Winners of the Crescent-News Diamond Contest - December 29, 1908

It certainly was a race to follow as the women of Defiance County vied for prizes of diamond rings and watches given out by the Crescent-News.  All they had to do was garner votes from family and friends.  Voting ballots appeared in the newspaper every day.  If they wanted extra points, any new subscriptions to the paper gave them that.

Over $500 worth of prizes was offered by the Crescent to the top vote-getters.
The overall winner was Miss Edith Kopp of Defiance with 178,949 votes.  Miss Goldie Rethmel gained 131,000, Miss Tena Wilsberg of Washington Street, Defiance had 127,542 and Miss Della Kyle, Hicksville tallied 169,851. 

Florence Stoll of Second Street, Defiance; Godie Deatrick of Kintner Street; Dessie Lichty of Ney; and Celia Snyder of Evansport completed the winners' list.

Other participants were:

Miss Mabel Daoust, 202 Jackson Street, Defiance
Miss Mabel Elser, Wayne Street, Defiance
Miss Verona Reineke, 828 Wayne Street, Defiance
Miss Lettie Seibel, Perry Street, Defiance

Miss Ora Stripe, RFD 1, Ney
Miss Clara Johns, Sherwood
Miss Madge Reynolds, Ney
Miss Dessie Lichty, Ney

Miss Rose Bequillard, Hicksville
Miss Iva Slough, The Bend
Miss Laverne Hart, Hicksville
Miss Madge Donley, Farmer

Miss Audre Hoover, Sherwood
Miss Charlotte Fronk, RFD 4, Defiance (?)
Miss Mamie Hammond, Jewell
Mrs. Zeigler, Ayersville

Miss Rose McCauley, South Richland
Miss Blanche Cameron, North Richland

Mark Center High School, 1913

Mark Center High School

1913

Front Row, L to R:

Cassie Culler, Norma Huber, Pauline Routsong, Marguerita Wagner, Mabel Elser, John Locke, Lelah Ridenour, Ford Locy, Victor Balser

Back Row:

Edith Reeb, Lois Perry, Blanche Slough, Ruth Lovejoy, Charlotte Gillespie, Flo Conley, Charles Core, Levon Elder

Farmer Eighth Grade Graduating Class of 1926

Front Row, left to right:
Elinor Norrick, Leone Rogers, Al Bayes, Mabel Mayer, Irene Cook

Back Row, left to right:
Wilda Smith, Fay Elser, Omar Smith, Dorothy Manon, Carl Hilbert, Kenneth McCullough, Ruth Kittredge

Ney High School - Seniors, 1935 and 1936

CLASS OF 1935 - NEY HIGH SCHOOL

Top -Jewel Shong, Donelda Batt, Tod Kintner, Dean Donze, Dalton Goller, Rachel Hanna, Richard Motter

Middle - Mike Donley, Anne Hasselschwardt, Esther Deepe, Mildred Elser

Bottom - Bertha Stephens, Faculty

H. F. Tennant, Superintendent

O. C. Stroup, Faculty

Helen Hutchins, Faculty 

CLASS OF 1936 - NEY HIGH SCHOOL

Top - Willard Sanders, Jack Garber - Vice-President, John Pendleton - Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Paul Moog, Dorothy Fieldner- Secretary-Treasurer, Orville Dreher - President, Harold Stratton

Middle - Don Garver, Renny Beyst

Bottom - Mr. Dudley Ebersole, History

Mr. Dale O. Sander, Science

Mr. Manford Yoh, Agriculture

Miss Helen Hutchins, Principal

Mr. O. C. Stroup, Music

Mr. H. F. Tennant, Faculty

Ryder School, Washington Township

The Ryder School was District #2 in Washington Township, located in Section 4 at the intersection of Scott Road and The Bend Road.