Show 1 Stoker School In 1907 II Glimpses of ot the past as re remembered remembered remembered re- re by Clarence Goodfellow Goodfellow Goodfellow Good- Good fellow who was a member of ot the Stoker School graduating class of 1907 Picture ran two weeks ago Stoker school was just two when the picture was ears old y years the north entrance taken on steps WE THOUGHT this two story and basement brick building was quite the thing for it replaced room school house the little one could the fellers No longer stuff the chimney with th old rags and paper at night so when the the room fire was lit next day would fill with smoke These pranksters were not juvenile delinquents they were just trying to find a way away to close school for the day IN 1907 A COAL furnace re replaced replaced replaced re- re placed the pot bellied stove However this fancy new furnace was the only modern convenience convenience convenience conven conven- In the new school for 1 if you should thirst you just left the school grounds and found yourself a drink out of a water trough a running ditch or if you weren't afraid of germs you could drink from the community community community dip dipper er and water pall pail that was kept In the ahll anil Of course the Inside plumbing plumbing plumbing plumb plumb- ing was outside in the form of two relief stations one for George and the other for Georg Georg- ette DISCIPLINE was always the order of the day We lined up Inthe in inthe the hall when It was time to leave the building and kept our steps in time to the piano plana music played by Lila Llla Howard Jesse Reed Ida Knighton or Joel Parrish Then when class took up again the hand bell would be rung by the principal and we would all line up again and march back into the building bull ding in ma a I i dignified manner i THERE WAS one Ur this I well remember t j fire drill we had st turn tUrned ed sheer panic for no iota Into one ex L ed It Instead of leavin leaVing In quiet manner we fell over a J other trying to get out o of 5 the building There were sev e girls crying from the fright it U all when a we finally outside ar arriVed The school bus Way back then the was a covered w wagon agon T b William Mann who dents in from Pages Lane La If you lived elsewhere you area the good old shoe lea leather Cher B BUT trI IF YOU were real 1 lucky you could saddle really up the old mare and ride to school Just iS iSas as Ann and Maude Warner did riding in from their horne her e the Foss Lewis gravel t located When the boys had problems problem they left the school school pro property X rt and settled their differences at t the Battle Grounds Grounds' Of old Barton Creek Hollow This east of the William H Holbrook property which is now Fir First d South between First and Second East THE PRINCIPAL L of Stoker Stoke School was Leo J J. J staff of teachers were as fo fol O lows Myron Barlow David Tolman Joel Parrish Ella To man Fuschia Octavia Oc Oc- tavia Arbuckle Gertrude Gertru e Ar buckle and Ida Knighton There were others in this this' class who weren't present the picture was taken TIl taJ 7 were Ed Howard Scott Le ham Arley George Leo Mos Moss Vera Mann Maudline Hart am ad Royal Arbuckle |