The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-19
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS
By County Superintendent P. NJ. Allison.

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about securing good and competent
teachers, and as a result there are
many teachers employed now. Miss
Elsie Park will teach Woodland in
West Boone, Miss Grace DarE Vir-
ginia, in Charlotte, Miss Laura Bolin
Miller in Mt. Pleasant, Mr.. A. w.
Conrad, Reynard, in Hudson, Mrs.
Luella Campbell, Summit Center, in
Summit, Miss Iva Dale, Mckinley, in
Mingo, Mr.. A. F. Bradley, Hacker,
in Mingo, Miss Eva Buckles, Altoona,
Miss Hazel McRoberts, Victory, in
Mound, Miss Bonnie Wolf, Eldorado,
in Homer, Miss Grace Moreland, Fair
View, in Usage,
Several clerks are delinquent on
their enumeration lists and estimates.
While we are quite sure this is an
oversight on their part, it is rather
risky for this might cause their dis
tricts considerable loss if not their en-
tire revenue. Now while we have
no disposition to criticise them, this
should be attended to at once.
In looking over the application
blanks for county graduation find
that 81 selected Adrian as a choice of
High Schools to attend 43 selected
Butler as their choice, 26 selected
Rich Hill as choice, l6 selected Hume
and Al made no choice. Those not
making a choice were principally
pupils of Adrian, Hume and Rock
vile. Hume did not offer scholar
ships until late or they would have
had much greater number on their
list.
The Boys Corn Contest is doing
fine. The number enrolled is so neal
one hundred that we will call it that
for it will be more than that by the
time this is read. The girls are no
responding so readily for some reason
: but we can't help but think they arr
just as willing to work as the boys
Several have said they would enroll
but they have not all done so yet.
Several new s,hool houses are tt
be built this year more, think, thar
for several years. One very com
, mendable feature of this spirit of i'm
) provement is that they all want first
class houses. Mulberry, in Homer, i:
: building or preparing to build thu
, most modern and up-to-date rura
building in the county. They recent
ly had little difficulty as to site, bu
: they agreed, as they should, on
place satisfactory to all and have gon
to work tremendously for goot
school.
There is a strong demand for NOR,
work on agriculture in the rura
school. People are coming to realize
more and more the importance o
,, having some training on this in con
: nection with the rural school work
From what statistics that can be gath
, cred here in the office five out of tel
pupils in the Bates county schools
, never pass beyond the fourth grade
One out of ten reaches the eight
grade and one out of twenty passe
+ beyond the eighth grade and thi
| with a compulsory attendance law.
Supt. L. F. Robinson has BEEF
elected Superintendent of the Ricl
Hill schools. for the seventh cOnsecu
tive time and the schools of Rich Hill
are reported as being in most excel
: lent condition. The high school eX
aminer for both the State and Univer
: sity are very favorable in their re
ports concerning the work. Mr.
r Robinson and Rich Hill are to b.
: commended on this most eXcellen
r showing. They voted building funt
. in the Ayril election and are going t.
! make some improvement.
There are quite number of thing
in our new school law that seen
useless, and may be, but perhap
! time and use will show some advan
tage in them. One thing we all know
and that is that too much of gu
school work is done in too careless
e manner not because the people ar
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