I attended a small town school but it wasn't one room, so perhaps I shouldn't comment, but my family attended a country dance in a one room school house in Mulecreek, New Mexico in the early 1950s, and it was a blast. Mulecreek was (is?) a ranching community and once or twice a year they had a dance. Some of the cowboys had been out riding the range for months so it was quite a treat for them to be able to come to the dance and "let loose." There was a small band composed of some students and the music teacher played piano. No booze in the school house, but lots of folks took trips out at band breaks to their cars or trucks where they kept the bottle. We had great old fashioned time.

DougR