 Van Alstyne Leader
October 16, 1924 Page 2 THE CANNON SCHOOL W.A. Adams, Gum Allen and Val Hunter are the trustees of the public school at Cannon. Mrs. D. W. Jay, Miss Ruth McMillan and Miss Marie Lucas are the teachers. In the classification of schools the Cannon school will be found listed in those termed "rural" - meaning a school situated in the country districts. Literally, this designation is appropriate, but as a matter of fact, few cities are more progressive in their school work, and according to the means at the disposal than is this little community, just a few miles East of Van Alstyne. During the past two years, and with funds derived from a bond issue of possibly $2,500.00, a new and larger building has been erected, an additional teacher employed, and a general improvement made, both in the physical and mental efficiency of the training offered. Tracking the path which they are blazing, it will not be long before the "little red school house," of which, as far as Cannon is concerned, has been supplanted by a "three teacher white school house," will be but a memory, and the memory will be pleasant one, in as much as it marks the initiative in an improvement in the schools for which trustees of the types of Messrs Adams, Allen and Hunter, and teachers of the type of Mrs. Jay and Misses McMillan and Lucas may be said to have a very creditable and commendable part in beginning. To both trustees and teachers, the congratulations due them for the splendid work which they are doing are extended cheerfully and copiously.  Cannon School History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |