Another of York County’s newspapers was The New Teller, which published a weekly edition for over fifty years, from 1897 through the early part of 1949. Like most local, especially rural, newspapers of that time, the news reports included the daily events of average citizens.
As we saw earlier in the post about a visit to Uncle Pete (here), the small towns surrounding York often had their own regular columns. In The New Teller, the Lushton column was titled “Round-about Lushton.” That column for the 17 March 1943 issue includes several items of interest.
Paragraph 2, for example, reported that “Daniel, Darlene and Carl Buller were Sunday guests of Robert and Roxanna Schaldecker.” After another six paragraphs tell of various in-town and out-of-town visits, the column turns to happenings at the Lushton school (pictured to the right). The report begins with the upper grades.
The upper classmen are beginning work on the three-act comedy “Me and My Shadow” which they expect to present on the sixteenth of April. Save the date, please.
With the smell of spring in the air, there is talk of including horseshoe pitching … and tennis as spring sports.
Then follow reports from the Grammar Room (fifth to seventh grades) and the Primary Room (first to fourth grades). Darlene and Daniel are mentioned in the former, Carl in the latter. The school reports are as follows (I transcribe the newspaper account at the end of this post).
Several details catch my eye. First, the seventh-grade first-aid training was almost certainly part of the broader national war effort. Although the article does not mention the Victory Corps, many schools around the country included first-aid training in the Victory Corps programs (see here), so Lushton was right in step with those sorts of initiatives.
Second, the Lushton school also promoted the purchase of defense stamps. The stamps, which sold for 10¢, 25¢, or 50¢ (perhaps other amounts as well), were collected in booklets; once a booklet was filled, it could be turned in for a $25 war bond (for photographs, see here and scroll down). The defense stamps were created to give children an affordable way to participate in the war-bond effort.
Finally, the answer to the question posed in the title of the post? See the last sentence of the newspaper report!
Grammar Room: Of the seven pupils in the grammar room, three girls, Joan Snider, Darlene Buller and Shirley Lloyd are in the fifth grade, and four boys, Teddy Snider, Robert Schaldecker, Daniel Buller, and Thomas Klundt are in the seven grade. Each Thursday afternoon the seventh grade and their teacher meet with the First Aid class. They are learning how to bandage different parts of the body, care for wounds and administer artificial respiration. All enjoy helping Uncle Sam by buying defense stamps. When a total of one dollar of stamps is purchased by all the members of the room a white star is placed on a large blue V. Educational films are enjoyed by all each week. Miss Roma Bellows is the teacher.
Primary Room: The enrollment in the primary room is eleven. There are six boys in the first grade, three in the second grade, one in the third grade and one in fourth grade. The first grade includes a pair of twins, Richard and Ronald Battreall. The first six weeks in the second semester ended Tuesday of this week. Those in the primary room having perfect attendance for this period are Eugene Carter and Floyd Ondrak. Our last reading race was in trying to see whose snow man would stand the longest. A poor lesson melted the snowman away. Kent Parsons was the winner of this contest. Max Ronne has been absent the past week due to illness. Carl Buller is ahead on our spelling honor roll.
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