Lpm**— — *» /9/6 THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION COUNTRY SCHOOLS GENERAL REPORT, DISTRIBUTION, MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS W. F. DOUGHTY State Superintendent of Public Instruction j0^m> BULLETIN 54 JULY 1, 1916 THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE OF TEXAS THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION COUNTRY SCHOOLS GENERAL REPORT, DISTRIBUTION, MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS W. F. DOUGHTY State Superintendent of Public Instruction BULLETIN 54 JULY 1, 1916 THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE OF TEXAS AUSTIN, TEXAS VON BOECKMANN-JONES CO., PRINTERS 1016 , A241-616-2m - DIRECTORY OF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent of Public Instruction R. B. BlNNION, First Assistant Superintendent S. H. Whitley, Assistant Superintendent Julius F. McDonald, Supervisor of Public High Schools L. V. Stockard, Supervisor of Public High Schools E. G. Grafton, Division of Rural Schools L. T. Cunningham, Rural School Supervisor L. L. PuGH* Rural School Supervisor N. J. Clancy, Statistician Gkover Lewis, Auditor J. M. Bledsoe, Certificate Clerk George J. Stephens, Mail and Supplies Grady Barrett, Stenographer W. L. Frame, Stenographer Dan Hightower, Jr., Stenographer STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS C. A. Jay, Chairman W. S. Brandenberger, Secretary Walker King, College Examiner L. Z. Timmons L. E. Dudley STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION James E. Ferguson, Governor, Chairman John G. McKay, Secretary of State H. B. Terrell, Comptroller W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent and Secretary STATE TEXT-BOOK REVISION COMMITTEE F. M. Bralley, President College of Industrial Arts R. E. Vinson, President University of Texas W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent of Public Instruction D. of D. AUG 23**1^16 m& r-fi^ ■ AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE College Station, Texas W. B. Bizzell, President Chas. E. Feiley, Registrar COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS Denton, Texas F. M. Bkalley, President C. M. Pkoctoe, Registrar NORTH TEXAS STATE NORMAL COLLEGE Denton, Texas W. H. Beuce, President A. C. McGinnis, Registrar SAM HOUSTON NORMAL INSTITUTE Huntsville, Texas H. F. Estill, President L. E. King, Secretary and Registrar SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL San Marcos, Texas C. E. Evans, President S. M. Sewell, Registrar and Secretary STATE JUVENILE TRAINING SCHOOL Gatesville, Texas Chaeles E. King, Superintendent John E. McDonald, Accountant STATE ORPHANS' HOME Corsicana, Texas W. F. Baenett, Superintendent. Aaeon Feeguson, Secretary STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Austin, Texas E. E. Bbamlette, Superintendent and Secretary TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF Austin, Texas Gtjs F. Uebantke, Superintendent T. V. Aeciiee, Registrar TEXAS STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Gainesville, Texas De. Caeeie Weaves Smith, Superintendent UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Austin, Texas De. R. E. Vinson, President E. J. Mathews, Registrar WEST TEXAS 'STATE NORMAL COLLEGE Canyon, Texas R. B. Cousins, President Tea vis Shaw, Secretary-Treasurer PRAIRIE VIEW STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE (For Colored Youth) Prairie View, Texas , I. M. Teeeell. President ^^.fS:^^'-.v : :-v-cv.'' : CONTENTS PAGE General Report 7 Distribution of State Aid 12 The Appropriation for Country Schools 30 Minimum Requirements 35 How to Meet the Minimum Requirements . , 37 Graded List of Library Books 46 List of Approved Heaters . . . 66 Extracts from Letters of County Superintendents 68 THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS GENERAL REPORT THE OCCASION" For several years there has been a growing and general conviction amcng the citizens of Texas that the economic growth of the State bears a direct ratio to its educational progress, and that the schools have been falling behind in their fundamental purpose of preparing all its citi- zens to meet successfully the economic demands of the times. The in- crease in general interest in public education during the past ten years, especially, has been marvelous, and the substantial progress in all phases of educational endeavor has been phenomenal. While the advancement being made is very encouraging, the ideal to be attained has not yet been reached, and will not be attained until the public school is so developed, organized, and administered that it shall be able to train all the people's children for effective living. In this forward movement for more efficient schools, the urban com- munities seem to have enjoyed more general and rapid progress than have the rural districts. This fact is true, perhaps, largely because a greater percentage of the citizens of the towns and cities began earlier to recognize the public school as an economic necessity; while many people in the rural communities were slow to discard the erroneous notion that an education is necessary only for those who expect to live without work. However, it is pleasing to note that all over the land the people are beginning to accept the principle that the proper edu- cation of all classes is the best means of promoting the prosperity of the State. There seems to be a unanimity of opinion that something should be done to improve educational conditions, and that legislative action is necessary in dealing with some phases of this question. Observant stu- dents of education have differed as to some policies of solution sug- gested for improvement, but that one of the most urgent needs in encouraging and developing an efficient system of public schools is in- creased financial support seems to be generally accepted. To make more efficient the public educational system has been one of the most important tasks of every legislature, and during the past decade the largest phase of the educational problem has been the im- provement of the schools of the country districts, because it is iu these districts where 70 per cent of the scholastic population reside and 95 per cent of this number depend upon the country schools for all the scholastic training they will ever receive: and, further, because of the established fact that the rural schools are falling sadly behind the town and city schools in efficient development. When the Thirty-fourth Legislature convened, the question of pro- viding better country schools presented itself again as usual, with in- creased emphasis. There soon became evident a consensus of opinion among the members that one of the essential needs to encourage and provide better country schools was more money which could be wisely expended for the support of such schools, and after days of patient deliberation and timely discussion, the Legislature, in line with a rec- ommendation of the Governor, manifested its deep concern and expressed its appreciation for the more than nine hundred thousand children of the rural districts by enacting a statute appropriating one million dol- lars for the improvement of country schools in the State, which Act is popularly known as the million dollar appropriation for country schools. THE PURPOSE OE THE APPROPRIATION For the purpose of promoting the country school interests of the State and of aiding the people in providing adequate school facilities for the education of their children, five hundred thousand dollars was appro- priated out of the general revenue for the scholastic year ending August 31, 1916, and an additional five hundred thousand dollars for a similar purpose for the scholastic year ending August 31. 1917, to be used in supplementing the regular State and county school apportionment in accordance with the law in maintaining country schools. It was obviously the intention of the Legislature to assist the weaker country school districts which were not able to maintain efficient schools upon their own resources, and to stimulate the citizens of the rural communities everywhere to manifest a more active concern and provide more adequate support for their local schools, wherever they were not doino- so. The law provides certain reasonable standards and require- ments with reference to school buildings and grounds, equipment, teach- ers, attendance of pupils, and local school tax to be complied with by schools receiving State aid. STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS Tn order to be eligible to receive State aid a school must not have a scholastic nopulation of more than two hundred, and must not be located in a town or citv of more than one thousand according to the latest Federal census, and must comply with the following standards and re- quirements: Location.— The school must have a site of not less than one acre (five acres preferred) in extent, suitably laid out, properlv drained, and supplied with pure water: School House.— A suitable school house erected in accordance with the State school house building law or substantially meeting the requirements thereof: Equipment.— Each school shall be provided with necessary desks, seats, and black- board, and with adequate library, maps, charts, and globes, such as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction feels that such school is able to purchase: Teasers.— Teachers employed in such schools shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of professional training and successful experience and shall be required to render service of high grade; Attendance. — In order to receive State aid a school must have maintained an average attendance of at least 50 per cent of the scholastic enrollment for the previous year, and 75 per cent during the year that aid is granted; Local Tax. — The school district must he levying and collecting a local school tax of not less than 50 cents on the $100 valuation of taxable property, provided, that for the year 1915-16 a district which has voted the tax whether collecting it for that year or not, shall be eligible to receive not more than $500 in any one year; and provided, further, that in extreme cases and in cases of emergency, a district may receive, for one .time only, an amount not to exceed $200 whether any tax has been levied or not, and aid may be continued provided the district levy and collect the re- quired tax. DISTRIBUTION According to the law the appropriation shall be granted by the State Board of Education on the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. No aid shall be granted to any school until it has been inspected by the State Superintendent or his duly appointed representative, and a careful investigation conducted as to the needs and possibilities of the school. The law provides for the appointment of two rural school super- visors by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to assist him in the administration of the law, and to advise trustees and other school officials, and to assist them in meeting the standards and requirements to make their schools eligible to receive State aid. In compliance with this provision of the law the State Superintendent named for these positions two county school superintendents who have to their credit successful experience in dealing with rural school problems. The super- visors visited practically every section of the State early ' in the year and delivered addresses before county teachers' institutes, trustees' con- ventions, and other educational gatherings, explaining the law and its purposes, encouraging the people of the rural communities to improve their schools, and assisting trustees in bringing their schools up to the standards and requirements for State aid. In conformity with the law proper forms and blanks were prepared and distributed by the State Department of Education to supply trustees who desired to apply for State aid for their schools. A vigorous cam- paign has been conducted during the vear by the rural school super- visors in behalf of better country schools, and information coming to the Department from all parts of the State is very encouraging and clearly indicates that there is being manifested a greater interest in rural schools in Texas now than ever before in the history of the State. The rural school supervisors have been very active in the perform- ance of their duties as the following information will indicate: They have traveled a distance of 22,381 miles by railroad, 16,017 miles by other conveyance, have delivered two hundred public addresses pertain- —10— ing to rural school improvement, speaking to approximately thirty thousand people. Applications for State aid for country schools have been received from more than fourteen hundred schools. Each appli- cation has been given careful individual consideration by the State Department of Education and recommendations were not made to the State Board of Education until careful investigation of the needs and possibilities of the school were made in person by a representative of the State Department of Education. State aid has been granted to 1225 country schools, located in one hundred and seventy-three different counties distributed over every section of the State. The average amount of aid extended is more than $350 per school, and the average amount per county is approxi- mately $2900. It would not be inappropriate to state, at this juncture, that the distribution of this large special appropriation among the country schools during the current scholastic year has been a stupen- dous and arduous undertaking, although a real labor of love, when the splendid results accruing and to accrue therefrom are taken into account. RESULTS As a direct tangible and immediate result of this appropriation, 1225 country schools have been enabled to meet the standards and require- ments as indicated above, thus providing the children of these com- munities with first class school accommodations. Under the potent influence and effective stimulation of State aid the citizens of many