Cuba High School - Totem Yearbook (Cuba, KS)

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1 .,.,. lu , A 111 1 i.c14LZ f- I .sg 4 s. 3 1. -5 S. A will i t' t, A . tl X f X f I r 4 I , I History of Quba School f i T 1 q 1 gl The citizens of Cuba should especially remember the year of 1869. This was R' only a few years following the Civil War and Kansas was just recovering from the t effects of this great struggle, just as many other commonwealths were at this ' period. ' This was a great period in American History as well as for the citizens of x Farmington Township and tthose near the .small town of Cuba, which was located 1 K in the southeast corner of the northeast forty of the northwest quarter, section 35, k' township 2, range 1, Farmington Township. The year of 1869 commemorattes the it erection of the first Cuba school. nf In .that year, 1869, the farmers around the small town of Cuba, which con- k sisted of a Post Office combined with I1 General Store and was the center of com- : munity life, decided that their children should have a better opportunity in the 1 educational line. , A' Therefore, in .the fall, the farmers with John Harris- and James Arbuthnot as leaders, began hewing trees for the erection of the first Cuba school, which was constructed of oak logs taken from Mill Creek. The crevices of this log structure were chinked with clay mud from the clay-banks around this crude composition X of logs and clay. I' i V The -day that this crude house of learning was completed, including the N ' N 7 unreflned, though substantial inside equipment, the house-wives of the builders i 7 prepared a bounteous dinner consisting of Indian cake, roast turkey and rpalrle N W chickens, wild choke-cherries and wild strawberry preserves, corn bread and many X V other wholesome foods that were common to the settlers of that community. The F settlers for miles around came to take part in the dedication of the flrst Cuba school. V As the community prospered a new school was built in 1874. The oltd one K' V was torn down and the logs used as sleepers in the new frame construction. This X PA new structure was erected a quarter of a mile east of the log building. - rf V When the second school building was built, John Harris and James Arbuthnot, 2 founders of Cuba, had moved this city to the southeast corner of the southeast P uarter section 32, township 2, range 1, Farmington Township, the former school fl . PQ being used as the Cuba school. F4 In 1884 Cuba was moved again to its present site to -get in line with the i 1 Burlington Railway. Then a new stone building was built in 1886, and ' V a two-year high school course was established. In 1912 the stone building was . 'A torn down and the present one erected, some of the stones being used in the new X tl brick building. In 1914 a four-year high school course was installed. N C The given facts constitute the history of Cuba school up to the present i d , 1925. F ate h V F' t P? . na- .Li mwsivsr ' Y ' '- 51.11.31 fozffal.-225 5

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