Brunswick High School and its principal

William Carl Rohde, bottom left, principal of Brunswick High School, with his students.

You’ve seen my great grandfather William Carl Rohde a couple of times before on this website. He is my mother’s mother’s father. In this stunning photograph we see him as a younger man, helming the local high school back in Brunswick, Ohio, whence he sprung.

Mayberry School, 1899

The students of Mayberry School in 1899. The teacher is my great aunt Lillian, the second oldest of my grandfather’s siblings. He and several other siblings are in the group.

I’ve been looking for this image of the Mayberry School student body of 1899 for many months. I had a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of it, and I was sure there must be a better printing out there somewhere. I became aware of this photo, like its twin from 1896, only recently when I was going through the genealogical research papers of my Uncle Dick. The bad photocopy had “Taneytown Record, circa 1957” handwritten across

Mayberry School, December 1896

Mayberry School. The sign held by the student in the front row says “December 1896”.

This is the student body of Mayberry School out in front of their schoolhouse in 1896, presided over by their teacher, Miss Nanny Hill, who is clad in the dark Victorian pleats of the day.

Earl and Nelle inside Stake Drug

A man and a woman and their magic. Earl and Nelle proudly display their wares.

It was almost too much to hope that a photo like this one would show up. It’s the interior of my Uncle Earl and Aunt Nellie’s drug store in Adams, Nebraska, name of Stake Drug Company, and thus a complement to the photo I posted earlier of the store’s exterior. I also wrote a little about my memory of the only visit I and my siblings ever made to Adams. I believe the stools you see at the counter here

Postcard of Stake Drug Store, Adams, Nebraska

Only a month ago I said in a reply to a comment from my brother that maybe someday years from now someone from the Stake tribe would stumble on this blog and be able to fill in some details about the drug store that my (great) Uncle Earl ran in Adams, Nebraska. Just yesterday I was contacted by a cousin I’ve never met named Alison, who is Earl’s great granddaughter. She was searching the Internet for photos of the old family store when she found a reference to it in my post (here) and discovered the blog. As a result, she contacted her grandfather Bob, who is still very active as a university professor, and he was able to dig up and scan the postcard above.

Good old-fashioned sodas were once served here. Stake Drug Store, Adams Nebraska. It burned in the 1990s.

I had told my brother, and I repeat here, that my memory was vague regarding the precise location of the store but that Adams is basically a one-horse town.