the Board entered into contract for the erection of a new fourroom house, to be built on the old grounds, for three thusand dollars. The members of this Board were C. A. Vore, John A. Wertz, John Gohn, Nathaniel Blough, William Callahan and Joseph Boltz--the last two having been appointed to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of David J. Horner and Jacob Roberts, two Directors who opposed the new building. The population still increased, and the next year four rooms were used. By 1888 five rooms were put in use, and the sixth was about to be employed, when in 1891, the new district of Dale Borough was created, which reduced the school population of Walnut Grove to such an extent that three rooms gave sufficient accommodation. However in 1906 the number had again been increased to six."

The Johnstown High School Alumni besides the graduates also enrolls among its members all those who passed through the public school prior to 1882, and completed their common school education. The Alumni meets every June with as much pride as if it were that of a University, and some of the most interested Alumni have passed the half century mark. Below are the graduates.

1882. Mary Cooper, Lizzie C. Barnes, Anna Kratzer, Mary Layton, Sue M. Morley, J. Louise Müller and Mame Walters. 7.

1883. William B. Campbell, Dwight Roberts, Huldah M. Boyer, Jesse E. Cover, Cora Cramer, Anna S. Faulkner, Lizzie Jones, Maud C. Litzinger. 8.

1884. Milly M. Beale, Mary C. Canan, Margaret K. Higson, Laura C. Hamilton, Winnie Jones, Annie E. Keim, Clara A. Seigh. 7.

1885. Bertha T. Caldwell, Emma K. Fisher, Susan R. Metzgar, Mary V. Walter. 4.

1886. Charles C. Greer, John W. Gocher, Charles M. Lemmon, Arvilla Barnes, Jennie R. Beale, Mary R. Beale, Lucy Mainhart, Jessie A. Tommins, Cora M. Wagoner, L. Grace Young. 10.

1887. Abram P. Bates, Clayton Keim, James E. Kress, George C. Muller, Grace Griffith, Cora B. Green, Annie Harris, Belle M. Rutledge, Mary P. White, Minnie von Lunen. 10. 1888. Emma Tredennick.

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1889. Harry B. Mainhart, Minnie R. Bingham, S. Blanche Duncan, Lizzie Griffith, Lizzie C. Wagoner, Florence Vickroy. 6.

1890. Henry M. Jones, Daniel L. Parsons, Agnes B. Caldwell, C. Bertha Carrell, Annie M. Kuntz, Ora B. Louther, M. Virginia Menoher, Mary L. Opperman. 8.

1891. George Gocher, Minnie M. Crofford, M. Edith Coleman, Sarah Harris, Claudia Jones, Lillian E. Longshore, Anna

E. McMillen, Forest Rose, Rebecca A. Sheerer, Margaret B. Wood, Carrie Walters, Lulu Waugh and Bertha M. Walls. 13.

1892. Norman H. Humphreys, John H. Walker, Sydney Chilcoat, Margaret M. Hoerle, Minerva Phillips, Ella Fritz Roberts and Lizzie R. Taylor. 7.

1893. George S. Fockler, Jacob L. Horner, Edward H. Kress, Robert E. Warden, Myrtle E. Waugh, Ivy Walters and Myrtle Walters. 7.

1894. Emlyn Jones, F. R. G. Schill, Nellie Arthur, Lily Caddy, Edith Cohen, Ella Caddy, Mabel Kennedy, Katharine Louther, Lou Mainhart, Agnes C. Murphy, Ada McGuire and Anna W. Mellinger. 12.

1895. Agnes Boyle, Bertha Decker, Jennie Hoerle, Annie Horner, Watson Horner, Abbie Jones, Lyda Keller, Harry H. Phillips, Blanche Shallenberger, Lily Snedden, Eleanor G. Stewart, Ida Witt and Wesley Young. 13.

1896. Anna C. Baumer, Susan Franke, Frank Geer, Margaret Lohr, Ada Noble, D. M. Paul, Susan T. Samuel and Bertha Warden. 8.

1897. Hiram H. Harris, Charles Moses, William Owens, Samuel Rinebolt, Karl F. Stremel, Emma Baumer, Annie Caddy, Marion Fearl, Dora Hertzberger, Elva Horner, Alberta Porter, Effie Rodgers, Blanche Smith, Susanna Rosensteel, Gertrude Hannan, Anna McGarvey, Ethel Wilkinson, Ernestine Goldstein, Myra Ferner, and Collins M. Swan. 20.

1898. Webster Blough, Louis D. Dibert, Bert Lawrence, Ella Carthew, Margaret Gocher, Ella Levergood, Mary McDermott, Anna Strauss, and Mame Suppes. 9.

1899. Edna Katherine Fearl, Celia Schonfield, Ross Dalbey Brenizer, George Osborne Suppes, Frank Bostert, Ida Rankin Campbell, Harry Francis Confer, Sarah Agnes Confer, Cora Gertrude Cox, Marion Dibert, Wesley Rose Ellis, Elsie Edna Ellwood, Florence M. Govier, Cecilia Tait Hoerle, Clara Katherine Markle, Nora Grace Mickley, Clara Leah Murphy, Jennie Truscott Peters. 18.

