The Home Demonstration Club carried on for a few years but, finally, quit meeting after the last school building was torn down, only leaving the old coal house still standing, and a lot of fond remembrances which will last in the hearts of the people, for years to come.

Families that come to mind who at one time or the other lived in the Kaffir Community, and not previously mentioned are as follows: Parker, Ross, Hutson, Loftin, Rucker, Byrum, Shelton, Orr, McCarley, Taylor, Huber, Spitchstinger, Jennings, Edmonson, Hardage, Harpole, Kirkland, Wesley, Ebeling, Onthank, Davis, Stanland, Folk, Neely, Simmons, Harman, Thompson, Schulte, Crawford, McDaniel, Owens, Lumpkins, Baxter, Hicks, Scott, Todd, George, Wilkins, Bass, Julch, Williams, Staggs, Roberts, Golden, Herring, Duke, Newkirk, Hollabaugh, Thomas, Cox, Millerman, Gardner, Patching, Irlbeck, Fowler, Wallace, Venhaus, and Baker.

If we have left any families out, it is not intentional.

We can all say it was great to have passed this way and to have been a part of the Kaffir Community.
By Homer Bates

LAKEVIEW SCHOOL
Lakeview School, Swisher County, Texas was organized in 1891. The first building was a frame wood structure. This building was moved to a different location in 1902, and used until 1916. A two room brick building was placed at this same site, eight miles west of Tulia, on highway 86. The old building was made into a home dwelling.

The school opened with one teacher, Annie Hogan, in 1901, also, Clara Jordan taught in the early part of 1902. In 1916 the school became a two teacher school. Mr. Jim Tomlinson attended this school in 1908 and remembers his first teacher, Miss Hopson. The red brick building was built in 1917. It was equipped with a carbide gas lighting

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