Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 3

FRIDAY, Early Days Are Pictured toModern YoungMen'sBoard Seven Members Were All Directors, G. H. Smiley Says The Alton Y. 0. A.

when Its entire membership of seven com- nnwd its bowd of directors, Sun caah to keep even that small mstltutlon active was Just as dttfJ. cult to obtain as It Is now was pictured to member of the Young Men's Division Board of the Asso- Thursday evening by 1 George Ol tn orl lnal seven. had a small gymnalum, a tew baths, and a- reading room In he old building where the Hippodrome is now," he said. "Our meet- then were not for pleasure. We talked finances, finances almost all those early days the program consisted of a weekly gym class under "Buck" Roenlcke on the physl- education side, and encouragement from Dr.

Gibson, ear 17 minister here, to participate actively In their church on the religious side. The next step of the association vas Its removal to the Laura building third floor. There the first paid workers took up their tasks. It was there, too, that the state Y. M.

O. A once held Its convention, Inspiring the local association with the idea that Alton was large enough to support an organisation owning a modem building. Raising the first $25,000 after Robert Forbes had started the drive off by proposing seven men 11000 each, the association purchased the lot then occupied by the houses and stable of two brothers, and set to work on the building. Mr. Smiley was voted an honorary member of the board.

Harry Hall, chairman of tha religious committee of the board, reported the city-wide religious council, which eventually will be cow. posed of delegates from all churchss of the city, had held its first meeting and had drawn a general outline of Its organization. Read Telegraph Want Ads Dafly School Stammems ALTON EVENING TBLBORAPH ong Then Now Former Hopje for Hesitant of Speech is Forlorn One f. July 14 you stammer? Did km stutter? Did you have any Defect of speech? Well, the Dodge ciajrk stammering: school, where pedle leami ed. not to stammer, was the place tor you 30 yean ago.

But an open heating stove door and a sliding coal on a coll winter's night changed all that. Now the stammering school Is Just another one of the outstanding bits of fl Brighton's history upon which the villagers can look back With pride Its only material reminders a few papers and catalogues still In local residents' possession, a newspaper cut atfll possessed by a Ideal publication, and the remains a a basement that had been used for dump heap for years. The site might have Jlwen occupied by another building, the proposed new public librarj.lwhlch win mark a definite forward step in Brighton's modern histoiy, but the prospect of clearing It prevented and it will have to wait for something else. The building which (tood there was used originally as a hotel. Then the stammering school, said to be the most complete in the country, was- established there imd began sending out- Its catalogues, 10,000 at a time.

StodenU Tram AH According to those catalogues sent out to its prospective the school located here because "the high moral and social tone of the community" Had beneficial effects" while the "quiet walks and peaceful environment" put the pu- jil hi "working harmony with his task." One also learns from the catalogue that Brighton had "one of the eading high schools" in the country at that time while its religious advantages were "unsurpassed" in those days. Then, as now, the vil- GET IT AT OF Your Choice of any Blonde, Green, R.ed, Black and White or any color combination you choose. Regular $3.95 and $4.95 Values ALL WIDTHS New Summer All white Sandals, Straps, Pumps and Cut-Outs Regular $4.95 values. All All Widths to 9 AAA toC "well school embowered to luxuriant shade, and its waters were pure, abundant, and healthful while its owne was "inspiring." also had a record for healthfutoesa that was phenotninal, and its ''culture, refinement, and were known." students attending this came from all parts of this unr T. ome other countries, who bad sev- had no vaW lOCttJ choirs were vastly Improved their help.

Sings for His Bed. On one. occasion following the re which destroyed the building, fctudent who resided at a local hb- il for some time found himself locked out one night. On arousing "-landlord, he found himself un- to speak. The landlord, think- Wmself mistaken about some knocking, shut the window jn the young man again kftocfc- the landlord again opened the window and demanded to know who waft there.

The student knew that if he was ever to get to his room that night he would have to qo something, as he found it Impossible to speak. He resorted to singing his name to a popular tune. He was admitted and got' himself out of what might' have been an em- baratelng difficulty by his ability to The students roomed and boarded in the school for the sum of $3.50 a week, up. according to the location and furnishings of the room. The class-room was on the with 'ire Ml one ed second floor, and neighbors could hear the each day as they repeated the vowels in unison, very slowly, and in a sing song manner.

If a student was affected -very much when he -first attended the school, he was pat on "Silence" ahd not allowed to speak at all for a given number of days. If a student talked too much until he was able to do so correctly, he was also "silenced." These students seldom broke the rule that was so-difficult to obey. Methods Cat Quite a When carrying on a conversation, they would be retired to make the figure eight with their right hand in front of the body'arid were allowed to speak one syllable at each end of the figure or two syllables to each round of the hand. Strangers coming' to Brighton thought it was a strange sight to see people making these motions in front of themselves When they talked, but the Brighton people were accustomed to it, and took it as a matter of course. Mr.

and Mrs. Dodge and children lived in the school building and supervised the students at all times. The cold winter night, the building burned, was the most exciting in local history. fire in the living quarters of the Dodges had been banked the door left open. A live coal rolled Jhe floor and caused the fire.

Before the family awakened, the place was In flames. Coal a Year. An employe rooming on the third floor almost escape. The story is told that her.roptti was locked on the inside and it was with difficulty that she aroused. She climbed out on the coping that ran under the third floor windows and slid down the lightning rod to the ladder that was too.

reach the third floor. For a year following; the ruins ot the stammering school smouldered, as the cellar had been full of coal and it took that long to burn pletely, some time afterward, bricks were removed and since then it has been a dumping ground and the entire place has grown up to brush and Weeds, The school was never again started and the went to their homes or other schools of a like nature. Former Fosterite Dies Two Weeks After Her Husband July 14, (Special) For the second time in two weeks Henry Koch of the Humbert road received word of the death of a parent. His mother, Mrs. Minnie Maneke Koch, died Tuesday Just two weeks after her Koch; Mrs.

Koch was born and lived many years in Fosterburg and Godfrey. About 118 years ago the family left here, moving to Nebraska and later to Arlington, 8. D. Interment wag to, the cemetery beside the grave of her husband at Arlington. Besides her son, Henry, Mrs.

Koch Waves four brothers, John, George, Henry, and Frank Maneke, all of this vicinity; and one sister, I.Irs. William Berger, of near Bethalto. London's underground railways use more than 300 tons of tickets every year. CORNS doubli-ietlnff. I doubU-aeting trctt- pain in.

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