Questers invited Ogden third grade to Hickory Grove School

Wm. B. Ogden Questers Chapter #1247 held their annual “SCHOOL DAY” for Ogden’s 3rd graders Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at the Hickory Grove one-room school east of Ogden. The teachers, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Halbur and Mr. Baltimore got off the school bus with 55 eager students at 9:00 a.m.  The school cooks had been saving gallon cans that contained food from the hot lunch program so each student brought a recycled can for their cold lunch, typical what students had when they attended a one-room school years ago.  The school bell rang and everyone gathered around the flag pole to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. 

Once inside, the students listened to several Questers tell about the teacher’s duties that she did each school day such as bringing in the filled coal bucket to start the fire in the pot-bellied stove, getting a fresh pail of water from the pump outside and using a common dipper for everyone to use, clean the slate boards and erasers, sweep the floor (with the corn-broom donated by Shannon Bardole), dusting school desks and the list goes on. 

Then students were divided into two groups: group one stayed inside for the morning session and class room subjects, the second group went outside for recess games and a tour of the train depot (which came from Berkley, Iowa), and viewing a most interesting display and collection of Marva J. Stark’s bird nests. 

Read more in the Oct. 19 issue of The Ogden Reporter.

PHOTO ID: Margo Hodges teaches the third graders ‘articulation.’ Students were to state in a complete sentence, their name, birthdate and something they like to do. The doll wearing the ‘dunce cap’ in the background illustrates how much education has changed. -Reporter photo by Becky Blair