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Identifier: consolidatedrura00okla (find matches)
Title: Consolidated rural schools
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Oklahoma, State Board of Education. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Schools
Publisher: (n. p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eclass rooms below, and an auditorium above, which can be used for churchand Sunday-school purposes, and all public meetings. This district alsohas a new teachers residence situated near the schoolhouse. The peopletake great pride in their splendid new house, and fully enjoy the advantagesuch a building affords to the community in which it is situated. Thisschool was most successfully taught this last year by two young ladies. Woodford and Berwyn are both fine districts, but, unlike the three firstmentioned, they have not erected new school buildings. Woodford hasabout twenty-eight sections of land, with a tax valuation of $128,013; taxlevy, 15 mills; scholastic census, )75 white and 190 colored; five teachers. Berwyn has about twelve sections of land, with taxable valuation of$217,067; tax levy being 6 mills; scholastic census, 158; teachers, 4. Both these districts have maintained splendid schools under able in-structors. Berwyn, Mt.AVashington and Mary Niblack have had the mate- 21
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21 rial assistance of railroads to aid them in the maintenance of their schools. Last, but not least, in its way, comes Tatums, the consolidated negrodistrict. It contains twenty sections of land, with a taxable valuation of$42,825; tax levy, 12 1-2 mills; scholastic census, 273. This district isbonded for $2,400 to erect a new school building which will be begunshortly. The people have maintained two distinct schools, one principalschool and one primary school. Their work is excellent, both in a literaryway and along domestic lines. Their domestic teacher exhibits work inboth needle craft and cooking that would challenge some of our white peo-ple. This district employed four teachers. Wagons for transporting the pupils have been tried in some of the dis-tricts, but I find it more satisfactory, so long as our country is so unde-veloped, to use the money it costs to equip and run the wagons, for build-ing rooms in remote portions of the district, and have the central highschool placed

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