FAMILIAR SCENE IN LOUISVILLE, KY.
She offered to forego her summer vacation, and teach in the woods, with no promise of compensation.
Not the least difficulty was to find a boarding place for the teacher. A lady who was to teach eighteen months in succession without a vacation must be taken care of. Not a room could be found in the neighborhood, with a window in it, which she could have to herself.
A man was found who needed a new house, and for an advance of $100, for a part of two years’ board, built a log house near the school-house and furnished her a room fifteen feet square, with two windows, and a lock to her door. There is no other such room in all the region.
The school closed grandly and beautifully, with an examination and an exhibition.
But the common school was abandoned for not a pupil could be found to attend it.
The following are the friends who furnished the money for this important enterprise. I thank them most heartily for their promptness and liberality:
Asylum St. Church, Hartford, Ct., $50.00; Euclid Av. Church, East Cleveland, O., 50.00; First Cong. Church, Cleveland, O., 21.25; Mrs. Mary H. Penfield, Rockford, Ill., 50.00; H. Ford, E. Cleveland, O., 8.00; Mrs. A. A. Brakenridge, Cleveland, O., 6.00; Miss Lucy A. French, Cleveland, O., 6.00; Frank Fairchild, Mt. Vernon, O., 20.00; Mrs. S. E. Bosworth, for Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Elgin, Ill., 15.00; Mary I. James, Brooklyn, N.Y., 30.00; F. S. Sessions, Columbus, O., 25.00; Cong. Church, Muskegon, Mich., 25.00; Sunday-school class of girls, Brooklyn, N.Y., 10.85.
For special reasons of a local character, it became necessary to find a benevolent man who would purchase 150 acres surrounding the school-house. Rev. Wm. Kincaid, of Oberlin, is the good man who takes it at $1.50 per acre.