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EUREKA SCHOOL No. 8
Rice Township
Twice-A-Week News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
1898
A MODERN COUNTRY SCHOOLHOUSE.
The above is a picture of the schoolhouse in Eureka district, No. 8, Rice township [two and a half miles southeast of Delphos]. It was built last year at a cost of
$500. Wayne KASTER is the sub-director in the district. He is also president of the township board, E. O. GLEASON
being secretary and J. C. CURRY, treasurer. The schoolhouse was build by William FERGUSON (lead carpenter), C.T. GUNTER, Fred KEITH and Oren
NICHOLSON. The schoolhouse is 26x27 feet in size, with a seating capacity of 40.
There is a cloak room and hallway. The chief merit of the building is that there is no direct sunlight, but according
to hygienic principles the light is admitted from the north. About 15 new country schoolhouses are to be built this year
in Ringgold county, and probably many of them will be built on the plan of the one shown. The citizens of Rice township
should be accorded great credit for their enterprise in erecting such a modern builing on hygienic principles.
Florence Modessa "Flossie" (HAMILTON) SACKETT, teacher at Eureka School
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker May of 2010
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