1900. Francis B. Hamilton, John F. Henderson, Robert A. Judy, Jacob F. Kramer, Carl E. Resley, Merrill Baker, Eva B. Blauch, Edith C'onser, Rena Cohen, Carrie B. Dick, Caroline Edwards, Lyda Fearnley, Elfrieda Krieger, Carolyn Kugel, Pluma Longshore, Margaret E. McLain, Blanche K. McMillen, Katie Stroup, Elizabeth T. Watkins, Grace V. Dresser. 20.

1901. William Kennedy, Arthur Turner, Cleveland James, Elsie D. Canan, Bertha Lowman, Josephine Tittle, Carrie M. Porter, Anna M. Dunham, Margaret Suppes, Anna Dibert, Elizabeth Dibert, Laura Stewart, Gertrude Patton, Ethel Richardson, Edith Rosenthal, Maud Menoher, Lillie Pender, Ora Weimer, Maude Alwine, and Elsie Wilson. 20.

1902. Albert Lloyd Adams, J. Milton Ashton, Edward F. Entwisle, Charles Elliott Hays, Robert Isaac Hays, Roy Leigh

ton Lowman, Albert M. Stenger, Randall M. White, Mary Effie Beckley, Rufus Stutzman Blauch, Bessie Madge Caldwell, Susan Elizabeth Crouse, Vincent Alphonsus Day, Grace Fearl, Jessie Viola Hamer, Esther James Harris, Jessie Henderson, George Ludwig Kress, Anthony W. Krueger, Ada Pearl Miller, Rosa Belle Miller, Mary Elizabeth Murray, Carolyn Schoenfeld, Percy Barclay Storey, Norma Lenora Strauss, Cora Naomi Stroup, Annie Rose Young, John J. O. Confer, Bertha Davis, Jessie Helsel, Clara Krueger, and Ruth M. Vickroy. 32.

1903. Elda A. Ankeny, Jessie Bee, Mary Bowman, Kathryn Boyle, Zenaida Caddy, Floy Cameron, Jessie Canan, Jessie Cooper, Blanche Dunham, Maude Dunham, Lulu Drebes, Angie Dawson, Sara Louise Edwards, Martha Viola Ellenberger, Florence Gocher, Bertha Harris, Lillie Harris, Genevieve James, Vera Miller, Olive Otto, J. Earl Ogle, Jr., Jessie Smith, Frank Clark, Robert Gardner, Frank Horan, Horace Reighart, H. Leroy Replogle, Lloyd S. Sell, Robert A. Shryock, Philip Price, and Edward H. Zimmerman. 31.

1904. Ephraim Alwine, Carrie Alwine, Florence. Berkey, Hilda G. Berkey, Russell Blauch, Myra I. Bowman, Freda Brixner, Ernest Cohoe, Herbert Dibert, Cora Ellis, Edna Farley, Marcia Forsythe, Harry Hager, Robert Hoerle, Vivian Hohmann, Tillie Kline, Frank Krieger, Mary R. Lowman, Agnes McHugh, Nellie Masters, Edith Mellinger, Alta Peden, Bertha Price, Curtis Rinebolt, Anna Ripple, Earl Sorber, Blanche St. Clair, Freda Schubert, Naomi Swank, Robert Sagerson, Francis Schramn, Margaret Trent, Anna Vinton and Ada O. Wertz. 34.

1905. Clara T. Suppes, Loretto F. Day, Linda W. Briber, Lucy E. Moses, Ella C. Bauers, Ralph W. Bolsinger, James K. Boyd, Jr., Ralph A. Butler, Almira F. Confer, Katharine M. Endsley, Mary A. Fearl, Frieda E. Goebert, Edward F. Hoerle, Merle K. Horner, Ethel L. Jones, Norman F. Kieffer, Kinter K. Koontz, Rose Lape, Annie S. Leibold, Clinton D. Lindsey, Goldie B. Mardis, Charles E. Martin, Nora E. Miller, Ethel G. Pinder, Latshaw L. Porch, Mary N. Price, Mary G. Quinn, Roy J. Reese, Emma M. Riale, Anna M. Risch, Davis U. Rothstein, Florence F. Schoenfeld, Jessie M. Shomo, Frederick G. Smith, George F. Stammler, H. W. Storey, Jr., Sarah A. Stroup, Katherine I. Temple, Frank R. Weaver, Olive V. Weaver, Daisy M. Young and Sara F. Young. 42.

1906. L. Frank Aaron, Ross M. Ashcom, Dean S. Ashton, Marian A. Benford, Maude S. Boyer, Helen Brubaker, Thomas H. Caddy, Jr., James B. Cooper, Maude E. Countryman, Frank K. Dailey, William S. Elder, Robert M. Entwisle, Florence F. Fearl, Rhonwen E. Ferner, Roy Galbreath, Robert E. Gipe, William E. Grove, William F. Grunizer, Freda P. Haller, Mary Harris, Quince Jones, Elizabeth B. Kennedy. Mary H. Krueger, Clara C. Kugel, Charles W. Kunkle, Ella A. Lotz, Frank G. Mardis, Langdon Marx, Arthur Miltenberger, Thomas J.

