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DECATUR
and Macon county lived over again their first
100 years of history in the mammoth celebration
held in July, 1929, to observe their centennial
anniversary as city and county. Depicting the
significant historical events of the century,
the celebration itself was outstanding in its
wide appeal, its realism, its gorgeousness.
Only the culmination of a century of progress
could bring about such a successful undertaking.
One day was not sufficient to celebrate the
occasion fittingly, and it was made a three-day
observance. July 7, 8 and 9 were the dates
on which the celebration took place.
Preparations for observing the centennial
were started by a committee of twenty-five men
and women, appointed by Mayor O. W. Smith,
Dec. 11, 1928, to represent three bodies, the
Macon County.
It was decided by this committee to organize
the Decatur and Macon County Centennial
association and to incorporate "for the purpose
of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the
organization of the city of Decatur and the
county of Macon, to perpetuate the history of
said city and county, and to finance the same."
One hundred residents of the city and county
were asked to become directors of the
association.
They were as follows:
J. M. Allen
Mrs. R. C. Augustine
Mrs. Inez J. Bender
Mrs. Eugenie M. Bacon
H. I. Baldwin
Judge James S. Baldwin
Grant Barnett
W. M. Bering
T. W. Boruff
Irving Bright
Mrs. G. H. Broughton
John Budde
Henry H. Bolz
Dr. W. F. Calhoun
Miss Lillie S. Chadsey
Laurens Cook
John H. Culver
Archer T. Davis
Raymond E. Denz
Carl Dick
Miss Minnie A. Dill
Mrs. W. E. Drennan
Dr. J. C. Ellis
I. A. Eyman
Mrs. Forrest File
Clyde Foster
Mrs. E. A. Gastman
H. C. Schaub
Mrs. John Schudel
Dr. R. Zink Sanders
H. A. Shettel
O. W. Smith
Anton Spaeth
P. H. Sproat |
H. S.
Gebhart
O. B. Gorin
H. R. Gregory
Mrs. Della P. Gushard
W. A. Hammer
W. F. Hardy
William Harris
Guy Harrison
M. L. Harry
G. L. Heinle
A. A. Hill
I. H. Hill
C. J. Hirsch
I. R. Holt
E. V. Huston
Beecher Hughey
G. F. Hess
Allen Jamison
I. D. Johnson
C. B. Knight
Carl Liebau
F. M. Lindsey
Dr. L. N. Lindsey
Clyde Lyon
Dr. S. E. McClelland
Judge J. H. McCoy
Horace W. McDavid
Mrs. J. E. Stafford
Marshall Stookey
Dan W. Tait
Dr. A. R. Taylor
Mrs. Jennie A. Thrift
Mrs. Alice Trierweiler
Alex Van Praag |
I. J.
McEvoy
W. R. McGaughey
I. J. Maloney
John Mattes
A. M. Metzler
Joseph Michl
Hubert Mills
W. D. Moffett
Mrs. J. D. Moore
Mrs. Ora L. Moore
Mrs. H. C. Mowry
Adolph Mueller
Mrs. George Neustadt
C. C. Nicholson
I. N. Orr
G. C. Outten
H. M. Owen
Mrs. E. L. Pegram
Dr. M. E. Penney
Edward Powers
H. L. Preston
Carl Pritchett
Miss Ella Race
Mrs. T. T. Roberts
Dr. M. E. Rose
Mrs. Cora B. Ryman
Frank E. Sawyer
Arthur Wait
Carl N. Weilepp
Harrison Williams
W. M. Wood
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Five classes of membership
were arranged for. They were honorary
memberships, $25 fee; active, $10; sustaining,
$5; high school, $1; grade school, 50 cents.
The Centennial Association
organized Feb. 25, 1929, by electing officers.
Later vice presidents were chosen. The
full board composed the executive committee, as
follows:
President - J. S.
Baldwin
First Vice President - Mrs. Cora B.
Ryman
Secretary - Mrs. Inez J. Bender
Treasurer - O. B. Gorin
Vice Presidents - T. W. Boruff,
membership; Mrs. Della P. Gushard,
memorial; William Harris,
program; G. L.
Heinle, finance; Frank E. Sawyer,
history and relics. |
Numerous sub-committees were
appointed and were soon busy at work.
Dates chosen for the celebration were July 7, 8
and 9, and Nelson park was sselected as the
place.
The program, as decided upon,
included union religious services, band concert,
parade and pageant, the last depicting
highlights of Macon county's history. The
pageant was written by W. F. Hardy.
