The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-25
CHAPTER Xxx l-continued.

historic, significant words, dear t,
every reader of glebe-land,
schoolmanse''-and 1t seemed to hin
that they signified the return of man,
old things lost in Merrie England
lost in New England, lost all owe
the English-speaking world, when tn,
old publicly-paid clergyman ceased t
be so far the servant of all the PEG
pie that they refused to be taxed fol
his support. Was not the new kline
Of rural teacher to be publicly-paid
leader of thought, of culture, of prog
ress, and was he not to have his
manse, his glebe-land, and his xiv
ingT And all because. like the ole
] clergyman, he was doing a work In
which everybody was interested and
for which they were willing to be
taxed. Perhaps it was not so high
status as the old; but who was TO
say that7 Certainly not Jim Irwin,
the possessor of the new kind of civ
Ing" with its "glebe-land" and its
"schoolmanse" He would have rated
the new as at least quite as high as
the old.
From the brow Of the promontory, a
tight concrete bridge took the pretty
little gorge in the leap Of single
arch, and landed the eye at the bot
tom of the front yard of the school
house. Thus the new institution of
life was IN full view of the school
manse veranda, and yet shut off from
1t by the dry moat Of the brook and
Its tiny meadow of bluegrass.
Across the road was the creamery,
with its businesslike unloading plat
form, and its addition in process Of
construction for the reception of the
machinery for the cooperative laun-
dry. Not far from the creamery, and
also across the road, stood the black
smith and wheelwright shop. Still
farther down the street were the barn,
poultry house, pens, hutches and yards
of the little farm-small, as were all
the buildings save the schoolhouse it.
self, which was builded, as 1t should
have been, for the future.
And even the schoolhouse, when one
thinks Of the uses to which 1t was to
be put-kitchen, nursery, kindergar-
ten, banquet hall, theater, moving pic
ture hall, classrooms, manual training
rooms, laboratory and counting room
and what not, was wonderfully small
Colonel Woodruff said far too small
though 1t was necessarily so large
as to be rather astonishing to the I'M
expectant passer-by.
The unexpectant passer-by this May
day, however, would have been espe-
cially struck by the number of motor
cars, buggies and Surveys parked in
the yard back of the creamery, along
the roadside, and by the driveway
running to the schoolhouse. People in
numbers had arrived by five o'clock in
the afternoon, and were still coming.
They strolled about the place, exam
lining the buildings and grounds, and
talking with the blacksmith and the
butter-maker.
Gradually they drew into the school
house like a swarm Of bees into a hive
selected by the queen. None of them,
however, went across the concrete
bridge to the schoolmanse, save Mrs.
Simms, who crossed, consulted with
Mrs. Irwin about the shrubbery and |
lowers, and went back to Buddie and |
Iinnie, who were good children but |
couldn't be trusted with so |
many other young ones withouten some
They're coming They're comingl"
This was the cry borne to the people
n and about the schoolhouse by that
Hans Hansen who would be called
1ans Nilsen. Hans had been to the
op of the little hill and had a look
oward town
Like a crew manning rigging, or
crowd having it's picture taken, the
ssemblage crystallized into forms de-
ermined by the chances of getting a
limpse of the bungalow across the
avine-on posts, fences, trees and
illocks
A motor car came over the hilloek,
an down the road to the driveway to
he schoolmanse and drew up at the
DOR. Out of y $685. $780,. Yrs. Woodruff
nd the colonel, their daughter, rne
ounty superintendent of schools. and
Ir. Jim Irwin. Jennie was dressed in
very well-tailored travelling costume,
nd Jim In a moderately well-tailored
usiness suit. The fact that when
ley reached the threshold Jim picked
annie up in his arms and carried her
/, will enable any good detective to
ut one and one together and make a
comes pretty near telling
lie whole story.
BY this time 1t was nearly seven,
I'd Calista Slmms came across the
harmed bridge as a dispatch-bearer.
iying that If Mr.. Jim and Miss Jen- t
lie didn't mind, dinner would be
Ihved right soon. 1t was cooked
bout right, and the folks was gettin' {
ght hungry-an' such crowd
here were fifteen in the babies room, |
nd for a while they thought the |
,ungest Hamm young one had swal- J
wed marble. She would tell 6
m they would be right over good-by. I
There was another cheer as the S
rec elderly and the two younger peo- c
e emerged from the schoolmanse