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SECTION B—PAGE TWENTY-ONE
AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE. AMARILLO, TEXAS
PUBLIC SCHOOL HISTORY
(Continued from Page 20)
frame buildings were constructed,
two on the Johnson Street property
and one on Polk Street. These
small buildings were soon dubbed
"chicken coops" by the children,
and the pupils who had to attend
school in them were called "the
chicken coop kids." This hateful
term caused many a fight on the
school grounds. Teachers passed
stringent rules, but the "chicken
coop:" continued to be abused.
While Amarillo schools were grow-
ing, the rural schools were also
Raining In numbers. A new district,
No. 4, now the Bushland district,
was formed in 1905 with Zemula
Clark, daughter of Rev. Addison
C'-.rk, as first teachr-, Trustees
were J. Edgar Wilson, George E.
Mason and W. A. Campbell,
When Amarillo became an In-
dependent, district, she relinquished
her district number. A new District
No. 1 was formed in 1906 with Roy
L. Vineyard, now a well known phy-
sician of Amarillo, as its first teach-
er It was known as the Paster
School and J. L. Poster, William T.
Dudgeon and Dan Pavillard were
trustees.
Sonic names of rural schools cm-
plovcd by tcachers In making out
thdr warrants tell interesting
stories and definitely identify the
honlf; There was the Brady, the
Onui-Law 'he Brinkman and Hill;
while the Alabate.s, the Spring
Grove and Bonita were still using
the same mes. Liberty and Inde-
pendence were changed.
D'-tn t No. 5 across the Cana-
dian, was formed in 1909, and the
nnn.c Clay brook School was given
it. Miss Minnie Conner was first,
ti acher, J. T. Claybrook and J. O.
McDowell were trustees.
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The board of trustees of the Ama-
rillo schools had several changes In
1909. W. S. Roberts was president;
I- L Higginbotham. secretary and
E S Burgc.;. was treasurer. Other
members were D. W. Owen, W. O.
1 nyon, M. .J. R. .Jackson and W. T.
I!1 von. Tom Barnes was employed
r tax a."-cssor and collector. W. H.
Long wn elected superintendent of
the Amarillo schools for the coming
yur and and W. E. Boyd was prin-
cip of the high school, J. C. Pace
(he Red Brick and D. H. Culton the
North Amarillo.
one-room building was erected
in East Amarillo during the summer
o.' 1909.
Another "chicken coop" was built
on the Johnson Street, or high
school grounds.
W. M. Jeter was servinc as county
school superintendent during this
period, having been elected county
Judge in 1903. He remained in of-
fice until 191J 'lthough Amarillo
schools were in an independent dis-
trict. the county judge still presided
at the teachers institute which
Texas law required all teachers to
attend.
Seeking to build a better school
s'-s'tem, an election was held in
Amarillo on July 19. 1909. that gave
t board the power to levy a tax
not to exceed 50 cents on the $100
for school purposes. It was late in
the year when Amarillo again went
t j the polls for her schools, this time
voting for bonds of $100,000 for a
new high school building and a ward
school.
Along about 1909 the Mothers
Club., were being organized.
Minutes of the meeting of
the board of trustees for Octo-
ber 5, 19 , tell that a committee
met with the board to discuss the
forming of a Mothers' Club. This
committee was composed of Mes-
dames W. D. Twltehell, J. A. Stan-
ford, J. C. Little and a Mrs. Hof-
fer.
Work of the school year 1909-10
was somewhat disrupted by the
resignation of Superintendent W. H.
Iiong in December, 1909. Mr. G. L.
Wren was employed to finish his
term.
Now, all this time the Amarillo
public srhools had bpen pavine the
city of Amarillo its lease money, $1
a year, for the use of the Red Brick
school building, but for some time
the trustees had been perfecting ar-
rit.gements to purchase the prop-
erty. On June 1910, Mayor James
Patton transfered the property to
the Amarillo Independent School
District; the deed was recorded next
day, June 7. Twenty thousand dol-
lars was paid for the property,
which Included the ground and
building,
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Work in the Amar'i'o schools was
terribly hampered because of crowd-
ed conditions during the school year
1910-11. True, two new buildings
were going up, but there was not
room enough for effective work. S.
