Macedonia women's group before 1904

Another Ebay find.  There's no date on it but one of the women listed as Miss was married in 1904.  I'm thinking this is some kind of women's group meeting; maybe a church group.
I got the photo because it had my Great-Grandmother Esta in it (Thank you to whoever wrote the names on the back of it) and then discovered that the woman next to her was HER mother, my great-great grandmother Elizabeth Lewis nee Schenck.

This was written on the back:

In doorway-- Mrs. Morgan McClelland

1st Row:
Mrs. Nellie Koehler
Miss Emma Pierce
Mrs. Hattie Koehler
Mrs. Vint Watson (Josephine)
Mrs. Stella Miles

2nd Row:
Mrs. Nannie Braden nee Rayburn
Miss Hattie Boruff (Bradshaw)
Miss Mae Aggson (Rainbow)
Miss Jessie Garner (Robinson)
Mrs. Loma Wilson
Mrs. Burk Lane
Mrs. John Woodburn

3rd Row:
Mrs. William Lewis (Elizabeth)
Mrs. Ora Miller (Esta)
Mrs. Anna (Lewis) Pilling
Mrs. May Woodmansee
Miss Lizzie Morgan
Mrs. F. M. Ashley

Autographs part 2

Autographs part 1

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 47 & 48

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 45 & 46

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 43 & 44

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 41 & 42

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 40

                                     We have a senior by the name of Pearle,
                                     Who is just a good natured sort of girl.
                                              She don't go with boys,
                                              Don't like their noise,
                                     Says she'll leave the nuts for the squirrels.

                                     Miss Whistler says she's nobody's fool,
                                     And teaches her pupils the Golden Rule,
                                              And often says whom spoken to:
                                              "You're just kiddin', aren't you?"
                                     But more often she says:  "Stay after school."

                                     Our professor's name is Cox
                                     Is office door he Lox
                                             He never is short
                                             Is a very good sport
                                     And would be on old 'Donia his Sox.

                                     One of our teacher's name is Carrie,
                                     She urges little boys not to Tarrie,
                                              Teaches Latin, you know,
                                              And English al-so,
                                     Both subjects some students would bury.

                                     Guido is a steppin' fool,
                                     And the biggest talker in the pool:
                                             He would walk a mile
                                             To get just a smile,
                                     From a very short girl in our school.

                                                                     40.

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 39

1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 38

                                                   We have a young girl named Fern Hooker,
                                                   Who wonders why the boys never took'er.
                                                             She wears a cute smile
                                                             As she goes up the aisle,
                                                    And they say she's not such a bad Looker.

                                                   One of our teacher's named Ray,
                                                   He likes the girls both night and day.
                                                            He wears a gray suit
                                                            And blushes so cute,
                                                   And drives a Ford to Omahay.

                                                   We know a lassie named Plumb
                                                   Who surely is not a Bumb.
                                                            A Dutch she likes,
                                                            At others she bites,
                                                    But we're sure she's not so Dumb.

                                                    Marie was once seen riding in a Star,
                                                    Which is only the name for the make of a car,
                                                                   She plays basketball
                                                                   That fast 'nuff for all,
                                                    And helps roll up the score quite far.

                                                    We have a senior whose name is Maxine,
                                                    Who's disposition is not very mean,
                                                                  We have to exclaim,
                                                                  She sure can declaim.
                                                     With boys she seldom is seen.

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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 37

                                                    There's a Soph, whose name is Walker
                                                     A husky fellow, not a Balker;
                                                             He once ran a mile,
                                                            Finished with a smile,
                                                     Now he's getting to be quite a talker.

                                                     We have a boy whose name is Fred.
                                                      A boy whom girls do not dread ;
                                                               He plays the bass drum
                                                               And basketball some,-
                                                      And he once got a bump on the head.


                                                                      JOKES
                             Mr. Cox:  "Curley, where were you the seventh period yesterday?"
                             Curley:     "I beat it."
                             Mr. Cox:  "Well, beat it now and don't come back without an excuse."

                             Fern:         "Latin is a snap."
                             Walter:      "It may be, but I can't snap it."
                             Mr. Cox:    (in general assembly)  "Now, folks, we have a great deal before us."

                             Dale:         "I wonder what makes me so short."
                             Lola:         "Because you are always getting called down."

                             Marion:     "Did you ever kiss a girl under a mistletoe?"
                             Fred:         "No, but  I've kissed a lot of them under the nose."

                             Marion:     "This wire don't shock me a bit."
                             Fern:          "It doesn't?  I would like to shock you once."

                             Mr. Cox:     (in Physics lab)   This is a good electric light bulb and this is one  is
                                                 burned out.   I will break the old one so you can see how it's made.
                                                 (He carefully breaks the old one.)

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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 36

 

                                                               THE POET'S (?) CORNER

                                                 There was a young man named Walter,
                                                  Who couldn't be lead with a halter,
                                                               But it was said by some,
                                                               If you gave him a plum,
                                                 You would never know him to falter.


