buildings. Twelve lots were purchased of G. W. Jones, located in the east part of the block bounded by Arbor, Center, Woodland and Burney

streets.

In the fall of that year was completed the two-story, four-room brick building on the south side of the village, at an expense of $8,000, and in the following spring was occupied. The building committee who had charge of this construction were George W. Jones, David Snyder, John Manning, Alex. Taylor, Manning Taylor, Dr. A. Carbine. At the regular school meeting of 1882 it was voted to grade the school. The board of trustees at that date were: Dr. Horace Carbine, H. M. Nottingham, Levi Burney, W. O. George, Dr. C. E. Davis, L. B. Des Voignes.

The principals, or superintendents, of the Marcellus graded school have been, R. T. Edwards, who published the first catalogue in 1882; George DeLong, Mr. Montgomery, J. W. Hazard, C. H. Knapp, Edmund Schoetzow, W. L. Taylor, Edmund Schoetzow, who, with the exception of two years, has served since the fall of 1891. C. H. Knapp, in 1887, got out a catalogue for a ten-grade course of study. When Mr. Schoetzow took charge, in 1891, he organized the full twelve grades and completed the regular high school curriculum.

The school was so crowded that in June, 1892, it was voted to bond the district for $2,500 to build a two-story addition, which was completed about January, 1893.

For 1906-7 the Board of Education are: Dr. C. E. Davis, president; E. M. Ketcham, treasurer; F. S. Hall, secretary; I. S. Smith, G. W. Kroll, trustees. Faculty: Edmund Schoetzow, superintendent; Grace Templeton, principal; Leone B. Dennis, assistant principal; Eva C. Ditzell, second grammar; Frances Volkmer, first grammar; Katherine Brennan, second primary; Inez Willard, first primary. Inez Willard is teaching her seventeenth year in the first primary room, having taught nine years the first time. The total number of graduates is 119. Of these 100 were under Edmund Schoetzow's administration.

MARCELLUS GRADUATES.

1889-Edwin Drury, Maude Bogert, Guy Keene.

1890-Julius Stern, Charles Giddings, Homer Kidney, Pearle An

derson.

son.

1891-Grace Arnold, Bertha M. Hartman, Margaret R. Hutchin

1893-Guy Snyder.

1894-Earle R. Clemens, Mae Manning, Belle Taylor, Enoch G. Bogert, John M. Alexander.

1895-Harriet L. Vincent, BeDee M. Poorman, Helen B. Munger, Grace E. Taylor, Jessie I. Mayhard.

1896-William C. Hartman, Edith L. Hall, Mabel A. Vincent, Parthenia M. Stillwell, Ola M. Nicholson, Charles R. Welcher, Maude M. Palmer, Mabel C. Easterbrook, Pearle E. Swift, *Barton C. Nottingham, Bert J. Vought.

1897-Roy E. Goodspeed, Mamie V. Sherman, Willard J. Gunter, Annis M. Mikel, Willard C. Davis, Eliza A. Reynolds.

1898-A. Florence Taylor, Tacie R. Udell, V. Maude Marr.

1899-Clyde Clemens, Vera M. Jones, Carolyne L. Stern, Margery

I. Kern, Florence McManigal, Burt L. Loveridge.

1900-Bertha Harris, Elma Mohney, Mary Remington, Susie Lutes, Georgia H. Hartman, L. Clare Poorman, Leroy S. Long, Nellie Batchelor, Earle J. Gould.

1901-Carl G. Fulton, Leona Kent, Irene Cropsey, Harry A. Bradford, Louella Apted, Clella E. Davis, Genevieve Mumford, Gay A. Webb, Merle Mack, Edna R. DeCou.

1902-Clair Smith, Sarah M. Hall, Frances C. Streeter, Mabel S. Long, Sarah E. Lutes, Lura Rosewarne, Jennie Lowry, Anna Bachelor, Mabel S. Fletcher, Lulu M. Franklin, Jennie Cleckner, Abby R. Munger, John H. Maxam.

1903-Neva F. Kent, Birdie Walker, Hattie R. Potter, Harry P. Jones, Albert J. Carpenter, Helen H. Stern, Ethel Apted, Hollister H. Savage, Deane E. Herbert, Daisy E. Lewis, Jennie M. Thompson.

1904-Rosa Hartshorn, Esther George, Mary Long. Alice Streeter, Beulah Potter, Clark Whitenight, Bessie Thurkow.

1905-Henriette George, Mary DeForest, Neva I. Arnold, Ethel M. Holliday, Emar Hice. Florence Stern, Vera Thurkow, Jessie M. East.

1906-Vaughn R. LaBarre, Jennie M. Spitler, Leona Mae Moxley (colored), Fanny M. Saulpaugh, Mildred I. Krise, Cleta Beatrice Kern, Sarah Orril Mack, Clarence A. Bradford, C. Blanche Waldron, Rena Hoisington, Grace M. Lewis, Kathryn B. Colburn, V. Kathryn Taylor, Verna B. Siegel.

