SCHOOL RECORDS:  Public School Souvenir, 1907, Elk Creek Public School
District # 5, Springbrook Township, Dunn Co., WI

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Souvenir 1907 (on front)  There is a small picture (probably the teacher)
inside page 1;  In Memory of days spent together in the schoolroom this 
token is presented with the compliments of YOUR TEACHER.
 
Elk Creek Public School District No. 5
Spring Brook Twp., Dunn Co., Wis.

EDITH OLSON, Teacher

Pupils

Agnes Cartwright                George Ausman
Mabel Ausman                    Helen Stallman  
Edna Ausman                     Laura Goetz 
Irvin Jessel                    Anna Goetz
Chester Langdell                Blanche Langdell
Earl Stallman                   Esther Garton
Harry Cartwright                Tom Schannon
Lewis Jessel                    Cora Haag
Roy Smith                       Harold Langdell
Edgar Langdell                  Jay Smith
Ralph Smith                     Edwin Goetz
Claude Garton                   Willie Ausman
Andrew Garton                   Ruth Langdell
George Stalman                  Verona Haag
Chester Kline                   Merle Stalman
Willie Bushendorf               Melvina Bushendorf
Nicholas Mousel                 Sylvester Haag
 
School Board
S. C. Langdell - - - - Clerk
J. F. Ausman - - - - Director
A. Stallman - - - - - Treas.
 
The Close of School 
The school is out!  The school is out
Proclaim they one and all;
The school is out!  The merry shout
Resounds from room and hall.
And bustling here and there they go,
A joyous happy band;
With hearts and faces all aglow,
They take each others hand.
And gently murmer out "Adieu!"
With many wishes twined,
That life may in their pathways strew
Her flow'rs of sweetest kind
The school is out; To some perchance
'Tis out for evermore;
And they must now take up the lance,
And ply the lab'ring oar.
And in life's ever warring field,
The real life begin,
And panoplied with wisdom's shield
Their spurs deserve and win.
To others school days are not done
And time with lore unrolled
Has just with them his school begun,
His treasures to unfold.
The school is out and now we part,
And go our sev'ral ways,
To mingle in lifes busy mart,
And spend vacation days.
But let us all remember well
The lessons we've been taught,
Let's let our lives their impress tell,
And live them as we ought
The school house will be revered,
And to our mem'ries cling,
The chart by which our bark was steered
When life was in its spring.
And teachers who the twigs inclined,
And taught them how to grow.
Oh dear their mem'ries are enshrined
In days of long ago.
O Wisdom! sweet is thy address,
Thy wooings never cease,
Thy ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all thy paths are peace
Thrice happy they who at thy fount,
Drink from thy crystal springs.
As eagles they shall upward mount,
Above all lowly things.
 
The time has come to say farewell
For now our term is through.
To sound our present school days knell
And bid you all adieu.