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else was there—not even the teachers."
Miss Ida Brown rode a horse, “a great big ’ol brown horse,” to Forest Grove, often carrying J. T. and Robert Woodward behind her. "When the weather was bad, she’d be wrapped up so you couldn’t see anything but her eyes,” Mrs. Mills said, laughing at the memory. If it didn’t get too cold and if snow didn’t block the narrow, winding paths that passed for roads in those days. Miss Ida motored to school in her Model-T, one of the community’s only cars. “It was a one-seater thing. It had curtains around the side and a little trunk on the back,” her former student recalled.
Miss Ida might have inspired chuckles, all bundled up on her big brown horse or behind the wheel of that old Model-T, but she was all seriousness in the classroom. The boys and girls sat in rows, one row for each grade. She’d work with the one grade, giving lessons from the blackboard, while the other grades studied. “There was no giggling, nothing going on. If somebody misbehaved, she’d give them a ruler on the flat of their hand. She’d bend that hand back as far as it would go, the skin all stretched, and that ruler would sting!” Mrs. Mills recalled.
A serious violation of rules brought sternef punishment. “I remember when Earl Yancey set the brush on fire next to the boys' toilet. Miss Ida made him stay after school for the whole year,” Edna reported. And she remembered how the teacher discovered the identity of the culprit. “I told. I wasn’t a tattle tale but Miss Ida would ask me because she knew I’d tell the truth. I couldn’t lie to that woman! She scared me to death!” Edna admitted.
“The other kids were jealous of me. They used to say I was Miss Ida’s pet. But I didn’t thinl^j I was. Whatever she said, I did. I ■•was scared to death-of her.”
“She didn’t take no foolishness,” agreed Acrey Dodson, another of Miss Ida’s students at Forest Grove.
School Mischief
They both remembered kids as being mischievous in
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