa
George Galloway, bookkeeper		Creston, Iowa
George Malone, insurance agent		Greenfield, Iowa
Joe McQuigg, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Laura Poor-Holden		Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Ray Simpson, grocer		Tribune, Kansas
Clarence Ream, principal H.S.		Anthony, Kansas

1906

Bessie Halterman-Corbett		Sheldon, Iowa
Hattie Anderson-Allyn		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mary Burke-Porter		Long Beach, California
Lulu Carmichael, stenographer		Los Angeles, California
Francis Fuller, lawyer		Creston, Iowa
Orville Fender		Omaha, Nebraska
James Gamon, student		Iowa City, Iowa
Charles Henderson, teacher		_____, Canada
Roe Lesan, printer		Waukon, Iowa
Glen Miles, surveyor		Bosie, Idaho
Carrie Norris, teacher M. A. P. S.		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Ethel Paulin, teacher		Sioux City, Iowa
Pearl Poor-Mapel		Fairfield, Iowa
Myrtle Parker, teacher		Clarinda, Iowa
Elva Thomspon, teacher		Wimbledon, North Dakota

1907

Bessie Beard, teacher		Waterloo, Iowa
Leona Stringham, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Ethel Shrimplin-Quillian		Steator, Illiniois
Roy Wilkinson, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Charles Wilson, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Richard Loutzenhiser superintendent of schools		Blockton, Iowa

1908
J. M. Price, Superintendent (Deceased)
J. W. Wilkerson finished year

*Clinton Allyn, bank clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Arla Dunning-Hall		Oswego, Kansas
*Harry Ellis, mechanic		Centerville, Iowa
Susie Finley, teacher		Kirkman, Iowa
Harry Fuller		Albuquerque, New Mexico
Grant Hayes, grain dealer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
*Charles Horne, lumberman		Redding, Iowa
Mabel Jones, teacher		Ashly, North Dakota
Charles Reger, traveling salesman, furniture		Los Angeles, California
*William Reger, law student		Salt Lake City, Utah
Paul Spurrier, grocer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mable Snedaker teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mae Moore-Ingram		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1909
George P. Koebel, Superintendent

Luther Bonham, farmer		Milan City, Missouri
Mamie Ellis-Wheeler		Lucas, Iowa
Clarence Hollopeter, P. O. clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Clara Long-Wilkinson		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lily Malone-Rush		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Arlo Moore, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Pearl Robinson, teacher		Bedford, Iowa
Howard Snedaker, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Della Turner, techer		Pisgah, Iowa
Florence Tennant teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Stanton Tennant, printer		Grundy Center, Iowa
Edna Wolf-Haviland		Albany, Missouri

1910

*Clarence Spence, farmer		Diagonal, Iowa
Fern Anderson		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lena Saltzman-Anderson		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Eva Barclay-McClurg		Cambria, Iowa
Hazel Bastow-Norris		Tingley, Iowa
*Earl Beall, motorman		Los Angeles, California
Ruth Berkey, teacher		Buffalo, New York
Ivor Malone, traveling salesman		Omaha, Nebraska
Mary Maxwell, teacher		Diagonal, Iowa
Irene Wilkinson-Maloy		Redding, Iowa
Norborn, Crowell, professor university		Hiram, Ohio
Marguerite Hardaway teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Erland Weld, pharmacist		Richland, Iowa

1911
E. T. Shepherd, Superintendent

Burrus Beard, student		Des Moines, Iowa
* Clifford Hanks, restaurant		Blockton, Iowa
Lena Ogden, student		Monmouth, Illinois
Zoe Spurrier, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Carroll Spurrier, printer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lova Thompson, student		Monmouth, Illinois
Frank Wilson, student		Iowa City, Iowa
Lester Wright, bookkeeper		Des Moines, Iowa
Elsie Holloway-Moffatt		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Rex Lawhead, P. O. clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Edna Laird-Timby		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1912
W. H. Fasold, Superintendent