Noakes, Rose H. O'Connell, Edith E. Owens, Herbert R. Replogle, Emma S. Sheeler, Tillie M. Smith, Conrad T. Suppes, Elizabeth Swank, Clara B. Thomas and Bess W. Wakefield. 39.

1907. Edna Louise Bauers, Jane Kern Barnett, Todd Dresser Cochran, Lucy Florence Cohoe, Emma Irene Confer, Mable Robinson Davis, Veronica Courtney Day, Eben Louis Edwards, Emil Henry Frank, Walter Homer Friedline, Royal L. Harshberger, Frank Daniel Hoerle, Helen Perry James, Daniel Jones, Fritz W. Krebs, Shelby Lee Kring, Harriet Gertrude Lake, Cora Estrella Lane, Lillie Leibold, Roy L. Leventry, John Vernon Lindsey, Helen Dill Lowman, Myrtle Esther Ludwick, John A. Luker, Carl Henry Mattern, Eva Richar's Morris, Lewis Rees Owen, Meta Paul, Thomas Fenn Pinder, Isabel Brachbill Price. Samuel Rabinowitz, David Griffith Rees, Louise Aldisa Rhine, Lydia Marion Richards, D. Geraldine Rodgers, Susan Bingham Rodgers, Owen Webster Saylor, Mary Katherine Schubert, Florence May Sloan, Douglass D. Storey, Gwen Marie Stroup, Newton Daniel Swank, Mary Elizabeth Vinton, Chalmer Monroe Wisegarver, Francis Wolle, Edna Alberta Yost. 46.

THE JOHNSTOWN LITERARY ASSOCIATION.

On April 8, 1850, about twenty young men met in the obscure schoolhouse, which is stated as "standing on the banks of the Little Conemaugh river, at the east end of the Walnut street bridge." to organize this association. Among the founders were James M. Swank, John P. Linton, A. J. Hite and Emanuel J. Pershing. The Association used this room with its old broken benches for about four months, when it made efforts to get the modern school building then standing on Water street in Kernville. At that time this school was in the control of the director: of Conemaugh township, who would not agree that the town boys should have it. So in August of that year the headquarters of the Association were moved to the little brick schoolhouse on the "schoolhouse green," which was the northwest corner of Carr and Market streets. The Association was prosperous, and many exciting discussions were held in the "little brick."

In October of that same year it again moved to the "Island Hall," which had been formerly used by the Odd Fellows, and was now independent of the school directors and controlled its own rooms, and as one member stated it, "emulation was our effort to improve and adorn it." The book-case was filled with good books, suitable furniture was placed there and the floor carpeted.

But in April, 1851, the Association located itself on the

third floor of the Tribune building, then on Main street, near Franklin. There its stay was quite prolonged, but in 1855 it changed once more, this time occupying the second floor of Conrad Suppes' "towering brick building," as Mr. A. J. Hite records it. This building was the Hulbert House destroyed in the flood and which when erected in 1854-55, was the first fourstory brick in the county. The Association was now quite progressive, its "library had 150 volumes and thirty chairs.'

April 3, 1857, the seventh annual anniversary of the Association was celebrated by removing its rooms to the Sons of Temperance Hall on Railroad street, and having a splendid programme of music, oratory and essays, in which many invited guests participated. At this stage of its existence membership was not limited to young men and many young ladies were enrolled. The anniversary meeting was an open one, and the first in the history of the association, although it had been the custom to celebrate the Fourth of July, with patriotic music, toasts, speeches, and feasting. These meetings were the social events of the time. Its members were among the leading men and women of the locality, some of whom were, Cornelia Harlan Vickroy, who married Edward Crueger; Margaret E. Kern; Susan Linton, who became Mrs. John H. Clark; Annie E. Gayton, married Joe H. Gadd; Sara Atlee Vickroy; Sarah E. Harbison, who married a nephew of Gov. Ritner; Virginia Roberts; Hortense Kooken; Lucy H. Roberts, whose husband was Powell Stackhouse; Mary Ely; Kate Young, intermarried with C. C. Smith; Mary M. Swank, who became the wife of William Turner; Jennie Snedden, who married Thomas Jones; Mary E. Shaffer-Jones; and Ellen Quinn. The Rev. B. L. Agnew, Gen. James Potts, John P. Linton, Abraham Kopelin, Henry Ely, George S. King, Sr., and George S. King, Jr., a nephew; Dr. W. W. Walters, David Lamb, John Lamb, James N. Rea, M. P. Rindlaub, who lately was publishing a newspaper in Wisconsin; Alpheus H. Sembower, Emanuel J. Pershing, S. B. McCormick, Samuel Horton, Thomas Myers, Thomas Vickroy, A. L. Guss, Jeremiah Marbourg, William Murphy, A. S. Prosser, James Irvin Steel, James Hartzell, George T. Swank, J. D. McConnell, G. M. Swank, P. C. Bolsinger, B. F. Bolsinger, D. S. Bolsinger, Joseph Edson and Henry A. McPike.

The discipline was exemplary as we find Mr. Myers fined for leaving the room without permission, and others, including