Show school schools ef bavis davis county SALT lare LAKE CITY D dee dec e c 12 18 1875 7 5 editor deseret news th the e follow following ng report of edu education catlon catian indania in davis county was very kindly furnished me by air nir mr chester ca call cail the county superintendent of or common schools and is submitted to you for publication BOUNTIFUL davis co ige dc 18 1875 amr mr 0 JI jr riggs territorial su suy y perin of common school IDarS drar sif sir lr havin having 1 g fust just returned ff arm ril vi biting the i cools c in this county I 1 sil sit it down to give you a ay sy nop lis als of our school interest ou on monday the in cem corn pany with bishop anon call I 1 visited five nive schools in bountiful and found all doing a as well as ouid be eap ted t under the circumstances circumstanced eed ced 1 e c houses and furniture ate genera ly in a dil di lapica apida ed condition asid aud ome home i of tile the teachers III in tile tiie th esaue value fix th thelast L remark will apply appl id til places in the county be beld id 1 1 hut but all seem to be best although we ham hae not scell a corps of teachers aa us I 1 could wish in bountiful there are nw now seven teven schools in se emion ea bjon eJon ion numbering pupil out of a f at ot of being t taught a by nine tet tei teachers chers cheis 19 14 19 on 06 thle I 1 vitiated centerville Cent erville and thyre found two passable Fc choals ch hool hooi ill in i assion with good house houses and ami fair furniture school tian enrol enrolled fed led 83 on oil the visited farmington where hete bete th the 0 hio fio J ulin W v hess heas ai all d trustees trus trub teea accompanied led me mt there thero are four schools schoola in ill session ari arl and one more that will open on the roth of the present month they have havo teo trw 0 good rock houses two udoxie one go odthe other good for nothing and one log house which is N comfortable the furni til tureen r 0 in the tiie houses does very well weli but bat in the other two there are no con cou conveniences eul eui evces whatever for tile the chil chii children dien school population ilon tion enrolled on tile tha loth visited rays Nays ville where vb ere I 1 fo found u n d tb three ree very good b brick brlek I 1 ick lck bodeo bouer bou bode era err eo eia but two of them are just completed and will not be opened for schools until after holidays holad ys the houses house sure are really a credit to the people of kaysville Kays ville villo and speak well for the enterprising trustees the of the three houses was finished lat la t year and is 33 x 65 55 ft inside in company with bishop christopher layton Xi ayton the trustees and t P everal prominent citizens of the ward we visited this house housea and td found pupils two teachers and the best choir in davis cod coi county anty going through their lessons in their usual moann manner yr anti and in good style the people here are making rapid strides in educational matters on the went to south weber found no school in IQ ses zes session seshion ion IOD but found one of the trustees and got the following information there therl are 38 scholars in the district an and aud 1 I all have been attending school at least six months during the past school arear thie the afternoon went to tp Hoop hooperville erville this district has no school house housse but liaa hati levied a tax of I 1 per cent and arid expects to build next spring the division line of Davi davis sand and weber cou counties titles runs through the town of hooperville Hoop erville in tile the early days of the tile town they built a house on oil the weber side bide ei aud and thirty of th the 0 children chil dien on jhb davis county side are attending school in that house their school population is and if children childr tn are anything 0 to go by you cali call ean can see lee that they ile lle need ed a school hou houe o every school house in the county is provided with a set of writ writing ilig charts and nd primary charts for the children As a general thing tilo tho r school chool officers and leading men of or the county are interesting themselves very much in education A 1 matters the people were very veny much ch d in not seeing your face as they fully expected to do so bl but ut 1 I excused you as us best I 1 could and told them that you would probably visit them in february B but u t come coma when you mry mr y you will be male niale welcome by the trustees teachers students and all I 1 am further informed by mr dir call that the greatest want of that county is good teachers though p partially bially supplied with such baill t the majority are but III in the pro profession juddi smith and BI hops call fali and ind hes hessy and other leading ledding men in the county appear to fully app appreciate rociale chis this lack and have already tak taken steps eps to at least partially supply the county with a better cl assof teachers the