Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
schools of Missouri.

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The state superintendent of schools
has placed his annual report in the
hands of the printer, and It will be
ready for distribution in few weeks.
In it the superintendent discusses sew
| eral progressive educational move
ments of the past year. Among them
are:
1. New requirements for Tighter schol-
arShip in the teacher.
2. The renewed vigor and the moderniZ-
ing of the work of the state normals and
| the arrangements made by them for
3. The new features of the university
| summer school, and the establishment in
parts of the state remote from state
schools university extension summer
schools.
4. The progressive position taken by the
county school commissioners convention
in unanimously agreeing to urge teachers
to attend good summer schools; to accept
Schools in lieu of examination: to excuse
all such teachers from attendance on the
county institute. This will not. as init
mated in communication from st. Louis
county to the metropolitan press. cripple
or interfere in any way with the good
work of the county institute.
B. The rural school course of study and
how 1t promises new life and better grad
ing of these schools, and their ultimate
and universities. This is considered by
educators the most important and far
rea ching movement.
g. The activity in rural districts in Sc
curing libraries and supplementary read
ing and the proper correlation of nature
study, literature, history and art.
Z. The demand for more efficient organ
ization of the rural districts, so as to fur
nish more nearly equal opportunities for
the children, to equalize the burdens of
taxation and to show the necessity for
rural school supervision.
3. Inc organlza ton OF school directors
associations in many, counties shows in
creasing interest, as does the work of the
women'S clubs.
9. All the state schools are in excellent
condition and prosperous beyond the usual
The report will also show some interest
1nS statistics: The total enumeration of
was 9S1, 722. The total enrolment in all
public schools was 66s,01S The average
number of days attended by each enrolled
was 141 days The average salary OF
5saners as ss Total of
school property is $17.O00000.
Recent Dentb..
Judge George w. Baker, the oldes4
settler in Saline county, at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Josiah Baker,
aged IS.
Edward J. Preston, of Bowling
Green, paralysis, aged IS. He served
throughout the war on the Union side.
Mrs. Martha Williams, one of the
old pioneers and landmarks OF the vi
entity of Salisbury, aged 80.
Miss Antoinette Kirk, one of the old
est residents of Memphis, aged 20.
Mrs. Martha Morehouse, aged SO,
at Maryville. She was the widow
of \. L. Moreho1lse, who was elected
lieutenant-governor of Missouri in
1884, and became governor in Deem
Der, 1887, upon the death of Gov. Mar
maduke. Mrs. Warehouses; maiden
name was Martha McFadden She was
reared in Lexington, Mo-, where she
was married to Mr.. Morehouse in 1865.
Joseph w. I.ynes, one of the leading
stock raisers of southern Galloway
county, aged 81.
Two of the oldest citizens OF Howell
county, at West Plains-D. d. Powless,
aged rs, and John Bays, aged II. Mr..
Powless had been justice of the peace
number of years. Mr.. Bays was
prominent in the Masonic order.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ophelia Arnold, wife
Of Il. Il. Arnold, cashier of the First
national bank of Mexico, aged SIS. She
was daughter of the late Judge John
3. Morris, and IS brothers and sisters
survive her.
Rev. DR.. George Miller, one of the
oldest and most prominent Presby- |
terrain ministers in the state, at Kansas
City.