Show Sterling School Past Post Revived An old building burned last week but the memories re re- re The Sterling School completed completed completed com com- In 1899 was gutted by flames early Tuesday Although the building was completely destroyed It was not completely forgotten Students who attended the school before it was closed by bythe bythe bythe the South Sanpete School District District District Dis Dis- In 1956 and residents who remembered the twenty years it served as a combination church school amusement hall and purpose all-purpose building thought of those days Margaret Anderson Salt Lake City formerly a member of the Manti City Council and an employee of the South Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San San- pete School District is one of the schools school's alumnae She can remember the days when everything t that at was held was held In that building She can remember when school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children taught by three teachers attended grades one through eight in its three rooms She can remember dances that were held there and the corner sandboxes that were used as babysitting devices while parents celebrated You could always find three or four children asleep in the sand sand- boxes Miss Anderson can remember remember remember ber going to Sunday School inthe In Inthe inthe the old building and watching her bearded grandfather pass the sacrament to the tion Some of my fondest me memories memories mem mem- mories m- m ories were the activities that we carried on there Contractor Joseph Judd began began began be- be gan work on the building In 1898 At that time Sterling's educational trustees were Niels Christensen Harrison Edwards Edward EdwardsJr Ed Ed- wards ward Jr and Marinus Beaure- Beaure gard More recently the school was sold for one dollar to Sterling City and the Sterling Ward had made plans plan to purchase it for fora a cultural hall and Relief So Society Society Society So- So room |