Front cover: This above all: To thine own self be true; And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.--Shakespeare.
Inside front cover: Labor is life!-'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Rest not content in thy darkness,-a clod! Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; Labor!-all labor is noble and holy; Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.--Frances Scott Osgood.
Inside the program:
Bring Back My School Days to Me
When beautiful school days are over
And grown men and
women are we,
Tho' gone, we will think of them ever--
O, bring back my
school days to me!
We long for our playmates of childhood
Who played with us
day after day,
And little we dreamt how we loved them
Until they had gone
far away.
O, beautiful, beautiful school days--
O, could your sweet
mem'ry remain,
Thro' all of our pleasures and sorrows,
And bring back our
school days again!
From original school booklet that was the property of my Mother, Velma Leona Pevler Harr.
Transcribed by: Debbie Champion e-mail d.champion@mchsi.com April 2000.
The Riverside School was 5 miles west and 2 miles north of Vernon, in the NE corner of Section 16, Township 1S, Range 45W on land owned by G.W. Blacker. In 1917, school was held in a sod building that had been built about 1910 to replace the original 1892 school "soddy." In 1922, the sod building was replaced with a two room frame building that housed the school until it was closed in the 1952 school consolidations.
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