Nellie Cleaver, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lois Parker, nurse		Clarinda, Iowa
Zella Campbell, deputy county recorder		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Lora Case		Kearney, Nebraska
Mary Clayton teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Bernice Drake-Gray		Kellerton, Iowa
Vernon Drake, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Asa Huggins, implement dealer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Harry Laird, real estate		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Bessie Long, student		Indianola, Iowa
Vera Long-Beall		Los Angeles, California
Gladys Lynch, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Jennie Maple-Cole		Mount Ayr, Iowa
William May, student		Indianola, Iowa
Vesta Merritt, student		Indianola, Iowa
Vera Merritt-Stephenson		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Elma Pierson-Knight		Kellerton, Iowa
Ruth Porter, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mary Reger teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Don W. Shroyer, drug clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Anna Snethen-Dregan		Mount Ayr, Iowa
*Perry Stephenson, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Cleo Sullivan-Agee		Benton, Iowa
Ada Thompson-Slocum		Des Moines, Iowa
Mae Warrick		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Edward Willey		Des Moines, Iowa
Louise Hall, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1913

*Fred Stephenson, student		Des Moines, Iowa
Georgia Allyn, student		Indianola, Iowa
Edna Freeland, teacher		Athelstan, Missouri
Harry Hull, student		Indianola, Iowa
Maruice Keating, mail clerk		Keokuk, Iowa
James Lawhead deputy county treasurer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Isabelle Millsap		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Edna Reynard teacher Mount Ayr public school		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Jerome Reynolds		Des Moines, Iowa
Blanche Richards, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Dorothy Ross, student		Mount Vernon, Iowa
Marguerite Snedaker		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Edith Walter, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Mary Wolf-Robinson		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Millard Holden, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa

1914

Porter F. Havely, student		Indianola, Iowa
William E. Kelley, student		Indianola, Iowa
V. Beatrice Lorimor, teacher		Tingley, Iowa
Bernice Bevington, teacher		Delphos, Iowa
Bertha Faye McAninch, teacher		Redding, Iowa
Elon Merritt McAninch, principal		Knowlton, Iowa
Roy Currie, farmer		Kellerton, Iowa
Gladys Merritt, student		Indianola, Iowa
Dee Johnson, farmer		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Margaret Alice Maxwell, teacher		Diagonal, Iowa
Glen Stoher, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Zelma A. Kirby, teacher		Holstein, Iowa
Floyd Davis, clerk		Mount Ayr, Iowa
Gladys Gleason, teacher		Redding, Iowa
Loren H. Laughlin, student		Des Moines, Iowa
Maude Greenman, teacher		Kellerton, Iowa
Clara B. Wyler, teacher		Mount Ayr, Iowa

CALENDAR

September

     17. Inevitable happens. Freshmen have class meeting combined with rough house.
           Senior party.
     21. Soph class meeting.
     22. Freshest freshie takes front seat. Miss Harp says he talks too much.
     22. Miss Anderson says the ancient history of MacClemons is almost a blank.
     23. Junior class meeting. Speech in chapel.
     25. Freshies have a party. Senior-Junior conspiracy.
     29. McC. hasn't any English class.
     30. Prof. makes annual announcement that he has nothing to say.

October

     1. Maurice's lease on the tennis court expires.
     2. Everett takes Maurice's place.
     3. Harry takes Everett's place.
     4. Prof. gives lecture in Mod. His. class on how to raise children.
          Experirence is the best teacher.
     5. Orchestra practices. Neighbors think there is a fire.
     6. Serenade by a senior and two juniors.
     11. Another Orchestra howl.
     12. Gym a swimming pool.
     13. Gym a large pond.
     14. Gym a lake.
     15. Organization of literary societies.
     23. Hunt party by junior boys. Harry gets his little queen.
     27. Prof. absent from chapel.
     28. Junior boys pay debts to junior girls. One junior boy, one soph. boy and two junior
           girls wake up in school about 12 o'clock. It doesn't pay.
     30. Parties, parties everywhere.
     31. Hallowe'en.

November

     2. Presentation of bust of Lincoln in behalf of class of 1915 by Hick.
     5. Oh, the sweet music--the Victrola is here.
     6. Colder.
     7. Sophs have skating party--Nit.
     8. Tennis fever almost killed. Still a few polar bears yelling, "love all."
     9. Prof. promises to see about the gym.
     10. Ditto.
     11. Ditto.
     12. Ditto.
     13. First snow.
     16. Manual training boys lay floor in gym.
     23. Fat goes to Des Moines.
     24. Basketball practice--Whoop.
     25. Thanksgiving vacation.
     30. Miss R. says that it seems a long while for that junior class to digest that turkey.