rural districts have been induced to increase the local financial support, and to recognize the important need for efficient teachers, wholesome surroundings, and adequate equipment for their schools. The enthusiastic interest over the State already manifested as a result of the distribution of the first half of the million dollars appro- priated for country schools clearly evidences a brighter day and a better opportunity for the children of the country districts. It is very pleasing to note the very favorable sentiment in favor of State aid for country schools among the people of the cities, towns, and other school districts not eligible to receive State aid. All the people everywhere are coming to the conviction that efficient country schools are essential to the proper prosperity of the State, and that it is no discrimination for the State to make special appropriations for the improvement of the weaker schools. One excellent effect of this appropriation for country schools out of the general revenue has been the emphasizing of the doctrine that neither county lines nor district boundaries should be allowed to limit or restrict the opportunity of children for the freest and fullest development for which they are capacitated. FUTURE PLANS The State Department of Education has its forces well organized with reference to aid for country schools. The law and its purposes —li— seem to be fully understood and appreciated by the people. They have come to believe that the State is in real earnest in dealing with its rural schools with a. view to making them efficient and adequate for the proper training of the children who attend them. The results thus far fully demonstrate the wisdom of this appropriation as a proper means of encouraging and providing better country schools. The great twentieth century problem is distinctively an educational one, and the twentieth century rural school must be properly organized, as an efficient unit in the economic plan for rural betterment so that its effect shall be emphatically expressed in terms of better prepared and happier citizens in the country with an education which they can "hitch up with life." Texas children mean everything to Texas, and while the appropriation of one million dollars seems great as a begin- ning, the appropriations of the future for so worthy a purpose should be limited only by the needs of the schools. Texans have never faced so immense a task or enjoyed so splendid an opportunity to perform a lasting service as the one now presenting itself to them. The State Department of Education has a broad vision and large plans for this particular work, and with the loyal support and active co-operation on the part of the people, it hopes to continue to conduct a vigorous cam- paign for better schools which will effectively reach every nook and corner of the State. -12— DISTRIBUTION OF STATE AID Statistical table showing school districts, arranged by counties alpha- betically, to which State aid was granted out of the million dollar ap- propriation for country schools during the scholastic year 1915-16. County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Mrs. Lula Sadler J. W. Dunn, Jr *Roy Jackson *J. S. Melugin *H. L. Mobley L. H. Barron T. N. Powell *Bert King Jas. A. Risenhoover. 40 45 12 38 37 35 27 27| 31 26 46 41 44 25 27 19 51 15 32 12 23 2 4 25 28 1 3 5 21 39 4 8 9 14 20 25 26 104 66 45 40 115 42 18 90 93 $500 Hickory Grove.. Sand Flat Day Chambers Friendship Blackfoot Springfield Shalds Ward.. 500 400 400 450 300 500 500 400 350 500 Salmon 475 450 Angelina Aransas Archer Brushy Creek Neches Denson Springs Liberty Clawson Rocky Hill Fuller Springs ...... Homer Dunn Manning Biloxi Sparks Colony Dundee 500 450 450 500 400 200 250 400 400 200 100 250 500 250 375 500 Armstrong Austin Bastrop Baylor.. Bee Fairview Lake View ... Goodnight.... Industry New Ulm Alum Creek High Grove Bomarton.... Mineral.. 300 500 300 500 500 500 500 500 450 300 200 450 200 Tuleta... 500 250 Bell 500 Pendleton.... 500 200 475 Armstrong Moffat 500 450 500 350 200 500 500 500 Willow Grove.. 450 *Has exofficio county superintendent. ■■■'■.■■.•■At ^ ■ ■■'..?;•- ;■■•.■■■■ -• ■y^zm'm.- —13- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Bexar.. P. F. Stewart. Bosque. A. D. Roach.. Bowie.. J. B. Lytal. Brazoria R. R. Sebring Brazos. Briscoe Brown. Burleson.. Burnet Caldwell.. Callahan. Cameron. Camp. Carson *A. A. Callaghan.. Cass R. H. Harvey. E. R. Williams.. *C. B. Shrewsbury. Mrs. E. L. Walker.. Thos. A. Schoppe... *J. R. Smith J. N. Gambrell, Jr.. S. Ernest Settle J. J. Callaway. H. Y. Black. 36 41 38 35 13 3 58 18 19 1 37 2 4 9 2 10 11 48 23 12 41 6 54 14 25 65 1 27 40 44 25 13 7 21 33 32 37 17 14 15 33 38 47 45 17 18 9 10 10 6 19 24 14 1 12 47 Pasitos Edgewood Thelma Carmen.. Kopperl Mosheim Center Grove. Iredell Hooks Wooten Springs. Pearland North Corner Manvel Alvin Heights.. Sweeny Reliance.. Welborn. Kurten... Haylake.. Barber Mt. View Jordon Springs.. Dulin Grosvenor Union Grove Antioch Delaware Beaird Crosscut Jones Chapel Center Point Indian Creek Winchell Brookesmith Zephyr Moravia.. Lyons Bachelor Peak. Rockvale Lake Victor Seawillow.. Dale Delhi McNeal Hall Gardner Dudley Enterprise. Union Putnam Wilson Lyford Rio Hondo. Sheppard Lillie Cross Roads. Pine Leesburg Newsome Groom . . Cuyler.. Conway.. Huffines Turkey Creek.. Bear Creek Cloninger Herring.. Elmore Bloomberg 500 200 500 500 500 300 500 500 250 500 200 400 500 500 500 500 500 200 250 300 500 350 500 400 300 300 375 500 450 500 300 500 400 500 300 500 200 500 500 500 500 500 500 400 350 400 400 250 500 500 250 200 500 500 500 350 500 500 400 200 300 350 500 500 400 350 400 450 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —14— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Chambers ... *R. J. McMurrey Ed Singletary *F. W. Freeman J. R. Carter *I. D. Durham J. C. Griffin W. E. Foster 9 1 17 19 3 2 21 18 7 4 20 14 73 71 60 59 53 51 49 42 25 16 8 7 13 1 11 4 30 58 9 65 73 75 42 36 46 18 20 2 1 8 25 5 1 69 58 52 35 67 64 6 62 8 11 66 123 37 12 128 124 116 115 68 38 15 10 8 3 Eminence Wallisville.. $400 200 200 500 Anahuac .. Hankamer.... Morgan Harmon Smith Point 500 400 200 500 200 200 200 200 Cherokee.. Gallatin.. 400 500 250 500 500 400 500 500 Iron Hill 400 Childress Salem.... Wells Forest Mt. Selman Dialville 350 500 500 400 500 500 Union Flat 485 High Point 250 Clay Prairie Hill Kirkland Tell 300 500 500 500 Vashti Buffalo Springs Kempner Dale.. Cross Roads 500 500 500 500 300 300 500 500 Coke Coleman Tennyson Robert Lee Ft. Chadbourne.... Powell Edith Walnut Sanco Buffalo Bee Branch Novice Valera Gouldbusk 500 500 500 250 500 200 500 500 350 500 400 400 500 400 400 * Folk 500 400 400 250 Talpa 500 500 Burkett.. 400 500 350 200 500 300 Kelly ... 300 300 250 250 500 Morris Pike.. 200 500 Valdosta .. 350 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —15- County. County Superintendent. Collin — Continued Collingsworth.. Colorado... Comanche. C. K. Quin W. D. Jenkins. *A. C. Nicholson. Concho. Cooke.. Coryell. Cottle *W. O. Jones *Jas. E. Howze. E. N. Blackburn. J. C. McKelvy.. Crosby.. Dallam. *P. L. Parrish. *T. S. Mills.. District • No. 55 62 17 2 40 14 19 6 5 4 45 9 26 34 62 65 10 12 40 43 55 6 21 31 36 53 50 77 49 57 68 18 11 25 25 33 18 106 74 1 41 15 77 10 22 19 11 20 12 5 6 Empire Warden. Prosper Copeville. .. Blue Ridge.. Lavon Plymouth.... Aberdeen Nicholson .... Quail.... Una Lutie Fresno Dozier Name of District. Amount. Bayne Rock Island. Soda Springs Hazel Dell Ebenezer Cotton Grove Lamkin Oak Grove Briar Grove Democrat Energy Elm Grove Sabana Buffalo Cathey Baggett Trinity Graham's Chapel.. Liberty Suez Live Oak Grove.. Mt. View Macksville Pounds Downing Beattie Hasse Theney Bibb Paint Rock Concho Millersview.. Hoskins Whaley. Burns Era Amity Ireland Boyd Cove... Turnersville. Davidson Pan Cake Levita Jonesboro Evant Plain view Chalk Lone Star Moore University Common School. Cone Fairview. Farmer.... Texline.. $250 350 500 300 450 400 350 500 275 500 450 400 250 375 350 500 500 300 350 500 500 300 350 300 400 400 325 350 300 400 400 350 400 350 300 300 200 200 500 500 500 500 350 500 400 500 200 500 300 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 325 500 500 500 300 300 500 350 200 350' 500 200 500* *Has exofficio county superintendent. —16— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Dallas Thos. E. Henry 66 Bonnie View.. $200 87 Florence Hill 300 38 Wheatland 500 30 Kleberg 400 9 Vickery... 250 1 Pleasant Valley 200 18 New Hope 300 67 500 80 Hackberry 400 26 Balch Springs.. Trinity Heights.... 500 450 500 Richardson ...... Lisbon.. Cockerell Hill Carrollton 500 500 500 500 Dawson *Geo. Foster 11 Fairview 400 9 Lon 400 22 McCarty 400 15 Key 400 Delta W. E. Chancellor 6 Doctor's Creek 300 25 Yowell 500 43 Mt. Joy . 500 22 Blue Prairie 350 3 400 39 400 27 Eureka 400 20 Perkins 400 15 Lake Creek 500 23 Brushy Mound ... Enloe Ben Franklin 400 500 500 Denton L. H. Edwards.. 59 Roanoke 500 10 Bolivar 500 44 Corinth... 400 53 Garza 500 63 Bethel 500 70 Donald 400 66 Hebron 400 47 Little Elm .... 500 77 Liberty 500 92 Light's Chapel.. 200 62 Chinn Chapel . 500 26 Cooper Creek 500 32 May 350 16 Mustang ... 350 50 Hackberry 200 81 Midway 300 30 Salt Branch 200 28 Elm Ridge 500 18 Spring Hill 500 31 Lloyd.. Aubrey 500 500 1 500 6 Cottonwood 500 Donley *J. C. Killough 2 Lelia Lake 350 4 6 300 Jackson Valley.. 300 Eastland R. E. Sikes 11 Rogers 500 43 Pleasant Hill 400 42 Romney 450 17 Long Branch 350 41 Desdemona.... 500 47 Cook 400 37 Sabanno 500 34 Dothan 500 30 Qkra 500 45 George Hill.. 250 27 Grandview 500 2A Lone Cedar 400 53 Mangum.. 350 31 Union Hill 400 19 Pioneer Scranton.... Nimrod . 500 500 400 *Has exoflficio county superintendent. ••' * ■ —17— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Ellis W. S. Ely 22 49 5 50 21 103 73 69 23 54 36 82 81 96 80 61 52 42 10 6 9 21 76 87 - 26 51 78 20 46 47 31 24 108 107 105 104 103 102 96 95 87 65 17 5 22 13 61 119 71 . 16 112 101 63 139 51 55 10 136 15 42 57 92 3 11 43 58 118 31 72 Mt. Peak 500 W. T. Graves G. A. Pringle R. M. Parker 500 Wyatt 500 Nash 500 Newton Branch 200 500 500 450 200 Bethel 200 Ozro 200 Dalton 500 500 Erath 500 250 400 Howell Springs 300 500 250 Salem 300 Millerville 275 500 450 400 375 400 Patillo 350 School Hill 325 Morgan's Mill 500 500 500 500 Clairette 500 Bluff dale 500 Duffau 500 500 Falls .'. Ceg#. 500 300 Pleasant Grove 400 Blue Ridge 200 Liberty 200 Bellfalls 500 Fannin 350 300 400 Post Oak 300 New Hope 400 500 Boyd 400 350 Fulp 300 400 400 300 375 200 Terry 350 Cottage Bend 300 Corinth 400 Hilger 400 500 Tulip 400 500 300 400 500 500 400 300 500 500 Mulberry 500 Parker 300 Union Valley Oak Ridge 300 350 Three P 500 Taylorsville 500 500 . Hopewell 500 *Has exofficio county superintendent. — 1! County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Fannin — Continued G. A. Stierling.... W. C. Martin *E. P. Thompson 29 57 44 6 43 40 39 24 23 28 3 33 34 1 30 10 7 6 9 11 14 13 13 13 15 9 10 5 3 1 9 15 18 19 12 20 21 2 42 42 29 22 13 1 104 96 79 50 72 3 11 22 3 32 21 9 Selfs 500 500 500 500 Fayette West Point 450 200 500 300 North Roby 225 275 500 300 300 350 300 100 Royston McCaulley 500 500 500 Floyd.. 350 *G. W. Walthall 300 350 500 250 Sand Hill . 500 400 400 400 Fort Bend Herman Beyer . *0. L. Reaves Furney Richardson.. *S. T. Dowe J. M. Fendley *A. H. Kneese *C. W. Cunningham... J. C. Cochran Jas. A. Giles Walter E. Jones J. C. Crutchfield Bethel 300 Cypress 300 250 400 Rock Hill 400 500 300 Mt. Zion.. 300 250 500 Frio Donie... 500 400 500 300 300 Gillespie Algoa San Leon 300 300 500 Willow Citv 500 Fairview Clark.. 250 200 Menger 200 200 350 500 500 500 500 500 Pink Hill.. 200 500 Gladwater 500 250 Keith Pine Grove Evergreen Mesa Courtnev 500 250 200 300 400 ♦Has exofficio county superintendent. 111111111?' U^" ' *iw> '^^^S^^^^^^i^W^^, ^BIHBH^B^HBI^BBil^^^HHB^BBHl^^BHBB^^^^H^M^HH^HHHfl -19— County. County Superintendent. Grimes — Continue Hale.. Hall Hamilton.. Hansford.... Hardeman.. Hardin.. Harris. *W. B. Lewis. *S. G. Alexander. R. P. Edgar. *S. B. Hale *Lon M. Davis R. P. Gibbs J. W. Lyle Hartley. Haskell.. Henderson.. *J. H. Phillips.. T. C. Williams W. S. Harris.. District No. 16 31 2 25 20 21 15 9 11 5 15 19 2 25 12 7 11 27 2 21 20 31 45 15 39 27 12 10 5 15 22 13 15 16 19 29 36 42 46 24 43 14 45 40 48 9 10 33 36 2 16 30 6 13 20 46 15 28 37 6 47 31 Name of District. Singleton.. .._ Grimes Smith.. Independence . Snyder Abernathy Lake View Halfway Petersburg Norfleet Hale Center. Hulver Pleasant Valley. Turkey Eli Lodge Brice Newlin Indian Creek Churchman Lake View Gentry's Mill. Live Oak Liberty Fairview Mason Lund Tonkawa Carlton Pottsville Common School... Medicine Mound Hooleyan Elba Plank Honey Island. Caney Head.. Seabrook Cedar Bayou. Penn City Webster Aldine Almeda Katy Dairy Southland Genoa Deer Park Mykawa Deepwater Mt. Houston. Willow Amount. Hartley.... Channing. Cliff Foster Roberts Judd Sayles Cook Springs Pinkerton Lone Star Mitchell Vontress Post Rose Common School.. Weinert Carney Sagerton Trinidad Brownsboro.. Stockard 500 300 200 400 500 500 500 500 350 500 500 400 500 500 500 500 500 400 500 400 500 400 500 500 400 350 200 500 500 350 425 400 200 200 450 300 500 450 400 450 450 500 450 475 450 450 500 500 500 500 400 400 500 350 250 300 500 250 500 400 400 400 350 350 450 400 300 400 400 400 500 500 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —20— County. County District Superintendent. No. Name of District. Amount. 23 27 60 40 12 118 21 114 2 32 63 81 30 92 72 35 89 38 39 1 2 11 47 48 62 65 17 66 27 47 68 3 54 57 1 52 4 69 11 29 63 73 70 22 15 31 43 32 36 33 9 20 8 2 4 10 58 140 72 19 86 21 350 J. S. Bunn Leon Culberson.... *W. L. Dean John Hurley J. N. Snell *S. A. Penix .... W. H. Ibbolson Mallard Prairie 500 Sand Flat 400 Hidalgo Hill Cross Roads.. Murchison Greensboro.. Alton.. 400 500 500 450 500 Pierce 500 500 500 500 500 300 Blum 500 Hood . 500 500 Hopkins Nelta.. 500 Plunkett.... 500 500 Dyke 500 Richland.. 400 300 350 500 300 400 New Home Cornersville Bethel 500 475 325 250 Brannon 400 200 100 500 Saltillo.. 