Section 5, Taylor twp.

Taylor twp. No. 6, 1872
T.F. Healey, county superintendent of schools

Tuesday, March 5, Forenoon

D.C. Dickson, teacher; number on roll, 46, present, 22. No visitors at any time. When Mr. D., took charge of the school he found the scholars deficient in everything, he says; he therefore made a speciality of practical arithmetic and determined to advance them in that branch, which to his credit be it said, he has done, most thoroughly and practically too, as his A class answered with perfect correctness every problem asked of them.

In penmanship too Mr. D., labored hard to instruct his scholars and with a good result, while in reading, grammar and history but a sorry show was made. Mr. Dickson though a rather eccentric young man, possesses within him the qualifications for making a teacher at the very highest order.

George Banks and Mary Fitzgerald take the lead in this school.

~Source: The Mirror and Chronicle, Thursday, March 14, 1872, Lansing, Iowa, Page 3

Excelsior School notes, 1935
Sylvia Monserud, Teacher

Nora Ann Monserud is the only one who has been neither absent nor tardy during the first two periods.

We had a Hallowe'en party, and the losers in the spelling contest were the entertainers. Leila Dougherty, Paul Krapfl, Wesley Monserud and Emma Hanson were our guests.

Our visitors this period were: Leila Dougherty, Paul Krapfl, Mrs. L.A. Weover, Mrs. A.R. Hanson, Mrs. A.M. Monserud and Mrs. Will Monserud.

We all miss Billy, Alfred Monserud's pony, who is no longer with us.

~Source: The Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, Wednesday December 4, 1935, Lansing, Iowa, Page 3