Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15
RURAL School NOTES
BY W. CLYDE JOHNSON
County Superintendent of Public
Schools.

Schools.
Thursday / visited two schools, Sun
Rise and Jackson. Although it was the
last day of regular school work, for
these schools closed Friday, the pu-
pills kept just as busy at their work,
and took just as much interest in it
as they did months ago. Both of the
teachers are beginners, but both have
taught very successful terms and have
given complete satisfaction.
Sun Rise has an assessed valuation
of $4,000. Their levy will be 40c on
the 500 valuation. They expect to
have seven months term. Mr.. John
Clark succeeds G. G. Douglass as d.
rector. This year much money was
spent for improvements new roof,
new paint and paper, a new stove,
new books. They now have a library
of 100 volumes. May they continue to
do good work.
Miss McMurtry is the teacher. She
is graduate of Mcmillan and of Har-
din, and is we'll qualified scholasti-
cally for the place she is SO we'll fill
ing.
Jackson also has a valuation of
nearly $4,000. Mr.. Walker succeeds
himself on the board. They have a
fine, large building with one-light
windows, good heating plant, a
small case of maps, and fair library
of lis volumes.
Miss Cowherd is the teacher, is a
graduate of Mcmillan High and OF the
Teacher Training Glass, and holds a
first grade certificate to teach. Her
work is satisfactory and shows the
benefit of the training course.
Friday was spent with Mrs. Mckee
han, her pupils and patrons. There
was a bountiful basket dinner of the
very best things to cat that women
know how to cook, and not at all in
keeping with the hard times we have
been hearing so much said about The
morning was devoted to regular reci-
tation work. The afternoon was
pleasantly spent in hearing the pro-
gram given by the Post Oak Literary
Society. The president, Miss Mayes,
and the secretary, Miss Mcdonald,
well performed their duties, and all
seemed we'll to understand parlia-
mentary rules, and respected them
to the letter. The pieces were we'll
learned and spoken out clearly and
distinctly so that they could be heard
and enjoyed.
Jesse has very large and beauti-
full yard, full of grass and fine forest
trees, large house, good heating
plant, large case Of maps and a
fair library of rs or more books. The
well has a good concrete top and a
good pump. This is the largest
school in the county. The total en-
rollment is So. The average daily at
tendance by months is; LIST, so; End
48, 3rd A, 4th 43, 5th "A, 9Th 33, 7th
30. The large falling off was caused
by moving, and farm work. In the
"a" class, there were Is pupils. Talk
about we old time school, what do you
think of that?
And now just word about one Of
our town schools. The State Examin-
err, Mr. Neale, was here this week and
spent a day visiting the different de-
partments Of the Mexico public school
system. He is very close inspector,
and is free in his criticisms. But he
was so surprised at what he found
here that he had not a criticism to
make. His report that Mexico was in
class by itself, that the grades are
doing the fine things that the other
schools have only in their catalogs,
and what the normals are trying to
do in their model schools. Truly, Mr.,
Pryor is a great school man and de-
serves much credit for these good
things and I regret very much that
the vote Tuesday was not as large as
it should have been to show Mr.. Pry-
or that we appreciate him, and are
with him, that he may be encouraged
to go on and do still greater things,