Posted 10/25/2016 19:56 (#5599847 - in reply to #5598905) Subject: RE: remember when you went to school and had to buy your books?
East central Iowa
Mrs. B,
I started school in 1950 in a little one room school house. We swept the floor and cleaned the blackboard among other things. The toilets were outside.
Then when I went to 4th grade the school was closed and I went to a town school. It was then that we had a day to buy books.