Center School History

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="00dc8153.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFCC33" TEXT="#080000" background="03f40d03.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Center School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>   </B><B> </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Center"><U><B>Center School</B></U></A></div> <div> Center School District</div> <bR> <div> Ira Gray, Amos Atherton and J. A. Wilson, directors; Miss Josie Culpepper, teacher. Term began </div> <div> October 14th and continues five months. District enumeration 103, enrollment over fifteen years of </div> <div> age 8, total 50, present 25. Building and furniture first-class. Seating capacity 34. School is supplied </div> <div> with out-line maps and charts. Miss Culpepper succeeds unusually well in teaching mental arithmetic. </div> <div> A class of young ladies in civil government acquitted itself creditably. Good order and thoroughness </div> <div> in all the work gone over characterizes this school.</div> <div> <I>1878 Jasper County School Report by S. A. Underwood</I></div> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, page 106, pub. 1912, </I></div> <div> <I>by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> Center school was annexed by Waco R-4 on November 1, 1949.</div> <div> The building now sets at 10195 County Road 284, Carl Junction.  It is used for storage.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Source: Shirley Sue Fredrickson, Echos of School Bells by Helen Katherine Hunter</I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>