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The Ashton SchoolLocated 6 miles east & 3 miles north of Sawyer
The first board was: E. D. Bard, D. W. Brant, F. A. Mueller. Elmo McCullogh was the first teacher, teaching seven months at $50 per month. The ppils were: Pearl, Florence, and Glen Bard, Jennie, Nellie and Edward Armistead, Retta Milo, Emerson Dodd, Cora Cray, Maude and Mary Bolt, Mabel and Emma Brant, Mary and Willie Jones, John and Maude Mueller, Ola Larabee, Eva and Adolphus Morrison, Roy Rosa, Willie and Eva Blackwe;der, Lee, Ottie, Fay and Ralph Barr, Emma Toff, Hermand and Hazel Hyatt, Hazel Barker and Cecil Parks. Six grades were represented in the last term with Mary Crawford as teacher. The pupils were: Charlene Mueller, Gene, Donna and Kenneth Blackwelder, Darrel Brant, Howard, Mildred and Janet Hamm, Dolores and Sharon Armistead and Rosalie Rothman. The board was Donald Hamm and Leo House. | ||
Banner SchoolLocated 4 1/2 m west of Cullison. The land was granted by Daniel Wooley.
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The Bates SchoolLocated 1 m south & 7 1/2 m east of Sawyer.
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The Blowout SchoolLocated 5 m north 3 m east of Cullison. The land was granted by E. W. Farmer.The School Board of Blowout School, northwest of Pratt, authorized the redecoration of the interior of the school house. The work started last week and the interior was entirely redecorated and put in an attractive condition. A windmill was also placed over the well and the water piped out of the ground. The mill is to be left running during the school hours.All of these conveniences of safety and pleasure are placed there by the school board, who takes a great interest in the school work. they have planted shrubbery on the school grounds that will be irrigated from the windmill. The pupils of the school rank high in scholarship and the work done there is of the best quality. Excerpt from Pratt Union, September 2, 1931 The cultivator on the roof of the school building was a Hallowe'en prank. The picture was taken about 1903. This building was the first school, and was moved into Pratt. The second burned. A third building was sold for an apartment building located in the west part of Pratt. | ||
The Chalkmound SchoolSubmitted by Bill Sollner"I attended Chalkmound as a 5th grade student in 1934-35. The teacher was Andrew J. Kellogg. My family were the only Democrats in a hundred miles. Each evening grandpa would prime my pump for the next day of political debate. It was me against the entire class, including the teacher. What's more, I was stigmatized as a 'city kid' because my family lived in Kansas City, KS for a couple of years. A double-whammy, not only survived, the Democrats prevailed; It was FDR over Alf Landon when all the ballots were counted." | ||
The Clark SchoolLocated 2 m east of Sawyer. The land was granted by Alanzo Ashcraft1922
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Coats School1905 | ||
Cracker Box SchoolLocated 4m south and 5m west of Cullison.
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The Croft SchoolLocated 1 m south & 8 m west of Coats.
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The Eagle Valley School, Also known as StewartLocated 1 1/2 m east of Iuka.The picture includes teacher Encie Johnson, Bertha and Arthur McGuire, Henry, George
and Willie Beck, Fay Flanagan, Charley ?, Lester Hacker and Clara Brown. "The school was a white frame one-room building. We had a blackboard, piano, desks with attached bench, and a heating stove. The room was very plain with windows on the side and wooden floor. I built the fires to warm the room with corn cobs and coal. I hauled water to school in a milk can. I was the janitor and did the trapping to keep the mice out of the piano..." remembers Betty Burson. | ||
East Star School, also known as Valley or StarLocated 1 m east & 3 1/2 m south of Cairo
I remember onelittle incident which happened at East Star. The children were plaing on the marry-go-round. I washed my hands at the pump and went inside to dry them. When I opened my desk drawer to get the towel, four little mouse eyes were staring at me. I went to the door and called the children to help. They came in armed with sticks, ball bats, map pointer, and rulers. One mouse scuttled under the stove to safety. The other mouse dodged all blows and ran under the piano from which he was dislodged with a stick. That mouse ran under the victerola, then the sand table.One little girl was jumping around and accidently landed on him. Poor mouse! Pictured above left: 1920Left to Right, Back Row: Alma Sanders, Myrtle Sanders, eva Tapp, Jessie Tapp, teacher Cora V. Gray, Lee White, Paul Slattery, Austin Slattery, Fred Withers. Middle Row: Bernard Nossaman, Wilber Slattery, Laurence Helsel, Thelma Crosley, Iona Helsel, Florence Tapp, Stephen Sanders, Floyd Crosley. Front Row: Melvin Withers, Elmer Slattery, Cleo Withers, Charlene Helsel, Earl Crosley. On May 1, 1938 a tornado blew away the east Star building. The library books, however, were saved. The books were housed in a sturdy, enclosed bookcase that was blown over onto its front, and not even the torrential rain penetrated that fine bookcase. | ||
Fairview SchoolLocated 4 m south & 2 m west of Pratt.