Contract was made with the J. B. Rogers
Producing company to stage the pageant and F. P.
Gorman was sent here by that company to
direct it. His assistant was Lyle Davis,
and pianist was Miss Eloise Wismer.
Prizes were offered for a
celebration slogan. Dr. Wilbur P. Buck
of Moweaqua won the first prize, $5, for the
slogan selected. The slogan was "A Century
Young but Only Begun". Second prize, $2,
went to Clara Strong, Decatur, who
submitted "Old and Gray but Young an Gay"; third
prizes, $1 each, to Clara M. Mechtoldt of
Maroa, Mrs. R. C. Sleeter, Decatur, and
Donald Terneus, Decatur. The
slogans submitted by these three respectively
were "Macon, Make On", "Old in Experience, Young
in Opportunity", "Remember Our Beginning".
A prize of $25 was awarded
Ben Aiken for the Best Centennial poster.
Four weeks before the
celebration itself Decatur moved in an
atmosphere of "centennialism". Rehearsals for
the pageant, preparations for the parade,
addresses at various points over the county
about the celebration, letters of invitation,
newspaper stories, slides in theaters, display
of old relics, search for stage properties to
represent the days of a century ago, all these
and m9ore kept the celebration before the eyes
of the people. Cooperation prevailed
everywhere.
J. H. Hill, chairman
of the properties committee, scoured several
counties for things needed for the pageant.
Not the least in interest was
the exhibit of relics seen in various store
windows about the city. Antiques in farm
implements, guns, swords, household effects,
dresses, furniture, and other interesting relics
drew wide attention.
Streets and business houses
were elaborately decorated for the celebration.
Over one store, Block & Kuhl's, was hung what
was believed to be the largest flag in the
state. It contained more than 4,000 square
feet.
FIRST EVENT
Beneath a brilliant sky,
where clouds occasionally obscured the sun,
fourteen thousand people gathered on a hillside
just west of the bathing beach in Nelson park
for the first event of the centennial observance
Sunday afternoon, July 7, 1929. Six
thousand more, it was estimated, were there
before the evening's program was completed.
For the perfect setting, the
appropriateness of the program, the size of the
crowd, the amazing interest that permeated the
assemblage, the event was most impressive that
Decatur had seen in many years.
The Goodman band, Decatur's
oldest musical organization, opened the program
at 4:15 with a concert.
Community singing, led by
Harry E. Barber and Eldon Geiger,
followed the band concert.
Judge J. S. Baldwin,
before introducing the speakers of the evening,
briefly reviewed the formation and work of the
Decatur and Macon County Centennial association,
and commended the loyalty and efforts of the 100
directors, and particularly the members of the
executive committee.
Speakers for the union
religious services represented three religious
branches. Father Claude J. Pernin,
F. J., head of the English department of Loyola
university, Chicago, Ill., represented the
Catholic faith; Dr. F. W. Burnham, of
Indianapolis, president of United Christian
Missionary society of the Disciples of Christ,
spoke for the Protestant bodies, and Dr. Louis
L. Mann, rabbi of Sinai congregation, Chicago,
was the speaker representing the Jewish church.
Interspersing the addresses
given by these men were musical numbers by the
Y. M. C. A. Glee club, and the evening's
program closed with a group of spirituals sung
by a choir of seventy-five voices from the
colored churches of Decatur.
A microphone on the state and
two sets of amplifiers made it possible for the
big crowd to hear the program plainly, and the
flood lights, footlights and spotlights made
visible the movements of those on the state.
THE PARADE
From the stately beautiful to
the laugh-provoking burlesque ranged the sixty
floats which made up the gorgeous parade, the
big feature of the celebration on Tuesday
evening, July 9. Colorful in the extreme,
it was watched with intense interest by the
thousands who lined the streets in the business
section. Not only was it unusual in its
wealth of beauty, but in the multitude of ideas
carried out, ideas which depicted the 100 years
of history.
More than 1200 persons took
part in the parade. With the explosion of
a volley of rockets in Central park, the parade,
headed by Major W. Lutz Krigbaum and Dr.
John Hayes, started to move. The
parade passed north on Water street from Wood to
Cerro Gordo, east to North Main, south on Main
to Wood, disbanding there.
The largest float in the
parade, that of the Staley Company, was
29 feet long. It showed the wings of
progress drawing the chariot of Decatur.
The Centennials association's
float, known as the Queen's float, carried Miss
Decatur and Macon county seated on her throne,
with her eight attendants about her.
