Information Sheet

 

 

R         Stoddard County (Mo.).  School District No. 106.  Trammel School.

918                  Booklet, 1916.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a “Souvenir” booklet presented by the teacher, Lewis M. Layer, to the pupils of Trammel School at La Valle in Stoddard County, Missouri, at the close of the 1915-1916 school year.

 

La Valle is in southeastern Stoddard County about ten miles east of Bernie.  It had a post office from 1903 to 1953.  In 1915-1916 Trammel School had an enrollment of 46 students, all of whom are listed by name in this booklet.  The most common surnames are Covey, Grampp, Heard, Hon, Horn, Ross, and Sheffield.  The local school board consisted of L. E. Heard (presi­dent), John Carter (clerk), John Savage, and Gotlieb Grampp.  The county superintendent was Mrs. Carrie E. Smith.  A photographic portrait of the teacher is on the front page of the booklet, along with the motto, “Education is the chief defense of nations.”  Poems by Madeline Bridges (“Life’s Mirror”) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (“A Psalm of Life”), along with “The Schoolhouse Flag” (unattributed), are also included.

 

 

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