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Fairview Consolidated SchoolLocated 6m south and 2m west of Pratt
All members of my family went to Fairview through all eight grades. My mother attended Peachey district, and my father went to Pleasant Ridge and Coats in the 1800's. My first teaching position was at Fairview in 1934. I taught grades 1 through 4 for two years before teaching in Pratt. The teacher of grades 5 through 8 had been my teacher when I attended that school... remembers Marguerite Moore Neidhardt
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The Georgetown SchoolLocated 2 1/2 m west and 7 1/2 m north of Cairo.
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The Glendale Consolidated SchoolLocated 6 m east & 3 m north of Pratt.
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The Golden Valley SchoolLocated 2 m west & 3 m north of Pratt.Golden Valley pupils.
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The Grant School, also known as Prairie CenterLocated 1/2 m south of Coats.
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The Green Valley SchoolLocated 3m east and 3m south of Iuka.The land was granted by Clinton E. Repp. The first records of the Green Valley School District # 59, show Ludwig Seidel was elected Director of the school board July 28, 1898, and continued in this position through 1901. The first school teacher listed in the Clerks Record Book was C. F. Edwards who taught 1 term, starting October 1, 1900 for 6 months with the salary of $35 per month. $1 was paid out to clean the school. In July 1900 L. Hess was elected Clerk of the school board with Peter Maas appointed Treasurer. Other board members were Ernest Hoeme, Otto Gaedeke, Fred Helmke, John Thomas and J. E. Smith... | ||
The HardscrabbleLocated 10 m east & 4 m north of Sawyer.
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Harmony School, also known as StricklerLocated 3 m north & 1 m west of Iuka.
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Harrel SchoolLocated 2 1/2 Miles north of west edge of Pratt
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Haynesville School
"When I taught at Haynesville, the school terms of 1942-45, the school board members were Roy F. Allen, Marian Hoskinson, and cecil R. Reynolds. We did not have all eight grades every term, but I did teach all grades during my employment there. The school averaged from abouyt nine to fifteen students per year at that time. The Haynesville school was more up-to-date than most country schools of that time. It had a full basement, indoor chemical treated restrooms, and electricity. It had a floor furnace that was heated by coal.The basement was completely finished so the children could use it for play during inclement weather..." by Mrs. Jennie M. Park Hobbs, Langdon, Kansas 1994 | ||
Hopewell School
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Hopewell School
Little progress had been made in the community, but in 1878 the first one-room school was opened and Miss Laura Long became the first teacher. History does not tell how many pupils Miss Long taught, but they were probably limited to half a dozen or less. Nevertheless, an educational ssystem had been launched in Iuka, an educational system which has kept pace through the years with educational developments and progress. | ||
Liberty SchoolLocated 2 m east & 1 1/2 m south of Coats.
