The two-room school met the needs of the area until the 1920's when over-crowding became a problem. Space for an extra classroom was found in the Orange Hall . During the 1940's enrollment reached approximately sixty pupils and even this classroom became inade¬ quate. In the early thirties, Mae Home was teaching the elementary grades in the lower floor of the old Orange Hall . In the small, over¬ crowded room, anymore students would have been a disaster. At the same time the butter factory was infested with rats. Apparently, it was common knowledge to all young and old with the exception of the teacher, that ferrets were being brought in to eliminate the rat problem at that place. One morning at 9:30, the little people, Mae's pride and joy, crowded around her to give her the good news "The ferrets are here". Horrified, the teacher exclaimed "Have they any children?" Bonita Boates, Olga MacMillan , Norman Gallant , Eva MacMillan , Shirley MacDonald , Betty Phillips , Dale Johnson , Charlotte Vey , Florence Strang , Dawna Boats, Carol MacGregor , Grant Noonan , Muncey Buchanan . Seated: - Clair MacDonald , Alice Silliker , Denzel Reilly, Muncey MacDonald , Heath Ellis , Gary Johnson, Allan Harris , George Strang , Sharon Ellis, Louise Yeo , Ronnie Turner , Audrey Gray , Gladys Reilly , Dorothy Seaman , Shirley Palmer , Adrice MacKinnon. SO