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of the district No. 3 setup. "I believe 

 we are headed in the right direction, and 

 after the war I would be in favor of es- 

 tablishing a central school. My sister-in- 

 law has a child in a one-room rural 

 school in Illinois where there are only 

 four in attendance. She wishes they had 

 a school setup like we have in Moultrie 

 county." 



Conversations with the pupils of the 

 upper grades in the Purvis school reveals 

 a 100 per cent endorsement of the pres- 

 ent school plan of the district. Said one, 

 "We used to be in with a bunch of little 

 kids. This is better." Another said, ""The 

 first graders were noisy." A third re- 

 ported, "'I like to see if I can beat some 

 of the others in my grade in spelling and 

 other subjects. It's better than having all 

 the grades in one school." None said 

 that he or she would rather walk to 

 school. 



The three teachers in district No. 3 

 all have had long experience in rural 

 schools. Mrs. Margaret Gilmer, at Bolin 

 school, studied for three years at Teachers 

 Q)llege in Charleston, and has been a 

 rural school teacher for 7 years. Born and 

 reared on a farm, she has attended coun- 

 try schools and is very much interested in 

 her present job. She lives in Coles 

 county and has three children in school. 

 ""I wish they had experienced the advan- 

 tages of this school system," she said. 



Miss Helen Turner at the Two Mile 

 school is another teacher who attended a 

 country school. She also attended the 

 Charleston Teachers College and has been 

 teaching for seven years. 



Mrs. Vera Slover at the Purvis school 

 also studied at Charleston and has been 

 teaching for 14 years. 



Other employees of the school district 

 are the cooks who prepare the noon meals 

 at Two Mile, Bolin, and Purvis. They 

 are Mrs. Alan Bozell, Mrs. Fred Seelo, 

 and Miss Gladys Mosby. Each child pays 

 10 cents for his hot meal, and the War 

 Food Administration allows 9 cents for 

 the type '"A" menu that is being served 

 in the district No. 3 schools. A typical 

 meal for example consists of scrambled 

 eggs, half an orange, lettuce, green beans, 

 and a half-pint of pasteurized milk. Nu- 

 tritionists outline the menus so that the 

 one meal will contain one-third of nu- 

 trients in one day of a properly balanced 

 diet. 



Bus drivers for the district are Mrs. 

 Blaine Erhardt, a farm girl of the neigh- 

 borhood whose husband is overseas with 

 the armed forces, and A. O. Perrine, one 

 of the directors on the school board who 

 has a daughter attending one of the 

 schools of the district. 



FEBRUARY. 1944 



Until recently the district had a music 

 teacher, Kenneth Wooley, but he is now 

 in the U. S. Navy. The teachers report 

 that his music instruction is missed very 

 much, and they would like to be able to 

 secure someone to fill the vacancy. 



One of the natural questions that arises 

 is that of the cost of operating the new 

 school district. In the first year of opera- 

 tion, 1942-43, net expenditures of dis- 

 trict No. 3 amounted to $4,662,29 as 

 compared with total net expenditures 

 of the five districts in the 1940-41 school 

 year of $5,480.95. Tax rate for district 

 No. 3's first year of operation was 71 

 cents for the educational fund and 3 

 cents for the building fund. Average 

 rate for the previous year for the five 

 school districts was approximately 79 

 cents for educational and 14 cents for 

 building. 



District No. 3 finished its first year of 

 operation with a balance of $3,762.43 as 

 compared with the five districts' balance 

 for the previous year of $3,039.75. 



For the 1942-43 school year, district 

 No. 3 received $742.50 from the state 

 department of education for transporta- 

 tion of pupils. This is based on an al- 

 lowance of $15 per pupil. 



President of district No. 3 board of 

 directors is Clark Lowe, with Walter Jen- 

 kins as clerk. Other directors are Reuben 

 Johnson, Guy S. Bolin, Francis Wag- 

 goner, Emery Righter, and A. O. Perrine. 

 Other directors who served during the 

 first year of the district's operation are 

 Charles B. Shuman, a member of the 

 board of directors of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, and O. W. Powell, 

 who is a member of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association's school committee. 



