Woodland School No. 9, Woodland Twp., Decatur Co. IA

WAGNER, NULPH, WOOD, BUAGHMAN, JOHNSTON, POSEY, ROSS, PATTON, KELLEY, MARTIN, ADAIR, FLUMMINGS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 7/8/2015 at 10:26:27

The Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
publication date clipped, probably in 1975 or 1976

Here is Woodland Rural Schoolhouse, Number 9, with Myrtle Wagner, teacher, standing in front in 1954. This was four years before the school was closed, then remaining students were transported to Mormon Trail Schools after reorganization.

The students enrolled in 1954 were Larry and Ronald Nulph, Kenny, Larry, Ed and Donald Wood, Doris, Jimmy and Johnny Baughman, Meredith Johnston, Marquita Posey, Garvin Ross, Fay and Dorothy Patton, Larry Kelley, Jo Martin, Dale Adair, Jim and Estella Flummings and Dick Martin.

The schoolhouse picture was in a School "Daze" 1954 book with eight pages of individual and activity pictures of the school students. Advertisers who helped make the book possible were: Leon Concrete and Building Supplies, Ben Franklin Store, Leon Implement Co., Coast to Coast Store, Leon's Skelgas Service, Stewarts, Smyth Studio and Record Shop, Mike's TV Service, A Friend, Burnam, Larson's Dairy, Ralph L. Hibbs - Your Standard Oil Man, Slade Funeral Home and Woodland Store - Complete line of groceries, cream, eggs, Stanley Feeds.

This schoolhouse is still standing. Howard Scudder bought the land and the schoolhouse. He uses it for a machine shed and storage area.

Velma Patton, Leon, submitted the pictures and information. Mrs. Patton had four children graduate from eighth grade at Woodland School. Her fifth went through seventh grade and then went to Mormon Trail School.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2015

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