County Schools Opened from the Troy Free Press, Sept. 23, 1932
Troy Free Press (Troy, Lincoln County, MO), Sept. 23, 1932.
Transcribed by June Groshong.

COUNTY SCHOOLS OPENED
September 5 with a Fine Corps of
Teachers in charge.

The public schools of Lincoln County opened last Monday, September
5,with a fine corps of teachers in charge of the work this year.
Lincoln County has a fine school system and excellent work is done in
each school each year and we predict a record this year, under this fine
list of teachers who are supervised by one of the best county
superintendents of schools in the state, Mrs. Florence Diggs Begeman.
The complete list of the teachers in the county and the school in which
they teach is, as follows:

Sand Ridge ----Mrs. Gladys Shaw. Barton--Alma Watts. Smith-- Mrs.
Norman Halley. White Swan-- Mildred Brown. Liles-Hall-- Raymond
Park. Oak Grove--Mrs. Oscar Reid. Louisville-- Mrs. E. P. Achor.
Henton-- Myoma Dixon. Pea Ridge--Alene Davis. Prairie
Flower--Winnifred Parrish. Whiteside--- Anna Teague. Hayes--- Ruby
Lee Richards

Elsberry--High School: Supt. F. B. McCluer; Principle, H.L.Purdin,
D.K.Kanoy, Ethel Allen, Mrs. L. W. Crank, Bess Denman. Grade School
: Principle, R.M. Burchett; Katherine Cannon, Frances Watts, Lydia
Ferry, Winnifred Rice, Mildred Mitchell, Mrs. Howard Watts.

New Hope-- Mrs. H. R. Sanders. Last Chance, tranporting pupils to
New Hope. Cannon-- Isabel Magruder. Mill Creek-- Beulah Hudson.
Copper Springs---Ruth Fountain. Robinson---Mrs. G.B. Wilson.
Grimmett---Mrs. Mary Weston. Patterson--- Catherine Davis.

Silex-- High School: Supt. J. J. Duncan; Nelson Judy, Delora Tiller.
Grade School : Mrs. Claude Clare, Marie Quigley, Amy Devaney,
Vivian King.

Forest Gem---Ellen Galloway. Auburn---Mary Chandler. Reid--- J. W.
Dowell. Hickory Ridge--- Mrs. Odessa Zumwalt. Fink--- Sylvia
Skinner. Star Hope--- Mrs. Glenora Stone. Briar Ridge--- D'Arlene
Raney. Meyer--- Mildred Basket. Britt--- Mrs.Melba Busch. Harmony
Grove--- Katherine Gourley. Morris---Ruby Henry.

Millwood-- Sister Eusebia, Sister Loretta , Catherine J. Mudd.

Reddish---Jessie Norton. Olney --Mrs. Jewell D. Hazzard. Duncan --
Frederick Parrish. Abe Duff--- Susannah Myers. Barnable -- Thelma
Quigley. Dowell--- Catherine Finley. Brussells---Rae Butler. Burr
Oak--- Elna J. Crenshaw.
Foley---Mrs. Earl Martin, Lucy Ferguson.

Cornick--transporting pupils. New Salem-- Willie F. Montgomery.
Taylor---Lucille Gerdeman. Hill --Vivian Cannon. Carter-Hall---
Georgia Creech. Bohmer---Reba Young. Owen---Mrs. A.A.Smith.
Palmer---Melvin Colbert. Rocky Knoll---Isabel Monroe. Beck---Harris
Cape.

Truxton-- J.W.Hedberg, Mrs. J.W.Hedberg, Eleanor Cockrell.

Copher--- Joseph Mudd. Brown--- T.B. Walton. Keithley---Otis
Lansche. Elliott--Flosie Basye. Wilson---Frederick Burford.
Chantilly---Goldie Hunn.

Winfield- High School: Supt., C.L. Dillinger, Wm. H. Meyers, Cloe
Fields. Grade school, Florence Skinner, Mrs. C.L. Dillinger, Helen
Moore.

Cap-Au-Gris---Iva Skinner. Lindsey -- Bertha Birkhead.
Creec---Elizabeth Finnerty. Birkhead--- Claude Brown. Duff--- Mrs.
L. S. Kaser.

Troy-- Hgh School: Ssupt., P.M. Kinder; Principle, L.S. Kinder; Mrs.
Cecil Pemberton, Mrs. P.M. Kinder, Jennie D. Wilson, Almaretta Sidwell,
Wallace Gray, Olen N. Bell, Philomene Muck. Grade School: Principle
, Zula Thurman , Mrs. C. J. Schulze, Rosetta Cortelyou, D' Arline
Watts, Frieda Wieman, Lucy Penn.

Moore---Vernette Smith. Perkins --transporting pupils.

Hawk Point-- High School: Supt. , E.T. Whittaker. Grade School:
Jeanette Palmer, Ruth Lovell, Alfred Campbell.

Kelley---Mrs. Hubert Bratcht. Elmore---Mrs. Delmar E. Black. Sugar
Grove---Mildred Cortleyou. Shelton---Melva Hunter. Hammond--- Porter
Conley.

Moscow Mills--- Clyde Wood, Charlotte Meyer, Iva L. Martin.

Keelstone---Nellie K. Hunn. W.( West jg) Liberty--- Sallie Mae
Groshong. Bals--- Geraldine Hart. Amity--- Ethel Raney. Owen
Station--- Abby Brown. Olive Branch--- Mrs. Jewell Nichols.
Hubbard--- Laura B. Gerdeman. Schroer--- Ogden Scheer. Koelling--
Chas. Humphrey. Rock Springs--- Eleanor Groshong.

Old Monroe--- Mrs. Wanda McManamy , Eva Foley.

Colored Schools

Troy--- E.M. Cole, Viola Hammond.
Elsberry-- Elizabeth Sanford.
Auburn-- Mary K. Florence
Britt--- Elizabeth Lewis
Hayes--- Mathew Cockfield

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by June Groshong, 28 Apr, 2006.

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