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Show GETTING ON IN THE WORLD. In the ye. t 1883 wc moved into a new town, sixteen miles from the nearest village, five miles from neighbors neigh-bors on one side and nine on the other oth-er side. My husband worked in a logging camp the first winter. In the spring, when he came home, we had just twenty-eight dollars to live on for the summer; wc bought groceries gro-ceries with that. But after a few days I commenced to think where the next supply was coming from. Wc, of course, had no rent to pay and no wood to buy, but neither did wc have any way of working where it would bring in any money. "Jim," I said one day, "wc have got to think of some scheme to earn some money." "Right you ard, my girl, but I don't know what it will be." I thought the matter over a few days, and then said I believed I had a good scheme. , "Well, let's hear it," he said. "You know," I explained, "there are three families here in the settle ment, and they have twelve children. "Well, we can build a schoolhouse." "Why," he returned, "I'd like to know how. Wc haven't a cent ot money to build it with and no carpenter car-penter to do the work." "That is just where my scheme comes in," I answered. "We arc nine miles from one school and five miles from the other. Let us organize a district and borrow the money from the State and build a schoolhouse. You have got a saw and a hammer and Mr. H. has got a square, and the money we get will help along all summer." "If you can make any such scheme work, "he said, "I'll help. But I don't believe you can." So I wrote to the county superintendent, superin-tendent, and got a school code and studied up how to organize a school district. Then wc organized one, had a meeting and elected the officers, offi-cers, Jim as school clerk, and called a meeting for the purpose "of making a plan to build a schoolhouse. Wc borrowed seven hundred dollars dol-lars from the State to build it with. The job of building wc left to Jim, with the understanding that the three settlers were to work on it, too. We got our money from the State and built the schoolhouse. Seven hundred dollars isn't so very much money, but it went quite a long way to help us, there in the woods, to pay for groceries and other necessary things. .The people of the other districts had old log schoolhouscs, and when they heard about my idea of borrowing borrow-ing money from the State to build a frame house they said the idea of a green country girl, eighteen years old, trying to take a hand in running the town business was foolish. One of them even came to my house and said to me: "Of course, Mrs. B., we would like you to have a schoolhouse here; but don't think for a minute that you will be able to get it the way that you arc trying. Don't be so mistaken that you think that you can borrow from the State." As it happened, our draft had just" come the day before, and. I went to the trunk and got the pink slip of paper and handed it to him. He read it and said: "Well, well! I never thought that you would get it." The next summer four other district dist-rict officers came and consulted me and borrowed money to build them a school ' ousc. Of course I taught the. first year of school. o , |