December

     1. "Get an annual" junior slogan cry.
     2. Sammy very quiet.
     3. "There are vandals in school" (Quoth Prof.)
     4. Forty minutes on world's progress in modern history.
     5. Forty minutes talk on morals in Mod. His. class.
     6. Forty minutes talk on puppy love in Mod. History Class.
     7. The Mod. History class hears some new (?) ones by Prof.
     8. Mod. History class actually recites.
     15. Christmas vacation.

January

     4. Prof. hopes everyone will start out right.
     5. Whitey--"Please buy an annual"
     6. Two freshies seen with new hats.
     7. Brie gets a fur overcoat and immediately it gets warmer.
     8. "Old Stars" play H. S. and beat them 10 to 9.
     11. One more week until exam.
     12. No more chapel except on Fridays.
     13. Boy's lit. program.
      14. Lecture course. For the particulars, please, oh, please ask Hick and you will
            probably (?) find out? Who was it, Hick?
     15. Prof. forgets twenty-third psalm in chapel. Basketball with Hacka-dady. We beat
            them 51 to 5.
     16. Stranny wishes Bailey lived in Mount Ayr instead of Diagonal. Poor Bailey.
     18. Everyone highly elated.
     19. Freshies begin to grow leary over studies.
     20. Harry S. takes Miss A. to show and gets 95 in Virgil exam.
     26. "Oh, I didn't do so bad, only failed in three."
     27. Everything seems to have gone to sleep.
     28. Still sleeping.

February

     1. Prof. lays down some law.
     2. Same as above.
     3. Ditto.
     4. Some more of the same kind.
     5. Once again.
     10 Troy H. suggests that we make a volume of Prof's laws.
     12. Game with Grant City. Boys 22-26. Girls 9-11. Grant City winner in both.
     14. Roe Main has a board six inches wide, and wants it only four an a half so he
           saws three fourths of an inch off each side instead of one and a half on one side.
           Some Man.

WANT ADS

Wanted-- More study and less movies.--Prof.

Wanted--Pepper.--Sammy.

Lost--A tall young man with glasses. Answers to the name of Lyle. Finder please return to Belle S. and receive her heartfelt thanks.

Wanted--Some one to bite.--Annual Staff.

Found--That Freshie must be protected.--Juniors.

NEW FEATURE IN OUR SCHOOL

MAY FESTIVAL

     All the grades and High School.
     High School committtee:
          Mary Anderson, Chairman.
          Anna Owen.
          Helen Harp.
     Grade committee:
           Mabel Snedaker, Chairman.
          Mary Reger.
          Bess Boswick.
      The May Queen to be chosen from the senior class.

Did you know, most gentle reader, that we are the proud possessors of a pretty punk production of the poet and philosopher, James Whitcomb Riley? Well we are and fearing that some are yet wholly ignorant of said bust I will endeavor to elucidate.

Our most high and honored Prof. decided that he wanted us to have something, something that we would treasure in the bottomost depths of our hearts, to remember him by if he should suddenly leave us and so he sent ot a certain "Get-rich-quick" company and had them send a collection of Riley buttons to be sold at the small price of ten cents, one dime, one tenth part of a dollar, and when all were sold the money to be returned and the sender to receive a beautiful, half life-size, ivory finish bust of the great poet and philosopher, James Whitcomb Riley, and beside that they were to get a beautiful superb oil painting of the old swimmin' hole and a leather bound book of Riley's famous poems.

Prof. got the pins but they didn't seem to go very fast, that is not as fast as the Prof. thought that they should go, so he held an auction one Friday morning in chapel at which the pins were sold at a great bargain, one for a dime, two for twenty cents and if you bought five all they would cost you was one half dollar. Finally all the pins were sold, the money sent in, and then that long-expected day came, the day that was to make the whole school rejoice--and they did. Oh, it was great. The circular stated that one dollar was for the erection of a fine monument in honor of the great poet in his own home town. Well, as I said before, the goods came, yes, they arrived and the whole school rejoiced. The Prof. after a careful search finally found the bust over in one corner of the great box and at the bottom was that wonderful oil painting and last of all was found the leather (?) bound book of poems. Then indeed did Prof's cup of happiness overflow. But---

Poor old Riley, he was just about big enough to fit into a waste basket right. The Prof. would not present him to the student body, so some of the boys set him on the piano. After that the poor boy served for many purposes. He was abused so much on the stage that he was moved to the library. There he served as a paper weight until some hilarious freshmen put a waste basket over his head and labeled it, "DANGEROUS--KEEP AWAY." Prof. finally grew tired of having him abused, so he took him into the office and there he sits to this day, the joke of the school. (I mean Riley--not Prof.)

