The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-04-14
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS.
By County supsrin.sndsn. P. N. Allison.


meeting last Tuesday on account of
the weather. AS a result they are
having to call special meetings in sew
eral places in order to increase the
levy. In a few places they had up
propositions to build new buildings
and several Of these were lost for
various reasons. In Cortland dis
trict they concluded they were not
starting right and are going to try
this again and we believe they will
make success of this attempt. Over
at Smoky Row in Mingo they started
right but did not finish right, that is
the proposition failed to get enough
votes. We hope that they will re-
consider the matter and build a new
house, for they need il. AtMulberry,
in Homer township, the proposition
was lost on account Of proposition
to change location of building site.
They all realize that they need new
house and all are willing to build one
but they can't quite agree as to where
it should be. There is no question
but they need a new school ground
or the present one improved. This,
however, is a matter they have to
settle for themselves and we believe
they will do so and build them new
house between this and the first of
September. The grounds are not
given the attention they should be
and one special case we have in mind
is Freeze Out in Spruce township.
Here they have a fine building well
equipped but their yard is not in as
good condition as it should be, but
these people are awake to the fact
and are going to look after the mat
ter this year.
The papers on county graduation
are coming in in good condition and
ii seems now that we are going to
have a much larger class than last
year. Adrian and Rockville came
over to help us out in the work and
we feel very proud of them for this.
Every eighth year pupil at Rockville
took the examination and we under
stand they did the same at Adrian.
The indications now are that Deer
Creek township is going to lead in
this so far as applicants are concern
ed.
The date for our graduating exer-
cises has been changed from May 9Th
to 9TH on account of DR.. Hill having
an appointment that he could not
make if he had to be here the 9th.
AS soon as we can get through
with our county graduation we expect
to turn our attention to district clerks
record the new law requiring the
county superintendent to inspect each
clerks work. This will require an
other trip over the county and will
take about five or six weeks time.
The time and trouble will be enjoyed
if the clerks only have their records
we'll kept.
Several pupils have written me let
ters and cards expressing their ap-
probation of the certificates of honor
given in the spelling contest and one
pupil, .Thelma Hill, adds that she ex-
poets to try in the sewing or cooking
contest, one. Such pupils are the
ones that make our schools better and
afterwards make useful men and wo-
men.
Incur teachers examination, which
was held March Is and 26, some
pupils took the work who were con-
testants in the spelling last year and
their work showed the benefit of the
training they received. One of them
made the highest grade made on the
subject, however, we must say that
all teachers present did not write on
this.
A few teachers are quite anxious
that we have a spelling contest for
teachers this year while others are
opposed to it believin = it would work
a hardship on some and my opinion
is that they are right about the mat
ter.
The interest in the corn contest is
much better than we expected at first.
Almost every township has one or
more representatives enrolled for
work and every day brings few
more. If any one enrolling fails to
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