Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-21

has been built and painted for the
girls, and other substantial improve
ments are planned by the board who
are taking great interest in their
school and are striving to make it a
great success.
There has been a big increase Of
233 per cent in the enrolment at High
land, where Miss Jennie Lee Atkins,
a graduate of the Teacher Training
Course at C~entralia, is the teacher.
She has 7 pupils. 1t takes a 65 cent
levy to run this school for six months,
allowing the teacher but $40 per
month.
Ed c. 0ffutt, a teacher of several
years successful experience and with
Normal training, is again at Harri-
son. He has Is pupils. A new well
has been dug.
Miss Mary Cowles, who has been a
successful teacher in Kansas, has Is
pupils at Skull Lick.
Daniel is another large school. Miss
Ethel Heazlitt, another primary
teacher from North Dakota, has 80
pupils. They have a new barn, a pen
Gil sharpener, a sanitary fountain and
a BACKED stove.
| find most of the stoves not black
ed, but Sims is also an exception to
this/rule. The teacher is Miss Mabel
Kilgore, who has had several years
! experience and some Normal training
fShe has 80 pupils. The house has
been given a new roof. The board is
going right along with the improve
ment of this school.
One Of the most enthusiastic begin
ners that it has been my pleasure t.
meet is the teacher at Hazel, Mis-
Lillian Crawford, a graduate of Sy'
medical College at Fulton. She holds
a Teacher Training Certificate. She
has but 7 pupils. She is trying Ii
meet the requirements for approval
This is another district that has {
small valuation and it takes 65 cts
to u a $40 school, with but it'll,
left for necessary equipment. Tn
/ stove had been BACKED and a JACKIE
will be put around it.
Miss Gertrude Nagel, a studen
and teacher in the Normal School a
Kirksville, is the teacher at Beagles
The president of the Board, Monroe
Beagles, says that they are going Il
meet the requiremnts for approval
This should have been done severa
years ago. But it is never too lat
to do good. Miss Nagel has II pu
pills.
Mrs. Florence Begeman, an expert
enced teacher with Normal training
is the teacher at Dye. She has % pu
pills. The floor has been oiled - thu
first one that I have found in thu
country and they will use sweep
ing compound, so that they will no
be bothered with the dust this year
How would you like to live in
house where the dust is about as bat
as it is around the threshing machine
This is the way it is in most of tn
school houses. .
They use a covered jar for the wat
er. The teacher will have a new desk
A marvellous change has been wrough
at Elm Bend. The house has bee
built and they expect to add the porcI
roof another year, new windows hav'
replaced the old ones, the side door
have been closed up and n opene!
in the south end, and the old cracked
unsightly plaster has been replace.
with a fine new coat. Another yea
and they expect to have everything
in tip-top shape. 49,.
Another very enthusiastic and inter
ested beginner is Miss Christine Ga
briel, the teacher. She is a ""odnat
} of the Teacher Training Course a
r, Vandalia. She has 81 pupils. Sh
uses her maps. l see so many who d
not. Monday morning the "B" elias
will conduct the morning exercises
of course they will try to do bette
; than the "a" class did last Monday
am sure that it will be very interest
ing to the school and very beneficial
! to all taking part.