Randy Mills posted the following information about Shields High School in Farrington township on Facebook and gave me permission to add this to our website:

"The Horse Creek area where I grew up was made remote by bad roads and being located at the rag-tag ends of three counties- northeast Jefferson County, far east Wayne County, and southeast Marion County. Few kids there went on to high school, causing the Jefferson County Superintendent of Schools, Rose Jansen, to form a two-year high school district in the Horse Creek area that crossed county lines. Thus came Shields High School in 1930, located at "Papertown." I've included a photo of the first class that includes one of my great uncles, Emmett Mills, in the school's first year, 1930-1931, and another of my Dad's class in 1940. He is in the top row, fourth from the right. My future stepfather, Rolla Pierce, is to Dad's right."