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Back of Elmsdale School in 1946, showing coal shed, with Alvin and GoldieWilkie Coll. Wesley Rix standing in the foreground. John Adams’s ice house is on the left and John Burke’s house is in right back-

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the Elmsdale School District had hired two teachers for their senior and junior rooms and the teacher for the senior room would have the principal’s position. School memories from local residents tell of the two schoolrooms divided by a large hall— way. Inside the porch to the right could be found a hand pump and at the end of the porch was a large cloakroom. The junior room was the smaller room and it had a raised platform in front where the teacher’s desk sat and alsotwhere the class stood to read. Both rooms had library books at the front of the class, rows of single and double desks, blackboards and chalk for the teachers. Each room had a potbellied stove that burned coal, and a scuttle to keep the coal in. The children would have five and ten cent scribblers, pencils and sometimes a nib pen with a bottle of ink. A small building outside the school housed the coal. The outhouse was divided, 0116

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