WEBER SCHOOL, Our Yesterdays, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. WEBER SCHOOL When I taught at Weber School in 1923, the log building was still standing that my father attended school in as a boy. It was being used for a barn as a new frame building had been built. It was the usual country school with a wood coal stove. The stove had a jacket which would keep the children from getting close enough to get burned. On cold mornings, our classes were held close to the stove. Water was supplied by a pump in the yard. The plumbing was strictly "Chic Sales"! The boys brought in the wood and water, and teacher built the fire and took out the ashes. She also did the cleaning. I taught three years at Weber. Among the students were Phillip, Margaret and Mary Gillick, Helen Murray, Tom Hawkins, and Laura and Doris Quaintance. The classes were usually divided into four or five classes. It was necessary to make out a program that would divide the time as equally as possible. Among the classes the children learned concentration of necessity as there as almost always a class reciting. The girls wore their hair in a Dutch Bob and knee length dresses and long stockings. The boys wore their hair cut short, overalls and plain shirts. The first fall I stayed at Cary Quaintance's and drove a horse and buggy, and took Laura and Doris Quaintance with me. At Christmas time, my folks moved to the Wickham ranch so I moved there but still continued to pick up the girls on my way to school. My salary was $100.00 a month, less $1.00 for retirement. SUBMITTED BY MRS. MARGARET WICKHAM BOE