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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1930
Page
5
County Superintendent Winnie Palmer reports improvements in rural schools over recent months compiled by deputy Clara Faulkner. Various schools list gains such as new windows, interior painting, play equipment, desks, desks chairs rulers and safety features along with updated outbuildings and supplies for 11 through 25 pupils.
Lexington Thelda Freel and Bethel Nora Warner teach 15 and 14 pupils respectively with recitation benches, new scrubbing tools, and interior painting. Summit Helen Young teaches 21 pupils with two new windows and movable seating. Center Jane Godfrey teaches 14 with no improvements. Union No. 1 Edith Carris teaches 20 with shades and porch. Prairie Flower Martha Thrasher teaches 20 with new seats dictionary and supplies.
Town Town hip Crescent Caldwell with 19 pupils gains a new teacher desk chair 6 seats and a recitation bench plus broom sweeping compound lightning rods Pauline Smith Valley with 17 pupils adds lattice work for toilets erasers Oak Grove Mary Bachnagel with 18 pupils has repainting floor repair maps to procure Delpha Stolley Yatton Velma Jardon 11 pupils receive lightning rods foot scraper thermometer sweeping compound maps library books toilet and primary supplies Greenfield Maude Thomp
Readable OCR shows multiple school entries listing teachers and pupil counts along with various classroom supplies and minor maintenance items such as baseballs desks curtains broom slate blackboard and repair work. Places include FRANKLIN EUREKA GRAY SUMMERS EICHER SHILOH PLEASANT RIDGE with teachers Nelle Wiley Louise Bell Marie Snyders Elizabeth Graber Mabel Wryée Elsie flagner Wilma Moore and assorted items like dictionaries paper towels water dippers and fencing noted.
Cedar Lillian Harvey and Isabelle Combs lead classrooms with several upgrades. Pleasant Vera W. Harvey adds a platform and broom while Harmony Mrs Abce Jones updates window shades and paint. Grant Catharine Coulter adds a flag, flag pole, blinds, and new gravel driveway.
Reports list teachers and pupil counts for multiple rooms, noting improvements such as floors oiled, windows washed, new curtains, and fireproof rooms. Also mentions baseball outfits, playground equipment, new blackboards, Victrola records, library books, phonograph records, and painting of interiors across districts Rubio Rubio Pleasant White Hawk Oya Independent Ireenvale Black Hawk.
Oakland Rosa Davison and Riverside Gertrude Hook lead lists of teachers with pupil counts and new items. Walnut Blanche McCarty adds sidewalks floors and classroom furniture. Indian Creek Helen Ginkens records 23 pupils with chalk broom and two records.
Lois Haskins with 25 pupils at Broom Primary updates include a new Iowa map and cleaned equipment. Elizabeth Campbell oversees 15 pupils with interior rededoration, oiled floor, two maps, broom and dust pan. Frances Boyd teaches five pupils with interior painted, blackboard refreshed, oiled floor, a map of Iowa, erasers and chalk.
Alice Wead, a teacher at Oswyn, instructs twenty pupils using slate and blackboard. The scene shows students seated, learning in a traditional classroom setting with an organ present.
Center Geneva Shebeck teaches 11 pupils with a new tin roof and flag rope. Hazel Thompson teaches 9 pupils, with painting and papering inside, wash basins, cups, water bucket, screen door. Winnie Beiter teaches 12 pupils, chimney, redecorated walls, oiled floors, training supplies, erasers. Florence Thomas teaches 18 pupils with inside painting, stove pipe, indoor baseball, thermometer and broom, first aid kit. Clara Telford teaches 22 pupils with chimney and sweeping compound. Leora Cox teaches 4 pupils with new well, desks, sash curtains. Stella Ryals teaches 24 pupils with new addition, chimney purchase, pencil sharpener.
Floor oiled and porch mended in Wellston as six kindergarten tables and chairs are arranged for fifteen pupils.
A series of school entries detail teachers and pupil counts along with new items and repairs. Items include new floors, wells, wash buckets, flagpoles, ropes, bell ropes, porch enclosures, blinds, windows, worktables, chairs, water cooler, brooms, sweeping compound, soap, sand, slate boards, and classroom equipment across districts such as NUMBER NINE, SPREAD EAGLE, HAVRE, YOUNG AMERICA, RED BRICK, NUMBER 7, NUMBER 11, PLEASANT HILL NO. 6, and GLENDALE.
Numerous rural schools list teachers and pupil counts with improvements including lighting, windows, doors, ventilation, painting, and new desks or coal houses. Catalogs show Edna Witting at Pleasant Plain with 12 pupils and Bernice Anderson at Egypt with 19 pupils among others.
Reports from Pleasant Hill Marie Rogers with 14 pupils note a new door and shades plus a broom. Snake Twollow No 3 records a new slate blackboard cork bulletin board and erasers for the room. Leona Leeper at Lookout lists a new porch and supplies including kerosene and sweeping compound. Maple Grove Pernice Swift reports a built out stage and a stage rope. Middlebury Katherine Bagley mentions coal bin repair and a new stove with $29 raised at a Whoopee Fair not yet spent. Richmond Mabhel Stagner records 9 pupils with broom and swing.
Entries record Blanche Ginkens Ruth Gideon Cleone Caldwell Eva Reece and others as teachers at Alba ugh Hazel Dell Center East Prarie and nearby districts. Each note lists pupil counts and classroom upgrades including paint, brooms, new furniture, Victrola records, maps, books, and play ground repairs.
A list of one room schools notes teachers and pupil counts at Seventy-Six Township Maple Grove Center Prairie Flower Pleasant View Tallman Hopewell Number 6 Number 3 with items like new desks sash curtains lightning rods toilets stovela chimney and yard cleaning. Several schools report no improvements.
Mr and Mrs Wath Motley and family were Sunday guests at the Warren Watkins home in Riverside. Mr and Mrs Roy Havel were in Riversale Monday on business. Mr and Mrs Frank Kren and family spent Sunday at Mr Kloph’s home.
Residents including Mr and Mrs Henry Kron and children with extended Kron families spent Sunday evening visiting relatives. Guests at the Elmer Kolosik home near Wellston included C J Karel Ana Leon and families along with Mrs Mary Valasak and Joseph Soukup Sr.franc Kron and family visited Monday evening and Clem Kron aided Hubert Kron with work Monday.
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