History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 104

Author: Mitchell, William Bell, 1843-
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : H. S. Cooper
Number of Pages: 1110


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District Number 92 was organized in 1876. Joseph Kusba, John Gilman and Joseph Molitor were the first school of- ficers. Josie Connors, now Mrs. Charles Gutches, of Long Prairie, was the first teacher. For a number of years the school- house stood on the southeast quarter of Section 3, but it was later moved to the


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present site, where a new building has since been erected. The teachers follow- ing Miss Connors were Edna Carpenter, Vinnie Johnson, Ernestine Wehrhahn, Emma Johnson, Blanche Chisholm, Ethel Moon, Eva Carey, Eldorado Judkins, Jennie Hines, Merle Pangburn and Sarah Tessen- dorf.


District Number 129, known as the Schoolgrove school, was organized in 1885. The first school officers were Joseph Mc- Dermond, Gilbert Gilbertson and Knute A. Fauskee. Gertrude Carpenter was the first teacher. School was taught in the present building, thirty-two pupils attending. After Miss Carpenter the following were em- ployed: B. W. Veeder, Stella Rue, Emil A. Peterson, Maggie Miller, Nellie Brown, James H. Sanders, Mary Sanders, John Erdal, Gustav Torkelson, A. O. Reiquam, Gertrude Molitor, Ernestine Wehrhahn, Margaret Macfarlane, Gertrude F. Mit- chell, J. P. Kruchten, Viola E. Cousin and Gertie B. Olson.


District Number 192 was organized in 1901. George Beidlemann was the first clerk, W. Wruck, treasurer, and M. D. Cowlthorp, director. Mabel Cowlthorp, now Mrs. D. C. Gray, of Ceylon, Saskatche- wan, Canada, was the first teacher. School was taught in the present building, four- teen pupils attending. Other teachers em- ployed were Emma Anderson, Minnie Pitzlin, Anna L. Buckley, Tilda Forsberg, Lillie Rengel, Leta White, Maude Van Etton, Nannie Anderson, Mildred Cowl- thorp, Mae Gallagher, Lucy Gallagher and Gertrude Shook.


Rockville Township. The first school in the township of Rockville was taught within the present boundaries of District Number 40, the school being now known as the Mill River school, situated about a mile north of Pearl lake. Instruction was first given in the home of G. Bauer soon after the first settlement, but immediately upon the organization of the district in 1866, a log schoolhouse was built on Sec- tion 34. This served the pupils until 1874 when a frame building was erected. Cas- par Stein, John Wolter and John Steichen were the first school officers, and Nicholas Hofmann was the first teacher. Others employed were Peter Abfalter, Nicholas Schmit, George Hansen, Alex Wolter, Jacob Lemm, John Schmit, Gallus J.


Schmidt, Theodore Bauler, Joseph Lemm, Herman J. Ricker, William Schulte, Mary Krick, Louis Muggli, Catherine Sattler, Magdalena Hockert, Leona M. Lovell, Mag- dalena Eschpeter, Carrie Walz and Louise Tilley.


District Number 44, the Rockville vil- lage school, was organized in 1866, al- though school had been taught previously in private houses for several terms. The first school was taught by Elizabeth Wol- ter, now Mrs. Jacob Botz, of Sauk Centre, and the apartment placed at her disposal was a room in the house of Mr. Sheelar. This house stood almost across the road from the present creamery. She was fol- lowed by Joseph Kunkler and Gallus J. Schmidt, who also taught in the Sheelar home. Conrad Marschall of St. Joseph was next employed. He rented a house north of Broadway on the west bank of Mill river in which he lived, using one of the rooms for school purposes. Shortly after the organization of the district the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 17, be- ing about a mile southwest of the village, was selected for a school site and a small frame building erected. This was known as Thomey's corner, where the school stood for several years. As the popula- tion of the village increased the people objected to sending their children out into the country, and at a special meeting a site in the village, near the present loca- tion, was selected. But the people of the country were not willing that their school- house should be taken from them without a struggle, and so for a considerable time conditions remained in the old state. How- ever, one night the villagers induced a man by the name of Decker to hitch his powerful yoke of oxen to the little build- ing (which had already been placed on skids) and without attracting much atten- tion the schoolhouse made its nocturnal journey into the village. The farmers had either expected this sort of a move or else they had been secretly informed, for they proved equal to the occasion, and very quietly allowed the villagers to remove their schoolhouse, offering no resistance whatever. But the crowd had scarcely . dispersed and gone to their respective homes when a delegation of farmers waited on Mr. Decker and induced him to


