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Show 17 first and foremostly, as a man-of-all-work about home. T have worked at surveying a number of days, have been local reporter for the Grinnell Herald, agent for Herald bindery, ticket-seller at the county fair, agent for The Northwestern Life & Savings Co. of Des Moines, and am now teaching in the Grinnell schools. I have an overflow room in the basement of the Methodist church, made up of pupils of the sixth and eighth grades, and hope I am getting along all right. As the various lines of activity mentioned above did not keep me sufficiently busy in the fall, I accepted the position of coach of the High School football team, and with them visited Des Moines, Oskaloosa and Davenport, but do not like to take up this valuable space in giving results. Hoping to see many of you at Grinnell this Commencement and all of you next year, I am. Sincerely yours, CHARLES H. HAINES. Grinnell, Iowa, Feb. lo, 1899. My Dear Classmates:- Here I -am situated in a little "Dutch " town on the banks of the "Father of Waters." That may sound charming and it may not. I am not wholly in love with the town because it is too old-fashioned, It is like a town in Holland. And then the juice of the "forbidden fruit" is indulged in to no small extent. I also feel that I might possibly find something more pleasant to do than to see thirty children, day after day, do the same tantalizing things I used to do in school. But there are some delightful places along the Mississippi. Just at |