Wray Public Schools
Wray Rattler September 8, 1900

Our public schools convened last Monday morning with an enrollment of 135 pupils; the highest in the history of the school.? The following corps of teachers have charge of the work:? Principal, Prof. Dow, High School; Mrs. Flora Hendrie, Grammar department; Miss Bertha Sisson, Intermediate; and Mrs. Myrtle V. Derr, the Primary department.? The course of study at present consists of eleven grades, and they are in charge of departments as follows--

Primary department , first and second grades.

Intermediate department, third, fourth, and fifth grades.

Grammar department, sixth, seventh and eighth.

High School, ninth tenth and eleventh

The following is the roster of pupils:

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT

First Grade

Charley Jackson??????? Clark Jordan

John Reed??????????? Walter Berkett

Bessie Sechrist??????? Ralph Grigsby

Cloyd Cheney??????? Irwin Yenter

Jimmie Mason??????? Charlie Rider

Bessie McKee??????? Myrtle Carl

Margaret Butts??????? Flora Lewis

Erma Cox??????????? Emma Blust

Second Grade

Earl Carl??????????? Anna Armstrong

Leo Yenter??????????? Raymond Bowles

Lura Johnson??????????? Thaddeus Binat

Myron Dorman??????? George Grigsby

Mildred Counter??????? George Harmon

Royal Reed??????????? Edith Dorman

Victor Willis??????????? Jessie Lewis

Clyde Cox??????????? Harry Neal

Ruth Lapaam (sic - must be Ruth J. Lapham, daughter of Elmer and Mary

INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT

Third Grade

Bussy Jennings??????? Ella Lapham

Wray Vaughn??????? Florence Jordan

Lewis Mason??????????? Ray Harmon

Philip Jackson??????? Grace McKee

Frank Johnson??????? Wellman Grigsby

Fay Sechrist??????? Anna Reid

Norma Hendrick??????? Carl Cumley

Fourth Grade

May Blust??????????? Maud Mitten

August Yenter??????? Effie Armstrong

Wayne Mason??????????? Hazel Cox

Clarence Robison??????? Don Neal

Milly Howard??????? Nora Bullard

Fifth Grade

Jimmie Harmon??????? Myrtle Armstrong

Dale Cumley??????????? Leonard Owings

Edna Bales??????????? Archie Cox

Delbert Johdson (sic - must be Delbert Johnson)

GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT

Sixth Grade

Grace Wise??????????? Wayne Bales

Mida Rush??????????? Ray Mason

Ida Clyd??????????????? Cloyd Mercer

Marle Mitten??????????? Otto Finn

Jane McKee??????????? Nettie Cox

Martha Blust??????? Roselia Cheney

Clara Bullard??????? Jeff Grant

Pearl Pickett

Seventh Grade

Clara Hadlock??????? Lee Keliar

Retta Stick??????????? Ellen Lepper

Clara Counter??????? Anna Bancroft

Will Dias??????????? Fred Bullard

Elmer Courtney??????? Avery Keliar

Blanche Cunningham

Eighth Grade

Anna Lawrence??????? Jane McKee

Fearn Willis??????????? Katie Weaver

Ray Blust??????????? Rosa Howard

Orlo? Sechrist??????????? Minnie Courtney

Victor Robison??????? Ruby Cumley

Egbert Bullard??????? Oscar Hadlock

Edgar Loyd??????????? Lily Howard

Clarence Mason??????? Lizzie Cox

Essie Sechrist

HIGH SCHOOL

Ninth Grade

Alfred Wise??????????? Blanche Simpson

Eva Grant??????????????? Victoria Finn

Beatrice Mitten??????? Bessie Lepper

Myrtle Neal??????????? Nita Robison

Clyde Cunningham

Tenth Grade

Geneva Akey??????? Grace Brown

Carrie Staininger??????? Ida Hedrick

Vesta McKee??????????? Mattie Remington

Ben Counter

Eleventh Grade

Ora Elliott??????????? Jim Counter

Olin Simpson??????? Zella Weaver

Mollie Finn??????? Minnie Dorman

Winniie Doaman??????? Elis Bullard

Pearl Jackson??????? Rena Chapin

Perry Cunningham

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The 1900 census has Flo Hendrie, born 1870 in Illinois - Widowed.? She's living with her sister Ora (Viola in 1910) Klugh and her husband Hubbard.

Bertha Sisson, born 1875 in Missouri, is boarding with the William and Rebeca Cunningham family - farmers, and their six children AND the David Loyd family of three.

Myrtle Vaughn, 29-year-old daughter of the Wray hardware dealer, had married Otto Derr of the Wray Rattler in August 1900.? Otto also served as town clerk.? They had a baby girl on December 18, 1901,? sold all their household goods, four business lots, and eight residence lots in 1902 and moved to the San Francisco area.? In 1909 Otto was publishing the Oakland Leader

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