St Edward High School - Beaver Yearbook (St Edward, NE)

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1-Iiatnrg nf St. iihmarhki Srhnnl In 1900 the first brick building was built and was used in connection with the two-story frame building. These two buildings made room enough so the school could expand to eleven grades, having about six teachers. ln 1907 a fine brick addition was added to the first brick building and the old two-story frame building was moved away. At this time another grade was added to the high school, making 12 grades in the school, coming up to the state requirement for state work. In 1917 another brick addition was added to the east of the school building, giving to St. Edward a fine brick structure, which is modern throughout. Since 1893 a class has finished each year. At present we are an accredited school enjoying the highest type of education. We have a corp of teachers consisting of fourteen members who are always willing to help in every way possible, thus giving to the corn- munity, the very best possible in the way of education. l

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l lliztnrg nf St. lihmarhh Svrhnnl In 1874, the same year the mill was started, school district 17 was organized with J. P. Laudeman, M. J. Thompson, and J. B. Long as the first school trustees, who erected the first building still standing in the northwest part of the city. Miss Kate Coyle was chosen first teacher, having four pupils under her charge the first year. This one-room school house is still to be found at its location now being owned by F. M. Wait, known as the John Barber property. At the time this school house was built we had no railroad through the town. The lumber was hauled from Columbus. It was but a few years until the building was not adequate to care for all the children so a fine two-story frame building, known as the Ben Abbott house, was constructed on the location of our present day brick building. This building was constructed about the year 1890 and served until about 1900.

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