Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-10-05
RURAL SCHOOLS
BY w. CLYDE JOHNSON,
superintendent OF County Schools.
Fox School Has Free Text Books
StrOther Installs New Organ-Mo-
limo Saving Waste Paper--A New
Flag at Bean Creek.

| Mdple GTONe, MlSS MIN Deln,
teacher for the second term, has a
new heater. Miss Betz is a great
worker. Her pupils gave "Hiawatha"
very creditably on the lawn. Then
she gave It Saturday night in McMil
Ian auditorium. She Is striving to
make money enough to buy new
made by the pupils in her class work;
also has the pupils to state the prob
lens after they are read.
Fox, with Miss Pearl Diggs as
teacher, has new pencil sharpener.
They are trying the plan of furnish
ing free text books to their children.
This is one way-the best way that
know of-for the children to get
something for nothing. The Foreign
Insurance Tax will pay for nearly all
their books.
| Naylor has much different and
better appearance with a fresh coat
of paint within and without, new
plaster, a new stove, a new well, a
new blind for the out buildings. The
floor has been oiled and Sweepo is
being used to keep down the dust.
Miss Winn is again the teacher. She
has 10 pupils.
Miss Dulcie Dysart cleared SAL
with her pie supper at Strother and
now has a new organ.
81 gave my first illustrated lecture,
"The Dangers of the House Fly" at
Burnham. Miss Watson is again, the
teacher. She has 81 pupils. Burnham
now has a walk to the well, to each
out building, and to the front gate.
Miss Dula Barnard has Ia pupils at
Lawson. The ceiling has been patch
ed and the building has been painted
inside and outside.
Miss Minnie Jackson has 16 pu-
pills at Canada. The Building has
been freshly painted. They also have
a sanitary drinking fountain.
n Mt. Pisgah, Miss May Hofriehter
is teaching her second term. She has
rs pupils. The walls and ceilings
have been painted and vanished.
The out buildings are cleaned
j. M. Barnes has a fine new build
ing to work in at Macedonia. He has
~ pupils, and is trying to teach them
how to study, very important part
of child's education that is gener-
ally overlooked.
Miss Elsa Cottingnam is the teach
er at Sames. The house has a new
coat of paint; there are. new out
uildings and everything looks i'm
proved.
Mrs. Minnie Forbes is again at
Friendship. She and the pupils are
making quilt, selling the squares
at SO much piece, and hope to raise
considerable sum in that way.
Miss Katie Sievers is teaching her
fifth term at Goodwater. Has fixed
things up very ,home-like with a table
Tor water bucket and cups, a wash
pan near, and rack with sanitary
paper toweling.
beginner, teacher training
graduate of Centralia. Miss Irene
Wilson, is at Excelsior. They have
just completed a new fence; contem-
plating other improvements.
Mrs. Edna German is the teacher
at Pine. Much Improvement was
made here last year, and more is to
be made yet this year. They will put
in row of new seats and do as much
more as possible, They had pie and
box supper recently.
Miss Maggie Hoffman from Mon
roe county is the teacher at Central.
She had but IA pupils. She has a fine
sand table, and is allowing the pu-
pills the use of her excellent ency-
clopedia.
Miss Mildred Cook is again at
Gatewood. Her school has increased