THE ORIGIN OF PEEVER SCHOOL WAS AS LAWRENCE DISTRICT NO. 1 IN 1896 LOCATED ONE MILE EAST OF WHAT IS NOW PEEVER. THEY HAD A SIX MONTH SCHOOL TERM, FOUR MONTHS IN THE FALL WITH EMERY URICH AS TEACHER AND TWO MONTHS IN THE SPTRING WITH WINFRED BROWN AS TEACHER. IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1901 THAT A NINE MONTH TERM WAS HELD. IT WAS INTERESTING TO KNOW THAT IN 1906 THE SCHOOL HAD $3.50 ON HAND. THE LEVY OF TAXES AT THAT TIME WAS 2 PERCENT ON TAXABLE PROPERTY IN THE TOWNSHIP. EVENTUALLY THE SCHOOL WAS MOVED INTO TOWN AND LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP BECAME A SEPARATE DISTRICT. THE PROPERTY WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE TWO SCHOOLS. PEEVER GOT THE BOOKS AND LAWRENCE THE STOVES. THE OTHER ITEMS WERE DIVIDED EQUALLY. IN 1904 TWO TEACHERS WERE HIRED, THE TEACHER UPSTAIRS RECEIVED $50.00 A MONTH AND THE ONE DOWNSTAIRS $35.00 A MONTH. IN 1911 PEEVER BUILT THE BRICK SCHOOL BUILDING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS WAS IN 1914. THEY WERE ROY ANEY, ELEANORE OPITZ, MILLARD RICE AND VIVIAN RICE. THE SCHOOL HAD A FINE CURRICULUM AND OTHER ACTIVITIES. BASKETBALL WAS ALWAYS A FAVORITE OF THE PEEVER COMMUNITY. BLUE AND GOLD WERE THE SCHOOL COLORS AND PEEVER PANTHERS WAS THE NAME OF THE TEAMS. HOWEVER, THE 1929 YEARBOOK WHICH IS THE EARLIEST ONE WE HAVE SEEN IS NAMED THE "PEEVER CHIEFTAIN." IN 1970 THE BUILDING WAS DEMOLISHED AND A NEW MODERN SCHOOL BUILT. PEEVER INDEPENDENT WAS NO MORE. IT BECAME A PART OF THE SISSETON PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. IN THE YEAR 2000 THIS BUILDING WAS ALSO DEMOLISHED AND THE PEEVER INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS JUST A MEMORY. History from the book "Stories About Our Town of Peever.'

PEEVER BASKETBALL IN THE FORTIES BACK ROW FROM LEFT: LEROY SUNDHEIM, OLIVER SKOGEN, MAURICE JOHNSON, LEROY GERMAN, DELBERT HORTNESS FRONT: THAD HANES, JERRY RENVILLE, LYNN BEHRNS, NORMAN NORDTOMME, WALLACE GERBER, WELDON BENSEN