Tractor Conrse Offered 



At University Feb. 14-19 



Annual tractor short course will be 

 held by the department of agricultural 

 engineering, U. of I. College of Agri- 

 culture, Feb. 14 to 19, inclusive, at 

 Urbana. The course is open to anyone 

 over 16 years of age. 



Four hours each day of lecture and 

 demonstration are provided in which 

 explanations will be made of the op- 

 eration of engine valves, valve timing, 

 high compression, ignition, fuels, car- 

 buretors, lubrication, lubricating oil, 

 greases and engine troubles. Speakers 

 and movies will be used to cover some 

 of the most interesting phases of power 

 farming not covered during the lec- 

 ture and laboratory periods. 



A registration fee of $2.50 is charged 

 by the engineering department. Men 

 wishing to attend will be able to find 

 board ranging from $8 to $10 a week 

 in Urbana or Champaign. The num- 

 ber that can be accommodated is not 

 over 35. 



DISTBIBUTORS OF 

 BLUE SEAL 



INOCULANT 



Adams Service Company 



Bond County Service Company 

 Browm County Fans Bureau 

 Bureau Producers Supplies 

 Bureau Service Company 



Com County Producers Supplies 

 Champaign Producers Supplies 

 Clark Service Company 

 Coles County Cooperative Service 

 Crawiord County Farm Bureau 

 Cumberland County Form Bureau 



Douglas County Service Company 



Edgar County Farm Bureau 

 Edwards County Producers Supplies 

 Egyptian Seed Grovrers Exchange 



Farmers Groin Coinpany ol Dorans 

 Fayette Producers Supimes 

 Ford County Producers Supplies 

 Franklin-Hainilton County Form Bureau 

 Fruit Belt Service Co m p an y 

 Fulton Service Company 



Gallatin County Farm Bureou 

 Greene County Service Company 

 Grundy County Fann Bureau 



Hancock Producers Supplies, Inc. 

 Henderson County Producers Supplies 



Jackson- Perry Cooperative 

 Jasper County Form Bureau 

 jeflerson County Farm Bureau 

 JoDariess Produceni Supplies 

 Johnson County Farm Bureau 



Kankakee Service Company 

 Kendall County Farm Bureau 

 Knox County Supply Company 



loke-Cook Farm Supply Company 



(5 locations) 

 La Salle County Farm Supply Company 

 Lee County Service Company 

 Lawrence County Farm Bureau 

 Livingston County Producers Supplies 

 Logan Producers Supplies 



Macon County Cooperative Supply Com- 

 pany 

 Macoupin Cooperative. Inc. 

 Madison Service Company 

 Marshall-Putnam Cooperative. Inc. 

 Mason County Producers Supplies 

 Massoc County Farm Bureau 

 McDonough Producers Supplies 

 McHenry County Farm Supply 

 McLean County Supplies. Inc. 

 Menard Farm Bureau Seed Company 

 Mercer Producers Supplies 

 Mid-State Supply Com.pany 

 Monroe County Producers Supplies 

 Montgomery County Producers Supplies 

 Morgan Producers Supplies 

 Moultrie County Form Bureau 



Ogle County Farm Bureou 



Piatt County Farm Bureau 



Pike County Farm Supply Company 



Randolph Farm Bureau Coooerative 

 Richland County Supnly & Shipping Ass'n. 

 Rock Island Service Company 



Schuyler Producers Supply Company 

 Scott County Farm Bureau 

 Shelby-Effingham Service Company 

 Stark Supply Company 

 Stephenson Seed & Supolies 

 Summerfield Farmers Cooperative Grain 

 Company 



Tvrin County Service Company 



Unim County Farm Bureau 



Vermilion County Producers Supply Com- 

 pony 



Wabash County Form Bureau 

 Warren Producers Supplies 

 Washington County Producers Supplies 

 Wayne Producers Supply Company 

 Will County Cooperatives, Inc. 

 Winnebago Service Comoony 

 Woodford County Seed Company 



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