Green, pink and white were the colors of the
float.
One of the most unique floats
was that entered by the Illinois Power and Light
corporation. It showed a six passenger old
time mule car, driven by the oldest I.P.L.
employe, William Ryan; followed by a
modern bus.
Four modes of transportation
were depicted in the section of floats entered
by W. C. Starr, Inc. First was the
tepee-pole drag of 100 years ago, second the
covered wagon of seventy-five years ago, third a
model 38 overland car of twenty-five years ago,
and fourth a modern day automobile.
The only float from outside
Decatur was that of the Forsyth Sunday school,
which carried one of the long time residents of
the county, Mrs. Henrietta Mowry.
She has lived in the county since 1856.
About twenty girls were with her on the float.
Ten silver cups were awarded.
The winners were as follows:
Best
contribution to parade - W. C. Starr,
Inc.
Best fraternal organization turnout - I. O. O.
F.
Best float by manufacturing company - A. E.
Staley Mfg. Co.
Best float by retail store - First, William
Gushard company; second, Linn and
Scruggs store.
Best float by automobile or gasoline company -
Standard Oil Co.
Best float by railroad or utilities company -
Wabash Railway Co.
Best service club float - Rotary club.
Best unclassified float - Macon county.
Honorable mention - Mueller Mfg. Co., Decatur
Music shop, Decatur Dry Goods company, Kane
Engraving Co., H. S. Gebhart Co., Shell Oil Co.,
Illinois Power and Light Corporation, Decatur
and Macon county hospital.
THE PAGEANT
As a stage for the pageant a
platform 50 by 100 feet was built out over the
lake. This was at the foot of the hillside
which formed a natural amphitheater.
Reserved seats to the number of 2,000 were
provided, and the rest of the hill was available
to those who brought their own camp chairs or
cushions, or who stood. Stage scenery and
properties were appropriate. Green and
yellow predominated in the coloring.
At the back of the stage was
a rectangular opening through which the waters
of the lake could be seen. From the tops
of the wings shown colored lights and a red ball
topped the entire stage.
The historical pageant was
given twice, on Monday and Tuesday nights.
It was estimated that 25,000 people saw it the
first night, and 20,000 the second night.
The pageant was historically
realistic. Stage properties and costumes
were critically exact in their portrayal of the
period they represented.
First to enter was Miss Macon
county (Miss Mary Bishop), preceded by
her guard of honor and followed by her
attendants. Her address of welcome was
followed by the arrival of Miss Columbia (Miss
Emily Johnson), in gleaming white, with
silver diadem, accompanied by her forty-eight
states.
Father Time (Charles J.
Doyle) in flowing robes, delivered his
prophecy.
Then came the Dawn of
Creation, the birth of Sky, Land and Flowers,
depicted by dancers. They were followed by
an Indian camp life scene, in which the Indians
and white men met. Then came the pioneers,
who erected the first log cabin. The next
episode showed the first school, the primitive
backwoods hut of 1830.
"The Prairie Settlement" was
the next episode, portraying disagreements of
settlers over the location of court house.
Other scenes in this episode showed the arrival
of the contractor with a load of logs, the
whipping of two horse thieves, and "Jimmy"
Renshaw's tavern. An early day wedding
and the arrival of the Lincolns were
portrayed.
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SCENES AT MACON COUNTY CENTENNIAL
Presentation of a flag, made
by Decatur women, to Richard J. Oglesby's
company on its start to the Civil war, the
rejoicing at the close of the war, organization
of the G. A. R., the "vision of James Millikin"
when Decatur meets his conditions for the
founding of a college, a street scene the day
the Armistice was signed at teh close of the
World war, return of the troops from France,
were other points of history set forth.
A special scene of the time
the Decatur Musical Union flourished followed.
The second part of the
pageant was the Moasque of Nations, a mammoth
spectacle which symbolized the spirit and growth
of America. Character dancers from all
nations appeared, and the pageant concluded with
all 1500 participants in a wheel of progress
revolving about Miss Columbia, and at a signal
from the director, bursting into the patriotic
hymn, "America".
Thus closed Macon county's
greatest celebration.
The names of all taking part
in the pageant are as follows:
Abrams, Cecil
Abrams, Mrs. Lucy
Abrams, Thomas
Adams, J. A.
Adams, Katherine
Akin, Edna
Alexander, Bertie
Alexander, Mildred
Allen, Alice Jean
Allen, Mrs. Amelia
Allen, J. M.
