Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Bluff City News

It's now official. Spring has arrived, according to the calendar, and everyone I know is ready for it.

I have been "out of pocket" the last week or two, so I haven't heard

much news. We were called to Missouri due to the death of my father-in-law on March 9. My wife stayed up there for a week with her mother. I returned home to work and made another trip up there this last weekend.

A word of advice to anyone planning a trip to Memphis. Road construction is in progress on I-40 between Lonoke and Brinkley. Traffic was backed up for miles. It took me thirty minutes to go ten miles last Saturday.

Funeral services for Monroe Ellis 'Goat' Harvey were held March 17, with burial at Bluff City Cemetery.

I recently came across the sanitary rules for Nevada County schools from 1913. One of the rules stated that "it shall be the duty of the school teacher to flood the school room with fresh air by opening the doors and windows at recess and noontime and at least once during each session of school and at other times when the air becomes close or fowl [sic]. During cold weather, the students shall be given calisthenic exercises during the time the windows shall be open."

Another rule stated that "dry sweeping and dusting are condemned and strictly prohibited. Dampened or oiled sawdust should be used for sweeping and feather dusters shall not be used."