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repeat the performance. The building had not been removed from the skids, and with as little ceremony as characterized the first act, it was silently dragged back to Thomey's corner where it was found the next morning by the chagrined villagers. Thus in a single night the little frame schoolhouse had been moved to the village and back again! Several years later the building was sold to Michael Reiter (on whose farm it is still serving as a ware- house) whereupon a larger structure was erected. In 1894 the question of changing the school site again came up for a vote and the villagers were once more success- ful. Legal proceedings were had to pre- vent the removal of the building, but the matter was finally settled in an amicable way and the schoolhouse moved into the village. One teacher was employed until 1912, when an addition was built and an assistant engaged, and since then the school has been on the semi-graded list. The teachers employed in this district, fol- lowing Gallus J. Schmidt, were Charles H. Klostermann, John Schmit, J. B. Meyers, Peter Ellenbecker, J. L. Bold, J. H. Bold, Nicholas Schmit, John Jacobs, John A. Roeser, Michael Loesch, Math. N. Koll, Joseph Hengel, Adolph Lodermeier, Nich- olas Thomey, James J. Dufner, C. M. P. Hansen, Elizabeth Ungers, John Lang, Wil- liam Noe, Barney Eschpeter and Frank Herzog. The assistants were Regina Kauf- mann and Edith Hartel. Among the pu- pils who later attained prominence were Nicholas Thomey, the present county audi- tor, and Hubert Hansen, former judge of probate of Stearns county.


District Number 16 was organized in 1868. The first school within its boundaries was taught by Mrs. Goundry, who received $2 per week, school being kept in different private houses. This practice continued until 1874 when a schoolhouse was erected. The teacher received her board from the different families according to the number of children until 1885. The first teacher in the public school was Henrietta Camp- bell, nine pupils attending. The first school officers were John Payne, Henry Brink- man and Robert Weaver. Other teachers employed were Irene Thombs, Sophronia Lovelace, Hugh Macfarlane, Josephine O'Connell, Mary E. Green, Julia Noyes, Susan Clark, Elizabeth Noyes, Jennie


Campbell, Henrietta Noyes, Laura Noah, Robert Helmere, Ella M. Shupe, Susan Ayers, Minnie Brinkmann, Zell Stevens, Jennie Jones, Mary Johnson, Nell Adams, Amelia Mindo, Edith Oldham, Emma Wightman, Mabel Cornall, Alice Payne, Myrtle Lorenz, Helen Staples, Jessie Well- ington, Tessie Lorenz, Clara Scherfenberg, Mamie Sherry, Winifred Connelly, Daisy McKelvy, Martha Hurley, Florence Phipps, Anna Engels and Esther Rembert.


District Number 91 was organized in 1871. John A. Ahles, Felix Dietman and Joseph Schreiner were the first school of- ficers and John Legesseman was the first teacher. School was first taught in a build- ing which stood about four rods south of the present structure, five or six pupils attending. Other teachers employed were Peter Abfalter, John Doerner, M. Hoff- mann, C. A. Marschall, Gotthard Harren, George Hansen, Peter Hengel, Joseph Lemm, Paul Ahles, Joseph Krebsbach, Nick Ahles, Anna Engels, Clara Kraemer, Magdalen Eschpeter, Anna Eschpeter, Eulalie May, and Anna Masuch.


District Number 155, the Grand Lake school, was organized in 1890. The first school officers were Henry Weber, John Wolf and Xavier Dahinten. Peter P. Weber, now living in Eden Valley, was the first teacher. Others employed after him were Ignatius Zeltinger, Jacob Doetzel, N. M. Weber, Ch. Hansen, Nicholas Thomey, Anna Schomer, Susan Lahr, Alma Kauf- mann and Wilhelmina Halter.