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Logan School, also known as ChinnLocated 1/2 m south & 3 m west of Coats
Many are the memories of those country schools when early in the morning children could be seen walking across fields and down little country roads carrying their lunch in a half-gallon syrop bucket making their way to the little country school. Some rode horses, some came in horse drawn buggies and out back of the school was a barn where the horses were kept until needed in the afternoon for the ride home when schoolw was out. | ||
McAllister SchoolLocated 3 1/2 m west of Iuka
My first year of teaching was at McAllister School located about three miles west of Iuka. I did not have a second and third grade, but did have all the others. The year was 1935. Memorable experiences include: | ||
Mound School, also known as Sigerson of PlilerLocated 1 m north & 2 1/2 m east of Cairo.
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The Mt. Nebo SchoolLocated 2 m north & 3 m west of Coats.
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The Mt. Pleasant School, also known as ShinkleLocated 2 m east & 5 m north of Iuka.
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The Naron-Byers SchoolOriginally Naron, the school's name became Byers when Naron moved one-half mile south. Naron School 1902-1903, Arthur Randle, Teacher. Byers Grade School Students 1921-1922 | ||
The Natrona St. Paul's Lutheran SchoolLocated 3 m east & 1 m north of Iuka.1905 The last year enrollment was 32. The start of the erection of a new school was finally changed to building a new church and using the present church building for school purposes. | ||
The Neal School2 m west and 1/2 m north of Pratt.
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The New Home SchoolLocated 3 m south of Byers.
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The New Hope School, also known as Union ValleyLocated 1 m west 4 m south of Cairo.
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The Pleasant Valley, also known as GeistLocated 3 1/2 m west 1 m North of Preston
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The Pleasant ValleyLocated 6 m east & 2 m north of Sawyer.The notice of formation of school district 66 was dated August 17, 1885 and was organized in 1886. Not much history of this school has been found, the records being burned in the courthouse fire in 1923. The school building, located in Gove Township 18-29-11, was erected at a cost of $500, a 20' x 30' structure. Miss Flora Teagle taught the first term of three months at a salary of $15 per month. The school board was: H. A. Chilson, N. B. Hiatt and C. R. Farrar. There were only 9 pupils in 1898, representing two families, Larabee and Blackwelder. In 1903, due to lack of pupils and finances, the patrons of district 32 and 66 combined their schools for a six month term, three months at each place. This lasted three years until Ashton was organized. | ||
The Prairie Belle SchoolLocated 2 m east & 2 m south of Byers.Opal Hemphill remembers:
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The Prairie Center SchoolThe school was located 8 m east & 4 m north of Sawyer. The land was granted by Albert G. Hilliard and his wife. Soon after the school house was built at a cost of $549.30, J. S. Moorhead named it Prairie Center after his old home in Indiana. In 1891 there were 35 pupils, but when the Cherokee Strip opened in 1893 many families left. In 1894, only 4 pupils remained and only 7 the following year. | ||
The Preston School
During the Fall of 1879, a district was laid out southeast of the town of haynesville, including part of the district #8, and after many prostests and petitions concerning its boundaries, the district was approved by the county superintendent. However, it was not until 1882 that a report was sent in. This report showed the enrollment of seven boys and seven girls. We are not certain the school was actually in session until 1885, when Alice Tippie was the teacher, receiving a salary of $20 per month for a term of three months. | ||
The Richland SchoolThe school was located 2 m east of Cullison. The land was granted by Wm. Sawyer, June 7, 1887. The school house was struck by lightning and burned on a Sunday evening. the building was valued at $1000 and insured for $500. Picture of the consolidation with Cullison, May 4, 1928.
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The Rock Island SchoolThe school was located 1 m east and 3 m north of Pratt. The land was granted by Andrew Zerger.
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The Sand Creek SchoolThe school was located 4 m east of Sawyer. The land was granted by F. H. Long and his wife. 1934 | ||
The Saratoga SchoolThe land was granted by Henry Murick, March 15, 1882. Ruth Estella Jean Bailey remembers: "... When I was seven years old and in the third grade, Mother decided that I was ald enough to take a pie to the school pie supper. I spent the day making the pie (an apple) under Monther's supervisions. To my delight the pie came out brown and just right. That night I waited anciously as the bidding progressed. I hoped that one of the boys I liked would bid highest. Alas, to my great disappointment, one of the Eighth graders - a big lubberly boy aptly named "fatso", - bought my beautiful pie. I fear that I was a very silent and surly dinner partner; but he did not seem to mind. He was too engrossed in eating pie."
