Palestine High School Catalog 1873-4

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20 April 2005
Added Information: 11 May 2005

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Originally published in The Tracings, Volume 1, No. 1, Winter 1982 and 
Volume 1, No. 2, Fall 1982, Pages 27-34 by the Anderson County Genealogical 
Society, copyright assigned to the East Texas Genealogical Society.

COPY of
CATALOG OF PALESTINE HIGH SCHOOL 1873-4.
Printed in 1874

(Pink Book paper cover -. speaks of last session). KH

(Owned by Mrs. Frank E. Taylor, Grapeland, Texas, whose mother, Mrs. Josie
Edens Taylor, deceased, an Aunt1, Mrs. Annie Edens Dailey of Crockett, an
uncle, Robt. Edens, Grapeland, Texas, are listed herein, -Jas. A. Mead was
their cousin. KH)


PALESTINE HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
J. R. Palmer, Pres.
R. B. McClure, Vice Pres.
H. B. Wilder, Sec.
J. W, Ozment, Treasurer,
R. J. Royall, C. A. Sterne, N. B. Barnes, Jim Langston, Samuel Rollins,
Cyrus Helms, Thos. E. Kersh, W. C. Foster, S. N. Pickens, W. J. Averyt, J.
Y. Gooch.

Directors:	
Jim Langston, President
C. A. Sterns, Sec.
S. N. Pickens, R. J. Roayll [sic], Cyrus Helms.

Faculty:
A. H. Bailey, A. M., Principal
Prof. J. T. Kennedy
Miss Mary Graham

Music Dept.: 
Prof. R. B. McEachearn
Miss Florence H. Finch

Telegraphic Dept.: - No. Pupils 17
W. I. Allen and J. P. Springer

Prize Pupil - Mr. J. L. Pickens - in the employment of the Western Union
Telegraph Co.

(Typist note from the notes I am typing, I cannot tell whether Mr. J. L.
Pickens was in the employment of the Western Union Telegraph Co., or whether
it was W. I. Allen and J. P. Springer. The statement is written at the side
of the names Allen and Springer and under the name Pickens. JW)

Contains a Catalog of Pupils - 
Female Dept. 91 Pupils

Male Dept.	78

Prize Pupils in Literary Dept. -
Miss Katie Jackson, Proficiency in writing
 " Lizzie Kennedy    "          "    "
Master George Martin "          "    "

Music Dept.	26 Pupils.

Primary Dept., Preparatory Dept., Intermediate Dept., High School Dept.

Regulations. The Male and Female Departments will occupy separate study
halls and play grounds. The Primary Dept. will occupy the ground of the
Female Department. The boys and girls will not he allowed to mingle together
either in the school halls or on the play grounds nor be allowed to
accompany each other to and from school.

The Telegraphic Dept. This dept. is a new feature in the school and can be
claimed by but few, if any of the literary institutions of the country north
or south.---Rapid extendsion [sic] of telegraphic lines in every direction,
has created a demand for good telegraphic operators, and young men reared in
the south, and accustomed to the diseases incident to our climate are
preferred to those unacclimated.

Pupils in Telegraphic Dept.:

Miss Anna Ward Palestine, Tex.
Mr. William M. Lacy "	   "
Mr. J. W. Ozment	  "      "
A. Pinson	- Anderson Co.
Master Eddie Link - Palestine,
  " Edward Foster	    "

Master James Moore, Palestine,
  " Ellie Sterne      "
  " Frank Hammersly   "
Mr. W. M. Michaux	    "
 " Louis Kopf	    "
 " D. Hunter	    "
 " P. Kolstad	    "
 " W. L. Moore
 " J. L. Pickens
 " Lewis Cox
 " J. H. Mead
Course of Study:
Spelling - Webster or Holmes - All Dept.
Reading 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Holmes or McGuffy - All Depts.
Primary Geography - Manny or Monteeth
Primary Arithmetic - Vewable or Davis
Writing - Duntonian System
Rhetoric - Quackenbos

Charges in Currency (strictly in advance)
Primary Dept. $2.50 per month
Intermediate Dept. $4.25 per month
Music		  "	  5.00 "	"
Music on violin	  3.00 "	"
Music on guitar	  3.00 "    "
Preparatory Dept.	  3.25 "    "
High School  "	  5.00 "    "
Telegraphic	 "	  5.00 "    "
Board in private families $l2.50 per mo.
No extra charge for any or the languages.
No incidental fees.

The school will open the first Monday in October and close the last Friday
in June, 1875.----

PROSPECTUS

Palestine Educational Ass'n was organized July 29th, 1873 by the following
citizens of Palestine: J. R. Palmer, J. W. Ozment, Jim Langston, T. E.
Kersch, N. B. Barnes, Cyrus Helms, W. C. Foster, R. J. Royall, S. N.
Pickens, C. A. Sterne, W. J. Averyt, N. S. Brooks, W. C. Larken, R. McClure,
Sam Rollins, J. Y. Gooch. Since the organization W. C. Larkin, having moved,
Jim Langston assumed his interest, and N. S. Brooks having withdrawn, H. B.
Wilder assumed his interest and was taken as member. The organization was
completed by the adoption of proper resolutions for government, and the
election of J. P. Palmer, Pres. - R. McClure, Vice Pres., J. W. Ozment,
Treas., J. Y. Gooch, Sec., and at the same time elected the following
gentlemen as trustees: S. N. Pickens, R. J. Royall, Jim Langston, C. A.
Sterne and N. B. Barnes.

