The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-01-01
LOVEL0CK NOTES.
A Prosperous Farming Center
About Schools and Distict
Boards Miscellaneous.

Boards Miscellaneous.
EDITOR DIspATcH: Lovelock district
is on record for having enjoyed an ex-
ceedingly prosperous year, owing to the
abundance of water and the consequent
immense harvest reapcd Oh the Big
Meadows. In ONE portions OF this
farming district the crops OF cereals and
different kinds OF hay outstripped those
OF last year at the more than conserva-
tive ratio of three to one. The stock
shipments have also been more extern
sive than for many a bygone year.
Only on Tuesday sixteen carloads Of
sheep left the local stockyards. Eleven
went to the Western Meat Company OF
South San Francisco in charge of 7. NJ.
Branton OF Reno, while the remaining
five are consigned to Herbert 4 Clay
berg, wholesale butchers at San Fran
cisco. Besides, the appreciation OF the
price OF wheat has proved a great fnan-
cial boon.
THE CHooLs.
Lovelock people must have anticipated
quite a large population when they re-
solved to erect such a costly and spa
cious schoolhouse. The latter is a two
story biilding, modern in all its APP
pointments and furnishings. Its cost is
nearly $4,000. The lower floor contains
three rooms and two ante-rooms, while
upstairs there are four rooms, includ-
ing the hall which runs the entire
length and half the width Of the house.
This hall serves for all kinds OF amuse-
ments, such as %socials, theatricals and
dances. 1t is also used as a lodge room.
On Christmas eve it was hardly large
enough TO accommodate the vast crowd
that had assembled to witness the
Christmas tree and to enjoy the subse-
quent ball, which lasted until nearly 5
o'clock in the morning.
But not to stray from the subject; DIR.
+. X. Banks, Messrs. William Ruddell
and Robert Welsh, who constitute the
local District Board of Trustees keep
the building in excsllent shape. Appar-
emily, they made a wise selection as to
their teachers, Miss Myrtle Grayson and
Miss Mamie Lane, both Of Reno. The
former, in her capacity of principal,
presides over the grammar department
with 2S pupils.
Miss Lane has charge of the primary
grades, which aggregate 30 pupils.
The average attendance does not fall
very short OF the enrolment.
Miss Grayson, who took the liberal
arts course at our State University, is a
very ambitious little lady. Realizing
the Importance OF Il new and advanced
education, she is not slow to improve
herself in her classical studies, being
vastly aided by a good foundation
she received in Latin.
Professor B. h. Lynip, the former
principal OF the Loyelock schools, is at
present engaged in teaching the West
fall District School, numbering 36 at
tending scholars. In justice to that
gentleman, the prevailing false impress
sion, that he was removed to make place
for a better teacher, is entirely dissipa-
ted by the fact that a question OF salary
alone caused his leaving the Lovelock dis
trict. The latter suffered u diminishment
pupils by being cut up through the in
creation OF a new district in the vicinity
over a year ago. Mr.. Lynip would not
c~ountenance a cut in his salary from
$l25 to 800, wherefore he accepted his
present position at a salary of 800 per
month and indeed, the parents OF the
Westfall District justly pride themselves
on this acquisition.
In this connection the writer presumes
the snbjoined crude suggestion, which
could be put into a ~presentahle as we'll
as a legal shape, and rendered feasible in
the near future, since some of our fine
State institutions, with the University
as the leader, turn out yearly such a
large number of competent educators, to
wit:
lst. Abolish the present system of
District School Boards and let none but
home teachers be employed.
I'd. Have the State Board of Educa-