The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-05-18
BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS
AND TEACHERS

| 4 I IN "a
AND TEACHERS
BY Supt. p. n. Allison.
| Mr.. C. "A. Carson of Peru schoo
reports the following pupils as no
being tardy all the year: Mae Belt
Florence Belt, Fern Harper, Susie
Harper, Dot Harper, Page Harper
Fay Harper. Elsie Hart, Nellie
Thomas, Earl Rice, Hazel Rice,
Tommie Belt, Vance Belt, Fred Car
roll, Verla jenkins, Everett Jenkins
and Lloyd Nafus. Those who were
neither tardy nor absent are: Mae
Belt, Florence Belt, Hazel Rice, Fay
Harper and Nellie Thomas. This
school had an enrolment of about IS
pupils and run for 8 months. Idoubt
if many can make a better showing il
any. .
In one list of questions on Physiol-
ogy in the recent examination for
county graduation was concerning
the sanitation of the school house and
grounds. One pupil gave the follow
ing answer: "Our school house could
be improved as to sanitation by hav-
ing nice clean floor, also clean
windows and desk. Keep everything
free from dust and dirt with well
arranged ventilating system so as to
prevent drafts of air. Our school
would be neater and cleaner if we
had new stove and stove pipe, a
new library case, dustless erasers,
slate blackboard and newly papered
walls would all add greatly to the
sanitationIsand cleanliness of our
school room. Our yard needs clean
ing and fencing. We need a few
shadeAtrees in the yard for warm
weather. We need new coal house
and some new out buildings. We
need a we'll or a good cistern for the
water we get from we'll near by
tastes of the pump and in warm
weather is not wholesome by the
time it can be carried to the school
house and as a result the pupils are
thirsty all day and can not do good
work. So many things might be done
that can not write about all of them. "
This pupil evidently knows that things
can be improved and that they should
be, if the teacher and patrons do not.
This comes from a school where con-
ditions are not good but might be the
very best in every way. About 1876
pupils wrote on the county graduation
examination but many were only
taking the seventh year subjects. OF
the 1896 pupils n were boys, leaving
a very much greater number for the
girls. 1t seems that about $50 will
pass. The exercises will be held in
the Circuit Court room Saturday,
May 10th, beginning at 200 in the
afternoon. A few Of the pupils will
take part and Mr.. Green of the State
Superintendent office will deliver
the address and present the diplomas.
| sincerely hope that every graduate
can be present. All persons interest
ed in education are invited to attend.
Miss Maude Morgan has been re-
elected at Star in Lone Oak township,
Miss Ida Dillon at Wemotin Shawnee,
Miss Laura Bolin at Passaic, Miss
Dixie Sharp at Prairie Rose in Mound,
Miss Mayme McKibben at Tygard,
Miss Helen Park at Eldorado in
Homer, Miss lnez Beck at Mulberry
in Homer, Mr.. Ernest Timmons at
Rocky Point in Mound, Miss Sallie
Howell at Olive in Shawnee, Miss
Mift1e Cole at Redmond in Summit,
Mr.. C. A. Carson at Peru in Lone
Oak, Miss Grace Darr at Olive Branch
in Charlotte.
Cumpton school in Deepwater
township is to be refurnished with |
new desks and repaired in general.
That they will have a better school as
a result can not be questioned. Many
of our school houses need new desks
and new equipment in every way.