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marched three abreast into the large, spacious hall and May Munk (Livingston), one of the 1894 teachers, buildi ng had just been completed. It was a tfirbg the whole community was! Now their children could go to school in a building that befitted the desire for learning that each citizen had. There were wide stairways that connected each building, an ideal teaching and learning way. The blackboards were on the other two sides of the rooms, with pine paneling around the roonis and coming up to where the windows and blackboards began. Between the two east classrooms there was a sliding partition, making it possible to unite morning exercises. I was one of the proud teachers who ushered my second and third grade classes into the southeast room that morning to begin the school year of 1894-95. The enrollment for these two grades and for this one teacher was 80 students. My teaching salary was $25.00 per month. newly-bought desks and cautioned all the children 19 |
