This charming little baby announcement is merely 3 1/2 X 2 3/4 inches. Notice that the address is just the community--no box number nor Rural Route--so I'm thinking the little post office by the Peters homestead was still operating, south of the Mariaville general store and school.
In this 1906 Souvenir with presumably the teacher's portrait on the cover, I think Director of the School Board meant that Great Grandfather Peters was the Chairman. Several of the pupils have familiar names, like the Peacocks and Andersons, in the pupil list besides E.L. and Mary's two youngest daughters, Myrtle and Fern. (We went to Gardie Peacock's Golden Wedding Anniversary in Long Pine; David Peacock had a Saint Bernard I and the Ellingson boys played with while the adults went to a funeral when we were very young; Chester Anderson lived across the road a bit south from the Peters homestead where Grandpa and Grandma Koftan lived--and Audree and Earl.) I did not scan the back heavy cardboard cover matching the front. Fern Peters wrote her name on the back of the pupil page.
I may well have used this photo before but don't think so. It is actually a postcard with a fancy-edge photo that includes Fern Effie Adelaide Peters in the second row, the one with the bow tie. On the post card side is written "Mattie [Mattie Brown], Fern, Amberette [Flaherty], Ralph Jeffreys [Jefferis]." My bracket additions are from the pupil list above.
Note that Fern's first teaching contract was when she was 15, the second her next year at 16.
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