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School Lunches
The children brought lunch in their syrup cans. “Every one of them had biscuits and apple butter,” Mrs. Keyser remembers. “Some had apples and pears, a few sometimes had meat. But there was no butter or milk - their families had to save these to sell.”
Children at other schools were more fortunate. "If your mother didn’t put butter on your jelly biscuit, by lunch time it was hard enough to known a bull in the head with,” Enda Mills remembered.
Water was put by the older boys into a cooler. Mrs. Keyser began a program of encouraging children to bring their own cups to school so they would not share a common dipper.
Billy Kilby remembers school lunches of the early twenties at Belle Mead School in the F.T. Valley where he went from 1926 to 1933. “We always carried biscuits in our pails,” he said. “I recall those biscuits - they were yellow from so much soda and very large. We always had preserves on them. I recall sometimes seeing children with a cold fried egg on their biscuits. At hog-killing time, the children started bringing sausage and that would hold out for a few months.”
Lee Cornell attended the Hull School, located up Old Hollow in what is now the Park. Children there also brought biscuits and perserves for lunch, with bacon or shoulder meat as well as sausage.
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