Iowa
Old Press
Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne Co., IA
May 16, 1890
Chas. H. Austin, Editor
Annual School Report
To the Patrons and friends of the Lineville Graded Schools:
Allow me to call your attention to the following facts and
figures in regard to the school year closing May 2, 1890.
-Number of teachers employed, 4; months taught, 8; pupils
enrolled, 259; non-residents enrolled, 20; pupils in district,
287.
-Average enrollment, 184.5; Daily attendance, 171.5; percentage
of attendance .93.
-Number of daily recitations, 66; visits, 198.
-Average teacher's wages, per month, $46.25.
-Tuition collected from nonresidents, $160.83.
-Average cost of tuition per month, based upon actual attendance,
$1.08.
Non -Residents
The following non-resident pupils have been enrolled during the
year; Willie Neill, Allie Gammell, Anna Laughlin, Atta Summers,
Nannie Moss, Laura Moss, Aggie Callen, Robt. Andrews, Lulu Miles,
Mable Andrews, Nannie J. Red, Ada Jones, E. F. McKinney, Clara
McKinney, Maud Duncan, Howard Engle, May Farris, Eck Kemp, Louis
Kemp, Cora Bracewell
The tuition for these pupils amounts to one hundred and sixty
dollars and eighty-three cents, every cent of which has been
collected. If the people of Lineville would make the same effort
to increase the number of non-resident pupils which is made by
neighboring towns by improving every opportunity to speak a good
word for the schools this amount would be more than doubled.
Organization - The school is divided into ten grades. The common
school course comprises the first eight grades. Promotions are
made upon individual merit and whenever the interests of the
pupil require it. Not many who have attended regularly failed to
be promoted. Parents should see that, when pupils are enrolled in
school, that they make school their business and attend in a
business like manner. A pupil will accomplish more in four months
of steady devotion to schoolwork than in a year of irregular
attendance.
Course of Study -- We have two courses of study, the Normal
Course which gives a (2 lines unreadable) High school courses
which consists of two years work in Algebra, Bookkeeping, General
History, Literature, Geometry, Botany, Philosophy, Latin,
Rhetoric, Civil Government, Chemistry and Astronomy. The present
management has believed it to be also first duty of a school of
this grade to provide for the children of its patrons the
opportunity to secure a thorough common school education, and has
made that the leading feature of the school.
GRADUATION
During the past four years 59 pupils have graduated from the
Normal Course and four from the High School Course. Many of this
number are now teaching while some are filling creditable
positions of honor and trust. All have reflected credit upon
themselves and the school.
NORMAL COURSE
- Class of 1887.
Ice Purcell, Sallie Brant, Mary Wakefield, Lloyd Belvel, Laura
Jewett, Walter Hinds, Della Phillips, Lily Wright, Nannie Early,
Allie Simpson. Class of 1888 Ruth Elson, Madge Christy, Nannie
Edgeman, Minnie Speer, Polly Elson, I. M. Lovett, Nellie
Wakefield, Allie Wasson, Roma Butler, Maud Duncan, Clara Marick,
Eva Wright, Ida Lane, Anna King, Kate Lane, Halla Laughlin.
- Class of 1890 Grace Shirley, Otto Dennison, Chas. Elson, Lou
Austin, Alpha Lovett, Mary E. Maloney, Ida Butcher, Pearl
Rockhold, Ica Bellows, Blanche Dickson, E. F. McKinney, Willard
Brant, Luvilla Hughes, Ottie Greenlee, Emma Crum, Cora
Bullington, Eva Duncan, Wm. Duncan.
- Class of 1890 Leona Settle, Attie Summers, Harry Wright, Emma
Phillips, Vera Greenlee, Dillon Underhill, Alta Still, Robt.
Workman, Nannie Red, Saylors Wright, Allie Gammill, Hattie
Carlisle, Lois Kemp, Myrtle Workman, Mary Droghan.
