Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
EDUCATIONAL.
c. D. BELDEN, EDITOR.
[CrOwdcd out last week. j

CROWDED out last week.
Miss Matilda Finhart commences a three.
months term, August IL, in the Keough
district, Lodi
Miss Lillian Lacy will teach the fall
term in the Rose Creek village school,
commencing August 25th.
Miss Minnie Hunt closed successful
term in the Colby district, Waltham, with
an interesting program relating mainly
to the life and writings of Longfcll0w.
Mr. E. G. Shepard, principal Of the
Lansing school last winter, returned to
New York state on Monday. He expects
to spend next winter in Florida.
Mr.. Edwin X. Cheadle, last year prin-
cipal of the Leroy schools, becomes
principal of the Cannon Falls schools for
the coming year. The school has seven
departments. III <+.s ..s
In answer to question recently asked,
our State Supt says: "A member of the
board of trustees of school district can
not be employed to teach the public
school in his own district" w. g,
Greenland was so named by an Ice
landic chief, who, for some crime, was
obliged to flee from his native land. To
induce his countrymen to follow him to
Greenland, he falsely represented it as
superior in fertility to Iceland:
Mr.. F. H. Fisk, recently principal of
the Chenille school, has been appointed
principal of Leroy schools for the coming
year. Mrs Fisk, his wife, will have charge
of the intermediate depart ment: She is
the daughter of ex-Supt. Thurston, of Free
born Co. Miss Nora Martz will continue
in the primary department.. t.-.....
Miss Anna b. Stokes on Friday, closed
her summer term in the John Rockwell
district, Red Rock. Miss Stokes IS one of
our Woodworking, excellent teachers,
whose work is very satisfactory: Her
class work in geography recently witness
ed was independent of the text book and
of kind to interest and permanently i'm
press pupils. =. $780,. .......~<
Ofthe teachers during the summer term,
thirty take the Teachers Institute; 10
the Minnesota Journal; School Educat-
ION 2 The School Herald the American
Teacher 1 the Central Journal; IS reported
that they subscribed for no educational
paper Returns are incomplete, but there
is certainly indicated on the part of many
of bur teachers a conspicuous neglect Of
this valuable aid in school work.
The County Commissioners voted to
divide Dist 35, on the line of Frankfort
and Racine. Two new school-houses will
be built this fall, the one in the west dis
trict mo. 64) being located near Mr.. Isaac
Knudson's; the one in the east district
(No. 36) to be built near Mr.. .Florens.
| Dist. "a, Clayton, was also divided and
the new district, No. III, formed in the
| south east corner Of the town.
Names of pupils in Dist. 76, Udolpho,
whose standing in final examination was
| over 80 per cent, or whose attendance
was IS per cent, or over: Jessie V. LaBar,
standing 81, attendance 100; Knudt Good
win, standing 81, attendance 9S; Martha
Goodwin, standing SO, attendance 100;
Charles Goodwin, standing 81, attendance
| 100; Frances Conat, standing IS, attend
ance 100; Geo. S. LaBar standing 95, at
tendance 100. ~:
Our County Commissioners were oblig-
ed to reject the petition regarding a
change of boundary in Dist. 50, Benning-
ton, because it had not a majority Of
names Of the freeholders in the district,
asrcquired by law. 1t may we'll be to repeat
one or two decisions of the Attorney Gen
says that only thOse(men or Women) VIII O
are freeholders, and also legal voters in
the district, are entitled to sign such petit
tons. A non resident owning land in the
district cannot be such petitioner and a
renter living i'm the district cannot be
such petitioner. In one decision a petit
ton was decided to be fatally defective,
because the County Commissioners were
not authorized to reform school districts
on petition of legal voters, but the petit
TONERS must be freeholders who are legal
voters, and they must comprise major
ity of such qualified petitioners residing
is only petition signed by such num-
Der of persons possessing such q ualifca-
tons that the County Commissioners are
authorized to act Without such petit
ton they have no more jurisdiction than
if they acted without any petition.