The graduating class of NCHS had their photographs on the front page of the paper. Slightly more were female than male, which was generally the rule at the time. Some familiar last names in the group, including one, Edness Kimball, whose name is memorialized in a city park, and who Wyoming's first female Speaker of the House, and another whose last name, Speas, adorns the fish hatchery. A notable group, we might note, came from ranching families, including one, Grieve
Kimball, or as she's usually called, Kimball Wilkins, was remarkable in a variety of ways. And showing how much Wyoming has changed, she was elevated to speakership in 1966 as a Democrat, as the Democrats were the majority party in the Legislature in the late 1960s. She never actually got to serve in that role, however, as the legislature met every other year, and she was elected to the State Senate that year. She lost her bid for reelection in 1970, but was elected again to the House in 1972, serving until her death in 1980 at age 84.
Myrtle Speas went on to become a teacher, and then married and moved to Memphis. Interestingly, she returned to the Speas Ranch in 1921 for the birth of her first child, then returning. Her daughter, Mary, lived until 2019, dying at age 97 in Tennessee.
Draft horses, as can be seen, remained such a significant source of, well, horsepower, that there was an advertisement for them in the paper.
Woodrow Wilson dedicated the Confederate Memorial at Arlington. The teens were the height for romanticism about the "Lost Cause" which saw, in turn, the national culture adopt the Confederates to a certain degree.
A prior thread about the memorial:
The Lost Cause and the Arlington Confederate Monument. Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 53d Edition.
Last prior edition:
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