Some of those in the picture are Walter Cook, Harrison Branbury, John Travis, William Locke, Lizzie Reece, Effie Gunaway, Myrtle Foster, Hazel Smith, Elsie Brown, Hazel Foster, Sarah Fletcher, Mabel Banbury, Blanche Bailey, Florence Bailey, Fannie Reece, Marie Travis, Glenn Bailey, Ray Bailey. | ||
The Shanline SchoolAlso known as Fairview North and Lamont. The district was known as Shanline, but was officially Fairview. It eventually absorbed parts of the Lamont, Armstead, and Haynesville districts. Here is a list of pupils who were attending the school in 1897: This a picture of the class of 1925 ... The outside of the school building had a bell tower with a bell and rope, adjacent to the one and omly door of the building. This was rung at thirty minutes to school time, at five minutes before the school took up, and again the last bell when school started. This was done both in the morning and at noon. At recess, only the five minute bell was heard... | ||
The Social Plains SchoolThe school was located 10 m east & 1 m north of Sawyer. Early days were busy ones for this school. Josephine Hiskett was Sunday School teacher and Bruce remembers Mr. Emmitt Pickering in Sunday School who gave a most vivid picture of "Sin" and saying we are all sinners. Ethel McHenry taught in 1921. Sarah Williams was hired in 1922 for $100 per month. Some of the families who attended were Harrel, Nossaman, Banks, Murray, Milford, Harrington, Thompson, Kenney, Ford, Hiskett, Hubner, Brill. Teacher Blanche Hayward was given the distinction of bringing the program of the first hot lunch to Pratt County schools. She had 28 pupils in attendance in 1921. She took her seventh and eighth graders to Pratt to visit the roundhouse, and they all rode the locomotive train. They visited the flour mills and they went to the studio and had their picture taken... | ||
The Springvale SchoolThe school was located 6 m west & 2 m north of Coats. The land was granted by A. L. Barnes.
The building was purchased by the American Legion of Pratt and will be moved to Pratt and used as a club room and place to meet. The building was erected some 20 years ago and for the past four years has been used only as a place for school meetings. The children from that district have been attending the Cullison and Coats consolidated schools and are taken in school buses. | ||
The Star SchoolAlso known as North Star, the school was located 3 m north & 2 m east of Iuka. 1909. | ||
The Sunnyside SchoolAlso known as Woolfolk, the school was located 3 m east & 4 m south of Cullison. The land was granted by L. M. Woolfolk, December 21, 1889 and Martha Place, November 28, 1897.
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The Tennessee SchoolThe school was located 3 m north & 1 1/2 m east of Sawyer. The land was granted by Agnes Russel. 1920 Tennessee consisted of pupils ranging from first to eighth, with the largest class being 13 students. Many of the students walked to school, with the exception of those who rode horses and put them in the barn for the day. The school day started with a bell ringing at 8:55. Students recited the Pledge of Allegiance before studies began. Arithmetic, history (later changed to social studies), English, reading and writing were taught. Report cards were issued once a month. Materials for studies included a Big Chief notebook (10 cents) (or a littler one could be bought for 5 cents) and ink wells. (Some kids used refillable fountain pens.) | ||
The Tully SchoolThe school was located 3 1/4 m east & 3/4 m north of Cairo. Land was granted by Rebecca Adams. "I started my schooling in Tully School in 1933. It was the typical one-room white school house with a bell in the little tower. Lois G. Hoskinson was the teacher there for all my eight years of school", remembers Mary Hultman. 