500 500 500 400 500 500 300 Ash 500 450 450 500 450 350 Jaunita 400 300 350 Stubblefield 350 250 Weches Energy 500 500 300 300 200 Holley 350 500 500 250 350 Midway.... 500 500 500 300 Hunt Union Hill . .. 375 400 Hooker 500 400 White Rock Midway... 500 350 *Has exofficio county superintendent. ■H^^^H^^^^HHH^HHI^IHMBIiHl^HHII^HIHIHBHH^^^^^^BI -21— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. 83 66 6 4 55 44 26 63 1 19 20 19 15 21 8 2 10 4 2 16 450 J. W. Fulcher *J. W. Bagby B. T. Withers H. C. Daniel Floyd Caddo Mills 500 500 300 500 300 300 500 350 200 Bryson 500 500 500 300 500 500 Mt. Union 500 Erin Homer 500 400 500 200 500 400 Bentonville 500 G. S. Thomas C. L. Prichard J. B. Weaver *J. W. Darden *Ben F. Wilson *W. M. Moore W. H. Snow 7 51 62 68 32 36 11 62 11 2 7 8 18 25 35 50 57 64 5 31 61 56 30 49 1 13 36 17 21 70 6 13 1 6 8 7 30 11 47 72 86 500 400 400 400 400 400 Cahill 300 500 500 350 450 500 500 Elliot.. 475 Compere 475 500 Cranston 350 460 450 200 500 Stith 500 250 475 300 400 Pleasant Hill 350 200 450 Delk 300 375 500 Leuders 500 500 Kaufman 400 500 Kent 500 Kleberg Clairemont.... 500 200 Knox 200 500 Lamar 200 500 Forest Hill 300 Rocky Hill 300 Mt. Olive 300 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —22— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Lamar — Continued Lamb.. Lampasas. Lavaca. *C. H. Curl *J. T. Higgins. Wm. Eilers. Lee.. Leon Liberty Limestone C. M. Bishop J. W. Henderson. P. S. Newberry... J. R. Atkins Lipscomb.. *W. A. Sewell Live Oak. *W. W. Caves. Lubbock. Lynn Madison. *E. R. Haynes *J. L. Stokes.. Jno. T. Conn. Mason.. Matagorda.. McCulloch.. ♦Glenn W. Smith W. C. Gray E. L. White 33 7 9 11 15 14 15 40 12 23 40 13 10 17 17 9 10 14 87 113 102 5 78 ,13 66 1 72 106 64 29 73 104 35 1 24 11 2 5 24 1 23 17 20 27 13 17 11 11 13 31 Brookston Pattonville. Minter.. Linden Littlefield. Clayton Unity.. Adamsville.. Komensky Rocky Moravia Provident City.. Mally Oak Grove... Phears.. Tanglewood. Flo Flynn.. Hightower East Tarkington. Box Island Mesquite.. Pleasant Grove.. Bethel Box Church Yarbroville New Hope Rocky Point Watt Nuz Horn Hill Kirk.. Frosa.. Dale Mustang.... Prairie Hill.. Davis Prairie Delia Oliver Beulah.. Lipscomb Plum Creek... Loland.. Votaw Simmons Three Rivers.. Oakville Canyon. Center.. Bledsoe.. Carlisle.. Tahoka Conner Mt. Tabor Jenkins Mecca Willow Hole.. North Zulch.. Katemcy Pontotoc. Turtle Bayou. Collegeport Markham Montgomery.. Mercury Lobn Corn Creek.. 350 500 400 300 300 500 500 500 400 250 500 350 275 275 350 500 200 350 500 500 200 500 400 500 300 500 350 300 500 500 500 500 350 300 375 400 400 350 500 350 500 300 200 200 250 500 500 300 300 200 300 500 500 400 500 450 500 400 500 450 500 500 500 500 500 500 325 *Has exofficio county superintendent. -23- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. McCuiloch — Conti McLennan., nued Milam. R. L. Abbott J. F. Chadwick. Mills Mitchell.... Montague *G. H. Dalton... *J. H. Bullock... W. W. Snodgrass Montgomery Motley Nacogdoches J. T. Terry *C. B. Whitten.. Jno. B. Stripling Navarro., J. B. Davis 36 17 20 15 16 63 36 72 4 50 49 59 52 77 56 19 18 69 42 16 101 30 18 37 43 56 87 97 69 23 29 55 68 15 64 45 57 46 50 44 15 17 23 28 40 66 41 1 16 32 11 42 70 20 12 10 21 70 104 106 78 1 32 73 92 Placid Pear Valley Harkrider Waldrip Stacey Speegleville Spring Valley Tokio ! Bruceville Granger Buckholts Adhall Ben Arnold Bryant Station.. Eagle North Elm Pleasant Hill Watson Branch. Barron Prairie Star Valley View Westbrook Prairie Hill Dye Mound Mallard Forestburg Ringgold Fruitland Belcherville Burr Oak Denver Uz Smyrna Oak Bluff Duxburg.... Splendora Roaring Springs Lone Star Cross Roads Moral Smyrna Jamesville Clear Branch Harmony Oak Ridge Waden Alozan Trinity Blake Shady Grove Swift Martinsville Attoyac Friendship Lilbert Sacul Mahl Nat Odell Appleby Mayotown Zion's Rest Barry Horn ..._ Round Prairie.... Mt. Nebo Chatfield Navarro Purdon Greer 350 500 300 400 250 300 400 500 400 350 400 500 250 200 300 200 350 300 500 200 500 350 500 250 200 500 500 400 350 400 200 200 400 200 300 250 500 500 250 300 150 400 300 175 500 500 500 300 500 400 350 500 500 450 325 500 500 350 500 200 500 500 500 400 250 400 400 400 400 500 500 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —24— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Navarro — Continue Newton. G. A. Baker. Nolan. J. L. Ross. Nueces Ochiltree.. Orange Palo Pinto Nat Benton *R. T. Carrell .. *D. C. Bland... A. F. Jones Panola L. R. Sharp Parker. W. V. Shadle. Polk Raines Red River.. Refugio. J. H. Taylor *J. B. Allred S. E. Clark.. ♦Leslie Adkins 80 3 9 16 17 4 5 18 24 16 26 28 11 21 6 7 5 18 14 18 5 27 10 4 25 2 13 33 9 18 40 30 29 42 27 22 14 3 33 34 7 23 27 83 42 14 51 22 13 74 61 42 McClung. Elm Flat Roane Toledo Burkeville Enterprise.. Bonweir Ford Survey Nolan Summers Maryneal.. Champion Antelope... Decker.... Ada Wastella... Dora Hilton London Driscoll. Cameron. Garrett... West Orange.. Mauriceville.. Vibor.. Brazos.. Salesville Village Bend.... Dobbs Valley.. Oran Brazos Valley.. Sharp Valley... Gordon Palo Pinto Santo Brooks.. Rock Hill Fair Play Waldrop Broome Shady Grove... Gary Jumbo.. Alsup Deadwood Ragley.. Brushy Post Oak.. Peaster Rock Tank.. Garner.. Aledo Erwin Poe Prairie.... Whitt Poolville Springtown Knox... New Willard. Bright Star Garvinsville.. Fairview Hopewell.. Mosley Bagwell.. Common School. Woodsboro.... *Has exofficio county superintendent. WBW$!r®$y' -25- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. H. A. Bush 23 5 4 3 4 3 6 '15 6 16 46 53 21 48 47 22 20 12 19 41 29-30 2 42 49 5 40 51 44 60 57 53 50 48 43 42 40 38 37 36 35 34 31 27 26 25 24 19 17 15 13 10 6 4 3 1 5 11 16 5 17- 36 18 28 11 14 4 26 24 12 20 33 32 7 500 *J. W. Reese 400 500 400 500 L. S. Bird 200 500 Fate 500 500 J. T. Watson Walthall-Union 500 Old Norton . 350 Hatchel . 500 250 210 330 Poe 400 500 Pucket > 375 500 500 400 350 Crews 470 300 250 450 300 300 200 500 Rusk 300 Shiloh 500 200 300 350 Oak Flat 400 200 400 Mt. Union 250 Mt. Hope 300 Motly 300 Miller 400 500 200 500 300 400 450 Good Springs 400 350 350 500 400 250 Bunker Hill 300 Bethel : 350 250 Pirtle 500 Church Hill 350 300 Sabine 500 Lillie Hazle Ruddell.. 500 400 San Augustine Melvin .. 500 *Wm. McMurrey 500 500 Salem White Rock 500 500 500 400 Ratcliff 350 Harvey Creek Wade Henry Hill 500 500 500 San Jacinto Oak Shade 50O *Has exoflicio county superintendent. -26- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. San Patricio. San Saba *M. A. Chi'ders.. D. W. Brown Scurry. Shackelford. Shelby *C. R. Buchanan *J. A. King ... I. B. Hammer Sherman. Smith *C. H. Roland A. W. Orr . Stephens... Stonewall. Tarrant.. *Jesse R. Smith T. R. Webb G. T. Bludworth 15 19 3 40 28 33 27 13 4 19 69 10 82 3 42 61 34 25 23 16 7 55 9 39 28 88 14 68 31 1 24 62 34 4 59 5 17 8 45 61 39 15 46 15 11 10 16 31 6 28 7 54 94 33 68 15 69 II 18 8 30 52 92 47 93 St. Paul Shiloh Colony Ml. Pleasant... Hall Crescent Bethel Jim Ferguson.. Fluvanna Camp Springs Ira Hermleigh Dunn Sedwick. Neuville Buna Vista.. Huber Day Rose Hill Lamar... Snow Hill... Pine Hill Patroon Campti Clear Creek. Blair Cedar Yard.. Wedgewood. Bermuda Ballard Brown.... Harrison Texhoma Wood Springs... Liberty Hill Antioch Hopewell Union Point Model Bascom... Senter Hill Black Fork Evergreen Burns Pleasant Grove.. Thompson Nebo Enterprise.. ...:.. Pleasant Hill Mt. Valley Ivan Caddo Double Mountain. Swenson Shinery Lake Rio Vista Brazos Valley.. Plainview Peacock Little Hurst.. Bedford Rendon Britton New Hope Ederville.. Azle Miller Tarrant Johnson Station.. Duplex Pantego .. CastleDerry 500 500 500 500 500 400 500 200 500 500 500 500 500 200 500 500 400 400 300 500 300 350 400 250 200 500 350 350 450 400 250 350 400 400 450 300 500 500 450 450 300 400 400 400 400 300 400 500 500 500 200 500 250 500 400 200 325 325 500 500 400 500 350 500 300 300 500 250 200 500 300 350 350 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —27- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. d 55 39 9 24 52 49 21 7 19 30 17 38 11 32 36 5 2 I 10 4 14 18 19 29 7 1 3 10 1 12 5 13 10 1 3 15 12 7 2 26 35 6 9 24 11 14 17 2 3 10 11 12 39 40 46 12 15 23 200 500 350 500 500 500 300 500 North Park 500 *Geo. W. Neill *A. H. King 500 500 425 Bethel 500 500 500 500 375 500 500 500 Blair 500 425 500 500 500 500 250 500 Elbert 450 500 500 300 Chapel Hill 500 500 350 400 Monte Cello.. 300 500 500 Mullen 400 W. B. Mills 500 500 Trinity Chita 400 Grover C. Lowe A. L. Bradfield 400 500 White Rock 300 350 400 450 Apple Springs 500 500 500 500 Josserand 500 300 200 Hackberry 425 250 350 Tyler 300 Mt. Pisgah 250 200 500 200 500 250 Shiloh 300 Sadell 250 400 500 Upshur 400 425 Mings Chapel 400 *Has exofficio county superintendent. —28— County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Upshur — Cohtinud. 2 21 4 2 5 25 56 59 87 109 110 13 103 18 39 17 53 29 40 21 8 12 4 8 4 28 42 8 21 17 20 25 16 23 30 4 12 14 35 31 19 21 27 26 3 5 37 24 39 16 40 43 32 27 1 29 35 47 18 55 3 Simpsonville Glenwood Ore City 500 J. E. Matthews G. D. Staton Geo. M. Crutsinger J. C. Thomas T. A. Kelly *Burch Carson.. Wm. Boemer Oswald Garrett *M. M. Miller R. M. Johnson.. L. A. Hollar P. E. Root J. E. Swift 400 500 Montell 500 500 400 450 Mill Creek 250 400 500 400 Sexton Myrtle Springs 400 500 350 High Colfax Lawrence Springs 250 500 250 250 Van 500 300 Previtt 360 400 Victoria Walker Canton Martin's Mill Levi Clines Prairie.. Bath Moore's Grove Shiloh Waller... Pyote .......... Independence 500 500 350 500 Waller 500 500 500 Ward Washington Wharton 500 500 200 250 Palmetto 500 500 Wheeler.. Mobeetie.. Wheeler.. 500 500 300 225 Lela.... Mt. Zion.. 200 200 Plainview 250 300 200 Kelton 200 200 Merry Flats 300 Wichita Locust Grove Cashion Pond Creek Cobb 275 500 150 300 300 Wilbarger Doans Odell Tolbert Mapel Hill 300 500 450 500 Haulk 450 200 350 Elliott 500 Oklaunion 500 500 Williamson Cedar Valley 300 300 400 500 400 Wilson Leander. Sutherland Springs 300 500 *Has exoflicio county superintendent. " ••■■,'•„.•: v ■ • ■■■.-■■ -, :: r -^^fi —29- County. County Superintendent. District No. Name of District. Amount. Wise.... Brandon TrusselL Wood. T. O. Craddock. Young. B. W. King.. 67 74 92 23 48 53 79 5 22 8 61 68 15 21 48 9 54 42 44 1 55 Lone Mound Audobon Park Springs Crafton Boyd New Ark Rush Creek Cart-wright Pleasant Ridge. Forest Home Ayer Mills Springs.... Stout Pleasant Grove. Yantis Lone Oak Ingleside Henry's Chapel Gray Loving Lamar Bitter Creek Ben Waters 150 350 500 500 325 300 300 500 500 400 350 300 500 500 400 250 350 250 300 300 300 375 375 HHHMMM —30— THE APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS Sec. 187. The Appropriation. — For the purpose of promoting the country school interests of the State and of aiding the people in pro- viding adequate school facilities for the education of their children, $500,000, or such part thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- priated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- priated for the school year ending August 31, 1916, and $500,000, or such part thereof as may be necessary, for the year ending August 31, 19.17, to be used in accordance with the provisions of this Act in main- taining country schools. State aid under the provisions of this Act will be distributed' in such a way as to assist all schools that meet the conditions to maintain a minimum school term of six months in each year, and, if possible, a maximum school term of nine months. This appropriation is for the weaker country districts which cannot maintain suitable schools upon their own resources. Before any school may receive an appropriation, its application must show that the trustees are without the necessary funds to maintain a suitable school, that the citizens have exhausted every legitimate means at their disposal to provide adequate funds, and that the trustees will, if aid is extended, use the money in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of the law. Sue. 188. Distribution of Aid. — The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and directed to supplement the State apportionment to any school coming within the provisions of this Act with an amount not more than $500.00 in any one year, the amount to be determined by the Board upon the merits and needs of the school. All applications for State aid under this Act shall be made upon the form prescribed by the State Board of Education and furnished by the State Department of Education. Before any application is pre- sented to the State Board of Education for its consideration the State Superintendent shall make careful investigation regarding its com- pleteness, and his certificate that each school applying for State aid meets substantially the requirements of the law shall be required by the Board before aid in any amount is granted. An appropriation made in accordance with the provisions of this Act will be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as govern the ex- penditure of the State and county apportionments. This section requires the State Superintendent to make careful investiga- tion relative to the application of each school. This will be done by means of the blank to be used by schools applying for aid, through correspondence and by personal visitation by the State Superintendent or his representative. Si:c. 189. Standards and Requirements. — Any school meeting the following standards shall be entitled to receive State aid : 1. Location. — Each school receiving State aid shall be well located on a plot of ground not less than one acre in extent, properly drained and suitably laid out. H • '*> ' ' —31— The school site should be as near the center of population of the district as practicable. It should be accessible and within easy reach of the public- highways. It should also be located so as to conserve the health of school children. A school site should contain not less than one acre of ground, and as much more as the resources of the district will admit. Large, well laid out playgrounds and school gardens will add to the effectiveness of the school plant. A school garden is not prerequisite to receiving State aid under this Act. 2. School House. — There shall be provided a suitable school house erected in accordance with the provisions of the school house building law of Texas or meeting substantially the requirements thereof. A school house to meet substantially the requirements of the State school house building law must be properly lighted, ventilated and heated. To be properly lighted a school building must have at least one-sixth as much clear window surface as there is floor space. The main light should be admitted into the room so as to fall upon the pupils' left when seated at their desks. The tops of the windows should extend to within six inches of the ceiling and the window sills to a point not lower than three and one- half feet from the floor. To be properly heated and ventilated, a school building should be furnished with an approved system of heating and ventilation. The law requires that heaters be jacketed, and provided with fresh air intake and foul air vent so that each pupil in the average school room be provided with at least thirty cubic feet of warm fresh air per minute. The building law further requires that all doors open outwardly; that floors be oiled; that school buildings two or more stories in height be provided with at least two widely separated stairways; and that all inside finishing be with- out unnecessary fluting and carvings as catch dust and microbes. 