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PUBLIC ROAD 



Layout of School Grounds, District No. 33, Custer County, Nebraska 



girls' toilet to front, 8x22; boys' toilet to back, 12x22; front room, 

 12x28. Pressure tank; hot and cold water; water furnished by gas 

 engine, pumped direct to pressure tank; a complete generating system. 

 The foundation is of cement and pressed brick; hot air heat; cost of 

 building, equipped, $4,500, exclusive of furniture. Have a high school 

 of first class up to 10th grade. This is our second year in the new 

 school house. We will clean up our indebtedness this year. We pay 

 our principal $85; primary teacher, $55; furnish principal with cottage 

 and room for keeping chickens. Have two acres of ground; six cherry 

 trees, 45 shade trees, small, but this is a fine valley, situated fourteen 

 miles southeast of Baker, on Billings Line B. M. R. Our school house is 

 situated about 300 yards south of R. R. line, five miles west of Ansley. 

 We expect to increase our grades as we need them. I will send you a 

 rough sketch of school grounds and the location of same. (See illus- 

 trations, pages 38 and 39.) We have fourteen high school pupils; thirty- 

 eight primary pupils. (J. H. Linder, Director, Dist. 33, Berwyn, Custer 

 Co., Neb.) 



McGill, White Pine County, has a six-room house occupied by six 

 teachers and equipped with all modern conveniences. It was built by 

 the trustees because no suitable boarding places could be obtained and 

 has been most advantageous to the community. (U. S. Bureau of Edu- 

 cation.) 



Hampshire. 



No teachers' cottages reported. 



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