"One of the nicest parts of teaching at Tully was having a natural gas stove to heat with. At last, no more carrying in kindling and coal, simply turning up the heat in the mornings and turning it down when leaving.A bucket of water still had to be pumped each morning for drinking and washing hands, but that was no problem. We even had paper towels. each child brought his own cup or glass to drink from and took them home on weekends for a good wishing. The two outhouses still had to be swept, but not having to build the fire every morning was great" , says Kathleen Hoffman. | ||
The Twin Mound SchoolThe school was located 5 m north & 1 m west of Cullison. The land was granted by Heaspie L. Bratton. Last day of school 1920 April 1921 | ||
The Union Valley SchoolThe school was located 3 m south & 2 m east of Pratt. Land was granted by Anderson F. Jones.
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The Victory SchoolThe school was located 4 m east & 5 m north of Cairo.
Victory school was a small one-room, white wooden building with no modern conveniences. The water supply was gotten from an outside hand pump; heat came from a large black stove which burned mostly coal; the lights were old-fashioned gas lamps with white fragile mantels. The restrooms were little white wooden outhouses back of the schoolhouse - one for the boys and one for the girls. I began teaching at Victory school in January, 1941, after their teacher, Eunice Millhauser, had gotten married during Christmas vacation. There were seven students - four grades. What an experience for a young teacher just out of college! I had to be not only classroom teacher, but also taught music, art, physical education plus being an occasional nurse, counselor, and full time janitor... remembers Luelma Park Ditto. | ||
The Wagonhammer SchoolAlso known as Bethel, the school was located 5 m north & 1 m west of Iuka.  
Family names of students pictured with Teacher Edith Yoho are Cline, Chance, McMail, Dodson, Smith, Brill, Deardorff, and Gray. | ||
The Waverland SchoolThe school was located 10 m east & 1m south of Sawyer. It was organized in 1905 and school continued through 1921 term when it consolidated with Isabel. Some of the families that attended there were Armstrong, Bockelmann, Callen, Conway, Corrie, Fike, Ford, Gilges, Gurlie, Herron, Inslee, Lampe, McMasters, Middendorf, Pearson, Vaugh. Teachers were required not only to teach all eight grades if needed but build a fire in the wood stove, do the janitor work, carry the water, play ball with the students and any other situation that arose. One incident that happened at this school was two children of one family had their lunch packed in the same syrop backet. The sister and her friend went to the girls outhouse at noon with the bucket. This left her brother without lunch so he and his friend went out and threw rocks at the outhouse and the teacher caught them. They got a "lickin" and a good one. When the children went home that evening the brother told his mother to never pack their lunches together again. |
When Prairie Center District 32 and Pleasant Valley District 66 were disorganized the schoolhouse at Prairie Center was moved to a new location in
Gove Township (7-29-11) where a new school was formed, Ashton District 86. This was in 1906. A cloak room and a belfry were added to the building.
J. R. Wheatley named the school.
Banner School in 1909 Left to Right, Back Row: Edward McGraw, Fred Cole, Florence McGraw,
Cecilia Dorgan, Edd Andrews, Ethel Andrews, and teacher Mabelle McIlrath. Middle Row: John Dorgan,
Virginia McGraw, Ursla McGraw, Charley Lees, Fannie McGraw. Front Row: Andrew McGraw, Willie McGraw,
Veronica Dorgan, Oscar McGraw, Charley McGraw.
Bates School in 1909 Left to Right, Back Row: Teacher Clara Snavely, Linsey LeDou, Minnie Swinson,
Fred Swinson, Eva Swinson, next four unknown. Front Row: ?, Omega LeDou, remainder unknown.
Pictured left to right: Sam Petrie (Teacher), Raleigh Reed, George Simpson, Orpha Covey Jones, Jay Bendle,
Ethel Reed Woolfolk, Nellie Reed McBride, Glen Reed, Roy Bales, Ora Covey Grossman, Bill Reed, Bertha Covey,
Ethel Moore Simpson, Geprge Covey, Louise Covey Pirtle, Arther Covey, Frank Reed, Hazel Ahrens, Elsie reed Porter,
Henry Logue, Grace Boulden and Walter Reed.
The second month of the Clark school closed Friday Nov 1, with a total enrollment of 20, and an average attendance of 18. Pupils neither tardy nor
absent were: Walter Blank and Laura Blank.
