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BRIDGE ACADEMY SCHOOL No. 4

Tingley Township

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 26, 2015, Page 11

From "Snapshots of History" by Mike Avitt:

"When rural schoolhouses were first built in Ringgold County, they were built where the need was the greatest. But eventually districts were formed and education became organized. It was decided to place a rural school every two miles so a pupil would never have to walk more than a mile to school. My notes say [July 1890. . . ] is the time frame when the schools were placed about every two miles. . . ."

Tingley Township was divided into nine school districts. Bridge Academy School No. 4 was located west of Tingley along Highway 169.

Hazel NICHOLS JENKINS, the teacher at Bridge Academy, related an incident when Francis SMITH arrived at school early one day. Francis said he was at school early because he had gotten a ride. Hazel asked him if he had he had gotten a ride from Henrietta CARR. Francis replied, "I don't know what kind of car it was."

bridge academy

Bridge Academy School No. 4

BACK ROW, left to right: Mary McGRATH, Doris ENGLAND, Margaret TROXELL, Roberta REYNOLDS

FRONT ROW, left to right: Marjorie PUTNEY, Doris JOHNSON, Ann ANDERSON, Jim ENGLAND, Alvin SELSOR, Deloris SELSOR

Tingley Vindicator, Tingley, Ringgold County, Iowa
October 26, 1911

Cozy Corner 5; Bridge Academy 3.
On Friday, Sept. 20, a game of baseball was played between the schools of Bridge Academy and Cozy Corner, resulting in a score of 5 to 3 in favor of Cozy Corner. The following is the line-up:

  Bridge Academy   Cozy Corner
  Elton GILES  pitcher  H. ASHENHURST
  Howard GILES  catcher  Wyatt HANKINS
  John ENGLAND  1st base  Floy HANKINS
  Dorothy MILLER  2nd base  Archie McCAHON
  Grace ENGLAND  3rd base  Fay HANKINS
  Ray GROUT  short stop  Mae McCAHON
  Glenn GROUT  right field  Cecil McDOWELL
  Floyd MILLER  center field  David HANKINS
  Oscar McKEE  left field  Edith HANKINS

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa, Thursday, March 27, 1941

A reading contest was held at Bridge Academy Friday afternoon. Four schools were represented and Robert England received first place and will represent Tingley township in the contest in Mount Ayr.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker

Bridge Academy was closed by 1950.

SOURCE: Tingley Centennial book, Pp. 128-29, 169.

Continuing with Mike Avitt's article:

"As gravel roads and school buses made rural schools obsolete, they were sold. . . .The ones that were sold were sold one at a time until October 22, 1951 when Cozy Corner [Tingley Twp. No. 3], Eighme School [Tingley Twp. No 9], and Bridge Academy [Tingley Twp. No. 4] all sold at public auction for around $600 each. Sales were common during the 1950s."

V.F.W., Bastow and Bird Buy Schoolhouses
From the Mount Ayr Record News, October 25, 1951

Three schoolhouses on highway No. 169, north of Mount Ayr in Tingley township, were sold Monday afternoon at public auction for a total of $1,825.

Auctioneer Dennis OWENS said the size of the crowd was comparable to that attending a closing out farm sale.

The Cozy Corner schoolhouse was sold to John BIRD for $525; the Mount Ayr post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, bid in the Bridge Academy school for $635, and the Eighme School went to Herbert BASTOW for $665.

Mrs. Russell SHIELDS served as clerk of the sale.

The Bridge Academy school, located one mile west of Tingley, will be left on the present site to be used by the post as a meeting place.


Newspaper notice for sale of schoolhouses

Sell Bridge Academy Schoolhouse to Bowen
From the Mount Ayr Record News, May 7, 1953

The Bridge Academy schoolhouse, one mile west of Tingley on highway No. 169, was sold Saturday at public auction to Vernon BOWEN, of Jefferson township, for $315.

The schoolhouse was owed by Kilroy Post No. 8881, V.F.W. Members decided to sell the building after they had decided not to move it to Mount Ayr as a place for holding meetings.

Dennis OWENS served as auctioneer.

 


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