Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1904-10-06
Marble Hill, Missouri. Thursday. October 6, 1904.

of Maiden gave a fine talk on lessons
drawn from the Worlds Fair Education
al Exhibits. Dunklin county has a large
school fund and pays fairly good salaries,
not large enough by fifty per cent. The
future promises we'll for the schools OF the
county.
Butler county is fortunate in having
county supervision and a good man in the
Office. Every district in the county has
@ school library. The Poplar Bluff High
school is fairly we'll equipped and exerts
d. inc influence on the rural schools of
the county. City Supt. J. n. Street and
County Supt. w. N. Pace plan together
| andsecure close articulation. The teach
ers ofthe county appreciate the necessity
for grading the schools. There was full
and free discussion Of literature and ma
ture study in the grades. Butler county
| schools are in good condition.
| Ripley county had wide awake asso-
citation. No town in the state is doing
more in proportion to ability than Doni-
| phan. This town has secured as super
| intendert, Prof. J. S. Meddox, recent
principal of the High school at Fort
| Smith, Ark. He is taking hold of the
work in such way as to organize the
schools of Ripley county for thoro work.
! He has two good assistants in High
| school. Free tuition is offered to pupils
who complete the rural school work best.
| Commissioner O'Neal is very earnest and
we expect much from this county.
Bollinger county had a fair association
| only. Teachers entered into discussions
with earnest desire to profit by the meet
| ing. Commissioner Dayault and his as
sociate members of the County Board are
excellent teachers. Prof. Henderson, Of
the Marble Hill College is a strong man
and is doing much to improve conditions.
| The Normal Institute, a private school at
Lutesville, is in good hands. These two
private institutions, within one mile OF
each other, are rivals for patronage.
Conditions are not good for public
| schools. If the men who are in charge
| of all these institutions were working to-
gether to build up a strong public high
school, the conditions would equal those
in Ripley county. There are no present
prospects for such improvement.
The Madison county association was
| not largely attended. 1t was full OF in
| ter. st, however. Perhaps the best half
OF the teachers were present. There is
| not a corps OF nine teachers in Missouri
| more uniformly good than the one at
Fredericktown. Supt. 7. E. Joyce said:
81 am not much teacher myself, but if
they let me pick the teachers know how
to get good ones" The High school is
well equipped and is desorvedly poplar
with the people of the county. 1t holds
about the same relation to the schools of
Madison county that the Doniphan High
school does to the schools OF Ripley coun-
ty. Miss Davis gave a second grade
model lesson in nature study and Ian
guage and Miss Richard a sixth grade
model lesson in reading and literature,
using extracts frem Snow-Bound found
in New Franklin Fifth Reader. They
were very fine.
Washington county attendance was
smau, but improvement is noticeable.
Peace and harmony prevail. Eight good
teachers manifest interest in teaching
agriculture and arranged to organize
classes. The Potosi High school has a |
two years course. Principal J. Il. H. |
Napper is giving good service. He works |
without apparatus or library and, of |
course, can not do as much as he would |
otherwise.
a day in the Cape Girardeau Normal |
will convince anyone that the school is |
model. 1t is we'll equipped. 1t has an
excellent faculty and an earnest student
body. 1t does all it claims to do, with
out frill or fad. This school is a worthy |
leader and example. Education in this
part OF the state is making progress. All
credit to able and earnest teachers.
w. T. CARRINGToN,
State Supt. Pub. Schools.