The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-09-21
SEDALIA'S SCHOOLS.
How Our Children are Beiog Ia.
ken Care Of in the City's Edu-
cational Shops.

Stdalia - favored bv having
magnificent system Of graded schools
The boards Of education, both presen
and past. have been active, efficient
ones. and such has been the result O
their labors that every citizen Of tn,
place may feel proud of the educs
tional advantages offered by the city
Among the better class II pers..,,s
when looking for home. the chance,
for the education of their children i
always u prime object. Sedalis cal
hold up her head, extend her hand
To all outsiders aud truthfully say
Come and settle with us and We vii
educate your children with the yer,
best instructors. aided by the lates
educational appliances, and at home
free Of expenses"
The fall term hogan in all four O
the city schools last Monday. of tn
four schools, three are for white ant
one for colored children. They ar,
all parts of one graded system, tn,
Broadway school being the more ad
vanced and the other three prepare
tory and having Broadway for thei
objective point.
LINCOLN SCHOOL
is for colored children only. Mr.. ID
w. Bowles. a white man, and an ex
perienced educationalist. is the priu
cipal. VIM. Simms. and two otheI
colored- men, whose names are un
known to the BAzOO. are assistan,
teachers. The pupils. as soon as they
are cleverly separated from the ma
ternai bosom are taken through q
rigid course up to q fair knowledge Of
the ordinary English branchs in this
school.
A member Of the board Of educa.
ton, in speaking of this school dur
Ing last week. said, sit offers as good
opportunities to pupils as any school
in the city of its grade. The teach.
ers are faithful and the work thor
ough." The objective point of this
colored school is Broadway. but none
OF its pupils have yet gotten acros,
the railroad. Whether they have beer
sidetracked on account Of want Of
ability on their own part or not, is noi
known. The fact stands that thew
have never vet reached Broad way.
The Lincoln school opened last Mon
day with two hundred pupils.
THE FRANKLIN SCHOOL,
though located north Of the railroad
where the coIored people mostly sc
side. is for white children. Prof.
Reynolds. late Of jacksonville. ILL.,.
and an able teacher, is principal. with
Misses Burdsall, Ainsworth and
Mcclellan as assistants, all expert.
enced teachers. except Miss Mcclellan,
who is graduate of the city schools
and well qualified for the position she
holds. making up in ability what she
lacks in experience. This school l,e.
gan on last Monday with a pupilage Of
l7l. The school clucks children un.
der IFS wings rs soon as they are Of
school age, six years. and It's said that
parents invariably start their children
to school Oh their sixth birthday, per-
tectly willing to allow the rod Of the
teacher to replace the maternal slip
per in the education Of the child at as
early an age as the law will permit.
This school educates the pupils up to
the fourth reader and its associate
studies, when they are transferred to
Broadway.
THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
located in East Sedalia, takes the
children from the minimum school
age, and from q state of dense ignor-
ance up to the fifth reader and its
neighboring branches, from which
they are promoted to Broadway.
Prof A. 5. Caldwell, who is q we'll
known and thorough instructor, is
assisted by Misses Georgia
Jackson, Della Caldwell and Mary
West.
Of these assistants all are we'll
known to our citizens and readers as
masters of their profession except Miss
who is a careful and skilled
teacher whose home Is Carbonate,
Illinois, and who has but recently be.
came resident Of Sedalia. This
school began last Monday with 22S
pupils and has done regular work
since 10 o'clock a. m. Monday, with
out missing recitation. On Friday
the number of pupils had increased to
24S.
BROADWAY SCHOOL,
which looms up As On immense institu-
ton and as the goal Of ambition, in
he minds of pupils strugt ling along
in the other schools. has been vastly
improved this fall by an additional
story being added to the building;
heating apparatus. and ex-
'e!Ient appliances for illustrating the
more difficult branches of study we're
llso among the valuable accessions
made.
Prot, ID. X. Gully. the well known
md efficient principal last year, holds
he same position for the ensuing wear,
With the following assistants: Mr.. H.
!. Williams. of Warrensburg, and
'lesda mes Neat and Wilcox. all ex-
'erienced teachers; Miss Elliott, a |
,raduate Of the Warrensburg Normal
school and new teacher to our city, |
mt who comes highly recommended:
Hiss Batterton, who gave such splen- |
I'd satisfaction at the Washington
chool last year: Misses Kendall.
;reen, Gent and Owens. all of whom
re experienced TEACHERS well known
D the people Of this city. and Miss
harp, who is . graduate of the Sc
ALA Seminary. and acknowledged to
e a teacher Of ability.
Besides the aforementioned there