                                                  There was a senior named Babbitt,
                                                   In school he had an awful bad habit,
                                                               He'd sit and smile
                                                               Plumb cros't the aisle,
                                                   As timid and soft as a Rabbitt.

                                                    There's also a senior named "Green,"
                                                    Knock-kneed, bow-legged and lean,
                                                                But never the less,
                                                                We've got to confess,
                                                    In basketball he's very keen.

                                                    We have a girl called "Joe,"
                                                     Who, in Latin is all the "Goe,"
                                                                Though she is quite short,
                                                                 She's a very good sport,
                                                     The rest we'll never "Noe."

                            Stanley: "I wonder how the girl's team gets clean after a game?"
                            Guido:  "That's easy!  They have a scrub team."

                            Mr. Cox (In Assembly):  Now, folks, we have a great deal before us
                                                                     this morning.

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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 35

                   The first money was obtained through a division of the funds belonging to the township,
            upon amicable terms, by which the independent district received twenty-one percent,
            amounting to $1,847.60.
                   In this division, O. P. Mace, J. W. Griffis and Willoughby Dye represented the township
            while S. D. Lane, Sylvester Dye and T. J. Young the first school board, Looked after the
            interests of the independent district.
                   With this fund on hand and prospects for the future in sight, following the desires of the
            people, the board proceeded to purchase the present school grounds at a cost of  $375, and
            the construction of the building which is now called the grade building at the contract
            price of $5,100 was begun.   Quite an undertaking at the time, considering that it was
            necessary to maintain a school during the time.
                   Like all the other patriotic communities, it was the first effort of the people to provide
            means for educating the youth, that they might grow up to be beneficial to the community
            in which they might live, and good citizens of the state.  With commendable zeal, the Board
            of Education has always worked to maintain the standing of our school equal to other like
            schools of the state.
                   The first regular commencement exercises were held in 1893, when Armanis Patton
            and Lillian Ashley passed out regularly from the school and were given certificates as
            having completed the complement of study.
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                                                  THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

                   The present Consolidated District was formed in1917 and work on the present high
            school building was rushed, but it was not ready to use until about the first of January, 1918.
            Consolidation did not affect the size of the high school so much as it did the grades.  The
            school now employs twelve teachers including the Superintendent.   It is regularly approved
            by the State Department of Public Instruction as a four year high school.

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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 34

                         The pupils in this first school were: -  Frank Shinn, Ephraim Baker, Cyrus Burkholder, 
          Louisa Tuttle, James Agler, John Agler, Charles Price, Louisa Price, Warner Losh, Emerson Losh
          Cynthia Losh, George Shinn and Andrew Shinn.

                         Rev. A. T. Shinn, a Methodist minister preached the first Gentile sermon in the
           Graybill cabin in April 1858 to a full house.

                         At this time the Macedonia Township and Kane Township were the only two
           organized townships in the county.  The west line of Macedonia Township took in Silver
           Creek and Washington Townships.  The first election was held in the old mill.  Seventy
           votes were cast coming from Loon's Grove (Avoca), Big Grove (Oakland), Rhode Island
            Ridge (Waveland and Washington Twps.), Wheeler's Grove and Taylor's Station and
           Button's Settlement on Silver Creek.  Those townships in all occupied twenty-four square
           miles.

                        In 1879 the Rock Island and Burlington Railroads were surveyed and on July 4th,
            188? the first train came to Carson.
                        The town of Macedonia was soon moved from "Old Town" to the railroad and
            grew to its present population of three hundred seventy four, more or less, in a few years.
                         EDITOR'S NOTE:  -   This sketch is as nearly as possible in the words of Mr.
            Shinn as he told it to representatives of the Senior Class of 1926 in February 1926. 
            Errors in the spelling of names or other unimportant details may have crept in to the
             narrative, but we believe that it is in the main authentic.



                                         HISTORY OF MACEDONIA HIGH SCHOOL
                                                              By J. M. Kelly
                                                   (Taken from the 1906 Annual)

                       The history of the Macedonia High School may properly date from 1882, when the
                territory now comprising the Independent District of Macedonia was carved out of the
                township district and started to do business "on its own hook."

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1926 Macedonia High School Memory Book page 33

                             
                        A millwright named Hauze came from Gardens Grove and with the help of the settlers he cleared the timber and built a mill.  Stutzman sent to St. Louis for the burrs.  This mill was always known as "Stutzman's Mill."
                         It cost the people here twenty-five cents to send a letter to the Eastern part of the United  States.  Mail for them came up the Missouri river by steamboat to Knoxville    (Council  Bluffs) and was left at Stutzman's store until a neighbor would bring it out.
                          There people held regular meetings.  Elder Calvin A. Beebe was the minister.  His first sermon was on this text,  "There is a cry from Macedonia, come over and help us."  After this
first sermon a petition was prepared and sent to Washington, D. C., asking for a post office to be
established.   At this time the people gave the settlement the name of Macedonia.  The post office was established in 1849 and C. A. Beebe was the first postmaster.
                         The first sttlers chose land which had on it plenty of timber or water power or both. 
When the government survey was completed in 1851 and the land was formally thrown open by the government in 1853, Tuttle filed a claim for the land on which the mill stood and Stutzman filed on the eighty acres north of him.  It is supposed that Graybill deeded his original claim to the water rights to Stutzman.
                         The settlers from 1853 to 1858 included Wm. Hinman, mcClure Hinman, W.W. Wilson,
Ezra Baker, A. T. Shinn, Wm. Price, J.Z. Losh, John Agler, T.J. Ring, George Cotton, Peter Frain and
Charles Burkholder.
                          The first school election was held in 1858 and the following directors were chosen:
A. T. Shinn, President, Ezra Baker and Charles Burkholder.  Jas. B. Rue was the County Superintendant
of Schools and Joe Lyman was the first teacher.  The log cabin built by Graybill was used for a school house.  Mr. Lyman was paid twenty dollars a month and "boarded 'round."
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HISTORY OF MACEDONIA

