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From: "Paul & Jan Craft" <>
Subject: Fw: [IADECATU] 'A CENTURY OF MEMORIES OF VAN WERT, IOWA -- l880-l980'. (Part 13)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:35:22 -0700


I believe that this was sent to me by mistake.
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Wanda Myers
To: Paul & Jan Craft
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [IADECATU] 'A CENTURY OF MEMORIES OF VAN WERT, IOWA -- l880-l980'. (Part 13)


Can anyone give me any info on this Alma GArber Bridger of the 1911 list below?
Would appreciate anything.
Thank you, Wanda

Paul & Jan Craft <> wrote:
Hi all,
I have been sitting back and watching the results of this listing. It
has been great. I finally have two hits, however they are completely new to
me. I need help! Does anyone have any information on Zina Craft or Martha
Craft Hanks. I would love to hear about them.

Paul Craft in balmy Montana

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From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: [IADECATU] 'A CENTURY OF MEMORIES OF VAN WERT, IOWA -- l880-l980'.
(Part 13)


> 'A CENTURY OF MEMORIES'
> OF VAN WERT, IOWA
> l880 - l980
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> SCHOOLS (Continued)
>
> A few interesting details found in the school board minutes in the l920s:
>
> "Motion was made by Adams and seconded by Pierce, to pay teachers and it
is further agreed by both parties that if market prices of cattle and hogs
are $l.00 per hundred or higher at start of school, that teacher shall have
a raise of l0 percent on salary and in case prices drop the teachers agree
to a reduction of l0 percent.
>
> "Motion by Wing to employ Chas. Holt to dig well at school house, 50 cents
per hour dry digging and 75 cents per hour wet dirt digging."
>
> Teachers' salaries in the l920s and l930s were $65.00 to $90.00 a month.
>
> The Van Wert school was closed in September of l922 because of diphtheria.
>
> The board ordered a dozen turkish towels for the visiting athletics but
the home team had to furnish their own towels.
>
> In l922, the board states the cost for each child to be $l2.00 a year. In
l978 the state budget estimates the cost to be $l,6l4.00 per child per year.
>
> One of the many memories that will be remembered in the Van Wert school
will be Friday, March l3, l959. A full scale emergency hit Van Wert when
the majority of 2l0 pupils became ill. It was thought to be food poisoning
transmitted by deviled eggs.
> ---------------------------
>
> GRADUATION CLASSES
> * * *
>
> l893:
>
> R.W. Little, Harry Tuttle, Charles Hall.
>
> l904:
>
> Dora Barr Jenkins, Lucetta Matheny Gardinere, Earl Wise, Ethel King Blair,
Fannie Blair Lamoree, Roy Hawkins, O. Ray Young.
>
> 1905:
>
> Mabel Waters Simonds, Gordon Heather, Susie Tennant,
> Lulu Blades Luallen, Will, Elsie Hall Saylor.
>
> l907:
>
> Hazel Hawkins Hammer, Hazel Hall Barger, Poiteaux Halstead, Rose Lamoree.
>
> l908:
>
> Edd Kelley, Fay Myers, Emma Young Dunn, Cleveland Wolfe.
>
> l909:
>
> Leon Garber, Agnes Eliott Wolfe, Minnie Malhorn Young, Cornell Wis.
>
> 1910:
>