District Number 168, the Fink school, was organized in 1893. Thomas Sasgen, George Schneider and Michael Molitor were the first school officers and Casper Loesch, now living in North Dakota, was the first teacher. Others who followed him were Martin Molitor, Martin Ivetz, Peter Molitor, John Fink, B. J. Keppers, Katherine George, Christine Schmitz, Henry Weismann, Isabel Krebs, William Moser, Sarah Tessendorf, Elsie Planer and Joseph Habiger.


Township of Sauk Centre. The first rural school in the township of Sauk Centre was taught in 1860 by Nellie Har- mon in what was until two years ago known as District Number 25. It is very likely that this was a private venture, for District Number 25, the first rural dis-


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trict in the township, was not organized until 1868. Miss Harmon, who later became Mrs. Frank Holmes of Minneapolis, was boarded by the lowest bidder at ninety cents per week. After the organization of the district the school officers elected were S. M. Bruce, J. M. Thomason and Sylvester Ramsdell. The schoolhouse for a number of years stood on the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Sec- tion 26. Unfortunately the names of only a few teachers employed could be learned. These are Agnes Crandall, Carrie Irish, Emma Baldwin, S. E. Reed, Margaret Irish, Edna Trattles, Grace Johnson, Laura Gary, Ida Weeks, Mary Zapp and Alice Cass. The school was equipped for the special state aid in 1911, and one year later it was consolidated with the Sauk Centre in- dependent district. The children are now taken to the central school in specially equipped wagons.


District Number 26, known as the Dix and also as the Borgmann district, was organized in 1868. The teachers employed in this school were Myra Barnett, Mary Tubbs, Tessie Trumann, Augusta Lee, C. B. Richards, Carrie Farrington, C. E. Foot, Ella M. Wilcox, Mamie Shaw, J. E. Rich- ards, Olive Leavitt, Emma Peters, Sylvia Case, Emma Bass, Josie Vogel, Josephine Pangburn, Eva Davis, Maud Van Camp, F. L. Minette, Margaret Irish, Eliza Cathlow, Anna Phlepsen, Helen Heid, Alvina Bese- mann, Margaret Roerig, Rose Strobel, Rose Dicks, Mabel Brown, Rose Sandbrink and Helen Hingsberger.


District Number 49, whose building is situated three miles west of the city of Sauk Centre, was organized in 1866. Un- fortunately no records of the early days are available. It is known that the first school building occupied the present site and that it was destroyed by fire, but who was the first teacher and who the first school officers were is unknown. Some of the teachers employed were Mrs. Newell, Louise Canfield, Frank Stiles, Della Veeder, Fannie Martin, Orpha Stiles, Clara Stiles, Nannie Batchelder, Susan Warren, Jennie Hines, Emma Stiles, Marion McCollum, Myrtle Perkinson, Vera Parker, Carrie Irish, Grace V. Johnston, Ernestine Wehrhahn, Edna Carpenter, Maggie Roerig, Bertha Stiles, and Leta White.


District Number 100, known as the Mc- Cormick lake school, was organized in 1873. The first school board was com- posed of C. J. Craig, director; John Rue, treasurer, and G. N. Lorimer, clerk. Carrie Moore, now living in Alberta, Canada, was the first teacher. For a number of years the schoolhouse stood on the south side of Lake McCormick, but it was later moved around to the east side, about a mile from the first location, in order to accommodate all the children of the dis- trict. The teachers employed were Carrie Moore, Fannie Richards, Paris Bruce, Eva Boober, Flora Pike, Lizzie Hubbard, Martha Hubbard, Leda Smith, Judith Meigs, Lulu Bonham, Mary L. Marvin, Walter F. Merry, Juno Lindberg, Alice Reynolds, Martha White, Martha J. Wol- ford, Nelly Bryant, Etta Craig, Mary John- ston, Hattie Smith, Carrie Farrington, Serena James, Elinor M. Quinn, Stella Rue, Anna Langley, Francis Meigs, Mary E. Cleveland, Emma Bass, Edna Craig, Carrie Wilson, Ethel Allen, Carrie Irish, Leta White, Esther Sprague, Mrs. Alice Newel, Avis Cass, Nannie Anderson, Davis Elliott and Florence Compton.


