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Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

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Re The present Columbia Hill school house was completed on Mareh 265 1875, and Mr. Je Ge OMNeil was named the first teacher. Pupils ranged from five years 91d to eighteen years of age. The average daily attendance averaged forty or fifty students. Older girls assisted the geacher with the instruction of the Little ones. High school courses were taught late in the day, and even at night to accomodate those workirg in the mines. Je Ge O'Neil was greatly loved by his pupils, and renained friends with then throughout his life, visiting then when they were grow and settled in various parts of the state. His romance with Kate Wood occurred in Columbia Hill. Kate was the daughter of Jerry Wood, a boarding-house keeper, whose place of bubkness stood to the right after crossing over ck > ? he o1d ditch. On their wedding day as their bugsy pulled out of totm to make the trek bb Nevada City where the marriage cerenony was porformed, the children met enmass to wave them off. % The ONTeils later settled in Nevada “ity, theix home now con3 ig c verted into a Baptist Church at the corer of Main and East Broad Streets. From Geacher 0 "Neil became the principal of the Nevada City Elementary School, and Lator, a Superintendent of Schools. My mother, Lavra Fowler, attended school in Columbia Hi11 in 1876. As a first grader she was very impressionable, and some of her reminiscences are as follows? Margaret Coughlan came to school with a string of asafetida hung around her neck which was suppose te prevent colds. It was an x offensive-suclling resinous material, Matearct sat in front of m a 4 nother. *~ in some manner, Laura slipped the string of/vile-smelling 1 an buried it. aa.