M. Byrd, who came to Amarillo
from Balllnger, was superintendent
schools; W. E. Masterson was
principal at the Johnson Street
building; Mr. Pace was still at the
Red Brick and C. J. Collier at
North Amarillo.
A new course was added that
year, one that has been far reaching
in Its scope. Miss Llliie Belle Pitts
came to Amarillo as supervisor of
music.
After bonds for new buildings
were voted in 1909, the trustees has-
tened to select sites for them. One
at Thirteenth and Polk, between
Polk and Tyler, and lying just south
of the Red Brick, was chosen for
the high school. The North Ama-
rillo brick school building, to cost
$27,000, was to be located between
Sixth and Seventh on North Bu-
chanan Street.
The term was almost over before
New Mexico came Into Amarillo for
the winter months, hoping to secure
work to tide them over until spring,
. hen they would go back to their
claims. The children of these peo-
ple came into school late, were often
undernourished, and because they
had left school early the previous
year to go back to New Mexico
t..e.v were behind their classes. It
seemed impossible to fit these chil-
dren into any regular schedule. The
year 1912 saw little change In the
faculty of Amarillo schools. W. H.
Stilwell succeeded Mr. Faulkner as
principal of the high school.
Evidently there was a football
inant in Amarillo that year, for it is
recorded by the trustees in a meet-
ing held in July, 1913, that Jeff
D. Bivins was awarded a letter "A"
for good work with the Amarillo
football team the previous year.
There were several changes in the
board of trustees in 1913, Charles A.
Fisk, J. M. Neely, H. W. Galbraith
and C. C. Loving being new mem-
bers. Miss Georgia Humphreys was
east side principal, and C. R. Waller
Instructed that the sum of $500 be
allowed to equip the domestic science
room. Early in 1916, $500 was al-
lowed for purchase of equipment lor
the manual training department for
b-ys.
Summer of 1915 saw a law passed
that benefited rural schools greatly.
It gave rural districts the right to
vote bonds for school buildings,
provided they were properly organ-
ized. It also created the general
boird of county trustees to look
after the Interest of all rural schools
of a county.
The Novem er term of commis-
sioners court created the Potter
County school board, appointing J.
D. Brady, Dan Pavillard, J. A.
Jones, George Menke, J. W. Craw-
ford as trustees to serve until a reg-
ular ehction could be held.
Trustees of District No. 1 at that
time were Dan Pavillard and J. V.
Ford. Misses Martha Mullins and
Louise Wheeler were teaching then.
Trustees of No. 2 district were Carl
Hill, M. L. Philipps and J. S. Abel.
Jewell Davidson and Madeline
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A STUDY IN WHAT THE RURAL STUDENT ENCOUNTERED during the 1937-
38 Potter County school term. A splendid example of r modern and alert rural
faculty.
Rack Row, left to right: E. A. Glover, Mrs. Arthur K. Goodman, Rual D.
Ford, T. C. Israel, Carl G. CIifft, superintendent. Middle row; Mr?. Nell Wed-
ding, Mrs. W. P. Word, Mrs. Mattie Bull, Mildred Cook, Mrs. Paul Middleton, Mrs,
Gladys Silver. Front Row: Mrs. Delia Pittman, Ruth Moverly, Mrs. George Hud-
son, Mrs. T. C. Israel, Mrs. Floyd Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Pierce.
the buildings could be occupied, but,
both teachers and pupils certainly '■
enjoyed a chance to turn around be-
fore school closed.
When the new schools were com-
pleted, the "chicken coops" were
moved to rare for school needs in
other parts of the city, but some- !
how they lost their hated names.
