Annual Denver Reunion Held

Around 100 people attended the annual Denver Reunion Sunday afternoon. A covered dinner was served, and people looked at some of the many artifacts of the Denver Schoolhouse. It served as the school for Denver from 1870 to 1964, when it was consolidated with the Worth County School. Before then, it had served as a K-8 school for the Worth County School System. Many alumni of the school system came back home.

Among the items on display was a copy of the Denver Herald, from July 8th, 1909. The following are some gleanings from that paper:

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Some marks of a real man:
–Superiority to petty feelings;
–Never taking grudges into private life against a man who you combated with in public.

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1st man: “I never knew a man so lacking in judgement and foresight.”
2nd man: “Perhaps, but there is an excuse – he worked in the weather office.”

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The Christian Church was struck by lightning which tore a hole in the floor. Fortunately, the building was insured.

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A judge in Macon ruled that a wife had a vested interest to scold her husband who sued her for divorce because of her habit of losing her temper. Media speculation is nothing new; the editors of The Herald speculated that the judge was either a bachelor or had a pleasant wife. “A woman’s right to nag, scold, or fly to pieces is the same as the man’s right to drink – either will have a thunder of a time if they take advantage of it,” wrote the editors.

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The copy of The Herald was donated by Rosemary Stevens Cox. Another item was from a supplement from the Worth County Times in 1916. It included two letters from people who had lived in Worth County and then had set out further west. In addition, there were financial statements from three banks – the Citizens Bank of Grant City (Now Great Western Bank), the Bank of Denver, and the Farmers Bank of Allendale.