Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-01
Local News.
ALBANY.

nerod Pierce, for eleven hundred dollars.
The auction on the Russell Jenne es-
lite was success. Cows sold at from
25 to $50 sheep at from $3.50 to 81
per head.
Mr.. Orrin Delano has sold his farm,
nown as the Loren Dewey farm, to
5Iessrs Eugene and Willard Rowell for
1000. We guess the boys mean bust
ess. and they shall each of them have
wife when they get married.
Deacon Medad Darling has entered
lpon his eighteenth year as school dis
trict treasurer, in district No. 10. He
has faithfully and creditably discharged
the duties of this office ever since the or
ganization of the district
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF
Schools IN ALBANY.-Fell0aO Citizens,
When commenced my work as Super
intendent, l was comparatively stran-
ger among you. l knew but little Of
the condition of the different schools,
and nothing of their past history; nor
was acquainted with many of the teach
ers belonging in town and teaching here;
hence am wholly unable to compare
the schools Of this year with those of
preceding years; yet | 'fatter myself
that they are in no respect inferior to
them. This makes it pleasant duty
for me as Superintendent of schools to
make reports on this branch of our pub
lie interests. | would not however con-
Ney the idea that our schools have all
been in the highest degree satisfactory,
but that they have been as a whole very
profitable.
In the fifteen different districts in
Town, there has been taught thirty-three
terms of school the past year; fifteen in
the summer, four in the fall, and four
teen in the winter. To teach these
schools twenty-five different teachers
have been employed. Twenty of them
hyere residents of this town three have
state certificates twenty-seyen terms
were taught by home talent. Only five
male teachers were employed. | have
in no case been called upon or thought
it necessary to revoke a certificate, and
only one teacher failed to complete her
school, and of her let me say she answer
ed ninety per cent of the questions asked
at the public examination of teachers
last spring. 1t is worthy of notice that
only four teachers have taught a second
term in the same district, and only one
school has been under the charge of the
same teacher the whole number of terms
taught in the year. This constant
changing of teachers is very injurious to
the interests of our schools; | hope for
improvement in this respect. Let us
when we have once secured profitable
teacher when we get the right person
in the right place, keep him there as
long as possible, no matter if we have to
pay few dollars extra There should
be searching for good teachers for teach
ers adapted to particular schools, and
when found, the efforts of each in behalf
Of his school should be supported by the
hearty cooperation of the whole district.
In many of my visits, have endeavored
to impress upon the minds of the schol
ars their individual responsibility, il
they would have a good school, and to-
day would that could arouse my fellow
townsmen, to the important subject o.
doing more to make our schools profta
bic. Nearly all Of our school house.
are in good repair, but am sorry to say
almost wholly unfinished. have no
seen a set of mathematical blocks in ;
school room in town. know of no out
line maps, or: even globe; there is il
some districts dictionary, in two OF
three clock, in all something for ;
blackboard 1t will be seen by this tina
our teachers go to their work poorly pro
vided for. Let us hope for improve
ment here. The farmer does not senc
his hired help into the field to NOW Will
dull scythes or reap with broken sickles
but he gives them the most perfect i'm
plements of husbandry, that they ma,
accomplish much in "a short time will
but little outlay of strength.
II The schools in this town cost yearh
at least $2500.00, and do we not wan
this investment to bring US as large al
income as possible? Then let us pu
our teachers in the most favorable posi-
ton to teach Let us surround ther
with the little apparatus they need t
instruct the children in the commo
school branches. Is it asking too mucl
while our farmers are getting mowin
machines, horse rakes, and patent mil
pans as labor and money savers, to al
low the same age of improvement tina
furnishes us with these many useful in
ventions, furnish our teachers with som
aids to teaching.
During the year | have made abou
torty-five visits; some of the schools !
the SUMMER visited three times, mos
OF them twice, and all at least once. III
winter schools have visited all saw
three once, some of them twice. | hor