River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-11-02
Educational.
III. =. BAkER A. H., Editor.
County SUPERINTENDENT

! A. c. LAMroRr will teach the school
in the Reed district this winter.
| Miss Susie Gilmore is engaged to
teach in district No. 3, town of Hart
land. X.
! j. MARTIN has engaged the Spring
Valley school for a term of three
months the coming winter.
Miss ELIZA KELLEY has engaged the
school in the joint district, Gilman
and Spring Lake, of which Mr.. s..
Saunders is Clerk.
w. j. PERRY has engaged to teach
the school in district number 6, Trim
belle. His school opens Nov. 9th, for
a four months term.
SALEM school district, No. 3, has not
secured a teacher yet. 1t is to be
hoped the adage, delays are danger
Gus, may not prove true in this case.
THE Ono district has waived the
usual custom of having fall term, but
have instead a four months winter
term. Mrs. L. r. Snow is the teacher.
4
JOINT district No. l, town of Hartland
has procured the services of Miss Cole
man of MINI. for eight months which
includes their winter and summer
| terms. X.
Those teachers who did not attend
the fall examination, will confer IA
vor upon us by sending card, stating
what topic they would prefer to take
at a Teachers Association.
j. ID. PARDEE will teach in the school
at the mouth of Lost Creek, FL Paso.
We have never seen him in the school
room, but we believe his teaching
will be like his education,-frst rate.
DURING the year we have granted
first grade certificates to the following
persons:--SOphia C. Thomas, r. l..
Reed, S. A. Farnsworth, Harrison Lo-
water. S. B. Mckinney, J. A. Chapman,
j. c. Lewis.
THERE will be a meeting of the
Pierce County Teachers Association at
Ellsworth, Saturday, Nov. 18th. We
wish all would attend that can do 50
without serious inconvenience. We
will speak of the programme next
week.
Two or three ladies who desire to at
tend school and work for their board,
can find place by addressing NJ. f.
Severance, Alton, Mimi. They can
pay for the whole or part of their
board with labor. A good chance for
those whose means are limited. The
Academy offers good advantages.
SOME district boards show suoh lack
of interest in their schools and are
so careless of the influence brought to
bear upon themselves as to hire teach
ers who acknowledge themselves to be
immoral and are known by the COM
munity as such. We should pronounce
such proceedings decided obstacle in
the way of educational advancement.
Y.
IT gives us pleasure to welcome to
our table new educational exchange,
the "Juneau County Plain Talker," f.
C. Kibbe, late of the prescott Plain
dealer" editor and proprietor. 1t
| contains column and a half of ed
ucational matter, prepared by Mrs. F.
| NJ. Washburn. The issue before us
contains an article on teaching history,
which offers many good suggestions.
We hope Mr.. Kibbe will meet with
success in his efforts to create an in
terest in education,
If you come to ask a private exami-
nation, bring some rery good excuse
for being absent from the regular one.
''Bad roads" as an excuse, haunted
us last summer, but Ue Travelled them.
This fall the roads were good and the
weather fine. 'Father was using the
team" seems to he the excuse most
likely to have good run during the
winter, as standard. 1t will I'M
doubtedly tranSpire that examination
day was the one ON which nearly all
the threshing and blowing was done.
And further, we presume that fathers
were never so 10th to let their chill
dren have a team on any previous day.
A long and tedious illness is not un-
common to hear Of, combining teachers
to the house, from Oct. 9th, to Oct.
18th.
Iy the last written examination of
fhe Ellsworth Graded School, the sub
iects were :--Grammar department.
Arithmetic, decimals and reduction of
compound numbers; Grammar. or
biography, analysis, parsing and cor
rection of false syntax; Geography,
miscellaneous; Reading. principles
Penmanship, principles of Spencerian
system; L. s. Constitution, legislative
and executive departments. "a" In
ediate.-Arithmetie common
fractions; Geography, United States
and Europe; Reading, Penmanship
and Constitution, same as Grammar
department. Standing on scale of
100. Grammar department.-IIa
Swim. 95; Anna Cope, 90; Nettie
Brownson, 90; Alice Goodell. IS;
Lizzie Bunnell, so; Walter Paine. %
Herbert Fletcher, 81: Willie Cairns,