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DESLOGE AND MURRILL SCHOOL DISTRICTS MERGE
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Prince Progress is still in the saddle and militant. The rich Murrill district on last Saturday voted almost unanimously to annex to the Desloge district. The County Superintendent feels that this step will result to the mutual advantage of both districts. It will add about $300,000 to the assessed valuation of Desloge and place the Murrill school under close and effective city supervision. The consolidation of the Desloge and Murrill districts is the biggest thing that has happened in educational circles in this county for several years.
Miss Marguerite Warren, principal of the Esther High School, writes: "Recently a Parent-Teachers' meeting was held in the school assembly room. Discussions were led by several of the patrons, also the teachers, and the principal talk of the evening given by our County Superintendent, Mr. Akers, said many good things, and to a noticeable degree achieved the difficult task of getting his audience into perfect sympathy with his point of view. During his talk he quoted a few appropriate lines from Kipling's "L'Envoi." This beautiful poem is said to have been a favorite selection of the elder Mr. Akers, who was so beloved by the people of St. Francois county. Monday morning the school "showed her colors" by decorating her rooms and her children with small American flags. A most patriotic spirit prevailed throughout the day and a sound of applause was heard whenever Mr. Danuser, bearing an American flag, entered any of the rooms. Congress was ushered in with due regard by the loyal future citizens of Esther."
List of pupils recently receiving attendance certificates from this office, continued:
Nellie McFarland, Beulah Byers, Bernice Arenz, Maggie Bailey, Charles Jones, Edward
Gilliam, Thelma Robinson, Lester Skaggs and Arthur Fleeman, of the Frankclay school; Hazel
Huff and Maude Huff, of the King school; and John Eaves, Pearl Gruner, Georgie Self and
Earl Kassabaum, of the Doe Run school.
Co. Supt. of Schools.
HISTORY OF MURRILL SCHOOL HOUSE
(As Published in 1913 BTHS Diamond Drill Yearbook)
About forty-four years ago Messrs. Thomas Murrill, Acy Jackson, George Dogget, John Day, Joseph Coleman, John Delona, King Williams, James Williams, George Crump, Isaac Crump, Edmund Crump, William Murrill and Briggs Murrill, neighbors living southwest of Bonne Terre, worked together and built the Murrill School House.
This was the first school house ever built in the vicinity and so was a cause for rejoicing. Consequently the women of the neighborhood worked together and gave a basket dinner celebrating the completion of the school. The women who gave the dinner were Mesdames: George, Isaac and Edmund Crump, Martha Jackson, Fannie Jackson, Mary Ann Williams, Pomelia Williams, Rachael Murrill, Mary Day, Lutetia Delona, Frances Coleman and Jennette Murrill, who were the wives of the men who built the school.
The first teacher was Mrs. AuBuchon affectionately called Grandmother AuBuchon.
School is still taught at Murrill School and, little log house though it is, it has educated some men that Bonne Terre is proud to own as among her best citizens.
