Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-10-01
RURAL SCHOOL NOTES.
By W. Clyde johnson, County School
superintendent

BY w. Clyde Johnson, county ochool
superintendent
The improvements that / noticed
during the past week are as fol-
lows:
At Ellis, the house has been re-
paired, a new door has been hung, n
outbuilding has been cleaned and re-
built, and the weeds have been cut
and l saw no boys with sore feet caus-
ed by the stubs.
At Bryan, the house has a new roof
and one new window, a new coat Of
paint outside and on the outbuildings.
Duly scrubbed and cleaned the out
buildings, cut the weeds, and will
have a new door.
At Central, the weeds have been
cut and the boys have made a sand ia
BILE.
They cleaned the well, made a con-
crete top, and cut the weeds at Good
water. Miss Katie Sievers watered a
number of trees last summer and
was able to ave some of them. She
is also working hard to get her
school on the approved list and lacks
perhaps no more than another month
added to her term. She has offered to
teach this for fifteen dollars. Is it
good business to turn down such an
offer?
Naylor has clean outbuildings, n
of them is new, and both have good
blinds in front of them.
Excelsior is doing big things. They
have cleaned the well and put a new
top on it. They have put up new out
buildings with good blinds and paint
ed them. The house is being painted
in and out, and the weeds were cut.
At Sames, the weeds have been cut,
the house scrubbed, and a new con-
crete top put on the well.
Macedonia has new paper on the
ceiling, and new paint on the walls
This helps much.
Skull Lick has a clean floor, a con-
crete platform in front of the door
and about 30 new library books. New
maps and books have also been add
ed to the equipment at Lawson. These
books were purchased with box sup
per money.
Harrison has two news walks tC
the outbuildings, made by tapping
three or four burrows together. ! dom
suppose many families would approve
of putting a pillow in their yards.
Maple Grove is a good illustra
ton of what can be done with a littl'
, money and a great deal of grit. Th'
. house has been rebuilt, has large win
!, dows of one pane each. is painted AM
papered neatly, has a clean floor, AM
good equipment. The outbuildings ar
new with concrete floors and a coat o
paint. There is a good barn. Their
is a granitoid walk to the fence
where there is a turnstile. The fenc
is also new and neat. With a heating
plant, Maple Grove would meet tn
requirements for approval.
But for all around homelike condi
3 tons, Burnham has the lead, and sh
: deserves it, for with a valuation o
: 100000, she has a 65 cent levy, an
= pays Miss Jannette White $S1.25 pc
month. They have a large beautifr
yard with a good green turf an
shade trees. The o~utbuildings al
newly painted, clean, lined, and hay
!. blinds. The barn is reached from I'll
:. road. There is a cyclone cellar wit
e concrete steps n loof' lhe
have a living well with a new pun
and concrete top.
= The house has been painted insiC
;, and outside, and the floor is ole
The equipment is good, and the wol
of teacher and pupils is first-class.
few minutes spent here is pro
d, enough that the money is wisely i
" vested. Truly this school is wieldir
" influence for good that cannot be e
timated and l am glad to see a gre
tendency among the schools of Il
county to increase their efficiency.
yours doing all it can?