“We now come to the time when there were a few children in and near Radersburg.  In 1869, a young lady by the name of Miss Mary Gilham was employed as a teacher in a little dirt-roofed cabin used as a school room.  Desks were unknown and, instead, was used a table about four feet high, two and a half feet wide, which was perched on a high bench without a place for the pupils to rest their feet.  The little pupils were on the opposite side of the room at a long bench 14 inches high.  In those days children were sent to school at a very early age, often less than four years.
 
“Through the kindness of Miss Gilham, the little ones, when they became sleepy, would be wrapped in shawls and coats and a place found for them to sleep.  Kind readers, it is hoped that you will accept this statement as a real fact, strange as it may seem to you and compared with present day conditions.  Names of a few of the scholars remain fresh in my memory.  Mittie Kennon, who was later married to the attorney M. H. Parker.  Her sister, Katie Winslow passed away in Townsend in the early part of 1946 at the age of 81 years and six months.  There were Richard and George Harwood, Vinnie Wells, Jim Walker and the writer of this article— doubtless the lone survivors of the sixties in Radersburg.  There may have been other scholars, if so, they have escaped my memory.  Later, our dearly beloved teacher married Dr. Bullard of Helena.  We children did not feel very kindly toward the doctor for taking our teacher away from us.”