ARNOLD'S FIRST SCHOOL

Miss Anna Myrtle Saunders 1884

Miss Anna Myrtle Saunders taught a six month term of school in 1884 from September to March, in a sod house on her homestead claim east edge of Arnold.

There was no organized School in Arnold and she was not trained to teach but she agreed to teach upon the insistence of parents in the Community. Subjects taught were Reading, Elocution,Spelling, Penmanship, Arithmetic, Geography, U.S. History, Civil Government, Grammer, and Physiology. Calisthenics and Music were also part of each day.
Anna Saunders was a state lecturer for the I.O.G.T., an early temperance group and published "The Bugle Call" an official publication for that group.

She did not teach a second term , but in the fall of '85 Miss Ella Kinney was teaching some children in the sod Methodist Church. A Mr. Walker taught a term that same year. The next year Amy Robertson taught a term.

Arnold School 1895

A small frame building for school use was put up in 1887 on land donated by R.E. Allen. A second room was added a few years later. Few early records have survived.

Pupils Enrolled in 1884 were:
Adelebert, Ella and Fanny Ray, Clara Savage, Clarence and Francis Correll, Alonza Leland, Mattie, George, John and Gus Morrow, Eora , Jessie Bartie and Lee Sargent, Minnie and Ella Robinson, Jessie Sherwood, Otto, Roy and Elbridge Hughey, Harley, James and William Gamble, Roy, Harry and Charley Frazier, Charley Thomas and Ed Campbell.