- High School Graduates Ice Purcell, I. M. Lovett, E. F.
McKinney, Sallie Brant.
Requirements
Members of the eighth grade are required to pass an examination
upon the state questions and secure an average grade of eighty
per cent. They are also required to file a well written essay
with their examination papers at the school room. Members of the
tenth grade are graduated from the High School course when they
have studied the higher branches for two years and show by
examination a reasonable proficiency in them. Graduates from
either course receives suitable diplomas.
Library and Apparatus
Last year a small library was secured through the efforts of the
school. Some additions have been made this year. We have a set of
Physiological charts, Reading charts, Writing charts, a small
globe, and a few maps. A Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, an
Encyclopedia and a set of maps are badly needed.
Text Books
The following text-books are now in use: Reading, Barnes;
Algebra, Ray; Spelling, Reed and McGuffy; General History,
Quackonboss; Arithmetic, Ray; Literature, Westlake; History,
Barnes; Botany, Gray; Geography, Monteeill; Philosophy, Seele;
Astronomy, Steele; Civil Government, Townshend, BookKeeping,
Bryant & Straiton; Geometry, Wentworth; Grammar, Reed and
Kellogg; Chemistry, Steele; Physiology, Steel and Pathfinder;
Latin, Harkness. Most of these books are giving excellent
satisfaction but the people are paying too much for them. Should
the Governor sign the textbook bill passed by the recent
legislature, it will go into effect July 4th. Steps should then
be taken to relieve the people of this burden. Books can then be
secured at from1/2 to 2/3 their present cost.
It is not without feelings of regret that I sever my connection
with your school. The teacher deals not only with the business
interests of the people but also with their --------. With Thanks
for the unifor--------I earnestly desire that the -------- be
much more successful in the future than it has been in the past.
F. E. (unreadable)
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-The largest and finest stock of glassware, tinware, and notions,
ever in the town, and so cheap that any one can afford to
purchase. Bring along your produce and look through this stock.
-W.L. Avery.
-We will trade first class buggies, spring wagons, farm wagons,
carriages, and carts for good horses and mares.-J. R. Crawford
& Son.
-Highest market prices paid for produce, cash or trade, C. P.
Lathrop, Clio, Iowa
-Buy the Kelipso paints at D. W. Carlisle's.
-Sweet Potato Plants for sale at Avery's.
-District Court convenes at Corydon next Monday.
-Buy your paints and oils at Summers & Son.
-Finest line of Glassware in the City at Averys.
-Summers and Son have just received a new assortment of croquets
and are able to make some very low prices.
Local Happenings.
-Miss Grace Shirley attended the closing exercises of the public
schools at Trenton last week, and visited Miss Laura Butts.
-Jas. F. Wright of the Lineville Roller Mills has been suffering
from a serious attack of rheumatism during the past week.
-Mr. Jordan Hamm, of Mercer Co., who has been teaching school at
Oregon, Mo., during the past winter, arrived home last week.
-W. L. Avery has moved his stock of miscellaneous notions to the
front room adjoining the grocery and fitted it up in a very
attractive style.
-"Hub" Summers left for Illinois Sunday night where he
goes to purchases some thoroughbred breeding stock. Later, he
returned last night with three fine fillies.
-The County Republican Convention to select delegates to attend
the State and Judicial conventions will be held at Corydon on
Saturday, June 7th.
-Bro. Winters, of Gault, Mo., agent for the Osborne harvesting
machines was in town this week and met with the brethren of the
three-linked fraternity Tuesday evening.
-Summers & Son is head quarters for wall paper, they have the
finest assortment in town and your price is theirs. Call ladies
and make your selections.
-Our neighbor, J. H. Crees, the photographer, has sold out his
gallery and residence property to a photographer from Jackson
county, Iowa who will take possession July 1st.
-The cheese factory is receiving over 5,000 pounds of milk daily,
beating all previous receipts for this early in the year. Mr. De
Haan contemplates increasing the capacity of the factory in order
to take all the milk offered.
