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There were several fruitless attempts to vote a loan, but 

 they always met defeat until last spring election, or rather 

 before the election, we got busy and by good teamwork got the 

 voters out, and when the vote was counted we found we had 

 carried five to one for the loan. The old building was built 

 entirely of white pine and was all full in measurements. It was 

 sawed in those early days before they acquired the habit of 

 charging up for sawdust and shavings, as at the present day. 



We first hired the old building wrecked at a cost of twenty- 

 five dollars, the lumber cleaned of nails and sorted and piled, 

 ready for the contractor. 



For the new building we have a good concrete wall and 

 cross walls, to support the floor. The house is thirty by thirty- 

 six feet with an eight-foot space cut off of the south end for 

 porch, cloak and library room. This leaves the schoolroom 

 twenty-eight by thirty feet, seated the long way of the room. 

 Heater is at one side, or rather corner, of the room. I should 

 have mentioned that this building has a T-shaped roof, making 

 three gables. 



The outside is covered with one-inch storm siding building 

 paper and best quality siding, the siding extending down over 

 foundation, preventing water from getting in to rot the ground 

 frame. 



The inside is patent lath with two-coat plaster work and 

 thirty-inch wainscoating metal ceiling. Flooring is edge-sawed 

 yellow pine, treated with two coats of boiling oil. Library 

 room and cloakroom are plastered, sides and ceiling. Library 

 room is six by eight feet, having one window with built-in book- 

 case, with sliding glass doors at top and sliding panel door at 

 bottom. The bottom part is ten inches deeper than the top, 

 making a convenient shelf. The cloakroom is eight by fourteen 

 feet, has double window in south, and coat hooks for wraps 

 and shelving for lunch boxes. The porch is eight by ten feet 

 and has concrete floor extending over cistern. 



The seats are the best individual seats that could be bought. 

 We have the Smith heating system, which is guaranteed to heat 

 the room to seventy degrees in the coldest or windiest weather, 

 and it isn't any warmer for a pupil sitting directly by the heater 

 than on the opposite side of the room. It takes the cold, pure 

 air from the outside, heats it and radiates it through the room. 

 The foul air is drawn out at the base of the chimney, completely 



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