The Mena weekly star., 1919-08-07
SCHOOL NEWS.
(For Week Ending August ID

follows: Springdale, j. N. Fair re-
ports the purchase of new desks,
which will soon be installed; Hickory
Grove, Miss Jennie Reed reported inn
provements which raise their score IA
point, making them a Glass C school;
Rocky, A. S. Daniels reports a number
of improvements, and they are not
thru yet
Two-Mile was the first school visit
ed the past week Amos Musgrave
is in charge and his school is doing ex-
cellent work. Another room is plan
ned and primary teacher will be em-
ployed However, Mr.. Musgrace has
one of the best primer classes yet seer.
This school scores so and will be
Glass A school soon.
l.. M. Blan and Mrs. Allen are
teaching the Potter school this year.
Mr. Blan's pupils did excellent work
in the spelling tests. This school
will be represented at the county
fair in a number of events. Another
school plan at Potter is the building Of
an additional room on the ground floor
and furnishing it properly. Mr.. Blan
is Withholding some improvements
pending the erection of this room.
Old Potter is one of the two-room
schools which found it necessary to
engage a lady principal this term.
They seem to have made wise choice
when they elected Miss Hazel Mckee
for that position Mrs Fern Parr is
the assistant. Miss Mckee is using
Current Events in her history classes
to good advantage Both teachers are
working to increase their score.
The directors at Gam school have
shingled their house and otherwise i'm
proved conditions. Miss Mabel An
derson has excellent order and a well
advanced school. The school needs
blackboards and teachers desk The
school is nicely decorated.
Miss Irma Nichols has the honor of
teaching the first term in the new
school house in Cedar school district.
Incidentally these people have
changed the name of their school and
made is "Mecham," in honor of the
donor or the school site. Their school
will do well when the building is COM
pleted.
A fat tire, a broken front spring,
and a hard rain, all objected to the
superintendent visit to West Valley,
but the visit was made, the Ford to the
contrary notwithstanding. West Val
ley is one of the two frame buildings
in the county which has sufficient
light. The building is new and we'll
planned. Misses Della Turner and
Carrie Reed are in charge and are ex-
periencing the difficulties incident to
teaching in a school which has been in
vacation more than a year. C. M.
Davis is in charge of the digging of
well on the grounds.
Corinth school has abandoned its
building and moved into the church
building, which is fairly well suited
for school purposes, the lack of light
being the greatest objection. Mar
quis Miller is giving these folks a
good school. Miss Jewel Wiles of this
school has the honor of being the first
pupil in the county who has equaled
or exceeded the standard score re-
quired in the arithmetic tests. She is
in the eighth grade and attempted 10
problems, of which IL were correct.
Oak Ridge is taking on new life this
year. John Harper is taking more
interest than ever before in his
school. They are planning to capture
number of prizes on Education Day
at the county fair, and some schools
will have to work if they are prevent
ed. Mr.. Harper announced some inn
provements had been made before this
could be written.
The faculty at Acorn consists of t.
Delos Mullins, principal, Miss Christa
York, intermediate, Mrs. Mullins, pri-
mary. Each room is doing excellent
work. The teachers, pupils, directors
and patrons are all working for their
school. Some scientific apparatus is
being purchased, school gardens are
planned for next spring, and of course
Acorn will find time to get her part
of the prizes in all contests this year.
Two pupils in the 9Th grade equaled
Miss Wile's record in arithmetic tests.
Miss Nina Crawford and Homer An
derson each made a score Of IL out of
13 attempted.
Miss Hazel Troxell is teaching her
first school at Shady Grove. She is
putting her whole soul into her work
and good is certain to result. She
and her directors plan several improv-
ments, including new well, better
paint on the interior, clean grounds
and better blackboards.
Thacker school is small in numbers
but large in possibilities this term.
Miss Lillian Callahan has only nine
enrolled but all are attending and do
ing good work This district will build
new house as soon as fund is pro-
vided for that purpose, and may the
powers hasten the day, for they GER
tainly need it.
The superintendent has discovered
another log school house. 1t is called
"The Bend" and is located in the ex-
IRENE eastern part of the county, on
the Ouachita river. 1t is new dis
trict and is very small but this settle
ment is so isolated from other schools
that this one is needed AS has been
found in several other cases, this iso-
lated school proved to be good one.
Miss Florence borough is doing good
work AS soon as the district is finan-
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