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Center twp. School No. 7
Dalby school

Section 36, Center Township



Dalby school ca1932

~contributed by Aubrie Monroe - she photographed this photo that was displayed at the Allamakee Rural All-School Reunion, spring 2019


1872
In the afternoon visited District No.7, Center township; Miss Matilda Torson, teacher. This school was just out, but the director stated that the young lady gave fair satisfaction and had a roll of 36.
T.F. Healey, county superintendent of schools

~ Source: The Mirror and Chronicle, Thursday, March 14, 1872, Lansing, Iowa, Page 3
~Transcribed by Cindy (Maust) Smith


1888
Emma Larson granted the Dalby school a holiday vacation of a week and came home. She made a futile attempt to return to Dalby on January 1, as the mountains of snow on Columbus ridge were insurmountable. she succeeded on the 2d after D. Fitzgerald with a large force of men had tunneled from the 'summit' south and F. Martin with a force of large men had made some prodigious cuts through the huge mas on the north slope. ~Lansing Mirror, Friday, January 6, 1888, pg 3
~contributed by S. Ferrall.

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The Dalby school, taught by Emma Victoria Larson closed on the 28d inst., to re-open in a few weeks by Miss L., which makes the fourth successive term. W.F. Kehrberg continues to be school director of said school, and also president of the Center township school-board. ~Lansing Mirror, Friday, March 30, 1888, pg 3
~contributed by S. Ferrall.

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Emma Larson braided her withe and started the Dalby school again on the 30th. she boards with Anton Ingebretson, as she is related to A's young wife. ~Lansing Mirror, Friday, May 11, 1888, pg 3
~contributed by S. Ferrall.


1893
Miss Emma Larson teacher, closed a full term at Darby school on the 9th inst. with an entertainment on the 8th. Miss Larson avails herself of every opportunity to improve herself by attending, during school intervals, stricly progressive American schools. Miss Larson has taught the same school in district No. 7, Center, six different terms so further comment is unneccessary there. The school is large, 39 pupils being enrolled. ~Lansing Mirror, Friday, March 17, 1893, pg 1
~contributed by S. Ferrall.


1895
The Dalby school house is being greatly repaired with it needed quite bad. Albert Peterson and Theo. Pladson are doing the work. ~Lansing Mirror, Friday, April 5, 1895, pg 1
~contributed by S. Ferrall.


1941
Quick-Thinking Boy Saves Teacher's Life
A quick-thinking Waukon rural school student saved his teacher from possible fatal burns Friday. The teacher, Miss Dorothy Pearson, 23, of District No.7, Center township, was severely burned about the face and arms when by mistake she used gasoline to start a fire in the school stove. She had been in the habit of taking kerosene from her home to the school. As she struck a match the gasoline in the stove exploded, enveloping her in flames. Charles Christians, one of the pupils quickly grabbed his coat and wrapped it around Miss Pearson, smothering the flames. ~The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Monday, November 3, 1941, pg 11
~contributed by Cindy (Maust) Smith

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