River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-31
Educational.
III. y. BAKE "A. rs. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

| COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT,
DIsrRIcr No. 2, town of Gilman, has
adopted list of books.
PRoF. BURBANK. who read in River
Falls, has issued volume of selec-
tions.
IT is not a good sign for teachers
standing to decrease at.successiye ex-
aminations.
| A VALUABLE work relating to the late
Russo-Turkish war has lately been
added to the Teachers Library.
ADA CovELL teaches the Diamond
Bluff village school Her summers
work at that place was appreciated.
The student who can tell correctly
why water freezes on top, and why
dew is absent or present, has a good
| foundation laid for the study of phys
ical geography.
A FINE of twenty dollars or more is
the penalty for paying money to a
| teacher for services rendered while
said teacher holds no certificate.
| Town clerks will do well to conform
to Sec. SO, page 87,School Code, old ed
ition; See. 467, Article first new edi-
tion, in regard to reporting the name
of district clerks elect to the county
superintendent.
WE shall hereafter claim the right
| to have all members of a family exam
ined at the same place. The reason is
too evident, and the trick is too old to |
command the respect which we render |
to new devices.
TIE best work with which we are |
acquainted for the use Of the pupils |
who have declamations to select and |
learn. or who wish the cream of many |
authors, is Choice Readings by Prof. |
r. NJ. Cumnock.
THE school i'll district No. s, Maiden |
Rock, will open November 4, under |
the care of Mary Peel. Term, four |
months, They have adopted list of |
books. The Clifford school has again
employed Orison Warren for five |
months term.
IF there is a mistake i'll your certifi-
cate from any cause, do not get into |
a towering passion, but write and ask
its correction. We have filed the pa
pers so that we can refer to any per-
sons paper i'll any branch in two min
utes. We can duplicate any lost in the
mail at any time.
The district board has power to
grant the use of the school-house to
such meetings, ETC., as they judge
proper. The district cannot control
them in this matter. They are, how
ever, responsible personally for any
damages done to the house by such adj
mission.
II your children have always attend
ed cheap school and your district has
been model of economy in school
expenditure. especially for teachers
wages, blame neither the child nor
superintendent if he fails to receive a
certificate. The cause is in your
school policy.
WIN. MINOR was elected Clerk i'll joint
district No. l, town of Iartland. The
district voted to buy books and sell to
scholars. Miss Tabor will teach the
school next winter. At Bay City NJ.
Longcor was elected Treasurer and
George Everts Director. j. A. Chap
man VII teach the Conroy school;
Nellie Chapman, beyond Rush River;
Alta Ridgman, Knowlton school; Fred
Parker at Warrentown.
If examinations in other counties
bring to light so much sickness as in
Pierce, physicians should make the
semi-annual recurrence of those pes
tilential seasons an occasion of public
thanksgivings and appoint one of their
number to follow ia the wake of the
county superintendent and prepare the
suddenly stricken absentees from the
public exercises, for a vigorous private
examination.
AMONG the remarkable things in eX-
animation, is tile similarity of answers
when candidates sit together, or in
close proximity. This similarity is ev-
en- startling when both answers hap
pen to be wholly and absurdly wrong.
We give two answers to question in
history which was, ''What were the
causes and results of the French and
IndianWar?" Answer number one:
The French enticed some Indians in
to a fort under pretense Of peace;
seized them and sent to Marseilles for
galley slaves. The Indians attacked
them, but peace W as made. Again be-
coming enraged. they attacked Mon
treal and massacred all. The French |
in despair blew up Forts Frontenac, |
and Mackinaw. Answer number two:
French enticed a number of Indians |
into their fort and then seized them |
and sent to Marseilles to work in the |
galleys. The Indians attacked the |
French but the French commander |
made peace with them. but a Huron |
chief interfered and the Indians went |
against Montreal and massacred the in |
habitants, the French in despair blew |
up forts Frontenac and Niagara.
PROGRAMME OF LIBRARY ASSo-
CITATION AT RIVER FALLS. SAT-
URDAY, NOV. 2. 1873,
| Ida K. Hawkins, Advanced Reading.
C. w. Youngman, Music.
Emma Watkins, Whittier and his
| Works.
T. II. King, Scientific Course of
Reading for Teachers.
/ J. L. McCleary. Arithmetic.