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Lowood school house
There is not anything left of the Lowood School House any more at the mouth of Camp Creek, where the neighboring youngsters gathered to be taught this and that.
The first school house was a small one, made of rough boards. There were holes and cracks in the old building, but in those days people didn't seem to care about that. The teacher stuffed them full of waste paper when the cold weather came along.
One day, around 1907, the old school house burned. That made some of the youngsters happy, because we thought we wouldn't have to go to school any more for quite a while. But we were soon made unhappy, for they soon stretched a large tent, made some desks from rough lumber, and we had to go to school again. They hired a new teacher to finish the term, Miss Louise Freitag, her first teaching experience, and in a tent.
She was a lovely teacher, too. Probably not many teachers began their teaching career in a tent.
When the next school term began the following spring, they had a new school house, much larger than the old one, but still I didn't like to go to school.
David c. Earhart of Hornbrook built the new school house. Times and conditions changed during the years that follow­ed, and the time came when the school house was no longer needed; and it was sold and moved away in about 1943. Thus ended the building where I was taught to write these words.
The old school yard fence that Jim Gardner built to keep us youngsters in is gone too. The old well is all caved in, but some of the trees where the youngsters tied their horses are still there, and they look about the same as they did forty­ five years ago. The old hitch-rack went long ago.