Ames, Nellie
Amman, Mary Katherine
Asman, Marie
Asman, R. J.
Atkins, Jack
Auer, Emma
Augustine, Mrs. R. C.
Babcock, Lorraine
Badorek, F. O.
Bacon, Mrs. Eugenie M.
Baggett, Phyllis
Baker, Marie Gray
Baldwin, H. I.
Baldwin, Judge J. S.
Ballinger, Mrs. James H.
Ballenger, Mrs. R. R.
Barber, Harry C.
Barber, Harry E.
Barclay, Mrs. Pyrle
Barnett, Grant
Barnhart, Mrs. L. E.
Barrett, George W.
Barrett, Mrs. George W.
Bashore, Alvin D.
Bashore, A. H.
Bashore, Elbert C.
Bashore, E. G.
Bass, Mabel
Batchelder, Joy
Batson, Cecile
Baum, Prof. George
Baum, Mrs. G. C.
Baum, Lois
Baumgardner, F. M.
Baughman, Dorothy
Beall, Jean
Beal, Justin B.
Bean, Haldane
Basan, Viola
Beck, Mildred
Beem, William E.
Belden, J. F.
Bender, Troy N.
Bennett, Marian
Benton, Marion
Bergbower, Carl
Bering, W. M.
Bishop, Mary
Bissey, Mary Louise
Bissey, Morgan
Bissonett, Lelia
Black, D. B.
Black, Mrs. H.
Blankenburg, Wilma
Blauer, Chance
Blauer, Mrs. Chance
Blickenstaff, D.
Bloom, William J.
Bloweres, Wayne K.
Boland, Alice Virginia
Boland, Ina
Boles, Robert
Bolz, H. H.
Booker, E. M.
Boone, Helen
Boone, Mary
Borders, James W.
Boruff, T. W.
Botts, Eula
Botts, Marian
Botts, Robert
Bowden, Rachel
Bowman, Lucy
Bowman, Vernal
Boyer, Sergeant
Braden, Montizelle
Bradley, Fanny
Bradley, Hildred H.
Bradley, W. E.
Brecount, Mrs. G. S.
Brennan, Bernadine
Brennan, Edward
Brennan, Margaret
Brennan, Mary Agnes
Brennan, Wilamine
Brett, Mrs. D. E.
Brewster, O. P.
Briggs, Don S.
Bright, Irving
Brinkoetter, Betty
Brinkoetter, Constance
Brinkoetter, Florence
Britton, Ivy
Bromley, Lois
Black, Lois
Brooke, Fred
Broughton, Mrs. G. H.
Brown, Everett
Brown, Floyd H.
Brown, Frances
Brown, Gerald
Brown, John
Brown, John
Brown, Phyllis
Bryan, Warren E.
Buchanan, Roy
Buckley, Edith
Buckner, Edward
Budde, John
Buhr, Lulu
Bunker, Miss Fronie
Bupp, Majorie
Bupp, Marjorie
Burkart, Margaret
Burt, Joseph
Bush, Emil B.
Butler, Iva
Byers, W. P.
Caldwell, Alice
Call, Doris
Campbell, Helen
Campbell, Mary
Camron, Grace
Cameron, Junior
Cameron, Russell
Cameron, Mrs.
Cantrall, Mrs. Al. L.
Carder, George D.
Carey, Zoe
Carmack, Mrs. Fred
Carpenter, C. E.
Carson, Marvin G.
Carter, Mary Belle
Cassell, Leonard K.
Catlin, Eleanor
Catlin, E. R.
Cecil, Mary
Chadsey, Lillie S.
Chamberlain, Dorothy
Chamberlain, Mrs. Elizabeth G.
Chamberlain, Helen
Chambers, Zula
Chaney, James
Chaney, Sally
Check, Earl
Childers, Geraldine
Childs, George
Clark, Iva
Capron, J.
Clark, Martha
Clausen, Orval
Click, Glenn
Click, Glenn L.
Clifton, Audrey
Cloney, Flo
Coay, R. L.
Cole, Estella
Collett, Herbert
Collins, Beulah
Collins, C. H.
Collins, Edmund R.
Collins, Myrtle
Collins, Russel
Collins, William
Combs, Catherine
Conklin, Mrs. Vaden W.
Cook, Frank
Cook, George
Cook, Iva
Cook, Laurens
Cook, Lee
Cooper, Gerald
Cope, Elizabeth
Cornthwaite, Matilda
Cousins, Bert
Covalt, Jo
Cox, Rosemary
Crai, John S.