Number of pupils enrolled - 34
Excerpt from the Pratt Mirror, January 14, 1916:
I attended a country school, Fairview #90 through the 8th grade, from 1919 to 1927. A driver was hired to use his private car to transport children in
the district to and from school.
In the picture with Teacher Lena Gray are Leona Toot, Ivan Crandall, Jim Onstott, Dean Toot, Rex Onstott, Glen Betchart, Clella Peachey, Josephine Flemming,
Marguerite Moore, Fay Vosburg, Harley Rich, Richard Hall, George Heartline, Homer Fleming, Emma Hoffner, Howard Crane, Royal Crane, Lois Hertlein, Kenneth Moore.
Excerpt from The History of Coats, by Lucile Asher and Marguerite Neidhardt:
Haynesville was named for the Haynes family who founded the town. Their general store and other businesses were moved to Preston as part of the development of
that town when the railroad came through. The school was situated 3m north & 1m west of Preston. Land was granted by Jacob Haynes.
Iuka was the name of a Chickasaw Indian Chief who lies buried in the town square of Tishomingo, County, Mississippi. Iuka, Kansas, was the name
proposed by a veteran of the Civil War Battle of Iuka. The school itself was situated on NE1/4 Sec. 4 - Tws. 27 - R 13. Land was granted by J.
Haynes(1878) and McDavis(1886).
The school was organized in 1886 and was active until 1937 when it was consolidated with the Coats school district.
1925 - 1927
Left to Right, Front Row: Lloyd Moore, Gladys Jarboe, Ruth Jarboe, Fonda White, Verle Byerly, LaVelle lattimore, Dorothy Mott, Mary Ellen Doan. Middle Row:
George Doan, Zetta Mae Byerly, Harold Jarboe, Garland Doan, Mildred Mott, Verl Byerly, Clarella McMannis. Back Row: Ernest Jarboe, Paul Jarboe, Oliver Pohlma,
Alta Darr, Loretta Moore, Francis White, Myrtle Moore.
In the picture are: Andrew Eubank, Gertie Gilmore, Hallie Eubank, Jessie Eubank, John Gilmore, Edith Kocher, Dottie Keithly, George Eubank, Flossie Keithly, Jim
Eubank, Clinton Kocher, Della Greenwood, Winnie Eubank, Bessie Keithly, Earl Greenwood, Leora Kocher, and teacher Ora Johnson.
New Hope School was typical of the schools at that time. The one -room schoolhouse was built near the edge of what was probably a small creek in
earlier days, but was now a sandy depression. The building faced east or south and the only door in the same direction. To the left, as you entered, was
a bench where sat a bucket of drinking water with a long-handled dipper beside it, as well as a wash basin. The pupils' dinner pails lined up along the
edge of the bench.On the south and north sides were rows of seats each with a desk in front. Most of the desks and seats were wide enough for two
pupils. each desk had an underneath shelf to hold books and other articles. In a top corner of the desk was a hole for the inkwell...
The land for the school was granted by Kansas and Texas Town Company.
Hue Bryant remembers:
This schoolhouse was built with bricks taken from the original two-storied building in the town of Saratoga. Note the horse barn in the rear.
Excerpt from Pratt Union:
Richard F. Eads remembers:
Left to Right, Top Row: Mary Gilmore, Sylvia Leonard, irvin Gilmore, Teacher Clayton Byerley, Rex Toothaker, Mary Toothaker, Bernice Combs, Ina Gilmore. Middle
Row: Sylvia Shepherd, Orpha Leonard, Raymond Leonard, Lee Covey, Fred Mund, Oscar Shepherd, Cecil Shepherd, Frank Combs. Front Row: Leo Leonard, Verl
Byerley, Clelia Brown, William Brown, Ray Swonger, Forrest Covey, Violet May Combs, Elizabeth Gilmore, Fay Swonger, Inez Shepherd.
The last class at Victory - 1944.
Dixie Long, Leon Rose, Jack Crick, Sherman Ellis, Carol Ann Rose.
