Jasper / Missler School - District No. 4

Records indicate that the Jasper school was organized November 7, 1885. The school was located in the NE/4 of the SE/4 of Section 26-T31-R29. Although the boundaries of the school district changed, and even the name of the towns changed, this school was the one stabilizing force around which this community existed.

Teachers of Jasper/Missler School

Anna Bowen - 1886 - 87

Tillie Turner - 1890 - 1891

W.G. Parks - 1891 - 1892

Jennie Kessler - 1893- 1894

Lotta Snyder - 1893 - 1894

Tillie Graves - 1894

Almina Burgess - 1905

Sue Painter - 1905 - 1906

Maybelle Yount - 1913 - 1914

Oscar Perkins - 1914 - 1915

Bessie Osborne - 1915 - 1916

Mary K Boring - 1916 - 1917

Cora Henry - 1917 - 1918

Besse L Osborne - 1917 - 1918

Flossie Singley - 1918 - 1919

Letha Haskins - 1918 - 1919

Lois Gray - 1919 - 1920

Bessie Osborne - 1919 - 1920

Laura Smith - 1920 - 1921

Mrs. H M Kirchner - 1921 - 1922

Theodore McCampbell - 1921 - 1922

George R Wells - 1922 - 1923

Mary Norman - 1922 - 1924

Mary Conover - 1923 - 1924

Mabel Fettis - 1924 - 1925

Helen Holdeman - 1924 - 1925

Ed Hickey - 1925 - 1927

Mattie Boyd - 1927 - 1929

Vera Armstrong - 1929 - 1932

Viola Black - 1932 - 1935

Ruth Edwards - 1935 - 1937

Roberta Gulick - 1937 - 1939

Ida Eikermann Marrs - 1939 - 1940

Katherine Lyon - 1940 - 1942

Lucy Kauffman - 1942 - 1943

Anna Vogt - 1943 - 1944

Esther Moler - 1944 - 1946

Surnames of students that attended Jasper / Missler school over the years:

Abbot, Anderson, Avery, Basinger, Beach, Berghaus, Bird, Black, Bulachford, Bunyard, Carlile, Casillas, Chase, Cook, Counts, Dickson, Dunlop, Elliott, Fahrenwald, Florez, Foote, Fotte, Greer, Gum, Hammar, Hays, Hernandez, Hickey, Hill, Hughes, Hurt, Jaqueso, Johnson, Kerns, Kilmer, Kirby, Lampe, Marshall, Martin, Massie, McCullough, Meyer, Miller, Nelson, Page, Peoples, Ragland, Ray, Reece, Reiss, Sefton, Southards, Steele, Turley, Valerio, Warkentin, Webb, Wilson, Woltje, and Woods.

District #4 became a part of District #77 January 5, 1946, and eventually part of Unified District 226 (Meade).

From the Arthur E. Bowen story:

Mr. Bowen relates an interesting early day incident that happened in February 1888. He was going to school at Rainbelt, later called Jasper, then Missler. He was fourteen years old at this time. The railroad was being constructed and it was quite an exciting time. The teacher dismissed school so that the children could go see the building of the railroad. Mr. Bowen's father hauled the teacher and all the school children, about fifteen, in his wagon. They drove to the big cut, about two or three miles east of Missler.

The two small engines which were at the rear of the train, had a whole train load of materials and a large force of men, perhaps one hundred fifty. The men would carry the ties to the front of the train, lay the loose rails and then spike them. The engineer would then run the flat car over that, to help settle and to extend the track. This procedure would be repeated over and over.

The children watched all afternoon. Of course, it was really great when the engineer asked them to come into the engine cab and ride a short distance.