School Memories Many thanks for the Digest.

It's comforting to have a hometown paper whose staff call Bonners Ferry home. I enjoyed seeing the photo of the building where I started school 82 years ago. As one can see, there was a bell. It was rung at the start of class and after morning and afternoon recesses and lunch hour. Ringing it was one of the duties of janitor "Davy" Dion, who was Jim Neumeyer's grandfather. Davy was a small man and some of the boys liked to help him pull the rope which hung in the cloak room. The second floor wasn't used at that time. Grades four through eight were in the nearby brick building which was formerly the high school. There was also a frame building on the grounds which served as a gym. All heating was by wood burning furnace. Cord wood was the main source of income for the local stump ranchers. The school site is now used by the Oak Street Senior Apartments.

Warren Bauman