Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-22
GROWN KING LINE TEACHERS ARE
 ORGANIZING
PERFECTING AN ASSOCIA- TON SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE VERDE VALLEY INSTRUCTORS.
(From Sundays Daily)

Id1lWdy VIII SOOn nave dh OI SdliLd ton similar to the Verde Valley Teachers Association perfected, was the statement of County Superintend cnt of Schools w. Curtis Miller yes terday. He stated that the schools along that road geographically form a distinct group as do the schools of the Verde valley. The teachers along the Crown King route are enthused over the reports of the good work ac- complished by the Verde association and have already started preliminary work for their association.
 Superintendent Miller believes that no one thing has done so much for the schools of the Verde as their teachers association. It mas enabled the teachers tc compare ideas, to get renewed inspiration and above all to prevent them from acquiring that "just-get-a1ong" habit which is found so often among teachers that have to work in isolated communities.
 A short time ago the county super intendent visited all the schools along the Crown King line and he reports all of them in excellent shape.
 At Yarber wash a few families w1o are determined to keep their children as near home as possible, in the early part of the year got together and erected a very comfortable school house which is much better than the average one being used in such spar sely settled districts. Sixteen are en- rolled and Mrs. Fred Genung acts as teacher Some of the pupils travel a distance of from two to four miles to get to ;he school
 The Dewey, Humboldt and Mayer schools were found to be well organ ized, better, Miller says, than at any time during his term as superintend- ent. A splendid spirit of friendly com petition has been developed between the three schools as was shown at the Northern Arizona Fair at which time the first two schools named tied for the first Crocker special prize offered for schools in their class.
 Nowhere in the county has there been as much improvement in school property during the past two years as in these three schools. Dewey ilas TOW well improved two-room school building with over forty pupils under Miss Mary Richardson and Mrs Louise Rodgers, Humboldt, until re- gently, had but a two-room school building and it was situated on smell ter property. Besides this the school had a debt of over $l 500 to meet. The smelter company has decded a large tract of land to the district and the trustees have remodelcd the build ing until now they have four-room well equipped buildings all paid for with an enrolment of over 100 pupils under George Gammill, Eleanor Fay, Abbie Rambo and Mary Reddick Miller stated that at this school the Palmer method of penmansnip shows up as well or better than at any other school where no special writing teach CT is employed.
 One of the pest school houses in the county Is situated at Mayer, il having been built recently at an ex' penditurc of SlO,OOO. It consists of four rooms and is built of brick. lh addition this district has ward school at the Blue Bell mine. In this district there is well organized lib- rary club i'll which both the patrons and pupils take part, the society being conducted by the youngsters. How ard Bentley is the present president of the society One hundred pupils are enrolled in the Mayer district un- der Mrs. Ward H. Wheeler, Mrs. Lora Chalmers. Miss Hattie Wells, and Miss Bessie Mulligan.
 The Crown King school having finished six months term has closed until Spring because of the bad wcatn CT usually found in that district dur ing the next few months.
 On another trip of inspection dur ing the past two weeks Superintend- cnt Miller visited the schools at Skull valley and Thompson valley. Thc former, he stated, had a good enroll ment under Miss Ina Blcys. At the latter school which is in charge of Mrs. A. D. Moore, he found that suit able playground apparatus mad been installed.
 Four boys, all of one family, whose parents live on rhe Santa Marta, twenty miles away from any school,, were found attending the Thompsoni school and living at d house a short distance away that they had rented. These boys are doing their own cook ing and housework They range iron, seven to fifteen years of age.