. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 148 Missouri Agricultural Report. attendance ranged from eight to thirteen. This calls for ex- planation. A voluntary transportation route to feed the model rural school of the State Normal School drew most heavily from this district in its five miles' course. It stands to reason that parents living on a route offering the benefits of transportation, expert teaching, free textbooks and a comfortable building would avail themselves of such opportunity and would not be activ
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 148 Missouri Agricultural Report. attendance ranged from eight to thirteen. This calls for ex- planation. A voluntary transportation route to feed the model rural school of the State Normal School drew most heavily from this district in its five miles' course. It stands to reason that parents living on a route offering the benefits of transportation, expert teaching, free textbooks and a comfortable building would avail themselves of such opportunity and would not be actively interested in the development of a local school. Thus unintentionally was this district Transportation, 1912. Wagon donated. Starting from the Allen Conner home, a terminal point on tlie voluntary route. Mr. Conner donated use of team for six months. Fred Conner, seventeen years old, driving. Two other patrons insisted on contributing towards the expense of the route that year. There was lack of local co-operation, local initiative, and worst of all, lack of local faith in the possibilities of bringing about a permanent regime of progress. This was shown in the determi- nation of a number to retain the advantages of the model rural school at Kirksville, even though they had petitioned for the retention of this teacher in that school. The model rural school with another teacher was a more certain proposition than this teacher with the old Porter school, frankly described by one mother as "unfit for my little girl to attend in cold ; They had learned to appreciate the advantages of a suitable. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Missouri. State Board of Agriculture. Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Board of Agriculture
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