Cratsen, Lena
Crickman, Mrs. Caroline
Crossman, Margaret
Crum, Lucille
Culver, E. R.
Culver, John H.
Culver, J. H., Mrs.
Cummings, Lillian
Cummins, Nelson
Curtis, Sallie
Daggett, Martha L.
Danaby, Luella
Daut, Elizabeth
Daut, Henry
Davenport, Ed.
Davenport, Capt. O. E.
Davenport, W. A.
Davidson, L. A.
Davidson, L. A., Mrs.
Davidson, Dale
Davidson, Virginia
Davidson, Dr. W. P.
Davis, Archer T.
Davis, Hugh M.
Davis, Mrs. J. W.
Day, Joycelene
Day, Marcella
Deakins, Clarence
Deal, Virginia
Deck, J. L.
Deely, Mary Frances
Deister, Mrs. John
Denhart, L. H.
Dennis, Helen
Dennis, Lucy
Denz, Raymond E.
Desprea, Geraldine
Dewhirst, Mrs. Oscarine
Deyton, Berniece
Dick, Carl
Dickey, Dr. J. H.
Dickins, Oliver
Dickinson, Fayette
Dickinson, Virginia
Dicson, J. B.
Dickson, James B.
Diefenthaler, Elizabeth
Dietich, Lucy
Dilatush, Lida
Dill, Minnie A.
Dillow, Robert
Disney, Vivian
Doddek, Marie
Doolen, Margaret
Doran, Margaret
Doran, Mary
Doran, Mrs. P. J.
Downing, Mrs. David
Doyle, Charles J.
Drennan, Mrs. W. E.
Dudley, Mrs. F. J.
Duggan, Mrs. Clara
Duguid, John G.
Dumke, F. W.
Dumke, Mrs. F. W.
Duncan, Creta Jane
Duncan, S. R.
Duncan, W. E.
Duncan, Wilbur
Dunham, Henry
Dunn, Mrs. E. F.
Dunn, Thelma
Dunn, Wilma
Durbin, Maldean
Dyer, C. W.
Eckert, Matthias
Eddy, Rev. Al. L.
Edgecombe, Dora Maye
Edwards, Sylvester
Ehrman, S. W.
Eiserman, Edna
Ellegood, Virgil J.
Elliott, Don
Ellis, Dr. J. C.
Elslager, Hazel
Emerick, Charles
England, Mrs. C. E.
Evans, Everett
Evans, Mrs. Gene
Eyman, Mrs. A. H.
Eyman, J. A.
Fahnstock, Charles
Fairbanks, Myrtle
Faith, Margaret
Fesler, Manna
Fichtner, Max
File, Mrs. Forrest
File, Howard
Finley, Jacqueline
Finley, Betty
Finley, Marjory
Finson, Ruth
Flannigan, R. L.
Fletcher, A. D.
Flewelling, Rev. C. W.
Folrath, D. B.
Foran, E. F.
Foran, Mrs. Eugene
Foran, Loretta
Foster, Clyde
Foster, Dorothy
Foster, Herbert
Foster, Dr. O. F.
Foster, Mrs. O. F.
Foster, Roscoe
Foster, R. W.
Foster, William W.
France, Wellman L.
Frazier, Joe
Frede & Son
Freeman, Benjamin R.
Freman, Lola
Fulk, W. R.
Gadsey, Elizabeth
Gaeur, Mildred
Gardner, Helen
Garrett, Raleigh A.
Gastman, Mrs. E. A.
Gebhart, H. S.
Geidell, Mrs. A.
Geiger, Eldon
Gharrett, Edward J.
Gibson, L. H.
Gibson, Mary Alice
Giddell, Mrs. Alta
Gony, Mr. J.
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Gorin, J. P.
Gorin, O. B.
Gouker, George
Grady, T. C.
Grass, Albert
Grass, Marie
Graves, Mrs. N. M.
Greiser, Mrs. Rickie
Greer, Margaret
Griffin, Dr. J. J.
Grimmett, C. C.
Grubb, Mrs. John
Grubb, Lewis
Grubbs, William T.
Grunden, Edna
Gulick, Mrs. Julia
Gunter, John H.
Gushard, Mrs. Della P.
Hackley, Rev. R. H.
Hagen, Marjorie
Hale, George W.
Haley, Viola
Hall, Oliver
Hambrick, Sadie
Hamm, Joshua
Hammer, Mrs. Erma
Hammer, Harry
Hammer, W. A.
