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for the accommodation of more students.

2nd "The Butler" School:  Miss Hattie Reed, Principal:  Assistants, Miss Knowles, and four colored young men, undergraduates of the Normal School.  
This is a "pay school," charge 10 cents a week for each pupil.  The attendance is very good, nearly as large as when no tuition was required, and never have parents taken such interest in their children's studies, or children been so punctual and faithful at school, or in their studies, as this year, when they have had to pay a little for what they obtained.  The colored assistants have done their work remarkably well.

The school room is not finished: a central room needs to be ceiled and then a large space, now useless, may become available for general exercises, and the school will become a more perfect unity.  About $1000.00 would do all that is required to bring this school up to its highest efficiency.  The four rooms in which the different grades occupy are in excellent order. 

Transcription Notes:
ceiled: line or plaster the roof of (a building). "the nave has been ceiled in wood"