county court has made an appropriation pria tion ian to pay the ti tuition of four students in the normal cid ild department part paTt ment of the university of deseret these students have been selected from the four wards viz bountiful rass kays ville and are now attendance at that institution if 11 some 46 other counties that are not represented inthis in lip normal formal school would domn follow the example of county it jitt would be e very much to their lute interest resL rest 1 0 H RIGGS ter supt bupt common school schools 1 I 1 success of the eiders killers ii r ST LOUIS mo dc dec E ailor deseret Deser ct 21 ZV ws we wo are having baving success on our i and icel well in the good work lihaven a at t present elders eiders junius P wells al VV V pa prat ft t samuel leigh david bullock john jphn C duncan and john parry they all ail al spoke last sabbath iu III the hill lalo 1310 broad broadway way and several of them for the allt time lime in public to an ai appreciative audience elder bider wells veils leaves here toda to o da dat daj ro fi biln hlin illinois als to visit his hia relatives relative es for a little season and thel theu they return to iowa where he has been la boing with success ess in in coi cot junction conjunction with Elders riders joseph G yung andjus and jo F simmons Sim mons mona jphn parry and john 0 duncan go to Pitts ritts bre anel will labor as opportunity ofle ofie offers I 1 Pennsylvania in nay ivan 11 1 elders samuel leigh and david bulloch bullach will labor in the minin mining 9 reg regions ions lons in missouri and illinois 4 mathone W pratt and nays rays myself air eit will labor in st Leui sand saud vicinity where we have all the calls we WC can fill at present there never was a timela time in my experience when tho the th spirit of or inquiry was more maUl manifest fest test than now among the old II 11 alor llor mensa mens who battled nobly nobis for a while in the faith delivered to the saints by the prophet joseph smith 1 but got weary in well do dd ing fo for reas reasons ns best known to themselves the lord is feeling after them and their children and many will return to the fold to receive the reward of their labors in the benen benefits its of tile the sealing powers of tiie the holy priesthood 4 0 but there ale aie are thousand thousands gs who have named the hamd name of christ who have entangled themselves with the world and will perish with great babylon whose cup of in iniquity tri u ity is nearly full to 1 me the whisperings of the spirit are the lord wants v a elders eiders in the flech field who will work for the salvation salvati orl Oll of souls and are willing to make sacrifice flo to accomplish this thia end great will be their reward when the lord iad makes up his jewels the president of the st loui lou branch jaseph joseph stay and those who abo labor with him are do ingall doing all ail t they ey can to heep keep the saints together g aher aber and I 1 think they have done well to klep keep the faith some come ot of them having been here for upwards of twenty year we alladi habte our headquarters in st louis at brothers A J kershaw kurshaw N rth street Streety where here the U iders elders have had for sears bears ears a heer hegr hearty tyl w welcome and pien plen tant yant peli veli dent clent stay anda andew w burman hi and d others nave llave received the thie eld elders kindly and in return feel blessed inso in so doing the elders laboring with me 1 are lire all well and willing to labor accord ing t the tho best of their abilities in the fields assigned them Remember me kindly to ren in the office and to all ail inquiring ring friend k in which brethren the join and believe roo roe as ever your fellow laborer in tile tiie til e cause causo of truth D 11 stuary STUART well wen kecel necel i elt eis eit elt doe doc doctrine trino easiest to L receiver i f CANTON fulton co ills december fth 1875 I 1 editor deseret news the work in this vicinity is progressing and I 1 have some hope of being able with the blessing of god to organize a branch here heri I 1 am uniformly well received and well treated the only opposition I 1 have yet received of an onfri unfriendly endly nature coming from apostates who are quite nume rbt J 4 io in lils liis ills Ws county 1 ahad had expected t to 0 meet great grea t 0 opposition p against the doctrine of plural marri ni arriage awe aHe but am r at ut tho the interest taken oaken aken indis tehi t eri erl I 1 ng to my defence de fe lice rice vices of various kinds barly those of or official thie thle vii inn ian sensuality burden the people very liea igea heavily vily and thousand are blocki p te the support of el creeds and the doctrines of spiritualism and go so blind have mankind mankini become and so benumbed are their thelt rachil ties that the power of Go dalone can cati convert con cou vert them to repentance your brother in in the ti uth poi J n 1 jf t A |