District Number 85, a part of which lies in Todd county, was organized in 1870. The first school officers were John Jensen, S. J. Sutton and J. P. Buckingham. Maggie Carr, later Mrs. Lyman Kells, was the first teacher. School was taught in the pres- ent building, twenty-five pupils attending. The number of pupils has decreased very much since then, only five being enrolled for the past three years. The school is associated with the Sauk Centre high school. Other teachers employed were Clara Wilcox, Ella Wilcox, Hattie Smith, Elinor Hinkston, Miss Woolford, Miss Bishop, Leta White, Miss Canfield, Mrs. H. Doyle, Edna Brown, Mary Zapp, Nannie Anderson, Florence Compton, Belle Chis- holm and Bertha Huber.


District Number 138, known as the Till- man school, was organized in 1888. The school officers were Henry Tillman, John Batohelda and John Minetta. The school- house first stood on the land of Ludwig Tillman. Minnie C. Batohelda was the first teacher, fifteen pupils attending. Other teachers were May Lewis, Mary Hoffmann, Katherine Kinsella, Frank Wagner, Lena Hockert, Mary Goerger, Victor Winter,


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Mathilda Huf, John Tschida, Eulalie May, Julia Vorpahl and Lucy Hingsberger.


District Number 27, part of which lies in Todd county, was organized in 1892. Belle Tuttle was the first teacher, instruc- tion being given in the present building. The first school officers were E. A. Peder- son, C. A. Johnson, and T. R. Barnes. Other teachers were Jane McGowan, E. K. Smith, Anna Grundmann, Aletha Rice, Alice E. Newell, Maud Van Camp, Belle Larson, Lillian McGibbon, S. E. Reed, Lucy Chisholm, Marian McCullum, Agnes Cran- dall, Hattie H. Allen and Bridget Lynch.


District Number 186 was organized in 1898. The trustees were John Knott, David Pangburn and Louis Hinden. Mar- garet Irish was the first teacher, being succeeded by Ella L. McGibbon, Maud Mathies, Roxie Smith, Minnie Bohn, S. E. Reed, Laura Mclntyre, Mary Folmer, and Edna E. Brophy. The schoolhouse was a brick structure and stood about three miles northeast of Sauk Centre. In 1912 this district was consolidated with the Sauk Centre independent district.


District Number 84 was organized in 1870. The schoolhouse stood about two miles east of Sauk Centre, little more than a mile distant from the schoolhouses of Districts Numbered 186 and 100. In 1912 this district was also consolidated with the Sauk Centre school. Unfortunately the names of only a few of the teachers em- ployed could be learned. These are Evely F. Smith, I. W. Reed, Mabel Reid, Alice Hartley, Alice Crandall, Edna Trattles, S. E. Reed, Arah Mullin and Mildred Lathrop.


St. Augusta Township. The first school in this township was taught in 1859 by Henry Krebs, later county superintendent of schools. The building was a log struc- ture, and stood about a mile north of the present village of St. Augusta. The dis- trict, Number 34, was organized in 1861, whereupon the site was changed to the present village and school taught in an old log church. Although there were only nine pupils the first year, the number rapidly increased so that in a few years an assistant was given Mr. Krebs. As al- ready stated, Mr. Krebs was in charge of the school at St. Augusta in all over twenty years. He was followed by J. Eversmann, now the Rev. William Evers- mann, O. S. B., who taught several terms.


He was followed by Joseph Gans and Adam Roesl. Two of the early assistants were Joseph Walz and Tobias Schleper. For the last twenty-six years the school has been in charge of Benedictine Sisters. At the Stearns county fair in 1914 this school won the first prize for a general exhibit from semi-graded schools, besides a number of individual prizes.