3. Equipment. — Each such school shall be provided with necessary desks, seats and blackboards; and with such library, books, maps, and globes as recommended in the State course of study, as in the opinion, of the State Superintendent said school may be able to purchase. A systematic effort will be made to assist all country schools entitled to* receive aid under this appropriation, and it should be expressly understood that the function of the State Department of Education in this respect is to help schools to meet the seven standards and requirements in so far as it is possible to help local boards. The fact that a school cannot as it stands meet the standards and require- ments is no reason why such school should remain disqualified. From a care- ful reading of the opening sentence of Section 189 it will be noted that "any school meeting the following standards shall be entitled to receive State aid." Therefore, the "door" is not closed to any school but is open to all who will endeavor of their own accord to meet the standards as prescribed by law. In submitting its application for State aid, a school should give full in- formation as to its equipment. If it does not meet fully all the requirements as to equipment the school trustees should make a definite statement of what will be done to meet the requirements of the law in case State aid is ex- tended them. 4. Teachers. — Teachers employed in country schools shall furnish to> the State Superintendent satisfactory evidence of professional training to their credit, and all teachers must render efficient service of a high grade. In' selecting teachers, school boards should consider, among other things,, the following qualifications: -32— 1. Academic training. 2. Professional training. 3. Character. 4. Experience. 5. Grade of certificate held. State aid will not be given the second time if it be found that the teachers employed are not rendering service of a high grade. 5. Attendance. — In order to receive State aid, each community school must have an enrollment of not more than two hundred pupils, and the attendance record of all such schools for the previous year must not be less than 50 per cent of the entire time that the school was in session, and said school must maintain an attendance record during the year in which it receives such aid of at least 75 per cent, unless it can be shown to the satisfaction of the State Board of Edu- cation that the non-attendance is due to one or more of the following causes: (1) Attendance elsewhere; (2) completion of the course; (3) extreme povertv of the family; (4) physical or mental incapacity; (5) lack of transportation facilities beyond a two and a half-mile limit; and providing that no school receiving aid under the provisions of this Act shall be located in a town or city having more than one thousand population according to the last Federal census. To receive aid under the provisions of this Act, a district must not have a scholastic population of more than two hundred, white and colored. This limitation applies to the entire district, both white and colored, and not to the individual schools in a district. The percentage of attendance is determined by dividing the average daily attendance of the entire term by the number of scholastics enumerated in the district, with the above exemptions deducted. 6. Local Tax. — The school district must have levied and be collect- ing a local school tax of not less than 50 cents on the $100.00 val- uation; provided, that for the school year 1915-16 any district which having voted the required tax, whether being collected for that year or not, shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this Act; provided, that the State Board of Education may, in its discretion, for one time only, apportion any amount not to exceed $200.00, whether any tax has been levied or not, and State aid may be continued upon condition that the district levy and collect the required local tax. The fifty cents local school tax may be all for maintenance, or it may be part for maintenance and part for interest and sinking fund purposes. After the school year 1915-16, State aid for the second time will not be given a school that does not levy and collect fifty cents on the one hundred dollars valua- tion for school purposes. 7. Subjects subjects. -Each country school shall teach the common school Instruction may be given in manual training and domestic economy. Such instruction is not prerequisite to receiving State aid. It is not necessary to have an agricultural garden or farm, or to have a teacher who devotes all of his time to agriculture. Agriculture, however, is required to be taught in all the public schools of Texas except in independent school districts having three hundred or more scholastics. See Section 90, School Laws of 1915. ; —33— Sec. 190. General Power of State Board of Education. — The State Board of Education shall be authorized and it shall be their duty to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the terms of this Act, as, in its opinion, may be necessary to carry out the provisions and intentions of this Act. Sec. 191. Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction. — It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to go in person or to send some one of the rural school supervisors authorized by this Act to assist the school communities who may desire the privi- leges of this Act in their efforts to meet the necessary requirements in order that they may participate in the distribution of the funds herein appropriated. Before approving any application he shall make a thorough investi- gation in person or through his representative of the grounds, build- ings, equipment and possibilities of each school applying for State aid by appropriation from the State Board of Education. This section requires the State Superintendent to make a thorough investi- gation in person or through his representative of each school applying for State aid under the provisions of this Act. The representatives of the State Department of Education will visit schools with a view to rendering helpful service to school boards in order that adequate facilities may be provided for the education of children in country districts. Sec 192. Second Aid.- — Before State aid shall be granted a second time to the same school, it shall be necessary that all reports as required of the school officials of said district shall have been received and approved; that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction or one of the rural school supervisors shall have visited said school, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction has advised the State Board of Education that, in his judgment, the school officials of such district have made diligent efforts to meet the requirements and standards as set forth in this Act, that the school receiving State aid has made satis- factory progress under existing conditions, and that, in his opinion, further aid would prove a good and desirable investment for the State in promoting the educational interests of the people of such district. State aid under the provisions of this Act will not be extended a second time to a district that is not levying and collecting a local school tax of fifty cents on the $100 valuation. Before aid is extended a second time all reports of the school for the previous year required by law and by the State and county superintendents must be made and approved. The school must also show that satisfactory progress has been made and that additional aid is both necessary and advisable. Sec. 193. Warrants and Reports. — Warrants for all money granted under the provisions of this Act shall be transmitted by the State Superintendent of Public, Instruction to treasurers or depositors ""(de- positories) of school districts to which State aid is granted in the same manner as warrants for State apportionment are now transmitted, and it shall be the duty of all treasurers or depositories to make annually itemized reports under oath to the State Superintendent of Public In- -34— struction of the expenditure of all money granted under the provisions of this Act. Warrants for all money granted under the provisions of this Aft will be sent to the depositories of the schools receiving aid and not to the local school boards. The depositories of schools receiving State aid will be required to submit each year a sworn itemized statement of the expenditure of all money granted under the provisions of this Act, and all vouchers drawn against this fund should be marked accordingly. Sec. 194. Apportionment Privileges. — Country community schools shall still he entitled to share in the distribution of State and county available school funds, and in all other school funds in the same manner as other school districts; and in case high school grades are maintained the community school shall still he entitled to participate in the dis- tribution of any State aid that may be extended by the Legislature of Texas for vocational or industrial purposes to high schools of the State, though it accept the provisions of this Act. The fact that a school district receives State aid under this Act will not necessarily debar it from receiving State aid for establishing, equipping, and maintaining departments of agriculture, manual training, and domestic economy. —35— MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS A school to be eligible to receive aid under this law must comply with the following minimum requirements: SITE 1. The school building must be well located on a plat of ground not less than one acre in extent (a five-acre tract of land is to be preferred). 2. The premises must be clean and well kept, and the planting of shade trees should be encouraged. 3. The water must be pure, sufficient, and furnished to pupils in a convenient and sanitary manner. BUILDINGS 1. There must be as many separate rooms as there are teachers. 2. The rooms must be comfortable and the buildings in good repair. 3. The amount of clear light surface for each room must be at least one-sixth of the floor space, and the light must be admitted from the left or left and rear only of the pupils seated at their desks. 4. Each room must be provided with a modern heating and ven- tilating system properly installed in compliance with the State school- house building law. In selecting heaters, observe the following measure- ments as to school rooms and cross-sectional area of fire-pot at stove door: Eooms of 8000 cubic feet or less require not less than 16-inch fire-pot; of 8000-12,000 cubic feet, uot less than 18-inch fire-pot; of 12,000 cubic feet or more, not less than 20-inch fire-pot. 5. There must be at least two separate outhouses or toilets and they must be kept clean, sanitary, and attractive. EQUIPMENT 1. Each room must be provided with a teacher's desk costing ap- proximately $10, and a teacher's chair costing approximately $2. 2. Each room must be provided with a sufficient number of modern patent desks (single desks preferred), properly spaced to accommodate the pupils, and screwed down in a neat and orderly manner. 3. Each room must be provided with at least ninety square feet of first class blackboard (hyloplate or better grade) framed with neat moulding and provided with chalk rail. Hyloplate costs approximately ten cents per square foot, and genuine slate approximately twenty-eight cents. Blackboard for primary pupils should not be more than twenty- six inches from the floor. 4. Each school must have a set of at least eight maps, including a map of Texas, costing approximately $12.50 ; and, if more than one teacher, each map should be in a separate case, steel or wood, costing approximately $2.50 for steel and $2.00 for wood. 5. Each school must have at least one 12-inch or larger meridian globe, costing approximately $5.00. —36— 6. Each school must be provided with one or more copies of the health chart on the prevention of diseases issued by the State Board of Health, Austin, Texas, furnished free, and one standard physio- logical chart costing approximately $10.00. 