One of these buildings became the I
Glenwood School after it was re- i
modeled and renovated, and the
other was moved to San Jacinto, to
b put in shape for the fall term, j
The Glenwood site was at 2408 Mir-
ror and the San .Jacinto building
was placed at the southeast corner
of San Jacinto addition, now Line
and Georgia Streets.
S. M. Byrd was reelected super-
intendent of schools for 1911-12. and
J. O. Faulkner became principal of
the high school, J. G. Pace was |
again at the head of the Polk Street, i
school (The Red Brick), C. A. Gllley
at the Johnson Street (now a ward
s hool), C. J. Collier was principal i
of the new North Buc anan Street
building. Miss Belle Shotwell at East
Amarillo, Miss Edith Pattey at j
Glenwood and Miss Hattle Triplett,
at San Jacinto.
While Amarillo had been making
steady growth in her schools, the
rural schools had not done so well.
There was still no way by which a
rural district could vote bonds for ;
tl e school buildings, and few Pan-
handle farmers could donate cash
for the erection of modern school
plants. Records of Mrs. M. L.
Tudor, county treasurer in 1912.
u. ow that there were still only five
districts.
School work in Amarillo was very
much easier for the term of 1911-
(12. There was enough room now.
There was one vexing problem how-
ever, that came up every year at
this time, but It seemed there was
no solution for It. Each fall, fami-
lie who were "living out" claims In
was the new principal at the John-
son Street school. First mention of
a Mexican school was made in 1913,
when Miss A. K, Mendoza was em-
ployed as principal there.
New trustees elected May 5, 1914,
were C. A. Fisk, R. E. Underwood,
H. A. Nobles, N. S. Griggs and A.
E. Meyer.
In August. 1914, the first negro
school was established. The school
was to continue on a month by
month basis, its life depending on
the attendance. First classtis of the
nef,ro school were held in a small
building on Jackson Street at First.
• • •
Amarillo city schools had a new
superintendent in 1915, M. H. Dun-
can.
The day of strict academic edu-
cation was nearing an end. Domes-
tic science and domestic art courses
were offered girls in 1915. Miss
Maggie Avcnt was teacher of do-
mestic science. The board of trustees
, Vaughan taught. District No. 3
trustees were J. A. Jones, M. V.
Rutherford, W. H. Holden; teach-
ers were Grace Parkinson, Mary
Berg and Rosalie Moore. No. 4
| had George Menke, W. A. Campbell
and T. J. Baldwin as trustees; no
teachers were listed. R. B. Master-
j son and J. M. Crawford were trus-
! tees in District No, 5, and J. D.
I Brads*, A. F. Krabbe and J, C.
! Glovier in District No. 6, where Ina
Rector was teaching.
Early next year, 1916, the districts,
I i irough a. trustee, came before the
c jnty school board and made for-
rm.l application for organization.
Each was organized to meet the re-
quirements.
It is of interest to know the boun-
daries, or at least the locations of
the rural school districts in Potter
County, as few changes have been
made since 1916. District No. 1
consisted of 149 sections north of
Amarillo and extended to the Cana-
33 YEARS
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LAND BUSINESS
IN THE PANHANDLE
"Still Convinced It's the Best Country on
L. A. WELLS
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Established by the Gift of Countess Katherlne E. Price In 1929
Offering complete high school courses, fully accredited, for both boarding and day
students.
Operated beginning with the fall term 1938 by the Christian Brothers.
Inquiries Invited
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dlan. No. 2 Is only a part of Its
original size, as District No. 4 was
cut from the No. 2 area. No. 2 was
bounded as joining the Amarillo
Independent District and began two
i.iiles west, of Amarillo. It covered
a strip of country five miles v/lde
and 15 miles long, and reached to
within 2 miles of the Canadian. Dis-
trict No. 3 was the St. Francis area,
and covered a strip of country five
and one-half miles by 19 miles,
reaching the Canadian. The Bush-
la -d District, No. 4, was cut from
the No. 2 district, and began at the
west county line and covered 108
sections, or approximately 78.000
acres.
