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COZY CORNER SCHOOL No. 3
Tingley Township
Tingley Township was divided into nine school districts.
Cozy Corner School No. 3 was located near Tingley north along Highway 169.
The school was closed by 1950 when the rural school system in Iowa was discontinued.
Cozy Corner, Tingley No. 3, 1912 or 1913
BACK ROW, L-R: Amy DUNCAN, Cecil McDOWELL, Jessie DUNCAN, Edith HANKINS, teacher Eva ASHENHURST, Edna NICHOLS,
Eva REYNOLDS, Faye HANKINS, Dave HANKINS.
MIDDLE ROW, L-R: Faye McDOWELL, helen HANKINS, Merle HANKINS, Alma DUNKIN, Birdie McDOWELL, Agnes REYNOLDS, Alma McDOWELL.
FRONT ROW, L-R: Wayne DARBYSHIRE, Manson REYNOLDS, Emmett HEIZER, Clyde McDOWELL, Oral HANKINS.
Cozy Corner, Tingley No. 3
BACK ROW, L-R: John DeVRIES, Anna ANDERSON, Robert ANDERSON. FRONT ROW, L-R: Karen RICKER, Karen Sue ANDERSON,
Jimmie DeVRIES.
Tingley Vindicator, Tingley, Ringgold County, Iowa
October 26, 1911
Cozy Corner 5; Bridge Academy 3.
On Friday, Sept. 20, a game of baseball was played between the schools of Bridge Academy and Cozy Corner, resulting in
a score of 5 to 3 in favor of Cozy Corner. The following is the line-up:
| Bridge Academy | | Cozy Corner |
| Elton GILES | pitcher | H. ASHENHURST |
| Howard GILES | catcher | Wyatt HANKINS |
| John ENGLAND | 1st base | Floy HANKINS |
| Dorothy MILLER | 2nd base | Archie McCAHON |
| Grace ENGLAND | 3rd base | Fay HANKINS |
| Ray GROUT | short stop | Mae McCAHON |
| Glenn GROUT | right field | Cecil McDOWELL |
| Floyd MILLER | center field | David HANKINS |
| Oscar McKEE | left field | Edith HANKINS |
SOURCE: Tingley Centennial book, Pp. 128-29, 169.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker May of 2010; updated September of 2011.
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 26, 2015, Page 11
From "Snapshots of History" by Mike Avitt:
"When rural schoolhouses were first built in Ringgold County, they were built where the need was
the greatest. But eventually districts were formed and education became organized. It was decided to place a rural school every two miles
so a pupil would never have to walk more than a mile to school. My notes say
[July 1890. . . ] is the time frame when the schools were placed about every two miles. . . .As gravel roads and school buses made rural
schools obsolete, they were sold. . . .The ones that were sold were sold one at a time until October 22, 1951 when
Cozy Corner [Tingley Twp. No. 3],
Eighme School [Tingley Twp. No 9], and
Bridge Academy [Tingley Twp. No. 4] all sold at public auction for around $600 each. Sales were common during the 1950s."
V.F.W., Bastow and Bird Buy Schoolhouses
From the Mount Ayr Record News, October 25, 1951
Three schoolhouses on highway No. 169, north of Mount Ayr in Tingley township, were sold Monday afternoon at public auction for a total of $1,825.
Auctioneer Dennis OWENS said the size of the crowd was comparable to that attending a closing out farm sale.
The Cozy Corner schoolhouse was sold to John BIRD for $525; the Mount Ayr post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, bid in the Bridge Academy school for $635, and the Eighme School went to Herbert BASTOW for $665.
Mrs. Russell SHIELDS served as clerk of the sale.
The Bridge Academy school, located one mile west of Tingley, will be left on the present site to be used by the post as a meeting place.
Newspaper notice for sale of schoolhouses
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