VANDALIA PUBLIC SCHOOL.

The Vandalia Public School was graded by Jesse Borton, the principal, in 1873. Mr. Borton had been at the head of the school some time before and remained there until 1876. His successors have been: 1877-8 J. Handschue. 1879-89

Michael Pemberton.

* Killed in the Spanish-American war.

The school has graduated one hundred and nine students notwithstanding there were no graduating classes in 1884, 1886, 1896, 1899 and 1904, and the first class in 1883.

GRADUATES.

1883-Rose Bonine, Minnetta Thurston, Robert Coats, Florence Thomas, William Shillings, George D. Smith, Ella Carrier, Elroy Alexander.

1885-Ida Tinker, Fred Jefferson, Herman S. East, *Mattie Cross, Henry Lane, *Dena O'Dell.

ford.

1887-C. H. Bonine, Erma Faulkner, Eva O'Dell, William Oxen

1888-Samuel Stephens, Clare Pemberton, Leroy E. Deal, G. E. Campbell, Bertha Bonine.

1889-Edna Fellows, Charles Wetherbee, Frank Lewis, J'Net O'Dell, John Setzler, *Edith Roys, Loren Miller.

1890-Pearl Bump, J. C. Faulkner, M. Lena Lynch, Carrie Kirk, Minnie Lambert, *Cora Thomas.

1891-Frank E. Faulkener, *Charity Mulrine, Earl Merritt, Ralph

Bogue.

1892-*Eva Jefferson, Bertha Arnold, Mary Seager.

1893-Frank Blood, Nellie Royer, Cora Arnold, Blanche Simpson, Lola Thurston, Iva Cussans, Clara Whited.

1894-Ella Symons, Nellie Kirk, Ada Phillips, Guy Van Antwerp. Charles Setzler, Bernice McKinney, Myrta Shillings, Mary Smith, Albert Roys, Ethel Orr, Margaret Pemberton, Cora Royer, Odessa Seager, William Setzler.

1895-Belle Lynch, Meda Weikle, Etta Train, Mary Skinner, Hannah Bogue.

1897-Leona Hollister, Ethel Deal, Blanche McCabe, John Simpson, Verna Royer.

1898-Minnie Wilson, Vesta Lewis, Hattie Mealoy, Clarence Faulkner, Edna Barnum.

Resigned.

1900-Glennie Heslet, Flora Hollister, Ruby M. Johnston, Anna Setzler, Vera Lynch, Marie Denison, Mabel Honeyman.

1901-Blanche Wiltse, Arlie Bonine, Blanche Denison, LuVada

Copely.

1902-Leon Alexander, Ward A. Bump, Florence Doan, Wayne Beardsley, Mabel A. Bonine.

1903-Clara Seidl, Fancheon Lewis, *P. Jay Freer, Carl Johnson, G. Belle Freer.

1905-Sadie Bonine, Clara Bonine, Mabel Curtis, Deva Brickell, Floyd Keller.

1896—Georgiana Longsduff, Onear Fisher, Reta Van Antwerp,

Burt Pullin.

The faculty for 1906 and '07: John Myron, principal; Mrs. Mae Dunning and Miss Ruby M. Johnston, assistants; Miss Minnie Wilson, intermediate; Miss Mabel Bonine, primary.

* Deceased.

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CHAPTER XVII.

LIBRARIES.

LADIES' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF CASSOPOLIS.

In October, 1870, an organization under the name of "Cassopolis Reading Room and Library Association" was effected, and the following February incorporated with the following named incorporators: W. W. Peck, W. P. Bennett, C. S. Wheaton, J. T. Stevens, A. Garwood, A. B. Morley, A. Maginnis, H. Norton, O. Rudd, M. L. Howell, John Tietsort, J. M. Shepard, L. H. Glover, J. B. Boyd. The declared objects of the organization were, "the establishment and maintenance of a library and reading room; the procuring and furnishing of lectures. on literary and scientific subjects; and the affording of such other means of literary, scientific and intellectual improvement as the association by its by-laws may provide." The public reading room feature of the organization was kept up less than a year, but the library has been maintained to the present time, and contains about fifteen hundred volumes of choice fiction, history and travels, sheltered in the Pioneer Room of the Court House.

A few of the ladies of Cassopolis have managed the library since. the discontinuance of the reading room, and September 5th, 1905, new articles of incorporation were executed by the following women, who were made directors under the new organization-Ladies' Library Association of Cassopolis: May S. Armstrong, Lucy E. Smith, Allie M. Des Voignes, Addie S. Tietsort, Hattie J. Holland, Maryette H. Glover, Sarah B. Price.

Its officers are:

Sarah B. Price, President; Maryette H. Glover, Secretary; Addie S. Tietsort, Treasurer.

Article VII of the articles of association is as follows: The officers shall be women twenty-one years of age and residents of Cassopolis, and members of the association. Any person paying the membership fee provided for in the by-laws may become a member.

The membership fee is one dollar, and the further fee of seventyfive cents each year after the first year. This payment authorizes the