Alba 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=128 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="00f80803.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="01050503.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Alba School History<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos and history of the schools in Jas"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alba"><U><B>Alba Schools</B></U></A></div> <div> Alba; Miss Emma Frlse, teacher; wages $33 1-3; seventy pupils on register; average fifty-eight; house too small and </div> <div> out of repair. This is Miss Emma's first term; and she has had a hard time, but she is one of the plucky ones that will </div> <div> "dare and do;" she has fought it out on "that line," and her first school is a success; but it has required spirit, and muscle </div> <div> too. The Alba school is crowded; the house is too small, and there is too much work for one teacher to do. The patrons </div> <div> of the school should look to the interest of the children in this matter; a good set of pupils.</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 99, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="11a620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> Alba School—Henry Hubbard, James M. Haworth and Wm. John, directors; J. S. Rees, teacher. Term of five months </div> <div> began October 7th. District enumeration 70, enrollment over fifteen years of age 9, total 45, present 30. Building and </div> <div> furniture second-class. Seating capacity 30. The Alba school has been hard to govern and the pupils have been allowed </div> <div> to cut and otherwise injure the furniture. Under the management of Mr. Rees, who is now teaching his seventh term in the </div> <div> county, the department is rapidly improving and the recitations are becoming more thorough. The directors have placed in </div> <div> some new furniture, improved the interior of the school house and propose to do their part toward having a good 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 104, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="11a620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> February 26, 1885</div> <div> We received a pleasant call Saturday from Mr. Purcell of Alba.  He informed us that they came near losing their school</div> <div> house by fire the day before, it having caught in some manner near the flue and burned a hole through the roof three or</div> <div> four feet across before discovered and put out.  Source: <I>The Carthage Press</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="11a620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> January 23, 1890</div> <div> We learn from Professor D. B. Wilson that his school at Alba is all broken up by the measles and Mr. W. N. Wharton </div> <div> reports that the grippe has a foot hold on the school at Medoc.  Source: <I>The Carthage Press</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="11a620b0.jpg" border=0 width="610" height="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> 1895 Jasper County Atlas shows the location of the school to be in the north part of town on Alice Smith's property.</div> <bR> <div> The earliest record of an Alba schoolhouse is about 1870.  A wooden frame building was constructed on</div> <div> a lot owned by Alice Smith northeast of the intersection of Main Street and D Highway.  This building was</div> <div> enlarged to three rooms in the early 1880's.  By 1893 the Alba School had two teachers, Mr. H. Church and</div> <div> Miss Eva Cirlett.  The enrollment at that time was 106 pupils.  Two more teachers were added to the faculty</div> <div> in 1903.  A larger school building was soon needed and an eight room brick school building was constructed</div> <div> in 1907 near the corner of Orchard and Walnut Streets.  This building served the city of Alba through the 1920's.</div> <div> A gymnasium was added to the building in 1927. </div> <bR> <div> The school districts of Alba, Purcell and Neck City voted to consolidate in 1930 forming District 46.  Bus routes</div> <div> were formed in the early 1930's.  In 1945, the seventh and eighth grade classes were moved to the Alba building</div> <div> forming a junior high school.  Grades one through six were taught in Alba, Purcell and Neck City. A lunchroom was added</div> <div> on the north side of the Alba building in 1966. In the fall of 1967 the Alba C-46 School District consolidated with the</div> <div> Webb City R-7 District.  The Alba school building would remain in use as a grade school.  The class of 1968 was the</div> <div> last class to graduate from Alba High School.</div> <bR> <div> In 1997 the Alba school building was deemed unsafe.  A new school, Harry S Truman Elementary, was</div> <div> constructed at the intersection of 96 and D Highways in Oronogo ending 127 years of education in the town</div> <div> of Alba, Missouri.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reorganization"><U>Reorganization</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="13b07d50.png" border=0 width="519" height="725" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <I>Webb City Register, May 9, 1906</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>