Shep's Place Family Tree

June 28, 1889.
"The Mason City teachers have been hired, and they will draw magnificent salaries. The female teachers will draw at least twenty-dollars a month, and some of them twenty-two. We think this is too much wages. They will never know how to spend it all. It will make them extravagant we fear, for it takes a spendthrift to get away with twenty dollars a month, when one only has to board and clothe himself. The male man who teaches the grammar school will get forty dollars a month, and the principal fifty-three. They will have to throw their money at the birds. Shame on the Board of Education, thus to squander the people's money!"

July, 1894. "Teachers for the year are: Mr. Thomas, Miss Nannie Jarrott, Mrs. Kate Beller, Misses Mollie Brannon, Lizzie Burnell, Myrtle Adams, Nannie Hart, and Anna Lederer."

I remember that Aunt Nannie had a nose bleed that they didn't know how to stop."