Jones County Texas Archives - History of Sunnyside School District - 1927 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 19 January 2020 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford American Thursday, July 14, 1927 Sunnyside School District No. 39 has $3,000.00 outstanding bonded indebtedness. The valuation of the district is $219,610.00. The local tax rate is 50c. The bond tax rate is 20c. The area of the district is 17 square miles. The building is located about five miles west of Stamford on the Stamford-Hamlin highway. The trustees are Messrs. Earl Osment, J.W. Benson, and E.C. Tidwell. The teachers are Miss Kathryn McQuary and Mrs. Elsie Reed Moore. The Sunnyside which became officially known by the name in September 1901 was first known as Davis School because of its situation on the Davis farm. It was twice moved before it became permanently located on the present site and generally known as Sunnyside. Sunnyside acquired its name from one of the Literary Societies of the Davis school which was named for the home of the American Poet, Washington Irving. One of SunnysideÕs early teachers was Miss Luella Hauk, principal of our school in 1912-1913 who is now our County Superintendent of Public Instruction. The community in general is prosperous. There are three modern homes in the community and a number of well-built colonial homes which denote prosperity. E.F. Osment, E.D. Appling, and Fredie Walker have Delco lighting systems and water pumped into their homes. Most of the people are cotton farmers. Mr. E.D. Appling runs in connection with a large farm a small dairy which he finds very profitable. Mr. Appling, Henry Osment and A.N. Reed make profits from bred chickens. About 90 percent of the land of the district is farm land. Five percent is pasture land and five percent ranch land. The farmers of this district terrace and farm according to improved methods. The school is not behind the district as to measures of progress, in fact the citizens of the community count the school the center of progress and take pride in the fact that the eight month term, teachers with first grade certificates, four kinds of playground apparatus, (this is the only rural school in Jones county that has an ocean wave as playground equipment) well-built and well-kept school house and out buildings, all help the school in making sufficient points to score as a standard rural school according to the score card sent out by the State Department of Education. This is the only school in Jones county that scores as much as 800 points for the school year of 1926-1927.