MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA

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Source: The Muscatine Journal and News Tribune May 19, 1923, page 2
Submitted by Phyllis Hazen, February 9, 2020

LARGEST RURAL CLASS IN HISTORY TO GET DIPLOMAS

NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED BY NUMBER OF GRADUATES
131 FINISH 8TH GRADE

Second Biggest Group Of 5 Years Ago Saw But 99 Members –
Exercises At West Liberty May 24

No. 1. Lake, Miss Eva Mayer, teacher: Ralph Minder, David J. Sywassink.
No. 3. Lake, Miss Harriet Flint, teacher: Vera Baldwin, Marie Borgstedt, Gertrude Houser.
No. 7. Lake, Miss Naomi Garrett, teacher: Donald G. Sander.
No. 4. Moscow, Miss Anna Yarbrough, teacher: Louise A. Brown.
No. 7. Moscow, Mrs. Verne Miller, teacher: Elva May Barkalow, Mable Novella Wiese, Myril Wiese.
Moscow Independent, Miss Margaret busier, teacher: Nola White.
No. 1. Sweetland, Miss Anna O’Keafe, teacher: Leslie Edwin Bird, Floyd Dusenberry, Violet Charlotte Koeppee, Harry Lloyd Meeker, Lorena Violet Ricketts, Ernest Monroe Ross, Madge Wainscott, Ernest Edwin Wedekind.
No. 2. Sweetland, Miss Beulah LeFever, teacher: Faith M. Stamler, Paul Stamler.
No. 3. Sweetland, Mrs. M. Martin, teacher; Orville George Grete.
No. 4. Sweetland, Miss Nola Henzle, teacher: Daniel L. Brei, Edward Dusenberry, William McCloskey, Myrtle TeStrake, Gertrude Ella TeStrake.
No. 5. Sweetland, Miss Mary Raub, teacher: Earl E. Strunk.
No. 6. Sweetland, Miss Rena Atwill, teacher: Edith Bernice Bermel, Dorothy Fuhlman, Eva M. Hetzler.
No. 7. Sweetland, Miss Venice Sleichter, teacher: Fred Francis Halling, George Vernon Halling, Florence Margaret Sauer.
No. 8. Sweetland, Miss Fern Criger, teacher: Alice Chatfield, Wayne Albert Eckhardt, Earl W. Meerdink.
No. 1. Cedar, Miss Verla Garrett, teacher: Nellie Underwood.
No. 2. Cedar, Mrs. C. Brumwell, teacher: Marjorie A. Boyd, Florence Brookhart, Mable Jeanette Uhr, Marvin J. Uhr.
No. 3. Cedar, Mrs. Ida McColm, teacher: Rilla Fry, Howard Marcus Fry, Lillian May Hafner, Elsie Mann, Ralph Warren Meeker, Leota Agnes Shaffer, Viola M. Shellabarger, Lorena Teeter.
No. 1. Orono, Mrs. M. Main, teacher: Claire E. Hamilton. Frances Evelyn Hankins, Melba Maurine Main.
No. 2. Orono, Mrs. A. Ingraham, teacher: Edna Irene Brady, Robert George Brown, Barton Lloyd Coffin, Oral Fay Gay, Edgar C. Johnson, Erma Mae Maxwell, Lorena Maxwell, Myrtle Marie Pope, Myrvin Adelbert Pope, Aleta Singleton, Mary Winifred Swails, Helen Marie Van Horn, Vaughn Walford, Gordon w. Stone.
No. 4. Goshen, Mrs. Vera Oepping, teacher: Levi H. Small, Claire A. Wright.
No. 5, Goshen, Miss Elsie Toyne, teacher: Vada Marie Corriell, Hershel Flater, Hubert O. Hepker, John Robert Jarvis.
No. 6. Goshen, Miss Helen Barrie, teacher: Lloyd Deahr.
No. 1. Bloomington, M. K. Mills, teacher: Rallin E. Gertenbach, Gertrude Reed.
No. 2. Bloomington, H. M. Vore, teacher: Clifford Ray Dallas, Ralph Edwin Leu.
No. 3. Bloomington, Miss Lucille Lamar, teacher: Mable Josephine Smith, Lloyd C. Waters, Lillian Wiggers.
No. 4. Bloomington, Miss Mildred Zimmerman, teacher: Irene Edith Walker.
No. 5. Bloomington, Miss Garnet McGrew, teacher: Leola Adell Bridge.
No. 6. Bloomington, Miss Beulah Miller, teacher: Lucille Hintermeister.
No. 2. Wapsinonoc, Miss Edith Birkett, teacher: Gladys P. Elder, Edward Ryan.
No. 4. Wapsinonoc, Miss Enez Reach, teacher: Odrian Wilson.
No. 1. Pike, Miss Nina Quimby, teacher: Ernest Jennings, Burton Alvin Mills, Averith Jennings Thompson.
No. 2. Pike, Miss Marie Babbitt, teacher: Francis Mitchell Elder, Nellie A. Hasseltine, Geneva Lorber, Marguerite Lorber.
No. 8. Pike, Miss Ethel Chown, teacher: Ella Rathjen, Adeline Rathjen.
No. 2. Montpelier, Miss Nellie Ryan, teacher: Mabel Mildred Franklin, Tille Mabel Geest, Dorothy Mae Petersen, Dale Thomas Petersen.
No. 7. Fruitland, Miss Frances Cross, teacher: Ralph Leonard Essex.
No. 8. Fruitland, Miss Marguerite Bartenhagen, teacher: George August Schoultz.
No. 10. Fruitland, Miss Della Jones, teacher: Lemoyne Kemp.
Atalissa. R. O. Roberts, teacher: Virgil O. Arnold, Floyd Coss, Dale Thomas Ellsworth, Miss Ethel Baker, teacher. Merle Devore, Edward Garvin, Masie Marie Lowenberg, Cecil McFadden, Lyell Robert McFadden, Margaret Robertson, Leota H. Staley.
Pleasant Prairie Consolidated. Miss Hazel Walter, teacher: William Burton: Miss Celeste Cronin, teacher, Earl R. Schroeder: Miss Inez Cross, teacher, Helen M. Secrist: Miss Rosa Derby, Teacher, alma Koeppe, Vernon Stigers: Miss Grace Crocker, teacher, Maude Katherine Thomsen.
Stockton consolidated, Melvin Toyne, teacher: Ferrine Colberg, Lawrence Irwin Dittmer, Virna D. Duge, Verrona K. Geertz, Dorothy Huettman, Bertha Krebs.
No. 2. Seventy-Six, Miss Hazel Thompson, teacher: James Furlong.
No. 5. Seventy-Six, Mrs. M. Hitchcock, teacher: Everett Sidney Hoffmeyer.
No. 4. Wilton, Miss Thelma Trautman, teacher: Carl Herr, Leona D. Kook, Anna C. Ovesen.
No. 8. Wilton, Miss Cora Beard, teacher: Harry McNeal.

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