No. 5 was not changed at all from
its original -llocation, being that
part of Potter County lying north of
the Canadian River.
The Brady School District No. 6,
began four miles east of Amarillo
and consisted of a strip seven and
one-half miles long by three miles
" ide, covering /4 sections. This dis-
trict was crossed by two main rail
lines, however, and thus received
large tax money.
A few years later, District No. 7
was formed by again cutting No. 2.
No. 7 is a peculiar shape, beginning
in a block four by six mile~ in area
at Cliffsidj, and extending in a strip
14 miles long and from two to six
miles wide almost to the Canadian
River.
Census reports of this date gave
t^e county 108 children in her six
rural school districts, while Amarillo
had 1888.
T. W McBride was county judge
of Potter County at this time, hav-
ing been elected in 1914 and con-
tinuing in office until 1918.
• • •
Minutes of Amarillo trustees
meeting in 1916 showed Frank Wolf-
lin as a new board member. Among
many pressing things before the
hoard was a notice from the city po-
lice that the third floor of the Red
Brick building was unsafe and a
dangerous fire trap. This matter
had been brought up before; the
•stairs were narrow and winding, it
was really not safe, even though
frequent drills gave the children
training in case of fire. As an ad-
der', precaution against a blaze, a
circular drum fire escaoe had been
eerccted at the south side of the
Red Brick several years before this
time, but many children were afraid
to go down th- slide inside the dark
drum. The door at the ground level
could be, and iome times was, closed
from the outside, thus causing the
children to pile up inside the cir-
cular fire escape. Many citizens of
Amarillo had expressed the fear that
if t'.ere ever was a fire, the cast-
iron rrum would become hot enough
to seriously burn children.
Census returns for 191? gave the
A.Marillo schools 2098 pupils. S. F.
Newbold had accepted the position
of tax assessor and collector for the
Amarillo Independent Schools Jan-
uary 4, 1916, but even full payment
of taxes could not provide rooms for
that school term. "Chicken coops"
and many called them that, re-
membering c her days, were again
1 placed on the grounds.
October of 1916 saw another bond
■Continued on Page 22)
Custom Mill
It was nearly 30 years ago that
a small and unpretentious firm
came into existence in Amarillo,
destined to become a milling busi-
ness serving stockmen, dairymen
and poultrymen throughout a 100-
mile radius from Amarillo.
The Puckett Grain and Coal
Company shortly afterward became
the Lemons Grain and Coal Com-
pany, later the Lemons-Thompson
Grain and Coal Company, and still
later the Lemons-Thompson Grain
Company, dealing in grain, feed,
coal and oil. In 1937, a change in
ownership and management and
complete reorganization resulted in
a change in name to Peerless Mill-
ing Comr^nv.
This company and pU*nt, located
at 1709 Johnson Street, manufac-
tures all kinds of livestock and poul-
try feeds and corn meal and dis-
tributes Universal Mills products-
Gold Chain flour and Red Chain
feeds—throughout the Plains area
It also features custom milling, mak-
ing stock feeds to the formulas of
individual -'ockmen.
The Peerless Milling Company is
equipped with machinery and facili-
ties for manufacturing all kinds of
formula feeds, and all its product"
are made on formulas worked out
and tried over a period of year?
of experimentation.
Trained men in the employ of
company assist producers on live-
stock and poultry problems, and the
company supplies a poultry and
livestock manual and many other
Never Rains
He was looking for new fields of j
endeavor. An oil man told him
Amarillo was the city with a fine fu- I
ture, so P. L. Reppert of the Rep-
pert Lumber Company camc to
Amarillo in March of 1926 from
Tulsa, Okia.
Originally Mr. Reppert planned to
engage in the building and loan
business here. There was only one
other firm of this type in Amarillo
when he arrived.
