Stony Point 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="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02cc8c00eezzsc.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Stony Point 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><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stony Point"><U><B>Stony Point School</B></U></A></div> <div> Stony Point (Boyds) school house, sub-district No. 4, Twp 27, Range 30. W. T. Burkholder, teacher; wages $35.00.  </div> <div> About sixty pupils on register. Room clean, pupils quite and order good.  House seated with pine desks along the </div> <div> sides of the room and facing each other.  Good blackboard and plenty of chalk.  Good average school.</div> <bR> <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> <div> <I><IMG SRC="04f620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> Monthly report of Stony Point school for the month ending Friday, October 28, 1892:  Number of pupils enrolled, 39;</div> <div> number of days attended by all pupils, 566; average number of pupils attending each day, 26; average number of days</div> <div> attended by each pupil, 16; number of days taught, 20; cases of tardiness, 12; cases of truancy, 0; cases of corporal</div> <div> punishment, 0.  Those perfect in attendance during the month were: Amie Sides, Artie Paul, Gracie Snead, Maud Gross,</div> <div> Arthur Sides, Claud Sides, Ora Sides, George Carter, Oryell Carter, Jim Patrick, John Patrick.</div> <div> Miss Emma D. Owen, Teacher.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Carthage Banner, November 10, 1892, p6, c4</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="04f620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> Of Stony Point school for month ending Nov. 25, 1892:  No. of pupils enrolled, 49; No. of days attended by all pupils, 786;</div> <div> No. of pupils attending each day during the month, 41; No. of days taughter, 19; cases of tardiness, 13; cases of truancy, 0.</div> <div> Those perfect in attendance were Annie Sides, Artie Paul, Cora Fleck, Sarah Patrick, Stella Collings, Ora Paul, Anna</div> <div> Benschoter, Myrtle Rathbun, Arthur Sides, Claude Sides, George Carter, Graves Lett, Ora and Frank Sides.</div> <div> Emma D. Owen, Teacher.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Carthage Banner, December 8, 1892, p2 c2</I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>