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community. and others, established the Prairie Cattle Feeding Company in the area. This continues to be a great asset Many cattle are being fed there.
By Euphemia O'Daniel Seay

NEW HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT #221921
Trustees were E. H. Hendricks, Dave Evans and Ed Loring. Teachers in the New Hope School were Etta Williams, Lula Perkins, Ina Sires and Ada Willis, who married Sli Kiker. Bertie Mulkey married Joe Evans, always known as "Red Headed Joe".

The first pupils were Pete Raymond's Verda, Erma; Joe Raymond's - Iva, Jack, Leslie and Lucille; Bertie Mulkey besides teacher, Walter, Minnie, Sally, Alice and Fred's relatives Charlie and Clyde Wait; Murry Evans, Pearl, Mamie, Everette, Johnny, W C. George, Andy Bryan, Sylvia, Aubrey and Theta, Josiah Evans, Odessa and Eugenia Charles, Aidan Montgomery,

Flake, Daisy, Edd Loring, Lois, Velda Hollabaugh, Iris, Luther and Margarite Dillon.

New Hope School was a social center. They would have box suppers to raise money. There were also pie sales. There was always a community Christmas tree.

I liked the 12 grades in one room for you could listen to upper classmen.

One afternoon about 2 P.M. it came up the worst northern; it got so dark, the teacher and children were scared. They put all the buggies and horses south of the school house. The children held hands and walked to the Murry Evans and spent the night. The children chased the chickens for Mrs. Evans that the strong wind had blown away. They put them back in the hen house. The next day the students carried water to school with them, as there was not a well at New Hope. The larger boys were always happy when they ran out of water, as

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