The object of the Association being to establish and maintain a school of
high order, each member pledged his honor as a gentleman, for that object,
and at the same time executed his individual obligation in a sufficient
amount to secure to the teachers of the school the payment of their monthly
salaries and the payment of all necessary expenses. By the terms of
organization, tuition for each pupil is required to be paid monthly in
advance to the Treas. of the Ass'n: and should there be a deficit from
tuition to pay the salaries of teachers and necessary expenses, the Ass'n
levies an assessment upon each member pro rata, sufficient to meet such
deficit, and should the tuition collected afford an excess over the expenses
as above, the same is to be invested in necessary apparatus or in
improvements of the school property as may be most needed.

Thus it will be seen that Palestine High School is not only upon a firm
basis, but is also in the control of men who are determined to make it a
permanent institution.

In forming this Ass'n, it was not with the view of pecuniary benefit
directly to the members, but viewing our town as prospering in every other
respect, they were determined there should be such a school as was wanted
and sufficient to supply the wants of the people of Eastern Texas. 

While the Ass'n returns their thanks to the patrons and friends for the
generous support given them the last scholastic year, they respectfully ask
that the citizens of Palestine and adjoining country lend their aid still
further until the advantages of our school will be second to none in Texas.
In making this request the Ass'n calls your attention to the many advantages
of this place for a school. Palestine is the junction of two grand trunk
railroads, is perfectly healthy, having no local cause for sickness
whatever; with good, pure, freestone water. The citizens are liberal and
enterprising, and society equal to any in Texas. Add to all these that the
teachers are equal to any in Texas, being two gentlemen of long experience
in teaching, energetic, industrious, trusty, in short every way worthy of
the position they have, and who are in every respect qualified to preside
over and control any institution of learning; if more are wanted, than we
now have, none but the very best of teachers will be employed.

[from Volume 1, No. 2, Fall 1982 of The Tracings.]

CATALOGUE OF PUPILS

Female Dept.

Alexander, Sue		Palestine, Tex.
Averyt, Minnie		"	   "
Airhart, Eliza		Tennessee Colony
Adams, Sallie		Anderson Co.
Armstrong, Margaret	Palestine, Tex.
Armstrong, Mary		"	   "
Anderson, Fannie	Anderson Co.
Bowen, Mattie		Palestine, Tex.
Bowen, Ida		"	   "
Bowen, Duga		"	   "
Bowen, Emma		"	   "
Black, Linia		"	   "
Blessington, Maggie	"	   "
Bailey, Emma		"	   "
Crawford, Phena		"	   "
Crist, Arizona		"	   "
Childress, Jennie	"	   "
Calhoun, Jennie		"	   "
Day, Johnie		Dallas, Texas
Dune, Leona		Anderson Co.
Edens, Annie		Palestine, Texas
Edens, Josie		"	   "
Fowler, Dora		"	   "
Foster, Ella		"	   "
Foster, Ida		"	   "
Graves, Emma		"	   "
Garner, Bobbie		Anderson Co.
Greenwood, Mattie	Palestine, Texas
Gale, Rappie		Dallas, Texas
Garner, Lizzie		Palestine, Texas
Helm, Josie		"	   "
Helm, Dora		"	   "
Howard, Emma		"	   "
Howard, Lela		"	   "
Hanna, Ella		"	   "
Hudson, Flavia		"	   "
Hudson, Nannie		"	   "
Hasty, Tallulah		"	   "
Hicks, Ella		Longview, Texas
Heoffman, Tracy		Palestine, Texas
Jackson, Kate		"	   "
Joost, Genevieve	"	   "
Jowers, Mollie		"	   "
Kuttner, Hannah		"	   "
Kelly, Miriam		"	   "
Kennedy, Lizzie		"	   "
Kennedy, Janie		"	   "
Larkin, Annie		"	   "
Lawrence, Minnie	"	   "
Lawrence, Mollie	"	   "
Lawrence, Tabbie	"	   "
Mead, Katie		"	   "
Moore, Rora		"	   "
Moore, Sallie		"	   "
Moore, Josie		"	   "
Martin, Ruth		Palestine, Texas
Marlow, Julia		Anderson Co.
Mooney, Laura		Palestine, Texas
Mathews, Flora		Houston Co.
Prather, Mattie		Palestine, Texas
Perry, Tempie		"	   "
Pridgen, Mollie		Houston Co.
Royall, Emma Sue	Palestine, Texas
Royall, Fannie		"	   "
Reagan, Anna		"	   "
Reagan, Mollie		"	   "
Richardson, Tex		Athens, Texas
Richardson, Tebe	"       "
Richardson, Maggie	Palestine, Texas
Richardson, Lulu	"	   "
Roberson, Fannie	"	   "
Ricks, Mollie		"	   "
Sterne, Katie		"	   "
Sterne, Bettie		"	   "
Sterne, Laura		"	   "
Sterne, Sallie		"	   "
Sterne, Julia		"	   "
Sterne, Pauline		"	   "
Shamberger, Eunice	"	   "
Smith, Mary		"	   "
Simons, Ora		"	   "
Swanson, Dora		"	   "
Swanson, Mary		"	   "
Swanson, Fannie Lee	"	   "
Smith, Kate		Palestine, Texas
Taylor, Willie		"	   "
Taylor, Irene		"	   "
Townsend, Hattie	"	   "
Unger, Orelia		"	   "
Unger, Esther		"	   "
Word, Anna		"	   "

Male Dept.

