They had expected to have a new building ready for the next year, but there was some trouble about the bonds, leaving the community without a school building for three vears. During this time school was held in the Hall, 1.. II. Warner and Lyle Mewhirter were two of the teachers who taught in the Hall. In 1911 a good frame building was completed. In 1918 the 11th and 12th grades were added, making a high school course complete. A large brick building is being erected this year for its accommodation. It will be a needed improvement.

The teachers in 1920, are Gwendoline Jones, Superintendent, Warren E. Dolan, Assistant, and Miss Granet, the high school teachers; and Mary Byer, \da lion, back. Mrs. Cassell Dela-

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

tour and Mrs. Esther Jones as grade school teachers.

As early as 1890 a small school was carried on in the sod house on John Robinson's preemption on Lost Creek, one mile north of Oshkosh. Among the teachers who taught in this building were Viola Empson (now Mrs. Robt. Day), D. F. Fickes and Miss Hunsinger.

That old sod house was used until 1896, when a new sod building was put up in the north edge of town near where the old stone building now stands. John Twiford taught in this building in 1903, and Laura Laycock taught one of the last terms of school in the old "Soddy." The stone building consisting of two rooms was erected in 1905. It was quite a pretentious building at that time, but soon became too small. In the fall of 1910 the primary grades were moved into a small frame building on Fish