Hamilton, Ed.
Hamilton, Roy M.
Hampton, Agnes
Hanks, S. H.
Harbaugh, J. E.
Harbaugh, Mrs. J. E.
Hardy, W. F.
Harkness, Earnest V.
Harkness, E. V.
Harkness, Leslie G.
Harmon, Irene
Harris, Mrs. Roger B.
Harris, William
Harrison, Guy
Harry, Mrs. M. L.
Hart, Elsie
Hart, Harry E.
Hart, Mrs. J. E.
Hartman, Mrs. W. E.
Hartwig, Evelyn
Hastings, Betty Jane
Hastings, D. B.
Haupt, George
Hausbach, Ed.
Hawkins, Mrs. Lillie
Hays, Gladys
Hazelrigg, O.
Heckel, Mary Louise
Hegarty, Mary Virginia
Heinle, G. L.
Heitz, Al
Heitz, Mrs. Al
Henry, E. A.
Herald, The
Herbrig, John O.
Hess, G. F.
Hickeson, Frank H.
Hickman, Furman R.
Higgins, Louis
High, L. D.
High, Viola
Hilbrant, Helen
Hill, A. A.
Hill, Elda G.
Hill, J. H., P. M.
Hill, Minnie
Hill, Ruth
Hill, Vernie V.
Hinton, Florence
Hinton, Ines
Hinton, Lina
Hirsch, C. J.
Hitt, Esther
Hoffer, Frances
Hoffer, Mrs. Gertrude
Holler, F. F.
Holston, Minnie
Holt, J. R.
Hoots, A.
Hornback, Mrs. Jane
howard, Ethel
Hubbart, Paul
Hubbart, R. P.
Hudelson, Marjorie
Huddleston, Dorothea
Hudson, Albert
Huffman, Lucille
Hughey, Beecher
Humphrey, John C.
Humiston, Oliver P.
Hunt, Ambrosia
Hunt, Miss Patricia
Hunt, Mrs. Robert I.
Hursh, Betty
Hurtt, Helen
Huston, Effie
Huston, E. V.
Huston, Lawrence
Imboden, Mrs. B. A.
Imboden, E. P.
Ingram, Jennie
Ingram, C. W.
Ireland, Edith
Ishmael, Ethel
Jack, Mrs. T. B.
Jackson, Ethel
Jackson, Mattie
Jackson, Opal
Jamison, Allen R.
Javrin, Vivian
Jenkins, Grover
Johnson, Douglas
Johnson, Emily
Johnson, Eva
Johnson, Mrs. J. O.
Johnson, J. D.
Johnson, I. S.
Johnson, Leo T.
Johnson, Ruth
Johnson, Ruth
Johnston, John
Jones, Burton
Jones, Mrs. Lester
Jones, Marie
Jones, Mary
Jones, Pauline
Jones, Roy B.
Jones, W.
Jostes, Fred
Jourden, August
Jourdeen, Bert
Joynt, Everett E.
James Millikin University
Kater, June
Kaylor, Mrs. Mary
Kazmark, Mrs. Leah A.
Keck, Dorolos
Keck, Elizabeth Jane
Keifer, Carl E.
Kellington, Georgia
Kemp, F. B.
Kennedy, Ruth
Keplar, Betty
Kilman, J. N.
Kimble, Jesse A.
Kincaid, Robert D.
Kipner, Pearl
Kirby, Mrs. L. I.
Klinker, Mrs. J. J.
Klose, Irene
Knight, C. B.
Knight, S.
Knight, Sidney T.
Knorr, Fred
Knotts, Anna
Knotts, James
Kohlbecker, Janett
Koslofski, Pauline
Krigbaum Electric Co.
Krigbaum, Dan D.
Krigbaum, Lutz
Krigbaum, Mildred
Kruzan, A. J.
Kujawa, Dorothy
Kundiff, Melva
Kuy, Margaret
Kwasny, Elfreda
Lake, Mary Frances
Larrick, Russell
Larrick, W.
Lavery, G. A.
Leake, J. F.
Leake, J. F.
Leber, Miss Edna
Lebo, Alta
Lee, Attorney Chas.
Lee, Jessie
Lee, Mildred
Lehn, J. C.
Leupolt, George L.
Leonard, Dorothy
Leonard, L. H.
LeVeeh, Margaret
Lewis, Charles
Lewis, Kenneth
Lewis, Robert D.
Liebau, Carl
Lienhart, Mary Louise
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