It was a common occurrence for the children to be obliged to go from five to eight miles to school.

The first school building in the county was in what is now Joint district No. 2. known as the Wendt school on the south table west of Ash Hollow. It was built of sod in 1887, by M. F. Clary, Nicholas Opp, Bob Taylor, and Pete Ferry, on section 33, southwest corner. Eva Gilliard (now Mrs. J. A. Marshall near Lewellen) was the first teacher. She was only sixteen vears old.

Mrs. 'Robert Dailey, near Lisco. had no school near at hand. In order to get the children

to school, she took them to Lodgepole, often fording the river to do so. ( >nce she placed tinchildren on a cake of ice to serve as a raft. She waded the river; her struggle to keep the raft from carrying the children down stream in spite of her' would be a lesson in courage and determination. The school districts would sometimes get badly in debt, so the patrons would hire a teacher and pay the salary out of

their pockets. Lewellen. for instance, had to do that in 1902. Mrs. Chris McCormick was the teacher hired.

On the south table the old sod school buildings are of the past. They now havi g

frame buildings well equipped for work, good salaries are paid for good teachers. In the north the sod building still holds sway. The country being not fully developed, they are