PARTIAL HISTORY OF THE NEVADA SCHOOL.
PREPARED BY MAY BOYNTON.
Read in the High-school room March 23, 1883, and given for publication at the request of the editor of the Representative.
Notice having been given according to law, an election was held on the sixteenth of March, 1867, for the purpose of voting for or against an Independent school district. At this election thirtythree votes were cast for an independent organization, and none against it.
The first board of education consisted of E. G. Day, president; Geo. A. Kellogg, vice president; E. Lewis, secretary; I. Reid. treasurer; directors, T. E. Alderman, J. L. Dana, James Hawthorn.
The first corps of teachers under the new organization consisted of L. W. Wells, principal; Miss Minnie Braden, grammar department; Miss Viola Pierce, intermediate; Mrs. M. E. Boynton, primary.
The second corps of teachers was C. F. Secord, principal, and John R. Hays, grammar department; the other teachers of the previous year retaining their former positions.
During this year O. D. Welch was allowed $1 per week for cutting the wood, building fires, and sweeping school rooms. Thirteen dollars was also expended for making and painting four blackboards, and $1 for making a recitation seat.
In 1868 the second board consisted of G. A. Kellogg, president; T. Kindlespire, vice president; E. B. Potter, secretary; J. C. Mitchell, treasurer; directors, T. E. Alderman, James Hawthorn, Geo. W. Hambleton.
During this year the custom was inaugurated of closing the schools at the end of the term in order, commencing with the lowest department; examining and closing the primary on Tuesday, the intermediate on Wednesday, the grammar on Thursday, and the High school on Friday.
Committees were appointed to be present and record the standing of pupils in each class. Examinations were wholly oral and visitors were numerous.
The fall term of 1868 opened with J. R. Hays, principal; Miss Pierce, intermediate; C. A. Barrows, grammar; Mrs. E. B. Potter, primary.
During this year the board decided that any teacher might be discharged on six days notice and any teacher might be allowed to resign by giving a like notice; but as no such incident occurred during the vear the resolution was valuable only as a precedent.
During this year a revolution in text books took place which, as a matter of record, may possess are interest to those who are interested in the change of books. Davies arithmetic, the National readers, and Parker & Watson spellers were adopted on condition