At Maxson, the children liked to line up and march inside as I played the piano. I wish we could have taken a picture of the interior. Maxson was one large room, not divided off for cloakrooms like some schools were.
   There were coal oil (kerosene) lamps. The huge coal burning stove had a heat jacket which helped to distribute the heat. Ashes had to be dumped (daily). The 'clinkers' - the part of the coal that did not burn, were dumped on the cinder path to the outhouse.  It made a pretty good walk.
   One warm day at Maxson, I had left the double doors open. I was at the blackboard with the older students showing them how to do a math problem. When I turned around there was Mary Williams, the county superintendent sitting quietly at a desk!
   We usually had a community dinner for the last day of school. And we always had a Christmas program. The kids would put on a play. They learned their parts well and did it all from memory.
   The school board met once a year in April, just before school was out.