District Number 36, the Luxemburg school, was organized in 1861. Peter Maus, Hubert Hansen and Math Peck were the first school officers, and Nicholas Hoffman was the first teacher, having an enrollment of sixteen pupils. As in a number of other districts school was first taught in a log building, which stood about six or seven rods southwest of the present site. Later a more commodious structure was erected, which is still standing although it is no longer used for school purposes, as the district lias a fine, modern, two-room brick schoolhouse, fully equipped. Among the pupils who attended this school and later attained prominence were Gotthard Har- ren, John A. Maus, the Rev. Louis Traufler, O. S. B., the Rev. Kilian Heid, O. S. B., now president of St. John's University, and the Rev. Bonaventura Hansen, O. S. B. The teachers following Mr. Hoffman were Henry Doerner, B. H. Dirks, C. Brown, Miss Zimmermann, Lucas Lembeck, P. Menth and Mr. Miley. Since Mr. Miley's time Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict have been in charge. At the state fair in 1913 the first prize in penmanship was awarded to Clara Kronenberg, a pupil of this district, and at the Stearns county fair held the following year a number of individual prizes were awarded other pupils.


District Number 35, known as the Trout Brook and the Meyer school, was organ- ized in 1868. The first school officers were Edward Benoit, Nicholas Gasser and Frank Zellar. J. Brown was the first teacher. School was first taught in a log building which stood about one-quarter of a mile north of the present site, forty pupils at- tending. Later teachers were John P. Block. Edward H. Schultz, Anna M. Steichen, John Kraus, Lauretta Eich, Flor- ence Wright, Tessie Lorenz, Louise C. Streitz, Mary Trzewik, Kate W. Stanger, Lillian Barton, Ida E. Spencer, Dominik Lemm and Mabel Planer.


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St. Cloud township. The first rural school in St. Cloud township was taught in what is now District Number 2, the schoolhouse standing near the Sauk river bridge on the St. Cloud-St. Joseph road. The district was organized in 1857, but it appears that school was not taught until in the summer of 1860. Albert Smith, John Becker and William Pattison were the first school officers, and Miss Adelpha Davenport, who later became Mrs. Christ Wilkins, was the first teacher. The first schoolhouse stood near the present band stand in the village of Waite Park, which was then the farm of a man named Becker. However, it was not in reality a school- house. It was built for a granary and served that purpose both before and after its educational career, which lasted two years. Thereafter school was taught in a, log building which was situated on what is still known as the Gans farm, though the land has several times changed owners since that day. This log structure served as a schoolhouse for one summer term. The following term was taught by Mrs. Mollie Wood at her resi- dence, a log house on the Waite farm. This was in the summer of 1867, and in the fall of that year the first real school- house was erected, Mrs. Edna Getchell donating the site. Mrs. William Pattison, who is still living in the city of St. Cloud and who had taught school in the state of New York, wrote the notice for the first school meeting, at which her husband was elected one of the officers. William Smith, who was for many years connected with the Northern Pacific railway in the ca- pacity of chief engineer on locations, at- tended this school in his boyhood days. George Spear, the famous horse jockey, was a pupil here in the early days. The Rev. Leo Gans, D. D., pastor of the cathe- dral in St. Cloud, also received his early education in this school. The teachers who taught in the days when the school had no permanent home, were Adelpha Davenport, Martha Barr, Sarah Becker, Mary Waite, Ella Clark and Mrs. Mollie Wood. The first teacher in the new school was William Duncan, a brother of Mrs. William Pattison, who later returned to his native land, and is at present post- master in Burrallton, Scotland. He was followed by Sarah Becker, whereupon he


again taught the school for one term. Laura Jordan, H. A. Mckinstry and Mollie Caruthers taught the school in 1869 and 1870, whereupon Major George H. Smith took charge. This gentleman believed that Stearns county had a great future as a hop producing country, and so started a hop farm in connection. Believing also, like the immortalized schoolmaster of Dotheboy's Hall, that a practical educa- tion exceeded all others, he put his pupils to picking hops when the proper time had come. In consequence both the school and the hop farm failed! Other teachers em- ployed in this district were Lydia Hill, Juliette Hicks, Ella Becker, Kate Smith, Bettie Conwell, Etta Clifford, G. A. Mc- Donnell, Julia Noyes, Clara Weary, Wil- liam H. Alden (for many years justice of the peace in the City of St. Cloud) M. H. Slosson, Kate Cole, M. S. Hoffmann, J. W. Bangs, Nettie Wilson, Edith Pattison, Miss B. Connell, Charles Weber, Lottie Brown, John Goetz, Frances Weber, Hallie Get- chell, Henry Reiter, Hallie Getchell, Min- nie Hull, Peter J. Gans (now Father Roger of the Capuchin Order), Charlotte Get- chell, Sister Winefrida O. S. B., Minnie Franke, August Richter, Joseph P. Lahr, Edward Gans, Anna B. Morris, Bertha Lin- nemann, Elizabeth Steichen, Dora Ken- nedy, Gertrude Mueller, Lizzie Hinds, Michael Schmitt, James Dufner, Sophia Kranz, Marie Mimbach, Mathias Hurth, Rose Strobel, Leona Lovell and Mary Zier- ten.


