Jasper 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="#333300" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="017c8c00dvmwdf.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#999966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Jasper 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="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jasper"><U><B>Jasper School</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Jasper School Exhibition</B></div> <div> By urgent request we attended the school exhibition at Jasper school house, eight miles southeast of here, on last Tuesday night.                                                                                                                                .</div> <div> We were well paid for doing so. The Jasperltes are natural exhibitionists, as the following report will show.</div> <bR> <div> We arrived on the ground about sundown, and found the large exhibition tent well filled, even at that early hour. Every road centering to</div> <div> the school house was lined with young and old, afoot, ahorse or in wagons. The grove by the school house was packed full of teams, </div> <div> people had come together from a radius of eight miles to see and hear the exhibition. The school house was used as a dressing room. </div> <div> The performers entered the stage through the windows. The stage, with the side curtains, covered the entire side of the schoolhouse, </div> <div> and was about 15x30 feet in size. This gave the actors plenty of elbow room. A large tent was put up, extending out sixty or seventy feet </div> <div> from the school house, capable of seating five hundred persons. The seats were railroad ties, new aud hard. There were at least six hundred</div> <div> persons present.</div> <bR> <div> The exercises commenced about 8 o'clock, and continued until nearly 3 o'clock, in the morning. Everything passed off smoothly. We have </div> <div> never seen better acting done in country places, than at Jasper, last Tuesday evening. All did well—a few did extra well. Much credit is due </div> <div> Mr. H. C. Warner, the teacher, for the excellent discipline and control, all evinced, from the least to the greatest. He was well assisted by</div> <div> Mrs. Smith, who seems to be perfectly at home in the bewilderments of an exhibition of that magnitude. The only unpleasant feature about </div> <div> the performance, was the cold weather. There being no fire In the tent many near the canvas were uncomfortably cold; those near the center </div> <div> fared better. We did not stay till the close, but we learn that the pieces grew better and better to the close. Had it been pleasent weather it would </div> <div> have been a real enjoyable occasion.</div> <div> <I>The Carthage Banner, March 12, 1872</I></div> <div> <I>History of Jasper County Missouri and Its People, Livingston, Vol I, 1912, page 99</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="08a620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> Jasper school house; H. C. Warner, teacher; wages $45; sixty pupils on the register, averaging an attendance of forty; house seated with pine </div> <div> desks and furnished with maps, tablets, charts and globe; school doing well. Warner is one of the "Old Reliables," "one of the working ones," </div> <div> and means business all the time. The directors and patrons are Interested and harmonious, good feeling prevails, and, of course, the school </div> <div> is a success.</div> <div> <I>1872 Jasper County School Report by U. B. Webster, Jasper County Superintendent</I></div> <div> <I>A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, page 100, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>