If the juniors and seniors who still owe on the class buttons will please call thr office and settle accounts, happiness will reign supreme.--Prof.

THE CLASS OF 1916 IN 1926

I had sat me down by the fire with a plate of fudge and a bunch of the freshmen's examination papers to grade, but the fudge was good, the fire was warm and the papers were very dull, so I guess I must have gone to sleep. My dreams were suddenly broken by a brisk tapping at my door. It wasn't a raven that entered at my bidding, but a group of laughing, snow-covered men and women. My eyes were still heavy with sleep and ten years make great changes in people, so it is little wonder I didn't know them all--those "16-ites"?

Soon they were all unwrapped and crowded around the fire. Talk drifted from one subject to another but finally came to one that was nearest our hearts, "The class of 1916."

"Where are the rest of our class?" I ask. Ferne Kahley, Ruth Johnson and Iowa Reger, aren't they here?" Georgie laughed, "Haven't you heard? Iowa is teaching school in Oregon, Ruth married a Hardshell Baptist preacher, and Ferne is in the west for her health." "But Mamie is not here." Then it was Roe's turn to smile. "No, she is too fine for our bunch; she married a New York banker and Bea Hanley married a Wall Street broker; now they are each trying to live higher than the other." That accounts for all the girls but two. "Where's Bessie and Bernice?" "Bessie married a garage keeper and still lives near Mount Ayr, and Bernice is going to college. She's working for a Ph. D."

"Now for the boys," I continued. "No use to ask where Raymond is, poor Sticky" Hadn't you heard? It was in yesterday's paper, he was court martialed for helping in the Mexican Revolution. He made the mistake of trying to help the weaker side and a bullet ended his career." "Darn that other paper," growled Harry. "They always get stuff before I do. I'm going to fire that whole crowd of reporters and hire a fresh bunch. They beat me on a dandy item to-day. Barney Horne discovered a new dye and is making his fortune with it. They have quite a write-up to-day about him. Guess I knew about his school days anyway."

"Stop your growling, Heck," broke in Fat. "Take off your dark blue specs and talk of something cheerful." "Did you know Murice White is going to sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York to-morrow night?" "Birdie King is to be the pianist. Gosh, I'd like to go and hear them." "That's nothing, Fat," was Murice's modest rejoinder. "Ava is making quite a sensation with her voice; people say that she is going to be the greatest singer of the age." "Oh, Murice, keep still, you make me bashful. You know some of the other 'kids' have climbed to greater fame than I can hope for. Belle Stranahan is the star in the latest play. You remember when she started in our Alcott plays, don't you? Belle said that those plays were what awakened her ambitions." "Lucy, how about you? If I remember you were in that first play of ours?" But Lucy just smiled and kept still for she had attained her ambition--Lucy was married.

"Let's make everyone else tell what they are doing. Just to start the fun, I'm selling perfume and face powder for a Chicago firm. Can't you ladies each buy some? Very best onthe market and--" there's no telling when Vere would have stopped if Roe Main hadn't broken in; "If you are thinking of traveling you'd better take out life insurance with our firm, or even if you're notit would be a good idea, with all the dangers of modern life. Better let me sell you an insurance policy for your house or your stock." "Oh, shut up!" I shouted. "If I had thought I was letting in a bunch like this, I would have slept on. I don't want anything you've got to sell. Even a teacher in Mount Ayr High can't buy stuff from every salesman. No, sir, Don Smith, I don't want to buy your book either. I don't want to make you fellows mad, but I get tired of being tormented by a peddler all the time." "Don't be so hard on them," said Arthur, "I'vw got stuff to sell, too, but I don't go and hunt folks up. I let them hunt me up. I'm running a hardware store in Des Moines, got some of our class helping me, too. Alice Wyler, step out here, please; ladies and gentlemen, behold my bookkeeper. Mary and Patti are my chief clerks. Changing the subject, though, where's Ferne Garard and Eva Wood? I thought they were here and now I don't see them.

