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picture of the rewards of those who endeavored to set the feet of the young into the path of wisdom: “For the year 1866, Cornelia Moore, $32.50. For the year 1867, Cornelia Moore, $36.00 For the year 1868, Amanda Nelson, $52.00. For the year 1869, Mr. Crosby, $180.00.” We could go on and draw a word picture of the school children wending their way through the dark forest lanes, the subdued drone of childish voices muttering their “A, b, Abs,” the swish of the master’s rod as he taught “readin’ and and writin’ and ’rith- metic, to the tune of a hickory stick.” We could even portray the triumph of the country girl, as she spelled down the teacher at the bee, or we might spend a lot of time depicting the mortified anguish of the lad sitting in the corner, face to the wall, with the fool’s cap perched rakishly on his head, and we could compare with those olden school rooms the up-to-date school rooms of today. But we must get back to our subject before reminiscence leads us hopelessly astray. Before we turn to talk of buildings again, however, let us say here that those teachers of yesterday, with their obstreperous pupils, their trials, their facilities, their accomplish- ments deserve a high place in the archives of the country, because it is to them that we owe the foundation on which our present broad institution of knowledge is erected. The records of the township in regard to its school are so in- complete that it is difficult to get anything like an accurate, co- herent narrative from them. Deriving some information, we have had to bridge the gaps with imagination, and endeavor to fill up the holes left by those pioneers with the hear-say of old residents. The history of the first two buildings we got from the old record books, the third was torn down this spring in order to make room for the building of a residence, and the fourth is the present building.
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HISTORY OF OUR SCHOOL On the third day of March, 1866, John McMullen, then clerk of the Board of School Inspectors of the Township of Richland, ad- dressed a note to Mr. Philo Thomas, stating that the first meeting of School District No. 4 would be held in his home on the 26th day of the current month, and Philo Smith returned the notice with the statement that he had notified by personal and written notice the following gentlemen: Amos Abby, Andrew McForta, E. C. Curtis, Thomas Mould, Sr., Thomas Mould, Jr., Cuyler Morice, Geoi'ge Stokes and H. D. Smith. At the meeting on the twenty-sixth, E. C. Curtis was elected moderator; H. D. Smith, director; T. Mould, Jr., assessor; and the meeting was adjourned until the fifth of April. So began the pres- ent school system of this township. At the meeting on the twenty- sixth the site for the school was established on the corner east of Mr. Thomas’s one-half acre lying in the northeast corner of south- west one-quarter section 28, town 12 north, range 2 east. Mr. Cuy- ler Morice agreed to sell said land to said Discrict for three dollars. On motion of Abby that we buy the said one-half acre, carried. It was voted that the amount be put into the assessment roll that fall and it was also voted that we have three months this summer taught “by a female teacher.” (So runs the records.) “The work of building the school house was sold to the lowest bidder, J. M. Smith, for $118. Ten thousand shingles were sold to the District by Philo Thomas for $3.75 per thousand. The haul- ing of the lumber was sold to H. D. Smith for one dollar per thous- and, from the mill to the school house site; the District then voted to raise $112 for the purpose of paying for building and furnishing material for said school house. Dated this ninth day of May, 1868.” That was the way in which our predecessors took care of the de- mands for better school facilities. The site chosen was located on the Midland road, opposite the present home of Dr. Rinehart, and the building stood there until it was removed to make room for the third building, which was erected on the same site, and still stands there. They moved the old building to what is now the site of the Hotel National, where it was burned down. We could continue to dig into old records, and fill this book with their quaint spelling and old verbiage, but space forbids, and but the briefest peeps into the old record book are given here. Here is one glance at these entries which gives a vivid
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