Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-05
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES
By W. CLYDE JOHNSON
County School Supt


Maple Grove, Miss Nina Betz teach
er for the second term, has a new
heater. Miss Betz is a great worker.
Last Saturday night she and her pu-
pills gave "Hiawatha" very creditably
on the lawn. She will give it Satur-
day night in Mcmillan Auditorium.
She is striving to raise money enough
to buy new seats. She uses original
promlems made by the students in her
class work. She has the pupils state
the problems after they are read.
Fox, with Miss Pearl Diggs as
teacher, has a new pencil sharpener.
They are trying the plan of furnish
ing free text books to their pupils.
This is one way, and the best I know
of, for the pupils to get something
for nothing. The Foreign Insurance
Tax will pay for nearly all their
books.
Naylor has a much different and
better appearance with a new coat Of
paint within and without, new plas-
ter, a new stove, a new well and a new
blind for the outbuiIdings. The floor
has been oiled and sweep is used to
keep down the dust. Miss Vim is
a gain to the district. She has fifteen
pupils. She is displaying the hand
writing on posters each week and much
interest is being taken and good re-
suits are already shown by marked
Improvements.
Miss Dulcie Dysart cleared SAL with
her pie supper at Strother and now
has a new organ. The agriculture
class had beautifully decorated the
room with farm produce. She has
about twenty pupils.
l gave my first illustrated lecture,
"The Dangers of the House Fly" at
Burnham. The crowd was very large
and very patient. Miss Watson Is
again the teacher and has twenty-sev-
en- pupils. Again Durham has taken
the lead in a very important matter,
No home is complete without walks,
Burnham has a walk to the well, to
each outbuilding and to the front
gate, Isn't that fine?
Miss Dola Bernard has fourteen pu-
pills at Lawson. The ceiling has been
patched and the building has beer
painted inside and out. They are get
ting close to the approved list. The
outbuildings, too, are clean.
Miss Minnie Jackson has sixteen pu
pills at Canada. The building has beer
freshly painted. They also have q
sanitary drinking fountain.
As | find a number of the stoves moi
BACKED, l try to report the ones fine
black, as the one at Mt. Pisgah whert
Miss May Hofreichter is teaching hel
second term. She has twenty-five pu
pills. The walls and ceilings havt
been painted and vanished. The out
buildings were cleaned. Here a goodl!
crowd came on short notice to attent
the second lecture.
j. NJ. Barnes has a fine new build
ing to work in a Macedonia. He ha'
twenty-seven pupils and is trying t,
teach them how to study, a very i'm
rortant part of a child's education
that is often overlooked.
Miss Elsa Cottingahm is the teache
at Sames. The house has a new roof
shines in a new coat of paint, Their
are new o~utbuildings and everythin
looks very much improved.
Mrs. Minnie Forbis is again a
Friendship. She moved the Librar.
down where the children could readil,
get at it. She and the pupils are max
ing a quilt, selling the squares at S
much apiece and hope to raise a con
siderable sum in this way.
Miss Kate Sievers is teaching he
fifth term at Goodwater. She has
fine sand table, has games for the Lit
tic mes, has ordered some books, an
has fixed things so very homelik
with a table for watGsLucket end cui
a washpan is neal and a rack wit
sanitary paper toweling.
A beginner, a teachers trainin
graduate of C~entralia, Miss Iren
Wilson, is at Excelsior. They hav
just completed a fine new fence an
are contemplating other improve
utcpt An appreciarlye audience greel
ed me here in my attempt to show u
the house fly as a very great sourc
, of danger to children and adults.
Mrs. Edna German is the teacher g
Pines. Much improvement was mad
here last year and more is to be mad
this year. They will put in a row
. new seats and do as much g
; possible. They had a pie and box SUI
per recently and l hope did well.
Miss Maggie Hoffman, from Monrc
+ county, is the teacher at Central, ST
has but fourteen pupils. Shs has fir
! sand and table and is allowing the pl
pills to use her excellent encyclop'
dia. This is the home of M. G. Neal
+ whom Mr.. Gass selected to inspect Il
teachers training schools of the stat
a Miss Mildred Cook is again at Cat
wood. Her school has increased
Z fifteen for this year. The stove W;
BACKED and there was a new Gbral
case, an organ and new shelves al
hooks had been put up for the CO.
varience OF the pupils. This adds mu'
to the tidiness of the room. They h;
! a big pie and box supper aCl cleart
!, about $50 as did also Miss Elizabei
: O'Brien, who is teaching her thil
term at Bryan. There were fourte'
pupils present. The stove was blac
ed, the floor oiled and with her su
d per money many needed books al
n other equipment will be secured.
Speaking of suppcrs, Mr.. Shay I
ports that in spite of the frigid weat