"No." Georgia laughed. "You don't mean 'Garard and Wood?" Both girls were married the other day and are still too lovesick to stay away from their husbands. Dale, I hear you accepted a position in Des Moines West High. Congratulations. We'll still be together, for I'm going to teach music there next year; then I'll be married.

As they all crowded around to congratulate Georgia, I saw Minnie and with a glad shout brought her forth to find what she had been doing. Minnie was as quiet as usual and expect I will never would have found out but Ava volunteered the information that she had been hired to keep the new Carnegie Library. "I guess Fat's all that hasn't told his achievements, so I'll tell them for him. He is [a] cartoonist for the 'Des Moines Capital.'"

The fudge was gone, the hour was late and the crowd left. I couldn't grade papers after that, so I went to bed to dream about the jolliest class that ever went to Mount Ayr-The Class of 1916.

C. L. B. '16.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Staff for 1916 "Ayrian."

Editor in Chief		Clive Ketch.
Assistant Editor in Chief		Susie Timby.
Assistant Editor in Chief		Elma Dille.
Busines Manager		X. T. Prentis
Circulation Manager		Pauline Stephenson.
Assistant Circulation Manager		John Poor.
Athletic Editor, Boys		Frank Keating.
Athletic Editor, Girls		Ruth Flynn.
Joke Editor		Stella Wright.
Literary Editor		Irene Williams.
Music Editor		Reba Roberts.
Art Editor		Ruth Wooster.

Here's to the 1916 "Ayrian." May it be in every way a success and an honor to the dear old Mount Ayr High.

IT IS TO LAUGH

Isn't it funny that Harry S. would just love to go to the kindergarten again?

Belle Stranahan--"O, I just love Francis Ford."
Clarie R.--"I never was lucky."

     Wayne H.--"I guess Bell Sconce thinks I'm an upper classman?"
     Bro.--"How so?"
      W. H.--"I threw her a kiss and she said that all the first-class mail had personal delivery."

In Algebra--"Vera, why didn't you explain that equation?"
Vera W.--"I supposed that you knew that."

X. Prentis (After the Junior-Soph party.) "In 1813 Caesar marched into Russia with half a million men."

     Miss A.--"Harry dispose of your gum."
      Harry seems to be trying to tie himself into a double knot.
     Miss A.--"Did you hear? Dispose," etc.
     Harry--"I did. I swallowed it."

Miss R.--"Belle S. is going to quit school."
Miss O.--"Glory."

Freshie--"Say, Fat, what made you keep going up on the stage during the trial?"
Fat--(who hates to be laughed at by freshie) "I was practicing the hundred yard dash for the meet this spring."

     Miss R.--"Don, did you get that report?"
     Don--"No, I forgot it."
     Miss R.--"Well if you think that you are likely to forget it again come around to my room this evening after school and I'll tell you again so that you won't forget."

Mary B. in Virgil class.--

"As Dido and her sister weep

Ancas out the door did creep

But he is hindered by the fates

From making other golden dates."

In Latin class--Where the honey there the bee.--Correct.
Where there is sweetness there you may be stung.--Murice W.

Bea H.--"Cleta, you don't want to turn the boys down around here so much."
Cleta B.--"Well, who said I had?"

Mary had a little Drake

Most people called him "Quack,"

But every time she sent him home

He'd say, "I'm coming back."

John R. in Geom. class--"The sum of the exterior angles of a polygon made by producing each side in procession is equel to four right angles."

Iowa R.--"What did he say when he proposed?"
Cleta B.--"He said, 'Wilt thou be mine?' And I wilted."

BRIE SPEAKS

This world is dull;

It is not bright;

Because I never can

Get (W)right.

The joke editor may think

Till his thinker is sore,

But some one will say,

"Aw, I've heard that before."

NURSERY HYMNS

Little Miss Mary

Sat in the library

Chewing some Spearmint gum.

The Prof. stepped in

And said, "What a sin.

Oh what will the H. S. become?"

A dillar, a dollar,

A nine fifteen scholar;

What makes you so late to come?

"I'll tell you," said he,

"It's this way you see,"

My name is Charlie Simpson."

