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252 HISTOEY OF GOODHUE COUNTY was advanced to first lieutenant and Sergt. C. 0. Bonham to second lieutenant. In the spring of 1901 Yoehem resigned by reason of removal from company station and Kinne was again placed at the head. He removed and Lieut. E. E. Davis was elected captain. Bonham being advanced and Sergt. J. R. Johnson elected second lieutenant. Davis resigned in 1903 and II. W. Yoehem was again placed in command. Yoehem and Bonham resigned in the fall of 1905 and F. Y. Wilcox was elected cap- tain; Johnson pushed up to first lieutenanl and 31. H. Powers was elected second lieutenant. Wilcox held office for less than a year and then quit. First Lieut. Johnson look the company to camp that year, after which he resigned and II. T. Banks was elected captain and E. F. Davis went into the company again as- first lieutenant. In the spring of ]!><)!) I'.anks and Davis resigned and Second Lieut. M. II. Powers was elected captain, and Sergts. John Logan and Chris. X. Nesseth promoted to firsl and second lieutenants. Powers removed from company station September 1, 1909, and al the present time the command is in charge of Lieut. -John Logan. At this writing there are ii7 members in the company, they are well equipped and well drilled and among the number are man.y good rifle shots who have wot dais of distinction on the state rifle ranee, as well as making good records on their own range. II. J. Teich is the first sergeant of the company, having served nearly fifteen years with the company and is the oldest first sergeant in the state. The company has participated in every encampment held by the national guard and in 1901 was with the regiment on an 80-mile march from Milaca to Brainerd. In 1906 they marched across the country from Zumbrota to Lake City. Both of these trips proved instinctive as well as enjoyable. There are many other interesting features connected with the history of Company D which cannot be enumerated here, as this article was intended to cite only the more important events which have transpired during the quarter of a century of its existence. VILLAGE SCHOOLS. In 1858 the first village school was formed, taught by Lizzie Shedd, daughter of Eev. Charles Shedd, pastor of the Congrega- tional Church. In the beginning and for several successive years, the sessions of the school were held in the second story room of the store, built just before by T. P. Kellett. on the corner now occupied by the Security State Bank. The building was justly considered at that and for those times as ambitions, elegant ami commodious.