The last Eldred schoolhouse was built in 1920 and still stands as a
  sentinel, for what it was in the past.
     You walk in and sit down, your mind travels back to yesterday; you 
  think you hear the echo of the teacher's and children's voices down
  through the years, or the B-Square 4-H Club members practicing a square
  dance to the music of "The Rose of San Antonio". You see the table
  filled with food and the community assembling for a Thanksgiving Dinner;
  or a card game between the community center members.
     The site for the schoolhouse was obtained for $25. District 81 was
  formed September 10, 1887, at a meeting in the home of Isaac Vandorin
  and under the chairmanship of Jr. Snyder. The first school-board included
  Vandorin, Clerk; Scott Briley, director; and C.W. Slack, treasurer.
     On September 24, bons were voted in the amount of $700 for the finest
  type of frame structure available in '87. The first Eldred Schoolhouse
  was built.
     Education took second place to work on the farm in the early days of
  Eldred. School was held for three months term, December to March 2. The
  term of 1887-1888, Mrs. C.W. Slack taught 12 weeks for $22 per month and
  Mrs. Ada Laurence 10 weeks for $25 a month. There was 65 teachers taught
  at Eldred from 1887 to the term 1958-59 which was the last year of school.
     So many people left for the Cherokee Strip Run in 1893, that there was
  not enough pupils to have school; so Eldred pupils went to Amber School 
  from 1897 to 1900 with U.G. Rogers as teacher.
     We note as the teachers get more education their salaries increased;
  and the farm became more mechanized, the pupils started to school at an
  earlier age. Also during the years of 1896-97 the McGuffy's First and
  Fifth Readers and Spellers were used.
     One teacher that taught in 1913-14, Alice B. Martin MacGregor (the
  late Riley MacGregor's wife) is still living in Medicine Lodge.
     Records show Lulu Springer Hall taught for nine years at Eldred; two
  years records were missing. Mrs. Edith Haynes taught ten years.
     The B-Square 4-H Club started meeting in the schoolhouse in 1948. I
  was asked to be community leader. Don Poland was the other leader. Later
  Harold Blackwell took Don's place. Then Albert Heublein was leader until
  I quit in 1960. That year Albert and Fern took over the leadership and
  continued for four years.
     The families whose children were members were the Otto Thorn family,
  Paul Eckell, Hillmon Cargill, Albert Heublein, Harold Blackwell, Vic
  Younger, Herb Wehling, Harold Hamilton, Martin Knoop, Ray Hoyt, Dale
  Laverentz, Agnes Lawrence, Bob Mease, J.R. Chain, Wilman Kimball Bell,
  and Kenneth Keimig. Mrs. James Bell has been leader in the later years.
     All the 4-H families worked very hard in those years, trying to excel
  in each event. Most 4-H families also belonged to the Eldred Community
  Center along with the Hugo Thom family, Guy Aubley, Ivol Howard, Oral 
  Hensley, Ray Banks, and Mike Stephenson. Everyone helped with the Thanks-
  giving Dinner, Halloween, and Christmas parties. We met once a month to
  play pitch or just visit with your good neighbor.
     This is why Eldred Schoolhouse has so many memories.
                   
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 25