-We had the pleasure of a ride behind Sam Preston's trotting
stallion, Scott R. while at Clio on Wednesday. He is a nice mover
and withal a horse of good form and bone for all purposes. His
owner has reduced the fee to $10.
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John Hadley, of this place, a freight brakeman of the Rock Island
who had three fingers of his right hand mashed by the bumpers
last winter, had the misfortune to get the same hand completely
crushed in making a coupling at Centerville last Friday.
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J. Underhill has a first class workman in his shop in the person
of Mr. Calvin Snyder, of Grant City, MO., His work, talks for
itself. He is pronounced by good judges of such work to beyond
some of the few scientific expert horseshoers of this section.
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Our esteemed farmer friend, Hiram Barber, west of town, exhibited
a fine yearling colt in town last Saturday. The colt weighed 800
lbs., and is as neat and well put up as any we have seen. Its
sire is Mr. Robt. Moore's young stallion, a high grade Norman,
which has proved a splendid breeder.
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Otto Priegel received this week a very handsome and complete soda
fountain and apparatus which he has set up in his bakery and
confectionery establishment. The fountain is of beautiful marble
with silver trimmings and ornaments and is complete with all the
latest improvements.
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By the Kansas City Star we learn that Jake Bixler and Allen
Howland of this place, were fined last week respectively $50.00
and $100. Each in the U. S. Court of that city. Bixler's fine was
paid, but Howland still remains in custody in default of the
needful cash to liquidate his indebtedness to Uncle Sam.
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Farmers who want their machines repaired will remember that J.
Underhill makes a specialty of this kind of work and has the
tools and machinery, as well as the experience and skill to
execute the work in a prompt and reliable manner. Bring it in in
time.
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Dudley Powell and two sons of J. S. Cox of the neighborhood east
of town are having their trial to-day before Esquire Underhill,
on the charge of entering the stable of Jas. H. Allen on the
night of Feb. 16th and stealing rings and cutting the harness.
County attorney W. L. Livingston, is prosecuting the case and G.
Taylor Wright and A. N. Harring are attorneys for the defense.
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The Corydon Herald, a new journalistic craft, was
launched at Corydon last week, and has been looked at with
considerable interest by everybody with a view of determining its
character. Politically it sets low in the water and has a rakish
and dangerous look about it generally and is said to make the
cold chills run up the backs of a good many of the bronzed and
weather beaten politicians of the county every time they take a
look at it. It is manned by Messrs, Davis & Lang, who
evidently know what they are about, and we wish them a successful
voyage.
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The people of this community were grieved and saddened beyond
measure by the sudden death on Wednesday of little Gerty Belvel,
niece and adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Belvel, aged
about eleven years. She was attacked on last Thursday by what
appeared to be an inflammation of the bone of one of her hips,
accompanied by intense pain. Every means was used to allay her
sufferings and arrest the progress of the malady, but without
success. The inflammation seemed to extend upward and involved
the stomach, lungs, and brain, and after days of the most
excruciating agony death mercifully came to her relief. The
funeral takes place today from the M. E. Church.
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Dr. Glendenning has erected an ornamental wire picket fence in
front of his residence and put in a patent automatic gate which
opens to a driveway leading through his grounds to the house and
barn.
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Wes --ls, the mail carrier on the Star Route between here and
Lineville deserved credit for the regularity with which the mails
arrive. Billy is a good man for the place.-Garden Grove Dispatch
That's about the way Billy is sized up at this end of the route.
Card of Thanks,
Editor Tribune - We beg the privilege of expressing our
deep and heartfelt gratitude to the people of this community for
their thoughtful kindness sympathy and help in tenderly caring
and laying to rest the remains of one beloved little one and
assure them one and all, that their kindly offers and
ministrations will ever be kept by us in grateful remembrances.
V. E. and Laura Foxworthy.
[submitted by C.A., Nov. 2003]