The Nome daily nugget., 1914-05-09

 tain school house in Montana found what 1t was they could do best. and did 1t s0 well that they won first urtxe in Q state- wide competition and attracted the attention of tlie whole state, is told by c. W. Tenny. state st hool inspector of Montana in a rural school circular just issued by the Uni- ted States bureau of education. Hcre is Mr. Tenny's story of how Crazy Mountain school did it's part in rural bstterment:
 The Crazy Mountain schoolhouse h a 10 by 12 shack, with roof which slants but one way and fS covered with black tar paper. Cracks in the floor were so big that pencils easily fell through them. The only light flat came in was from thre tiny windows. two in the rear and one on the left. The hole cut through the roof to accommodate the stovepipe was 90 large that when 1t. raincd the water ran into the stove and put the fire out. Rain also beat in at the door. which was held shut by chain hook d over a nail. The desks were bor- rcwed from a neighboring school which had thrown them away ns use less. The seats were held up by sticks of wood, unless a pupil was for tunate enough to find box of the ,.eht size to use as an individual chair. and the teachers desk was a piank nailed to two sticks and set against the wall.
 Into this school last spring came Miss Angeline Barker as teacher and nine pupils. representing four differ cnt families. Although the weather was damp. for the first three weeks they had no fire. Most of the pupils had no books. Hut teacher and pupils went to work to do the best they could with what they had and to get bot ter equipment as fast as they could.
 One day a premium list of the Montana state fair, which is held at Helena each year, came to this little school. Both teacher and pupils be- gan to reach to sec what thcro was they could do. Best kindergarten york;" they knew they could not oo that Best shop work" that sounded even more hopeless. "'Best collection of wild flowers. pressed and mounted, with a description of i've" everybody shouted: "Of course we can!" and the race was on.
 The Mexican children who lived far up on the mountain plucked tho flow CTS belonging to the higher attitudes. while the rest brought in those pecu- liar to the lowlands and meadows. At school the flowers were placed in text books and magazines, and fin the absence of Q flower press the boys and Grls would sit on them. At homo the flowers were put in books under the heaviest weights that could he found. One boy placed two sacks of flour on the books, another a tool chest. while third said the heaviest thing he could find was the large bucket" in which his father carried tho feed to the pigs. The girls resorted to just as ingenious expedients utilizing trunks. bureaus and even ono b.g of a bed in which adults were sleeping. in trdcr that tho necessary amount of pressure might bc obtained.
 When tho days of collecting and pressing the flowers were over. all 'i the specimens were brought to- Gether. and after the very best oncs had been selected each was carefully mounted on white cardboard. and the entire collection of Gs wild flowers was sent to the state department of cdMca- ton to be entered at the fair. When the judges gave their decision it was -. -