River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-09-04
Educational.
HIS. BAk Err, A. B..Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

q. l.. Bowman will assist Nero &
Wethern. Diamond Bluff, to sell goods
until MS term opens at Pierce Valley,
Clifton.
Miss DENA LARSON, of Pierce county.
closed Jour months term of school
il New Centerville, st. Croix county.
on the 24th inst. with a picnic.
FANNY CARLETON, late of Prescott
graded school, has accepted position
in the school ut Black River Falls. said
to be the best OF Tvs size III Uu1o poI .
of the state.
AT the annual school meeting in
district No. 4, Martel, $I75 were voted
to be raised for teachers wages and
other minor expenses. Stenor Thor.
son was reelected treasurer. NJ.
GLENN G. WILLIAMS, Trimbelle, who
is District Chief Templar of Pierce
county, is working and winning laurels
by his energy in that field, as he has
in the school room, according to the
Wisconsin Temperance Journal.
IDA POWELL, River Falls, left last
Friday TO resume her work in the school
at Sparta. Her sister Hattie accom-
panied her to accept Il position in the
same school. We can but regret that
they could not find positions congenial
in all respects, in Pierce.
WILL CADwELL has been engaged in
joint district No. 10, town of Oak
Grove, for the winter term of four
months, at $50 per month. Comment
is unnecessary. The district wants a
school and does not ask for gratuitous
service. They will get it.
OF one thing am certain, and that
is, | have not during the last twenty
years directly prescribed for internal
use, either in hospital or private prac-
tice, enough of any kind of alcoholic
drinks to make In the aggregate one
pint; and | am equally sure that its
commission has not resulted in any in
jury to my patients. --Prof. n. S.
Davis.
EMMA RoILIN, No. 3, Ellsworth, is
growing in knowledge of theory and
practice. She did not slight the small
ones, but formed classes in oral gram
mar, arithmetic and geography for
such as could not profitably use a text
book. Many fail just in that one point.
She taught music, botany and draw
ing. Primary reading well done.
Good programme. Industry.
THERE is some prospect that teachers
will not always be drug in the mar
ket in Pierce county, on account of the
number. For the year ending August
81, 1877, 253 certificates were issued.
For the year ending August 81, 1878,
only 205 were issued, decrease of
forty-eight. And the number for the
year ending August 81, 1877, was
about 20 less than the previous year.
We noticed some time ago in the
Educational Departmental the Journal.
that a little girl from Spring Lake
was mentioned for punctuality and at
tendance. She did well but here is
one that beat her: Anna Mattison, of
Mesloe district, Gilman, little girl of
years, living at a distance of one
mile from the school house, lost only
half day in winter term of five
| months. -
NANCY CoRNELIsoN taught botany,
music, and had primer classes read
from board She used Fish's First
| Lessons in Arithmetic as a hand book
for teaching beginners. Her school
| house is far from being palace, but
flowers in the windows made it cosy.
Pages Theory and Practice occupied
her spare moments. She is learning
and rising rapidly. Stafford district,
Trimbelle.
THE following advertisement from
the Northwestern Christian Advocate,
of August 20, will interest many read.
ers in River Falls, Hudson, and vi
cinity:
Rock River University, Dixon, Illi-
nois, Re-opens September Sd, 1879.
Competent instruction in the five de-
partments already established-Co
lege Preparatory, Normal, Business,
Conservatory of Music, and Art.
Equal advantages to both sexes. Young
ladies board in building with faculty.
Address, Jay r. Hinckley, President.
! EMMA WATKINS, late teacher in Riv-
er Falls and Prescott, was offered a
position in the schools both at La
Crosse and Lancaster, and accepted a
situation at Lancaster. She has friends
in the vicinity. The principal is j.
G. Davies. We regret the departure
of so many of our best teachers to 9TH
Ell and more remunerative fields. We
doubt if Miss w. has any superiors in
the State, either in respect to actual
teaching in her chosen grade, or
knowledge of methods and mental
philosophy gained by extensive read
ing. Our best wishes go with her.