SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA

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The following is after Mina King's articles in The Thousand Islands Sun, courtesy of Jeanne Snow, editor. Quotation marks indicate Mrs. King's own observations.

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DISTRICT NUMBER 18

was the Goose Bay School. The schoolhouse was on the road leading to Redwood from Hibbards Corners. It was first placed upon a small knoll near the Fitzsimmons property, but the playground was down the road and across. After a few years the building and the woodshed were put on the playground lot, and a well for water was drilled for school use.

At the back of the old school were two outhouses. Each was a "two holer," but only one student at a time was allowed to go during the school hours. There was a separate building for wood which was nearer the front door, as in the winter that old box stove had to be kept filled to keep all of the students warm. At the back of the old school were two outhouses. Each was a "two holer," but only one student at a time was allowed to go during the school hours. There was a separate building for wood which was nearer the front door, as in the winter that old box stove had to be kept filled to keep all of the students warm.

Mrs. King recalled a map on a metal rack which had several charts, some for reading first grade work and also some for arithmetic to figure. "This was the extent of the material furnished by the district. Other material was furnished by the teacher, and she bought that herself. We did a lot of blackboard work, and used our slates at our desks.

"Barnes Readers were the books that I learned to read from. They had a good variety of stories. The Little Match Girl was one in particular that I liked. I remember listening to subjects that the teachers gave to older pupils. Jennie Ritter read to her class all about Confucius. I should have been studying my own work, but I liked this wonderful man, and in later years I had to study early educators like him--and "remembering what I had learned was valuable.

"Required subjects were: reading, writing, arithmetic, English, physiology [health,] drawing, geography, history, spelling, and sometimes little extra things like recitations and singing. Most schools had no libraries, but a few books were made available to us now and then, and we did enjoy every one of them."

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Town Historian Hazel McMane made a more modern view of the interior of the school available to this site.

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The District Superintendent, Mr. D.D. Marshall, reported of it in September 1912:
Mildred Hodge, teacher, Redwood, TTC, $10.00.
8 pupils registered
John Stine, trustee, Redwood. Valuation 33,000. Rate about .65
Improvements: Interior and outside painted, desks varnished, slate board, more library, book case.

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