The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-04-22

sO'Ao PtOPtS IA vi hOLhC community
especially On Sundays. The new teacher
founded a Sunday school as an introduce
tion and took the post of superintendent.
1t is still thriving.
When the district term began Mr.. Rowe
again prospected for pleasure spots to
scatter through the season and the pro-
posal of a rural school fair was the re-
suit. The children, of course, were given
full sway in the planning and you can
imagine how the youth of the very first
farming counties on earth entered into
the project. They not only organized a
fair, but they advertised it broadcast with
posters in the language of people con-
fident that they had something to exhibit.
In the heat of their publicity campaign a
spirit of wholesome local pride was re-
vived that brought grown folks as well as
children and young people under its i'm
pulse.
They Bought a Cookhouse.
You cant call folks in the country to-
gether without figuring that somebody
is likely to get hungry and Kenova school
prepared for that. They moved a cook
house upon the grounds. Now a cook
house fails to compare in several respects
with Davenport's, but 1t is organized to
feed harvest hands and any function like
a fair is not going to disrupt its serenity
noticeably If properly operated. The folks
didn't have to go without lunch.
They also had something to listen to,
for speakers were present from state and
county departments of education, Cheney
Normal and the Washington State Col
lege. Everybody had a good time and it
was a great day for District No. 1871, es-
pecially for the little folks who had
worked and puzzled to make it SO. They
had no money on hand when the fair
opened but their efforts were rewarded
by the distribution of nearly $40 in cash
prizes before 1t closed.
Raising Funds.
Every cent Of expense incurred was
paid before January i, together with $40
for incidentals and $40 for the purchase
of library books. Funds were raised
partly by subscription and partly from
basket s~ocials, which latter also paid
dividends of more fun and closer friendly
acquaintance. The result was a general
demand for a public Christmas tree,
something they hadn't had in the com
munity for ten years. The Sunday school
responded and packed the little school
house. They took up a collection and
sent the proceeds to the children's home
society.
No sooner we're the holidays ended
than inquiry arose as to what they should
have for January. A poulty show was
the answer, and the school gave one to
crow over. Lacking room in the build
ing, the older boys procured a large tent,
in which the birds were shown. That was
also advertised as "a school show that's
different" and you miss it If you miss
it," Another of those grand old country
lunches crowned the happiness of the
occasion.
Then a New Schoolhouse.
Folk for as far around as you would
care to drive were now thinking and
talking of the little schoolhouse and the
diversion it offered them. They began to
figure that If a little of it was good, more
would be better. The board. consisting
of John Bach, ST., chairman; Josiah Ed
wards, secretary, and L. D. Arlington,
also went to figuring, and before the end
of that January the district was bonded
for $500 for a new school building.
The organization of Kenova Grange
followed shortly, which opened the way
for more lunches and social gatherings
as the Grange met in the schoolhouse. In
that country plenty OF the best there is
to eat is readily forthcoming on slight
provocation and there is no known meth
cd of making the provocations too num-
erous to be appreciated, once you get
those Whitman County cooks started.
Outsiders Take Notice.
BY this time Kenova had begun to raise
a ripple out in the world. They held a
community center meeting, which Jose
phine Preston, State Superintendent, and
Katherine Montgomery, of the Belling-
ham Normal, came from the coast to at
tend. Likewise everybody had plenty to
eat on that occasion, as they have had
on every other here enumerated.
When school closed the classes put on
their visiting clothes and held a joint
picnic with two other schools. This was
in the deep green growing season, when
the finest privilege anyone can ask is SIM
ply that of being outdoors. But a boy or
girl can't get the full value of it around
the house or at work instead of letting
loose at a regular picnic once in a while.
On September &c of this year Kenova