The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, September 7, 1905 School commenced Monday and the following class in the thirteenth grade (numbered according to shoe factory schedule) no doubt gathered up their broken slates and miscellaneous collection of second hand school books and public documents and enrolled: D.S. WRIGHT AL KING DAVID FLUKE WILLIS ADAMS J.A.J. BENTLEY M.V. ADAMS HARRY LEWIS LOTT CURTIS WESLEY WALTON JAS. WYLAND DANIEL HOUSEHOLDER J.G. STROUD JOSEPH BEST -- and several other boys who have spent the summer in hunting bird nests and drowning out ground squirrels. School will furnish excellent exercise for them after the summer spent in climbing trees and limping over stone bruises. The Leader hopes to see them graduate with honors and a hurrah by the time June apples are ripe next spring. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert August 31, 2004 *Hmm. all boys in their 'thirteenth' year?ha.