TEACHERS' COTTAGES 



Arkansas. 



We have one teacherage in this county erected the past summer. 

 It is about four and one-half miles southwest of Bentonville. It is a 

 five-room cottage, well finished, conveniently arranged, at a cost of about 

 $500. This cottage accommodates only two teachers at present, but 

 I think the school will add another teacher next term. 



Great interest is being taken in cottages for teachers in this county, 

 and I think others will be built. (W. R. Edwards, County Superin- 

 tendent, Bentonville, Ark.) 



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We have at present two nice cottages. One three rooms, the other 

 four rooms. They are ceiled, and painted inside. They -are intended to 

 accommodate the principal and his wife, who are expected to supervise 

 the house and grounds at all times. 



The three-room cottage is in Ada district in the northern part of 

 Crawford County. The four-room cottage is in Mountainburg, also in 

 northern part of county. 



We have two large districts just made this year. The school build- 

 ings are just complete. Nice cottages will be built in both these districts 

 this year. This will make us four "teacherages" in Crawford County. 

 We are interested in building such schools, and think that this will be 

 the plan of the future school. (Henry W. Shaffer, County Superintend- 

 ent, Van Buren, Ark.) 



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We have at Scott's Station in this county, a consolidated school, with 

 three teachers, a teacherage, or living cottage for the home of the three 

 teachers. This community is almost an ideal one a good school-house, 

 with three rooms to accommodate three schools, a community house, 

 where all the public business is transacted, and where they get all their 

 amusements, such as gymnasium, music, etc., and a teacherage, where 

 the three teachers live, hire their cook and housekeeper, and enjoy a 

 delightful home, amid absolutely ideal surroundings, quiet, books, com- 

 fortable surroundings altogether. 



There is now another movement in the north part of the county, in 

 a rural district like Scott's, at a place called Redoak, where I taught my 

 first school, some twenty-five years ago, a movement to build a teachers' 

 cottage on the beautiful school grounds, and they have recently built a 

 three-room school building, on a plot of five acres, and there is room 

 for this cottage. I had a long talk with one of the directors yesterday 

 about this matter, and I am sure that in the near future, they will pro- 

 vide a nice home for the teachers there. Let us hope that many others 

 will follow their example, and that after awhile (pray that it will be 

 only a little while) every school in the United States will have a home 

 for the teachers on the grounds, supplied with a horse and buggy, or 

 better still a car, a garden and everything that will make the teacher 

 become a permanent profession. (E. R. Robinson, County Superintend- 

 ent, Lonoke, Ark.) 



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A lumber company at Millville is constructing a building for the 

 teachers. Greenwood, Sebastian County, has two for the elementary 

 schools and reports they have better teachers and better schools than 

 any others of the same class. County superintendent urges boards to 

 build more buildings. 



Wynne, Ark., reports that in a rural district ten miles from a rail- 

 road in Cross County a beautiful cottage on the campus, is owned by the 

 district and furnished free to the principal and his family. This is the 

 best rural school in the county and perhaps the best in Arkansas. They 

 have had the snme principal for six years, and the free cottage does much 

 in helping to hold this valuable man. 



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