16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Wednesday, February 21, 1912: It rained and snowed today. Pa came for us tonight. He got there too soon. Made me so mad. Had to miss a class as he didn’t want to wait.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Sounds like a miserable, raw late winter day. It’s interesting that Grandma didn’t want to miss a class, but that her father won’t wait. Was the weather that bad? . . . or was he just in a hurry?
I assume that he took Grandma and her brother Jimmie home in a horse-drawn buggy.
Maybe he was worried about the rain freezing. Sounds like a dreadful day.
Sounds like your great-grandfather decided the weather was bad enough for an early dismissal for safety reasons. I guess back then it was up to the parents to make these calls, rather than the town’s superintendent of schools as it is today.