In 1921 five students graduated from the Morris High School. Their commencement invitations were a nice little booklet bound with a length of leather thong. The invitation is pretty small. The bottom picture compares it to a dollar bill.
The class motto was a clever combination of words and a musical score. Decoded it reads
Never be flat
Sometime be sharp
But always be natural.
The graduates were:
Maurice J. Harris
Florence E. Carleton
Gertrude. M. Osborne
Rena A. Hinman
Alethea L. Miller
1947 Morris Fair photo by John Gould, shared by his daughter Kitty Myers.
On FB people wrote:
Another photo by my father, John Gould. I think it's late 1940s; the license plate on the car in the lower most left corner says 1947. This looks like a display at the Morris Fair.
John Pickens Yes that's the fairground
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Rose Elliott
?Kevin J. Dragulski shared this on Morris, NY - Historically speaking
Hargrave Lake from my great Great grandmother Grace Ferris Moore's (1858-1915) perspective. Painted by her in Morris in 1883. Her father Thomas was a furniture/picture frame maker in Chicago's early days. This is one of his frames.
Alexandra Stocker set off a great discussion when she shared this 1906 postcard shown above.
Sleuthing challenge. Whose initials do you think the letter writer's belong to?
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Janet Pegg Borchardt
Janet Pegg Borchardt it was such a pretty church.....
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Rennie M Elliott