7. Each school must be provided with at least $25 worth of books jier teacher, the books to be selected from the list found in this bulletin, pages 46-65, and be adapted to the needs of the school. For the ele- mentary grades a dictionary of the grade of Webster's Secondary-School Dictionary, costing approximately $1.50, should be provided. For pupils of high school grades a larger dictionary is necessary. The list of books on hand or selected must be submitted to the State Depart- ment of Education for final approval, and the name, the author, the publisher and the cost or estimated value of each book must be given. TEACHERS Each school must employ a sufficient number of competent teach- ers to do acceptable work. If the school emplovs more than one teacher, the head teacher or principal should hold a first or higher grade cer- tificate. A second grade certificate is not satisfactory evidence of the teacher's professional training. SCHOLASTIC ENUMERATION The total enumeration according to the latest census trustee's report must not be more than 200 pupils of scholastic age, both white and colored, and the school must not be located in a town or city having more than 1000 population according to the latest Federal census. AVERAGE ATTENDANCE 1. For schools that have not heretofore received State aid, the average daily attendance for the scholastic year 1015-16 must not have been less than 50 per cent of the scholastic census enumeration for that year, and not less than 75 j)cr cent for the current year, with certain exceptions as provided by law. 2. For schools that have received State aid heretofore the average dailv attendance for the scholastic vears 1915-16 and 1916-17 must not be less than 75 per cent of the scholastic census enumeration for said years except as provided by law. LOCAL TAX The total school tax for all purposes must be not less than 50 cents on the $100 valuation. Schools collecting a local tax of 50 cents on the $100 valuation may not receive more than $500 in any one year, and are thereby given preference in the law. Tn extreme cases, and in cases of emergency, schools with a tax rate less than 50 cents, and meet- ing the other standards and requirements, may be granted State aid in an amount of not more than $200 for one time only. -37— MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE AID UNDER THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION THE BUILDING SITE In a great many instances very little consideration has been given to the matter of selecting a suitable building site for the school, especially in rural school districts. Oftentimes the land chosen for a site is regarded as worthless for any other purpose, and certainly very undesir- able for the location of a rural school plant, where the children of the community will be required to spend a large portion of the growing period of their lives. The site must contain at least one acre of land ; four or five acres would be preferable. The most attractive site obtainable should be selected, giving due consideration, of course, to the convenience and accessibility of the population to be served by the school, and the future development of the district. The site should be located on an estab- lished public road and as near to the geographical center of the terri- tory to be served as practicable. The land selected for the site should have a gradual slope away from the school building and not broken by ditches or ravines. The soil should be fertile and well adapted to the growing of shade trees, shrub- bery, and flowers, and be suitable for school gardens and demonstration plats for classes in agriculture. BUILDINGS Rooms. — There must be as many separate rooms as there are teachers in the school. Cloth curtains or other kinds of improvised temporary partitions are not satisfactory. All partitions should be substantially made and extend full height of walls so as to make each class room separate and distinct from every other class room. Adjustable par- titions, such as accordeon or rising doors, are acceptable if properly installed to insure their safe and successful operation. In the erection of new buildings or in the remodeling of old ones, all class rooms should be approximately of the following dimensions : Length 32 feet, width 24 feet, wall not less than 12^ feet inside. The widtli of the room should be twice the distance from the floor to the top of main light windows. The rooms should be comfortable and the buildings in a good state of repair. Attention should be given to see that no panes are missing in the windows and that all doors are equipped with locks and keys. Painting.- — Tbe buildings should be made as attractive as possible. If they are not painted or if in need of repainting, this should be done. Nothing adds quite so much to the appearance of a school building as paint, provided due consideration is given to the selection of the proper colors and the manner in which the paint is applied. All school build- ings should be painted both inside and outside according to some har- —38— monious and attractive color scheme. There are many excellent schemes which are pleasing to the eye. The following schemes have been used in many schools, and are beautiful. For outside: paint roof black, walls steel gray or lead, and trim with brown or white. For inside: paint in three-color or two-color effect. If three colors are desired, paint wainscot, or to wainscot height (3^ feet), window and door frames in chocolate brown or dark green; side walls and window and door sash in stone green or very light gray; and overhead ceiling in cream color, or very light gray, if stone or pale green is used on side walls above wainscot. A plain 'sanitary molding should be run around the room at wainscot height and painted same color as wainscot, if three colors are used. If only two colors are used inside, use light green or light gray for side walls, and cream or light buff for overhead ceiling. It is not advisable to paint entire inside of same color because of the monotonous effect on the eyes of the pupils. White is not the most desirable color for outside work except as trimming on account of the fact that it reflects the light too strongly, and soon becomes soiled and dingy. Lighting. — The amount of clear light surface must be at least one- sixth the floor space for each room, and the light must be admitted from the left, or the left and rear, only, of the pupils seated at their desks. There have been many mistakes made on this point, and they are inexcusable. A simple calculation will enable anyone to deter- mine the exact amount of clear light surface, or window space, required to light a school room properly. It is desirable to have all light admitted through closely grouped windows from the left of the pupils when they are seated at their desks, and this should always be done when it is possible or practicable to do so. If the required amount of light cannot be obtained from the left, then, in addition, a sufficient number of rear windows may be put in to provide the required amount of clear light surface. All windows for the admission of the main light should extend within six inches of the ceiling and should not come nearer than within three and one-half feet of the floor. Eear light windows should extend Avithin six inches of the ceiling and not nearer than within seven feet of the floor All windows should be fixed so that both sashes may lie raised or lowered when necessary for purposes of ventilation in warm weather. Each room should also be provided with other windows for ventila- tion purposes. Such windows may be placed on the right of the pupils. or in front of them above the blackboard, provided that all such win- dows lie fitted with substantially made wooden louvres or blinds to exclude the light and admit the air. These louvres or blinds con- sist of a strong wooden frame fitted with slats put in the frame at an angle of 45 degrees, and should be fastened inside the window frame on outside with long wood screws. Windows for ventilation may extend to within three feet of the floor and mav be the same style as the light windows. —39— Heating and Ventilation. — Each room mitst be provided with a mod- ern heating and ventilating system properly installed in compliance with the State schoolhouse building law. No kind of system will be accepted which does not provide for fresh air to be brought into the room and warmed before being distributed over the room, and for the foul air to be removed through an opening either in main flue or foul air fine. No system will be accepted which will not insure an even temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit in all parts of the room in the coldest weather without keeping too hot a fire. In providing for the installation of a modern ventilating and heating system, the following dimensions are agreed upon and recommended by the best authorities on the subject : Cubic contents of room. 8000 cu. ft. 8000 to 12,000 to or less. 12,000 en. ft. 16,000 cu. ft. Not less than sq. in. sq. in. sq. in. I. When foul air is removed through smoke flue: 1. Smoke flue (inside) 192 256 400 2. Four air vent ,. . 1-14 216 320 3. Fresh air intake 144 . 216 320 II. When foul air is removed through separate flue: 1. Smoke flue (inside) 81 144 216 2. Foul air vent 192 256 288 3. Fresh air intake 192 256 288 There are qnite a number of different heating and ventilating sys- tems on the market. Only those which have been approved by the State Department of Education as meeting the requirements of the State school house building law will be accepted as meeting the require- ments for schools receiving State aid. Several systems have already been approved by the Department as meeting the requirements of the law, if properly installed. This approval by the State Department of Education is in no sense an endorsement of any system as to material, mechanical workmanship, or durability. It simply means that the sys- tem, if properly installed will meet the requirements of the school house building law. Of the several systems approved by the State Department of Edu- cation, some are doubtless superior to others. Trustees and county superintendents must be their own judges as to the merits of the sev- eral systems. They will do well to investigate the several systems approved before making a purchase, and be sure that they are get- ting value received for the expenditure. In several counties a plan of co-operative purchasing of equipment has been adopted with profit to the schools. When several heating and ventilating systems, as well as other equipment are to be purchased, the trustees of the interested -40- schools and the county superintendent call a meeting for such purpose and invite the representatives of the different concerns selling such equipment to attend such meeting and exhibit their goods and submit bids on the equipment which will likely he used during that year among the schools of the county. This plan seems entirely practicable, and ought to make it possible for the trustees to have a better understanding of what their schools really need and to enable them to get the lowest price, usually, on the equipment which they purchase. Water Supply. — There must be an abundant supply of pure drinking water on, or conveniently near, to the school grounds, and adequate facilities must be provided to furnish water to the pupils of the school in a convenient and sanitary manner. Well or spring water is acceptable if known to be free from harmful mineral properties, and if spring or well is so situated or covered' as to prevent any possible danger of contamination from any source. Cis- tern water is satisfactorv if carried from roofs in screened gutters, and filtered through charcoal and fine gravel or coarse sand. The cement- lined underground cistern is much to be preferred to the one above ground for obvious reasons. Cisterns should be of sufficient capacity to furnish an ample supply of pure water for the entire year. Water from stock tanks, ponds, creeks, and other such unprotected sources is exceedingly dangerous for drinking purposes and will not be acceptable. The old-fashioned, germ-laden bucket and rope should be discarded. The school well or cistern should be provided with a good pump. The endless chain lifting pump is recommended for underground cisterns because cistern water needs to be frequently aerated or stirred. The ordinary water bucket and common drinking cup should not be permitted in the school under any consideration. Where water pressure is available sanitary drinking fountains may be installed at reasonable cost. Where water pressure cannot be had, sanitary water cans or barrels, fitted with several large automatic faucets and mounted on sub- stantial stands, may be provided at convenient places on the school grounds. If such cans or barrels are used they should have frequent attention to make sure they are kept in a sanitary condition. There are other methods which will be satisfactory and acceptable, provided the water is furnished to the pupils in a convenient and sanitary manner. Outhouses or Toilets. — The outdoor outhouse or toilet has been a very perplexing problem to the rural district. Even under the most favor- able conditions it is frequently a menace to health and also to morals. Unless every precaution is taken by frequent disinfection for guarding against flies and danger of contamination of the water supply, the out- house may be a source of disease not only to the children who attend the school", but to the entire community as well. The most satisfactory solution of this problem where a sewerage system is not practicable, is the outdoor sanitary chemical closet. The principal features of this toilet, in addition to a well constructed house of sufficient size to accommodate the school, is a speciallv made —41- fourteen-gange metal tank painted with a preparation of graphite and asphaltum, and placed in concrete to prevent rusting; a porcelain finished, cast iron bowl similar in appearance to that use'd in ordinary (lush water closet; and a twenty-eight gauge galvanized five-inch vent pipe for the removal of foul gases. Into> this metal tank is. placed a specially prepared chemical solution, which soon destroys all harmful bacteria in the excretions, and reduces the solid matter to a liquid form so there is no danger in emptying the contents of the tank anywhere. All odors are eliminated so that the emptying process is not disagree- able. This type of