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IN CELEBRATIONSchool Nf*.ar Cantril Includes Twenty Other Schools inEvent July 24-25The big picnic sponsored by r Elm school west of Cantril, Iowa is the fifth one to be held since 1921. This year twenty other schools are joining the “Elm Peelers” in this gigantic gathering.It was first intended that this timing celebration would be fi Mary Layton and Oscar Douglas semicentennial, because just fifty years ago both these teachers taught at the Elm school. About this time three other Layton girls and Delarma Douglas (father of Oscar Douglas) were teaching iriVan Buren county and after their schools are included, it will yet he a Layton-Douglas celebration. Without solicitation, Mrs. AureliaLayton Ferguson of Los Angeles,Cal., sent, me five dollars to helpfinance this picnic so it is only just and right that we invite the schools in which she taught, to join us in this celebration.So, we have decided to includealso the schools in which Biliaand Emma Layton taught, as well as those taught by Delarma Douglas. These schools number twenty-one (two of which have boon abandoned) and are in Van Buren and Davis counties, Iowa and Clarke and Scotland counties Mo. They areas follows:In Van Buren county, Farmington and Oak Hill in Farmington township, Willits, Summit and Mt. Sterling in Vernon township, Milton, Egypt (abandoned), Elm and Eureka in Jackson township, Home Prairie and Wiley in Dos Moines township, Keosauque, Pleasant Hill (abandoned) and White in Van Buren township, North Stone in Harrisburg township, Teter’s Corners (now Craven) in Davis county, Iowa Upp in Clarke county, and Elm Grove, Wilson, Hyde town and Leepcr In Scotland County, Mo.Because twenty-one schools are Interested In this celebration, it is necessary to hold it at some convenient place where several thousand people can ho entertained so it will be held on the Keosau-qua Fair grounds July 24 and 25 with good programs each day and evening.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Sat, Jun 01, 1929
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