 

                                                                          BY FRANK SHINN

                              In 1846, two years after the assassination of Joe Smith, the Prophet, father of
     the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, with several hundred members of his church in Navoo,
     Illinois, crossed the Mississippi river in the spring and started westward.
                              Several stopped at Garden's Grove in Dayton County and several stopped at
     what is now called Macedonia.  They stayed for some time at the place called Old Macedonia.
     Four of the elders of the Mormons died and were buried on what is now the Clyde Scott farm.
     Brigham Young continued and stopped at a place he named Weeping Water. late. Florence,
     north of Omaha.
                              The next spring, 1847, Levi Graybill discovered the stone and the fall of the water in the river at Old Macedonia, while camped near the river.  After going on to Knoxville,
(now Council Bluffs) he left his people and came back to the  Nishnabotna river and posted a squatters notice at the waterfall in the river and then took eighty acres of land that was covered with heavy
timber.  Here he built the first log cabin on half mile south of the main street of the present
Macedonia and moved in his family.
                             Calvin A. Beebe, a Mormon elder was the next settler.   Next came Joe Smith
(grandfather of Henry Smith), then came John Weiniger and John Mowry.  All these came in 1847.
                              Thomas J. Ring came from Gardens Grove in 1848 with three yoke of oxen and
settled between Macedonia and Carson.
                               Levi Graybill sold his squatter's claim to J. B. Stutzman of Council Bluffs.  To
hold such a claim it had to be occupied so Mr. Stutzman sent Luther Tuttle, who had just married
a Miss Wilmot, to live on the Graybill place for him.
                               At this time the people who had settled here had to drive a hundred miles south
into Missouri to get their grain ground into flour.  They wanted a mill nearer so the persuaded
Stutzman to build a mill on the Nishnabotna River.     

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RADIO CLUB

                               BACK ROW:  Taylor, Stemple, Mr. Fall, Walker, Forristall, Ginger
                               SECOND ROW:   Babbitt, a bird house, Noel
                               FRONT ROW:    Dye, Bolton, Plumb, Shuck, Braden

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                                                                 CAMP FIRE GIRLS
                                President, Marie Carley                       Secretary, Fern Hooker
                                                    Treasurer, Vola Hendrix
                    
                                The Camp Fire Girls meet twice a week with their guardian, Miss Whistler.
                      The Camp Fire was organized in September, 1925, with six members and now
                      there are nine.
                                 The girls have these aims:  to give service, to be happy, to be trustworthy,
                       to seek beauty, to hold on to health and to pursue knowledge.
                                 Some of the work the girls have done this year:    knitted sweaters for the
                       Red Cross, made baskets, gave a program before the high school assembly, sold
                       candy, popcorn and "hot dogs" at basketball games.



                                                                RADIO CLUB
                                  The Radio Club is under the direction of Mr. Fall and has twelve members.
                       The club meets twice a week in the Manual Training Shop.
                                  Some of the things the boys have made are:  two radio sets, one bird house,
                       "horses" for scats at basketball games,  advanced work in furniture building, corn
                        judging and testing.

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CAMP FIRE GIRLS

                               BACK ROW:  Long, Boruff, Hendrix, Babbitt, Carley, Plumb, Bisbee
                               FRONT ROW:  Casson, Miss Whistler, Hooker

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LITERARY SOCIETY

                               Officers                                                          Program Committee
      President . . . Ruby Casson                                                             Harry Braden
      Vice-pres . . . Lucille Miller                                                           Lucille Miller
      Sec-Treas. . . Eva Plumb                                                                Thelma DeBolt


          The Literary Society was organized in 1921 under the direction of Miss Lucille Dye.  Miss Carrie Wikoff has been it sponsor for the past two years.
          The purpose of this society is three-fold;  as members, we believe we are working for improvement in literary culture, advancement in parliamentary practice and for growing ability in the art of public speaking.
          The Literary Society has given several programs before the combined high school and junior high school assembly.  These programs have consisted of readings, one act plays and musical numbers and have been of practical benefit to the members who have taken part and have helped to liven up our general assembly period by providing interesting and worthwhile entertainment for all.  To Miss Wikoff belongs the credit for much of the good work this organization has done in the past two years.
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