toilet, being odorless and sanitary, may be placed in a school building or residence with perfect safety. In the event the school district is not financially able to install the sanitary chemical toilet, and the "dry" toilet must be continued in use, great care should be exercised in installing it. In addition to a sub- stantially and attractively built house, there should be a water-tight concrete receptacle for the excretions to prevent the contamination of the water supply; a covered dust bin or lime box for a supply of road dust or slacked lime. This box should be placed high enough on the walls so that there will be no temptation for boys to make improper use of it. The excretions in the concrete vault should be treated daily with at least a pint of slaked lime for each seat in the toilet. There is no greater source of disease than neglected school toilets. All openings should be carefully screened, and the vaults provided with vent pipes for the removal of foul gases. Care should also be taken in the construction of the covers for the seats. Each cover board should be fitted with brass hinges which are rust-proof, and the cover hinge should be at least six inches behind the opening. There should be a stop to prevent the cover board being raised more than 90 degrees so that it will automaticallv close itself when toilet is not in use. EQUIPMENT Furniture. — As careful attention should be given to the selection of the furniture for the school room as for a living room. The color of the furniture should be in keeping and in harmony with that of the walls of the rooms. Each room must be provided with a neat teacher's desk and teacher's chair, a sufficient number of well-made and attractive bookcases for the books of the library, and a sufficient number of mod- ern patent desks (single desks preferred) of proper sizes, and properly spaced to accommodate all of the pupils in the room. Pupils' desks should be arranged in neat rows, and all the desks of a row should be of uniform size, that is, No. 1 size in one row, No. 2 size in another row, etc. All pupils' desks must be screwed to the floor or to thin boards in a Heat and orderly manner. BlacTcboards. — Blackboards should be provided in every available space in the room. There must be at least ninety square feet of blackboard for each room. Hyloplate, Beaver board, or better grade, will be ac- ceptable. Genuine slate is recommended to schools able to purchase it -42— as being best and cheapest in the long run. For the different depart- ments of the school, the blackboard should be placed at the following heights from the floor: Primary department, 26 inches; intermediate department. 30 inches: high school department, 34 inches. Slated cloth, or painted boards or walls arc not satisfactory and will not be accepted. Maps, Globes, and Charts. — Each school must have a set of at least eight standard maps, including maps of the United States and Texas. If there are more than one teacher in the school there should be a sep- arate set of maps for each room ; or each map should be in a separate case, either steel or wood, so that it may be easily carried from room to room when needed. For each room there must be a standard meridian globe of not less than twelve inches in diameter: Larger globes are recommended where schools are financially aide to provide them. Each school must possess a standard chart on the subject of physiology and hygiene. Historical and agricultural charts are advised for schools having available funds to purchase them. Library. — Every school should have a library of carefully selected books well adapted to the needs of the school. Schools receiving State aid from the million dollar appropriation mvst have well adapted libraries on the basis of at least twenty-five dollars worth of books for each teacher in the school. In selecting a library, every grade in the school should be kept in mind, and the books should be properly dis- tributed among the grades. In elementary schools, it is not advisable to purchase large dictionaries or extensive reference works. A dic- tionary of the grade of Webster's Secondary School Dictionary will be found quite sufficient for such schools, and some of the smaller and less expensive encyclopedias are better adapted for all practical pur- poses. In schools offering high school instruction, a larger dictionary and the more extensive encyclopedias are advised. Library books must be selected from the list approved by the State Department of Education and published on pages 46 to 65 of this bulletin. Before purchasing a library for such schools, those having the matter in charge should send to the State Department of Education a list of the proposed books to be selected, .indicating the title, the author, the publisher, and the price of each book. Such list will receive prompt attention by the Department and will be returned with the approval of the Department, or with such criticisms and instructions as may be found advisable. When list is finally approved, the books should be purchased and delivered to the school. In order that the books mav be protected and preserved, a substan- tial bookcase should be provided with lock and key, or, better, a small room should he built for the safekeeping of the library, and some efficient system should be adopted by the teacher to encourage the proper use of the books, and to keep track of them so that they will not be de- stroyed or lost. Tf it should seem unsafe to leave the books at the school building during the vacation period, they should be left at the : ymimm:mmm -—4:3- home or office of some responsible person, and returned to the school at the opening of the next school session. TEACHERS Pestalozzi expressed it aptly when he said, "As the teacher, so the school.'' The teacher is unquestionably the most important factor in the success of the school, and for this reason State aid from the million dollar appropriation is made contingent upon the qualification of the teacher, and the character of service rendered by him in the school. The duty of selecting competent teachers is the greatest responsibility which devolves upon trustees and county superintendents. Trustees should never employ a teacher until they have carefully considered the matter in a meeting of the board, in the light of all the information they are able to secure as to the applicant's qualifications and fitness for their school. The law makes the county superintendent a party to the contract with the teacher, and it is his duty to exercise due diligence in approving contracts with teachers, to the end that the best interests of the school children of the county may be served. There should be the most cordial feeling and hearty co-operation between the trustees and the county superintendent in the administration of the schools of the county. Each should most courteously respect the authority of the other. If this condition prevails among the school officials of the county there will be little occasion for misunderstanding, and the success of the schools will be assured. In the selection of teachers, trustees and county superintendents should especially consider, among other things, the following essential quali- fications : Adequate academic and professional training, good character, successful experience, and grade of certificate held. To be eligible to receive State aid from the million dollar appropri- ation, a school must employ a sufficient number of competent teachers to do acceptable work. If the school employs more than one teacher, the head teacher or principal must hold a first or higher grade certificate. A second grade certificate is not satisfactory evidence of the teacher's professional training. State aid will not be recommended a second time, if it be found that the teachers employed are not rendering a service of high grade. SCHOLASTIC ENUMERATION According to the law, a school is not eligible to receive aid from the million dollar appropriation if the school district has a scholastic enu- meration of more than tAvo hundred pupils, both white and colored, according to the latest approved census rolls of the district ; or if located in a town or city having more than one thousand population according to the latest Federal census. AVERAGE ATTENDANCE One of the important aims of the law providing State aid for country schools is to stimulate the attendance upon the school. Hence, the requirement is made of schools seeking State aid that in order to be eligible to receive such aid. the average daily attendance of pupils in the school must have been at least 50 per cent of the entire scholastic enumeration for the previous year, and not less than 75 per cent during the year that State aid is received, "unless it can be shown to the satis- faction of the State Board of Education that the non-attendance is due to one or more of the following causes : (1 ) Attendance elsewhere ; (2) completion of the course; (3) extreme poverty; (4) physical or mental incapacity; (5) lack of transportation facilities beyond a two and one-half mile limit.'* H I LOCAL SCHOOL TAX As stated in the law, the purpose of the million dollar appropriation is to promote the interests of the rural schools of the State by supple- menting the funds of the weaker country schools received from the usual sources, and thus enable them to provide better educational advantages for the children who depend upon such schools for their scholastic training. In distributing the million dollar appropriation among the rural schools of the State, it is the policy of the State to help those who are willing to help themselves. !STo district is eligible to receive aid under this law unless it levies and collects for all purposes, both for bonds and maintenance, a local school tax of the rate of fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property in the district, except as herein- after stated. Such districts as levy such fifty-cent rate, and meet all the other standards and requirements may receive any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars in any one year, and are given preference in the law. In extreme cases and in cases of emergency, districts with a local school tax rate of less than fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of assessed property valuation, and meeting all the other standards and requirements of the law may receive any sum not more than two hundred dollars, for one time only, and State aid may be continued if the district will increase the local school tax rate to fifty cents on the one hundred dollars. Before State aid will be recommended for a district under the two hundred dollar provision of the law, the State Superintendent must have satisfactory evidence that a majority of the trustees of the district and a majority of the patrons of the school are in favor of a fifty-cent local school tax and that the local conditions in the district make it impossible to vote such rate. The State Department of Education desires that every child in Texas shall enjoy the best possible educational opportunity, and that the rural schools shall be well organized, equipped, and administered for the benefit of the country children. There are a great many excellent rural schools in Texas, and the citizens who have provided these schools are to be congratulated for their good judgment and foresight and encouraged to —45— continue such effort. However, it is sorely regrettable that there are so many rural schools in the State which clo not come up to the standard as they should, for various reasons. It is the purpose of the State Department of Education to assist all these schools in every way pos- sible, and it stands ready and eager to lend every means at its com- mand to encourage and promote the country school interests of the Stat*. I GRADED LIST OF LIBRARY BOOKS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS The numerals in parenthesis refer to grades for which books are especially adapted. With each title is indicated the names of the pub- lishers and the prices of the books approved by the State Department of Education. NURSERY RHYMES AND STORIES (2-3) Adams, Fables and Khymes American, 30c (1-2) Aesop's Fables Billinghurst. Merrill, 30c; Godolphin, Burt, 60c (1-2) Anderson, Fairy Tales Merrill, 30c; Newson, 25c; Band, 45c (1-2) Baker, First Book of Poetry American, 40c (1-2) Baldwin, Fairy Reader American, 35c (2-4) Baldwin, Gulliver's Travels American, 35c (1-2) Beebe, First Year "Nature Reader American, 35c (1-2) Blaisdell, Boy Blue and His Friends Little, 40c (1-2) Blaisdell, Child Life First Reader Macmillan, 25c _ (5-8) Candeze, The Adventures of Grillo Ginn, 45c (1-2) Coe and Christie, Story Hour Primer American, 30c (1-2) Coe and Christie, Story Hour Reader, Book One American, 30c (7-8) Coe. Heroes of Everyday Life Ginn, 40c (1-2) Eldridge, Child's Reader in Verse American, 25c (1-2) Foulke. Twilight Stories Silver, 36c" (1-2) Grover, Folklore, Primer Atkinson. 30c (1-2) Grover, Folklore, Book I Atkinson, 30c (1-2) Grover, Folklore, Book II Atkinson, 30c (1-2) Grover, Sunbonnet Babies Rand, 40c W$wW?mW¥:&^< —47— (1-2) Graver, Overall Boys Rand, 45c (1-2) Haaren, Fairy Life Golden Rod Books iNTewson, 20c (1-3) Haliburton and Claxton, Grimm's Fairy Stories Johnson, 25c (1-2) Holbrook, Hiawatha Primer Rand, 40c (1-2) Lansing, Rhymes and Stories Ginn, 35c (2-3) McMurry, Fifty Famous Fables Johnson, 30c (1-2) Mickens and Robinson, Mother Goose Silver, 36c (1-2) Noyes and Guild, Sunshine Primer Ginn, 40c (1-2) O'Shea, Six Nursery Classics Heath, 20c (1-2) O'Shea, Old World Wonder Stories Heath, 20c (1-2) Potter, Tale of Benjamin Bunny Warne, 50c (1-2) Potter, Tale of Peter Rabbit Warne, 50c (1-2) Poulsson, Through the Farmyard Gate Lothrop, $1.25 (1-2) Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk Stories Houghton, 40c (1-2) Serl, In Fableland Silver,' 36c (1-2) Stevenson, Chile? s Garden of Verses Rand, 50c (1-2) Welsh, Mother Goose Heath, 30c (1-2) Wiltse, Folklore Stories and Proverbs Ginn, 30c (1-2) Wells, The Jingle Book Macmillan. 