However, Mr. Reppert saw thr
value of the lumber and construc-
tion business and invested $60,000
in his first yard, located at 1110 j
West Sixth Avenue. From the first j
the firm offered the builder com-
plete service—designing, financing
and construction—a d that policy-
has continued in effect since.
Mr. Reppert says that when he ar-
rived in Amarillo they told him it j
never rained here—but he walked
into a lusty March blizzard. He says
the first thing he bought was a good
raincoat.
The Reppert firm moved to It.
present site in 1930, buying out the ;
Pickering Lumber Company The ;
yard today covers approximately
four times the area of the first one
Mr. Reppert is vice-president and
a m°mber of the board of director
of the First Federal Building and j
Loan Company of Amarillo
Associated with him in the h"ie- i
building business 1- C. W. Brott,
home designer who came here with j
Mr. Reppert from Tulsa.
kinds of literature for the benefit
of Its patrons.
Howard Ferguson, manager of the
company, features dairy feeds. It
was Ferguson who brought the first
registered Jersey herd to the Pan-
handle, an* in 1921 one of his fine
Jerseys broke the state milk and
butterfat production records, the
first time this award was made to
any producer west of Fort Worth.
As early as 1918, Ferguson mixed
his own feed formulas at. the Lem-
ons-Thompson mill, and it v ■■ the:e
formulas that were developed into
thos-e now being used at the Peerleo.
plant.
Ferguson, who started ar a sales-
man with this company five years
igo and was advanced to manager
about a year ago, ha.? been super-
intendent of the Tri-State Fair
dairy show every year since the be-
ginning of the fair, and also was
superintendent of the Panhandle-
Plains Dairy Show at Plainview the
first two years of its existence.
The company now has three ale. -
men on the road and 12 persons em-
ployed in the office and mil., with
a payroll upward of $15,000 an-
nually.
Walter G. Russell k president of
the Peerlcr - Milling Compan; R'/■■■
M. Lambdin Is secretary-treasurer:
and Arthur SoRellf, C W Camp-
bell, H. N, Newman and Joe Kil-
lough arc directors.
Pay Dividends
Within less than two years the
Panhandle Building & Loan Asso-
ciation -organized In October of
1936 with James P. Kem as presi-
dent and J. F. Jones as secretary,
treasurer and manager—has made
more than 1,200 loans to home own-
ers in Amarillo and other Panhan-
dle points totaling more than $2,-
500,000.
The present board of directors In-
cludes J. F. Jones, president and
manager; J. C. Fischer, John F.
Ro. s and L. R. Barker, vice presi-
dents; R. A. Brown, secretary-
treasurer.
The Panhandle Building & Loan
j has npw. modernistic offices at 118
East Sixth Avenue.
The association at organization
had assets of less than $10,000, but
: has made a steady growth and as-
ct.s have reached $830,000.
In March of 1936 the association
ured insurance of shares from
'he Federal Savings & Loan Insur-
ant' Corporation. Each individual'!
account is insured up to $5,000.
The Panhandle Building & Loan
A. .ociation Is one of four such or-
panizations in the state that went
i through the depression and never
| failed to pay a dividend, having paid
24 consecutive dividends totaling
1 nearly *500,000.
15 Years in AmajriJJo
GOOD FOOD AT
POPULAR PRICES
Two Qood Cafes
Lamar Cafe No.
604 Taylor
Lamar Cafe No. 2
Fourth and Polk
Open Day and Night
C. C. WOOD, Proprietor
N
ear
of Progress . , . growing and advancing along with our
many customers and friends throughout the High Plains
Area. Being one of the oldest firms in the district, we are
more than proud to participate in this 50th Anniversary
Celebration.
May we also take this opportunity to thank those cus-
tomers, throughout the district, who have made our growth
possible.
-WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
OF
CANDIES
CIGARS
FOUNTAIN SUPPLIES
DRUG SUNDRIES
TEXAS M & M CO.
SAM J. ELKINS, Pres.
312 East 5th
C. L. ZINN, Sec'y-Treas.
Amarillo, Texas
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