There was a pond beside the school and sometimes we would put our skates on in the school to go skating on that pond. Later Gladys Alloway came to live with her grandparents in Tabernacle and went to high school from here. The school year 1917-18 was the last year it was used as a school because the Alloways were the only children left and they were transferred to the Chatsworth school. Alloway and Pepper families also worked in cranberries. The school house was on the property we lived on, between this house where we lived and the barn probably belonged to Evans and Wills for their cranberry business. It is not know if the school by Evans and Willis or Washington Township but the teacher was probably paid by Washington Township. You had to know your tables first thing in school, whereas transferring to Tabernacle in the 4th grade, Herbert was ahead of those students. In those days teachers had permission to punish students, if necessary. His daughter was named Elva, and the family original came from Weekstown. His daughter attended this school prior to Herbert’s being there. The teacher, William Reynolds, had a stick with which he would touch nearly everyone in there but never did as he had no reason to use it. There was a blackboard books were sometimes shared, sometimes individually owned. The school was heated with a pot-belly stove and burned coal (notice the coal bin in the picture behind the dog and wagon). Joe Alloway was in the eight grade when Herbert Gerber started school 1913-14.Some students came from Jenkins Neck– Wilford Sooy brought them over in the school bus, a Model T of his own. Her two brothers, Ralph and Blair Chew, ran the saw mill at Sandy Ridge, where the mountain of sawdust was. Next teacher was Miss Lillian Chew- she could have been the last teacher there. There was also a teacher by the name of Helen Reed (or Read). Many times he chopped firewood after school on his knees. First teacher remembered was William Reynolds who was crippled in both legs, and walked with the aid of crutches. “The school was built around 1875, possibly earlier, and was in Washington Township. Gerber was a student in the school, beginning in the 1913-4 term. The following article was written by Herbert Gerber in March of 1986.
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