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Show Page 12 Thursday, September 12, 1996 Messenger-Enterpris- e teachers taught for what little they could get from the tuition paid. Quoting the Enterprise for February 896 - nine or ten students from Ephraim attended the BYU Academy and Ephraim felt well represented in number and Look Back at Ephraim A 1 By Eleanor Madsen Part of the Celebration of Utahs Statehood As children go back to school in September 1996 so they did in 1896, although conditions were ready for the day and as she reached the school playground the The day began with prayer followed with a song by the pupils. The children mostly learned reading, writing and arithmetic. schoolmaster came out of the somewhat different from the building ringing a hand-hel- d bell schools of today. The way the chilsummoning the children to line up They practiced push, pull and dren dressed and how they got to in rows, four abreast to march into circles around and around to learn school was different also. the schoolrooms. Here they sat in to write well. They had spelling A in that flat top desks which were fastened matches with the winner receivgirl early day was described as weartogether with long runners. The ing sometimes a rubber eraser as ing a calico pinafore, long black grooved desk held a pencil and pen a prize. They made maps of clay of the stockings, tight buttoned shoes and on the right side an ink well and a perky ribbon tied to her long with a bottle of ink. A place under different countries and memorized black braids. the desk top held papers and many poems such as Hiawatha. At recess time the children The bell from the school tower books, although there werent had signaled time to rise and get many books in those days. played hop skotch, jump the rope, Ginnie, marbles and jacks.' You have the best source of local news In Ephraim in 897 there were ld 1 in your hands right now. 198 pupils and 15 graduates (from the 8th grade). There were four schools in Ephraim. An item in the Manti Elementary Ephraim Enterprise for May 1 Positive Action Students r. v, V V, . 896 reads: intelligence. At the commencement of students from Snow Academy the Enterprise stated that a celebration was held at Funks Lake and a football game with Manti concluded the days activities. In the 1 890s young men from the County who were called on missions for the LDS Church attended classes at Snow Academy in preparation for their services. The Enterprise of May 6, 1 896 reported that Three missionaries will leave town for Scandinavia this week ... Jorgen Jorgensen, John Peterson, and Peter Olsen. In 1 898 the school population for Ephraim was 719 pupils with 74 attending public school. The average pay for teachers was $55 per month for male teachers and $35 per month for female. As many as 55 or 60 pupils were in one classroom. This week closes the first half of the last term in the District While students today with schools- - Ephraim is more fortusmaller classes, calculators and nate than most of the towns in the computers to assist the learning County being able to run the process are learning to adapt faster school the full four terms. to 996 way of living, the students In addition to these four in 1896 were learning the imporschools an Enterprise item says: tant things they needed to know The Presbyterian school will for their lives then. They were eaopen for primary and intermediger to learn and valued their eduate grades on Tuesday September cation. As students begin school 8th. There was also a Methodist again in 1996 may they too value school in Ephraim at this time. - their educational opportunities and Snow Academy had been es- continue to retain the values won tablished for eight years and had with so much sacrifice and expanded so that they needed struggle by those who preceded more rooms than the two provided them in 1896. p at the Building so they Sources: rented two rooms from the North The Other 49ers Ward in 896. It was a four year t Our Yesterdays school at that time. The church , Saga of the Sanpitch was in bad financial straits so the Ephraim Enterprise 1 7 u 7 -- I - rh" , STT L l&sSl Colter Lund and L : Co-o- 1 Stephen Harr or (gu (an soti 0 Ufa Atta Boy, BUY asst'd canned DOG FOOD rp mar Del Monte, --L mp PUDDING CUPS 1 FREE WCOUPON asst'd GET 1 4-p- k. X Regular or With Bleach, Sun Ultra DETERGENT I V ORANGE or FUDGE BARS before you make it, you have a few things to consider... Is the plan affordable? Will I get quality care? 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