Town School, Dist. 33

the town school, district 33

1921 complaint about school taxes

In an article in the December 27, 1921 Nebraska State Journal, C. W. Chambers complained about the cost of teachers' salaries. In context, complaints on the burden to retired people who had moved to town, it is about taxes for the town school. The article says, in part, that despite money troubles, there had been a vote to keep teachers' salaries at the same level for the coming year. It continued:

"This extravagance must be stopped," he said, "Or bankruptcy will follow right soon. We had many years of prosperity caused in great measure by Europe's ability to buy and by the great preparations for war. We can't expect much from there, for years to come. The country is not prosperous. The towns to a great extent are populated by old folks (who as Gentle Joe Gargery, when Pip asked if Miss Haversham was dead, said, 'I wouldn't go as fur as to say she is dead, but she aint' a livin', see Dickens Great Expectations). These old folks who relied on their little fortunes to maintain them in their simple way and came to town in their few remaining days are cruelly taxed. Their productive days are over, and between H.C.L., high taxes, and the cost of sickness and death, it will be a tight squeeze if we all escape being a burden on somebody, and it's a shame. -- Stop it. C. W. Chambers.

1888 - 1929

Class of 1905

Class of 1908

Class of 1913

1930s

Class of 1931

Class of 1932

1940s

Class of 1943

1950s

1960s

Class of 1966

Class of 1967

Class of 1968

1970s

1980s

school pictures

Photo 262. This photo is undated. Names are below.

Names on a typewritten tag, and on handwritten tags, all with the picture:

Photo 278. The class and students are unidentified. This photo is in the same bound album containing a photograph dated 1910 as the photo above.

Photo 280. From the bound album with a class picture dated 1910.

Photo 929, undated, no names. This picture of the Assembly Room in the 1902 school sparked a Facebook exchange about numerous aspects of the picture, including the mysterious teller cage. It is in the old school, with the steps to the superintendent's office seen through the open door. A picture of President William McKinley is on the wall to the left. McKinley served from 1897 and until his assassination in early 1901, six months into his second term.

The pole that supported the southeast corner of the Assembly Room is in the Pioneer Museum. (It is not in view in this photograph.) Member Floyd Vrtiska saved it from destruction when the school was torn down.