50c BIBLE STOUTER (3-5) Baldwin, Old Stories of the Bast American, 45c (7-9) Baldwin, Old Testament Narratives American, 20c (3-6) Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Newson, 25c; Scott. 30c ■48- (3-5) Bunyan's Dream Story American, 35c (4-5) Endicott, Stories of the Bible Ed. Pub. Co., 60c (4_5) Foster, Story of the Bible Jacobs, $1.00 (4-8) Gillie, The Story of Stories Maemillan, $1.25 (3-6) G-uerber, Stories of the Chosen People American. 60c (3-4) Haaren, Stories Prom the Hebrew- Silver, 42c (4-5) Kelman, Stories from the Life of Christ Dutton, 50c (3-4) Moulton, Bible Stories for Children from Old Testament Maemillan. 50c (3-4) Moulton, Bible Stories for Children from New Testament Maemillan, 50c (3-4) Proudioot, Child's Christ Tales Flanagan. 75c (4_8) Tappan, The Christ Story Honshton, $1.50 MYTHS AND LEGENDS (4-7) Baker, Stories of Old Greece and Pome Maemillan, 80c (3-4) Baldwin. Old Greek Stories American. 45c (4-6) Baldwin, Stories of the King American, 50c (3-4) Baldwin, The Golden Fleece; More Old Greek Stories American, 50c (4-6) Bradish, Old Norse Stories American, 45c (3-4) Brown. In the Days of the Giants; a Book of Norse Tales Houghton. 50c (4-8) Church, Stories of the Old World Ginn. 50c (4-8) Copeland, Life in the Greenwood Ginn, 35c (3-4) Foster and Cummings, Asgard Stories; Tales from Norse Mythology Silver, 36c' (4-5) Francilon, Gods and Heroe3 Ginn. 40c —49- (4-6) Green, King Arthur and His Court Ginn, 50c (4-7) G-reen wood, Merrie England Ginn, 40c (3-4) Hall, Four Old Greeks Rand, 35c (5-6) Harding, Greek Gods, Heroes and Men Scott, 50c (5-6) Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls Houghton, 40c (5-6) Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales Houghton, 40c; Macmillan, 25c (2-3) Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths Houghton, 45c {3-4) Hyde, Favorite Greek Myths "Heath, 50c (4-6) Kingsley, The Heroes; or Fairy Tales for My Children Ginn, 30c (3-5) Kupfer, Stories of the Long Ago Heath, 75c (4-6) Lang, Blue Fairy Book Burt, $1.00 (4-6) Lang, Red Fairv Book Burt, $1.00 (4-6) Lang, Arabian Nights Longmans, $2.00; Ginn, 45c; Rand, 60c (4-6) Lansing, Fairy Tales (Open Road Library), 2 Vols. Ginn, each, 35c (4-7) Lansing, Tales of Old England Ginn, 35c (7-9) Litchfield, The Nine Worlds Ginn, 50c (6-8) Long, Old English Ballads Macmillan, 50c ; Heath, 50c (7-8) Mabie, Legends Every Child Should Know Southern Sc. Bk. Dep., 50c (4-7) Mabie, Stories of Norse Heroes Rand, 40c (2-3) McMurrv, Classic Stories for Little Ones Ed. Pub. Co., 35c (2-3) Oswell, Fairy Book Macmillan, 40c (3-4) Oswell, Stories Grandmother Told Macmillan, 40c (6-8) Perkins, Robin Hood Ballads Scribners, $1.50 (2-4) Perrault, Tales- of Mother Goose Heath, 20c —50— 4-5) Pratt, Legends of Norseland Ed. Pub. Co., 60c 3-4) Price and Gilbert, Heroes of Myth Silver, 50c 6-7) Pyle, Story of King Arthur and His Knights Scribners, $2.00 '6-7) Pyle, Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Scribners, 50c -8) Eagazin, Siegfried, the Hero of the North, and Beowulf, the Hero of the Anglo-Saxons Putnam*?, $1.25 -6) Eamee, Bimbi Ginn, 40c 4-6) Euskin, King of the Golden Eiver Page, 50c; Houghton, 25c; Eand, 25c: Ginn, 25c; Heath, 25c 4-6) Scudder, Book of Legends •Houghton, 50c 3-4) Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk Stories Houghton, 45c 4-6) Scudder, Book of Legends; Told Over Again Houghton. 25c '3-6) Shaw, Stories of the Ancient Greeks Ginn. 60c 3-5) Skinner, Tales and Plays of Eobin Hood American, 56c 2-4) Skinner, Merry Tales American, 48c 2-3) Smythe, Old Time Stories Eetold American. 35c 4-6) Stock, Fanciful Tales Scribners. 50c 4-6) Stockton, Ting a Ling Tales Scribners, $1.00 3-4) Tappan. Golden Goose and Other Fairy Tales Houghton, $1.00 '5-7) Tappan. Old Ballads in Prose Houghton, 40c 2-3)- Turpin, Classic Fables Merrill, 30c '6-7) Warren, King Arthur and His Knights Eand, 50c FAIRY TALES AND FOLKLORE STORIES Browne, Wonderful Chair and the Tales It Told Button, 35c ; Heath, 36c Calhoun. When Great Folks Were Little Folks MactuiHan, 40c ? -'?>* -.A . . t . ... fa '<•&*•>... —51— 3-5) Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Macmillan, 75c ; Band, 30c 7-8) Chapin, Wonder Tales from Wagner Harper, $1.25 6-7) Clark, Arabian Nights American, 60c '3-4) Craik, Adventures of a Brownie Ed. Pub. Co., 40c; Band, 35c 4-5) Craik, The Little Lame Prince Heath, 30c; Macmillan, 35c 5-6) Defoe, Bobinson Crusoe Macmillan, 25c; Newson, 25c; Scott, 40c; Heath, 60c; Amer- ican, 35c '3-5) Grimm, German Household Stories Houghton, 40c '3-4) Grimm, Fairy Tales Macmillan, 25c 4-5) Hale, Arabian Mghts Ginn, 65c: Band, 60c '2-3) Hawkes, Eskimo Land Ginn, 30c 4-6) Holbrook, Bound the Year in Myth and Song American, 60c 4-6) Kingsky, Water Babies Dutton, 50c; Band, 45c; Ginn, 35c; Heath, 50c 4-6) Lee and Carey, Silesian Folk Tales American, 40c '5-6) Maitland, Heroes of Chivalry Silver, 50c '2-4) Pyle, Prose and Yerse for Children American, 40c 3-4) Strong, All the Year Bound (4 Vols.) Ginn, each, 30c 2-4) Wiltse, Hero Folk of Ancient Britain Ginn, 45c '4-8) Wyss, Swiss Family Bobinson Ginn, 50c PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE Atkinson, First Studies in Plant Life Silver, 60c Bartlett. Animals at Home American, 45c '2-3) Bass, Nature Study for Young Beaders Heath, 35c Bass, Plant Life Heath, 35c -_v- /••-: : ; —52— (2-3) Bass, Animal Life Heath, 40c (5-6) Beard, Curious Homes and Their Tenants Appleton, 65c (2-3) Brown, Plant Baby and Its Friends Silver, 48c (5-6) Fultz, Flv-aways and Other Seed Travelers Pubt Sc. Pub. Co., 60c (3-6) Gould. Mother Nature's Children Ginn, 60c (2-3) Johonnot, Book of Cats and Dogs American, 17c (3-4) Johonnot, Friends in Feathers and Fur American, 30c (4-5) Kelley, Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors American, 30c (4-9) Long. Ways of Wood Folk Ginn, 50c (4-5) Mix, Mighty Animals American, 40c (4-6) Monteith, Some Useful Animals and What They Do for Us American, 50c (5-7) Morley. Flowers and Their Friends Ginn, 50c (3-5) Noel, Buzz; The Life of a Honev Bee Holt, $1.00 (4-6) Schwartz, Wilderness Babies Little, $1.30 (3-6) Stickney, Bird World Ginn. 60c (3-5) Stickney, The Earth and Sky Book One, 30c Book Two, 30c Book Three, 35c, Ginn (3-5) Stokes, Ten Common Trees American, 40e v (4-7) Torelle, Plant and Animal Children; How They Grow Heath, 60c (2-4) Walker. Our Birds and Their Nestlings American, 60c (5-8) Wood, Animals, Their Belation and Use to Man Ginn, 60c (5-7) Wright, Birds and Beasts Macmillan, 50c (3-4) Wright, Earth and Sky Macmillan, 30c (5-7) Wright, Four-footed Americans and Their Kin Macmillan, 50e ;..•■ : ■■\yf\? l >-^$*T!;;&&*iM;i, —53— STORIES OF ANIMAL LIFE (8-9) Allen, The Kentucky Cardinal Macmillan, 50c (4-6) Bailey, Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts World Book Company, 35c (7-8) Bostock, Training of Wild Animals Century, $1.00 (7-8) Brown, Bab and His Friends Heath, 20c (3-5) Brown, Alice and Tom Heath, 40c (4-5) Carter, Bear Stories Betold from St. Nicholas Century, 65c (3-4) Carter, Cat Stories Betold from St. Nicholas Century, 65c (4-5) Carter, Lion and Tiger Stories from St. Nicholas Century, 65c (4-5) Carter, , Stories of Brave Dogs Century, 65c (2-3) Craik, So Fat and Mew Mew Heath, N 20c (3-5) Eddy, Friends and Helpers Ginn, 60c (5-7) George, True Tales of Birds and Beasts Heath, 40c (6-8) Hamerton, Chapters on Animals Heath, 25c (6-8) Kipling, Jungle Book Century, $1.50 (6-7) Long, Secrets of the Woods Ginn, 50e (4-7) Long, Little Brother to the Bear Ginn, 50c (4-9) Long, Wood Folk at School Ginn, 50c (4-6) Roberts, Children of the Wild Macmillan, $1.35 (7-8) Roberts, Kindred of the Wild Grossett, 75c (5-6) Sanders, Beautiful Joe Scribners, 50c (5-6) Seton, Krag and Johnny Bear Scribners, 50c (5-7) Seton, Two Little Savages Grosset, 50c (6-7) Seton. Lobo, Bag, and Vixen Scribners, 50c (6-7) Sewell, Black Beauty Crowell, 60c; Newson, 30c ; Band, 40c —54-- (3-8) Smith, Four-footed Friends Ginn, 50c (1-2) Smythe, Reynard the Fox American. 30c (3-4) Stanley, Animal Folk Tales American. 52c NATURE AND SCTENCE (2-4) Abbott, A Boy on a Farm American, 45c (3-4) Andrews, Stories Mother Nature Told to Her Children Ginn, 50c (6-8) Ball, Starland Ginn, 50e (6-8) Dawson, The Boys and Girls of Garden City Ginn, 75c (6-7) Dodge, Reader in Physical Geography Longman, 75c (6-7) Eckstorm. The Bird Book Heath, 72c (7-8) Fairbanks, Stories of the Rocks and Minerals Ed. Pub. Co.. 60c (5-7) Ghosh. The Wonders of the Jungle Heath, 48c (7-8) Green, Coal and the Coal Mines Houghton, 75c (4-8) Gulick. Hygiene Series Bk. 1, 40c; Bk. 2. 40c: Bk. 3, 50c; Bk. 4, 50c: Bk. 5, 50c Ginn (6-8) Fonrnier d'Albe. Wonders of Physical Science Macmillan, 50c (4-6) Hardy, Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes Ginn, 40c (7-8) Harrington, About the Weather Appleton, 65c (7-8) Hodge, Nature Study and Life for Teachers Ginn. $1.50 (5-7) Hooker, Child's Book of Nature American, $1.00 (7-8) Holden. Real Things in Nature Macmillan, 54c (3-4) Holden, Earth and Sky Appleton, 28c (5-8) Ingersoll, Book of the Ocean Century, $1.50 (3-6) Morlev, Butterflies and Bees Ginn, 60c — Do — (3-4) O'Shea and Kellogg, Health Habits Macmillan, 75c (3-4) Payne, Geographical Nature Studies American, 35c (3-5) Patri, The White Patch American, 40c (3-6) Stickney and Hoffman, Bird World Ginn, 60c Wright, Seaside and Wayside : (2-3) Book I, 28c (3-4) Book II, 36c (4-5) Book III, 48c (5-6) Book IV, 60c, Heath GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL (5-8) Allen, Geographical and Industrial Beaders ' United States, 65c ; Europe, 80c ; Asia, 90c, Ginn. 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Stories of American Explorers Scribner, 50c '5-6) Guerber, Stories of the Thirteen Colonies American. 60c '5-6) Guerber, Story of the Great Republic American. 60r- -61- '6-8) Guerber, Story of the English American, 60c '6-7) Guerber, Story of the Greeks American, 60c 6-7) Guerber, Story of the Romans American, 60c '4-6) Haaren, Famous Men of Greece Univ. Pub. Co., 50c -1-6) Haaren, Famous Men of Rome Univ. Pub. Co., 50c 5-7) Haaren, Famous Men of the Middle Ages Univ. Pub. Co., 50c 6-8) Hart, How Our Grandfathers Lived Macmillan, 60c 6-8) Hart, Camps and Firesides of the American Revolution Macmillan, 50c '3-4) Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair Houghton, 40c '5-6) Hazard and Dutton, Indians and Pioneers Silver, 60c '5-6) Hodgdon, Discoverers, Explorers, and Colonists Heath, 65c 7-9) Hodgdon, The National Period Heath, 65c '3-4) Johonnot, Grandfather's Stories American, 27c '5-6) Johonnot, Stories of Our Country American, 40c 7-8) Johonnot, Ten Great Events in History American, 54c '6-7) King, De Soto and His Men in Florida Macmillan, 50c 4-6) McMurry, Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains Macmillan, 40c 4-7) McMurry, Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 50c '6-7) Mowry and Blanche, American Pioneers Silver, 65c (4-6) Nicholson, Story of Dixie American, 62c 4-6) Mda, Dawn of American Historv in Europe Macmillan, 60c 3-5) Otis, Philip of Texas American, 35c '5-6) Price, "Wandering Heroes Silver, 50c '3-4) Pratt, Stories of Colonial Cbildren Ed. Pub. Co., 60c —62— (4-6) (3-6 (5-6 (6-7 (7-8 (6-7 (5-6 (5-6 (7-8 (4-5 (7-8 (6-8 (2-3 (3-4 (4-6 (4-5 (7-8 Pratt. America's Story for America's Children Book I, Beginner's Book Book II, Discoverers and Explorers Book III, The Early Colonies Book IV, The Later Colonial Period Book V, The Foundations of the Republic, Heath, each, 40c Scott, How the Flag Became Old Glory Macmillan, 50c Ske, Stories from English History Dutton, 50c Stone and Pickett, Days and Deeds One Hundred Years Ago Heath, 35c Tappan, England's Story Houghton, 85c Tappan, Our Country's Story Houghton, 65c Tappan, American History Stories Houghton, 55c Tomlinson, Boys of the Revolution Silver, 48c Warren, Stories from English History Heath, 72c Watson, Boston Tea Party Lathrop, 30c Washington, Farewell Address Scott, 25c; Ginn, 25c Wright, Children's Story of American History Scribners, 50c INDIAN LIFE AND HTSTORY Brooks, Stories of the Red Children Ed. Pub. Co., 40c Brown, Tales of the Red Children Appleton, $1.00 Bemister, Thirty Indian Legends Macmillan, 40c Chandler, In the Reign of the Coyote; Folklore from the Pacific Coast Ginn, 40c Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 40c; Rand, 60c; Heath. 50c; Amer- ican, 35c Curtis. Indian Days of the Long Ago World Book Co., 80c Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters World Book Co., 80c Fox. Indian Primer American, 35c -'v. ' :y m:w:mm —63— 7-8) Grinnell, Story of the Indians Appleton, $1.35 Howard, Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known Century, $1.50 Hnsted, Stories of Indian Chieftains Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 40c Husted, Stories of Indian Children Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 40c ■6) Jenks, Childbood of Jishib, the Ojibway Atkinson, 60c Judd, Wigwam Stories Ginn, 75c Moran, Kwahu, the Hopi Indian Boy American, 50c ■4) Pratt, Legends of the "Red Children American, 30c 6-5) Sneclden, Docas, the Indian Boy Heath, 40c '6-7) Starr, American Indians Heath, 48c St. Nicholas, Indian Stories Century, 65c Wiley, Mewanee: the Little Indian Boy Silver, 30c Wilson, Myths of the Ped Children Ginn, 45c Whipple, The Story of the Liberty Bell Altemus, 50c Whitney and Perry, Four American Indians American, 50c '5-8) Zitkala-Sa, Old Indian Legends Ginn, 50c GENERAL LITERATURE '5-7") Carter, The Bov Scouts in the Pockies Burt, $1.35 " Dowd, Polly of the Lady Gay Cottage Houghton, $1.00 ■8) Eaffleton, Writers and Writings of Texas Tex. Sc. Bk. Dep., $1.50 '-9) Emerson, American Scholar Scott, 35c Emerson, Representative Men Maemillan. 