Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-10-08
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES
By W. CLYDE JOHNSON,
County School Supt.

or the schools hat l visited the
past week, Stauffer. Liberty, Crane
and Boyd have the most homelike APP
pearance. Stauffer fixed their house
in good shape last year. However they
cleaned the well and hauled water
just as they do every year, also scrub
bed the house and cleaned the out
buildings. Liberty looks well in a
new coat Of paint inside and outside.
The outbuildings, too, were painted.
and lime is being used in them for
sanitation. Liberty is getting ready
for approval. Had a supper and en-
t~ertainment Friday night and viii use
the money made for this purpose.
Boyd has a fine new system Of heat
ing and ventilating, and has painted
the building inside and outside. Mr..
Llewellen and the pupils have cut the
weeds and are working to meet the re-
quirements for approval.
Crane has a new coat Of paint out
side and new paper inside. The out
buildings have been repaired and
painted. A new concrete top is on
the well, and a block before the door
and a new jacket is around the
stove. A new chart adds much to
the equipment and efficiency Of the
school. They have screens in the win
dows. With a screen door now they
could boast of a real home, Yes, they
even have a garden, the only n |
have seen yet, and they have radishes
and turnips big enough to eat.
Cedar Grove and Culwell have very
dirty and dingy walls and ceilings.
They need paint badly. Their outbuild-
ings are in a bad condition, as are al
so those of Walker, Jesse, Prairie
Chapel, Boyd and Farber. In some of
these the filth and stencil was awful,
such that one with a delicate nose
could scarcely endure it. Are such
conditions good for the moral and
physical development of tender boys
and girls?
Lawder and Prairie Mound each
have a new heating and ventilating
system and are about ready for ap-
prevail.
HedgedaIe has new hooks for their
library, a new coal house with con-
crete floor, and a clean house and
outbuildings.
Martinsburg has oiled the floors,
got 10 new curtains for the windows,
and put a new roof on part of the
building.
Edwards has a new floor and %joists;
their stove has one wooden (block)
leg. Miss Underwood had n supper
Saturday night, and will use the mo-
ney to meet the requirements for APP
proval.
South Carter has a new porch with
concrete floor, a solid foundation, and
is being painted outside. II is to be
hoped the inside will receive its share
too.
also had the pleasure of visiting
a school that is a real home. II is
held in +. NJ. Branstetter's beautiful
home nea Mt. Carmel. II is q rural
high school with four studious girls
doing the 9th grade work. The teach
err, Miss Ingram of Centralia, Is high
ly qualified in scholastic attachments,
in experience, in fact in all the qualifi-
cations that go to make a real teach
er. She is helping Mr.. Branstetter,
and Mr.. Fletcher to get this school
started. They are offering the par
ents and their boys and girls a very
fine opportunity and surely more
will take advantage of it.
Indeed, Mr.. Branstetter and Mr..
Fletcher had kept their girls in school
at Vandalia for a month and were
plenty able to have kept them there
until graduation. But they wan to
benefit their communicated there
are several girls in the community
who could not go to Vandala. | am
sure that much good will come of this
rural school.
After five weeks in the saddle
have covered about 500 miles, visited
all the inexperienced teachers. have
called on the other teachers and talk
ed oven their problems, and inspected
the sanitary conditions of the houses
and outbuildings in nearly every one
the 50 rural districts.