Memories from teacher, Alice Wiegers Lee
Elgin No. 5, 1948-1951

It was known as the Detloff school. Edwin Detloff was the director. We had a terrific snow storm that year and most schools were closed. But Edwin and his twin brother came to town to get me because I couldn't get there. Somehow they had a car we took from LeMars to Alfred's and then I stood on the back of the tractor to ride to Edwin's house (I think that's how it was). I stayed there for a couple nights and rode a horse to the schoolhouse a mile away. Don't you know that horse really had a time getting through the drifts. Then when I got there I had to make a fire etc. Those two characters were really something else, never serious. When Dad and I got married the whole school came to give us a chivalry. Good people!!! 

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