Information Sheet

 

 

R         Iron County (Mo.).  School District No. 3.  Cedar Grove School.

843                  Records, 1910-1943.

                                    Two volumes.

 

 

 

These are District Clerk’s record books from Cedar Grove School in northern Iron County, Missouri.  They include minutes of annual and board meetings, financial data, records of the em­ployment of teachers and custodians, and annual enumerations of school-age children.

 

Cedar Grove School was located in northern Iron County, Missouri, between the communi­ties of Belleview and Banner.  Ensconced in the Bellevue Valley, it was entirely rural in nature.  About forty to fifty school-age children lived in the district.  These two volumes contain the Dis­trict Clerk’s records for the period from 1910 to 1943.  The amount of detail in the records varied considerably over time, and in Volume 1 many meetings were entered out of sequence and/or out of their appropriate category.

 

Volume 1 (1910-1929) began in April 1910 with the issuance of $700 in local district bonds to fund the construction of a new school house.  Issued in $100 certificates paying 5% annual in­terest over twenty years, the entire lot was sold to Dr. G. W. Farrar of Ironton, Missouri.  All of the bonds had been redeemed by April 1918.  Other items of particular interest include details of the annual levy on taxable property, the need for some children to see a physician due to “sore eyes” (1917), the construction of and improvements to the school building, the question of “free text books,” and the annual enumerations of school-age children (incomplete, 1911-1926).

 

Volume 2 (1930-1943) is similar to Volume 1, but was more regularly maintained.  In ad­dition to the usual entries, it included a stipulation in 1935 that teacher Ethel Hughes “remains single until school term is closed” (She was subsequently re-hired as Ethel McCall, although she resigned shortly thereafter.).  In 1934 an additional tax levy was authorized, with the understand­ing that it “would not be needed if balance at Arcadia Valley Bank was released.”  At the annual meeting of the district’s qualified voters in 1939 the “consolidation of six districts including Belleview” was rejected on a vote of 1 in favor and 48 against.

 

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