Armstrong, Samuel	Palestine, Texas
Ash, Abram		"	   "
Butler, Augustine	"	   "
Butler, Willie		"	   "
Burdett, Pinkie		"	   "
Black, William		"	   "
Bowden, Frank		"	   "
Cantley, Charles	"	   "
Crawford, George	"	   "
Cox, Lewis		Anderson Co.
Coleman, Edward		Athens, Texas
Calhoun, Hallie		Palestine, Texas
Delespine, Henry	"	   "
DeBard, Jefferson	"	   "
Durham, Frank		"	   "
Davis, Neil		"	   "
Denyven, Joseph		Palestine, Texas
Denyven, Southerland	"	   "
Edens, Robert		"	   "
Ewing, A. W.		Palestine, Texas
Fineburg, Joseph	"	   "
Fowler, Frank		"	   "
Foster, Edward		"	   "
Foster, Zack		"	   "
Frizzell, William	Henderson Co.
Garner, Lewis		Anderson Co.
Garner, Charles		"	 "
Grigsby, Robert		Palestine, Texas
Greenwood, Albert	"	   "
Garner, William		"	   "
Gooch, Lucuis		"	   "
Gooch, Earle		"	   "
Howard, James		"	   "
Howard, George		"	   "
Helm, Jefferson		"	   "
Helm, John		"	   "
Hanna, John		"	   "
Hammersly, Frank	"	   "
Hunter, George		"	   "
Hunter, John		"	   "
Hollum, Robert		"	   "
Joost, Wilber		"	   "
Jackson, Emmet		"	   "
Link, Edward		"	   "
Langston, Thomas	"	   "
Langston, Willie	"	   "
Larkin, Percy		Athens, Texas
Larkin, Lee		Athens, Texas
Larkin, McDuff		"       "
Lawrence, Howard	Palestine, Texas
Lattimer, Warren	"	   "
Lacy, Young		Anderson Co.
Love, S. M.		Baltimore, Md.
Lacy, Frank		Palestine, Texas
McClure, George		"	   "
Martin, Willie		"	   "
Martin, George		"	   "
Mynatt, Jefferson	Tennessee Colony, Texas
Mathews, George		Anderson Co.
Moore, James W.		Palestine, Texas
Murchison, Daniel	Athens, Texas
Moore, James D.		Palestine, Texas
Morrison, Frank		"	   "
Nesbitt, Thomas		Freestone Co.
O'Dea, Patrick		Palestine, Texas
Pensin, A. Q.		Anderson Co.
Perry, Jerald		Palestine, Texas
Perry, Deucalion	"	   "
Perry, Conrad		"	   "
Pickens, Thomas		"	   "
Palmer, Frank		Kansas City, Mo.
Parker, Lollie		Groesbeck, Texas
Ricks, William		Palestine, Texas
Ricks, Hugh		"	   "
Ricks, Charles		"	   "
Rogers, Alonzo		"	   "
Sterne, Ellie		Palestine, Texas
Sayle, Claude		"	   "
Shilling, Samuel	"	   "
Smith, Samuel		"	   "
Smith, Edward		"	   "
Smith, Shelly		"	   "
Smith, John		"	   "
Woodward, John		"	   "
Wren, Worth		"	   "
Williams, Cadmus	Polk County, Texas
Wiley, Alonzo		Palestine, Texas
West, Stephen		"	   "

Music Dept.

Mead, Kate		Palestine, Texas
Crawford, Phena		"	   "
Reagan, Anna		"	   "
Helm, Josie		"	   "
Swanson, Mamie		"	   "
Word, Anna		"	   "
Lawrence, Mollie	"	   "
Lawrence, Minnie	"	   "
Jackson, Katie		"	   "
Joost, Genevieve	"	   "
Hicks, Ella		Longview, Texas
Sterne, Katie		Palestine, Texas
Sterne, Laura		"	   "
Sterne, Bettie		"	   "
Sterne, Sallie		"	   "
Sterne, Ellie		"	   "
Fowler, Dora		Palestine, Texas
Fowler, Frank		"	   "
Crist, Rosana		"	   "
Crist, Arizona		"	   "
Williams, Carrie	"	   "
Gooch, Attie		"	   "
Childress, Willie	"	   "
Prather, Mattie		"	   "
Campbell, Mrs. Eppie	"	   "
Lawrence, Miss Clem	"	   "