The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-04
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS.
Prof P ii. Allison

Prof P NJ. Allison.
w. NJ. Ayers, clerk of Grand View
district in Charlotte township, was in
last week and reported that the board
out there.cOntemplates making con-
siderable Improvement in and around
the school house this summer. This
is one of the best buildings in the
county and they are going to keep it
SO. The work, however, should be
done before time for school in the
fall. This school won the flag last
spring in the county graduation.
There is no more wide awake pupils
to be found than in this school.
Edwards school had a well drilled
but failed to obtain supply of water.
II is to be regretted that they had to
give up so important thing as this.
This water question is one of the
most serious ones we have to contend
with in the country schools. They
have new modern building and it
was to be hoped that they could get a
supply of good water.
Cortland is progressing nicely with
their Improvement on the school
house. They are going to renovate
the old one to the extent of almost
making a new one of it. They are
finding out one thing too and that is
that il costs almost as much as to put
up a new building. They have the
new foundation completed and ready
to begin on the frame.
From the district clerks reports
we find that Hume leads in the coun-
ty on the number of volumes in the
library, having seven hundred.
Freezeout, in Spruce, leads among
the country schools with one hun
dred and ninety volumes. Fifteen
districts in the country are reported
as not having any library at all but
we feel that some of these are not
right. Those reporting no library
are: H. 7, IA, Is, l6, II, 20, %, SO,
81, so, 81, sc, SO, us, Unless | am
seriously mistaken some of these
have very fair libraries. 1t seems
that the rural schools of the county
put in more than one thousand vol
umes last year and sixty-eight schools
put in maps, sixteen slate black
boards and of the one hundred and
thirty-nine districts in the county all
but fourteen did something to make
their school better in some way.
The best salary paid a country
teacher was $50 per month and the
least was $50. The largest enroll
ment in country school was sixty
one the least Sc, en-, in two schools.
The best average daily attendance
was forty-eight and the lowest was
three.
In conversation with Mr.. Heck,
president of the Rich Hill school
board, he informed us that they had
taken great care in the selection of
their high school faculty and they
feel that they are going to have the
best school year and think they can
meet with the approval of the State
University better than ever before.
They expect to make some very de-
cided Improvement in equipment and
apparatus in the next year.
The people of Hazel Dell school, in
Hudson township, are making a gen.
eral Improvement this year. They
have replastered the school house
put in new blackboard re-arranged
the seats and put in new fencing, in
fact they have an up-to date building
and grounds. This is one of the
incest schools in the county and the
people are a progressive wide awake
lot and it looks very much like they
are going to have first class school,
They have retained there last years
teacher, Miss Rosalie Wix.
1t Was Loaded.