The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 55, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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SELL COUNTY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 19H
HEIDENHEIMER, A SCHOOL OF VERY HIGH RANK
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If we were going out to write an
advertisement of Bell county and in-
tended to give the schools a promi-
inent place (which would be very
proper) and desired to select some
of the best schools, to which the en-
tire county might point with pride,
Heidenheimer would never be left
out. It has a beautiful brick build-
ing, comparatively new and in good
repair, but its glory is not its build-
ing alone. The rooms are handsome-
ly furnished each with new and neat
patent desks and an elegant teachers
desk. The teacher’s desk in each
room is exactly the same style and
quality. Also the pictures on the
walls of each room show a uniform-
ity. These are all of a high class
and were carefully selected by the
faculty. There is nothing cheap or
inappropriate about them. Each
room is well supplied with green
blackboards, in perfect condition,
and with noiseless erasers. The
school has a good library and JWMMpb
interest is taken in the ten Waffled
cently a new piano has buses and for
for use at chapel ez.
school entertainments. The second
floor of the building is so constructed
as to be thrown into one room mak-
ing an excellent ‘•Auditorium for
chapel exercises and for public gath-
erings.
Heidenheimer . has been an inde-
pendent district for about four years.
The school ha£ an enrollment of
about 175 and a seven months term.
The course of study (embraces ten
grades. Many of the graduates have
gone to Baylor University, or other
good schools and a number of them
have engaged in teaching and make
signal successes in the profession.
The class of 1909 to state examina-
tions making grades that were a
credit to themselves and the school.
We do not feel that we are over-
stating it when we say that the Heid-
enheimer school is equal in every re-
spect to the high class schools
throughout the state in the towns of
live or ten thousand inhabitants.
difference is that it is on
that is it is smaller
The teachers are per-
highest trailing and the
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a-srm,jiL
in numbers,
sons of
discipline and school work is as
thorough as can be found in any
community: The faculty is as fol-
lows:
H. M. Roark, principal and teach-
er of ninth and tenth grades, has had
nine years experience teaching in
the rural and graded schools of Tex-
as. He was educated in the public-
schools of Tenneessee and spent two
years in the Chattanooga Normal
University.
James 0. Roark, teacher of seventh
and eighth grades, is an alumnus of
Heidenheimer I^igh School. He has
taught two years.
Miss Maude Roark, teacher of fifth
and sixth grades, has taught nine
years. She attended the public
schools of Tennessee and spent two
years in the Chattanooga Normal
University, has done credit work in
the San Marcos Normal.
Mrs. Carson, teacher of third and
fourth grades! is an alumna of Heid-
enheimer High School. She has
taught two years.
Miss Delia Robison, primary teach-
er, is a graduate of Davilla Public
School. She has taught three years.
Mrs. Nettie Hunter, teacher of
mitsic, has been connected with pub-
lic school work for over twenty-five
years.
TH E COM MON PLACE.
A commonplace life, vve say, anti
we sigh.
But why should we sigh as we
say?
The commonplace sun in the
commonplace sky
Makes up the commonplace
day.
The moon and the stars are com-
monplace things,
The flower that blooms and the
bird that sings,
But sad were the world and dark
our lot
If the. flowers failed and the sun
shone not,
And God. who sees each sepa-
rate soul,
Out of commonplace lives makes
his beautiful whole.
—Sufcan Coolidge.
Photo From Gray’s Studio
The Mitchell school, which is
located only about three miles
from Beit on, in one of the neat
and well ordered one-teacher
schools of the county. The pic-
ture that is here shown was
taken soon after school had
opened one morning-. The teach-
er and school were both taken
by surprise when called upon to
“sit:’ for a photograph and there
was a brisk norther blowing
that morning, but as will be
seen from the picture it makes
a pretty good showing anyway.
The teacher is Mr. A. H. Baird.
He was educated in Mills county
and at the Sam Houston Normal.
This is his first school and he
likes teaching better then he
expected. The school has an
enrollment of about sixty. The
school house is nicely ceiled and.
equipped with patent desks.
There are some maps on the
wall which were secured last
year. The teacher is working
to get the school graded as early
as possible.Peppers Creek School is taught by
Miss Ora Lee Lott of Smithville. Al-
though her home is at Smithville
she was educated at Baylor College
and therefore is not a stranger in
Bell county. This is her first school
at Peppers Creek. The school build-
ing has undergone extensive repairs
this year, being newly ceiled and
newly weatherboarded. NeW patent
desks have also been installed and
new blackboards. The school is
graded and in good order^^-WHEN YOU BUILD
Want
then let i s FLELP YOU
First by furnishing you the best of material at the right prices and by helping you get the plan you want.
A BARGAIN !
We Offer 50 Squares Prepared Roof-
ing, 1 ply at
88c PER SQUARE
And 50 Squares Prepared Roofing
2-ply, ai
$1.25 PER SQUARE
All Ready To Lay; Nails and Cement Furnished with roll.
OUR PAINT
BUSINESS
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Has Grown To
Large Proportions
We will be fully prepared
to take care of your
spring wants
This means a Stylish House at low cost. One that it will be a joy for you
to possess and which somebody else will want if you ever offer it for sale.
THE NEW LUMBER
BELTON
TEXAS.w
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Doyle, Davis K. The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 55, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1911, newspaper, February 7, 1911; Belton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth845461/m1/4/?q=%22Texas+Normal+College%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library.