School days: part 2

The following is some more of my dad's notes about his school days. 

Our school had three blackboards, one on each side and one on the front wall just behind the teacher’s desk.

The teacher’s desk was in front of the room on a platform (raised above the regular floor).  There were two doors in the entry way to the schoolroom, with an outside entryway.  The width of the building was about six or seven feet wide. At one end the firewood was piled to use in the stove. At the other end a few nails were in the wall to hand up coats or caps. The brick chimney was built on top of two thick timbers and up through the roof.

The stove was a cast iron heater about fifteen inches (or sixteen) wide and more  than twenty-four inches long as it would take a twenty-four inch piece of wood.

The wood supplied to the school was forty-eight inches long, and was provided by someone hired by the trustees who were appointed by the community school board.

The wood was sawed into two pieces by anyone who could get and do that job, and also carried into the schoolhouse and piled into one corner. Also softwood was supplied for kindling. This was split by anyone who could do the work. Mostly by a school boy old enough and also he would light the fire each morning. Mr. Raymond O’Brien was the man who most always supplied the wood which he got across the Harbour, where he owned quite a large piece of property.