River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-09-28
Educational.
III. =. BA ~ Elk. A. IT,. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

school this winter.
DAVIES, the author of various mathe
NAUTICAL works, is dead.
70 pupils in the Ellsworth villag,
school. 1t is doing finely.
JULIA AKERs has Eve months EN-
gagement in the Gosset district, Spring
Lake.
VIII. district clerks elect. read sec
80 of the school code, and town clerk.
sec. So?
Miss AGNES lIosFoRD, Superintendent
of Eau Claire county, has our thanks
for favors.
No school book that does not fol
low Webster's Dictionary should be
allowed in this state.
JABEz SMITH teaches at Moorehead,
Minn., this year. lie is principal OF
the graded school at that place.
j. +. JOHNSON is teaching for two
months i'll No. Martel. That gives
the district 8 months of school during
the year.
REBEcCA j. TAYLOR will teach seven
months school in No. s, Maiden Rock.
at good price. 1t is her third term
in the school. A wise district.
Coop teachers are not wanted in
some schools, and will not be al
lowed to remain there only few
weeks School Bulletin.
If a teacher has had experience as q
pupil in a successful school, he will be
apt to succeed if he has the elements
of success in him.--SchOOi Bulletin.
A PERSON who can do one kind of
work better than his fellows, is always
in demand at good wages, whether he
be mechanic, minister, or teacher.
Ponder this.
WE shall expect every teacher in the
winter schools to have Il programme
written out, giving the exact time al
lowed to each class, and recess, and
open to the inspection of visitors.
| Tag Morton district, Martel. has
voted money to procure some new
seats of the most improved kind. And
what is better, they have also voted
money for u district library.
| MISS Imogene Cox is added To the
corps of teachers in our village school,
She assists Mr.. Gordon in the lower
department, occupying the recitation
room, on the west side of the building.
G. w. McIEYRE will teach in dis
trict No. 4. The Norwegian Luther
an school in the district begun Sept.
18th. j. NJ. Midboe. teacher. Mr..
Mclntyrc's term will open quite late.
Those clerks who ask to see teach
er's certificate, before they even talk
with him about any thing else, are do
ing noble work in raising the schOl-
arship of teachers. We thank you for
your assistance in that work.
JOHN MARTIN, OF uardinsville, H.,
who has taught in this county. but for
the past three years has been teaching
in ILL.,, has returned, and thinks of
teaching in this locality this winter.
4.
| fcations.
Miss ANNA WHIP in the Stafford
school, Trimbeile, had ii pupils. She
reports Ii in county geography and
defamation, III letterwiiting, and
general exercise in history. Re-
views monthly. A good showing.
Her school is a model.
II cheap teachers are hired upon the
presumption that the school will be
small, there will usually be little dis
appointment in IN intelligent commu-
nifty. Pupils will always be found in
| Larger than the estimated Numbers,
when ever there is Il superior teacher.
THE New England Journal OF EducJ-
ton is. to other papers of the kind,
what the New York Tribune is to a
county paper. Ii several teachers
would club together to taAe it, they
couhi Ito so very chearly. Why not
do So! Write for terms.
THE National School Singer is just
what is needed in schools that have
singing exercises. The songs arc III
| tcresting. There are Il few pages of
instruction. 1t is of the same style,
size and price as the Sabbath School
books of song. A. S. Barnes 4 Co.,
Chicago.
The Prescott Graded school is now
! fully organized. Owing to the skill
! and energy of Principal Reed, and the
beatty cooperation of the teachers, the
school will, without doubt be brought
to u high degree of excellence this
year. t.ood discipline is shown by the
way the pupils lrtss out at intermis
sion. i. e.. in an nnbrOken line. Not a
word is spoheu in the halls. The
whole building is cleared in less than
four minutes.
A TEACHER needs To he firm and
uniform in his bearing toward his
/ pupils; he cannot afford to be a.
familiar with them as with his per
sonal friends. The pupil has pro
found respect for a truly dIgniiied
AMI consistent teacher, and such {
teachers influence over his schoo
is many times greater than that oil
the easy familiar teacher, who gov
erns and educates simply by appeal