The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-08
Our Educational
 Interests the Best
Advantages of Common and High Schools Here Un-
 surpassed in Arkansas

In good.school and general education al facilities, Carroll county;easily ranks with the best counties in the state.
 There are one hundred and one com mon school districts and three special districts in the county
 Nearly all of these districts have good houses and maintain from five to nine months school each year.
 The state levies three mill tax on all property in the state for education al purposes. This tax is distributed per capital throughout the state. In addition to this tax, each district can vote, at it's annual meeting, any sum not exceeding seven mills on the dollar. Quite number of our districts annually vote the full seven mills, and nearly all the others vote five mills.
 To these funds are added one dol lar poll tax on every male citizen 21 years old. This tax goes to the dis trict in which the poll is assessed.
 Besides our common schools, of which we are justly proud, the county can point with pride and confidence to her six Public High Schools located at Green Forest, Eureka Springs, Berry vile, Carrollton, Osage and Denver.
 These schools are all in the hands of competent and efficient directors and instructors and are doing a work that will materially and beneficially affect the history of the county and state.
 They give to every boy and girl in the county an opportunity tc secure good high school or academic edU- cation ata minimum cost.
 The Green Forest High School easily takes it's place at the head of all the schools of the county and is not excell- ed by any school in the state.
 A brief synopsis of it's growth and work will fully justify the most san guine hopes for it's future.
 From a beginning with sixty pupils and two teachers in 1887 it has advanc- ed to three hundred pupils and six teachers. Its first session was held in a small box house, one room, "A by 30 feet.
 This was replaced in 1893, by a two story frame building, 30 by 50 feet. This in turn gave place in 1905 to the splendid brick building, cut of which appears in this paper.
 The first term of this school was held 1SS7-1S8S with an enrolment of 58. The enrolment for the present term is 275,-71 of whom are non-residents, representing five st1tes and four counties of this state.
 The course of study is we'll selected, we'll graded and comprehensive, cover ing twelve years of school work-eight years in the grades and four years in the High School
 The school is now, and has been for fourteen years on the accredited list of the State University, at which many of our pupils have wen distinc- tion.
 That the work of this school is thorough. practical, and of a high order is conclusively shown by the fact that all of it's alumni and alumnae have made good in all the different callings of life.
 Whether it be in the workshop, in the office, in the counting room, in the navy, in the army, in the pulpit, on the editors tripod, in the medical world, at the bar or in the political arena, the Green Forest alumnus has measur- ed up to high standard of excellence
 Wherever he has gone, he has carried with him the practical common sense. the lofty ideal and the noble as- piration of his alma mater.
 '.I watch the wheels of natures may plan, And learn the FUTURE by the PAST of man.