25c Hale. Man Without a Country Ginn. 30c Lamb, Tales from Shapespeare Ginn, 45c; Maemillan, 25c — -f!4 — (7-9) (5^7) (7-9) (7-9) (7-8) (6-8) (7-9) (7-9) (5-8) (4-5) (6-8) (7-9) (7-9) (7-8) (5-6) (4-6) (4-6) (5-8) (5-8) (7-9) Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal Macmillan, 25c; Newson, 25c; Scott, 25c Page, Two Little Confederates Scribners, $1.35 Payne, Southern Literary Readings Rand, 75c Porter, Pollyanna Page, $1.25 Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Century, $1.00 Rice, Lovey Marv Century, $1.00 Shakespeare, Macbeth Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 25c; Ginn, 30c: Heath. 25c; Amer- can, 20c Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Scott, 25c; Ginn, 30c; Heath, 25c; American, 20c Swift, Gulliver's Travels Macmillan. 25c; Ginn, 40c; Heath, 36c; American, 35c Thayer, Ethics of Success Silver, 45c Wheeler. The Bov with the U. S. Life Savers Lothrop, $1.50 Whittier, Snow Bound Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 25c Wiggins, Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm Grossett, 75c BOOKS RELATING TO TEXAS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY Abbott, Chevalier La Salle Dodd, $1.00 Bolton and Barker, With the Makers of Texas History American. 60c Daffan, Texas Hero Stories Sanborn, 50c Davis. Under Six Flags Ginn, 50c Ellis, Life of David Crockett Winston, 75c Elliott, Life of Sam Houston Small, 50c Fulmore, History and Geography of Texa's as Told in County Names Z. T. Fulmore, Austin, Tex., $1.50 Littlejohn, Texas History Stories Johnson, 50c Littlejohn, Geography of Texas ; Supplement to World Geog- raphies Macmillan, 40c —65— (5-7) Sirnonds, Geography of Texas Ginn, 90c NATURE STUDY AND AGRICULTURE FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS Burkett and Foe, Cotton Doubleday, $2.00 Corbett, Gardening, Farming Ginn, $2.00 Davenport, Domesticated Plants and Animals Ginn, $1.25 Jackman, Nature Study for Grammar Grades Macmillan, $1.00 ' Lange, Handbook of Nature Study Macmillan, $1.00 Powell, Co-operation in Agriculture Macmillan, $1.50 Reed, Flower Guide (Wild Flowers East of the Rockies) Doubleday, $1.00 Weed and Riley, Crop Production Heath, 80c Weed, Farm Friends and Farm Foes Heath, $1.00 Whitson and Walster, Soils and Soil Fertility Webb, $1.25 Wilson, Teachers' Manual in Nature Study Macmillan, 90c Wing, Milk and Its Products Macmillan, $1.50 SUGGESTIVE TEXTS Bailey, Principles of Fruit Growing Macmillan, $1.50 Bailey. The Country Life Movement of America Macmillan, 50c Boss, Farm Management Lyons and Carnahan, 90c Ellis and Kyle, Fundamentals of Farming and Farm Life Scribners, $1.25 Harper, Animal Husbandry for Schools Macmillan, $1.40 Hunt and Burkett, Soils and Crops Orange Judd- $1.50 Prichard and Tarkington, Stories of Thrift for Young Americans Scribners, 60c DICTIONARIES (4-6) Webster's Shorter- School Dictionary, for desk purposes American, 60c (6-9) Webster's Elementary- School Dictionary, for desk purposes American, 90c Webster's Secondary-School Dictionary, for library purposes American, $1.50 -66- LIST OF APPROVED HEATING AND VENTILATING SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS The following school room heating and ventilating systems have heen approved by the State Department of Education as meeting the require- ments of the Texas State Schoolhouse Building Law: SMITH-MYERS HERO SCHOOL ROOM HEATER Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. O. B. 30 35 18 inches 20 inches $50 00 55 00 Houston, Texas. Houston, Texas. Sold by C. H. Myers & Co., Houston, Texas NATIONAL ROOM AIR HEATER, STYLE "A" Diameter of Fire-pot Price for FOB Number Wood Coal Wood and Coal 16-28 18-38 20-32 16 inches 18 inches 20 inches $56 25 64 00 70 75 $57 00 65 00 72 00 $57 75 66 00 73 25 Texas common points Texas common points Texas common points If all-cast body is desired add $3.00 for No. 16-28; $3.25 for No. 18-38; and $3.50 "for No. 20-32, Sold by the Excelsior Stove and Manufacturing Co.. Quincy, 111. J. D. Gee, State Representative, Dallas, Texas THE GROSSIUS VENTILATING SCHOOL ROOM HEATER (For wood only.) Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. 0. B. 22 222.. 20 inches 20 inches $55 00 60 00 Texas common points Texas common points Sold by the Grossius Furnace Co. R. E. Bryan, State Agent, Tyler, Texas STANDARD CLEAN AIR HEATING SYSTEM Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. O. B. 532 535 16 inches 18 inches $62 95 86 75 Houston, Texas Houston, Texas Sold bv Union School Furnishing Co., Houston, Texas ijf ^ ^^K^^I^^^ < f^mS^w^Wr* (% '^'''" "" "^JKSSra*^? —67— TEXARBOMA SCHOOL ROOM HEATER, STYLE "A" Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. 0. B. 516.. 18 inches $58 50 Sold by C. A. Bryant Co., Dallas, Texas SMITH SANITARY CONVECTION HEATER, STYLE 15 Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. O. B. 18 18 inches 20 inches $65 00 82 50 Delivered any Texas point Delivered any Texas point 20 Sold by Smith System Heating Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Chambers & Hicks, State Agents, Waco, Texas WATERBURY HEATING AND VENTILATING SYSTEM, STYLE "B" Number Diameter of Fire-pot Price F. O. B. is ; 17 1-2 inches 19 1-2 inches 21 1-2 inches $ 70 00 107 50 117 50 Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. 21....: 23 Sold by Waterman Waterbury Co., Minneapolis, Minn. E. C. Smith & Co., State Agents, Dallas, Texas INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INSTALLATION OF HEATERS All heating and ventilating systems approved by the State Department of Education are to be installed with flues properly constructed of brick or stone from the ground up to a point above the comb of the main build- ing. Flues should be built according to the dimensions given elsewhere in this bulletin under "Heating and Ventilation,'' and should be located so that the fresh air may be conveniently .admitted through the side wall above the floor line. Although not a requirement at this time, it is recommended that the jacket or shield around the stove be provided with trench or baffle plates, or some similar device, to permit or prevent, at option, the recirculation of the air inside the room. -68— EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS In order to furnish to the public intelligent information as to the effect and results of the million dollar appropriation for country schools, the following extracts from a few of the numerous letters received at the State Department of Education from county superintendents in different sections of the State are herewith submitted : ANGELINA COUNTY It has proved a great incentive to the patrons in meeting the require- ments so that they may attain as high a standard as possible. J. W. Dunn, Jr., County Superintendent. ARCHER COUNTY State aid has done more to awaken the school spirit than any legis- lation of recent years. J. S. Melugin, Ex Officio County Superintendent. BEXAR COUNTY The people have been greatly stirred by the demands of the State, and there is a general tendency to put buildings and equipment in better condition. The plainest evidence of this is the activity of the people in voting more school taxes and bonds. P. F. Stewart, County Superintendent. BOWIE county State aid has caused the people to demand good school buildings, well equipped and better teachers. If continued, it will do much to make the rural schools of Texas equal to those of any other State. J. B. Lytal, County Superintendent, BROWN COUNTY State aid has put our schools on a surer foundation. It has enabled the progressive to have their dreams come true — dreams of standardiz- ing the rural schools. Mrs. E. L. Walker, County Superintendent. CHEROKEE COUNTY State aid has done more toward building up an efficient system of rural schools than any piece of constructive school legislation that has _ ■ ■ : -. ■ —69— ever been enacted. I believe the strongest feature of the law is the provision setting forth the requirements that must be met in order to become eligible for aid. Ed Singletary, County Superintendent. COLEMAN COUNTY State aid has had the most beneficial and wholesome effect on the rural schools of this county of any proposition ever undertaken. J. C. Griffin, County Superintendent, COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY State aid has been a great benefit to the schools of this county. Its good cannot hardly be overestimated. A. C. Nicholson, Ex-Officio County Superintendent. COMANCHE COUNTY State aid has wonderfully inspired our people. Fifty of the seventy- one rural schools in my county will ask for aid the coming term. W. D. Jenkins, County Superintendent. DENTON COUNTY The million dollar appropriation makes possible good physical and sanitary conditions; promotes self-help on the part of communities;, improves the living conditions of the schools and strikes at the very root of the fundamental question of community life; affords a means of sane and efficient co-operation for school authorities; and affords opportunity, while providing the physical conditions for communities and social betterment. L. H. Edwards, County Superintendent. DELTA COUNTY State aid has had the most wholesome effect upon our rural schools. The effect is county-wide. I think the policy sound and wise. W. E. Chancellor, County Superintendent. FANNIN COUNTY The funds received have been worth ten times the amount in stimu- lation for better buildings, better equipment, better teachers, and more efficient work. The voting of the 50-eent tax has wrought a real and genuine educational awakening. E. M. Parker, County Superintendent. —70- FISHER COUNTY It has been a great stimulus to our schools. Other schools are pre- paring themselves to apply for State aid. W. C. Martin. County Superintendent. HARRIS COUNTY The advantage derived and the impulse given the schools by this aid are the greatest step educationally that Harris County has made. J. W. Lyle, County Superintendent. HASKELL COUNTY' People have been stimulated to active school work as never before. More good has come to the schools from this aid than from all other legislation during the past few years. T. C. Williams, County Superintendent. HOPKINS COUNTY r State aid has done more for the educational interests in the rural school communities than any other one step ever taken. Jno. Hurley, County Superintendent. HOUSTON COUNTY The granting of State aid is one of the most progressive steps ever made in the history of the State for the improvement of the very ground work of the educational system. It has given an impetus to school work in my county that could have been brought about by no other means. j v isr. snell, County Superintendent. JASPER COUNTY State aid has been of untold worth to the schools of Jasper Countv. There are several strictly modern schools as a direct result of State aid. B. T. Withers. County Superintendent. JONES county I consider the million dollar net the greatest single school law ever enacted. It has done more to put new life into the schools under my supervision than any one thing heretofore. C. L. Prichard, County Superintendent. fgppv- • - >•: ->y y^,- : .' -. v-:6 ; -. —71- LAMAR COUNTY State aid has been a great stimulus toward encouraging people to levy adequate local maintenance taxes, to better equip,, ventilate, and heat their school buildings, and to secure more efficient teachers. W. H. Snow, County Superintendent. LAMPASAS COUNTY I think it good. It inspires effort, encourages school agitation, and leads to proper investigation as to what others are doing. J. Tom Higgins, Ex Officio County Superintendent. LIMESTONE COUNTY The million dollar aid has served as a great stimulus to the school interests. Our people speak in the highest praise of this effort to help the rural schools. J. E, Atkins, County Superintendent. MATAGORDA COUNTY It has been of inestimable value to the schools aided. The question of State aid has been the most important and meritorious step that has ever been taken for the advancement of the rural schools. W. G. Gray, County Superintendent. m'oulloch county State aid has provided three things : iissistance for schools lacking sufficient funds; standards of efficiency in teaching and in equipment; and a more intelligent discussion of education throughout the county. E. L. White, County Superintendent. NACOGDOCHES COUNTY The aid received has been more helpful in giving the rural schools encouragement and assistance than any other one thing. John B. Stripling, County Superintendent. rusk county It has created more enthusiasm and school interest than all laws of the past. Tf these appropriations are made permanent, it means better and better rural schools. J. T. Watson. County Superintendent. —72— SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY The effect of the aid has been tenfold. It has been the means of awakening a better interest in school affairs. 1 think the policy sound and the best thing yet offered for the material advancement of our rural schools. Miss Lillie Hazle, Comity Superintendent. i SMITH COUNTY At first we thought we would not like it, but we find it arouses our people as nothing else ever did. Hereafter we will build our school- houses with a view more to utility than show. This aid is given where it is needed and in a way that it cannot be wasted. A. W. Orr, County Superintendent. TARRANT COUNTY Under the million dollar appropriation, twenty-one districts received aid. It has been a wonderful stimulus to the schools, and every one of the twenty-one districts is now well equipped. G. T. BLUD WORTH, County Superintendent. TRINITY COUNTY State. aid has done more to create an interest in the building of high schools, and in effecting consolidations, than any other act of the Leg- islature. W. B. Mills. County Superintendent. TYLER COUNTY The million dollar appropriation has been worth a great deal to the schools of this county. The financial assistance has been appreciated, but the interest created in education has been worth more. Grover C. Lowe, County Superintendent. VAN ZANDT COUNTY As a result of State aid thirty-six districts have voted a 50-cent tax : twenty-seven districts have voted bond issues ; twelve new buildings have been erected ; and two consolidations have been made. Gr. D. Staton, County Superintendent. ■■n »-*i iWHaifBMHi *mm KnnwMMMttMl ':-:■' .'.-.. , : . • ." ' -*-- — --