Memories: Beginning of school there were Don Boyd and we three Crabtrees. Soon four Ritcheys – Dorothy, Marlin, Thomas and Wayne. I suppose they had started school at Prairie Bell. The MacDonalds left for
Memories: There were the Ritcheys and Crabtrees and Pete Focht (His family – at Uncle Vester’s)
New Schoolhouse: The Summer or 1925 the schoolhouse was built. Big day! First spade-fulls of dirt! I think Lily Freemyer dug the first one. (or maybe she dug some while we were all there after the formal first spade-full was dug and tossed – by some man. (If that formality was even done) Anyhow, I remember the women were flabbergasted!! It was probably part of the jesting, I don’t know. But to a 10 year old, I saw it as a remonstrance - warning that it was too hard. (I had no idea 40 years later that I would dig most of the ditch for the drain from the basement we built the summer in the 1960s.)
Memories: This was the last year in the OLD schoolhouse. Lloyd started to school, but didn’t go all the time, or maybe it was that he was kind of little and the teacher didn’t push him much. He actually was in the first grade the next year in the new schoolhouse.
Memories: About Aletha Belle. She was a “Big Girl” at school and combed her long hair into a popular hairdo – 2 buns over her ears.
Aletha Belle and May took turns getting Ethel and I into our coats ready to go home. They made it into a race to see who could get ready first. We were the “little kids”
Aletha Belle rode to school in a buggy. We walked. It was a really big day when we got a ride to school. Mom would come after us sometimes in the one horse & buggy. I remember my dad coming at least once in a sled made from a carbody pulled by horses.
