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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1959)
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Stevens Editor's Note: As this is edu- through the cracks, so I kept, 1 cation week Mrs. Wilson Stev right on going the eight miles ens decided it would be a good over the divide to the river to j time to tel) of early experiences see the Board members. I had Jim and Veryl Hoover i in the teaching profession some the effrontery to put down the Phone 2602 Mill City ultimatum that I would not open | time ago in the Midwest. It is | a far cry from the modem day school again until the building] was fixed so that we could see schools. My First School: Deadman's and keep warm, or at least as warm as the children could at Gulch | The school was built reluct- home. I was surprised, but 1 MOTHER love IS iohat i antly by the ranchers over on did not get fired and in fact I PROMPTS a C u OMAN to the river, who used that hill seemed to have commanded SHOOT HER HUSBAND country for cattle outrange, but their respect. After another ijAHTH a B ouj ano I these “squatters” had settled week the building had windows ARRO lu so and no cracks — and no black at the water hole and demanded SHE UIONT a school for the six or seven board either. awaken her . I borrowed a crowbar where I children of the two families. CHILDREN • boarded, carried it the four Just out of high school I took the teacher's examination for miles horseback, pried up the both Wyoming and Montana and seats, and with the children s passed both. I took the school help, turned the seats around. in Montana, this Deadman’s We got out the roll of black Gulch school, because I knew board paper than had been a family with whom I could waiting to be framed and put board. They lived four miles up. and tacked it to the rough from the school on Hanging boards on the solid end of the woman Creek. My bus was a ' building. Now we had a com- ■ plete school! saddle horse. I rode over the rise into the I All in all I think we all learn- Gulch and viewed my school ed a great deal. I know I did building. It was a rude build 1 and the children had done very TOM SAYS:- ing made of large preen rough well considering their limita- ed sawed plank that let all the I tions. The most touching was the Love of car is what prompts Fall sunshine through the last day of school when each motorists to drive theta* cracks The windows were cov i child presented me with some ered with tar paper, awaiting little gift they had made them autos to Tom’s Shell Ser the whim of the antagonistic selves with little or nothing to vice for quality servicing board who had promised to get Ido vith. Some of these tokens Our famous line of Shell the windows in by the time I have yet, to remind me that Gas ami Motor Oil are school started. The seats facing 1 no matter where you find these guaranteed to give more j the door, were also made of little minds or in what squalor mileage per gallon. ' these roughly sawed planks and they may live they are eager nailed to the floor with spikes. for a little love, attention, and , There was no black board and learning. no place to put one with the | seats all facing the door. Nor I were there any books or ma- ' terials of any kind. The first day of school arriv Report from Santiam Memorial ed with no improvements in the Hospital, Stayton building or supply conditions. We Give S & II Green Born November 3 to Mr. and The children were there when I Mrs. John Nielson of Sublimity Stamps got there. a daughter, Theresa Margaret, Mill Qty Standing in the doorway were weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces. Rhone 7684 two boys taller than I and about the same age, along with several smaller boys and girls. How I ever managed to appear HERE’S A GOOD BUY ON in command of the situation, I don’t know, as my whole inner- being was quivering with but terflies I must have bluffed Many Good Patterns to Choose From them all as they all sat down in the seats meekly enough. They This Sells Regularly at 59c per yd did have pencils and tablets so I started them out with some SPECIAL --------------------------------- spelling words for them to learn and some letters for the begin We are getting in New Gift Merchandise Daily. ners. Priced right too. Come in and look these items In this manner, using sentenc over. es. numbers, and whatever I could think of. we carried on for about six weeks before the county superintendent sent me the county texts and supplies Our water supply had to be Ph. 2243 227 S. W. Broadway Mill City carried abbot a half mile from the spring. I would take the empty bucket with me when I started home and leave It up- side down on a stake, then in the morning I would get off mv horse, fill the bucket get hack on and reach down to me stake and cam’ it by band to the school The big boys would sometimes take the water over but they were not attending Box Office Open 5:30 p. m. Sun., 7:00 p. m. Week Day«. schoolverv often. Their ne’er- do-well father had to have them to help him snake In logs to FRIDAY. SATURDAY. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13-14-1$ burn for fuel. The living condi tions of these families was piti KATHRYN GRANT. KERWIN MATHEWS, in ful. When the snow came we could melt snow instead of car “THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD” rying water. — PLUS — The Board promised to have the cracks filled and the win JACK BEUTEL, STEVE KEYES, in dows In for sure over Christ mas vacation But riding back “MUSTANG’’ over the hill at the end of vaca- Hoover's Repair Service FRUIT OF THE LOOM PRINTS NOVEMBER SALE 49* Your Opportunity to SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! 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