Twin Groves 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="00eb6963.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFCC80" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Twin Groves 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="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Twin Groves"><U><B>Twin Groves School</B></U></A></div> <div> Twin Groves District</div> <div> Peter Samson, Allen Bobb and Reuben Kelly, directors; Miss Lizzie Rice, teacher. District enumeration 55, </div> <div> enrollment over fifteen years of age 4, total 43, present 30. Term of four months began October 28th. </div> <div> Building and furniture first-class. Seating capacity 56. Too many geography classes. We have no use for </div> <div> Eclectic No. 3. The Eclectic primary and No. 2, contain much more geography than we will ever succeed </div> <div> in having our pupils remember, and the use of the third hook is unnecessary, and only shortens other recitations. </div> <div> Miss Rice has a model class in mental arithmetic. She is teaching her third term in this district, which is the extent </div> <div> of her experience. The school is doing well. The log house of a year ago has given place to an excellent and </div> <div> commodious school building of which the citizens of the district are justly proud. The people of Twin Grove </div> <div> believe in progress and have done the handsome thing in erecting and furnishing the building now occupied </div> <div> by the school.</div> <bR> <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, by Joel Thomas Livingston.</I></div> <bR> <div> Twin Groves school closed after the 1942-1943 school term.  There were only seven students in District 67 at that time.</div> <div> The following school year, students were sent to Carl Junction schools.  The district consolidated with Waco R-4 on</div> <div> November 1, 1949.</div> <div> <I>Echos of School Bells by Helen Katherine Hunter.</I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>