the new schoolhouse was a two-story wood structure topped by a thin steeple and a lofty weather vane it was completed before the fall term of  the trustees decided "that the price of tuition in this school be fixed at $ per quarter for spelling reading and writing for arithmetic in addition to the above branches the sum of $ cts and for grammar or geography the further sum of twenty-five cents" the cost of firewood was to be "divided equally among the scholars" on may   the trustees adopted a seal for the school in the form of "a spread eagle standing on a globe with the word excelsior underneath in roman capitals"