District Number 37, known as the school at the Half-Way House, was organized in the fall of 1862. Peter Lommel, John Kraus and Peter Neidhardt were the first school officers, and Joseph Hoffmann was the first teacher. The first schoolhouse, a log building, stood about a mile south of the present location, near the Joseph Schoen farm. Among the pupils who at- tended this school in the early days was the Hon. John A. Roeser, the present judge of the district court of the Seventh judicial District. Mr. Roeser was also en- gaged to teach the school several years later. The teachers of this school were Mr. Kessler, Joseph Kunkler, Michael Bal- tes, William Heimert, Peter Doerner, Paulinus Mockenhaupt, George Hansen, . Jacob L. Hohmann, John A. Roeser, Joseph Lemm, H. Brinkmann, Joseph Lommel,


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Joseph Gillitzer, John B. Glass, John M.


Goetz, Edward Doerner, Sophia Kranz,


Barney Reiter, Hedwig Himsl, John O'Ryan, Kaspar Loesch, Miss Hennemann, Mary Goerger, Math Weyrens, Joseph Duf- ner, Beatrice G. Wolfe, and Ignatius Lemm.


District Number 47, known as the Jan- ske school, was organized in 1866. The first school officers were Peter Doerner and John Schwartz, the third member be- ing unknown. School was first taught in a building which stood near the southeast corner of what is now known as the Schwartz farm. The first teacher was John Doerner. After him came Paul Mockenhaupt, Joseph Walz, Peter Warn- ken, P. J. Limperich, Edward Doerner, Joseph P. Heltemes, Sister Stephanie O. S. B., Anton J. Hilger, August Doerner, Ig- natz Zeltinger, Mary Jackale and Math Weyrens.


District Number 3, whose building is lo- cated about three miles south of the city of St. Cloud and which is known as the Brickyard school, was organized in 1868. John Richter, Fred Kuhn and Louis Mock- enhaupt were the first school officers, and Fritz Rupp was the first teacher. He taught in a log building which occupied the present site, thirty-five pupils attend- ing. The present frame building, which succeeded the log structure, was built by the Rev. William Eversmann O. S. B., who followed the carpenter's trade before he studied for the priesthood. After Mr. Rupp the following were employed: Robert Mockenhaupt, Anna Zimmer, P. J. Limper- ich, J. L. Meyer, V. Ulrich, Frank J. Weis- ser, Phillip Richter, J. M. Goetz, J. M. Gillitzer, Joseph Kuhne, John Miller, George Hansen, Francis Bryer, Edward Doerner, Christine Keller, Anna Keppers, Dora M. Kennedy, Frank Fritz, M. G. Weyrens, Theodore Schulte, B. G. Kruch- ten, Lauretta Eich, Anna Engels, Lena Hockert and Eulalie May .. For the last twenty-four years Barney Richter has been treasurer of this district, and the present clerk, Edward Kuhn, is a son of the first clerk, Fred Kuhn.


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District Number 152, the Waite Park school, was organized in 1889. The first school officers were J. W. Scott, Christ. Stanger and F. W. Ladd, Miss Carrie Jones was the first teacher. After her the fol-


lowing were employed: Carrie Rogers, Miss Skinner, Louise Raymond, Mr. Lahr, Eva Grimes, P. M. Larson, Mrs. C. Estey, Miss Erickson, Miss Marion, Archie W. Kirk, Magdalen T. Burns, Adeline Becker and Agnes Erickson. At present three teachers are employed. At the 1914 Stearns county fair the first prize for a drawing exhibit, besides a number of in- dividual prizes, was awarded this school.




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