Woodland School No. 9Woodland Township, Decatur County, Iowa |
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Decatur County Journal Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, October 23, 1913 The meeting at Woodland, Oct. 18, 1913, to consider the consolidation of five of the schools, viz: Riddle, Beavers, Woodland, South Woodland and Gnat Ridge, was well attended and much interest shown. Prof. Hugh S. Buffum, of Fairfield, made a very convincing talk favoring consolidation. Prof. Long, Principal of the Garden Grove schools, who had taught five years in consolidated schools gave an interesting talk also. County Superintendent Miss MABEL HORNER, of Leon, was present and favors the consolidation. Petitions are being circulated to secure the signature of one third the electors of the last election to see if it shall be brought to a vote. ~ Copied by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert, February 8, 2010 |
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 Woodland School 1899 - 1900 |
 Woodland School 1902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teacher J.A. McIntosh, Co. Supt.
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W. Grace Rayn,
Teacher D.B. Newlin, Director J.A. McIntosh, County Supt.
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 Woodland School 1909 |
 1st, 2nd & 3rd Grades 1919 |
 5th & 8th Grades 1919 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Erema Woolman, Blanche Cartwright, Claude Adair, teacher Ruth Robertson, Ina Wood, Will Lentz, Ray Johnson, Earl Wood, Clyde Johnson, Enza Wood, Pearl Lentz, Florian Lance, Clara Cartwright, Fred Beavers, Marlow Adair, Elvin Adair, Lester Beavers, Leo Wood, Ione Woolman, Edna Wood, Mae Farver, Sarah Lance, Audrey Woolman, Ruth Truitt, Ray Farver, Clair Beavers, Ross Lance, Ray Beavers, Bryon Cartwright, James Marsingill, Boyd Leachman | Blanche Marshall,
teacher; Ruth Chapin, Jettie Rose, Wayne Dyer, Clyde Beavers, Russell Rose, _
Hersey, Vick Lockwood, Wesley Beavers, Wayne Beavers, Newell Beavers, Robert
Beavers, Madonna Dyer, Frank Rose, Maxwell Beavers, Clarence Beavers, Evan
Farver Submitted by Jettie Petty |
Blanche Farver, Connie
Farver, Alice Patton, Josephine Patton, Hazel Lane, Blanch Marshall teacher, _
Phipps, Coy Cartwright, Gerald Dyer, Eula Beavers, Alma Hersey, Virginia Farver. Submitted by Jettie Petty. Some of the teachers were George O. Johnson, Blanche Marshall, Marguerite Daughton, Carl Lane, Eli Hutchinson, Coral Vaughn, Hazel Lane. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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Photographs courtesy of Decatur County Historical Museum, Leon IA Original page created by Sharon Becker, 2013, updated ; images transcribed by and page reformatted by Conni McDaniel Hall, Oct 2019. |
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