Class Of 1959 Lunch

The Warren High School Class of 1959 will meet for lunch at Bob Evans today at noon. Spouses and guests are always welcome.

Elk Township Historical Society to host open house Saturday

SCANDIA – The Elk Township Historical Society will hold an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the former Scandia one-room school. The 1870s wooden one-room school has most of what would have been seen in its early days except for an outhouse and pitcher pump. Children can sit at an original desk, write on a lap slate with chalk and experience how students learned in school. The painted blackboard or chalkboard has a lesson from when it was covered over in a years-ago remodeling. Over a century of enrollment records are available for the school, plus records from 11 other one-room schools that were located in Elk Township. There are also many years of class photos. The Scandia school operated until 1999. A museum across the hallway has food preparation items, hand tools and other equipment used on the homestead. The society also has genealogical references including township families by road name, many photographs and much more relating to life of the early settlers.