There was a young man named Fat,

Who one night went on a spree;

He went to a town twelve miles away

And didn't get home until three.

There is a young lady named Floy

Whose life will soon be filled with joy.

I'll tell you 'tis this,

It all will be Bliss,

That's the name of the dear little boy.

There is a tall lady named Harp,

To beat her you must look sharp,

She's so tall, oh, my,

She towers to the sky,

And she's very fond of the dark.

There was a young man named Brie

Who liked to hang around with Hick,

Until Ned go this car

And then, by gar,

He'd ride around until he was sick.

There was a young man named Ned

Who just before going to bed,

Ate very much of a cheese that was Dute'a,

And when he woke up he was dead.

There was a young lady names Bea

Who likes to go out on a spree.

She was with Whitey one night,

And didn't get a bite.

She was met at the door by daddy.

Sticky he liked German

And Harry Virgili;

But Fat don't like them either one,

So he takes Botony.

FAVORITE SONGS

     Harry S.--"My Little Queen."
     Elva H.--"Do It Now."
     Sticky.--"If I Only Had a Girl."
     Roe M.--" You Don't Know Nellie Like I Do."
     Brie.--"I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark."
     Ernest S.--"I'm In The (W)right House."
     Belle S.--"A Little Bit of Love."
     Ruby S.--"When I Dream of Old Erin."
     Maurice W.--"On My Ragtime Violin."
     Fat.--"The High Cost of Loving."

Mary B. -- "I don't know what I'll do when I get through school but I'm thinking of going to Drake."

Ernest S. -- "My motto is always for the (W) right."

Harry S. smokes at the mock trial with a result that he has a smoker's complexion for two days.

     Money wanted on:
           Shaves for Freshies.
          Bottle beauty for Ruth F.
          Curling irons for Patti R.

Anderson -- Latin horror preceded by Virgil
Aw -- Word used by freshies the first day.
Alcotts -- A band of fair ones.

Bang -- Sound made by a door when some one gets canned.
     Basket Ball -- Favorite sport of M. A. H. S.
      Basket (e. g., waste basket) -- Place for notes and chewing gum, sometimes used as a cage.
     Band -- A large noise.
     Bust -- Something secured by buttons -- Riley.

Crazy -- Sophomores.
     Cram -- Systematic review used by fussers.
     Case -- Something a senior gets the last six weeks.
     Crab -- Knocker, kicker, one who doesn't come to a basket ball game.

Darn -- A byword of junior girls. Copyrighted by Belle S.
Den (e. g., lion's) -- Prof.'s office.

Editor -- One who tears his hair to please the H. S. in general.
Exam -- See terrible.

Fusser -- One who fusses. A junior boy.
Fuss -- To quarrrel or vice versa.

Grades -- Something to strive for.
Grass -- Freshman family. Fussers' delight.

High -- Something very lofty and towering. Miss Harp.
Hasse's -- Back yard in east end. Very lovely on Friday and Sunday nights.

It -- Something everyone thinks they are.

Junk -- Anything not worth keeping -- whiskers.
Junto -- Organization of fiends.

Kill -- Word used at basket ball -- "Kill the referee."

Money -- Something seldom seen.
Mix-up -- Two fellows making a date with the same girl.

Nix -- Meaning no -- see stung.

Pep -- Short for pepper, manufactured by Pat.
Prof. -- A man of great renown.

Stung -- meaning 'not tonight."
Sticker -- One whom "stung' has no effect on -- Brie.

Terror -- Semester exams.
Think -- Not known to sophomores.

Vaudeville -- See Red, Pete or young Hick.

Yellow -- Smoker's complexion -- see Spurrier.
Yoodle -- Afternoon music class.

     He -- "Generally speaking, a woman is -----"
     She -- "Is waht?"
     He -- "Generally speaking."

Ode to the Lab.

Sing a song of angle worms,

A bottleful of bugs,

Rattlesnakes and jelly-fish,

And pickled things in jugs

When you cut them open

You'll soon begin to choke,

Outsiders think 'tis funny

But it isn't any joke.

Miss R. in Civics class when Prof. comes in with a rush -- "Alyce, please refrain from reciting until everybody becomes quiet."

1915 Ayrian Courtesy of Steve Duros, July of 2014

MOUNT AYR COMMUNITY SCHOOL