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ids to buy school furniture of any kind and the County in instances can ill afford t opay the salary of the teacher.	No
woder that such schools are miserable failures.
On the other hand, let us consider the condition of affairs as exists in the consolidated districts of our County. At Kiln we have a modern two-story frame structure building, said to be the largest	j
and best of its kind in the State; steam heated and otherwise	elec-	I
trically equipped. Every room is supplied with adjustable	steel
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sanitary desks, including charts, maps, blackboards and other nec-:	essary school apparatus. A domestic science teacher hasbeen employed
j	throughout the session and in addition to this music has been in-
;	stalled. The Course of Study this year takes in the tenth and eleve
I	venth grade work. The greatest enrollment since the organization of
j	the school has reached three hundred and fifty. To do this required
i	only a special levy of one cent on the dollar. No wonder the people
of Kiln are proud of their school. At Sellers the latest addition out |	side of their handsome two-story buiding is the constructon of+he
j	teachers' home/
I	Gulf View district has fallen in line, and soon ther ewill
}	greeted a modern two-story structure to take the place of the old on
There is only a levy of ton mills in this district and already'the people feel proud that they have changed from the old to the new. So much for consolidation at present. There will be more to follow.
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BY W. A. CUEVAS, President of School Board.
Tl:s Kiln School a few years ago was only a small one-teacher . ;.ool, the average attendance being about thirty pupils. The house was u frame structure cf the rude typo with no equipment worth ' i’e. Thf writer well remembers 011 one occasion, while court was . i .11).' hold in thu school, the seats were so rudely constructed as to fall when several men sat upon them.
The gradual development of a few years has brought about a winderful change. The school was moved by order of the Board :Y>111 the old location to a new one just a mile distant, known as Bayou Talla, and for long time was operated under that name with a faculty of three teachers. Mr. Haas and Mr. Herlihy, who, at that tin.e operated a saw mill and store in the nearby vicinity, were wideawake business men, and with the assistance of others in the commun:-ly contributed in a large measure to the success of the school, but ■>< I100I interest did not begin to develop in rapid proportion until the
few years.
Soon after tin- passage of the Consolidated School law in J914,
:t became evident to many of the wide-awake citizens of Kiln and vici-n.ty that this would be a most excellent location for a good school in keeping with the spirit of the times.
Accordingly, in 1916, petitions were circulated at Kiln, Fenton
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