The record book for School District No. 3 of Franklin County, Missouri, contains entries ranging from 1882 to 1891. There is one notice of an annual school meeting for the district dated 1906; there are no records from 1892 to 1905. The records are arranged chronologically. The volume was printed by E.F. Hobart & Co., Steam Printing House, 615 Chestnut Street, St. Louis. Hobart designed the volume so that it contained the “various forms required by the latest school laws” in Missouri. The contents included the following forms: a map of district, various meeting proceedings, various financial records, a list of taxpayers, register and reports of teachers, teacher contracts, lists of books, district clerk’s financial reports, oaths of school directors, and others.