The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-09-06
COUNTY SCHOOL MATTERS

$3.50
R. H. Malone began school at
Maple Grove Monday. 1t is in the
fftieth district and fine school.
+ Miss Nina and Miss Daisy Keiser
began their school at Oak Grove on
Monday with a creditable attend
ance.
Miss Lou Mcdaniel began a very
interesting school at the school
house in the district south of the
city last Monday.
r. H. Bonds school at Corums,
two miles northeast Of the city, be-
gan Monday. He is assisted by
Miss Bertha Bond.
A. w. Freeman and Miss Cora
Hogue have charge of the Crystal
school. The session began Monday
with bright prospects.
o. S. Weeks, OF school district
sixteen, near Rives, also opened a
fine school last Monday under very
encouraging circumstances.
The school at Shady Grove, I'M
der the care of Mrs. Alice Hick-
man and Miss Rushie Lancaster,
was opened Monday with a fine
enrolment
The celebrated school at Glass
opened Monday under favorable
auspices. Principal o. M. Hinton
is assisted by Miss Clemmie Ivie,
Miss Holmes Smith and Miss Susie
Dean.
Miss Minnie Towards school, at
Mooring, in Lake County, will be-
gin the first of October. She taught
a fine school there last year, and
returns more popular than ever and
with better prospects.
The West Tennessee Normal Col
lege began its fall session last
Monday. The fine reputation of
this school is being we'll sustained
The teachers are w. L. Willing
ham, Lem Williams and Miss Julia
White.
The Union City Training School
is growing, Some ten or twelve
pupils have been added since the
opening last week. The reputation
of this school is not to be underesti-
mated, and no doubt the enrolment
will he much greater as the session
progresses.
Work on the remodeling the
city Public Shoot building is heing
pushed rapidly. There is at pres
ent a crew of twenty-five men busily
engaged on and around the building
BY next week this number will be Z
increased to half hundred men. |
No time will be lost in carrying the {
work to an early contamination. t
The Rives Graded School began
last week with larger attendance /
than ever There were seventy pu- :
pills at the opening, and it is still n
growing, The Rives people say
they can't give up Mr.. Cook, but he t
has certificate from the State a
Board of Examiners, passing upon n
his examination here, in which his '
average was over 90, and he says he d
is in the race for Superintendent to o
the finish. h
We are authorized to say that a Il
of no small signifi- d
;ance, in the way of a free hitch
stable on the Public School grounds W
will be erected for the accommoda- r
ion of pupils coming from the coun- la
ry. 1t is hoped there will be many ca
Boys and girls to take advantage of 4
his appointment of some impor- al
ance on the school grounds. T
Though it will hardly be imposing it
t will be great convenience. sc
Let every citizen and everybody te
living in the vicinity OF Union City es
school procure copy of the Nine co
zenith Annual Report of City Public ar
Schools. Besides the Presidents b
eport giving interesting figures til
nd the Superintendent report, pc
'e find course of study for the Isl
Thole year in quarters for gram to
lar school and in terms for high ne
chool. All the schools affairs - da
UGH as reviews, examinations, Ii an
mention. There is no
st of books used, names of teach ny
RS composing the next sessions
orps. All parents should ac-
uaint themselves with rules and {
equations. We find in this little ed
plume names of pupils enrolled in az
Ugh school department of last prC
ear. These number about sixty. Ma
[ention is also made of those per-
ct in attendance from first to
nth grades. There were twenty
ght. On the last page we find III,
I'D to the public which recon- pa
ends highly the new principal of ne,
oh school. Mr.. c. G. Burkitt, A. hee
+, NJ. A. (vanderbilt), whom our we