The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-19
A BIG SCHOOL RALLY
An All Day School Rally Saturday
Diplomas Presented to As Rur- 4,
al School Graduates. -.


al School Graduates. ).
There was big attendance at the
Decatur County School Rally held
in this city last Saturday, when di-
plomas were issued to As graduates
who had completed the prescribed
course of study in the rural schools.
Many school children from the
country were in attendance at, the
rally and many of the patrons were
also present. tt5v'
The program commenced at $3.50
in the morning when the subject
How We May Improve Our Rural
Schools" was very Interestingly dis
cussed from a teachers standpoint
by George o. Johnson, and Miss
Olive Evans; from patrons
standpoint by Mrs. Cornelius
Millsap, Mr.. Pearson, Mr.. Mckinley
and Mr.. Cotterill; from pupils
standpoint by Guy McMorris and
Artie l. Trisler; from superintend-
ent's standpoint by Prof. J. W..
Long and Miss Julia Scurry, of
Ames.
Miss Helene Griffin, of Grand Riv-
er, gave couple of selected readings
and the subject of "School Legisla-
ton" was ably discussed by Mr.. John
F. CARRIER, of Franklin township.
This was followed by an address by
DR.. Hugh S. Buffum, of Marquette,
Michigan, on Some Needs of the
Common School," and his address
was full of good suggestions for the
betterment of our rural schools.
At the afternoon session there was
fine musical program, and Hon. v.
R. McGinnis, who spent years of his
younger life in school work gave a
fine address which was greatly en-
joyed A round table on the sub
ject of School Consolidation" was
conducted by Prof. P. A. Long, Of
Garden Grove, who has had expert
ence in teaching in a consolidated
school, and there was an interesting
discussion of the subject. Rev. G.. T..
ROnk, who is conducting revival
meetings in this city told in an inter-
esting manner of the different edu-
cational systems of various states,
he being intimately acquainted with
the systems used in four different
states. ..r
Senator G. H. Thomas of Kent, was
on the program for an address, but
he was unable to be present, and
sent a good letter which was read,
and on motion by Prof. J.. M. Howell
of Davis City, every paper in the
county was requested to publish his
letter His letter is published in
another column in this paper.
The following is list of the rur-
al graduates and nearly all Of them
were present to receive their di-
plomas:
Harold Brenizer, district No. s.,
Bloomington township.
Mae Bruner, district No. l., Bur-
rell township.
Lena Bruner, district No. /, Bur-
rell township. >'
Ruth Robbins, district No. 4, Bur-
rell township.
Esther Osborn, district No. 5, Bur-
rell township.
Hazel Roberts, district No. 8, Bur-
rell township.
Thelma Woodmansee, district No.
/, Center township.
ter township. i
Frank Myers, district No. 2, Cen
ter township.
Ray Wiley, district No. 2, Gen.
ter township.
Max Morgan, district No. 3, Gen.
ter township. .,.
Walter Scott, district No. 4, Gen.
ter township. - Il
Of1e Leeper, district No. S, Cen
ter township. ,|sNr.
Francis Pearson, district No. s,
Center township. ,4E4,
Ina Greenalgh, district No. 8, De-
catur township. A,rH
Joseph McMorris, district No.. 2,
Eden township.
Helen Imhof, district No. 2, Eden
township. a. L.u$
Alvie Durell, district No. 2, Eden
township. .,t%
Celia Anderson, district No. 6,
Eden township. f'%y.
Ottie Baker, district No. 8, Eden
township. l,tt.
Hazel Evans, district No. z, Eden
township. s%,.j,
Winford Griffin, district No. 7,
Eden township. a,,%t
Marie Campbell, district No. 6.
Eden township. @ tf
Clisty May, district No. g., Fayette
township. I'm
Tessie Trisler, district No:t,k1
Franklin township. .{Sis
Geo. Livingstone, district No: 4,
Franklin township. ,&tg
Rex Hamilton, district lvo.Aip4,
Garden Grove township. a{&
Harold Duncan, district No. MA,
Garden Grove township. N4
Willie Young, district No. te,4,
Garden Grove township. &s{2
Leo Edwards, district No. 3, Grand
river township ;}fs
Lucetta Kyle, district No. Z, Grand
River township. " shS
Grace Barrett, district No. 3, High
Point township. A.a
Niles Mendenhall, district No.. 4,
High Point township.
Ivan Mendenhall, district No.s.. 4.
High Point township. G.s,
Lelah Smith, district No. 4, High
Point township.
Fred Skinner, district No. 4, High
Point township. "a
Ralph Ivans, district No. 5, High
Point township. stsst,
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