History of Pilotsburg Rural School and Town Founding
The article recounts Neisburg Pilotsburg founded by Asa Wilson and Asa family, with 1848 log cabin school taught by Mrs. Cooper, paid by one cow. It details 1855 log school, Angeline Corkins teaching, notable pupils, and later lack of outside equipment. Current teacher Beulah Freel and a list of pupils follow.
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Neisburg
W. Thomas
BD. Cooper
Winthrop
Issac
Rebecca Parley
Adamson
Polly Winkle
Asa Wilson
Pilotsburg
Angeline Corkins
Corkins
Betty Wilson
Sohpronn Elizabeth
Virginia
Christina Barnes
Sam Wellington
Murat Rickey
Malone and
Rosell
Des Moines
Iowa
Hilland Rickey
Kulona
Beulah Freel
Mae Blum
Beatrice Gillispie
Wenona Anderson
Jeaneet Blum
Keith Anderson
Larry Campbell
Carren Andderson
Melba Hole
Bruise Campbell
Tax Levy Authorized in Lime Creek District 12
In 1867 a resolution was passed to levy a tax on taxable property in district No. 12 Lime Creek township Washington county to raise sufficient funds for district needs.
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Lime Creek Township
Washington County
Local Election Officials Listed by Ward and At Large
Councilmen at large W B Dupuis and O Boller lead the roster. First Ward R F McFarlane. Second Ward A W Ward. Third Ward Clarence Jacobs. Fourth Ward Harry Montgomery.
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W. BH. Dupuis
O . Boller
R. F. McFarlane
A. W. Ward
Clarence Jacobs
Harry Montgomery
Erection of Smith Creek School Traced Through Early Meetings
Bonnie Baker and Orrin Tucker led a Sunday fundraiser of 200 dollars to build the first Smith Creek school with J C Jones as chair and ER Foster as secretary. The text details subsequent funding, construction in 1875, a coal stove, a cave shelter, and the 1911 rebuild, plus early school board members, teacher hires, and notable alumni including local doctors.
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J. C. Jones
ER. N. Foster
Smith Creek School
Helen Adams
Smith Creek
Mel Whetstine
N. G. Fields
Joel Farley
I. N. Carr
G. W. Weller
A. D. Foster
Ray
West Eighty
Joel England
Bertha Eyemann
Kathryn Clarhan
H. L. Foster
Wayne Foster
Morxun Moster
Warren Foster
Harry Jones
Gerald Whetstine
Della Potsander
Dwain Detweiler
Marjorie Bull
Merlyn Detweiler
Joan Greiner
Gene Detweiler
Donald
Ronald Detweiler
Rodney Geiner
Hawkeye School in Lime Creek Township Washington County
Hawkeye School in section 31 of Lime Creek Township, Washington County, traces to 1871 with frequent repairs and a 1940 pupil roll of about 54. Notable early teachers include Hope Ott and Clayton Eckerman, while 1889–80 records list Myrtle Rose and Estella Ihrig among staff. Indians once camped north of Smith Creek with graves nearby.
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Hawkeye
Lime Creek Township
Washington County
Nira
Keota-Wellman Road
Zillmer
Theodore Zillmer
Wellman
Hope Ott
Clayton Eckerman
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Irene Aller
Ellery Foster
Helen Insminger
Christena Klein
Kate O'Rourke
Henry Bernard
John H. Lhrig
Mary Long
Jenny Poston
Lib Stinchcomb
Tiny Duke
Revie
Myrtle Rose
Estella Ihrig
Harry Brown
Euna Brown
Fred Henn
Scott Hyatt
Mary Henn
Ralph Hull
Ellea Ayers
Martie Childs
Warren Ihrig
Ida Ihrig
Edith Ihrig
Anna Henn
John Henn
Emma Brown
Frank Brown
Nora Figgins
Effie Hull
Norman Moothart
Carrie Glider
Eric Pawson
Kate Hoefert
Herbry McDowell
A. E. .Dawson
Wm. Henn
Edwin Brown
J. HH. Shrig
Schol
Smith Creek
Red School House Legacy in Lime Creek Township
In Lime Creek township east central area N 7 sits two and a half miles east of Wellman near its historical Red school house. The early 1850s facility offered minimal training with basic equipment like benches boards a large stove and improvised supplies as pupils provided tacks and the community debated schooling norms.
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Lime Creek Township
Wellman
Bahamian Revenue Bases Grow Across Sectors
The Bahamas relies on tourism as the main income source with growing sectors including sponge and sisal cultivation and straw hat basket production. Agriculture expands with rising jewelry production from tortoise shell and sea shells.
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The
Bahamas
Indian Foolers Exhibit On Old Overland Telegraph Line
J. G. Atwood of Rawlings Wooa displays a 12 piece exhibit of Indian foolers wooden insulators once used 80 years ago as coverings for glass insulators on the original Overland Trail telegraph line.
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J. G. Atwood
Rawlings, Wooa
Widows of Presidents Still Living in 1940
The six widows identified were Mrs. T. J. Preston formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. William Howard Taft, and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.
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T. J. Preston
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
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Official
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Optometrists
John C
Owen Stan Klesey
R. R. Nooranima
Rawan
Phen B. Jones
Sti
Harriet Coulter
Harold Putnam
Marion
George County
Lester B
Chiropractors
Dr, Chas
Brown
Washington Independent School District
Ralston
Ans Harland
Theodore B. Bailey
Law Loan & Trust Bldg
W. Livingston
West Main St
Court House
George K. Morrison
J. C. Penney Co
Officers
Lloyd
Martap
Bailey
Frank B. Miller
J. B. Lemmon
City Library
Grace H. Stephen
Labrarian
Ruth Lytle
DR. A
Peterson
Second Ave
Washington
Sherman
Bonnie Baker
Orrin Tucker
FOX Sunday
Wee Bonnie Baker
Pax
Hawkeye School
Compton
Hazel Glider
Wayne Gabriel
Wildres Canott
Arlis Glider
Doris Potsander
Virginia Canott
Evelyn Canott
Martha Lemley
Jeanette Gabriel
George Millar
Arline Patterson
Katharyn Lewis
Brown School
Molotov
Josef Stalin
Yosuke Matsuoka
Russia
Japan
Stalin
Matsuoka
Greece
International Illustrated
Ford
Price Cars
Grand Canyon
Ozaler
Mace Motor Company
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