River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-01-06
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
III. =. BAKER, A. H., Editor.
County Supt.
SalutltOry.

can ne uone by that means. NeaSk
teachers to send us any news relating
to schools.
Most educational journals are very
duh, from the fact that their columns
are filed with long essays that are not
practical, and have no relation 10
common schools. This department
will contain no reading of that kind.
A common school is thing 10y itself.
Rules, and methods that are proper in
colleges, academies and normal schools,
will not always help a common dis.
triet school, when practiced by young
teachers. They need the first simple
lessons in theory and practice. They
need to be stimulated to acquire a
higher education.
TIE winter term of the Normal
School opened Jan. 4th.
THOSE wishing nominations to the
Normal School. viii please wlite, or
eall III person, Saturdays, and be serv.
ed.
10 not change the order of exercises
in the least, when visitors call, espec-
Tally cleIk or Supt.
rHE Wisconsin Journal of Education
is reduced in plice and improved.
Bt special arrangement we can have
itbent to any teacher, who will pay
us ninety cents in advance. If not
paid in advance the plice is higher.
Those ordering for themselves, one
COPY, can have it for one dollar and
ten cents per year. Any teacher in
any pat of the county, can order it
Though us and save money. District
cid ks can do so and charge it to the
district.
yoaRIs B. WILKINSON will take the
school at Clifton Hollow, which we
left Dec. 3lst.
RIVER Falls public schools open next
Monday morning.
DErRlcr clerks will confer a favor.
by whiting OF telling us what is lack
ing to make each ones school sue.
cess.
PuPn.s who live away from their
parents with relations, and wolk for
their boald; or with any one else,
cannot legally attend school free, in
the district of their temporary abode.
Thepupil slesidence is with his parent
or guardian, unless his age, or mutu-
al consent has freed him flom paen-
tai control. Claiming TO belong to
the family while living in it, is of no
account. Tie teachers duty is to ex-
clude a nonresident pupil, without a
written permit from the clerk. The
clelk should not give Il permit until
the tuition is paid to the district Il cas-,
urer. Village school boards should
bear this in mind, and save themselves
trouble.
The next meeting Of the Pierce
County Teachers Association will be
held at Spring Valley school house,
Jan. 8. MIS-. Maxgood prepares the
programme. 1t will hold meeting
at River Falls eally in February. H.
b. smith plepaIes the programme.
TIE New England Journal of Educa.
ton is the best of its kind in the U.
S. We shall give more extended
notice soon.
sSrEAKISG Eces. Amy boy or gill
wanting to find fresh Poetry, CITATIONS,
Dialogues, Charades, ETC., to speak at
exhibitions, should take the NEW ExG-
LAND JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, Boston,
Mass, and have the benefit of Mrs.
NJ. Is. SHADES School Exhibition DE.
paltment. Send stamp for copy.
MAnlox L. RoBEY, who lately broke
his thigh, leaves his school in Gilman,
and his sister will probably finish it.
ST. CROIx COUNTY.
PRor. f. S. RkED. of River Falls, is
teaching at Hammond village, as pin
cipal Of the graded school Advanced
pupils 10 that vicinity will do well to
attend. 4 former pupil whites as
follows. It does seem good 70 have
the pleasure Of attending what any
person can call a drst.rate school. II
is the FIRST we have had in three years.
Miss Lu wncox. Of River Falls. teach
es in the Moulton district, Kinnickin.
nick. Her patrons seem to think that
the Grove Till Seminary. as her
school.house is called, has a better
teacher than they are used 10. She
succeeds brilliantly.
PRor. SLACK. principal Of the IIud.
son city school, had hoy arrested
and fined twelve dollars for disturb