Everett Anderson, Howard Smith, Earl Witzenburg, Charles Fleenor, Court Miller, Charley West, Glen Hanson Axel Carlson, J. S. Gibson, Wesley Strait, Bobbie Brown, Earl Miller, Harold Enos, and Jack Lovett all received small sums for their labor on the school. Many were recorded as receiving $2.88, $1.70, $1.60, $1, or $2 for this work in March 1931.

At one time Jack Lovett also had horses besides his tavern.

Once the new school was built, many activities took place there. There were school presentations, contests, and pot lucks. The school, along with church groups sponsored ice cream socials.

The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) also utilized the school. One W.W.A. instructor worked to teach a roomful of area residents from children to grandmothers how to play the harmonica. Another W.P.A. employee worked on construction skills with a group of boys.

Church was another mainstay of the
community. Sunday school was held Sunday afternoons at the Youngstown Chapel in the cemetery. Services were in the evening. Preachers would come out to the chapel from Des Moines. At first, the EUB -- Evangelical United Brethren -- sent ministers. Later, after 1925, preachers came from the Central Gospel Chapel.