The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-01
HUndfeds.Of Ksnosha High School
Graduates Attend Biennial
Reunion Saturday
PAY TRIBUTE. TO TIE DEAD
Smiles and Tears are Mingled When
Former Students Get Together
ana Recall the Happy Days az
of School Life

And oh, fills my heart with joN to
meet4ny friends once more"
The people of5IIenosha opened their
homes and their hearts Saturday
TO receive the old students and
teachers of the Kenosha High
School who returned to the city
to attend the biennial reunion
of Che Kenosha High School Associa-
tion held at the High School in the af-
ternoon. and from all measures it was the
most successful gathering ever held by
the association. Fully four hundred
members Of the Association sat down
at the banquet at one O'Clock and
among theelarge number Of guests were
representatives OF every class since the
opening Of the famous old Kenosha
Free School. The attendance of what
the members of the association term
cold Timers" was larger than in
former years and big delegations came
to the city from Chicago on the morn
inc and afternoon trains. The delega-
zion from Chicago alone consisted of
more than hundred people and it is
estimated that there were at least 200
out Of town guests present at the re-
union.
The returning school boys and girls
were given q cordial welcome by the
people of the city and score of auto
mobiles were in service taking the visi-
tors sfor rides. about the city. Many at
tending the reunion had not been In
Faenosha in more than twenty years
mud they nanveled at the great growth
thescaty has shown. During the morning
hours there meEe many happy reunions
nf Tie old time classes in the various
rooms az fHe high school and Che ne,
turaiial gsstEi5Aents fingered long over The
great gDopps of pictures Of the 9ormez
sbudeSts lung IN the assembly soOm.
The AQur between twelve and one
o'clock was Eesersed for an informal
reunion and nearly all OF the guests
had arrived I'm Cine Fo cake part in
this reunieu4 Nig d.
The banquet Eas served at one
O'Clock I'M 8he5afiditofittn ofSthe High
school and tho decorations pf1thei greai
hall wore s8eeed1ngl Elaborate, The
walls were dung WITH fagss and ban
nors and The co1orsap9 Sthe class OF
1909, white and gold5 weressgiven the
place Of, honor in the decorations. All
the long tables which completely filled
the room covers were laid for 4oC
guests. The tables were deliberately
decorated with ferns and flowers while
great bouquets Of peohies and feur-de
lis added colon To the scene.
Among the members of the Associa
zion from out of town present at the
reunion were' Mrs. George G.. Greene
Mrs. s. d. Hastings and Mrs. Jessie
Mitchell Harris and daughter of Green
Bay; J. B. Pomeroy, Dixon, Ill; Judge
and Mrs. Vischer v. Barnes, of Zion
City; Mrs. Mary Mitchell Lewis, Ra.
cine; Mrs. Flora Parish Tobin, Mrs
Susie Veazie Wakeman, Mrs. Hattie
E. Bradley and Hiram II. Bradley, OF
Oak Park; Mrs. Nellie French Brooks
of Lowell, Mass; Mrs. Nellie Barter
Shove of Minneapolis; Mrs. Emily R
Wills, Charles w. Voltz of Brooklyn
New York; Mrs. Elizabeth Vinegar
Taylor of Boston; James H. Windsor OF
Clinton, Iowa; Mrs. Mary d. Bradford
of DLenomonie; Judge Elery Cole
Great Bend, Kas.; B. H. Stocker OF
Salem; Mrs. Leila Stocker Runkel
Burlington; Mrs. Jessie johnson Ly
mans Kansas City; Francis Curtis, Salt
Lake City; Miss Margaret Wenk OF
Oberlin, Ohio; Hiram T. Lay of Ke
waunee, ILL.,; Mr.. and Mrs. Fillmore
Starkweather of Evanston; Mrs. Har
riet Northway Burgess of Bristol; G
G. Curtis, st. Louis; Mr.. and Mrs
HI. II. Marcusson of LAGRANGE, ILL.,;
Mrs. j. A. Gonzales of Grand Rapids
Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. Milton E. Robin
son of Lake Bluff; Louis T. Rahr
GAINESVILLE; Mrs. Louisa X. Theirs, Mrs
Charles Quarles, Mrs. j. V. Quarles
MSs. j. Nv. Quarles, Jr., Mrs. John G
McMynn .and Ben Curtis of Milwau
kee; Col. and Mrs. Dennis J. Hynes
Mrs. Jessie White Russell, Judge ant
Mrs Georgey1W Warvelle and daughter
DR.. and Mrs. "A. II. Farr and daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Deming, Mr.. ant
Mrs. H. Birney Briggs, Mrs. Thomasin,
Hall Becker, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert M
Thiers. Mr.. and Mrs. John Winslow
Mrs. Stewart, Horace G. Cole, Mrs
Lilly Burgess Lewis, The Rev. Samue
J. Vinegar, Mrs. Rebecca Jones Ap
DIegate, Miss Julia Mcintyre, Mrs
Celia English Bailey, Miss Ella Stan
ton, Mrs. Minnie Won Worries, all o
Chicago; Mrs. John w. Merrill of Kan
sas City; O. d. Winsor of Lyons, Wis.
Miss S. Edith Brown of Madison; c
I. Yule Of Oshkosh and Frank c. Yul
Of Chicago.
Before the large number of guest
sat down to the banquet they unite
ii singing the familiar old song FEHom
Agar" under the leadership Of Fill
more StarkWeather of Evanston ate