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Updated: May 18, 2025
Somehow, a spinster lady who had taught school and such a school as Poketown's for twenty years, should have fitted the well-known specifications of the old-time "New England schoolmarm." But Amarilla Scattergood did not. She was a little, light-haired, pink-cheeked lady, with more than a few claims to personal attractiveness yet left.
Clean-Up Day was so far ahead that the apostles of neatness and order -those who were thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the thing and realized Poketown's need had time to preach to most of the delinquents. There were cards printed, too, announcing the date of Clean-Up Day and its purposes, and these were hung in every store and other public place.
Educators from other towns in the state even in neighboring states had come to visit Poketown's school. Janice could not help having a thrill of pride when she learned of these visitations and the appreciation shown by other educators of Nelson Haley's work.
She knew that Nelson Haley had hoped to teach the Poketown school at least two years, so as to get what he called "a stake" for law-school studies. And there were not many ungraded schools in the state that paid as well as Poketown's; for it was a large school. The furor occasioned by the special town meeting, and the fight for the new school, passed over.
If you had asked any of those sewing circle ladies about it, they would have said "to a man!" that Mrs. Marvin Petrie suggested Poketown's "Clean-Up Day." And they would have been honest in their belief. For Janice Day was no strident-voiced reformer.
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