The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
April 6, 1912, Page 17
Negro School Building Burns.
Special to The News.
Mount Pleasant, Tex., April 5.—The negro High School at this place was destroyed by fire, with an estimated loss of $3,000 and $1,000 insurance.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Friday, October 15, 1926
Negro School Is Completed
FINAL WORK WAS DONE ON BUILDING FOR COLORED STUDENTS FRIDAY
Another unit of the big Mt. Pleasant school system was completed Friday afternoon when the work on the colored school was finished.
The building is an attractive brick structure containing adequate room for more students than will attend this school for several years to come. It is one story in height and well equipped for school purposes. The location is on a beautiful site in the southwest part of town,
on a hill overlooking the city, and is convenient to a majority of the colored people.
Every necessary facility for school work has beep added to the school, and the colored people of this city will have a better opportunity to educate their children than is given in many towns of this section of the State. W. D. Spigner is principal of the school and his work has met with satisfaction in every way.
There now remains only one unfinished unit of the school system here. This is the High School building which is being rapidly push¬ed to completion, and will probably be finished by January 1st.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, November 17, 1926
Receive Money For School
$1,900 CHECK TO BE APPLIED ON COLORED SCHOOL BUILDING
The Mt. Pleasant school board on Tuesday afternoon received a check for $1,900 to be used as part payment on the construction of the colored school building at this place.
The check was the result of the effort of the school board, who interested the Julius Rosenwald foun¬dation in this work. The Rosenwald foundation is a huge sum of money set aside by a Chicago capitalist, from which the interest is donated for Negro welfare in the South. A major portion of the money is applied to school work and when the local colored school burned and it became necessary to erect a new building, the local school board erected the building to conform with the plans demanded by the foundation, and after working on the [article torn here] Director Blount [article torn here] the check from Austin [article torn here] here Tuesday.
This amount of money will materially help the board in their school work, as it lessens the cost to the taxpayers of the district by the amount of the check.
Mt. Pleasant Times Review, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
February 24, 1928
COLLEGE WORK FOR NEGROES
LOCAL SCHOOL HAS INAUGU¬RATED PLAN TO DRAW STUDENTS HERE
The local colored school has inaug¬urated a plan to draw students from neighboring towns to this place every Saturday.
The plan is to teach college work to colored teachers of nearby towns and thereby save them a lot of time and money going off to colleges. The teacher in charge of the work is W.: B. Nathan, who holds three degrees from the University of the City of New York, one of the largest educa-tional institutions in the country, and he is assisted in this work by H. R. Jones, principal of the local colored school. The whole work is under the direction of P. E. Wallace, superin¬tendent of the Mt. Pleasant schools.
Plans are under way to inaugurate similar work for the white schools. There are a number of teachers who go to Commerce every Saturday for college work that could be arranged for here because teachers employed in the Mt. Pleasant schools have degrees equal to the teachers of Commerce.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Monday, October 8, 1928
LIGHTNING STRIKES NEGRO SCHOOL HOUSE
During the electrical storm which swept over this section Saturday night, lightning struck the colored school building in the southwest part of town knocking down the chimney of the heating plant, and doing quite a bit of damage.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Thursday, September 5, 1929
SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT MONDAY
FACULTY IS ANNOUNCED FOR THE MT. PLEASANT SCHOOLS FOR NEW TERM
The Mt. Pleasant Schools will open for the 1929-30 term next Monday morning, with prospects for the best year in the history of the schools. Superintendent Wallace announces the following faculty for the coming year, with the subjects they will teach:
High School
E. C Brice, Principal, Mathematics
J. R. Reynolds, History
J. L. Owens, Vocational Agriculture
Miss Theresa Moore, Home Economics
W. L. Crawford, Spanish and Coach
R. C. Morris, Science
D. E. Peel, Latin and English
H. L. Graham, Mathematics and History
A. L. Bennett, English.
East Ward
B. C. Pierce, Principal, Arithmetic
Miss Lena Lundy, English
Mrs. Jewel Fontaine, Geography
Mrs. Vivian Fowler, Third Grade
Miss Ladye Paris, Second Grade
Miss. Annie Sims, First Grade
West Ward
A. Winton, Principal, History
Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, Arithmetic
Miss Annie Hall, English
Miss Audie Strahan, Geography
Miss Ruth Dansby, Fourth Grade
Mrs. Dan Witt, Third Grade
Mrs. Jesse Newman, Second Grade
Mrs. P. E. Wallace, First Grade
Colored School
H. R. Jones, Principal, Vocational Agriculture
A. B. Turner, History
Geneva Brown, Latin and English
Hattie Flowers, Home Economics
Velena Jones, Maggie Hodge and one to be selected, grade teachers
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, February 2, 1930
MOVING SCHOOL FROM HIGHWAY
PRACTICALLY ALL OF GRADING WORK HAS BEEN DONK ON NEW ROAD
County and highway officials be¬gan work Tuesday on the moving of the negro school building three miles south of town, which was located on the route of the new highway be¬tween this place and Pittsburg. The building was erected several yearn ago just east of the Cotton Belt railway, but later a survey for the new highway was made and it was found that the school building would ho right in the line of the right way. The county purchased a new site for the building further west, giving it as good a location as it previously had.
Practically all of the grading work on the new highway has been completed, and on Tuesday it became necessary to start removing the building in order to complete the grading work. It will be only a very short while new until all of the grading is completed on the highway, and we understand that a coat of gravel is to be applied soon. The class of permanent topping is to be determined by the Highway Commission, and no announcement has been made as yet concerning it.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Friday, May 22, 1931
Colored School Had Exercises Thursday Night
The colored high school held its an¬nual commencement exercises Thurs¬day night at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in the southwestern part of town, with a large attendance.
The program was under the direction of the principal, H. R. Jones, and Thos. J. Downs, principal of the Val¬ley View Training School at Gilmer, made the address. The diplomas were awarded by Supt. P. E. Wallace of the Mt. Pleasant school system.
Graduates of the colored school are: Beuna Vista Bolden, Lorena Savana Johnson, Glodenia Hazel Tumey, Loy Arnold Johnson, Ethel Loretta Ainsworth, Charles Olivia Dillard, George Burney Lampkin, Ollie Zemry Mitchell, Cudie Jones Jr.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, August 19, 1931
SCHOOLS START SEPTEMBER 7th
PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE LAST YEAR'S FACULTY WILL SERVE AGAIN
Superintendent P. E. Wallace of the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools announces that the 1931-32 term will begin on Monday, September 7th, and that practically the same faculty as last year will be retained in the schools.
The teachers for the coming term will be:
High School
P. E. Wallace, superintendent.
E. C. Brice, principal, mathematics.
L. W. Vance, mathematics
J. R. Reynolds, history.
H. L. Graham, history.
A. L. Bennett, English.
Miss Cornelia Varner, English.
H. W. Bullock, Spanish and coach.
D. E. Peel, Latin.
R. C. Morris, science.
Miss Theresa Moore, home econom¬ics.
C. P. Vickery, Vocational agriculture
West Ward
A. Winton, principal, sixth grade.
Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, fifth grade.
Miss Ruth Vandiver, fourth grade.
Mrs. D. M. Witt, third grade.
Miss Pauline McMillan, second grade.
Mrs. Jesse Newman, second grade.
Miss Elizabeth Harris, first grade.
Mrs. P. E. Wallace, primary
West Ward