> Izora heather Neff, Eugene Branaun, Zina Craft, Inez Skidmore, John
Hoffman, Helen Blair Lamoree, Martin Boatman, Leon Boatman, Ralph Rumley.
>
> 1911:
>
> Laura Hacker Thompson, Vern McGrew, Alma Garber Bridger, Josephine Blair
McGee, Raymond Story, Clifford Johnson.
>
> l912:
>
> Ralph Lamoree, Walter King, Alpha Mulkey, Donald Price, Orbin Hanks, Beryl
Myers, Frank Rush, Forest Allen, Boalis Halstead McMorris.
>
> 1913:
>
> Martha Craft Hanks, Ruth Hacker Pocks, Clifford Barnes, Helen Rumley
Young, Merle Johnson, Clyde Johnson, May Irving Lamoree, Edmund Blair,
Lenore Price, Ada Ramsey Shutts.
>
> 1914:
>
> Florence Heather Halstead, Grace Keller Mannasmith, Helen Fierce Aiken,
Pearl West, Burbank Halstead.
>
> 1915:
>
> Violet Briner O'Hair, Neva Kelly Jamison
>
> 1917:
>
> Callie Johnson Schmidt, Loral Fierce, Earl Edwards.
>
> 1918:
>
> Cora Tepfer Adams, Atha Briner Gill, Mabel Tepeer Bedier.
>
> 1919:
>
> Vera Myers, Arthur Fierce, Ethel Bulkeley Leffler, Christi Lantz Mallatt,
Eula Kelly Siefkas, Lucielle Fierce Matthews.
>
> 1920:
>
> Marie Barnes Sandford, Ethel Webb Love.
>
> 1921:
>
> Nellie Hastings, Phillip Blair, Ruth Bulkeley Kelso.
>
> 1922:
>
> Ilene Hastings Pullman, Clara Davenport Ramsey, Mildred Pierce Brand,
Grace Webb Young, Edith Hall Euritt.
>
> 1923:
>
> Lorene Briner Sullivan, Willie Burgen, Darrell Bean, Twyla Johnson
Russell, Lloyd Bulkeley, Eddis Downey Allen, Margaret Redman Watson, Lillian
Houck Jones, Adrian Wilson Christensen.
>
> 1924:
>
> Illa Davis Woodall, Jennie Edge Wood, Keith Murray, Alice Wick, Floyd
Webb, Mildred Tepeer Leeper, Madge Redman Kernen, Willa Fisher Palmer.
>
> 1925:
>
> Fred Glascock, Ralph Sink, Gladys Holt Meyer, George Redman, Jennie Watson
Saffell, Olga Mallatt Glascock, James Curry, Wilden Tuttle, Emma Walker Hoy,
Arthur Adams, Orville Gardner, Myra Murray Burchett, Elizabeth Houck
Mallatt.
>
> 1926:
>
> Owen Bulkeley, Berdena Watson Bulkeley, Lila Saffell Little, Myron Blades,
Mildred Dougherty Paulson, Lowell Snider, John Haller, Lloyd Ramsey, Irma
Finkbone Halterman, Eva Sink Webb, Beulah Fierce Fear, Mendall Cole, Dorothy
Hall Byers, Laura Bell Saylor, Louis Fisher.
>
> 1927:
>
> Mildred Githens Turk, Naomi Fuller Wheeler, Vera Lee Gardner, Leona
Gardner Van Sant, Ruth Barnett Simmerman, Truman Burkey, Leone Poush, John
Schmidt.
>
> 1928:
>
> Esther Stearns Andrews, Louis Webb, Beryle Machlan, Ralph Finkbone, Dean
Prather, Doris Blair Harris, Beulah Redman Olson, Mary Stubbs Sayers, Mabel
Kelly Saddoris, Hazelle Baxter Greene, Charles Barton, Everett Saylor,
Louise Redman Perry, Naomi Bulkeley Howery, Mary M. Schmidt.
>
> 1929:
>
> Elmer Houck, Raymond Redman, Earl Murray, Harold Fuller, Arlene Cole
Holmes, Francis Githens, Paul Machlan, Pauline Rinard Houck, Marjorie Redman
Sturdavant.
>
> 1930:
>
> Ralph Houck, Richard Currie, Mamie Trisler Diehl, Florence Snyder Dickson,
Arthur Edge, Goldie Stark South, Harry Redman, Nadine Lantz Redman, Paul
Reeves, Paul Ramsey, Bruce Finkbone.
>
> To Be Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> Paged 63 - 73
> Contributed, Courtesy of Larry McElwee
> Dodge City, Kansas
>
>
>
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