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Paint Off; Row Settled

Detroit Free Press , February 10, 1901 I'm tired so I'm going to keep this one brief or else it will never get written. The trouble at the Hicks School in Nankin began when Miss Millie Sawslayer decided that the little red schoolhouse should paint over the lower panes of glass to keep the students from staring out the window during class. Director Hicks and moderator Martin Harrison agreed. Unfortunately, Treasurer Samuel Bills did not and neither did his children. They grew tired of going to the place they considered a prison and their father stopped taking them to school. Word got around and soon there were only 2 children attending class. One being the adopted daughter of Director Hicks and "that Flarriety boy". The three Hammond boys were supposed to be there but they were busy skipping class and hanging out in a makeshift shanty that they constructed on their father's farm. Their punishment was going to school! The feud between the board members went on fo...