Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-10-24

g CHOOLS:-Marion County enjoys the
~ very best Of educational advantages and
makes the boast that the rural schools of the
y under the efficient management of the present
County Superintendent, Miss Alice Emmert has
been elevated in their moral and mental sphere.
til it be said that the rural schools of the coun-
ty have no superior in the State With the mag
nifcent apportionment which the State makes for
the education of her boys and girls, this year being
$6S5 per month for each pupil between the ages of
seven and seventeen years OF age. this is being
augmented by the county funds Of Marion County,
then to this. is in most districts supplemented by
local tax, furnishes enough revenue to- conduct all
schools from six to seven months, and the county
has the best of teachers, good school buildings,
patent desks, maps globes charts AID all essentials
needed for carrying on the educational system,
at present mapped out. makes Marion County very
desirable place for one to raise family, and at the
time, afford the children all the advantages Of
ideal system of public schools. In all the rural
schools, it matters not how many, how few the
pupils. ample provision is made for funds to con
duet the schools the proper length Of time to con
form to the constitutional requirements of six
months The City Of Jefferson has Il very ideal
system Of schools. divided into primary. interme-
diate and high school branches, with a course of
study prescribed and adopted for the year that places
it in the front rank, and will enable pupils who
graduate from the high school ready admission into
any Of the better class of colleges and thereby
year that is Usually spent in some prepare
tory school. The city school course embraces all
the essentials of any of the best high schools and
graduate the pupils in the eleventh grade, which
of study and preparation prepares the pupil
with sufficient mental training unless they expect
to enter some OF the professions. then they of
course, demand the courses prescribed by the Uni
verses Besides the regular literary work of the
jefferson City Schools, the good ladies banding
themselves together in Mothers Club have made
it possible for the girls of the school to become
versed in the vocational work of life. A regular
of Domestic Science and domestic art is fur
nShed to- all pupils Of the High School. This de
partment is furnished with all the latest and most
approved devices for the incubation of these arts
aud is presided over by well equipped teacher as
it was possible for the trustees to secure
The board of education OF the schools of the
districts in the county and also in the city, are all
live, wide awake and progressive citizens. ready at
all times to do anything in their power to promote
the best interests of the schools, or to secure more
of the later aud more modern systems and plans
for the advancement of the educational system of
jefferson and Marion County. Five branches of
these schools presided over by teachers holding
permanent certificates from reputable normals
The city school building is a substantial two
story brick with large and we'll ventilated rooms
which permits of pure, good air, bright and beau
tlful sunshine, with every convenience for the safe
Is Of the children i'm ease of IRE sanitary drinking
fountain, from which flows the purest OF drinking
water, large auditorium, we'll seated. beautiful
campus 300 feet square, Sodded with bermuda
lawns, shaded by magnificent oaks aud enclosed
with substantial iron fence
| : COURT HOUSE lis beautiful aud substantial
\ building constructed ~ pressed brick. heat
I'd AMI handsomely furnished t ouhout Al Of >-0pa
Ihc used entrsy hy po~toaice department
aUd affords every sltg lar handling the mails aud con
'va"nce 20 tr puole The oPper aoor > used tor 4