Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-08

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sufficiently club a little boy" said ST.
perintendent Cooley. 1t was a small
one-room frame school building at
Strawberry Point. Clayton County,
Iowa. had passed the first five years
of my life on a farm. When my father
enlisted in the army in 1862 We NOV
ed into this town. 1t seemd to me to
be wonderfully large place. T was
greatly impressed. The school house
where I first went was later turned
int waSon-shOp and ten years after
starting to school | began learning
the wagon trade there"
John G. Shedd was less than years
Old when he started to scool near Al
uine old-fashioned little red school
house" said Mr.. Shedd. Situated on
a country road Ny most vivid recol-
lection of II is that its windows locke |
out on a gloomy old graveyard where
the tombstones lOomed up among the
trees and brush. It used to send a
/ chill ZIP my spine to look out at those
cravestones. What fascination they
had fer little children I don't know
| but during recess we used to stand on
the benches the better to see them
started to school in June, 1S54 The
| next month | was -four years old. My
teachers name was Miss Pauina A.
Fisher. She gave me a little book.
/ still have that book at home"
How to spell AK. box. cat, dog and
flk was the first problem that puzzled
the Juvenile brain Of John r. Thomp-
! sen. colder brothers took me to a
country school in Vermllion county,
Illinois" said Mr.. Thompson. 81 lived
on a farm and was five Years cid. |
remember my brothers made it plain
to me that a whipping was inevitable.
| pictured the teacher as having al
ways a stick in her nand. thought
would get a whack as soon as step
red into the room. was agreeably
usrprised when found Miss Anderson
had no stick at all She proved to
be kind, and | soon had a great deal
of love for her At home that even
ing l felt school was not nearly SO bad
a place as it had been pictured.
Luther Latin Mills went to school
for the first time in a private estab-
| lishment at the northwest corner of
Michigan avenue and Randolph street
now the center of wholesale district
At that time, about 1854, Michigan
| avenue near the river was lined with
| residences. There was no indication
section. The site of the present public
| library was Dearborn park. between
| I.oCmis and Latin streets. That was
| considered long way out and no
| street cars were running to the city.
| Before that he had lived in State
| street. where Marshall Fields retail
| store now stands. Mr.. Mills was six
years old when. in company with his
mother, he rode in an omnibus into
| the city. ''It is gratifying to me to
| be able to remember the teachers
name," said Mr. Mills at was Miss
Cleveland, kind, amiable, good look
ing woman. | saw her again about
twenty-five years ago, and would rec
ognize her if | saw her today, but
suppose she has long since died |
don't remember much what happened
that day in school, 1t must ave been
rather uneventful. Certainly it is
pleasure once in while to recall
the days when one looked with such
wonderment on things that are now
so common that we scarcely notice
them.'
A "big" sister, who was just a year
o. West to school at Georgetown, ILL.,
He wore knee pants and began to be
homesick before he reached the school
house. Zone of my most vivid memoir
les of that schoolhouse was an old
pump that stood in the yard" said
Mr. West. "At recess. instead of hav-
ing a fight We went out and drank
water at that pump. | think some Of
the boys threw cupfuls of water over
the fence into the girls yard. l don't
think | was as wicked as that. l re-
member my teacher well. Her name
was Mollie George. and she still lives
somewhere in Illinois, Miss George
had us all stand up in a row. She be-
gan to teach us our letters and num-
bers. | was rather ashamed, for most
OF the ether children had been taught
before coming to school. and had not
After school was out in the afternoon
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